Hľadanie: An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain EN
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Lacná kniha How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch (-50%)
We probably all have a vague idea of how to make an apple pie: mix flour and butter, throw in some apples and you're probably most of the way there, right? Think again. Making an apple pie from scratch requires ingredients that definitely aren't available in the supermarket, ovens that can reach temperatures of trillions of degrees, and a preparation time of 13.8 billion years.
Inspired by Sagan's famous line, Harry Cliff ventures out in search of the ultimate apple pie recipe, tracing the ingredients of our universe through the hearts of dying stars and back in time to a tiny fraction of a second after our universe began. Along the way, he confronts some really big questions: What is matter really made of? How does the stuff around us escape annihilation in the fearsome heat of the Big Bang? And will we ever be able to understand the very first moments of our universe?
In pursuit of answers, Cliff ventures to the largest underground research facility in the world, deep beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, where scientists gaze into the heart of the Sun using the most elusive of particles, the ghostly neutrino. He visits CERN in Switzerland to explore the 'Antimatter Factory' where this stuff of science fiction is manufactured daily (and we're close to knowing whether it falls upwards). And he reveals what the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider may be telling us about the fundamental ingredients of matter.
Along the way, Cliff illuminates the history of physics, chemistry, and astronomy that brought us to our present understanding of the world, while offering readers a front-row seat to one of the most dramatic intellectual journeys human beings have ever embarked on.
A transfixing deep dive into origins of our world, How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch doesn't just put the makeup of our universe under the microscope, but the awe-inspiring, improbable fact that it exists at all.
'A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is, and the journey matter takes from the Big Bang, through exploding stars, ultimately to you and me.' - Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden
'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.' - Carl Sagan
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Lacná kniha An Education: The Screenplay (-70%)
The script for major new film An Education, the story of the bizarre relationship between 1960s teenager Jenny (played by Carey Mulligan) and older man David (Peter Sarsgaard), after she accepts a lift on her way home from music practice one day. Bas
ed on Observer journalist Lynn Barber's real-life experience as recounted in her book An Education, the film won the Audience Award for best film at the Sundance Film Festival and tremendous acclaim at the Berlin Film Festival too. It will be release
d in the UK in October 2009 and promises to be the season's Slumdog Millionaire. Hornby's charming script is included in An Education: The Screenplay, along with stills from the film and a long introduction in which he wittily describes the process o
f converting someone's very personal memoir into a hit film.
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Harry Potter A History of Magic
Harry Potter: A History of Magic is the official book of the exhibition, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Bloomsbury, J.K. Rowling and the brilliant curators of the British Library. It promises to take readers on a fascinating journey through the subjects studied at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - from Alchemy and Potions classes through to Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures.
Each chapter showcases a treasure trove of artefacts from the British Library and other collections around the world, beside exclusive manuscripts, sketches and illustrations from the Harry Potter archive. There's also a specially commissioned essay for each subject area by an expert, writer or cultural commentator, inspired by the contents of the exhibition - absorbing, insightful and unexpected contributions from Steve Backshall, the Reverend Richard Coles, Owen Davies, Julia Eccleshare, Roger Highfield, Steve Kloves, Lucy Mangan, Anna Pavord and Tim Peake, who offer a personal perspective on their magical theme.
Readers will be able to pore over ancient spell books, amazing illuminated scrolls that reveal the secret of the Elixir of Life, vials of dragon's blood, mandrake roots, painted centaurs and a genuine witch's broomstick, in a book that shows J.K. Rowling's magical inventions alongside their cultural and historical forebears.
This is the ultimate gift for Harry Potter fans, curious minds, big imaginations, bibliophiles and readers around the world who missed out on the chance to see the exhibition in person.
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Lacná kniha How to be an Overnight Success (-50%)
"You are not born an entrepreneur. It's a skill that you learn along the way."
When the skincare company Rodial launched its cult 'snake' serum, the press quickly called the business an 'overnight success'. However, Rodial's founder Maria Hatzistefanis had been toiling for 18 years, building the company from scratch in her bedroom. Now, the beauty boss sets out to demonstrate in this very accessible book that its success stemmed from sheer hard work, tireless efforts and a lot of patience.
Fashion-loving Maria set out with a dream to build a beauty business and - despite not excelling at school, and being fired from her first job - she has achieved it. She did it by dreaming big, working hard, surrounding herself with the best, taking risks, creating buzz and building her own personal brand, which is now a favourite with high-profile models and media personalities including Poppy Delevingne, Daisy Lowe and Kylie Jenner.
Crucially, she believes anyone can do this and her book, brimming with good sense, great advice, tips and secrets - all presented in an easy, friendly style - shows how.
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Lacná kniha An Echo in the Bone (-70%)
Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.
Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son–a young lieutenant in the British army–across the barrel of a gun.
Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though–not if she has anything to say about it.
Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’s daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna’s parents’ story comes to life through Claire’s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire’s love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles–as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire’s fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America.
With stunning cameos of historical characters from Benedict Arnold to Benjamin Franklin, An Echo in the Bone is a soaring masterpiece of imagination, insight, character, and adventure–a novel that echoes in the mind long after the last page is turned.
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Mars Bruno & Paak Anderson - An Evening With Silk Sonic CD
KDO: Bruno Mars patří k nejpopulárnějším interpretům současnosti. V roce 2011 ho časopis Time zařadil mezi sto nejvlivnějších lidí na světě. Dvacetkrát byl nominován na Grammy, čtyřikrát si cenu převzal. Celosvětově prodal přes 169 milionů singlových nahrávek, což z něj v tomto ohledu činí nejúspěšnějšího interpreta všech dob. K jeho nejznámějším písním patří hity Lazy Song, Marry You nebo Locked Out Of Heaven, nutné je rovněž zmínit, že se podílel na jedné z nejpopulárnějších nahrávek posledních let, singlu Uptown Funk producenta Marka Ronsona.Projekt Silk Sonic sním založil soulový zpěvák Anderson .Paak a vširší sestavě působí třeba i legendární baskytarista Bootsy Collins.
CO: Bruno Mars a Anderson .Paak nás zvou na pozoruhodný výlet do minulosti, kdy se hudba s láskou nahrávala a s láskou také poslouchala. Jejich projekt Silk Sonic je ryzí radostí a důkazem toho, jak dobře mají oba starou černou hudbu naposlouchanou. Těžko si představit dokonalejší uchopení old-school R&B, než jaké Mars a Anderson s partou dalších muzikantů na téhle desce předvádějí.
Tracklist:
01. Silk Sonic Intro [01:03] 02. Leave The Door Open[04:02] 03. Fly As Me [03:39] 04. After Last Night (with Thundercat & Bootsy Collins) [04:09] 05. Smokin Out The Window [03:17] 06. Put On A Smile [04:15] 07. 777 [02:45] 08. Skate [03:23] 09. Blast Off [04:44]
Nightwish - Decades: An Archive Of Song 1996-2015 2CD
Tracklist:
CD1:
1 The Greatest Show On Earth (Remastered) 23:59
2 Élan (Remastered) 4:47
3 My Walden (Remastered) 4:41
4 Storytime (Remastered) 5:30
5 I Want My Tears Back (Remastered) 5:11
6 Amaranth (Remastered) 3:57
7 The Poet And The Pendulum (Remastered) 13:54
8 Nemo (Remastered) 4:36
9 Wish I Had An Angel (Remastered) 4:02
CD2:
1 Ghost Love Score (Remastered) 10:02
2 Slaying The Dreamer (Remastered) 4:34
3 End Of All Hope (Remastered) 4:23
4 10th Man Down (Remastered) 5:29
5 The Kinslayer (Remastered) 4:09
6 Dead Boy's Poem (Remastered) 6:52
7 Gethsemane (Remastered) 5:22
8 Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean (Remastered) 4:46
9 Sacrament Of Wilderness (Remastered) 4:14
10 Sleeping Sun (Remastered) 4:33
11 Elvenpath (Remastered) 4:42
12 The Carpenter (Remastered) 6:00
13 Nightwish (Demo, Remastered) 5:48
An Antarctic Mystery
A sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym.
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Lacná kniha History of England (-70%)
One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his History of England" won instantaneous success following the publication of its first volumes in 1849, and was rapidly translated into most European languages. Beginning with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and concluding at the end of the reign of William III in 1702, it illuminates a time of deep struggle throughout Britain and Ireland in vivid and compelling prose. But while Macaulay offers a gripping narrative, and draws on a wide range of sources including historical accounts and creative literature, his enduring success also owes a great deal to his astonishing ability to grasp, and explain, the political reality that has always underpinned social change."
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The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Aim For Iconic, Rise To Legendary, Make History
For over twenty-five years, leadership legend and personal-mastery path-blazer Robin Sharma has mentored billionaires, business titans, professional-sports superstars and entertainment royalty via a revolutionary methodology that led them to accomplish rare-air results. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Sharma makes his transformational system available to anyone who is ready for undefeatable positivity, monumental productivity, deep spiritual freedom and a life of helping others.
In The Everyday Hero Manifesto you will discover:
· The hidden habits used by many of the world’s most creative and successful people to realize their visionary ambitions
· Original techniques to turn fear into fuel, problems into power and past troubles into triumphs
· A breakthrough blueprint to battle-proof yourself against distraction and procrastination so that you produce magic that dominates your domain
· Pioneering insights on adopting world-class routines that will lead you to achieve superhuman fitness and become the most disciplined person you know
· Unusual wisdom to operate with far more simplicity, beauty and peace
Part memoir of a life richly lived, part instruction manual for virtuoso-grade performance, and part handbook for spiritual freedom in an age of high-velocity change, The Everyday Hero Manifesto will completely transform your life. Forever.
Arakain History 40
Kapela Arakain je na naší hudební scéně úctyhodných čtyřicet let. Začínala v undergroundu, postupně se propracovala mezi českou heavymetalovou elitu a nakonec se stala legendou. Ačkoli prošla mnoha peripetiemi, všechny nepřízně osudu přestála – i díky svým věrným fanouškům. Především jim je určena tato výpravná kniha, která nabízí podrobný a ucelený přehled vývoje skupiny od jejích počátků v roce 1982 až do výročního koncertu ke čtyřiceti letům v pražském O2 universu.
Publikace Arakain – History 40 je nabitá fakty. Mapuje minulost a tvorbu skupiny rok po roce, zabývá se jednotlivými alby a významnými koncerty, sleduje okolnosti vzniku nejznámějších písniček. Popisuje milníky kapelní historie, ať už to byly chvíle slávy či propadu, potyčky s politickou mocí nebo příchody a odchody muzikantů.
Kniha je vybavena rozsáhlou, často raritní obrazovou fotodokumentací. Také v ní najdete přehlednou diskografii skupiny a profily všech členů, kteří se v ní vystřídali. Kromě toho obsahuje velké množství odkazů na tištěné i webové zdroje informací o Arakainu, jež pravověrní fanoušci jistě ocení.
Deutsch an der Uni
Třetí vydání oblíbené učebnice určené studujícím, kteří si chtějí zopakovat, doplnit a rozšířit své středoškolské znalosti němčiny a získat větší jistotu v konverzaci. Je vhodná jak pro začátečníky, tak i pro studenty jazykově lépe vybavené. Studující si po probrání učebnice osvojí zhruba 1000 slov a slovních spojení, naučí se solidně vyjadřovat v základních životních situacích a pomocí nahrávek též porozumět projevu rodilého mluvčího. Mluvnice je omezena na jevy důležité pro ústní komunikaci a četbu obecných i obecně ekonomických textů. Výběr těchto jevů i jejich rozsah je oproštěn od méně důležitých pravidel a výjimek. Po výkladu každého jevu následující nácviková cvičení. Po každé třetí lekci opakovací test, umožňující sebekontrolu a vlastní ohodnocení. S tématem každé lekce jsou spjaté i poslechové texty, které cvičí systematicky schopnost porozumět projevu rodilého mluvčího. Výchozí texty se týkají zejména v první polovině učebnice života studentů, v druhé polovině jsou pak zařazena i témata využitelná v profesní praxi: psaní životopisu, vlastní podnikání, telefonování ve firmě, používání Internetu v profesní činnosti atd. Nechybí ani texty týkající se reálií německy mluvících zemí. Součástí knihy je CD s poslechovými cvičeními.
The Top 10 Bloodiest Wars in History
This eBook examines the top 10 bloodiest conflicts in human history. It provides an analysis of each war's origins, overall deaths, and their impact on history.
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Lacná kniha An American Dream (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (-70%)
A key backlist title from the highly acclaimed author of The Naked and the Dead and The Fight". War hero, ex-Congressman, a professor of 'popular but somewhat notorious reputation', television personality and husband of the rich and beautiful Deborah ('a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz'), Stephen Rojack lived the "American Dream". But his enviable life concealed a strange tension, the constant 'itch to jump', and when one day he finally cracks and strangles his luscious wife, he unleashes a personality of undreamt-of ferocity. A wanted murderer, Rojack is suddenly catapulted into an alien world of gangsters, crumbling tenements and downtown bars. Here, he meets Cherry, a small-time singer who ekes out her living in sleazy nightclubs, waiting for a break. She's the woman Rojack falls for, dangerously, desperately, tragically! A powerful exploration of one man's quest for depravity, "An American Dream" shocked the USA on first publication in 1965 with its graphic depictions of sex and violence. One of the key works of twentieth-century American literature, the novel's white-hot prose makes it, for many, Mailer's finest achievement."
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Lacná kniha An American Dream (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (-50%)
A key backlist title from the highly acclaimed author of The Naked and the Dead and The Fight". War hero, ex-Congressman, a professor of 'popular but somewhat notorious reputation', television personality and husband of the rich and beautiful Deborah ('a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz'), Stephen Rojack lived the "American Dream". But his enviable life concealed a strange tension, the constant 'itch to jump', and when one day he finally cracks and strangles his luscious wife, he unleashes a personality of undreamt-of ferocity. A wanted murderer, Rojack is suddenly catapulted into an alien world of gangsters, crumbling tenements and downtown bars. Here, he meets Cherry, a small-time singer who ekes out her living in sleazy nightclubs, waiting for a break. She's the woman Rojack falls for, dangerously, desperately, tragically! A powerful exploration of one man's quest for depravity, "An American Dream" shocked the USA on first publication in 1965 with its graphic depictions of sex and violence. One of the key works of twentieth-century American literature, the novel's white-hot prose makes it, for many, Mailer's finest achievement."
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Lacná kniha An it Gitl Novel: Devious (-70%)
The ninth book in the New York Times bestselling IT GIRL series Jenny Humphrey could have lost everything she'd worked so hard for when the reality show her adoring freshman fans were filming backfired on her in the most publicly humiliating way...but it meant she found out who her friends were - maybe Waverly is big enough for four IT girls?
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Lacná kniha Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times (-70%)
The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and into the present day
Cursed Britain unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes mounted, many Britons found themselves believing in things they had previously dismissed - dark supernatural forces.
Historian Thomas Waters here explores the lives of cursed or bewitched people, along with the witches and witch-busters who helped and harmed them. Waters takes us on a fascinating journey from Scottish islands to the folklore-rich West Country, from the immense territories of the British Empire to metropolitan London. We learn why magic caters to deep-seated human needs but see how it can also be abused, and discover how witchcraft survives by evolving and changing. Along the way, we examine an array of remarkable beliefs and rituals, from traditional folk magic to diverse spiritualities originating in Africa and Asia.
This is a tale of cynical quacks and sincere magical healers, depressed people and furious vigilantes, innocent victims and rogues who claimed to possess evil abilities. Their spellbinding stories raise important questions about the state's role in regulating radical spiritualities, the fragility of secularism and the true nature of magic.
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Divnej ročník / An Odd Year
Publikace byla vydána jako obvykle k posledně proběhlému, tentokrát 21. Mikulovskému výtvarnému sympoziu “dílna“. Je koncipována jako knižní publikace, která prostřednictvím rozhovorů přibližuje nejen myšlení a tvorbu zúčastněných autorů, ale také se stala alespoň dílčím dokumentem o proměnách současného českého a potažmo středoevropského výtvarného umění. Kromě textů obsahuje kvalitní reprodukce děl, jež se stala součástí sbírky současného umění města Mikulova, dokumentární fotografie z průběhu akce a odborné zhodnocení zpracované zúčastněným teoretikem Ondřejem Čechem. Autory rozhovorů s protagonisty 21. ročníku: Stanislavem Divišem, Janem Pištěkem, Aldinem Popajou, Václavem Bláhou, Petrem Veselým, Oldřichem Tichým a Viktorií Prokopovou je právě zmíněný Ondřej Čech. Své texty přidali starosta města Rostislav Koštial a kurátor ročníku Stanislav Diviš.
The life of an expat
This book describes – in English - the author's emigration from Czechoslovakia triggered by a historical event in August 1968. All events in this book are based on recollection of the author's memories and historical photos from his archives. Only a minor part of the events was collected from friends and colleagues. There might be some discrepancies regarding the exact locations and dates. The book reflects his personal opinions and feelings, and it does open broad his private life. The book represents a complete emigration circle. It starts in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and ends after the author returns to the Czech Republic and regains his citizenship at the end of 2000.
Tato anglicky psaná kniha popisuje autorovu emigraci z Československa, kterou vyvolaly historické události v srpnu 1968. Popis všech událostí v této knize je založen na autorových vzpomínkách a je doplněn fotografiemi z jeho archivu. Malá část knihy je také založena na vzpomínkách autorových přátel a kolegů. Pokud jde o přesná místa a data, mohou existovat nepatrné nesrovnalosti. Kniha odráží osobní názory a pocity autora a čtenáři předkládá pohled do autorova soukromého života.
Kniha představuje uzavřený kruh emigrantského života - začíná v Československu v roce 1968 a končí poté, co se autor vrátil do České republiky a na konci roku 2000 zde znovu získal občanství.
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