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Lance - Vladimir Nabokov
<p>'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with...
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A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM Edgar Allan Poe and Art in the Czech Lands - Veronika Hulíková, Otto M. Urban (EN)
This publication examines the reception of the work of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) in the visual arts in the Czech lands, and the more general phenomenon of horror and fear. To this day, Poe enjoys great attention, and his short stories and poems inspire not only writers but also artists, film makers, and musicians. The project introduces a broad gamut...
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The Odyssey & The Iliad Complete - Makrinos Antony
Anotace: Two great epics of Western Culture are combined here into one volume. The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War of the Ancient Greeks, focusing on the struggles of Achilles. The Odyssey covers the events after the war as Odysseus travels home, encountering many strange monsters and creatures along the way. The Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epi...
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Sherlock Holmes I. (05-532-1241-9)
Kniha - autor Arthur Conan Doyle, 1060 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I Since his first appearance in "Beeton's Christmas Annual" in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fift...
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Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber - Allen Ginsberg
<p>'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated h...
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Sherlock Holmes II. (05-532-1242-7)
Kniha - autor Arthur Conan Doyle, anglicky Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and StoriesVolume IISince his first appearance in "Beeton's Christmas Annual" in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuri...
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The Complete Tales of H. P. Lovecraft (1631066463)
Kniha - 1112 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá A must-have classic that every Lovecraft fan and collector will love. Another excellent edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lov...
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The Prophet - Gibran Kahlil
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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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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The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft - Lovecraft H. P.
Anotace: The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author`s novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft`s trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today`s important wri...
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The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
<p>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 Mediterranean isla...
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The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
<p>The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's important writ...
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Problem at Pollensa Bay - Christie Agatha
Anotace: A collection of short stories featuring some of Agatha Christie`s best-loved detectives - Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin... All great crime writers have their favourite creations. Similarly, every great sleuth has his, or her, own preferred method of deduction. Take the charming Parker Pyne, who relies upon an intuitive knowledge o...
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Problem at Pollensa Bay, 1. vydání - Agatha Christie
<p>A collection of short stories featuring some of Agatha Christie's best-loved detectives - Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin... All great crime writers have their favourite creations. Similarly, every great sleuth has his, or her, own preferred method of deduction. Take the charming Parker Pyne, who relies upon an intuitive knowledge of...
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Men Without Women (0099909308)
Kniha - autor Ernest Hemingway, 130 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingway's career. Fiesta had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, to recreate a scene with absolute truth, bring...
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Hans Christian Andersen´s Complete Fairy Tales - Andersen Hans Christian
Anotace: All the best-loved fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including "The Ugly Duckling," "Thumbelina," "The Red Shoes," "The Princess on the Pea," and "The Emperor`s New Clothes," fill the pages of this beautiful leather-bound collector`s edition. Also included is "The Tallow Candle" -- one of the earliest stories written by Andersen, just discovered recently! ...
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How To Watch Football: 62 rules for understanding the beautiful game, on and off the pitch
<p>'I love Tifo' Ian Wright 'Tifo are great' Alan Shearer'Tifo have changed the game when it comes to football analysis' Elis JamesRULE #1: DON'T WATCH THE BALLYes, football is about stars, goals and glory. But it's also about the intense calculations and movements being made by the twenty-one other players on the pitch. It's about the ticking clock, and the bellowi...
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Victory City - Rushdie Salman
Anotace: 'A total pleasure to read, a bright burst of colour in a grey winter season' Sunday Times She will whisper an empire into existence - but all stories have a way of getting away from their creators . . . In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine en...
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Anotace: A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure clues overlooked by others, dilettante sleuth Sherlock Holmes was the hero of sixty stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. With the help of his loyal friend, Doctor Watson, Holmes brought countless crooks, thieves, swindlers, and murderers to jus...
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Best Of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
<p>Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle...
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Historie Čechů v USA - Renáta Fučíková
Anotace: Czech immigrants traveled to the unknown beyond the Atlantic in several waves. Some came to America in search of religious and political freedom, while others simply sought a better life in a country of great opportunities. Today we know that without their involvement, independent Czechoslovakia would hardly have come to exist, and without the assistance of the ...
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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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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 Martian Chronicles (9780006479239)
Kniha - autor Ray Bradbury, 320 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name. Written in the age of the atom when America and Europe optimisitcally viewed the discovery of life on Mars as i...
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Race: Vintage Minis (1784872776)
Kniha - autor Toni Morrison, 132 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls ...
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People from Bloomington - Darma Budi
Anotace: In the 1970s, Budi Darma - one of Indonesia`s most acclaimed writers - lived as a student in Bloomington, Indiana. His experiences formed the basis for the renowed short story collection, The People from Bloomington: a portrait of small-town America that offers an incisive view of the West and the people that inhabit it.In Darma`s America, apartment blocks and g...
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Street Haunting, 1. vydání - Virginia Woolf
<p>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. 'The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful'. In such conditions...
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Greenlights - McConaughey Matthew
Anotace: From the Academy Award (R)-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.I`ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about succ...
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Greenlights, 1. vydání - Matthew McConaughey
<p>From the Academy Award (R)-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about succe...
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The Last Tycoon - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson.The studio lot looks like 'thirty acres of fairyland' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monro...
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People From My Neighbourhood (1846276993)
Kniha - autor Hiromi Kawakami, 96 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, here is a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you ...
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The Raven and Other Poems - Poe Edgar Allan, Poe Edgar Allan
Anotace: Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes. It contains Poe's complete poems and three essays on poetry. The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all of his works in verse, from the major poems of his ma...
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Babylon Revisited - Fitzgerald Francis Scott
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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Ramayana: Classic Tales - Sarkar Bihani
Anotace: 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 architec...
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Babylon Revisited - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>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 Mediterranean islan...
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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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Victory City - Salman Rushdie
<p>The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie. In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old gir...
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It's Not the How or the What but the Who
Succeed by mastering the art of the who Why surround yourself with the best? Because it matters--in all aspects of life. In fact, in professional environments, getting people right--what global leadership authority Claudio Fernandez-Araoz calls "the art of great 'who' decisions"--marks the difference between success and failure. To thrive, you need to identify those wit...
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Tender Is the Night - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern Classics.Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife N...
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Games-Workshop Časopis White Dwarf 2024/4 (Issue 499)
White Dwarf is Games Workshop's premium Warhammer magazine, packed with amazing content each month such as new rules and background, short stories, regular columns, special guests and more. This month’s issue features a heavy dose of Necron-flavoured* content, including a helping of fiction and lore alongside a Galactic War Host gallery featuring nothing but cruel, a...
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The Raven and Other Poems, 1. vydání - Edgar Allan Poe
<p>Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes. It contains Poe’s complete poems and three essays on poetry.The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all of his works in verse, from the major poems of his maturity –...
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Dostoevsky in Love : An Intimate Life - Christofi Alex
Anotace: Dostoevsky`s life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar`s inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Some...
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Dostoevsky in Love : An Intimate Life - Alex Christofi
<p>'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich NietzscheDostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived ...
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Love from the Dark Side ()
Audiokniha MP3 - autor Bram Stoker a Mary Elizabeth Pennová, čte Courtney Claar, Roy McCrerey, Sam Kellett a Alex Went The ninth step into the Darkness is called Love from the Dark Side, and it brings us to the climax of the series – the Darkness itselfIt features The Tenant of the Cedars by Mary Elizabeth Penn – a story about the vengeance of the dead. Little is known ...
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The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Anotace: The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name. Written in the age of the atom when America and Europe optimisitcally viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury's 1940s short stories of a brutal, stark and unforg...
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Oxford Bookworms Library 3 Tooth and Claw (New Edition) - Saki
<p>Published 2008. Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate CEF level B1 - 1,000 Headwords. Oxford Bookworms enjoy a world-wide reputation for high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience. Research shows reading a lot improves all your language skills. Experts recognize Oxford Bookworms as the most consistent series in terms of language control, length, and qu...
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Oxford Bookworms Library 3 Tales of Mystery and Imagination (New Edition) - Edgar Allan Poe
<p>Published 2008. Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate CEF level B1 - 1,000 Headwords. Oxford Bookworms enjoy a world-wide reputation for high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience. Research shows reading a lot improves all your language skills. Experts recognize Oxford Bookworms as the most consistent series in terms of language control, length, and ...
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The Complete Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
<p>Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric "To Helen," to his immortal masterpieces, "Annabel Lee," "The Bells," and "The Raven,"...
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Pretty Books - Painted Editions): A Collection of Holmes Adventures - Doyle Arthur Conan
Anotace: Thirteen stories involving Sherlock Holmes, one of literature`s most beloved characters, are now available in an exclusive collector`s edition. Featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and decorative interior pages, this giftable book is ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike.Beloved by fans across the globe, this collection features thi...
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Pretty Books - Painted Editions): A Collection of Holmes Adventures - Arthur Conan Doyle
<p>Thirteen stories involving Sherlock Holmes, one of literature's most beloved characters, are now available in an exclusive collector's edition. Featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and decorative interior pages, this giftable book is ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike.Beloved by fans across the globe, this collection features thir...
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How To Kill Vampire - Pinto Christopher
Anotace: Fun! Artistic! Great Writing! Cool Images!" Have you ever been on a dark country road, face to face with one of the evil undead, and had no idea how to defend yourself? Well, probably not if you`re still alive and reading this. Finally, there is a book that very concisely and very quickly teaches you how to defend yourself and others against Vampires, those anno...
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Časopis White Dwarf 2024/4 (Issue 499)
This month’s issue features a heavy dose of Necron-flavoured* content, including a helping of fiction and lore alongside a Galactic War Host gallery featuring nothing but cruel, ambitious dynasties – what a great month for our mighty metal masters. There’s plenty more Warhammer 40,000 content, with the final instalment of Tale of Four Warlords featuring some exquisite ne...
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Games-Workshop Časopis White Dwarf 2023/5 (Issue 488) + Boarding Action Structure Tiles
White Dwarf is Games Workshop's premium Warhammer magazine, packed with amazing content each month such as new rules and background, short stories, regular columns, special guests and more. This issue features the last chapters of the Herald of Misery narrative. The penultimate part is encompassed by a new set of six Boarding Actions missions that take players to the...
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Games-Workshop Časopis White Dwarf 2023/6 (Issue 489) + Boarding Action Structure Tiles
White Dwarf is Games Workshop's premium Warhammer magazine, packed with amazing content each month such as new rules and background, short stories, regular columns, special guests and more. Here’s what you can look forward to in the June issue:CONTACT!Letters, questions and pictures of miniatures sent in by you, our readers.WORLDS OF WARHAMMERIt’s pronunciation 101 w...
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Vertigo
'This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. It contains many lessons for the world now.' - John Kampfner, bestselling author of Why The Germans Do It BetterGermany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is lost, t...
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Games-Workshop Časopis White Dwarf 2022/10 (Issue 481) + karty
White Dwarf is Games Workshop's premium Warhammer magazine, packed with amazing content each month such as new rules and background, short stories, regular columns, special guests and more. Here’s what you can look forward to in the October issue:Contact! Letters, questions and pictures of miniatures sent in by you, our readers.Worlds of WarhammerThis time it’s about...
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Young ELI Readers 4/A2: The Jungle Book + Downloadable Multimedia - Joseph Rudyard Kipling
<p>The Jungle Book + CD audio About the series: The series Young ELI Readers is divided into four levels according to the language level of the readers. It's in line with the indications of the Common European Framework of Reference for Language and comprise useful language certification exercises. This ensures that learners will meet language and structures they h...
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Games-Workshop Časopis White Dwarf 2023/3 (Issue 486)
White Dwarf is Games Workshop's premium Warhammer magazine, packed with amazing content every month – including new rules and background, short stories, regular columns, special guests, and more. Here’s what you can look forward to in the March issue:- Contact!Letters, questions and pictures of miniatures sent in by you, our readers.- Inside the StudioThe studio’s Wa...
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