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Crucible - The Year that Forged Our World
The Times Book of the Year
BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
Daily Telegraph Book of the Year
BOOK OF THE WEEK - The Times
`The strength of this book lies in the cold realities it delivers. "The thirteen months of 1947-48," writes Fenby, "provide trenchant examples of how realpolitik can serve a wider purpose if those in power know how to use it." Crucible captures perfectly the urgency of the time...Read this book for the light it shines on a turbulent time; cherish it for the lessons it provides' - Gerard DeGroot
'Looking back 70 years Jonathan Fenby argues convincingly that the period from 1947 to 1948 "really did change the world". His book is an assured gallop across the terrain of contemporary history in this fateful year. The global devastation of the second world war had smashed longstanding institutions and bankrupted empires, leaving behind the kind of power vacuums that were major openings for change and chaos. Crucible swings from one region to the next in a fast-moving account of how local actors filled those vacuums, often with violence.'
Mary Sarote, Financial Times
One year shaped the world we know today. This is the page-turning story of the pivotal changes which were forged in the space of thirteen months of 1947-48
Two years after the end of the second conflict to engulf the world in twenty years, and the defeat of the Axis forces of Germany, Italy and Japan, this momentous time saw the unrolling of the Cold War between Joseph Stalin's Soviet Russia and the Western powers under the untried leadership of Harry Truman as America came to play a global role for the first time.
The British Empire began its demise with the birth of the Indian and Pakistan republics with the flight of millions and wholesale slaughter as Vietnam, Indonesia and other colonies around the globe vied for freedom. 1948 also marked the creation of the state of Israel, the refugee flight of Palestinians and the first Arab-Israeli war as well as the victories of Communist armies that led to their final triumph in China, the coming of apartheid to South Africa, the division of Korea, major technological change and the rolling out of the welfare state against a backdrop of events that ensured the global order would never be the same again.
This dynamic narrative spans the planet with overlapping epic episodes featuring such historic figures as Truman and Marshall, Stalin and Molotov, Attlee and Bevin, De Gaulle and Adenauer, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek, Nehru and Jinnah, Ben Gurion and the Arab leaders. Between them, they forged the path to our modern world.
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18,00 €
18,95 €
Slade House
Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night. Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies. A stranger greets you by name and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't. This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and reaches its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs...
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9,45 €
9,95 €
Élettitkok
Mi a szeretet? Mi a szerelem? Hogyan lehetek boldog, sikeres ember? Sokan keressük a választ az élet legnagyobb kérdéseire nap mint nap. Ranjeet Singh Dhillon segítségével azonban új nézőpontból közelíthetjük meg ezeket a problémákat, és ami még fontosabb: egyszerű, mégis nagy segítséget nyújtó válaszokat is találunk. Végre egy világos és nagyon szórakoztató könyv azoknak, akik meg akarják érteni az élet első ránézésre kusza szerkezetét, és természetesen azoknak is, akik változtatni akarnak rajta. Ez a könyv sokak számára egy új, teljesebb élet kezdetét jelentheti.
Ranjeet Singh Dhillon Indiában, Udaipurban született jómódú szikh kereskedőcsalád harmadik gyermekeként. Húszévesen döntött úgy, hogy saját lábára áll, és elindul felfedezni a világot. Magyarországra a kilencvenes évek elején érkezett. Ma sikeres üzletember, de a sikerért és a lelki békéért neki is meg kellett dolgoznia. Hosszú évek alatt tapasztalta meg, hogy a spiritualitás nem valami elvont dolog, amit templomban vagy ashramban kell gyakorolni, hanem az életünk része, amely minden pillanatunkat áthatja. Erről mesél ebben a könyvben.
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10,17 €
10,71 €
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Slade House
Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night. Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies. A stranger greets you by name and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't. This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and reaches its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs...
Vypredané
15,68 €
16,50 €
Federer
Roger Federer is not only one of the greatest tennis players ever to pick up a racket - if not the greatest - but he is one of the global icons of our time. Characterised by a mixture of passion and calmness, a fierce competitor with a regal bearing, he is both an athlete and an ambassador, a street fighter and a statesman. But who is he really? And what are the experiences and influences that have shaped him into the world figure he is today? This acclaimed biography, first published in 2006 and now fully updated, traces Federer's life and career, from his first tentative swings with a racket to legendary status. The vastly experienced writer, broadcaster and tennis historian Chris Bowers talked exclusively to many of the people who helped shape the young Roger Federer, and together with his own experiences following Federer's career from his junior title at Wimbledon at age sixteen to his seventeenth major title fifteen years later, he presents an affectionate and analytical portrait of one of the great names of modern-day sport. His book has enough information to satisfy the most voracious Federer fan, and enough talking points to keep an argument going until the small hours. In its portrait of Roger Federer - the man, the player, the icon - this masterly biography brings the player's story up to date, while also examining his place in tennis and sporting history.
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14,24 €
14,99 €
The Quiet Twin
Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed and he wants to know why. But these are uncharitable times and one must be careful where one probes...When an unexpected house call leads Doctor Beer to Speckstein's apartment, he finds himself in the bedroom of Zuzka, the professor's niece. Wide-eyed, flirtatious, and not detectably ill, Zuzka leads the young doctor to her window and opens up a view of their apartment block that Beer has never known. Across the shared courtyard there is nine-year-old Anneliese, the lonely daughter of an alcoholic. Five windows to the left lives a secretive mime who comes home late at night and keeps something - or someone - precious hidden from view. From the garret drifts the mournful sound of an Oriental's trumpet, and a basement door swings closed behind the building's inscrutable janitor. Does one of these enigmatic neighbours have blood on their hands? Doctor Beer, who has his own reasons for keeping his private life hidden from public scrutiny, reluctantly becomes embroiled in an enquiry that forces him to face the dark realities of Nazi rule.
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7,98 €
8,40 €
Lacná kniha The Quiet Twin (-50%)
Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed and he wants to know why. But these are uncharitable times and one must be careful where one probes...When an unexpected house call leads Doctor Beer to Speckstein's apartment, he finds himself in the bedroom of Zuzka, the professor's niece. Wide-eyed, flirtatious, and not detectably ill, Zuzka leads the young doctor to her window and opens up a view of their apartment block that Beer has never known. Across the shared courtyard there is nine-year-old Anneliese, the lonely daughter of an alcoholic. Five windows to the left lives a secretive mime who comes home late at night and keeps something - or someone - precious hidden from view. From the garret drifts the mournful sound of an Oriental's trumpet, and a basement door swings closed behind the building's inscrutable janitor. Does one of these enigmatic neighbours have blood on their hands? Doctor Beer, who has his own reasons for keeping his private life hidden from public scrutiny, reluctantly becomes embroiled in an enquiry that forces him to face the dark realities of Nazi rule.
Vypredané
4,20 €
8,40 €
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Be More Tree
Discover how all trees can mirror us, teach us and heal us. As author Alice Peck reflected on the maple tree in her backyard, she began to notice and then study its intricacies and changes. This became her regular meditation and inspiration. In Be More Tree, Alice shares what she has learnt from that maple tree, and from the trees all around us. Every tree tells a complete and ongoing story - from its powerful taproots to the birds that alight on its fragile high branches. Trees reflect our lives through their perseverance and seasonal rhythms - always changing yet consistent. They evolve along a much more protracted timetable than humans. Like us, trees feel and react to their environment, and communicate with us in subtle but distinct ways. Here Alice explores trees from four perspectives: their roots - wisdom and understanding; their branches - symbols and rituals; their leaves - healing and science; and their seeds - transformation and spirituality. All of these elements show us how, although they live outside us, trees offer a path to our inner selves. From the Bodhi Tree to the Garden of Eden, the Druids to forest monks, medicines to tyre swings - people have always received physical, psychological and spiritual sustenance from trees. Filled with insights from botany to poetry, ecology to mythology and herbalism to sacraments, Be More Tree explores the ways these grounded yet soaring entities can steady and move us, teach and transform us, inspire and comfort us
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16,63 €
17,50 €
Spektor Regina - Remember Us To Life (Deluxe) CD
KDO: Jak jméno napovídá, zpěvačka Regina Ilyinichna Spektor pochází ze Sovětského svazu, kde se v roce 1980 narodila. Její rodina později emigrovala do Ameriky. Regina je zpěvačkou, skladatelkou a také pianistkou. Vlastním nákladem si vydala první tři desky, díky nimž se stala populární v rámci alternativní a nezávislé scény v New Yorku. Následně podepsala smlouvu s velkým vydavatelstvím a dočkala se celosvětového věhlasu. Její hudební směřování lze charakterizovat styly anti-folk, indie folk, indie pop či baroque pop.
CO: Už sedmé studiové album zpěvačky předznamenal povedený singl Bleeding Heart. Deska fyzicky vychází ve třech variantách - standardní CD, Deluxe CD s třemi bonusovými skladbami a 2LP.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/BAy4RMI82NQ
1. Bleeding Heart [3:59]
2. Older And Taller [3:56]
3. Grand Hotel [3:05]
4. Small Bill$ [3:33]
5. Black And White [3:49]
6. The Light [4:57]
7. The Trapper And The Furrier [4:24]
8. Tornadoland [3:49]
9. Obsolete [6:37]
10. Sellers Of Flowers [4:01]
11. The Visit [4:24]
12. New Year (Bonus Track) [5:29]
13. The One Who Stayed And The One Who Left (Bonus Track) [4:59]
14. End Of Thought (Bonus Track) [3:20]
Vypredané
17,09 €
17,99 €
State of Wonder
There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick Swenson's work is shrouded in mystery; she refuses to report on her progress, especially to her investors, whose patience is fast running out. Anders Eckman, a mild-mannered lab researcher, is sent to investigate. A curt letter reporting his untimely death is all that returns. Now Marina Singh, Anders' colleague and once a student of the mighty Dr Swenson, is their last hope. Compelled by the pleas of Anders's wife, who refuses to accept that her husband is not coming home, Marina leaves the snowy plains of Minnesota and retraces her friend's steps into the heart of the South American darkness, determined to track down Dr. Swenson and uncover the secrets being jealously guarded among the remotest tribes of the rainforest. What Marina does not yet know is that, in this ancient corner of the jungle, where the muddy waters and susurrating grasses hide countless unknown perils and temptations, she will face challenges beyond her wildest imagination. Marina is no longer the student, but only time will tell if she has learnt enough.
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8,54 €
8,99 €
A test hangjai
Király Kinga Júlia második prózakötete a test tapasztalatainak érzékien pontos megidézése. A nő teste éppen csak annyira domborodik ki az őt behálózó történetekből, amennyire képes magába fogadni a rá váró történeteket.
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9,12 €
9,60 €
Game of Thrones: Night King klíčenka funko POP!
Funko POP je nyní k dostání i jako skvělá klíčenka. Night Kinga měj pořád u sebe, pak tě nikdo neporazí. No možná Arya jo.
Materiál: vinyl
Rozměry: 4 cm na výšku
Vypredané
8,73 €
9,19 €
On the Road film tie-in
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel "On the Road" finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles ("Motorcycle Diaries") starring Sam Riley ("Control", "Brighton Rock"), Garret Hedlund, Kristen Stewart ("Twilight"), Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen. Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund), on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the "Beat Generation" and remains the bible of that literary movement. Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the "Beat Generation". His first published novel, "The Town and the City", appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957, that made Kerouac famous.
Vypredané
8,55 €
9,00 €
Moody Bitches
Overworked? Exhausted? Powering between career, family and friends and frazzled and libido-less as a result? No wonder you're moody! But as New York psychiatrist Julie Holland explains in her radical and eye-opening new book, the first step to overcoming the lows is to accept that being testy is in our nature - we were made to be Moody Bitches. Being a successful modern woman is hard, and for so many of us the constant flux in our hormones and the dip and dives our mood swings take makes it that much harder. For over 17 years, women have visited celebrated psychopharmacologist Dr Julie Holland looking for the miracle cure to eradicate these feelings. Now, in her illuminating and honest Moody Bitches, she details the invaluable advice she shares with her patients, revealing how suppressing our natural emotions is actually damaging. Instead she offers tried and tested alternatives to help keep the moods under control, making exhaustion and low sex-drive a thing of the past. From the meds you can trust to those you can't; from the foods you should be eating, the healthy behaviours you should be practising and the herbal remedies that actually work, Dr Julie imparts wisdom from years of not only professional but personal experience too. Simple yet revolutionary, Moody Bitches is the life-changing self-help book for women and those who love them.
Vypredané
18,95 €
19,95 €
Skagboys
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas. The way out is heroin.
It's no better for his friends. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence feels himself being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence - the worlds of the thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy, the supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all.
Skagboys charts their journey from likely lads to young men addicted to the heroin which has flooded their disintegrating community. This is the 1980s: a time of drugs, poverty, AIDS, violence, political strife and hatred - but a lot of laughs, and maybe just a little love; a decade which changed Britain for ever. The prequel to the world-renownedTrainspotting, this is an exhilarating and moving book, full of the scabrous humour, salty vernacular and appalling behaviour that has made Irvine Welsh a household name.
Utazik a család - Irány Eger!
"Messze vagyunk még? Mikor érünk már oda?" - ki ne hallotta volna ezeket a kérdéseket az autóban, amikor a család hosszabb útra indult.
Szalma Edit egy bájos, kissé szeleburdi családot álmodott, majd rajzolt meg. A három gyereket, szüleiket és állataikat ezúttal Egerbe és környékére kísérhetjük el Csapody Kinga meséivel. Kalandjaikat olvasva sok érdekességet tudhatunk meg Egerről, bebarangolhatjuk Szilvásváradot, túrázhatunk a Mátrában, ellátogatunk Mezőkövesdre és Gyöngyösre is. A könyvből egy csomó ötletet lehet meríteni, hogy a környéken miket lehet felfedezni, megmászni és kipróbálni.
Csatlakozzatok hozzájuk, fedezzétek fel a mesékkel, majd a valóságban is Magyarország egyik legszebb részét!
Vypredané
6,75 €
7,11 €
Skagboys
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas. The way out is heroin. It's no better for his friends. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence feels himself being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence - the worlds of the thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy, the supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all. "Skagboys" charts their journey from likely lads to young men addicted to the heroin which has flooded their disintegrating community. This is the 1980s: a time of drugs, poverty, AIDS, violence, political strife and hatred - but a lot of laughs, and maybe just a little love; a decade which changed Britain for ever. The prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, this is an exhilarating and moving book, full of the scabrous humour, salty vernacular and appalling behaviour that has made Irvine Welsh a household name.
Vypredané
13,29 €
13,99 €
Megbélyegzettek
"Munkám olyan időszakról szól, melyre nem szívesen emlékezünk (...) a Rákosi Mátyás nevével jelzett korszakról van szó, melynek intézkedései, atrocitásai a magyar társadalom majdnem minden rétegét súlyosan érintették. "Kikről is beszélünk? A Megbélyegzettekről, vagyis a kitelepítettekről, akiknek sorsával kapcsolatosan ezidáig számottevő dokumentáció nem született. Úgy látszik, az eltelt több mint fél évszázad sem volt elegendő az objektív szembenézéshez. Széchenyi Kinga mégis megtette, pedig maga is érintett. Hatalmas kutatómunkával állította össze e kivételes kötetet, mely nem vád- vagy perirat, hanem kortörténet: a rendszer kényszerintézkedéseinek bemutatásán túl mintegy három tucat visszaemlékezés és interjú teszi igazán olvasmányossá és hitelessé a Megbélyegzettek elhallgatott tragédiáját. Soha nagyobb szüksége nem volt a magyarságnak arra az "élő történelemre", amely Széchenyi Kinga Megbélyegzettek című munkájából tárul elénk. És soha, amióta világ a világ, talán nem volt oly kívánatos ez a fajta emlékeztetés akár az egész emberiségnek. Ez a könyv magyarságot ajándékoz a magyarnak, emberséget adományoz az embernek. Nem csupán tárgyilagos felidézése a "szörnykorszaknak", és nem pusztán utólagos vigasz az áldozatoknak. Ezeknél jóval több." (Bencze Lóránt)
Vypredané
13,54 €
14,25 €
Irány a Velencei-tó!
"Messze vagyunk még? Mikor érünk már oda?" - ki ne hallotta volna ezeket a kérdéseket az autóban, amikor a család hosszabb útra indult.
Szalma Edit egy bájos, kissé szeleburdi családot álmodott, majd rajzolt meg. A három gyereket, szüleiket és állataikat ezúttal a Velencei-tóhoz, Székesfehérvárra és környékére kísérhetjük el Csapody Kinga meséivel. Kalandjaikat olvasva sok érdekességet tudhatunk meg Velencéről, körbetekerhetjük a tavat, bebarangolhatunk mindent Pákozdtól Gárdonyig, nézhetünk várakat és madárrezervátumot is. A könyvből egy csomó ötletet lehet meríteni, hogy a környéken miket lehet felfedezni, megmászni és kipróbálni.
Csatlakozzatok hozzájuk, fedezzétek fel a mesékkel, majd a valóságban is Magyarország egyik legszebb részét!
Vypredané
6,75 €
7,11 €