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The Booklover's Library: A Novel - Martin Madelin, Hanover Square Press, 2024

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Martin Madelin

In Nottingham, England, widow Emma Taylor finds herself in desperate need of a job. She and her beloved daughter Olivia have always managed just fine on their own, but with the legal restrictions prohibiting widows with children from most employment...

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331 Kč

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vychází 10. 10. 2024

WORLDBUILDING

EN

Gaming and Art in the Digital Age

WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age examines the relationship between gaming and timebased media art...

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1 283 Kč

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vychází 25. 7. 2024

Odyssey

EN

Stephen Fry

4. díl série

Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years - battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon - to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca...

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542 Kč

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vychází 26. 9. 2024

The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club

EN

Christopher de Hamel

The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge...

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542 Kč

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vychází 19. 9. 2024

Vital Organs

EN

A History of the World's Most Famous Body Parts

Suzie Edge

All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than real flesh and blood. These stories of bodies and its parts remind us that history's most-loved, and most-hated...

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419 Kč

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vychází 18. 7. 2024

The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World

EN

The Great Monuments and How They Were Built

Chris Scarre

Expands on the traditional 'Seven Wonders' to examine an impressive number of ancient marvels from around the globe...

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432 Kč

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vychází 5. 9. 2024

A Pipeline Runs Through It

EN

The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War

Keith Fisher

Petroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extraction from the earth in vast quantities transformed light, heat and power...