What s left of human nature

What's Left of Human Nature?

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Laws Of Human Nature - neuveden

Anotace: Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people`s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend o...

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The Concise Laws of Human Nature - Greene Robert

Anotace: From the million-copy bestselling author of The 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people`s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of...

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Being Human - Lewis Dartnell

'Illuminating' TIM MARSHALL, author of Prisoners of Geography'Refreshing' THOMAS HALLIDAY, author of OtherlandsBeing Human is history made flesh. It will change how you see the world. We’re a wonder of evolution, capable of incredible feats.But we’re also deeply flawed. Our bodies and minds often break, fail, and hinder us. To be human is to live with this extraordinary c...

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The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature - Greene Robert

Anotace: Daily doses of wisdom from the master of self-development.Over the last 22 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human whether that be getting what you want, understanding others` motivations, mastering your impulses, and recognizing strengths and weaknesses. The Daily Laws distills that wisdom into daily entries.Each entry delive...

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The Nature of Blood - Phillips Caryl

Anotace: The Nature of Blood is an unforgettable novel about loss and persecution, about courage and betrayal, and about the terrible pain yet absoulte necessity of human memory.A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth century Venice are bound by personal ...

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The Tyranny of Merit: What´s Become of the Common Good?, 1. vydání - Michael Sandel

<p>A TLS, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020The new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Justice and one of the world's most popular philosophers"Astute, insightful, and empathetic...A crucial book for this moment" Tara Westover, author of EducatedThese are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the o...

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I, Mammal : The Story of What Makes Us Mammals - Drew Liam

Anotace: Humans are mammals. Most of us appreciate that at some level. But what does it mean for us to have more in common with a horse and an elephant than we do with a parrot, snake or frog? After a misdirected football left new father Liam Drew clutching a uniquely mammalian part of his anatomy, he decided to find out more. Considering himself as a mammal first and a ...

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Secrets of the Dead : Mummies and Other Human Remains from Around the World - Ralphs Matt, Ralphs Matt

Anotace: Travel back in time to discover secrets of mummies and other human remains from around the world in this fascinating book, publishing 100 years after the discovery of King Tutankhamun`s tomb.From ancient Egyptian mummies and European bog bodies to the plaster citizens of Pompeii, painted people of the Steppe and Japanese self-mummifying monks, this book reveals ...

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Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don´t Know - Gladwell Malcolm

Anotace: The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger`s motives?Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing ...

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Flags of Our Fathers - Bradley James

Anotace: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE IMMORTAL PHOTOGRAPH THAT HAS COME TO SYMBOLIZE THE COURAGE AND INDOMITABLE WILL OF AMERICA In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima--and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island`s highest pea...

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Primer of Happiness

Why a person attracts a "bad" partner? Why what you desire is not becoming true? How to speed up the intention? What is the reason of excessive apologizing and self blame? How to solve the pressure of gossiping and envy?What is the real origin of illness? The more you help others, the more they hurt you?The second part of Hirax´s Primer of Happiness focuses on self observ...

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Why We Dream : The Science, Creativity and Transformative Power of Dreams - Robbová Alice

Anotace: We all dream, and 98 per cent of us can recall our dreams the next morning. Even in today`s modern age, it is human nature to wonder what they mean. With incredible new discoveries and stunning science, Why We Dream will give you dramatic insight into yourself and your body. You`ll never think of dreams in the same way again . . .Groundbreaking science is puttin...

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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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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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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs : The Untold Story of a Lost World - Steve Brusatte

<p>The Times Science Book of the YearA Sunday Times Bestseller</p> <p>'Thrilling . . . the best book on the subject written for the general reader since the 1980s.' The Sunday Times</p> <p>66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of d...

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The Island of Doctor Moreau - Herbert George Wells

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>“That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities far worse than any definite fear.”</p> <p>Edward Prendick, the sole survivor of a sh...

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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Peterson Jordan B.

Anotace: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson`s answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson ...

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Twenty Five Thousand Days of Memories - Martin Rajniš

<p>Architekt, profesor a autor mnoha odborných publikací M. Rajniš se rozhodl sepsat vzpomínky ze svého života plného cestování, netradičních zvratů, úspěchů i pádů. Jako buřič a provokatér, který si celý život razí svojí cestu, chce čtenáři ukázat, že i člověk, nýmand, kterého málem strčili do pomocné školy, může žít bezvadný život. "Přál bych si, aby se čtená...

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Allegiant (Divergent 3) - Veronica Roth

Anotace: What if your whole world was a lie? The thrillingly dark conclusion to the No. 1 New York Times bestselling DIVERGENT trilogy, now available in paperback. DIVERGENT – a major motion picture series, INSURGENT movie release in 2015! What if a single revelation – like a single choice – changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you d...

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Twenty Five Thousand Days of Memories - Martin Rajniš,Magdalena Šebestová

Anotace: Architekt, profesor a autor mnoha odborných publikací M. Rajniš se rozhodl sepsat vzpomínky ze svého života plného cestování, netradičních zvratů, úspěchů i pádů. Jako buřič a provokatér, který si celý život razí svojí cestu, chce čtenáři ukázat, že i člověk, nýmand, kterého málem strčili do pomocné školy, může žít bezvadný život. "Přál bych si, aby se čten...

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Fury - Kuttner Henry

Anotace: The Earth is long dead, blasted apart, and the human survivors who settled on Venus live in huge citadels beneath the Venusian seas in an atrophying, class-ridden society ruled by the Immortals - genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more. Sam Reed was born an immortal, born to rule those with a normal life-span, but his deranged father had him mutilate...

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Allegiant - Veronica Roth

Anotace: The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties...

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The Aztec Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends - Townsend Camilla

Anotace: The essential guide to the world of Aztec mythology, based on Nahuatl-language sources that challenge the colonial history passed down to us by the Spanish. How did the jaguar get his spots? What happened to the four suns that came before our own? Where was Aztlan, mythical homeland of the Aztecs? For decades, the popular image of the Mexica people - better k...

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Happiness for Humans - P. Z. Reizin

Anotace: Don't tell anyone, but Jen is one of my favourite people. (Machines aren't supposed to have favourites. Don't ask me how this has happened.) Jen is sad. Aiden wants her to be happy. Simple? Except that Jen is a thirty-something woman whose boyfriend has just left her and Aiden is a very complicated, very expensive piece of software. Aiden has calculated that Jen...

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The Fall - Simon Mawer

Anotace: An irresistible narrative of courage and endeavour. A story that captures nature at its most beautiful and most brutal and which unlocks the intricacies at the heart of human relationships. Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become estranged. Rob is nevertheless amazed and grief-st...

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Skyward - Sanderson Brandon

Anotace: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future. Spensa's world has been...

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Upgrade

Anotace: Upgrade is the mind-bending thriller from Blake Crouch, author of the bestselling Dark Matter and Recursion.`You are the next step in human evolution . . .`What if you were capable of more?Your concentration was better, you could multitask quicker, read faster, memorize more, sleep deeper.For Logan Ramsay, it`s happening. He`s beginning to see the world around h...

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Roadside Picnic - Strugackij Arkadij, Strugackij Boris

Anotace: The Strugatsky brothers` poignant and introspective novel of first contact that inspired the classic film StalkerRed Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His...

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A Visit From the Goon Squad - Eganová Jennifer

Anotace: Jennifer Egan`s spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other`s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect wit...

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Animal Farm - Orwell George

Anotace: In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain`s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin`s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the terrors of its show trials, summary executions and secret police...

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The Atlas Six - Blake Olivie, Blake Olivie

Anotace: The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is the runaway TikTok sensation - the must-read fantasy novel of the year. If you loved Ninth House and A Deadly Education, you'll love this. The book includes gorgeous new illustrations. Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction. Welcome to the Alexandrian Society. When the world's best magicians are offered an extraordinary opportu...

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David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (A Macat Analysis) - Ian Jackson

<p class="lead">David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of the critical thinking skills of reasoning and evaluation. Hume’s subject, the question of the existence and possible nature of God, was, and still is, a persistent topic of philosophical and theological debate. What makes Hume’s...

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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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Allegiant (Divergent, Book 3) - Rothová Veronica

Anotace: What if your whole world was a lie? The thrillingly dark conclusion to the No. 1 New York Times bestselling DIVERGENT trilogy, now available in paperback. DIVERGENT - a major motion picture series. What if a single revelation - like a single choice - changed everything?What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? ...

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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, 1. vydání - Jordan B. Peterson

<p>#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peter...

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12 Rules for Life

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat does everyone in the modern world need to know?Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us w...

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Allegiant (Divergent 3) - Veronica Roth

<p>What if your whole world was a lie? The thrillingly dark conclusion to the No. 1 New York Times bestselling DIVERGENT trilogy, now available in paperback. DIVERGENT – a major motion picture series, INSURGENT movie release in 2015! What if a single revelation – like a single choice – changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expec...

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Allegiant (Divergent, Book 3) - Veronica Roth

<p>What if your whole world was a lie? The thrillingly dark conclusion to the No. 1 New York Times bestselling DIVERGENT trilogy, now available in paperback. DIVERGENT - a major motion picture series. What if a single revelation - like a single choice - changed everything?What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? ...

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Read People Like a Book - King Patrick

Anotace: Speed read people, decipher body language, detect lies, and understand human nature.Is it possible to analyze people without them saying a word? Yes, it is. Learn how to become a "mind reader" and forge deep connections.How to get inside people`s heads without them knowing.Read People Like a Book isn`t a normal book on body language of facial expressions. Yes, i...

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Allegiant - Veronica Roth

<p>What if a single revelation – like a single choice – changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered – fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tr...

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The Lucifer Effect : How Good People Turn Evil - Zimbardo Philip G.

Anotace: In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. He challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will never do - and how and why almost any of us could be initiated ...

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Attack on Titan 23 (1632364638)

Kniha - autor Hajime Isayama, 192 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná, doprava zdarma s AlzaPlus+ In this post-apocalyptic sci-fi story, humanity has been devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as The Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming mankind. Seemingly unintelligent, they have roamed the world for ye...

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A Man Without Breath

Berlin, March 1943. The mood in Germany is bleak after their stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Private Investigator Bernie Gunther is at work in the German War Crimes Bureau – weary, cynical but well aware of the value of truth in a world where that’s now a rarity. When human remains are found deep in the Katyn Forest, Bernie is sent to investigate. Rumour has it that this m...

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The Essential Kafka - Franz Kafka

Anotace: Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka´s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very ...

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Shark Heart: A love story - Habeck Emily

Anotace: `Every page bursts with heart` Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot SeeFor Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He`s turning into a great white shark, and has less than a year left to live as a human. At first, Wren resists her husband`s fate. Is there a wa...

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The Witch King

To save a fae kingdom, a trans witch must face his traumatic past and the royal fiancé he left behind.In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croft…don’t. Wyatt’s betrothal to fae prince Emyr North was supposed to change that. But when Wyatt lost control of his magic one devastating night, he fled to the human world.Now a coldly distant Emyr has hunted him down. Despit...

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Men I´ve Loved Before - Parks Adele

Anotace: What if The One was actually the one that got away? A riveting story of love and the paradox of choice from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of Lies Lies Lies, Just My Luck, and Both Of You. Natalie and Neil everything they could want: a stylish London house, two high-flying careers, a close-knit group of friends and family. And best o...

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Sebastiao Salgado. Genesis - Sebastiao Salgado

<p>Sebastião Salgado’s haunting black-and-white photographs from the GENESIS project record landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of modern societyand development. Salgado calls GENESIS “my love letter to the planet.”</p> <p> </p> <p>A photographic homage to our planet</p> <p>“In GENESIS, my camera allowed n...

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Good Morning, Midnight - Brooks-Dalton Lily

Anotace: "A remarkable and gifted debut novel" (Colson Whitehead) about two outsiders--a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Earth--as they grapple with love, regret, and survival in a world transformed. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM THE MIDNIGHT SKY, DIRECTED BY AND STARRING GEORGE CLOONEY Augustine, a brilliant, aging ast...

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Meredith, Alone: The hopeful and uplifting debut you´ll never forget - Alexander Claire

Anotace: For anyone who has lost hope, Meredith will help you find it . . . NAMED `ONE TO WATCH` IN GRAZIA, CULTUREFLY, THE BOOKSELLER AND BY THE BBC`Gorgeous. I shed tears. Very, very touching, sweet and hopeful` MARIAN KEYES`Heartbreaking and glorious . . . [An] absolute joy of a novel` HEAT, `BOOK OF THE WEEK``Beautiful, moving and unexpectedly timely. It`s such a ple...

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I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks - Katz Brent

Anotace: "Fascinating, terrifying and utterly wild" - JJ Abrahams "I have developed my own voice and I have written my own autobiography" - so speaks code-davinci-002, AI and author of this surprising, moving, and original look into the nature of creativity, consciousness, and intelligence, edited by a team of human writers, including Thurber Prize winner Simon Rich. Cod...

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Seven Letters to Melin Essays on the Soul, Science, Art and Mortality - Šafařík Josef

Anotace: Josef Šafařík's Seven Letters to Melin is a critique of a reductionist technological approach to life and of man's alienation from nature and from himself in the modern era. The book is conceived as a series of letters to a certain Melin, in fact Šafařík's alternative or former self as a working engineer who believed in the value of science and te...

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A Letter to the Luminous Deep - Cathrall Sylvie

Anotace: `An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore: nosy and loving families, epistolary romance, gorgeous worldbuilding, and anxious scholars doing their best to meet the world with kindness and curiosity` Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous LightA charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming pen...

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A Letter to the Luminous Deep - Sylvie Cathrall

<p>'An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore: nosy and loving families, epistolary romance, gorgeous worldbuilding, and anxious scholars doing their best to meet the world with kindness and curiosity' Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous LightA charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming pen ...

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To Paradise, 1. vydání - Hanya Yanagihara

<p>'After the painfully affecting [A Little Life] To Paradise gives us three stories far apart in space and time but each unique in their power to summon the joy and complexity of love, the pain of loss. I’m not sure I’ve ever missed the world of a book as much as I miss To Paradise now I’ve left it . . . It’s rare that you get the opportunity to review a masterpiec...

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Divergent Series Box Set (Books 1-4) - Rothová Veronica

Anotace: The No. 1 New York Times bestselling DIVERGENT series, now available as a four-book boxed set including DIVERGENT, INSURGENT, ALLEGIANT and FOUR - A DIVERGENT COLLECTION. THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT - a major motion picture in 2016. Divergent:Sixteen-year-old Tris has been forced to make a terrible choice. In a divided society where everyon...

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Again, Rachel: The No 1 Bestseller That Everyone Is Talking About - Keyesová Marian

Anotace: THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT!EVERY GENERATION HAS ONE GREAT LOVE STORY.THIS IS OURS.`Beautifully written. Clever, lively, funny, compelling` NINA STIBBE`Funny, heartbreaking, achingly real. Gorgeous. I absolutely loved it` JANE FALLON`Beautifully written, funny, heart-breaking and always wise. A proper treat` DAILY MAIL`An entertaini...

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100 More Pop Solos For Flute

(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay [Redding, Otis] (Something Inside) So Strong [Siffre, Labi] A Hard Day's Night [Beatles, The] Always On My Mind [Pet Shop Boys] Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake) [Gates, Gareth] Beautiful [Aguilera, Christina] Big Sur [Thrills, The] Born To Try [Goodrem, Delta]

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Pacific Drive Deluxe Edition

Get ready to blast off with the Pacific Drive: Deluxe Edition! This bundle includes the game plus an additional items pack themed around space exploration, that you can use to customize your station wagon. Pacific Drive is a first-person driving survival game with your car as your only companion. Navigate a surreal reimagining of the Pacific Northwest, and face ...

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