Kultura a zábava

• Rok vydání 2022

A chronicle of one of London's most remarkable streets, Brick Lane. It attempts to bring to life the memories and realities…

• Čeština

An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War…

Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She…

An historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944.…

Features a poem expressing tortured feelings of alienation and dislocation. This book also offers translations of the poet's…

Awkward teachers, pompous school governors and fearsome lollipop ladies occasionally make the author's hectic job as a…

• Thriller

When a hurricane unexpectedly blows up off the coast of Nicaragua, a giant floating hotel lies in its path. With no escape…

Discusses the author's journey, telling how he went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang his head off in their…

• Počet stran 240
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2024

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply…

Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and still single, seems destined for spinsterhood. In her youth, she broke off an engagement to…

• Rok vydání 2016

• Čeština

Drawing on a cache of personal documents, the author retraces Bruno Langbehn's journey from disillusioned adolescent to SS…

Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage…

With Baudelaire's critical intelligence as his inspiration, the author ranges through his life and work, focusing on two…

• Thriller

In a Norwegian glacier during World War Two a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery - the most legendary ship of all…

Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both…

In the first years of the thirteenth century Villehardouin served as an envoy in the Fourth Crusade. Half a century later,…

Brings together some of the author's works contributing to our understanding of the minds of children. This title includes…

When Nora Fischer stumbles, quite literally, into a magical world where everyone is glamorous and life is one long party,…

• Rok vydání 2012

• Rok vydání 2021

• Rok vydání 2011

Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw him…

The Upanishads represent for the Hindu approximately what the New Testament represents for the Christian. The earliest of…

• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 2020

• Rok vydání 2019

During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way…

Explains the moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, war and other life-or-death…

Offers advice to women of various ages and levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. This work paints…

If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting…

Why do people cluster together in neighborhoods? How do internet communities spring up from nowhere? Why is a brain…

• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 2011

The Campus was secretly created by President Jack Ryan to covertly eliminate terrorists. Now it faces its greatest threat: a…

• Rok vydání 1980

The early 1980s in Britain were a time of hope, and of dread: of Cold War tension and imminent conflict, when crowds in the…

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• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2010

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and…

• Počet stran 400
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2025
• Brožovaná

A richly told tale of tangled loyalties. French ratchets up the tension in increments . . . By the end, these characters…