Writer and the world

Writer and the World

Concentrating mainly on India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, this wonderful collection of essays is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduction

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Jane Austen: Writer in the World

This collection of essays offers an intimate history of AustenÂ’s art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in

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How to Rule the World: A Writer's Guide to Worldbuilding

So you want to know how to rule the world, do you? Well, you could attempt to amass a huge army and take over our world one country at a time. Or perhaps you could do it the easy way: create your own. All stories rely on good worldbuilding, whether they ar

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21 Days to Awaken the Writer Within

Discover insightful guidance, tools and techniques to become a skilled writer and learn how to share your work with the world. This 21-day guide to st

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Tričko Death Note - The Greatest Writer in the World (velikost S)

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Tričko Death Note - The Greatest Writer in the World (velikost M)

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Tričko Death Note - The Greatest Writer in the World (velikost XL)

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Tričko Death Note - The Greatest Writer in the World (velikost L)

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Difuzed Tričko Death Note - The Greatest Writer in the World (velikost S)

Parádní bílé tričko s potiskem na hrudi a na zádech s oblíbeným Ryukem z anime a mangy Death Note (Zápisník smrti)! Materiál: 100% bavlna

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Difuzed Tričko Death Note - The Greatest Writer in the World (velikost M)

Parádní bílé tričko s potiskem na hrudi a na zádech s oblíbeným Ryukem z anime a mangy Death Note (Zápisník smrti)! Materiál: 100% bavlna

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Difuzed Tričko Death Note - The Greatest Writer in the World (velikost L)

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Difuzed Tričko Death Note - The Greatest Writer in the World (velikost XL)

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A Walk In The Woods: The World´s Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike - Bryson Bill

Anotace: In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world.

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Come Fly the World

Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.

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Come Fly the World

Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.

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Bitch

the English-language debut of an outstanding Colombian writer about the many meanings of motherhood and love.

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Description of the World

Composed in a prison cell in 1298 by Venetian merchant Marco Polo and Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa, The Description of the World

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Way of the World

Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, this volume tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enh

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Through The Remembered Gate

Stephen Chalke's unlikely story of how he became an award-winning cricket writer and publisher, exploring the world of his childhood through the memor

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

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

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

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

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Sweet Indifference of the World

A miniature masterpiece from acclaimed writer Peter Stamm, in which he asks unsettling questions about destiny and desire.

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To the End of the World

The extraordinary and outrageous memoir from award-winning writer and actor Rupert Everett

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To the End of the World

The extraordinary and outrageous memoir from award-winning writer and actor Rupert Everett

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Man Who Ate the World

Award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster Jay Rayner takes on the world in this witty and erudite account of his search for the perfect dinner

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Scott Pilgrim vs The World

The second installment in the brilliant ‘Scott Pilgrim’ graphic novel series from Bryan Lee O’Malley, writer of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off – now a ma

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History of the First World War

The most influential British military writer of his time' The Spectator

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On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag - Susan Sontag

‘A brilliant, glittering intelligence’ Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deservesWritten during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in ...

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Mythology of the World, Illustrated Encyclopedia of

A volume of unprecedented scale from one of the most respected academic and writer on comparative mythology, sumptuously illustrated throughout.

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Ten Drinks That Changed the World

From Vodka to Soju, Absinth to Tequila, bartender, poet and writer Seki Lynch explores the origins, recipes and drinkers of the world's most popular s

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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway´s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 - Nicholas E. Reynolds

<p>While he was the historian at the esteemed CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime American intelligence officer, former U.S. Marine colonel, and Oxford-trained historian, began to uncover clues suggesting Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway was deeply involved in mid-twentieth-century spycraft -- a mysterious and shocking relationship that was far mo...

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The Best of World SF - Lavie Tidhar

<p>The third annual instalment to the 'excellent, lovingly curated' (Financial Times) The Best of World SF series The Best of World SF series is a fixture on the global science fiction scene. If you want to find the most exciting SF authors writing today, look no further. In this third instalment, you'll discover alien artists, rioting dinosaurs, shape-shifting rabb...

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My Garden World

The Sunday Times bestseller. A year at home in the country with Monty Don - the UK's favourite gardener, dog owner, writer and broadcaster - on a pers

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One World, Many Colours

A lyrical and vibrant exploration of the world told through the spectrum of colour, from travel writer Ben Lerwill and with stunning illustrations by

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World of Yesterday

Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividl

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World in a Wineglass

Beloved wine critic and writer Ray Isle does for wine what Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma did for food, giving readers the tools they need to

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Why This World

Tells how Clarice Lispector through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer, and asserts, for the first time,

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home: ´The most irresistible contemporary American writer.´ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - Lorrie Moore

<p>'America's first lady of darkness and mirth.' Guardian'The best American writer of her generation.' Nick Hornby 'Unmissable.' Marie ClaireFrom one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise.High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping f...

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World I Fell Out Of

The Sunday Times Bestseller From the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny,

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Applied Psychology of - The secret world of architects - Karel Smejkal

<p>The first book on the psychology of architecture.</p><p>During ten years, the author met architects from more than 140 countries, but there was not one among them who could answer the question of what is the psychology of architecture. So he decided to return to university, assemble a research team in Applied Psychology of Architecture, and define and...

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. It is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his p

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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - McCullers Carson

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Callum's Spellbook (In-World Character Handbook)

Based on the hit Netflix show from the head writer of Avatar: TheLast Airbender, this humorous, in-world notebook has everythinga fan needs to know ab

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The Messenger - Silva Daniel

Anotace: Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer - photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever, straight at the heart of the Vatican. Allon warns the Pope`s private ...

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The Masque of the Red Death - Poe Edgar Allan

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Lucy by the Sea: From the Booker-shortlisted author of Oh William! - Stroutová Elizabeth

Anotace: `A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own` Hilary Mantel FROM THE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR `It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us`In March 2020 Lucy Barton`s ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agre...

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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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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food - Dunlop Fuchsia

Anotace: `A brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force` Claudia Roden`Fuchsia Dunlop is one of the world`s best writers on Chinese food` Ken Hom CBE The epic tale of the world`s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishesChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn ...

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The Chain

A high concept thriller masterpiece by a world class writer: it doesn't get any better than THE CHAIN.

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Greek Lessons - Kang Han

Anotace: Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, Kirkus A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian.`Breathtaking . . . She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with` Max PorterIn a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek la...

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Moonlight - Miles Sian

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Dream Story - Schnitzler Arthur

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Breakfast at Tiffany´s - Capote Truman

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and...

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Metamorphosis - Kafka Franz

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Kayak: Out Of This World - CD (0194398540924)

Hudební CD - Skupina Kayak a jejich 18.album Out Of This World z roku 2021. Skupina Kayak a jejich 18.album Out Of This World z roku 2021. Rok vydání : 2021 (18.album) Seznam stop CD Out Of This World / Waiting / Under A Scar / Kaja / Mystery / Critical Mass / As The Crow Flies / The Way She Said Goodbye / Traitor's Gate / Distance To Your Heart / Red Rag To A Bu...

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More Than You´ll Ever Know - Gutierrez Katie

Anotace: Lore Rivera was married to two men at once, until on a baking hot day in 1986, one of them found out and shot the other. A secret double life, a tragic murder. That`s the story the world knows.It`s not the story that fascinates Cassie Bowman.Carrying the weight of her own family tragedy, true-crime writer Cassie wants to know more about the mysterious woman at t...

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Liberation Day : Stories - Saunders George, Saunders George

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

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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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Unstoppable: The Ultimate Biography of Three-Time F1 World Champion Max Verstappen - Hughes Mark

Anotace: WATERSTONES` BEST BOOKS OF 2023: SPORTA definitive and intriguing biography of Max Verstappen, Formula 1`s superstar, Lewis Hamilton`s great rival and the three-time winner of the World Drivers` Championship.No Hollywood scriptwriter could possibly have envisioned the breathless, adrenaline-pumping climax to the 2021 Formula 1 season. On the very last lap of the...

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