Life at home in the twenty first century
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Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century
Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class American home through the kalei
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Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century (0062279807)
Kniha - autor Simon Reynolds, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement) comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper,...
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Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country´s First Century - Julian Sayarer
<p>"The complex story of modern Turkiye, is a deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . We need writers who will go all the way for a story, and tell it with...
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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster - Mirinae Lee
<p>A playful, ambitious and action-packed novel that explores the turbulent story of twentieth-century Korea through the life of one remarkable, charismatic - and unreliable - woman</p> <p>SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER.At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So wh...
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Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties - Vaclav Smil
<p>An objective, comprehensive, and accessible examination of today's most crucial problem: preserving the environment in the face of society's insatiable demand for energy. In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity to pre...
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A Little Life
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement-and a great gift for its publisher.When four classmates f...
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Rules For Modern Life - Tang Sir David
Anotace: Do gentlemen wear shorts? What are the rules regarding interior decor in a high-security prison? Is it ever acceptable to send Valentine`s cards to one`s pets? The twenty-first century is an age of innumerable social conundrums. Around every corner lies a potential faux pas waiting to happen. But if you`ve ever struggled for the right response to an unwelcome gi...
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Rules For Modern Life - Sir David Tang
<p>Do gentlemen wear shorts? What are the rules regarding interior decor in a high-security prison? Is it ever acceptable to send Valentine's cards to one's pets? The twenty-first century is an age of innumerable social conundrums. Around every corner lies a potential faux pas waiting to happen. But if you've ever struggled for the right response to an unwelcome gif...
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (0241965780)
Kniha - autor Daniel J. Levitin, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Even the smartest mind can't beat the organized mind . . .In the digital age we are overwhelmed by information. Unable to make sense of it all, our creativity plummets, decision making suffers and we grow absent-minded. The twenty-first century sees us drowning under emails, forever juggling six task...
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Fall of Man in Wilmslow - David Lagercrantz
Anotace: A powerful tale of honour, prejudice and the twentieth century's most maltreated hero June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple. Taking the case, Detective Constable Leonard Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it's a suicide, he is nonethele...
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The Jasad Heir - Hashem Sara
Anotace: At ten years old, the Heir of Jasad flees a massacre that takes her entire family.At fifteen, she buries her first body.At twenty, the clock is ticking on Sylvia`s third attempt at home. Nizahl`s armies have laid waste to Jasad and banned magic across the four remaining kingdoms. Fortunately, Sylvia`s magic is as good at playing dead as she is.When the Nizahl He...
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The Jasad Heir - Sara Hashem
<p>At ten years old, the Heir of Jasad flees a massacre that takes her entire family.At fifteen, she buries her first body.At twenty, the clock is ticking on Sylvia's third attempt at home. Nizahl's armies have laid waste to Jasad and banned magic across the four remaining kingdoms. Fortunately, Sylvia's magic is as good at playing dead as she is.When the Nizahl Hei...
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The Invisible Hour - Hoffmanová Alice
Anotace: From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, self-discovery and the enduring magic of books. Sixteen-year-old Ivy is pregnant and alone. Cast out by her family, she runs away and finds safety in the arms of Joel Davis. He offers a simpler life than the one she had in Boston, a ...
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The Wife of Willesden - Smith Zadie
Anotace: `Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays many roles round here. And neverScared to tell the whole of her truth, whetherOr not anyone wants to hear it. WifeOf Willesden: pissed enough to tell her lifeStory to whoever has ears and eyes . . .`Zadie Smith`s first time writing for the stage, The Wife of Willesden is a riotous twenty-first century tr...
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The Prophet, 1. vydání - Kahlil Gibran
<p>Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the book touches on subjects of universal concern, including love, f...
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The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger - Rojas René
Anotace: If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive attempts at expansion. For multiple generations of antiwar activists, Kissinger personified ...
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The Secret Garden - Burnett Frances Hodgson
Anotace: The classic English children`s novel of three young friends and one special garden, stunningly reimagined in a deluxe full-color edition, illustrated with beautiful artwork and unique interactive features created by the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise, MinaLima-sure to delight fans of the live action film versi...
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The Secret Garden - Burnett Frances Hodgson
<p>The classic English children's novel of three young friends and one special garden, stunningly reimagined in a deluxe full-color edition, illustrated with beautiful artwork and unique interactive features created by the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise, MinaLima-sure to delight fans of the live action film versio...
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Go Lightly: The funny, sharp and heartfelt bisexual love story - Lee-Kennedy Brydie
Anotace: `Sharp and funny and humane ... Brydie skewers everyone equally, but always with empathy, warmth and wit.` Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually`A novel that really nails the chaos, panic and joy of being young` Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable A funny and tender twenty-first century story of family, friendship, love - and how getting it wrong is so...
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Go Lightly: The funny, sharp and heartfelt bisexual love story - Brydie Lee-Kennedy
<p>'Sharp and funny and humane ... Brydie skewers everyone equally, but always with empathy, warmth and wit.' Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually 'A novel that really nails the chaos, panic and joy of being young' Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable A funny and tender twenty-first century story of family, friendship, love - and how getting it wrong is...
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Skellig: the 25th anniversary illustrated edition - David Almond
<p>The bestselling story about love, loss and hope that launched David Almond as one of the best children's writers of today. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award, this unforgettable book now has captivating illustrations by Tom de Freston to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. When a move to a new house coincides with...
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42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams - Adams Douglas
Anotace: `Douglas`s slanted way of looking at reality makes the fuzzy sharp and the improbable probable. In a cock-eyed universe the level gaze is not much use` STEPHEN FRY`Douglas was something that we don`t have a word for yet - a futurologist or an explainer` NEIL GAIMAN"In lieu of a conventional autobiography, this collection of letters, jottings and ephemera - inter...
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42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams - Douglas Adams
<p>'Douglas's slanted way of looking at reality makes the fuzzy sharp and the improbable probable. In a cock-eyed universe the level gaze is not much use' STEPHEN FRY'Douglas was something that we don't have a word for yet - a futurologist or an explainer' NEIL GAIMAN"In lieu of a conventional autobiography, this collection of letters, jottings and ephemera - i...
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Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
<p>THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Vital ... a life-raft' Guardian'A top sleep scientist argues that sleep is more important for our health than diet or exercise' The Times'It had a powerful effect on me' Observer'I urge you all to read this book' Times Higher Educat...
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The Freelance Way - Best Business Practices, Tools & Strategies for Freelancers
Největší bestseller Melvilu vydaný po roce 2016 míří do světa! Kniha Roberta Vlacha „Na volné noze: Podnikejte jako profesionálové“ byla v roce 2017 naší nejúspěšnější novinkou co do prodejů i hodnocení čtenářů: Heuréka 95 %, Kosmas 96 %, Dobrovský 94 %, Martinus 92 %, Goodreads 90 %, Alza 96 %, Zboží.cz 95 % atd. A protože freelancing (neboli podnikání na volné noze) je ...
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The Freelance Way (Best Business Practices, Tools & Strategies for Freelancers) - Robert Vlach
<p>Největší bestseller Melvilu vydaný po roce 2016 míří do světa! Kniha Roberta Vlacha „Na volné noze: Podnikejte jako profesionálové“ byla v roce 2017 naší nejúspěšnější novinkou co do prodejů i hodnocení čtenářů: Heuréka 95 %, Kosmas 96 %, Dobrovský 94 %, Martinus 92 %, Goodreads 90 %, Alza 96 %, Zboží.cz 95 % atd. A protože freelancing (neboli podnikání na volné ...
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Fair Rosaline: The most captivating, powerful and subversive retelling you´ll read this year - Natasha Solomonsová
<p>One of the most anticipated novels of the year - the captivating and powerful untelling of Romeo & Juliet . . .The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent, this handsome and charming strange...
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Reading + Training
What does Cymru mean? What did Emperor Hadrian build in England nearly 2000 years ago? What do competitors throw at the Highland games? Why do people ‘kiss the Blarney Stone’? The British Isles tells the story of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It includes the most important events in their history from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century, as well as key info...
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Lubetkin Legacy - Lewycka Marina
Anotace: Lively ...a joy to read` - The Times Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize From the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat....
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Robinson Crusoe, 1. vydání - Daniel Defoe
<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self ... 'Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle,...
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Stealing Fire from Heaven
Despite the dramatic expansion of modern technology, which defines and dominates many aspects of contemporary life and thought, the Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. How can we account for this widespread interest in ancient magical belief systems? In historical terms, Gnosticism and the Hermetica, the medieval Kabbalah, Taro...
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Pavel Burdych, Zuzana Berešová – Kéler: Valčíky pre husle a klavír MP3
The violinist, conductor and composer Béla Kéler was born at 13th of February 1820 in Bartfeld (today's Slovakian name: Bardejov). After his studies of music, he obtained the position of first violinist at the „Theater an der Wien“ in Vienna. Since 1854 he received the position as conductor of the orchestra of Johann Sommer in Berlin. Later he became leader of the militar...
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Pavel Burdych, Zuzana Berešová – Kéler: Valčíky pre husle a klavír FLAC
The violinist, conductor and composer Béla Kéler was born at 13th of February 1820 in Bartfeld (today's Slovakian name: Bardejov). After his studies of music, he obtained the position of first violinist at the „Theater an der Wien“ in Vienna. Since 1854 he received the position as conductor of the orchestra of Johann Sommer in Berlin. Later he became leader of the militar...
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Girl, Woman, Other
THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR & FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most absorbing book I read all year.' Roxane Gay____________________________This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first,...
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My Brief History
Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inwards for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution. My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his post-war London boyhood to his...
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We Should All Be Feminists (0008115273)
Kniha - 64 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun , based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name.What does feminism mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay - adapted fr...
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Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow, 2. vydání - Yuval Noah Harari
<p>From the author of the number 1 global bestseller Sapiens **The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller** Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation. Death is just a technical probl...
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Enigma Variations - André Aciman
The magnificent new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, "the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century" (New York magazine) <p>From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he...
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DAVID COPPERFIELD - Charles Dickens
Anotace: The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. In this Reader you will find: information about Charles Dickens Tags Family | Friendship | Love | Adventure David Copperfield looks back on the first twenty-five years of his life. He is only eight years old when his mother, a young pretty widow, remarries. Unfortunately Mr Murdstone is n...
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Teen ELI Readers 3/B1: David Copperfield with Audio CD - Charles Dickens
<p>The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. In this Reader you will find: information about Charles Dickens Tags Family | Friendship | Love | Adventure David Copperfield looks back on the first twenty-five years of his life. He is only eight years old when his mother, a young pretty widow, remarries. Unfortunately Mr Murdstone is no...
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Teen ELI Readers - English
The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. In this Reader you will find: information about Charles Dickens Tags Family | Friendship | Love | Adventure David Copperfield looks back on the first twenty-five years of his life. He is only eight years old when his mother, a young pretty widow, remarries. Unfortunately Mr Murdstone is not a good ...
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A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor - Hank Green
<p>If you came across AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING at 3 a.m. in New York City . . . Would you keep walking? Or do the one thing that would change your life forever? The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship - like a ten-foot-tall Tra...
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Good Girl Complex - Kennedy Elle
Anotace: Full of romance, hijinks, and longing, Good Girl Complex is Elle Kennedy at her very best...She does everything right. So what could go wrong?Mackenzie `Mac` Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It`s exhausting, really, always following the rules. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to...
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Helmut Newton. SUMO. 20th Anniversary - Helmut Newton
<p>The Helmut Newton SUMO was a titanic book that towered above anything previously attempted. Twenty years later, we celebrate the legacy of this publishing venture in an XL edition, the result of a project conceived by Helmut Newton and revised by his wife June. Gathering 464 images and a new booklet that takes us through the making of the SUMO, it’s a spectacular...
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Moonraker: A James Bond Novel - Fleming Ian
Anotace: Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the universit...
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Pineapple Street, 1. vydání - Jenny Jacksonová
<p>AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Escape to glamorous Pineapple Street, New York, with 2023's must-read and warmest debut about love, family, class and money, from exciting new literary voice Jenny Jackson'It's the novel Jane Austen would have written . . . if Jane Austen lived in Brooklyn Heights in the 21st century' NEW YORK TIMES'Hilarious and poignant' MIR...
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