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Surrounded by Idiots : The Four Types of Human Behaviour (or, How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood) - Thomas Erikson
<p>Do you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague’s abrasive manner get your back up?</p> <p>You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was ‘surro...
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Why Science and Faith Need Each Other - Eight Shared Values That Move Us beyond Fear
Using new research to reveal how faith and science illuminate universal truths about the human experience, this book shows readers they don't have to
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The New Breed: How to Think About Robots - Darling Kate
Anotace: `A must read for anyone interested in the emerging ethics of robotics` Irene M. PepperbergA bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship between robots and humans based on our history with animals, from a renowned MIT researcherThe robots are here. They make our cars, they deliver fast food, they mine the sea floor. And in the near-future their presence wil...
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The Fraud - Smith Zadie
Anotace: Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literatu...
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Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy - Chalmers David J.
Anotace: From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds. ...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Goverment - Locke John
Anotace: Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth century, and Locke`s works are often ? rightly ? presented as foun...
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Kansas: Point Of Know Return Live & Beyond (2x CD) - CD (0194398591629)
Hudební CD - Live album skupiny Kansas. Live album skupiny Kansas. Rok vydání : 2021 (Live) Seznam stop 2CD Cold Grey Morning / Two Cents Worth / The Wall / Song for America / Summer / Musicatto / Taking in the View / Miracles Out of Nowhere / Point of Know Return / Paradox / The Spider / Portrait (He Knew) / Closet Chronicles / Lightning's Hand / Dust in the Win...
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Kansas: Point Of Know Return Live & Beyond (3x LP 2x CD) - LP (0194398591711)
LP vinyl - Live album skupiny Kansas. Live album skupiny Kansas. Rok vydání : 2021 (Live) Seznam stop 3LP, 2CD Cold Grey Morning / Two Cents Worth / The Wall / Song for America / Summer / Musicatto / Taking in the View / Miracles Out of Nowhere / Point of Know Return / Paradox / The Spider / Portrait (He Knew) / Closet Chronicles / Lightning's Hand / Dust in the ...
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Beyond Order : 12 More Rules for Life, 1. vydání - Jordan B. Peterson
<p>The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life. In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more l...
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University at the Threshold
Basing this practical study on the human quality of care for the world around us, Nigel Hoffmann takes us to a threshold beyond which lies a true scie
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Reading and the Reader
Reading and the Reader defends the value of reading serious literature, investigating the role of the reader in the human search for meaning outside a
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To the Lighthouse
Rich in symbolism, daring in style, elegiac in tone and encapsulating Virginia Woolf's ideas on life, art and human relationships, To the Lighthouse is a landmark of twentieth-century literature and one of the high points of early Modernism.
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia - Simon Garfield
<p>A gloriously illuminating history of the encyclopaedia (and how and why we have captured knowledge over the years) by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE and ON THE MAP</p> <p>The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Now these huge books sell for almost nothing on eBay while we derive information from our phones. What have we l...
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The Kingdom - Jess Rothenberg
<p>A half-android, half-human girl is accused of murder in Jess Rothenberg's tautly-paced YA thriller, The Kingdom, perfect for fans of Westworld and The Lunar Chronicles. "Wildly addictive and beautifully terrifying... Readers will leave this glittering theme park forgetting what is real."?Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles...
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The Circle - Eggers Dave
Anotace: Now a Major Motion Picture starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks. A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world´s most powerful internet company, she feels she´s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a ...
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History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century
This rich, expansive book reaches beyond philosophy to literature and the history of ideas. Nihilism is associated most frequently with twentieth-cent
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The War of the Worlds and The War in the Air - Wells Herbert George
Anotace: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University.In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened.The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star was, in fact, a m...
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The Fraud - Zadie Smith
<p>Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literatur...
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The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
Anotace: The second volume in Philip Pullman's incredible HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy. First published in 1997, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it won the UK's top awards for children's literature. "What is he? A friend, or an enemy?" "He is a murderer." Will has just killed a man. He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie dis...
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The Aeneid, 1. vydání - Virgil
<p>Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem that sits at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Tro...
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Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
A New York Times Editors' Choice "A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . a] thrilling testament to the human spirit."--Ariel Dorfman, The New York Times Book Review "
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The Iliad, 1. vydání - Homér
<p>A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation. The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture. The story centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which...
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The Secret History - Donna Tartt
<p>With cloth binding and bespoke marbled endpapers, this gorgeous 30th-anniversary hardback edition of The Secret History is the perfect gift for fans! 'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come...
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The Call of the Wild & White Fang (1509841768)
Kniha - 372 stran, anglicky, Pevná bez přebalu lesklá - 372 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home in California and forced to pull sleds in the Arctic wasteland. White Fang, by contrast, is the tale of a crossbreed who is three-quarters wolf and a quarter dog, and who must en...
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The Greatest Secret - Byrne Rhonda
Anotace: From Rhonda Byrne, the author of the worldwide phenomenon The Secret, comes The Greatest Secret-a long-awaited major new work that offers revelations and practices to end suffering and discover lasting happiness. Ancient traditions knew that to hide a secret it should be put in plain sight, where no-one will think to look for it. Billions of people on our plane...
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The Greatest Secret - Rhonda Byrne
<p>From Rhonda Byrne, the author of the worldwide phenomenon The Secret, comes The Greatest Secret-a long-awaited major new work that offers revelations and practices to end suffering and discover lasting happiness. Ancient traditions knew that to hide a secret it should be put in plain sight, where no-one will think to look for it. Billions of people on our planet...
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
NEW FEATURES AWARDS O hře Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is the definitive edition of the groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city block to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders, or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being. Fu...
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (PC) Steam
Modern society owes much to a mystical technology known as “orbal energy.” Fifty years ago, during what’s come to be known as the “Orbal Revolution,” the invention of this technology and the “orbments” developed from it led to a period of rapid human advancement, birthing innovations of all shapes and sizes -- not the least of whi...
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The Expanse 01. Leviathan Wakes (1841499897)
Kniha - autor James S. A. Corey, 562 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Humanity has colonized the planets - interstellar travel is still beyond our reach, but the solar system has become a dense network of colonies. But there are tensions - the mineral-rich outer planets resent their dependence on Earth and Mars and the political and military clout they wield...
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White Holes: Inside the Horizon - Carlo Rovelli
<p>CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN'A miniature masterpiece by one of the most entertaining scientists on the planet ... I would give this book to anyone, young and old, interested in thinking, science and literature' Robert Fox, Evening Standard'Everyone's talking about White Holes' Daily MailA mesmerizing trip to the strange ne...
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Caste : The International Bestseller - Isabel Wilkerson
<p>From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary livesIn this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how Am...
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The Origin of Species - Darwin Charles
Anotace: With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace.`A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...`.Darwin`s theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those...
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The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
<p>With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace. 'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for thos...
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Count of Monte Cristo, the - Alexandre Dumas
<p>The victim of betrayal by friends and an insidious plot to hide another's perfidy, innocent young sailor Edmond Dantes is imprisoned for life at the island fortress of the Chateau d'If. After fourteen years, he makes a harrowing escape and works his way to the island of Monte Cristo, where he recovers abundant treasures whose location were made known to him by a ...
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Tomb Raider Game of the Year Edition
Tomb Raider is a critically acclaimed action adventure that explores the intense and gritty origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor. Armed only with raw instincts and the ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, Lara must fight to unravel the dark history of a forgotten island to escape its relentless hold. The Game...
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Historical Review of Swedish Strategy Research and the Rigor-Relevance Gap
This Element reviews the existing literature on the rigor-relevance gap in academic research on strategic management and argues that it must go beyond
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Stitch Head: The Graphic Novel - Bass Guy
Anotace: The first book in the best-selling, laugh-out-loud STITCH HEAD series by award-winning author Guy Bass, with illustrations by Pete Williamson, now brought to almost-life again in this brand-new, monstrously magnificent graphic novel edition.Enter the darkly funny world of Stitch Head, as he steps out of the shadows into the adventure of an almost-lifetime... Dee...
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The Land of Lost Things: the highly anticipated follow up to The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
<p>Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . .Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to kee...
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The Philosophy of Modern Song - Dylan Bob
Anotace: The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan`s first book of new writing since 2004`s Chronicles: Volume One - and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to E...
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The Time Machine - Wells Herbert George
Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics."In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back . . . You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked - those pale chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!"An English scientist regales hi...
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Astrology. The Library of Esoterica - Jessica Hundley
<p>Looking to the sky, the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series delves into the vibrant visual history of Western astrology. From its birth as astronomy’s sister science, to our current Age of Aquarius, the story of this ancient practice is told through more than 400 images—from Egyptian temples to contemporary art—sequenced to mirror the spin of t...
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The Common Reader: First Series - Virginia Woolfová
Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. `A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out' In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon - Jane Auste...
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The Philosophy of Modern Song - Bob Dylan
<p>The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One — and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen F...
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut (PC)
NEW FEATURESAWARDSO hřeDisco Elysium - The Final Cut is the definitive edition of the groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city block to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders, or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.Full v...
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank - Rosemary Sullivan
<p>‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York Times</p> <p>Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept</p> <p>The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?</p> <p>Now, thanks to radical new technology and the obsession of a retired FBI ag...
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The Book of Symbols - autorů kolektiv
<p>This encyclopedia explores the hidden meanings of visual symbols across time and geography, from the sun to whales and the human hand. Spanning different eras and cultures, over 800 beautiful images combine with expert illuminations of symbol history, meanings, and psychic associations, offering readers a precious and fascinating resource for thoughtful interpret...
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Multilogues on the Now: On Glands, Membranes and Cavities - kol.
Anotace: Multilogues on the Now: On Glands, Membranes and Cavities seek to explore the terrain beyond the binary, focusing on posthuman and more-than-human approaches to health, embodiment and sexuality. Liquid, non-linear, messy, poetic, unstable, leaky, parasitic, monstrous and queer ways of being in the world lead to new openings: of body and its interiority in the wi...
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Multilogues on the Now: On Glands, Membranes and Cavities
Multilogues on the Now: On Glands, Membranes and Cavities seek to explore the terrain beyond the binary, focusing on posthuman and more-than-human approaches to health, embodiment and sexuality. Liquid, non-linear, messy, poetic, unstable, leaky, parasitic, monstrous and queer ways of being in the world lead to new openings: of body and its interiority in the wider scale ...
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The Teachings of a Stoic: Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion (Collins Classics) - Epiktétos
<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus are regarded as some of the most influential teachings of the ancient world. Born into slavery and sent into exile before setting up a school of philosophy, Epictetus delivered a series of lectures where he argued that...
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Flowers For Algernon: The Best of the SF Masterworks - Keyes Daniel
Anotace: Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary. Winne...
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Flowers For Algernon: The Best of the SF Masterworks - Daniel Keyes
<p>Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary. Winner of t...
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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power - James Walvin
<p>A major study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldFor the best part of four centuries, enslaved Africans were the human cogs in a vast machine which transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the well-being of the Western world, and created cultural habits we are familiar with today. In A World Transformed, celebrated historian James Wal...
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Multilogues on the Now: On Glands, Membranes and Cavities - Zuzana Jakalová, Hana Janečková
Multilogues on the Now: On Glands, Membranes and Cavities seek to explore the terrain beyond the binary, focusing on posthuman and more-than-human approaches to health, embodiment and sexuality.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (PC) Steam (PC)
Modern society owes much to a mystical technology known as “orbal energy.” Fifty years ago, during what’s come to be known as the “Orbal Revolution,” the invention of this technology and the “orbments” developed from it led to a period of rapid human advancement, birthing innovations of all shapes and s...
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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain - Mark Twain
Anotace: For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain´s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.Every one of ...
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The Penguin Book of Dragons - Scott G. Bruce
<p>The definitive global anthology of writings about dragons, from Ancient Egypt to the modern day Since the earliest moments of human history, dragons have occupied a place in our imaginations. Bringer of night in Ancient Egypt; mortal enemy of the elephant in South Asia; slain by a god in Sanskrit hymn. In the Book of Revelation, there is the Leviathan; in Loch N...
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Stoner: A special edition of the literary classic - John Williams
<p>A beautiful hardback edition of the iconic forgotten classic, the story of one man's ordinary, extraordinary life. William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is ...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
<p>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 ...
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A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult - Suzannah Lipscomb
<p>Discover the beguiling history of witchcraft, magic, and superstition through the centuries in this stunningly illustrated title. A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult charts the extraordinary narrative of one of the most interesting and often controversial subjects in the world, covering everything from ancient animal worship and shamanism, through alch...
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How High We Go in the Dark - Nagamatsu Sequoia
Anotace: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022FINALIST FOR THE BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE 2022FINALIST FOR THE URSULA LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022WATERSTONES AND ESQUIRE BEST BOOKS OF 2022`Haunting and luminous ... An astonishing debut` - Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta`A powerfully moving and thought provoking read. At times su...
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