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U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction

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New Testament As Literature: A Very Short Introduction

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Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction

Jonathan Post introduces all of Shakespeare's poetry, including the sonnets and his great narrative poems, and explores themes of love and lust in the

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Great Depression and New Deal: A Very Short Introduction

In the middle of the great, global twentieth-century crisis, the Great Depression forced the United States to adopt policies at odds with its politica

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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction

Combines an account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with examples and illustrations of anthropologists. This book discus

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Very Short Introduction for Curious Young Minds: Ancient Myths, Legends and Superheroes

Ancient Myths, Legends and Superheroes introduces a global selection of the stories we tell to make sense the world, where people came from, and why t

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Very Short Introduction for Curious Young Minds: The Causes and Impact of Climate Change

The Causes and Impact of Climate Change is the perfect way for young readers to get to grips with the subject and its terminology. With a clear and en

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A Really Short Journey Through the Body - Bryson Bill

Anotace: `Offers children a series of fascinating scientific facts` Daily TelegraphWe spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it.Want to know why the skin is the biggest organ?Why our brains can see into the future?Or why your eyes are back to front?Packed full of facts, big numbers (such as the a...

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A Really Short Journey Through the Body - Bill Bryson

<p>A funny and fascinating, fully illustrated new edition for children, of the bestselling book about everything inside our body, from legendary author Bill Bryson.</p> <p>We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it.</p> <p>Want to know why the skin is the biggest or...

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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - Saunders George

Anotace: `One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far` SFX Review `Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best` Anne Enright, Guardian `A triumph of storytelling` i paper`A joy. `Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart` Daily Mail____________The first short story collection ...

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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - George Saunders

<p>'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart' Daily Mail ____________ The first short story collec...

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Napoleon

This Very Short Introduction provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in h

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Being Good

This is a very short introduction to ethics. It divides into three parts: first, introducing and discussing reasons for skepticism about ethics; secon

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The Gruffalo: A Push, Pull and Slide Book - Donaldsonová Julia

Anotace: Push, pull and slide the moving mechanisms and bring the story to life! Meet all your favourite characters from the deep dark wood in this very special version of The Gruffalo, perfect for curious toddlers.This brilliant board book is based on the bestselling classic picture book, The Gruffalo, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2024. Discover what happens...

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The Gruffalo: A Push, Pull and Slide Book - Julia Donaldsonová

<p>Push, pull and slide the moving mechanisms and bring the story to life! Meet all your favourite characters from the deep dark wood in this very special version of The Gruffalo, perfect for curious toddlers.This brilliant board book is based on the bestselling classic picture book, The Gruffalo, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2024. Discover what happens ...

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Stručný úvod do teorie mýtu - Robert A. Segal

<p>Robert A. Segal se v této knize na velmi skromné ploše pokouší seznámit čtenáře s možnými teoretickými přístupy ke zkoumání a výkladu mýtu napříč nejrůznějšími vědními obory: pojednává o sporu mezi vědeckým a mytickým výkladem světa, o filosofických, náboženských, psychologických a antropologických teoriích mýtu, o přístupech literárně teoretických, strukturalist...

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Caliban´s War: Book 2 of the Expanse (now a Prime Original series) - Corey James S. A.

Anotace: A special edition hardcover that celebrates the second book in the NYT bestselling and Hugo award-winning Expanse series. Caliban`s War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante`s shoulders. Now a Prime Original series.This special edition hardcover includes: A striking new coverStain...

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Stručný úvod do teorie mýtu - Robert A. Segal

Anotace: Robert A. Segal se v této knize na velmi skromné ploše pokouší seznámit čtenáře s možnými teoretickými přístupy ke zkoumání a výkladu mýtu napříč nejrůznějšími vědními obory: pojednává o sporu mezi vědeckým a mytick&y...

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Birthday Stories - Haruki Murakami

Anotace: What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. Including stories by Russell B...

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Birthday Stories - Haruki Murakami

<p>What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. Including stories by Russell ...

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Liberation Day - Saunders George

Anotace: The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the BardoMacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award fina...

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Giger - HR Giger

<p>Discover HR Giger’s inimitable universe in this definition introduction to the master that gave expression to the collective horrors and fantasies of our time. From his childhood fears to Alien, Giger personally guides us through his multifaceted career with intimate autobiographical essays, detailed reproductions and designs, and a foreword by Timothy Leary.<...

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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King

<p>The master storyteller at his best delivers a generous, thrilling new collection of stories featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write each story. A generous collection of thrilling stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time - with a wonderful...

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Stručný úvod do teorie mýtu

Robert A. Segal se v této knize na velmi skromné ploše pokouší seznámit čtenáře s možnými teoretickými přístupy ke zkoumání a výkladu mýtu napříč nejrůznějšími vědními obory: pojednává o sporu mezi vědeckým a mytickým výkladem světa, o filosofických, náboženských, psychologických a antropologických teoriích mýtu, o přístupech literárně teoretických, strukturalistických a ...

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Hold Up the Sky - Cch´-Sin Liou

Anotace: A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. In Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physics to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines ...

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Hold Up the Sky - Liou Cch´-Sin

<p>A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. In Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physics to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mine...

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The Private Lives of Trees - Zambra Alejandro

Anotace: Veronica is late, and Julian is increasingly convinced she won`t ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor, developing a novel about a man tending to a bonsai tree on the weekends. He is a narrator, an architect, a chronicler of other people`s stor...

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The Private Lives of Trees - Alejandro Zambra

<p>Veronica is late, and Julian is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor, developing a novel about a man tending to a bonsai tree on the weekends. He is a narrator, an architect, a chronicler of other people's stori...

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Queen of Air and Darkness - Cassandra Clare

<p>All first editions of Queen of Air and Darkness will include ten black and white interior illustrations, and a new short story!</p> <p>Dark secrets and forbidden love threaten the very survival of the Shadowhunters in Cassandra Clare’s Queen of Air and Darkness, the final novel in the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling The Dark Artifices tri...

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Invisible Planets - Liu Ken

Anotace: Here are thirteen short stories from the new frontiers of Chinese science fiction, selected and translated by Hugo, Nebula, Locus and World Fantasy Award-winner Ken Liu.Hao Jingfang`s Hugo-Award-Winning `Folding Beijing` takes place in a near-future dystopia where the title city`s buildings fold into and out of the earth, allowing three different strata of socie...

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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - King Stephen

Anotace: The master storyteller at his best delivers a generous, thrilling new collection of stories featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write each story. <br> A generous collection of thrilling stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time - with...

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Liberation Day : Stories - Saunders George, Saunders George

Anotace: The "best short-story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose-wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned-Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collect...

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Liberation Day : Stories - George Saunders

<p>The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collecti...

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Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings - Austenová Jane

Anotace: Jane Austen`s brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.Jane Austen`s earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. But it is also a product of the eighteenth...

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Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings, 1. vydání - Jane Austenová

<p>Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. But it is also a product of the eighteenth ...

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Listri. Cabinet of Curiosities - Antonio Paolucci

<p>Cabinets of curiosities fascinated people of the 16th and 17th centuries. From crocodiles, minerals, and corals to paintings, ivory trophies, measuring instruments, and incredible automata, it was a glimpse into a world full of natural wonders and treasures that aimed to reflect the order of the universe. This magnificent volume takes us through the world’s most ...

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Never Go Back - Lee Child

Anotace: 'It's said that a Jack Reacher novel is bought every four seconds somewhere in the world...Lee Child's genius has been to create a tough guy hero that men will envy and women will adore". (Daily Express). After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: a sturdy stone...

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Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition

Now updated: the definitive neuroscience resource from Eric R. Kandel, MD (winner of the Nobel Prize in 2000); James H. Schwartz, MD, PhD; Thomas M. Jessell, PhD; Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD; and A. J. Hudspeth, PhD § 900 full-color illustrations§Deciphering the link between the human brain and behavior has always been one of the most intriguing and often challenging aspect...

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Časopis White Dwarf 2022/7 (Issue 478) + karty

Here’s what you can look forward to in the July issue: Contact! Letters, painting advice, and beautifully painted miniatures. This month: a big green god and the Martian Mechanicum. Inside the Studio We talk about some of the models we've painted and the games we've played over the last month. WARHAMMER 40,000 Echoes from the Warp Following the release of the latest C...

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Games-Workshop Časopis White Dwarf 2022/7 (Issue 478) + 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 July issue:Contact!Letters, painting advice, and beautifully painted miniatures. This month: a big green god and the Martian Mechanicum....

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