Afterlife of the soviet man

Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

The Love of My Afterlife

‘This book has it all. Humor, heart, and a heroine I was desperately rooting for. Kirsty Greenwood has a new fan!’ Colleen Hoover_______________ If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. She’s entered the afterlife wearing the sort of pyjamas you don’t want anyone to see and finds herself face-to-face with the most handsome man she’s ever encoun...

Dostupnost: do 55 dnů

Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia

Using an analysis of case studies of political and policy changes in Russia after the Soviet collapse, Vladimir GelÂ’man discusses the logic of buildi

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Fall of Man in Wilmslow - David Lagercrantz

Anotace: A powerful tale of honour, prejudice and the twentieth century's most maltreated hero June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple. Taking the case, Detective Constable Leonard Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it's a suicide, he is nonethele...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King

<p>The master storyteller at his best delivers a generous, thrilling new collection of stories featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write each story. A generous collection of thrilling stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time - with a wonderful...

Dostupnost: skladem

Man Who Couldn't Die

In the chaos of early 199s Russia, a paralyzed veteran’s wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - King Stephen

Anotace: The master storyteller at his best delivers a generous, thrilling new collection of stories featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write each story. <br> A generous collection of thrilling stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time - with...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Karunatilaka Shehan

Anotace: A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil warColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide ...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Soulslinger: Envoy of Death

Become an Envoy of Death, able to unleash the incredible powers that will make you the most dangerous soul in Limbo. Upgrade your character’s abilities to become the ultimate Soulslinger and take on thrilling challenges in a bloody war against the criminal cartel of the afterlife! Step into the rich and immersive world of Haven, filled with mysterious NPCs who hol...

Dostupnost: skladem

The ZOO - Christopher Wilson

<p>There are certain things that Yuri Zipit knows:</p> <p>That being official food-taster for the leader of the Soviet Union requires him to drink too much vodka for a 12-year-old.That you do not have to be an Elephantologist to see that the great leader is dying.That Marshal Bruhah has been known to eat his own children, while Comrade Krushka is only fi...

Dostupnost: skladem

The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner - David Herszenhorn

<p>THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival-so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny's name.There's an old saying that Russia without corruption ...

Dostupnost: do 18 dnů

Soulslinger: Envoy of Death (PC)

Become an Envoy of Death, able to unleash the incredible powers that will make you the most dangerous soul in Limbo. Upgrade your character&rsquo;s abilities to become the ultimate Soulslinger and take on thrilling challenges in a bloody war against the criminal cartel of the afterlife!Step into the rich and immersive world of Haven, filled with mysterious NPCs who ho...

Dostupnost: skladem

The Red Eagles - Downing David

Anotace: World War II is nearly over. For the Russians, the enemy is no longer Nazi Germany, but the American behemoth that threatens to topple the Communist revolution. Deep within the walls of the Kremlin, Stalin´s top man hatches a brilliant plan that will alter the course of postwar history-and it´s all based on a deception as simple as the shell game. Five years lat...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Under the Whispering Door (1250850991)

Kniha - autor T. J. Klune, 384 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Witty, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times. TJ Klune brings us a warm hug of a story about a man who spent his life at the office - and his afterlife building a home. From the author of joyous New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. Welcom...

Dostupnost: skladem

The Rodchenkov Affair - Grigorij Rodčenkov

<p>***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all*** One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade' 'The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen' In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following reve...

Dostupnost: skladem

The Communist´s Daughter - Durán Aroa Moreno

Anotace: Winner of the Premio Ojo CriticoKatia has grown up amongst the ruins of the once mighty Berlin, now shattered by Allied bombs. In their tiny, freezing flat, Katia`s father teaches her of the righteousness of the new Soviet republic, who will always keep watch over them.As a young woman, a chance encounter with a man from the west causes Katia to realise there mi...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

The Communist´s Daughter - Aroa Moreno Durán

<p>Winner of the Premio Ojo Critico Katia has grown up amongst the ruins of the once mighty Berlin, now shattered by Allied bombs. In their tiny, freezing flat, Katia's father teaches her of the righteousness of the new Soviet republic, who will always keep watch over them. As a young woman, a chance encounter with a man from the west causes Katia to realise there...

Dostupnost: skladem

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life´s Final Moments - THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Vlahos Hadley

Anotace: *THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* - `Heartfelt ... Gentle, refreshingly forthright` New York TimesHospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories, life lessons and wisdom from her patients in this heart-warming memoir about how end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die.`The combined beauty, f...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life´s Final Moments - THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Hadley Vlahos

<p>*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* - 'Heartfelt ... Gentle, refreshingly forthright' New York TimesHospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories, life lessons and wisdom from her patients in this heart-warming memoir about how end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die.'The combined beauty, fa...

Dostupnost: skladem

The NASA Archives. 40th Anniversary Edition - Piers Bizony

<p>Prepare to embark on a journey through space and time with The NASA Archives, a visual celebration of humankind’s unstoppable urge to travel away from Earth to worlds beyond. Featuring hundreds of historic photographs and concept renderings, this collection guides us through NASA’s 60-year history.</p> <p> </p> <p>Journey through the U.S. ...

Dostupnost: skladem

Level 5: The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Albom Mitch

Anotace: From the author of the number one "New York Times "bestseller "Tuesdays with Morrie "comes this long-awaited follow-up. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling c...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

PER | Level 5: The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

<p>From the author of the number one "New York Times "bestseller "Tuesdays with Morrie "comes this long-awaited follow-up. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little gi...

Dostupnost: skladem

Bacon in Moscow

The hilarious account of one man's quest to mount a Francis Bacon exhibition in the Soviet Union.

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Bacon in Moscow

The hilarious account of one man's quest to mount a Francis Bacon exhibition in the Soviet Union.

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Porcupine

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversa

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Last Days in Old Europe

Anotace: In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule. From Trieste to Prague and Vienna to Warsaw, fading aristocrats, charming gangsters, fractious dipl...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Last Days in Old Europe : Trieste ´79, Vienna ´85, Prague ´89 - Richard Bassett

<p>In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule. From Trieste to Prague and Vienna to Warsaw, fading aristocrats, charming gangsters, fractious diplo...

Dostupnost: do 4 dnů

Prague Spring - Simon Mawer

<p>'Prague Spring is a wonderfully atmospheric portrait of the city as well as a political and historical thriller with dashes of espionage. It is as brilliant as anything he has written, which is saying a lot' The Times It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitc...

Dostupnost: skladem

Prague Spring

It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek's "socialism with a human face"...

Dostupnost: neudáno

Last Days In Old Europe - neuveden

Anotace: The final decade of the Cold War, through the eyes of a laconic and elegant observer In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule. From Trieste t...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů

Last Days in Old Europe : Trieste ´79, Vienna ´85, Prague ´89 - Richard Bassett

<p>The final decade of the Cold War, through the eyes of a laconic and elegant observer In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule. From Trieste ...

Dostupnost: skladem

We (1847496768)

Kniha - anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome...

Dostupnost: skladem

Josef Koudelka: Next - Josef Koudelka

The definitive and only authorized biography of Josef Koudelka—an intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography’s most renowned and celebrated artists. <p> Throughout his more than sixty-year-long obsession with the medium, Josef Koudelka considers a remarkable range of photographic subjects—from his early theater work, to his seminal project on the R...

Dostupnost: skladem

Iron Curtain : A Love Story - Vesna Goldsworthy

<p>Two worlds on the brink of change in a love story doomed to disasterMilena is a Red Princess living in a Soviet Satellite state in the 1980s. She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom; the end of the Cold War seems unimaginable.When she meets Jason, a confident British poet, Milena is appalled by his political naivety and his poor choice of footwear. Still,...

Dostupnost: skladem

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3

The desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia. The time travel mission goes awry, creating an alternate timeline where technology has followed an entirely different evolution, a new superpower has been thrust on to the world stage, and World War III is raging. The Empire of the Rising Sun ha...

Dostupnost: skladem

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 (PC)

The desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia. The time travel mission goes awry, creating an alternate timeline where technology has followed an entirely different evolution, a new superpower has been thrust on to the world stage, and World War III is raging. The Empire of the Rising Sun ha...

Dostupnost: skladem

Roadside Picnic - Strugackij Arkadij, Strugackij Boris

Anotace: The Strugatsky brothers` poignant and introspective novel of first contact that inspired the classic film StalkerRed Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His...

Dostupnost: do 7 dnů