Hľadanie: An Outline of American Literature
zobraziť:
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."
Na sklade 1Ks
5,79 €
11,58 €
dostupné aj ako:
American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation.
In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.
The Education of an Idealist
'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world' Barack Obama
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
The New York Times * Time * The Economist * The Washington Post * Vanity Fair * Times Literary Supplement
'What can one person do?' In this vibrant, galvanizing memoir, human rights advocate and Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Samantha Power offers an urgent response to this question.
As she traces her path from Irish immigrant to war correspondent and activist to eventually becoming the youngest-ever US Ambassador to the United Nations, Power writes with a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling, vivid character portraits and disarming honesty.
Her account illuminates the challenges of navigating the halls of power while trying to put one's ideals into practice (and raise two young children along the way), and it shows how - even in the face of daunting challenges - each of us can make a difference.
NOW WITH UPDATED AFTERWORD
The American Roommate Experiment
From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martin, who are forced to share a New York apartment.
Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn't told her family and now has terrible writer's block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina's spare key while she's out of town. But Rosie doesn't know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking-for lack of a better word-on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armour. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.
Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He'll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control-but Lucas's time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.
American National Parks
Wide, breathtaking landscapes, crystal-clear, blue lakes, high, snow-covered mountain peaks, but also wild grizzlies, buffalos, mustangs, and rare animal species: this is North America. With nearly 60 national parks, the United States is preserving a living monument to the continent's pristine nature in an effort to make it accessible to everyone. This book presents the most beautiful parks in over 450 photographs. Each has its own character and individual charm. Alaska, high in the northwest of the American continent, boasts spectacular wide expanses and immense geological variety such as the highest mountain of North America, the Denali. Continuing on the northern route from west to east, the high mountain regions of the Rocky Mountains overwhelm their visitors with countless blue glacier lakes and thundering waterfalls. Yellowstone, the oldest national park, is pure magic with dazzlingly colourful thermal springs, erupting geysers, and large herds of bison. Continuing on the southern route from west to east, the striking granitoid formations of Half Dome and El Capitan in the popular Yosemite National Park are impressive sights. Death Valley fascinates with contrasts of hot salt deserts and ice-cold, snowcapped peaks.
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Hurt people hurt people.
Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.
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
Chci mluvit jako rodilý Američan
V této učebnici je formou dialogu, výkladu i českého překladu a v desítkách cvičení představeno více než 300 nejčastěji používaných idiomů a idiomatických spojení současné americké angličtiny. Pochopíte tak dokonale jejich význam a osvojíte si jejich
správné použití. Jako samostatný doplněk je k učebnici vydána audionahrávka na CD. Učebnice je určena studujícím angličtiny (od mírně pokročilých až po velmi pokročilé), kteří si chtějí obohatit svůj ústní i písemný projev.
Lacná kniha Ako sa zo mňa takmer stal Američan (-70%)
Kniha je písaná na základe denníka, ktorý si autor knihy - Andrej Krcho - počas pobytu v Amerike písal. Je teda písaná jednoducho a vecne, no hlavne veľmi autenticky. To iste ocenia najmä tí, ktorí majú podobný výlet ešte len pred sebou. Môžu si to vďaka knižke najprv prežiť len tak "nanečisto" a potom sa rozhodnúť. Ako človek, ktorý podobný pobyt tiež absolvoval však jedným dychom dodávam, že i pre mňa bolo veľmi zaujímavé konfrontovať vlastné zážitky s tými Andrejovými. A napokon, keďže spoznávanie zahraničia sa iste, okrem nespočetných praktických kladov, naviac stáva i akýmsi módnym trendom, je táto knižka zaujímavým čítaním pre hocikoho, kto nežije ustrnulý kdesi v minulosti, rád ide s dobou a chce poznať súčasný životný štýl mladých ľudí.
Na sklade 3Ks
1,02 €
3,40 €
dostupné aj ako:
Shooting an Elephant
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
Today, George Orwell is perhaps most famous for his iconic novels - Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm - but in his own time it was his remarkable nonfiction writing which drew most attention. Kind-hearted, intelligent, often funny, occasionally indignant, always insightful: his essays are some of the best ever written. Among others, this selection includes 'Shooting an Elephant', 'Such, Such Were the Joys' and 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.
American Royals
The New York Times Bestseller
'An addictive Jilly Cooperesque saga' Guardian
'A fun, fast-paced read packed with drama, scandal and romance' The Sun
Crazy Rich Asians meets The Crown in this completely addictive modern-day royal romance.
The Washingtons have ruled America for almost 250 years.
They're gorgeous, fiercely famous and the beating heart of the most glorious royal court in the world.
But behind the glittering ballrooms, elegant gowns, and seemingly perfect public personas lie forbidden romances and scandalous secrets. Together four young women will navigate gossip, drama, and the eyes of the world upon them.
There's everything to play for - but there can only be one queen.
This is the story of the most famous family in the world.
This is the story of the American royals.
Na sklade 1Ks
9,98 €
10,50 €
British and American History
Tento přehled historie Velké Británie a Spojených států amerických je vhodný pro studenty angličtiny středních a jazykových škol, kteří se připravují k jazykové zkozce z angličtiny.
Na sklade 1Ks
3,57 €
3,76 €
Lacná kniha Američan čínského původu (-50%)
Malý Ťin Wang nechce nic jiného než zapadnout a najít si přátele. Když se jeho rodina přestěhuje na novou adresu, k nemalému překvapení a nelibosti zjistí, že je široko daleko jediný etnický Číňan, byť je Američan stejně jako ostatní spolužáci. Stává se terčem posměchu, urážek a šikany. Nemá skoro žádné kamarády, a co hůř, zamiluje se do dívky, která je Američanka skrz naskrz…
Američan čínského původu je strhující příběh, neobyčejně poutavý komiks plný zvratů a napětí.
Na sklade 1Ks
9,08 €
18,15 €
dostupné aj ako:
Lacná kniha Američan zemře v Brdech (-70%)
Soubor povídek s detektivní nebo tajemnou zápletkou.
Na sklade 1Ks
1,11 €
3,71 €
dostupné aj ako:
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.
Na stiahnutie
8,39 €
An Lan Dan
Premýšľali ste niekedy nad tým, kam miznú všetky pokazené, stratené či vyhodené veci? Čo ak niekde za nablýskanými fasádami miest žijú svoj druhý život?
Keď sa najlepšie kamarátky Zana a Diba ocitnú v pivnici starého domu, netušia, že objavili vchod do paralelného Londýna, v ktorom ožívajú veci, rozprávajú knihy, kde sa po oblohe premávajú lietajúce autobusy a po zemi vražedné žirafy. Po stretnutiach s výstrednými obyvateľmi Anlondýna však zisťujú, že zvláštne udalosti, ktoré v poslednom čase zažívali, nie sú dielom náhody, ale súčasťou dávneho proroctva: je Zana skutočne vyvolená zachrániť Anlondýn pred Smogom, jedovatým mrakom, ktorý sa postupne zmocňuje celého mesta?
AN LAN DAN je prvá mestská fantasy Chinu Miévilla, zakladateľa žánru New Weird, určená pre mladších čitateľov a čitateľky, a zároveň prvý preklad tohto kultového autora v slovenčine.
Lacná kniha Ten Američan (-25%)
Velice působivá prvotina jednoho z nejnovějších hlasů v oblasti napínavých příběhů. Andrew Britton vytvořil odvážný román, který praská vysokými sázkami, naléhavostí typickou pro dobu po 11. září a uvádí na scénu nerudného agenta CIA Ryana Kealeyho. Ryan se ocitá v zoufalé hře na kočku a myš s nejlstivějším protivníkem, s jakým se kdy setkal, protivníkem, který nepřestane, dokud nespáchá vrcholné zlo - a který je o to nebezpečnější, že je jeden z vlastních...
Na sklade 1Ks
14,81 €
19,74 €
dostupné aj ako:
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.
With an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.
I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, and reservations at every new restaurant in town. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare . . .
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Steal Like an Artist
When asked to talk to students at Broome Community College in upstate New York in the spring of 2011, Austin Kleon wrote a simple list often things he wished he'd heard when he was their age: 'Steal like an artist; Don't wait until you know who you are to start making things; Write the book you want to read; Use your hands; Side projects are important; Do good work and put it where people can see it; Geography is no longer our master; Be nice (the world is a small town.); Be boring (it's the only way to get work done.); and, Creativity is subtraction.' After giving the speech, he posted the text and slides to his popular blog, where it quickly went viral. Now Kleon has expanded his original manifesto into an illustrated guide to the creative life for writers, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, photographers, musicians, and anyone attempting to make things - art, a career, a life - in the digital age. Brief, direct, and visually interactive, the book includes illustrative anecdotes and mini-exercise sections calling out practical actions readers can take to unleash their own creative spirits.