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The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster. A professor whose entire family has died in a plane crash, leaving him so ravaged by grief that he becomes like a zombie stumbling through a living death; a silent movie star of the T...

Summer's ending, Evie's step-father is finally home from the Second World War, and Evie is tired of her glamorous mother treating her like a little girl. Then a mysterious stranger appears; a handsome ex-GI who served with Evie's step-father. Slowly, Evie realizes that she is falling in love with him - but he has dark secrets, and a strange control over her parents. When he is found dead, Evie's world is shattered. Torn between her family and the man he loved, Evie must betray someone. The quest ion is ...who? Summer's ending, Evie's step-father is finally home from the Second World War, and Evie is tired of her glamorous mother treating her like a little girl. Then a mysterious stranger appears; a handsome ex-GI who served with Evie's step- father. Slowly, Evie realizes that she is falling in love with him - but he has dark secrets, and a strange control over her parents. When he is found dead, Evie's world is shattered. Torn between her family and the man he loved, Evie must betray som eone. The question is ...who? Hide

This is the international bestseller with a radically simple message. "The Go-Giver" tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the further away his goals seem to be. One day, desperate to land a big deal at the end of a bad quarter, he seeks advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a legendary consultant referred to by his devotees simply as the Chairman. Over the next week, Pindar introduces Joe to a series of 'go-givers': a restaurateur, a CEO, a financial adviser, a broker, and the 'Connector' who brought them all together. Pindar's friends share the Five Laws of Stratospheric Success and teach Joe how to open himself up to the power of giving. Joe learns that changing his focus from getting to giving - putting others' interests first and continually adding value to their lives - leads to unexpected returns. Imparted with wit and grace, "The Go-Giver" is a heartwarming and inspiring tale that brings new relevance to the old proverb 'Give and you shall receive'.

THE VILLA GIRLS is the story of four young women who decide that wherever they are in the world and whatever they're doing they'll meet every few years for a holiday together somewhere sunny. Despite life taking them in very different directions, the ir snatched days in the sun in little hidden villas are crucial to them all. Escape, celebration, recovery - over the years the holidays change their lives. Rosie was always the odd one out - initially only invited as the others felt sorry for her, b ut it seems that in the end, she might be the one whose life is touched the most by her villa days. For it's there that she meets Enzo. The eldest son of an olive oil dynasty in southern Italy, he is being groomed to one day take over as head of the family. Rosie and Enzo have a holiday romance that seems set to become something more serious until she discovers he is not entirely what he seems. Years later they meet again and this time Rosie must decide how much she is prepared to compromise for the sake of love...

Las Vegas, 1986. A young college graduate is murdered when he is unable to pay back a loan funded by notorious criminal Lorenzo Dante. Two years later private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself assisting to apprehend a shoplifter Audrey Van ce in a shopping centre. Events take a much darker turn when Audrey's body is discovered beneath the Cold Spring Bridge, a local suicide spot. Unable to believe she took her own life, Audrey's fiance Marvin Striker hires Kinsey to investigate. It s oon emerges that the shoplifter had become caught up in a much larger operation. Meanwhile Lorenzo Dante has begun to grow weary of his life in organised crime and frustrated with his violent and impulsive younger brother Cappi. While the police ne t begins to close in on him, Dante meets the beautiful Nora, who exerts a powerful pull over the gangster. As Kinsey's enquiries reach a dramatic head, it becomes clear that she and Dante have one thing in common they must be careful who they trust

Eroticism is a truly universal topic, a subject that has always fascinated humankind. Erotic art is telling: It reveals much about an era, a culture, and psychology; it can be sweet, aggressive, soothing, or wild. Erotic Art explores the history of e rotic art and presents paintings, drawings, etchings, sculptures, and more by Titian, Picasso, and Keith Haring, by Bernini, Rodin, and Giacometti, and from ancient Greece, Rome, China, Japan, India, and the Middle East. Reproduced in lush color with close-up details, the art is accompanied by texts that offer insights into how to read the different works. In this book, erotic art gives up its secrets.

If you're looking for the entire world of cookery -this is the book that has it. On more than 1,000 pages, 60 renowned chefs from 40 countries present their favorite recipes. Page for page, true gourmets will be delighted to discover the wide spectru m of soups and appetizers, fish and meat dishes, sweets and desserts presented in words and pictures, along with practical hints on ingredients, methods and cooking times.

The low-tech architecture comes to the oil crisis, in opposition to the coldness of modern architecture, and proposes an active user participation in the design and implementation of Community building with an accent. This book presents a curated sel ection of projects with different organic materials such as wood, straw, mud, stone and reeds from rural and urban areas.

This book maps the ideas, processes, life and times of Gerhard Richter, one of the most important artists at work in the world today. Consisting of more than 5,000 photographs, drawings and sketches created by the artist since 1962, the images closel y parallel, year by year, the subjects of Richter's paintings, revealing the orderly but open-ended analysis central to his art. Richter's photographs - sometimes found, sometimes his own work - have provided the basis for many of his paintings.

In the mid-1980s the sprouting of new movements that had driven modern art since the nineteenth century finally went dormant, sputtering out with a last few half-hearted labels ('pattern painting', 'neo-geo', 'commodity art'). But this was not the en d of art history - far from it. In the years since, art's creative development has remained more vibrant than ever, resulting in a staggering diversity of new forms. Defining Contemporary Art responds to this unique landscape with an innovative appro ach to art history. Assembled and written by eight of the most prominent curators working today, all of whom have both witnessed and shaped this period, Defining Contemporary Art tells the story of the two hundred pivotal artworks of the past twenty- five years. These artworks include not only the most talked about pieces but also the quietly influential works, those which may have been overlooked at the time of their making but which went on to change the paradigm of their era. Arranged year by year, these two hundred works provide a true chronological depiction of creativity in our era, forming a mosaic in which readers may find their own patterns. Each author, in addition to selecting twenty-five artworks from 1986 to 2010, has singled ou t one year from this period as a key moment in its development, tracing the shifts in the artistic climate and the important exhibitions of new art, influential retrospectives, milestones and anecdotes that serve as the seeds of more conventional his tories. Defining Contemporary Art is not a conventional history. In a period when artistic developments no longer proceed via tidy movements, when narratives of progress no longer hold sway, when the art world has not one centre but many, this book p rovides the reader with all the materials to compose a picture of the most vital period in art: our own.

High-quality reproductions of more than 1,000 masterpieces Life and work of the most important artists of European painting from 1300 to 1850 Detailed captions for all depicted works 20 thematic insets for an overall understanding of European paintin g Comprehensive art history glossary High-quality reproductions of more than 1,000 masterpieces Life and work of the most important artists of European painting from 1300 to 1850 Detailed captions for all depicted works 20 thematic insets for an over all understanding of European painting Comprehensive art history glossary Hide

This volume presents the reader with the unique wealth of art forms in East Asia which have also exerted tremendous influence on Western art. This volume presents the reader with the unique wealth of art forms in East Asia which have also exerted tre mendous influence on Western art. Hide

Bizarná groteska Nacista a holič rozpráva príbeh o masovom vrahovi Maxovi Schulzovi, ktorý po páde tretej ríše zmení identitu, stane sa Židom, odcestuje do Palestíny, a zapojí sa do boja o samostatný štát Izrael. Bremeno minulosti je však ťažšie než vrece plné zlatých zubov a démoni svedomia nespia ani v Zasľúbenej zemi. Vina, spravodlivosť a trest hlavné línie tejto absurdnej frašky, bravúrne spracovaný pitoreskný svet prevrátených hodnôt, majstrovský jazyk spisovateľa, básnika, ktorý hlodá, rastie, pučí, kvitne... a ožíva, robia z tejto knihy smutno-veselý literárny skvost. Edgar Hilsenrath, nemecký Žid, spojil nezlučiteľné: satiru o holokauste a nacistickom Nemecku.

Autor Colin Tennat, medzinárodný odborník na psychológiu psov a ich správanie, v druhom rozšírenom vydaní svojej publikácie približuje najnovšie, moderné, ale aj časom osvedčené metódy na výcvik psov. Poskytuje návod, ako pochopiť správanie psov aj a ko ich prevychovať a zbaviť zlých návykov. V bohato ilustrovanej knihe sú napríklad inštrukcie ako psa privolať, ako mu dávať pokyny či tipy na výchovu k poslušnosti; jednoducho rady na všetky bežné problémy, ktoré môžu nastať pri spoločnom nažívaní s jedným z najstarších priateľov človeka.

Accurate, highly detailed drawings of each fish. Fish names are given in various languages along with their scientific nomenclature. Brief description of and information about every fish.

This acupuncture atlas not only provides beginners with an overview of the most important acupuncture points, but experienced practitioners can also learn about seldom used acupuncture points and also broaden their knowledge.