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Odborná a populárno-náučná literatúra 
Pre deti a mládež 
Cudzojazyčná literatúra 
Učebnice, slovníky 
Umenie 
Hobby, voľný čas 
Geografia, mapy, sprievodcovia 
Biografie - Životopisy 
Kuchárske knihy 
Zdravie, životný štýl 
Poézia 
Ezoterika 
Partnerstvo a rodičovstvo 
Časopisy
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plastic
Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire, Bplastic is based on Matthew Rice’s experience working in a plastic moulding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labour in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a ‘post-industrial’, ‘post-Troubles’ society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film and the visual arts. Time-stamped to highlight the claustrophobia of the worker’s experience, this is a poem about feeling a calling while being submerged in the world of menial labour – making plastic airplane parts by night, making poetry by day, uniting what Jacques Ranciere calls the ‘labourers in love with the intellectual nights’ and those ‘intellectuals in love with the toilsome and glorious days of the labouring people.’ plastic’s evocation and lucidity moves with grace through working class realities and hopeful imaginings.
The Enchanted April
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the greatest holiday novel ever written, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean, they discover a flower-filled paradise of beauty, warmth and leisure. Joined by the beautiful Lady Caroline and domineering Mrs Fisher, also in flight from the burdens of their daily lives, the four women proceed to transform themselves and their prospects.
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Brooke DiDonato: Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer
The debut monograph from the inimitable photographer, Brooke DiDonato, exploring the strangeness lurking behind the ordinary in everyday life.
Brooke DiDonato: Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer is a curated collection of Brooke DiDonato’s singularly surreal photography. Evoking feelings of nostalgia or disorientation, DiDonato’s work teeters between the familiar and the fantastical. Inspired by family homes in Ohio, her compositions challenge expectations of how space can be occupied. Torsos, legs, and arms contort into uncanny arrangements across sofas and ascend into attics. Ordinary surroundings often have a compelling presence?white picket fences, cornfields, deserts, and sidewalks become sites of unexpected psychological encounters as figures are subsumed by their environments. Her pictures are playfully titled?Growing Upward Has Its Downside, What to Expect When You're Expecting Nothing, and Went to Therapy but I’m Still in My Patterns?and poignantly touch upon contemporary anxieties and universal themes of love and loss.
This volume brings together her most well-known bodies of work, including A House is Not a Home, alongside new works published here in print for the first time. A short introduction from writer Eleanor Sutherland provides an overview of DiDonato’s practice, while an intimate conversation between Emmy award–winning filmmaker and writer Eve Van Dyke and Brooke's father, Bob DiDonato, offers a personal glimpse into her evolution as an artist.
A one-of-a-kind photographic experience, DiDonato's first monograph invites us into her beguiling world, daring us to stare a little longer.
167 color illustrations
A History of Modern Syria
A powerful, definitive account of modern Syria and its fate.
Few countries have had as vexed a political history as Syria. Carved out of the Ottoman empire at the end of the First World War, Syria was then brutally ruled by France. This French 'mandate' carved out new borders with equally provisional neighbours in a process that pulled apart families, trade networks and political assumptions that had already been ravaged by the war.
Syria's subsequent history has been a series of attempts to make sense of its borders, including a failed attempt in the late 1950s to unite with Egypt and several humiliations at the hands of Israel's armed forces. The civil war that broke out in 2011 plunged Syria into a nightmarish series of disasters, including the terrible years of Islamic State, ultimately resulting in the reimposition of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship, which came to an end in 2024.
Daniel Neep's remarkable book creates a gripping, intelligent narrative of how Syrians have lived through these events, never losing sight either of the fates of ordinary people or of Syria's rich, complex and diverse society, unwillingly or willingly brought together in such a highly contested space.
Baltic
The Baltic will decide the course of the West in the coming years.
These nine borderlands are not only the historical battleground of Russian aggression; they are also a factory of ideas for how to revive Europe. Shaped by the past one hundred years, each Baltic country offers lessons in adaptability, hope and prosperity in an era of instability.
Innovation in Estonia, patience in Finland, resilience in Poland, even poetry in Latvia: with their tumultuous pasts and exposed geography, these poorly understood frontline states are reconfiguring the balance of power around the heart of Eurasia. From pioneering environmental initiatives and world-leading innovations in technology to ever-growing economies, from tackling disinformation to tempering the populist right, the Baltic states are now key to understanding how political events might unfold in the coming years.
Blending history, politics and reportage, this is the first book to explain why these are some of our most imaginative allies, yet most of us know so little about them. Interviewing prime ministers, presidents, generals, intelligence officers, business leaders and ordinary people, Oliver Moody traces the extraordinary emergence of a new fulcrum of great-power rivalry. But the real reason we need to understand them is that their fate is ours.
Not Your Grandmas Crochet
This is not your grandma's crochet.
From scrunchies and vests, cosy jumpers and bags to colourful granny-square summer dresses, Not Your Grandma's Crochet is a fun, easy and accessible guide to creating your own colourful crochet wardrobe with a retro twist.
Unwind and chill out whilst building your crochet skills and making clothes for every mood and occasion. From cosy winter knits and comfy clothes to all out summer holiday vibes and everything you need to get festival ready, these are crochet clothes you actually want to wear.
If you're a beginner and looking to build confidence, we've got you covered with crochet skill builders and 20 crochet patterns in a range of difficulty levels, all created by Realm Designs, a one-woman, sustainable crochet design studio.
In this book, you'll find:
• Fun, versatile and on-trend designs: from scrunchies and cosy knits to cute bags and granny-square vests and dresses.
• Designs for all occasions: organised by mood, event and season from cosy Winter knits to summer holiday and festival-friendly fashion.
• Beginner friendly: Includes 20 crochet patterns with varying difficulty levels, ideal for beginners looking to build confidence.
• Helps you learn to crochet: each chapter includes skill builders, helping you build confidence in crochet!
The Woman in White
Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets - is one of them connected to the strange appearances of a young woman dressed all in white? And what does his charismatic friend, Count Fosco, with his pet white mice running in and out of his brightly coloured waistcoat, have to do with it all? Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the great Victorian mystery novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Mrs Dalloway
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Woolf's great masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party. Over the course of one day, as she readies her house, Clarissa is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
Virginia Woolf started writing Mrs Dalloway in 1922 as a short story. Its publication in 1925 was met with modest commercial success but the novel went on to become one of the most vital works of literature of the last century.
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The Secret Garden
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the enchanting childhood classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years. And when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key, she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine...
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Oliver Twist
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's unforgettable novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. Dickens graphically conjures up the capital's underworld, full of sex workers, thieves and lost and homeless children, and gives a voice to the disadvantaged and abused.
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Not Quite Done with Dating
One bad date too many calls for desperate measures ...
Nora is well and truly fed up. After more painfully bad dates than she can count, she's had enough of leaving it to fate to find her perfect match - but she's not quite ready to give up on her love life just yet.
As a statistician, Nora trusts numbers more than her gut, so when she finds a formula that could help her conquer the dating game, she has to give it a go.
Putting her love theory to the test takes Nora to some questionable places with some even more questionable men, but she won't be deterred - she knows that 'the one' must be out there, somewhere. Even if he's the last person she'd have expected ...
You can expect ...
* Slow burn
* Second chances
* Found family
Seven Deadly Sins
Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger.
These are the seven deadly sins, the vices of humankind that define immorality, the roots of all evil in the world. Or so some believe.
But do these sins really represent moral failings, or are they simply human functions that aid us? Are they just the result of how our bodies, psyches, and brains in particular, are wired?
This new book by Dr Guy Leschziner, a professor of neurology and sleep medicine, explores the underlying nature of the seven deadly sins, their neuroscientific and psychological basis, their origin in our genes and crucially how certain medical disorders give rise to them.
Drawing on his clinical practice, we meet individuals whose physical and psychological conditions have given rise to these sins, where brain injury or other experiences have sparked 'immoral' actions. He explores how illness can simply expose what lies within us and investigates how the origins of these traits lie in evolutionary imperatives to preserve the wellbeing of the tribe. Perhaps, he suggests, these character traits are less of a moral question and more biological, which raises fundamental issues of responsibility and blame in the face of 'sin'.
Combining cutting-edge science placed in the context of real-life experience with patients, the book reexamines where the boundaries between normal human nature, pathology and sin are drawn. And, most importantly, whether these hard-wired traits truly represent sin, or simply the intensity of our intrinsic desire to survive and thrive.
Jezdkyně světla 4: Stíny nad Jorvikem
Anne, Lisa, Linda a Alex bývaly neporazitelné a jako Jezdkyně světla chránily Jorvik před zlem. Ale léto je změnilo. Všechny čelí novým snům a pochybám. Když se znovu setkají, nic už není jako dřív. Lisa sní o životě v Texasu, Linda si myslí na studium v Oxfordu, Anna cosi skrývá a jediná, kdo nepochybuje o jejich poslání, je Alex. Jenže temnota nespí a brzy se ukáže, že kamarádky a jejich koně čeká úkol, o jehož důležitosti neměly nejmenší tušení.
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The Love Letter
Scandal. Love. Murder. When Sir James Harrison, one of the greatest actors of his generation, passes away at the age of ninety-five, he leaves behind not just a heartbroken family, but also a secret so shocking, so devastating, that it could rock the British Establishment to its core . . . Joanna Haslam is an ambitious young journalist, assigned to cover the legendary actor’s funeral. The biggest icons of the celebrity world are in attendance. But Joanna stumbles on something dark beneath the glamour: the mention of a letter James Harrison has left behind, the contents of which others have been desperate to conceal for over seventy years. As she peels back the veil of lies that have shrouded the secret, she realises that she’s close to uncovering something deadly serious. But someone is on her tracks, and they’ll stop at nothing to reach the letter before she does . . . The Love Letter is a thrilling love story full of twists from the author of The Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley. Discover this evocative and fast-paced reimagined novel from an author loved by millions of readers worldwide. Praise for Lucinda Riley:‘Complex characters and a fast-paced plot’ – Sunday Express‘Plenty of twists, flashbacks, and a dash of romance keep the suspense high’ – Booklist‘A brilliant page-turner’ – Daily Mail
Okinawa 1945
This fully illustrated study explains the British Pacific Fleet’s campaign against the Japanese in the Sakishima Islands, its overlooked role in the battle for Okinawa. The invasion of Okinawa was, famously, the culmination of the United States’ island-hopping campaign. Less well known is the fact that it was also the greatest campaign of the British Pacific Fleet’s war against Japan, fought by five fleet carriers over two months, with a distinct task. The Fleet Air Arm’s job at Okinawa was to suppress and destroy the Japanese airfields on the Sakashima Islands, which were used as bases for kamikazes as well as to route aircraft from Japan to Okinawa. In this book, naval expert Angus Konstam offers a newly researched account of the Fleet Air Arm’s air campaign in the Sakashimas. By 1945, the carriers and their aircrews were well worked up, and ready to tackle challenging and important targets. He explains the capabilities of the late-war Fleet Air Arm at Okinawa, and analyses their effectiveness against Japan’s still-dangerous airpower. Famously, at Okinawa the Royal Navy’s armoured carriers proved much more resilient to kamikaze strikes than the wooden-topped carriers of the Americans. Packed with spectacular original artwork, photographs, diagrams and maps, this book is a superbly illustrated history of the Royal Navy’s most extensive carrier campaign.
Departure 37
‘If you loved The Twilight Zone, this is for you. It's a mind-blower.’ STEPHEN KING "The future of warfare – if not humanity – changed on a hot August day on the grounds of a naval base more than 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean. The discovery involved a single scientist and a model airplane." When every pilot in the country receives a call from their mother begging them not to fly, air travel comes to a halt. But none of the mothers remember making these calls – and some weren’t alive to make them. As senior officials scramble for answers, a teenager named Charlie makes online documentaries about her new home, a place where locals insist they saw passengers survive a plane crash, only to be reported as dead. And, unknown to Charlie, a place where renowned scientist Marty Hazelton once conducted experiments for making planes disappear… With the growing threats of nuclear weaponry and artificial intelligence, what begins as a ground stop becomes a threat to civilization as we know it in this high-octane, political thriller perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Frederick Forsyth. ‘Part Cold War thriller, part Twilight Zone episode and part Stephen King-like yarn about regular people in extraordinary circumstances.’ NEW YORK TIMES –––––––––––––––– PRAISE FOR SCOTT CARSON ‘One of the best of the best.’ MICHAEL CONNELLY ‘Terrific suspense.’ DEAN KOONTZ ‘DEPARTURE 37 is a rollicking, and at times terrifying, mashup of the 20th and 21st century political, nuclear, and technological tensions and ambitions. It's smart, inventive, breathlessly paced, and most importantly, humane.’ PAUL TREMBLAY ‘In this striking thriller, Carson nimbly entwines a contemporary coming-of-age story with a tale of Cold War paranoia. It’s a winner.’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ‘Wildly imaginative and genuinely, nailbitingly suspenseful.’ BOOKLIST
Legacy of Menace
‘Who had smashed up our young lives? Was it the murderous Kray twins? Or was it the police, cynically using the criminal justice system to hide their own failure?’Bobby David and Alfie Teale were deeply trusted confidants of the notorious Kray twins, but when the Krays grew more extreme in their violence, Bobby secretly became a police informer to stop them. Then, supposedly for their own protection, Bobby, David and Alfie were all arrested on a fitted-up charge of demanding money with menaces, and sentenced to three years in prison. When the Krays were eventually arrested, each of the brothers gave evidence at the trial. The Krays went down. The police were suddenly heroes - while Bobby vanished, in fear of his life, and David and Alfie were left to pick up the pieces of theirs. In this extraordinary three-way memoir, you will see who the real heroes are, and it’s the Teales’s story which will endure as the real version of history.
Red Is My Heart
'Enchanting...You can almost smell the croissants' Washington Post'Deeply poetic... Enchanting and atmospheric, beautiful and heartfelt' Library JournalHow can you mend a broken heart? Do you write a letter to the woman who left you - and post it to an imaginary address? Buy a new watch, to reset your life? Or get rid of the jacket you wore every time you argued, because it was in some way... responsible?Combining the wry musings of a rejected lover with playful drawings in just three colours - red, black and white - Antoine Laurain, bestselling author of The Red Notebook, and renowned street artist Le Sonneur have created a striking addition to the literature of unrequited love. Translated by Jane Aitken.Antoine Laurain worked as a journalist and in the world of antiques before becoming the award-winning author of ten novels, including The Red Notebook and The President's Hat. His books have been translated into 25 languages and sold more than 200,000 copies in English. He lives in Paris.
Our Love
Discover the beauty of unconditional love in this gorgeously illustrated picture book. From cuddling koalas to snuggling penguins, protective lionesses to gentle elephants, Our Love tenderly captures the reassuring bond between a parent and child through the lens of the animal kingdom. With soft watercolour artwork, this is the perfect read for any moment you want to remind your little one of your unending support and affection.
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