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Born to Ice - Paul Nicklen

Anotace: SeaLegacy co-founder, National Geographic photographer, acclaimed ocean conservationist, and TED Talks favorite, Paul Nicklen traces his extraordinary love affair with the polar regions in his most recent book, Born to Ice. His powerful images of iconic arctic and antarctic wildlife and scenery, coupled with his inspiring photographic storytelling, blends ethere...

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Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

Anotace: In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl´s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That´s how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same hon...

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Something to Hide

A Nigerian born detective working for the Metropolitan Police is found unconscious and ends up in hospital where she dies of her injury. DI Thomas Lynley, DS Barbara Havers and DS Winston Nkata investigate a case that touches upon not only the work and the life of the murdered detective but also upon a controversial cultural tradition that damages the future of everyone i...

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Letters to Milena - Kafka Franz

Anotace: Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech. Their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. S...

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Letters to Milena - Franz Kafka

<p>Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech. Their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. Such was his...

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The Hobbits of Tolkien: An Illustrated Exploration of Tolkien´s Hobbits, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History - David Day

<p>An in-depth guide to the intriguing lives of Tolkien's Hobbits.</p> <p>An entire race was born when J.R.R. Tolkien scrawled on a leaf, 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' From the invention of that single word (hobbit) Tolkien became the explorer and chronicler of the character, their race and their significant role in his fantastical worl...

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How to Be an Overnight Success (1785037323)

Kniha - 224 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá You are not born an entrepreneur. It s a skill that you learn along the way When the skincare company Rodial launched its cult s nake serum, the press quickly called the business an overnight success . However, Rodial s founder Maria Hatzistefanis had been toiling for 18 years, building the company from scratch i...

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Something to Hide : Inspector Lynley 21 - George Elizabeth

Anotace: Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Elizabeth George.A Nigerian born detective sergeant working for the Metropolitan Police is found unconscious in her own flat and ends up in hospital where she dies of her injury. The post-mortem reveals that the subdural ...

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Something to Hide : Inspector Lynley 21 - Elizabeth George

<p>Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. A Nigerian born detective sergeant working for the Metropolitan Police is found unconscious in her own flat and ends up in hospital where she dies of her injury. The post-mortem reveals that the subdural...

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Something to Hide : Inspector Lynley 21 - Elizabeth George

<p>Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. A Nigerian born detective sergeant working for the Metropolitan Police is found unconscious in her own flat and ends up in hospital where she dies of her injury. The post-mortem reveals that the subdural...

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Letter to the Father- Brief an den Vater - Franz Kafka

<p>A son's poignant letter to his father--from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Bilingual edition. Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand to his fat...

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Letter to the Father- Brief an den Vater - Franz Kafka

Anotace: A son's poignant letter to his father--from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Bilingual edition. Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand...

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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt´s Lessons in Love and Disobedience - Lyndsey Stonebridge

<p>This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty'Exhilarating, brilliant and utterly original' PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street'Beautifully written... Biography at its best'EDDIE GLAUDE, author of Begin AgainThe violent unease of today's world would have been all too...

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Man behind the Mike

Mike Tucker was born into a life of farming and horses. His passion and hard work enabled him to progress from international groom to successful inter

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Ruins of Desert Cathay

In this two-volume work, published in 1912, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) describes his second expedition to the dese

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was born in Dorset. He left school at sixteen to work as an apprentice for an architect who specialized in church restoration

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Theatremachine

The playwright Heiner Mller was born in East Germany in 1929. This book contains an introduction to Mller's work by Marc von Henning, and a selection

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Last Herald-Mage - A Valdemar Omnibus

Though Vanyel has been born with near-legendary abilities to work both Herald and Mage magic, he wishes to become a Bard. Yet such talent as his, if l

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Ancient Shore – Dispatches from Naples

Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. This work collects th

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Katie Mulholland's Journey

Born into poverty, Katie Mulholland is forced to find work as a maid in the house of a wealthy family. But Katie’s fate changes course when one m

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Texas Ranger Captain William L. Wright

William L. Wright (1868-1942) was born to be a Texas Ranger, and hard work made him a great one. Wright tried working as a cowboy and farmer, but it d

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Simon Paul: Rhythm of the Saints - CD (0886978988027)

Hudební CD - Rhythm of the Saints je osmé sólové studiové album amerického písničkáře Paula Simona, vydané 16. října 1990. Rhythm of the Saints je osmé sólové studiové album amerického písničkáře Paula Simona, vydané 16. října 1990. Rok vydání : 1990 (8.album) Rok reedice : 2011 Seznam stop CD The Obvious Child / Can't Run But / The Coast / Proof Listen / Further...

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Sixty-Four Poems

Endre Ady was born in eastern Hungary in 1877. Between 1906 and 1908, while plying to and from Paris as a correspondent for a Budapest daily, he published three volumes of startling verse that jolted Hungarian poetry into the 2oth century. His work was at once controversial, and contradictory: it was full of western, modernist, influence, but also spoke uniquely to the d...

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The Circle

Obsah: BrokenpromiselandBulletFast CarsHappy NowLearn To LoveLive Before You DieLove's The Only RuleSuperman TonightThorn In My SideWe Weren't Born To FollowWhen We Were BeautifulWork For The Working Man

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DC Artists Alley PVC figurka Batman by Joe Ledbetter 16 cm

A skilled and multifaceted creator, Joe Ledbetter (a.k.a. JLed) has experience as an artist, illustrator and (perhaps most importantly for Artists Alley) ... a toy designer. Born from humble origins in underground art shows and influenced by 1980s video games, animation and skateboarding, he's risen in prominence thanks to his crisp, bold lines, a vibrant palette and work...

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DC Artists Alley PVC figurka The Penguin by Joe Ledbetter 17 cm

A skilled and multifaceted creator, Joe Ledbetter (a.k.a. JLed) has experience as an artist, illustrator and (perhaps most importantly for Artists Alley) ... a toy designer. Born from humble origins in underground art shows and influenced by 1980s video games, animation and skateboarding, he's risen in prominence thanks to his crisp, bold lines, a vibrant palette and work...

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Demel Karel /angl./ - Lukas Rous

<p>Karel Demel, born in 1942, is one of the most surprising Czech artist. Starting more or less successful with a music career he soon turned to visual arts becoming an illustrator - the music became his illustration. In his prints and drawings he is influenced by one of his teachers, Jiri Anderle. This book highlights Karel Demel's work by an almost complete catalo...

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Daniel Krob – Magic Guitar MP3

Daniel Krob was born in Karlovy Vary, where he attended the Public School of Arts. At the age of 13, he composed his first piece for classical guitar and the year after, he performed his original creation at various venues. In those first independent concerts, he presented not only his guitar work, but also his own personal lyrics and songs. By 2012 he presents his third ...

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Daniel Krob – Magic Guitar FLAC

Daniel Krob was born in Karlovy Vary, where he attended the Public School of Arts. At the age of 13, he composed his first piece for classical guitar and the year after, he performed his original creation at various venues. In those first independent concerts, he presented not only his guitar work, but also his own personal lyrics and songs. By 2012 he presents his third ...

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Poems from the Book of Hours - Rainer Maria Rilke

Anotace: Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke´s youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe but rather humanity itself and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of humanity, the artist. Babette Deutsch´s classic translations-born fr...

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The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - 1 - Diana Wynne Jones

<p>In this multiple parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to control the rampant misuse of magic--and to hold the title Chrestomanci... The Chants are a family strong in magic, but neither Christopher Chant nor Cat Chant can work even the simplest of spells. Who could have dreamed that both Christopher ...

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Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green

This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1895 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green' is a collection of short stories, including 'A Charming Woman', 'A Man of Habit', 'Portrait of a Lady', and many more. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, England in 1859. Both his parents...

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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories - Nam-Joo Cho

Anotace: Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again. Written in Cho Nam-Joo's masterful, razor-sharp prose, Miss Ki...

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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories - Cho Nam-Joo

<p>Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again. Written in Cho Nam-Joo's masterful, razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Know...

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The Naturals: Bad Blood: Book 4 in this unputdownable mystery series from the author of The Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

<p>Cold cases get hot in this unputdownable mystery from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, no.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games series. Perfect for fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.All of your burning questions are answered in this shocking conclusion to the Naturals series - now with a bonus Naturals novella, Twelve, in print for the first time!...

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Threads That Bind

In a world where the children of the gods inherit their powers, a descendant of the Greek Fates must solve a series of impossible murders to save her sisters, her soulmate, and her city.Descendants of the Fates are always born in threes: one to weave, one to draw, and one to cut the threads that connect people to the things they love and to life itself. The Ora sisters ar...

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On The Table: Ai Weiwei

"Ai Weiwei: On the Table" surveys the full scope of Weiwei's career, from his early days in 1980s New York to his present-day status as the best-known and most influential Chinese artist in the world. Work by this media-savvy activist calling for greater freedom in China can now be found in leading contemporary art museums and collections worldwide; the image of his taunt...

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Master Pavol and his Altar

Find out about the tallest Gothic winged altar in the world! The Basilica of St. James in Levoča features a unique work of art: the tallest late-Gothic winged altar in the world (18.62 metres tall). It was created by master-woodcarver Pavol of Levoča (born around 1460, died between 1537 - 1542), one of the few medieval artists working in this region who are known by name...

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The Prince, 1. vydání - Niccolò Machiavelli

<p>Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics.As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works,...

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Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron - Quinnová Julia

Anotace: Born into a happy family that is tragically ravaged by smallpox, Miss Priscilla Butterworth must use her wits to survive a series of outlandish trials . . .Cruelly separated from her beloved mother and grandmother, the young girl is sent to live with a callous aunt who forces her to work for her keep. Eventually, the clever and tenderhearted Miss Butterworth mak...

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Rambling On

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly made his mark on the Czech literary scene; by the time of his death he was ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Capek, and Milan Kundera as among the nation's greatest twentieth-...

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The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla - Martin Thomas Commerford

<p>At the time it was first published in 1893, The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla was considered the bible of electrical engineering and inspired generations of inventors. This volume, edited by Tesla’s contemporary, Thomas Commerford Martin, includes extensive discussion of Tesla’s early work and inventions and contains more than 300 illustrat...

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The Secret History of the Mongols - Christopher P. Atwood

<p>A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan'Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed shoulders'Born poor into a world of dangers and hardships, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan would grow up to unify Mongolia and conquer a vast empire stretching from modern-day ...

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The Prophet, 1. vydání - Kahlil Gibran

<p>One of the most beloved spiritual classics of our time, Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, has sold millions of copies in more than forty languages since it was first published in 1923. The Prophet contains powerful words of wisdom on such essential subjects as marriage, children, friendship, work, and pleasure--words that readers from around the world have found...

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Degrees of Separation Bohumil Kubišta and the European Avant-Garde - Marie Rakušanová

<p>In Beyond the Avant Garde, scholars from Czechia, Canada, Germany, and Hungary take a new approach to exploring the work of one of Central Europe's most interesting modernist painters -- Bohumil Kubišta. While many art historians have consigned Kubišta's work into an idealized Czech canon, Kubišta did not identify with a nation state clearly defined by ethnicity,...

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Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford World´s Classics New Edition) - Sidney Philip

Anotace: This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney`s poetry and prose--all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking. Born in 1554, Sir Philip Sidney was hailed as the perfect Renaissance patron, soldier, lover, and courtier, but it was only after his untimely death at the ag...

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Anotace: Set in clear, easy-to-read type, this low budget, slim, lightweight volume is a favourite study text with students. It also features a glossary of obsolete words and words which vary from their ordinary established meaning. William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the greatest English dramatist and poet, was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. His surviving works consist of ...

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Good Woman - Steel Danielle

Anotace: The spellbinding novel from the world`s favourite storyteller Annabelle Worthington, born into a life of privilege, was raised amid the glamour of New York society. But everything changes on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic alters her world forever. Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle throws herself into volunteer work, nursing ...

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Personal Writings - Albert Camus

<p>'It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of Camus, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the sensual immediacy and clarity - that had been heaped on his senses' Geoff Dyer Albert Camus was born in a 'world of poverty and sunshine' in Algeria, which would infus...

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Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1. vydání - Edgar Allan Poe

<p>This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable m...

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Daniel Kramer: Bob Dylan: A Year and a Day - Daniel Kramer

When photographer Daniel Kramer first met Bob Dylan, the 23-year-old singer was still widely unknown. At their initial meeting in Woodstock, Dylan seemed restless and uncomfortable in front of the camera. Yet over the course of a year and a day, all of that would change. From 1964 to 1965, Kramer’s extraordinary access to Bob Dylan on tour, in concert, and backstage, allo...

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The Boy Who Would Be King - Morpurgo Michael

Anotace: A beautifully illustrated full-colour tribute to King Charles III, published to mark his coronation - from the bestselling creators of There Once Is a Queen. There once was a boy who was going to be king one day . . . From the Nation`s Favourite Storyteller Sir Michael Morpurgo comes a poetic celebration of our new monarch, King Charles III, be...

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A Year of Last Things: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

<p>With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery'My life always stops for a new book by him' JHUMPA LAHIRI, author of The Namesake'Timeless... Remarkable, incomparable' TERRANCE HAYES, author of So to SpeakBorn in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a ch...

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Sincerely Yours, Anna Sherwood: Discover the swoony new rom-com from the bestselling author of The Kissing Booth - Beth Reeklesová

<p>One summer internship. Two complete opposites. A connection neither expected . . .Annalise Sherwood has worked herself to the bone to win a place on a prestigious internship, and nothing is going to stop her now. Work hard, play later - that's her motto. She figures one night out before she starts the programme can't hurt, though - especially when it ends with th...

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Tecumseh

"The whites have driven us from the great salt water, forced us over the mountains.The way, the only way, to check and stop this evil is for all red men to unite in claiming a common equal right in the land." -Tecumseh, quoted in Tecumseh: Vision of GloryThe legendary charismatic Indian chief Tecumseh was born nearly a decade before Columbus' discovery of the New World. ...

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Foxglove Summer - Ben Aaronovitch

<p>The fifth of the Sunday Times Bestselling series sees PC Grant looking for missing children. And missing London.</p> <p>In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit...

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The Heart's Invisible Furies (0857523481)

Kniha - autor John Boyne, 368 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the i...

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The Sellout - Paul Beatty

Anotace: A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told tha...

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The Kremlin School of Negotiation - Ryzov Igor

Anotace: Negotiating is something that we all do, whether at work or at home. But what if we come across someone who just won`t give in? How can we defend ourselves against manipulation? And how do we say `no` without compromising a deal?Legend has it that the Kremlin school of negotiation was born in Russia in the 1920s, under the rule of Joseph Stalin, and it still has...

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