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Holy Moses: Invisible Queen (White/Black Marbled) - LP (4251981703121)
LP vinyl - Dvanácté studiové album dostalo název „Invisible Queen” a je jakýmsi uzavřením kruhu směrem až k prvnímu albu z roku 1986 „Queen Of Siam”. ". Dvanácté studiové album dostalo název „Invisible Queen” a je jakýmsi uzavřením kruhu směrem až k prvnímu albu z roku 1986 „Queen Of Siam”. Ke vzniku alba Sabina říká: „Nahráli jsme album tak, jak se to líbilo nám, bez o...
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Burmese Days (0141185376)
Kniha - autor George Orwell, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a "subject" people, an inferior people with black faces'.Against the prevailing orthodox...
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Irish Folk Tunes for Accordion + CD
Výběr 30. tradičních irských skladeb v úpravě pro akordeon. Doplněno o CD s nahrávkami. Jazyk: angličtina, němčina, francouzština Editor: Gemma Telfer Obsah: Introduction 1. A Fig For A Kiss 2. Fred Finn's 3. Bothy Jig 4. Denis Murphy's 5. The Scholar 6. The Morning Star 7. The Humours of Westmeath 8. The Downfall of Paris 9...
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Wolf Messing
This Wolf Messing memoir by Tatiana Lungin presents a revealing portrait of one of the greatest psychic performers of the 20th century. Lungin chronicles Messing's incredible life and career, and provides an inside look at psychic research behind the Iron Curtain. Born a Polish Jew, young Messing gained an international reputation as the world's gre...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell George
Anotace: WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTHWinston Smith is a good worker. He supports the Party. He is good at his job rewriting history to Government specification. Big Brother watches him, but there is nothing to see.Winston`s struggle against the totalitarian world he inhabits is a closely guarded secret. It exists only in his mind until he begins a ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Winston Smith is a good worker. He supports the Party. He is good at his job rewriting history to Government specification. Big Brother watches him, but there is nothing to see. Winston's struggle against the totalitarian world he inhabits is a closely guarded secret. It exists only in his mind until he begins a secr...
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Inuyasha 6 - Takahashi Rumiko
Anotace: With the power granted by a large piece of the Shikon Jewel, Naraku`s scheming is in high gear as his minions go forth to do his bidding. Kikyo, the priestess whose duty it once was to guard the jewel, gave the fragment to him, but why? Then Inuyasha takes on another of Naraku`s evil offspring, a demon that inhabits the very sword his half-brother Sesshomaru wie...
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Wagner's Parsifal
A superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner's last opera, by one of Britain's leading intellectuals Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through compassion', who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of the Grail from the sins that have polluted it. The Grail is a symbol of purity in a world of lust and power, but altho...
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Terminator Genisys Life-Size Socha T-800 Endoskeleton 198 cm
We are proud to present the officially licensed life size T-800 Endoskeleton from the sci-fi classic film Terminator: Genisys. Produced in collaboration with Cinemaquette and Chronicle Collectibles this piece represents the most screen accurate representation ever available to collectors worldwide.\n\nThis version of the infamous Endoskeleton represents an advancement and...
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Unfinished Tales (Deluxe Slipcase Editio - Tolkien J.R.R.
Anotace: Deluxe collector`s edition featuring the definitive edition textand containing a full-colour reproduction of Tolkien`s painting ofthe dragon, Glorund. The book is quarterbound, stamped on the frontboard with a gold motif previously seen only on the first editionhardback, and is presented in a matching slipcase. Unfinished Talesis a collection of narratives rangi...
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Siddharta (0141189576)
Kniha - autor Hermann Hesse, 120 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Hermann Hesse's moving and inspirational chronicle of spiritual evolution, Siddhartha, includes a new introduction by bestselling author Paulo Coehlo in Penguin Classics. Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating E...
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Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby’s impossib...
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Nahé víno
Alice Feiring sa do pozornosti verejnosti dostala nielen ako novinárka okrem iného pre New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal či World of Fine Wine, ale najmä ako bloggerka s blogom Feiring Line. Napísala vplyvnú knihu The Battle for Wine and Love: Or How I Saved the World From Parkerization. Nasledovalo Nahé víno – napínavé rozprávanie o histórii a ...
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Hard Times
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.' Set in fictitious Coketown, England during the Industrial Revolution of the 1850...
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Significant Others
"Significant Others", the fifth self-contained chronicle in the "Tales of the City" saga, is a cunningly observed class comedy that's sure to be relished by the cognoscenti and by new readers alike. A holiday in the redwoods goes uproariously awry when the opposing sexes camp out rather too close to each other for comfort. Among those entangled in the mayhem are DeDe Halc...
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The Mask Falling - Shannon Samantha
Anotace: The Sunday Times bestseller, from the bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange TreePaige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion`s downfall and those who would kill to protect the Repha...
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Twisted Love
Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can't escape. Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart. But when he's forced to look after his best friend's sister, he starts to feel something in his chest: A crack. A melt. A ...
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First Person Singular - Haruki Murakami
<p>A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of b...
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The Monk - Lewis Matthew
Anotace: With an Introduction by Kathryn White.Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature. The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a breathless tale of temptation, imprisonment and betrayal. Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio, the holier-than-thou mon...
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Pour Your Heart Into It
The success of Starbucks Coffee Company is one of the most amazing business stories in decades. What started as a single store on Seattle's waterfront has grown into a company with over sixteen hundred stores worldwide and a new one opening every single business day. Just as remarkable as this incredible growth is the fact that Starbucks has managed to maintain its renown...
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The Mask Falling (1408865580)
Kniha - 528 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The Sunday Times bestseller, from the bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange Tree Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion's dow...
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Fire & Blood - Martin George R. R.
Anotace: Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen--the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria--took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way...
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The New Kingdom (Ancient Egypt 7) - Wilbur Smith
<p>BOOK 1 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily MirrorIN THE HEART OF EGYPTUNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THE GOD...
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Speaking Bones - Liu Ken
Anotace: The conclusion to Ken Liu`s chronicle of the Dandelion Dynasty - one of the Greatest Fantasy Series of all Time (TIME MAGAZINE)Ukyu-Gonde: Stalked by foes and dogged by betrayal, Princess Thera is pursued across a continent vaster than she could ever have imagined, to the hidden valleys of the World`s Edge Mountains, into the barrows and subterranean halls of th...
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Speaking Bones - Ken Liu
<p>The conclusion to Ken Liu's chronicle of the Dandelion Dynasty - one of the Greatest Fantasy Series of all Time (TIME MAGAZINE) Ukyu-Gonde: Stalked by foes and dogged by betrayal, Princess Thera is pursued across a continent vaster than she could ever have imagined, to the hidden valleys of the World's Edge Mountains, into the barrows and subterranean halls of t...
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The Silmarillion, 1. vydání - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
<p>For the first time ever, a very special edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout in colour by J.R.R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text printed in two colours.</p> <p>The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Fëanor, most gifted of the Elves, and within them was imprisoned the last Light of the Tw...
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Between Never and Forever - Rose Shain
Anotace: For fans of Sara Cate and Lauren Asher, a forbidden, second chance romance about a young woman who is thrust into the world of a past lover when she takes a gig at his family´s casino to pay off her mother´s medical debts.As my best friend´s brother, Dex Hardy has always been my downfall-older, forbidden, and completely irresistible.Our paths were never supposed...
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Between Never and Forever - Shain Rose
<p>For fans of Sara Cate and Lauren Asher, a forbidden, second chance romance about a young woman who is thrust into the world of a past lover when she takes a gig at his family’s casino to pay off her mother’s medical debts. As my best friend’s brother, Dex Hardy has always been my downfall—older, forbidden, and completely irresistible. Our paths were never suppo...
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The Red and the Black - Stendhal
Anotace: Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal`s The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin Classics.Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting th...
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The Red and the Black - Stendhal
<p>Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin Classics. Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting t...
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Gallipoli - neuveden
Anotace: When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and immobilize the Turks. On the night of March 18, 1915, this plan nearly succeeded -- the Turks were virtually beaten. But poor communication left the Allies in the dark, allo...
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Gallipoli
When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and immobilize the Turks. On the night of March 18, 1915, this plan nearly succeeded -- the Turks were virtually beaten. But poor communication left the Allies in the dark, allowing the ...
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Wretched - Emily McIntire
<p>A woman can be great, and terrible too. Eveline Westerly has always been the bad guy. As the brains, brawn, and botanist behind her family's drug empire, she's her father's ruthless secret weapon. With her days divided between perfecting her greenhouse, seeking revenge for her sister's murder, and putting a gun to the head of anyone in her way, Eveline doesn't h...
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The Watch Book: More Than Time, Volume II - Gisbert L. Brunner
Volume II of The Watch Book follows on the successful and comprehensive earlier volume with a magnificently illustrated book about the additional functions and refinements of wristwatches Includes an informative and entertaining text by watch expert Gisbert L. Brunner, author of Volume I This well-documented chronicle of the most advanced features of the world's best time...
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My Body, 1. vydání - Emily Ratajkowski
<p>A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time.Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, ...
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Twisted Love - Ana Huang
<p>Discover the addictive world of the Twisted series from TikTok sensation, Ana Huang! Read Twisted Love now for a brother's best friend romance.He has a heart of ice . . . but for her, he'd burn the world.Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can't escape.Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, hi...
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The Trial - Kafka Franz
Anotace: Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early 20th century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. ...
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The Trial - Franz Kafka
<p>Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early 20th century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These ...
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Foundation and Empire, 1. vydání - Isaac Asimov
<p>The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity's light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence. Led by its founding father,...
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The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow & Thorn 1), 1. vydání - Tad Williams
<p>'One of my favourite fantasy series.' George R. R. Martin, international bestselling author of A Game of ThronesKitchen-boy Simon is bored, restless and fourteen years old - a dangerous combination. It seems, however, that his life has just taken a turn for the better when he's apprenticed to his castle's resident wizard. As Simon's learning to read and write und...
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Fire and Blood, 1. vydání - George Raymond Richard Martin
<p>Set centuries before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, FIRE AND BLOOD is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, chronicling the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through to the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever. The thrilling history...
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All My Cats, 1. vydání - Bohumil Hrabal
<p>A literary master's story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from "a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail” (Julian Barnes) In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. From then until his death in 1...
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Devil's Atlas
Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of the international bestseller The Phantom Atlas delivers an atlas unlike any other. The Devil's Atlas is an illustrated guide to the heavens, hells and lands of the dead as imagined throughout history by cultures and religions around the world. Packed with colourful maps, paintings and captivating stories, the reader is taken on a compelli...
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The Polaroid Book. 40th Anniversary Edition - Barbara Hitchcock
<p>The unique tones and spontaneity of Polaroids have made them a beloved photographic format for decades. Brimming with all the warmth and nostalgia of a family album, this ode to the instant camera presents hundreds of images from the Polaroid Corporation’s own collection. A chronicle of the experimental and innovative ways Polaroids have defied the digital age.&l...
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Takane & Hana 4 - Shiwasu Yuki
Anotace: A strong-willed high school girl and a hot, young scion of a business empire can`t help wanting to outwit each other every chance they get... But could these opposites be conning themselves out of the perfect match?! After her older sister refuses to go to an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana N...
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Space: The Human Story - Tim Peake
<p>As seen in the major TV series Secrets of Our Universe with Tim Peake.Only 628 people in human history have left Earth. This is their story.Astronaut Tim Peake traces the lives of the remarkable men and women who have forged the way for humanity beyond Earth, from Yuri Gagarin to Neil Armstrong, from Valentina Tereshkova to Peggy Whitson.Full of fascinating insig...
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Ooku: The Inner Chambers 3 - Yoshinaga Fumi
Anotace: In Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinaga`s alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the reigns of power-including the shogun`s seat!In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country`s men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen b...
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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto´s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall - Zeke Faux
<p>In 2021, cryptocurrency goes mainstream. Giant investment funds are buying it. Politicians endorse it. TV ads hail it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knows how it works - who cares when everyone is getting rich? But financial crime reporter Zeke Faux cares: even in fraud, there are standards.In the Bahamas, schlubby billionaire wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried ...
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First Human
This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind. The quest to find where and when the earliest human ancestors first appeared is one of the most exciting and challenging of ...
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The Wise Man's Fear (0575081430)
Kniha - autor Patrick Rothfuss, 1008 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Sequel to the extraordinary The Name of the wind, The Wise Man's Fear is the second instalment of this superb fantasy trilogy The Kingkiller Chronicle from Patrick Rothfuss. This is the most exciting fantasy series since George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, and a must-read for all...
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Happiness Project - neuveden
Anotace: Gretchen Rubin`s year-long experiment to discover how to create true happiness. Drawing on cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world examples, Rubin delivers an engaging, eminently relatable chronicle of transformation. This special 10th Anniversary edition features a Conversation with Gretchen Rubin, Happiness Project Stories, a guide to creati...
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Our Fight - Ronda Rousey
<p>From Sunday Times bestselling author, British Sports Book of the Year Award winner, and trailblazing athlete Ronda Rousey, an unfiltered and entertaining chronicle of her last decade, tackling not only UFC and WWE but also parenthood, overcoming adversity, and finding meaning in life’s journey.From the moment she burst onto the MMA scene, Ronda Rousey was unbeata...
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50 Codes that Changed the World: . . . And Your Chance to Solve Them! - Sinclair McKay
<p>A CUNNING CHRONICLE OF THE 50 CODES THAT ALTERED THE COURSE OF HISTORY AND CHANGED THE WORLDFrom the bestselling author of Bletchley Park Brainteasers and The Scotland Yard Puzzle Book. There have been secret codes since before the Old Testament, and there were secret codes in the Old Testament too. Almost as soon as writing was invented, so too were the devious ...
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Ansel Adams in the Canadian Rockies - Ansel Adams
<p>The first book of Ansel Adam's early photographs of the Canadian Rockies.</p> <p>'These mountains are breathtaking - utterly different than anything we have seen. The peaks and forest and 'tone' fulfill almost every ideal I have had of what 'my' mountains could be. . . These are the great mountains we dream about.'- Ansel Adams to his wife Virginia, 1...
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Ready Player Two (1784758027)
Kniha - anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the ridiculously fun and large-hearted (NPR) near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. Praise for Ready Player One Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.-USA Today An addictive read . . . part inte...
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Mandela: His Essential Life - neuveden
Anotace: Mandela: His Essential Life chronicles the life and legacy of one of the twentieth century`s most influential and admired statesmen. Charting his development from remote rural roots to city lawyer, freedom fighter, and then political leader, Peter Hain takes an in-depth look at Mandela`s rise through the ranks of the African National Congress (ANC) and subsequen...
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Lichtenstein - Janis Hendrickson
<p>Meet the pioneer of Pop art in this introduction to Roy Lichtenstein, whose high-impact cartoon-based images exploded onto the art scene at the end of the 1950s and transformed the notion of fine art forever. Appropriating the form and content of mass media, Lichtenstein reveled in American consumer culture while elevating it for critique at the same time.</p&...
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Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
<p>A witty, incisive classic of road-trip literature, from one of the great champions and critics of the American identity 'Delightful. This is a book to be read slowly for its savor.' The Atlantic In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog Charley to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California. He felt that he might ha...
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Murakami Haruki
Anotace: A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple's relationship is unbalanced after dining exclusively on exquisite...
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
<p>A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple's relationship is unbalanced after dining exclusively on exquisite crab ...
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