Famed Czech Avant-garde photographer Jan Lukas snapped an offhand portrait of twelve-year-old Vendulka Vogl in March 1943. A friend of the Vogls, Lukas was saying goodbye to the family, who were soon to leave Prague for a concentration camp.
Čas. Entita, která naše životy řídí a určuje od nepaměti. Jak se v průběhu doby proměnilo jeho vnímání a měření? Jak došlo k tomu, že „se během posledních dvou set padesáti let stal čas v našem životě tak převládající a naléhavou silou?
CONTENTS Prince Bayaya The Firebird and the clever vixen Mahulena, the beautiful maiden Sternberg About a magic napkin, hat and shoes
The mysterious, brutal, and calculating Kim Jong Un has risen to become the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear rogue state. He now possesses weaponry capable of threatening America and its allies, and his actions have already significantly changed global politics. It's believed that Kim Jong Un is in his thirties, only a few years into what will likely be decades of leadership.
Dielo renomovaného slovenského gastroenterológa doc. Ladislava Kuželu a Zuzany Čižmárikovej Zdravé črevo a trávenie – Mýty verzus fakty poukazuje na skutočnosť, že ľudia sa vo veciach svojho zdravia často riadia mýtmi a dezinformáciami, čo má neraz za následok vážne poškodenie ich zdravia.
This hand-drawn comic book tells the story of Milan Rastislav Štefánik – from his birth until his tragic death. The story reflects historical facts in a way that is attractive for all age groups, especially for children and young people. The first part focuses on his family background, childhood and studies.
Think Game of Thrones meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a drizzle of E.L. James - Telegraph Perfect for fans of Jessica Jones and True Blood, this is a blockbuster modern fantasy set in a divided world where one woman must uncover the truth to seek her revenge. Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life.
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry 'You should read Humankind.
Perfect for fans of the epic fantasy series that inspired HBO's Game of Thrones--a gorgeous boxed set featuring conveniently sized leather-cloth-bound editions of the first five novels!
Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age. Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change.
Mobile architecture in all its wonderful variety - a lively collection of mobile, portable, and movable structures of all kinds Celebrate mobile architecture in all its forms with this visual ode to life on the move.
When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green pills given to her and the other children to keep them subdued.
Madam Walker was the first free-born child in her family, growing up in abject poverty in post-Civil War America. From humble beginnings, she overcame societal prejudice, family betrayals and epic business rivalries to pioneer cosmetics that revolutionised black hair care, build a beauty empire, and become one of the wealthiest self-made women in America.
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
This book, with its own brightly coloured inkpad of seven colours, is bursting with ideas for fingerprinting cats and dogs, puppies and kittens. Each page has step by step instructions, pictures to complete and lots of space for fingerprinting. With a spiral binding so the book lies flat to make it easy for children to create delightful pictures.
Bursting with fun fingerprinting ideas, this colourful activity book comes with its own inkpad of seven bright colours. Decorate the garden scenes with dragonflies, squirrels, birds drinking from a fountain and much more. There are simple instructions showing how to fingerprint each animal and the book has a spiral binding so that it lies flat.
Soubor kapitol odráží stav poznatků o dědičnosti, ke kterým genetická věda dospěla během posledního desetiletí, kdy postupně pronikla prakticky do všech klinických oborů, v nichž pevně zakotvila jako jejich nedílná součást.
Don't miss the first-ever graphic novel for Five Nights at Freddy's, an adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel, The Silver Eyes, illustrated by fan-favourite game artist Claudia Schroeder!
The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything.
'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' Observer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Gradually he learns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most sublime perfumes in France.
