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White Holes: Inside the Horizon - Carlo Rovelli
<p>CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN'A miniature masterpiece by one of the most entertaining scientists on the planet ... I would give this book to anyone, young and old, interested in thinking, science and literature' Robert Fox, Evening Standard'Everyone's talking about White Holes' Daily MailA mesmerizing trip to the strange ne...
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Knife - Salman Rushdie
<p>A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman RushdieOn the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black – black clothes, black m...
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The Storm We Made: The spellbinding WW2 sweeping book club novel ´One of the most powerful debuts I´ve ever read´ Tracy Chevalier - Vanessa Chan
<p>'Chan has written a . . . gripping, exquisitely plotted novel. I could not put it down!' Alice Winn, author of Sunday Times bestseller In MemoriamHer decision changed history.Now her family must survive it.British Malaya, 1930s Discontented housewife Cecily is seduced by Japanese general Fujiwara and the glorious future he is promising for 'independent' Malaya, ...
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The Art of War, 1. vydání - Sun Tzu
<p>Still a source of inspiration for soldiers on the battlefield and managers in the boardroom 2000 years after it was written, Sun-Tzu's The Art of War is the most influential book of strategy in the world, translated from the Chinese by John Minford in Penguin Classics. 'Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever...
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Ramayana: Classic Tales - Bihani Sarkar
<p>The Ramayana tells the tale of Rama and his beloved Sita, but its narratives and intent, as with all great literature, point to the grand themes of life, death and righteousness. Originally written in ancient Sanskrit, the elegant, epic work is a key part of the canon of both Hinduism and Buddhism. It continues to inspire art, theatre, poetry and temple architect...
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The Idiot - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij
<p>Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-s...
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Serotonin (anglicky), 1. vydání - Michel Houellebecq
<p>Written by one of the most provocative and prophetic novelists of his generation, Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life. THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houelle...
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Serotonin (anglicky) - Houellebecq Michel
Anotace: Written by one of the most provocative and prophetic novelists of his generation, Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life.THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________`One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houelleb...
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Serotonin (anglicky), 1. vydání - Michel Houellebecq
<p>THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR ___________________ 'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional...
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Burmese Days - Orwell George
Anotace: In the provincial Burmese town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory - a thirty-something English teak dealer - leads a life of quiet disillusionment, hardly mixing with the natives or the expat community, and deriving some comfort only from his conversations with an Indian friend, Doctor Veraswami, and the attentions of his local mistress. His prospects seem...
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Burmese Days, 1. vydání - George Orwell
In the provincial Burmese town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life of quiet disillusionment, hardly mixing with the natives or the expat community, and deriving some comfort only from his conversations with an Indian friend, Doctor Veraswami, and the attentions of his local mistress. His prospects seem to improv...
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Little Man, What Now? - Hans Fallada
Anotace: From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany 'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks' A young couple fall in love, get married and start a family, like countless young couples before them. But Lämmchen and 'Boy' ...
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Little Man, What Now? - Hans Fallada
<p>From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany 'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks' A young couple fall in love, get married and start a family, like countless young couples before them. But Lammchen and 'Boy' live in Berlin in 19...
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There are Rivers in the Sky: From the bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak
<p>The breathtaking new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World*****This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water.In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lie...
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By Its Cover (Brunetti 23) - Donna Leon
Anotace: By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti is better than ever as he addresses questions of worth and value alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra. When several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart ...
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A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories - Terry Pratchett
<p>A truly unmissable set of unearthed stories from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett: award-winning and bestselling author, and creator of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.An exclusive collection of twenty early short stories by one of the world's best loved authors, these are rediscovered tales that Pratchett wrote under a pseudonym for newspapers during ...
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Unravel Me (Shatter Me 2) - Mafi Tahereh
Anotace: Discover the romantic, addictive and thrilling world of Tahereh Mafi`s fantasy Shatter Me with this second book in the series. This stunning hardback collector`s edition with its exclusive design and gold reading ribbon is the perfect gift for fans and new readers alike Juliette has escaped. She has found the headquarters of the rebel resista...
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Unravel Me (Shatter Me 2) - Tahereh Mafi
<p>Discover the romantic, addictive and thrilling world of Tahereh Mafi's fantasy Shatter Me with this second book in the series. This stunning hardback collector's edition with its exclusive design and gold reading ribbon is the perfect gift for fans and new readers alike Juliette has escaped. She has found the headquarters of the rebel resist...
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Lessons from Kafka - Tomáš Koblížek,Petr Koťátko
Anotace: Kniha konfrontuje úvahy o díle Franze Kafky od třinácti autorek a autorů z šesti zemí a tří kontinentů. Kafkovo dílo je zde zkoumáno z perspektivy různých filozofických oborů: ontologie, epistemologie, filozofie jazyka, etiky, politické filozofie, filozofie literatury a estetiky. Formální a metodologická rozmanitost příspěvků je stejně bohatá: zahrnuje detailní ...
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A Little Life - Yanagihara Hanya
Anotace: When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they`re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and wi...
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The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Fatherhood, Love and Raising Great Kids - Holiday Ryan
Anotace: `Make this book a morning ritual.` - Matthew McConaughey`A simple way to ground us, to force a reflection on the choices we`re making, and the ones we want to make. And it`s not just for dads.` - Emily Oster, author, CribsheetWhat does it mean to be a great father? And how do you become one? Parenting is a role filled with meaning and purpose, but every dad need...
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Insight: Pre-Intermediate: Workbook
Published 2022. Insight second edition is a thought-provoking course that empowers students to think deeply about the world around them. Real-life and engaging topics, with a focus on Global Skills, encourage students to become thoughtful thinkers with positive attitudes to lifelong learning. The Workbook provides further practice of the language and skills taught in th...
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Insight Pre-Intermediate Workbook, 2nd - Merifield Sue
Anotace: Published 2022.Insight second edition is a thought-provoking course that empowers students to think deeply about the world around them. Real-life and engaging topics, with a focus on Global Skills, encourage students to become thoughtful thinkers with positive attitudes to lifelong learning.The Workbook provides further practice of the language and skills taught...
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Practice of Royal Icing
When in 1 980 I wrote the foreword to The Art of Roya//cing I wished my friend Audrey Holding every success for her book; I was convinced that its appearance would fill a real gap in the literature then available by providing a comprehensive but simple and practicable guide to the techniques used in royal icing. Now. six years later. with The Art of Roya//cing sold widely...
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Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury Ray
Anotace: Voyager Classics - timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy.A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 - a masterwork of twentieth-century literature.Over 1 million copies sold in the UK.The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden,...
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Beasts & Creatures Myths & Tales: Epic Tales - Thompson Tok
Anotace: With their weird combination of animal limbs, or distorted visions of human perception, beasts and creatures can be found in all myths and legends of the world, often used to demonstrate moral or fabulistic stories, and explain extreme natural phenomena. An ideal companion to Gods & Monsters Myths & Tales, this new collection includes more of the most famous and...
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Chinese Folktales - Wang Xiulu
Anotace: Chinese Folklore is drawn from over three thousand years of storytelling, with early legends of the gods and heroes, weird mysteries of sorcery and elemental forces, tales of the land and the animals within, and delightful sketches of love. Fantasy and philosophy often play important roles as the young and the old, the wise and the ignorant, the obtuse and the c...
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1984 - Grafický román - George Orwell
<p>Jedno z nejznámějších děl světové literatury v sobě pojí prvky společensko-politického a vědecko-fantastického románu. Je obžalobou diktatury ve všech jejích podobách. Čtenář se ponoří do osudů čestného, citlivého a uvažujícího Winstona Smitha, který se vzepře systému, za což zaplatí krutou daň. Orwell touto knihou předpověděl společenský vývoj a neustále vzbuzuj...
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Insight Intermediate Workbook, 2nd - Hancock Paul
Anotace: Insight second edition is a thought-provoking course that empowers students to think deeply about the world around them. Real-life and engaging topics, with a focus on Global Skills, encourage students to become thoughtful thinkers with positive attitudes to lifelong learning.The Workbook provides further practice of the language and skills taught in the Student...
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Insight Pre-Intermediate Workbook, 2nd - Sue Merifield
<p>Published 2022. Insight second edition is a thought-provoking course that empowers students to think deeply about the world around them. Real-life and engaging topics, with a focus on Global Skills, encourage students to become thoughtful thinkers with positive attitudes to lifelong learning. The Workbook provides further practice of the language and skills tau...
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Lessons from Kafka - Philosophical Readings of Franz Kafka´s Works - Tomáš Koblížek
<p>Kniha konfrontuje úvahy o díle Franze Kafky od třinácti autorek a autorů z šesti zemí a tří kontinentů. Kafkovo dílo je zde zkoumáno z perspektivy různých filozofických oborů: ontologie, epistemologie, filozofie jazyka, etiky, politické filozofie, filozofie literatury a estetiky. Formální a metodologická rozmanitost příspěvků je stejně bohatá: zahrnuje detailní i...
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Maus Now : Selected Writing, 1. vydání - Hillary Chute
<p>A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece MausIt is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman's effect on postwar American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and his ...
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A Little Life, 1. vydání - Hanya Yanagihara
<p>The million-copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an ...
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The View from the Cheap Seats - Neil Gaiman
<p>A collection of speeches, articles, essays and introductions from Sunday Times bestselling author, commentator and craftsman Neil Gaiman. The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legen...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) - Oscar Wilde
<p>Horror hides behind an attractive face in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's tale of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses. Though Dorian's hedonistic indulgences leave no blemish on his ageless features, the painted portrait imbued with his soul proves a living catalogue of corruption, revealing in its every new line and lesion the...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel José García Márquez
<p>ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE_______________________________'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family...
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Beasts & Creatures Myths & Tales: Epic Tales - Tok Thompson
<p>With their weird combination of animal limbs, or distorted visions of human perception, beasts and creatures can be found in all myths and legends of the world, often used to demonstrate moral or fabulistic stories, and explain extreme natural phenomena. An ideal companion to Gods & Monsters Myths & Tales, this new collection includes more of the ...
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The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Fatherhood, Love and Raising Great Kids - Ryan Holiday
<p>'Make this book a morning ritual.' - Matthew McConaughey 'A simple way to ground us, to force a reflection on the choices we're making, and the ones we want to make. And it's not just for dads.' - Emily Oster, author, Cribsheet What does it mean to be a great father? And how do you become one? Parenting is a role filled with meaning and purpose, but every dad n...
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Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich has been called the "Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature." It was the first book to boldly ask, "What makes a winner?" The man who asked and listened for the answer, Napoleon Hill, is now counted in the top ranks of the world's winners himself.The most famous of all teachers of success spent "a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort"...
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Insight Intermediate Workbook, 2nd - Paul Hancock
<p>Insight second edition is a thought-provoking course that empowers students to think deeply about the world around them. Real-life and engaging topics, with a focus on Global Skills, encourage students to become thoughtful thinkers with positive attitudes to lifelong learning. The Workbook provides further practice of the language and skills taught in the Studen...
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Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
<p>Voyager Classics - timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 - a masterwork of twentieth-century literature. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are for...
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Love, Pamela - Pamela Anderson
Anotace: ACTRESS. ICON. ACTIVIST. Her story, in her voice, for the first time. In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks the mould of the celebrity memoir while taking back the tale that has been crafted about her. Her blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in ...
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Coming Up for Air, 1. vydání - George Orwell
<p>George Bowling, a forty-five-year-old insurance salesman with a wife and two children, is overweight, depressed and haunted by ever-present portents of imminent global conflict. Dreaming of escaping the staid suburban rut in which he has become embedded, he reminisces about his home town in Oxfordshire, Lower Binfield. But as he seeks refuge in the rural idyll of...
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Adama - Lavie Tidhar
<p>THERE IS NO LAND WITHOUT BLOOD, AND I WATER THIS LAND WITH THE BLOOD OF MY MEN. Ruth's family were in Budapest when the Nazis came. Now Ruth is in Palestine, amid the bare hills inland from Haifa, breaking the rocky soil of an unyielding land before it breaks her. With her comrades, her fellow kibbutzniks, she will build a better world. There will be green gra...
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science - Dawkins Richard
Anotace: In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continues his autobiography, following the threads that have run thr...
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The Little Prince: Wisdom from Beyond the Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
<p>Few books have been as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince.</p> <p>A beautiful gift collection of quotes from the original translation by Katherine Woods, featuring full-colour illustrations.</p> <p>A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see the most extraordinary little fellow standing bef...
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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Anotace: After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past... A contemporary classic, The Remains of the D...
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White Nights - Dostojevskij Fjodor Michajlovič
Anotace: 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 Mediterrane...
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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
<p>After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past... A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Da...
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Videology 2 - Armand Louis
Anotace: VIDEOLOGY 2 continues Louis Armand´s broad-ranging critique of realism in film, visual arts and literature. From Nam June Paik´s experimental TV to the militant cinema of Pontecorvo, Fassbinder & Godard; from Karel Teige´s cine-poetics to Neo-Attack; from anti-American filmographies of Petit, Jarmusch & Wenders, to the "cinema at the end of the world."Includes e...
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Imagine Me
The book that all SHATTER ME fans have been waiting for is finally here. The finale of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling YA fantasy series perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Aveyard's The Red Queen, Stranger Things and Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows Juliette Ferrars.Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie?Now that Ella knows who Juliette is an...
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Videology 2 - Louis Armand
<p>VIDEOLOGY 2 continues Louis Armand’s broad-ranging critique of realism in film, visual arts and literature. From Nam June Paik’s experimental TV to the militant cinema of Pontecorvo, Fassbinder & Godard; from Karel Teige’s cine-poetics to Neo-Attack; from anti-American filmographies of Petit, Jarmusch & Wenders, to the “cinema at the end of the wo...
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Videology 2
VIDEOLOGY 2 continues Louis Armand’s broad-ranging critique of realism in film, visual arts and literature. From Nam June Paik’s experimental TV to the militant cinema of Pontecorvo, Fassbinder & Godard; from Karel Teige’s cine-poetics to Neo-Attack; from anti-American filmographies of Petit, Jarmusch & Wenders, to the “cinema at the end of the world.” Includes essays on...
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Humanly Possible
The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.If you are reading this, it's likely you already have some affinity with humanism, even if you don't think of yourself in those terms. You may be drawn to literature and...
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The Sheep-pig: 40th Anniversary Edition - King-Smith Dick
Anotace: A tale loved by many from one of Britain`s best-known authors, this wonderful new edition of The Sheep-Pig comes with a delightful introduction by Michael Morpurgo.The Sheep-Pig is one of Dick King-Smith`s most famous tales. It shot to further fame when the film adaptation, Babe, was released in 1995.`Why can`t I learn to be a Sheep-Pig?`When Babe, the little or...
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The Swallows´ Flight - McKayová Hilary
Anotace: From the Costa Award-winning author Hilary McKay, comes a moving World War II story of family and friendship on opposite sides of a devastating conflict. The Swallows` Flight is the stunning companion novel to The Skylarks` War.`It`s not necessary to have read The Skylarks` War (though many beloved characters make reappearances) to be instantly and joyfully lost...
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The Choice - Jakub Trpiš
<p></p><p> A bestseller that can change your life</p> <p> <em>‘’I dream of a world in flames: nuclear bombs falling on cities, consuming them like cancer; surviving in underground shelters, where we slowly turn into animals. These dreams are so lifelike. I’m afraid that one day I’m going to want to wake up, only to find it’s too late....
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Harafish
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz is perhaps the best-known living Arab writer. His books have had great success in this country, particularly "The Cairo Trilogy. Fans of the famed trilogy will be delighted with "The Harafish, an epic novel that chronicles the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family -- a family that moves, over many generatio...
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The History of the Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien,John D. Rateliff
Anotace: In one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself. The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, it is a ...
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The History of the Hobbit: One Volume Edition - Tolkien John Ronald Reuel
Anotace: Brand new deluxe edition of this definitive companion to The Hobbit, quarter-bound, stamped in gold foil with a unique design inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien`s own artwork, featuring a ribbon marker and housed in a matching custom-built slipcase. The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, it is a st...
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