When modern was green

When Modern Was Green

Using Leberecht Migge (modernist landscape architect) as a base, Haney creates a comprehensive history of German ecological design. Linking with moder

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When the Sahara Was Green

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TEMPTING FATE - Green Jane

When Gabby first met Elliott she knew he was the man for her. In twenty years of marriage she has never doubted her love for him, but Gabby feels that time and her youth are slipping away. For the fir

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The Bridegroom Was a Dog - Tawada Yoko

Anotace: A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of TokyoMitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose h...

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The Bridegroom Was a Dog - Yoko Tawada

<p>A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose ...

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I Was Born For This (000824409X)

Kniha - autor Alice Oseman, 394 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The third novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman - one of the most talked about YA writers in recent years. For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark - a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything s...

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I Was Born for This - Alice Osemanová

Anotace: The third novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman - one of the most talked about YA writers in recent years. For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark - a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything she loves - her friend Juliet, her dreams, her place in the world...

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I Was Born for This - Alice Oseman

<p>The third novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman – one of the most talked about YA writers in recent years.</p> <p>For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark – a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything she loves – her friend Juliet, her dreams, her place...

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Nora: A Doll's House (NHB Modern Plays)

Henrik Ibsen's brutal portrayal of womanhood caused outrage when it was first performed in 1879. This bold new version by Stef Smith reframes the dram

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Self-Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe

In early modern Europe there were cases - specifically in England and Germany - when the idea of "self-defence" was used as a justification for what s

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When Grumpy Met Sunshine: A steamy opposites-attract Cinderella-inspired rom-com - Charlotte Stein

<p>'A hilarious and modern Cinderella story that feels like eating warm chocolate cake' - Talia Hibbert, author of Get a Life, Chloe BrownFinding love was not the only goal . . .When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he knows he's never going to be able to write them. He hates revealing a single thing about himself, is allerg...

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Electric Universe : How Electricity Switched on the Modern World - Bodanis David

Anotace: For centuries, electricity was viewed as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention, transforming our world. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything ...

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Electric Universe : How Electricity Switched on the Modern World - David Bodanis

<p>For centuries, electricity was viewed as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention, transforming our world. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything f...

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Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind - Tallis Frank

Anotace: Like Sarah Bakewell`s How to Live and Andrea Wulf`s Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideasSome cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine all their ri...

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Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind - Frank Tallis

<p>Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideasSome cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine all their riv...

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BLACK CAT READERS GREEN APPLE EDITION 1 - JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS + CD-ROM

When he was very young, Jason

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The Friends We Keep - Jane Green

<p>As seen on The Today Show! The Friends We Keep is the heartwarming and unforgettable New York Times bestselling novel from Jane Green, author of The Sunshine Sisters and The Beach House. Evvie, Maggie, and Topher have known one another since college. Their friendship was something they swore would last forever. Now years have passed, the friends have drifted apar...

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BLACK CAT READERS GREEN APPLE EDITION 1 - ROBINSON CRUSOE + CD-ROM

When Robinson Crusoe tells his parents that he wants to go to sea they don’t want him to go, but he ignores their wishes and joins a ship. This is just the beginning of his many adventures at sea, which end with him being shipwrecked on a desert island. Considered the first English novel, Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, was based on a real-life story.

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Power Rangers Socha 1/4 Green Ranger PCS Exclusive 58 cm

When the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers burst onto television screens in 1993, they were five brightly colored heroes led by the valiant Red Ranger, but it wasn't long before a sixth ranger was introduced. Initially a villain, the Green Ranger stole the show, and his evolution into a hero and eventual leader of the Power Rangers team remains the series most popular storyli...

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : With Pearl and Sir Orfeo - Tolkien J. R. R.

Anotace: This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete version of Tolkien`s acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight an...

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

<p>This elegant deluxe slipcased edition of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour, features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl ar...

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : With Pearl and Sir Orfeo - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

<p>This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete version of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...

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Home Brewed Beers and Stouts

This was the first modern book on home brewing and was an instant success when it was first published in 1963. This latest edition contains informatio

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Tropical Arctic

An illustrated visit to the tropical arctic of 205 million years ago when Greenland was green.

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Second Life

The groundbreaking first modern novel to address the scandal of Irish Magdalene laundries when it was firstpublished.

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Poems

J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. When his Poems was first published in 1999, it was acclaimed as a landmark in modern poetry. It

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Outsiders Hardcover educational edition

An American modern classic of gritty realism, written from S. E. Hinton’s own personal experience when she was just 17. Â

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Darwin's Wager

When the father of modern evolutionary biology asked the world's largest university press to publish a popular-level expose of Darwin's wager, he was

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Collected Poems

A collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets, the master of lyrical meditation, first published in 1955, when Stevens was seventy-five

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Inside the Hermit Kingdom

Inside the Hermit Kingdom charts the history of Albanian football from 1945 to 1991, when the country was ruled by modern Europe's most brutal and opp

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One Love, One Life

WHEN legendary music journalist Billy Sloan was fifteen years old he saw The Who play an incendiary live show at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow.

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Elsie and Mairi Go to War

When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Ma

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Anne of Ingleside

Anne, now Mrs Doctor Blythe, is still sometimes as impetuous as when she was the girl from Green Gables. But with six lively children and hard-worked

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Trotula

The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Green here presents the first modern English translation of th

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Within the Frame

When Within the Frame was first published in 2009, it received high praise for both its practical teaching and its humanity. Ten years later, it is a best-selling modern classic and a must-read. Author David duChemin's masterful and balanced

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Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

<p>Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect. Written when Mary Shelley was only 20 years old, Frankenstein has been hailed as both a landmark of Gothic horror ficti...

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The Cost of Living (0241977568)

Kniha - autor Deborah Levy, 128 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná What does it mean to be free - as an artist, a woman, a mother or daughter? And what is the price of that freedom? In this dazzling memoir, Deborah Levy confronts the essential questions of modern womanhood with humour, pragmatism, and profoundly resonant wisdom. Reflecting on the period when s...

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The Girl Who Became A Fish: Maiden´s Bookshelf - Osamu Dazai

<p>What dark fate awaits beneath the roaring falls? Suwa and her father live alone on the slopes of Horsebare Mountain, eking out the most meager of existences. During the warmer months the beautiful waterfall brings a few sightseers, but when winter comes there is only solitude. Suwa would do anything to escape the life to which her father has resigned himself. An...

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Life on Earth - neuveden

Anotace: Updated edition of David Attenborough`s groundbreaking Life on Earth. David Attenborough`s unforgettable meeting with gorillas became an iconic moment for millions of television viewers. Life on Earth, the series and accompanying book, fundamentally changed the way we view and interact with the natural world setting a new benchmark of quality, influencing a gene...

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Life On Earth - neuveden

Anotace: A new, beautifully illustrated edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth. David Attenborough's unforgettable meeting with gorillas became an iconic moment for millions of television viewers. Life on Earth, the series and accompanying book, fundamentally changed the way we view and interact with the natural world setting a new benchma...

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Life on Earth - David Attenborough

<p>Updated edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth. David Attenborough's unforgettable meeting with gorillas became an iconic moment for millions of television viewers. Life on Earth, the series and accompanying book, fundamentally changed the way we view and interact with the natural world setting a new benchmark of quality, influencing a gene...

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Level 1: John Lennon audio CD pack/Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles - Raynham Alex

Anotace: Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. One day, I`m going to be famous,` John Lennon said when he was young - and soon he was! His band The Beatles became one of the greatest in the world, and people loved them. After John Lennon went s...

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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles 1 John Lennon (New Edition) - Alex Raynham

<p>Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. One day, I'm going to be famous,' John Lennon said when he was young - and soon he was! His band The Beatles became one of the greatest in the world, and people loved them. After John Lennon went so...

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Where Is Anne Frank - Ari Folman

<p>A beautifully designed graphic novel bringing to life Kitty, Anne Frank’s imaginary confidant, as she searches for her missing friend in the modern world. I had no clue when I came back to life, or how it happened. I just know there was a terrible storm outside the house . . . It's the middle of the night at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, when a thunderbolt s...

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The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series) (1784871931)

Kniha - autor Mikhail Bulgakov, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná THE ORIGINAL AND BEST TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL GLENNY 50th Anniversary Edition. Afterwards, when it was frankly too late, descriptions were issued of the man: expensive grey suit, grey beret, one green eye and the other black. He arrives in Moscow one hot summer afternoon with various alarming accomplic...

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The Flash Socha Flash 69 cm

Prime 1 Studio is proud to present MMDCTV-01: The Flash from a modern reimagining of the DC Comics series, The Flash TV series. Bartholomew Henry Barry Allen was struck by lightning, falling comatose for nine months. When he woke up from his coma, he discovered that he had developed superhuman speed and various other abilities derived from it. Using these super powers, he...

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Marvel Retro Akční figurka Thor Limited Edition Collector Set 20

Forsooth, the Odinson approacheth! Capturing Marvel's God of Thunder in all his 1970s glory, this retro-style action figure set features a cloth-costumed Thor just as he looked when he was released by the Mego Corporation in his first action figure appearance! With his hammer, helmet, and long golden hair, Thor comes packaged inside a vintage-style window box. Thor also c...

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Frankenstein (0141198966)

Kniha - autor Mary Shelley, 268 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes no...

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The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text - Franz Kafka

<p>A brilliant translation of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, revealing a tale that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written. From the author of The Metamorphosis.Written in 1914, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend hims...

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Neon Gods - Robert Katee

Anotace: He was supposed to be a myth.But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell...he was, quite simply, mine.*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that`s as sinful as it is sweet.*Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of t...

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Cost of Living

From the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home :Dazzling, essential, entirely unlike anything else -- a memoir on modern womanhood, rejecting oppressive social expectations and turning instead towards a thrilling, transformative freedomWhat does it mean to be free - as an artist, a woman, a mother or daughter? And what is the price of tha...

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Neon Gods - Katee Robert

<p>He was supposed to be a myth. But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell...he was, quite simply, mine. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that's as sinful as it is sweet.* Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics ...

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Agatha Christie: Radio 4 Book of the Week - Worsleyová Lucy

Anotace: ** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **`A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse`- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR`A riveting portrait` - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***`Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.` - The Times`A model of how to combine biographical information, analy...

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Agatha Christie: Radio 4 Book of the Week - Lucy Worsleyová

<p>** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times'A model of how to combine biographical information, analys...

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Jack Splash - Daley Tom

Anotace: A funny and fantastical adventure from Olympian Tom Daley all about perseverance, friendship and positivity. Written in collaboration with children`s author, Simon James Green. With gorgeous illustrations by Luna Valentine. Jack really wants to impress his diving coach dad ... there`s just one problem. Jack is the worst diver in the wor...

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My Beloved World

The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the powe...

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The Little Paris Kitchen : Classic French recipes with a fresh and fun approach - Khoo Rachel

Anotace: Rachel Khoo was determined to get to grips with French cooking, so to learn more she moved to Paris, not speaking a word of French, and enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu, the world-famous cookery school. From a Croque Madame muffin and the classic Boeuf bourguignon, to a deliciously fragrant Provencal lavender and lemon roast chicken, Rachel celebrates the culinary lan...

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Running Away for Beginners - Illis Mark

Anotace: You can`t run from bad news. Or can you? Jasper was just diagnosed with cancer. His treatment starts in a week, and in the meantime his parents want him to carry on as normal. Jasper knows that`s impossible. His friends help to organize a weekend trip to get away from everything that`s happened and clear his mind. It`ll be like running ...

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Running Away for Beginners - Mark Illis

<p>You can't run from bad news. Or can you? Jasper was just diagnosed with cancer. His treatment starts in a week, and in the meantime his parents want him to carry on as normal. Jasper knows that's impossible. His friends help to organize a weekend trip to get away from everything that's happened and clear his mind. It'll be like ru...

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Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk 3 - Less Than Monster, More Than Man - Lee Stan

Anotace: When a time-travel device throws the Hulk into the distant future, he does what Hulks always do: smash! Past, present or future, the Hulk will fight. But when the green goliath returns to the present, he discovers that Rick Jones - thinking he was dead - has revealed to the world that Bruce Banner is the Hulk! As if that wasn`t trouble enough, Hercules hits the ...

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