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While the light lasts
Some of Agatha Christie's earliest stories - including her very first - which show the Queen of Crime in the making! A macabre recurring dream ...revenge against a blackmailer ...jealousy, infidelity and a tortured conscience ...a stolen gemstone ...the h
The Fifth Mountain
Evoking all the drama and intrigue of the colourful, chaotic world of the Old Testament, Paulo Coehlo turns the trials of Elijah into an intensly moving and inspiring story one that powerfully brings out the universal themes of how faith and love c
an ultimately triumph over suffering.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú v
šak identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
Dance, Dance, Dance
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance. It is an assault on the sense, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car.
Step-by-Step Digital Photo Retouching
The book begins with an overview of the applications you'll be using, and all the basic information that you'll need in order to get started. It then looks at simple corrections, before going in-depth into more advanced manipulation techniques. Simple-to-follow projects take you through the methods and help you to build up your knowledge and skills. By the time you've finished reading Step-by-Step Digital Photo Retouching, you'll know everything you need to enable you to make perfect pictures.
Step-by-Step Digital Family Photography
Step-by-Step Digital Family Photography offers comprehensive and easy-to-follow advice on how to make the most of family portraits of all kinds: from simple but essential techniques to more advanced and challenging projects. Both image capture and post-production techniques are covered, with the emphasis on working digitally.
Manual of Warrior of Light
Within each of us is a warrior of light. Each of us is capable of listening to the silence of the heart, of accepting failure without letting it get us down and of holding onto hope even in the face of weariness and depression. Values like love for all things, discipline, friendship and learning to listen to our own hearts are the arms with which this warrior confronts the battles we face in the name of personal growth and in the defence of the light. On every page there is an inspirational thought, which can be read as part of Paulo Coelho's whole philosophy or used form the basis of a daily meditation. This text is a guide to the process.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Word
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring nov
el, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy
and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsa
h knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
Norwegian Wood
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
On Monday 20 March 1995 the Japanese Aum cult released a deadly cloud of Sarin nerve gas into the Tokyo underground. 12 people were killed and an estimated 3,800 suffered serious after-effects. Haruki Murakami, one of Japan's leading novelists (considered by many to be one of the most important writers now writing), was both shocked and fascinated by the awful event. Murakami's response was to interview as many of those affected as he could (only 60 victims were willing to be questioned), interested as he was in the stories created by this one awful event on so many lives. He also interviewed a number of members of the Aum cult: I'm sure each member of the Science and Technology elite had his own personal reasons for renouncing the world and joining Aum. What they all had in common, though, was a desire to put the technical skill and knowledge they'd acquired in the service of a more meaningful goal ... that might very well be me. It might be you". The result is Underground his first work of non-fiction. Murakami writes complex, sometimes overbearing and dense novels but he here makes very little intervention into his text, simply presenting a background sketch of each before allowing the victims and cult-members to speak freely for themselves through the transcripts. They present an intricate, rounded and cinematic view of day that none of us should ever forget"
Devil Wears Prada
A sharp, witty and hugely entertaining debut novel, The Devil Wears Prada is The Nanny Diaries set in the world of high fashion. Welcome to the dollouse, baby! When Andrea first sets foot in the plush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She's never heard of the world's most fashionable magazine, or its feared and fawned-over editor, Miranda Priestly. But she's going to be Miranda's assistant, a job millions of girls would die for. A year later, she knows altogether too much: That it's a sacking offence to wear anything lower than a three-inch heel to work. But that there's always a fresh pair of Manolos for you in the accessories cupboard. That Miranda believes Hermes scarves are disposable, and you must keep a life-time supply on hand at all times. That eight stone is fat. That you can charge cars, manicures, anything at all to the Runway account, but you must never, ever, leave your desk, or let Miranda's coffee get cold. And that at 3 a.m. on a Sunday, when your boyfriend's dumping you because you're always at work, and your best friend's just been arrested, if Miranda phones, you jump. Most of all, Andrea knows that Miranda is a monster who makes Cruella de Ville look like a fluffy bunny. But also that this is her big break, and it's going to be worth it in the end. Isn't it?
Victorian Fairy Tale Book
From Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme’s The Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one is an expression of the joy of living.
Accompanied by illustrations from the original editions of these works this collection will delight readers both young and old.
Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
The Complete History of Middle-Earth
The complete 12-book History of Middle-earth, printed in three volumes and set in a matching box managing plant genetic diversity torrent. J managing plant genetic diversity torrent.R managing plant genetic diversity torrent.R managing plant genetic diversity torrent. Tolkien is famous the world over for his unique literary creation, exemplified in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. What is less well known, however, is that he also produced a vast amount of further material that greatly expands upon the mythology and numerous stories of Middle-earth, and which gives added life to the thousand-year war between the Elves and the evil spirit Morgoth, and his terrifying lieutenant, Sauron. It was to this enormous task of literary construction that his Tolkien’s youngest son and literary heir, Christopher, applied himself to produce the monumental and endlessly fascinating series of twelve books, The History of Middle-earth. This very special collector’s edition brings together all twelve books into three hardback volumes — over 5,000 pages of fascinating Tolkien material — and places them in one matching box.
Japanese Tales
Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan—tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these tales reflect the Japanese civilization. They ably balance the lyrical and the dramatic, the ribald and the profound, offering a window into a long-vanished culture.
With black-and-white illustrations throughout
Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Embers
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.
In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions.
They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the Generals beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest--a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever. Embers is a classic of modern European literature, a work whose poignant evocation of the past also seems like a prophetic glimpse into the moral abyss of the present
Lacná kniha Egidio, el granjero de Ham. Hoja de Niggle. El herrero de Wootton Mayor (-70%)
Egidio, el granjero de Ham, presunta traducción de un manuscrito en latín insular que cuenta los orígenes del Peque?o Reino, fue publicada en 1949. Tolkien había concluido hacía poco El Se?or de los Anillos, y Egidio es en muchos sentidos un anticlímax paródico en el que reaparecen --a veces como una broma erudita-- la parafernalia caballeresca de El Hobbit y El Se?or de los Anillos, la insensatez y la vanidad de los poderosos, y el ascenso de un hombre común, "mediano" y sin ambiciones que llega a rey por los azares de una aventura. Como Bilbo, como Frodo, o como Sam, Egidio es un auténtico antihéroe.
Hoja de Niggle, escrita en 1939 en la pausa que siguió a la redacción de los primeros nueve capítulos de El Se?or de los Anillos, cuenta la vida y muerte de un artista, pero es también una inspirada ejemplificación de una de las ideas fundamentales de Tolkien, la necesidad de que la obra de arte tenga "la consistencia interior de la realidad". La pereza, la falta de firmeza de Niggle son transformadas "del otro lado del túnel" en prontitud, orden, servicio, lo que cambia a la vez la visión fugaz del artista en "subcreacion", o creación derogada. La "Hoja" de Niggle es así parte de lo que Tolkien llama el Árbol de los Relatos, de follaje innumerable, en el que cada hoja es todas las hojas.
El herrero de Wootton Mayor, el último de los cuentos que escribió Tolkien, apareció por vez primera en 1967, y es de algún modo la historia de una emoción terminal, la de quien en vida ha visitado a menudo tierras misteriosas y descubre ahora la proximidad de la muerte. La conjunción benéfica del mundo de la fantasía y el mundo de los hombres se consigue y se pierde en una transmisión de poderes.
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Japanese Mind
In "The Japanese Mind," Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what really makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored: "aimai" (ambiguity), "amae" (dependence upon others' benevolence), "amakudari" (the nation's descent from heaven), "chinmoku" (silence in communication), "gambari" (perseverence), "giri" (social obligation), "haragei" (literally, "belly art"; implicit, unspoken communication), "kenkyo" (the appearance of modesty), "sempai-kohai" (seniority), "wabi-sabi" (simplicity and elegance), and "zoto" (gift giving), as well as discussions of child-rearing, personal space, and the roles of women in Japanese society. Includes discussion topics and questions after each chapter. All in all, this book is an easy-to-use introduction to the distinguishing characteristics of Japanese society; an invaluable resource for anyone business people, travelers, or students perfect for course adoption, but also for anyone interested in Japanese culture."
Frankenstein Dracula Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Three horror classics with an introduction by Stephen King Some of literature s most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome. "
A Happy Death
Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus' astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man. In many ways, "A Happy Death" is a fascinating first sketch for "The Outsider", but it can also be seen as a candid self-portrait, drawing on Camus' memories of his youth, travels and early relationships. It is infused with lyrical descriptions of the sun-drenched Algiers of his childhood - the place where, eventually, Mersault is able to find peace and die 'without anger, without hatred, without regret'.
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