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When he was twenty-seven, Henry Molaison underwent surgery for his epilepsy. He awoke with part of his brain destroyed, and…

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Challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. This work revives the…

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The Anglo-Zulu war was one of deception, dishonour, incompetence and dereliction of duty by Lord Chelmsford who invaded…

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Includes poems that represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing and are imbued with the symbols and metaphors that…

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Produkt Unforbidden Pleasures - Phillips, Adam zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completely nonsensical. First published…

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Have you ever listened to an incredible piece of music and wondered exactly why it makes you want to dance or cry? Are you…

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Follows pure and pious Father Julian Alvarez, who is sent to a remote country estate to put the affairs of the marquis, an…

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The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the…

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Tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius.…

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Produkt Seven Viking Romances zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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Produkt Humanise - Heatherwick, Thomas zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the…

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A collection of letters that forms a day-by-day account of the author's writing of "East of Eden". It features many subjects…

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Is life written into the laws of nature, or just a bizarre accident, unique in the universe? How can a mix of non-living…

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• Rok vydání 1982

Settled into the drowsy village life of Laddenham, where she is playing camp follower to her highly successful husband -…

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The fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to an exhausted army of Western European soldiers was one of the extraordinary events of the…

Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or…

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Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and…

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Returning to Russia from Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There, he encounters…

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A novel about London - its past, its people, and its underbelly. It combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper…

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Includes the 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in English translations. This volume includes these plays - Cinna,…

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A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences…

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

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Produkt Voyage of Argo - Rhodes, Apollonius zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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Produkt Churchill - Johnson, Paul zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Putnam Inc.…

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Skirting the line between recipe-book, memoir, history and philosophy, this collection of dishes, experiences, reflections,…

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Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience. Bizarre, witty, sad, sometimes caustic, her…

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Based on a study in Russian and many other foreign archives, this title explains why this suicidal decision was made and…

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Traditional meetings reduce efficiency, kill urgency, and breed compromise and complacency. This book features eight…

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Describes the background of Menander's plays, and provides notes along with new translations of more than fifteen of his…

\nIncludes the plays \"Heracles\", \"Iphigenia Among the Taurians\", \"Helen\", \"Ion\", and \"Cyclops\".\n…

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The author and his wife are the proud owners of a small zoo on the island of Jersey. But there's one thing that's better…

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Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the…

Brings together the works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes\' Birds, and Menander\'s The Girl…

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• Rok vydání 1992

Thady Quirk, steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a story of four generations of a dying dynasty…

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A selection of the earliest poems in English comprising works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited…

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Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured…

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Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins. She exploits the attentions of four very different suitors.…

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Tells the story of solitary young farmer, Sam Marsdyke, and his extraordinary battle with the world. Expelled from school…

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• Rok vydání 1990

Shatters various images of Andre Gide as the querulous and impious Buddha to a quarter-century of intellectuals.…

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A story with elaborate imagery, sardonic humour and an unforgettable gallery of grotesques - which describes a journey to…

Charlie Mortdecai (and his intrepid moustache) is invited to Oxford to investigate the cruel and most definitely unusual…

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Taliesin Jones is a boy on the brink of adulthood, faced for the first time with life's biggest questions. Taliesin's life…

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Horace Rumpole is not overfond of the rituals of Christmas: turkey, tinsel and the like. But happily the festive season is…

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• Rok vydání 1984

Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left…

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Throws a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, this…

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Examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path. The author…