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Kay Nielsen: East of the Sun and West of the Moon (abridged edition) - Daniel C. Noel
<p>This abridged edition of East of the Sun and West of the Moon revives a classic collection of 10 Norse folktales illustrated by the beloved Danish artist Kay Nielsen, one of the most famous children’s book illustrators of all time. Based on a precious first edition and including 11 of his extremely rare watercolor originals, the book features an all-new design re...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI - Grann David
Anotace: From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland, and the Number One international bestseller The Wager, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI's first major homicide investigations. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were ...
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities - Bettany Hughes
Anotace: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`Life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve` GUARDIAN`Richly entertaining and impeccably reserached` Peter FrankopanIstanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu`ran to Shakespeare, this city with t...
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The Storm Before the Storm
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, polit
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Franz Kafka. The Poet of Shame and Guilt - Saul Friedländer
<p>A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka’s life, work, legacy, and thought Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence—in his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of...
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The Rise of the Dragon - Martin George R. R.
Anotace: This lavish visual history-featuring over 150 new, full-colour illustrations-is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO`s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the Iron Throne of Westeros while their dragons ruled the skies. The story of the only family of dragonlor...
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Revolution 1989 : The Fall of the Soviet Empire - Sebestyen Victor
Anotace: For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power ...
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The Assassin´s Blade: The Throne of Glass Prequel Novellas - Sarah Janet Maas
<p>'One of the best fantasy book series of the past decade' TIMEThe twist of a knife. The birth of a legend.Step into the world of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas with this collection of prequel novellas.Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom's most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful Assassin's Guild and its scheming master, Aro...
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The Rise of the Dragon - George Raymond Richard Martin
<p>This lavish visual history&horbar;featuring over 150 new, full-colour illustrations&horbar;is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.</p> <p>For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the Iron Throne of Westeros while their dragons ruled the...
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Perils of Man (PC/MAC) DIGITAL (PC)
Imagine getting a glimpse into the secret clockwork of the universe. Imagine a machine that can crack the code of destiny and give you the power to tinker with fate. Imagine discovering that for generations your family has concealed this power from the outside world.Ana Eberling may only be a teenager, but she is about to confront the biggest questions of life as she trie...
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir - RuPaul
Anotace: From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introspec...
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Building ligatures: the power of type - Linda Kudrnovská
Anotace: The 248-page book published by TypeTogether type foundry, presents a cross section of the knowledge, experience, and best practices in type design, typography, and graphic design written by over 50 contributors, each of whom are the most influential design writers and experts in the typographic industry. Featured contributors include Fiona Ross, Catherine Dixon,...
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Building ligatures: the power of type - Linda Kudrnovská
<p>The 248-page book published by TypeTogether type foundry, presents a cross section of the knowledge, experience, and best practices in type design, typography, and graphic design written by over 50 contributors, each of whom are the most influential design writers and experts in the typographic industry. Featured contributors include Fiona Ross, Catherine Dixon, ...
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The Little Book of Running - Orange Hippo!, Orange Hippo!
Anotace: This handy trivia book is packed with everything you need to know about running, including potted history, quirky facts, sayings and hints about the planet`s most popular exercise form.It includes running philosophy and advice on how to get more out of your daily run. From science to humour, tips to tales, it runs the reader through everything they need to know ...
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A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom - John Boyne
<p>Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them.It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his father’s violence in his blood. One who lives his mother’s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will...
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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company (0399592091)
Kniha - autor Robert Iger; Joel Lovell, 272 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of leadership and success: The executive chairman of Disney, Time’s 2019 businessperson of the year, shares the ideas and values he embraced during his fifteen years as CEO while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies and inspiring...
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The Nature of Middle-earth - Tolkien J. R. R.
Anotace: First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for those who have read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, and want to learn more about Tolkien's magnificent world. It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien publish...
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Masterpieces of Fantasy Art. 40th Anniversary Edition - Dian Hanson
<p>Featuring Julie Bell, Philippe Druillet, Frank Frazetta, H.R. Giger, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Rowena Morrill, and Boris Vallejo, among many others. This book combines original paintings with preparatory sketches, sculptures, calendars, magazines, and paperback books for an immersive dive into this dynamic, fanciful genre.</p> <p> </p> <p>T...
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Bismarck´s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe - Rachel Chrastil
<p>'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily TelegraphLess than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order. Other countries l...
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Václav Havel The Power of the Powerless in the 20th Century
This biography is not just about Václav Havel and his legacy, but about the history of Central Europe in the 20th Century. It offers a foundation that anyone interested in this history should know. ***** Václav Havel grew up during the great historical upheavals of the Second World War and the division of Europe by the Iron Curtain. Later he would make his own mark on his...
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Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (0008307733)
Kniha - The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones. - 704 stran, anglicky, Pevná bez přebalu lesklá - autor George R.R. Martin, 704 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá 300 years before A Game of Thrones, dragons ruled Westeros...#1 NEW YORK TIMES BES...
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The Psychology of Money : Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness - Housel Morgan
Anotace: Doing well with money isn`t necessarily about what you know. It`s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.Money-investing, personal finance, and business decisions-is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don`t make financial decisions on a...
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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations - Simon Schama
<p>Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. Characteristically, with...
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Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers - Paul Morland
<p>The great forces of population change – the balance of births, deaths and migrations – have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity, which economies top the international league tables and which are at best also-rans.The same forces that have shaped our past and present are sha...
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The Marvel Age of Comics 1961–1978. 40th Anniversary Edition - Roy Thomas
<p>Welcome to the Marvel Age of Comics, a triumphant era of comic and pop culture innovation which redefined the super hero genre. This behind-the-scenes treasure trove of images and exclusive insights reveals the making of such household characters as the Hulk and Spider-Man as well as the legendary architects who brought them to life, from Stan “The Man” Lee to Ja...
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The Nightingale´s Castle: A thrillingly evocative and page-turning gothic historical novel for fans of Stacey Halls and Susan Stokes-Chapman - Velton Sonia
Anotace: `I was blown away by this dark, enchanting story of witchcraft, power and injustice. ..nothing short of brilliant` Mary ChamberlainErzsebet Bathory, whose infamous place in history characterises her as the `Blood Countess`, was accused of the murder of over 600 peasant girls in Hungary, 1610. The Nightingale`s Castle tells the story of a woman fighting for her s...
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Emissary from the Far East: Vojtěch Chytil and the Collecting of Modern Chinese Painting in Interwar Czechoslovakia - Michaela Pejčochová
<p>The publication provides insight into the complex life story of the artist Vojtěch Chytil (1896–1936) and the history of his collections of modern Chinese ink painting, ancient Chinese art, as well as Tibetan and Japanese art. Despite being mainly a painter and art collector, Chytil tried his luck also in business and politics, which makes his career an interesti...
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The Complete Maus - Spiegelman Art
Anotace: The first and only graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, MAUS is a brutally moving work of art about a Holocaust survivor -- and the son who survives him 'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with h...
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The Twelve Caesars - Graves Robert
Anotace: An essential primary source on Roman history, Suetonius` The Twelve Caesars is a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin by Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, revised with an introduction and notes by James B. Rives.As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, ...
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Level 4: Falling Leaves Book and MP3 Pack (Pearson English Graded Readers) - Yen Mah Adeline
Anotace: Contemporary / British EnglishThis book is the life story and family history of Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline was born in China at a time of great change and trouble. At the same time, she suffered terrible unkindness from the members of her own family. Falling Leaves is a story of pain and fear, but also of hope as Adeline fights for her independence. This Pack cont...
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American Barber in Prague - Kraig Casebier
Anotace: Craig has a long family history of Barbering dating back to 1914. He apprenticed in his father's and grandfather´s Kentucky barbershops from an early age then completed his training at one of the worlds top academies. He then went on to work with his brother in their own shop in Atlanta, Georgia. Kraig's travels eventually landed him in Prague where he decided t...
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The Volunteer : The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - The Costa Biography Award Winner 2019 - Jack Fairweather
<p>'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore‘Pilecki is perhaps one of the greatest unsung heroes of the second world war ... this insightful book is likely to be the definitive version of this extraordinary life’ -- Economist</p> <p>Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others?</p> <p> </p> <p>In the Summer of 1940,...
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My Family and Other Animals - Durrell Gerald
Anotace: Ten-year-old Gerald doesn`t know why his older brothers and sisterscomplain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on thelunch table, the family home on the Greek island of Corfu is a bitlike a zoo so they should feel right at home... Gerald joyfullypursues his interest in natural history in the midsts of anunconventional and chaotic family life - all br...
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Biography - Isaacson Walter
Anotace: He was history`s most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo`s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo`s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, c...
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Essays in Zen Buddhism - Suzuki Daisecu Teitaró
Anotace: `Suzuki`s works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism` Carl JungEssays in Zen Buddhism was the first book to fully introduce Zen in the West. In it, Dr D.T. Suzuki outlines the origins of Zen as a unique Chinese interpretation of the Doctrine of Enlightenment with the aim of attaining Satori (`Sudden Enlightenment`...
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The House On The Strand - du Maurier Daphne
Anotace: When Dick Young`s friend, Professor Magnus Lane, offers him an escape from his troubles in the form of a new drug, Dick finds himself transported to fourteenth-century Cornwall. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champerhoune, he witnesses intrigue, adultery and murder. The more time Dick spends consumed in the past, the more he withdraw...
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12 Bytes - Wintersonová Jeanette
Anotace: Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about Artificial Intelligence in its bewildering manifestations, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science, to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now.With wit, compassion and curiosity, Winterson tackles...
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Ancient Worlds: Travel Back in Time and Discover the First Great Civilizations - Dorling Kindersley
Anotace: Step back in time and witness how the greatest ancient cultures lived and thrived in this tour through history`s civilisations.Ancient Worlds is a tour through history`s most influential civilisations between 3000 BCE and 750 CE, capturing moments that reveal the culture and technology that made them great.Children aged 7-11 will discover how deep knowledge of t...
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Jesus Christ, a Rogue - Felix Boom
Anotace: The novel, bordering between real story and fantasy, controversial by nature, has been written by an experienced author, established up to now in a different genre. Hence the author's need for pseudonym. The plotline is based on the return of Jesus Christ to the earth after more than 2000 years. Jesus Christ is acting as a tabloid sports reporter and a good spor...
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Jesus Christ, a Rogue - Felix Boom
<p>The novel, bordering between real story and fantasy, controversial by nature, has been written by an experienced author, established up to now in a different genre. Hence the author's need for pseudonym. The plotline is based on the return of Jesus Christ to the earth after more than 2000 years. Jesus Christ is acting as a tabloid sports reporter and a good sport...
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Viking - Dorling Kindersley
Anotace: Become an eyewitness to the world of Nordic raiders and traders and learn all about the culture and history of Vikings.This picture-led guide will take you on a visual tour of the history and culture of these daring Norse adventurers. Children can learn all about the Vikings` incredible ships and conquests, as well as their intriguing culture, religions, and hom...
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50 Codes that Changed the World: . . . And Your Chance to Solve Them! - McKay Sinclair
Anotace: 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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War and Peace - Tolstoj Lev Nikolajevič
Anotace: From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line at Austerlitz to a wife`s death in childbirth, Tolstoy conjures a broad panorama of rich, messy, beautiful and debased human life. We follow the fates of open-hearted, impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his melancholy friend Prince Andrei and the enchanting Natasha ...
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On Earth We´re Briefly Gorgeous - Vuong Ocean
Anotace: Brilliant, heart-breaking and highly original, discover Ocean Vuong's shattering coming of age novel. This is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born. It tells of Vietnam, of the lasting impact of war, and of his...
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Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction - Inwood Brad
Anotace: Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal satisfaction. What is the connection between them?This Very Short Introduction provides an introductory account of S...
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Tree and Leaf : Including Mythopoeia - Tolkien J. R. R.
Anotace: Repackaged to feature Tolkien`s own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, `On Fairy-stories` and the story that exemplifies this, `Leaf by Niggle`, together with the poem `Mythopoeia` and the verse drama, `The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth`, which tells of the events following the disastrous Battle of Maldon.Fairy-stories are not...
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Hoffman Paul
Anotace: The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too.`A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until he died. He travelled constantly, living out of a plastic bag and had ...
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The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotelés
Anotace: Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply `the master of those who know`.The Ethics contains his views on what makes ...
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Inferno - Dan Brown
Anotace: Seek and ye shall find.´ With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings. A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a br...
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The Aztec Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends - Townsend Camilla
Anotace: The essential guide to the world of Aztec mythology, based on Nahuatl-language sources that challenge the colonial history passed down to us by the Spanish. How did the jaguar get his spots? What happened to the four suns that came before our own? Where was Aztlan, mythical homeland of the Aztecs? For decades, the popular image of the Mexica people - better k...
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Sapiens - neuveden
Anotace: PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provoca...
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Alien Clay: A mind-bending journey into the unknown from this Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award winner - Tchaikovsky Adrian
Anotace: Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It`s the greatest discovery in humanity`s spacefaring history - yet who were its builders and where did ...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Verne Jules
Anotace: New to Penguin Classics, the great underwater adventure story in a stunning clothbound edition with original images.In this thrilling adventure tale by the `Father of Science Fiction`, three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine the Nautilus. Over the course of their fantastical voyage, they encounter t...
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Alien Clay: A mind-bending journey into the unknown from this Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award winner - Tchaikovsky Adrian
Anotace: Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It`s the greatest discovery in humanity`s spacefaring history - yet who were its builders and where did ...
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Will - Smith Will
Anotace: Will Smith`s transformation from a fearful child in a tense West Philadelphia home to one of the biggest rap stars of his era and then one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, with a string of box office successes that will likely never be broken, is an epic tale of inner transformation and outer triumph, and Will tells it astonishingly well. But it`...
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Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age - Berglund Bruce R.
Anotace: Prague in the early twentieth century was the city of cubists, surrealists, and the Good Soldier vejk. This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by identifying religion as an integral part of the city s cultural history. As Prague emerged as a modern city and the Czech nation gained independence, Catholics, Protestants, and those who imagined a non-secta...
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My Brigadista Year - Paterson Katherine
Anotace: In an engrossing historical novel, the Newbery Medal-winning author of Bridge to Terebithia follows a young Cuban teenager`s mission to teach others how to read.When thirteen-year-old Lora tells her parents that she wants to join Premier Castro`s army of young literacy teachers, her mother screeches to high heaven, and her father roars like a lion. But didn`t he...
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The Wren, The Wren: From the Booker Prize-winning author - Enrightová Anne
Anotace: Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother`s loneliness had been.A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author`A magnificent novel`SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE`Might just be her best yet`LOUISE KENNEDY, a...
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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live - Cave Peter
Anotace: An entertaining guide to history`s most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life`s big questions.In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosoph...
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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...
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