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Winter Book
A collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the 20th century, this
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Mapping Spaces of Translation in Twentieth-Century Latin American Print Culture
This book reflects on translation praxis in 20th century Latin American print culture, tracing the trajectory of linguistic heterogeneity in the regio
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Game Of Hide And Seek
An intelligent, haunting love story, with echoes of Brief Encounter, by one of the best British writers of the 20th century.
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Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories
An anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers which is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories.
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Babylon Revisited - Fitzgerald Francis Scott
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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Passing - Larsen Nella
Anotace: Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to reassess their marriages, the lies they have told - and to confront the secret...
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Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces - Dominic Bradbury
<p> An innovative and original survey of the best Mid-Century Modern architecture from around the world </p> <p>Featuring 450 of the very best works of Mid-Century Modern architecture from every continent, the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces showcases how the architects of the time harnessed the post-war boom and increasing globalization to cre...
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The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the 20th Century until today. As an engaging and thoroughly detailed account of the influence of exile upon American psychoanalysis, this book will be of as much interest to scholars of history and twentieth-century culture as to p...
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The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the 20th Century until today. As an engaging and thoroughly detailed account of the influence of exile upon American psychoanalysis, this book will be of as much interest to scholars of history and twentieth-century culture as to p...
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Japanese-American Literature through the Prism of Acculturation Taylor & Francis Ltd
The 20th century reality in the Unites States was harsh for Japanese immigrants who attempted to settle down and follow their dreams in the new land. This book delves not only into the painful past of the Japanese immigrants and their immediate descendants but also illustrates a wide array of Japanese customs that the immigrants brought with them as their rich cultural le...
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The Little Big Book of Legs - Dian Hanson
<p>Over 150 of the best photos from the original volume are now in this compact book. From Betty Grable to Bettie Page, the greatest legs of the 20th Century are here, shot by Irving Klaw, Bunny Yeager and Elmer Batters.Silk stockings, high heels, curvy calves, taut thighs, playful toes – and no troublesome text – could leg love get any sweeter?</p> <p>L...
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American Cut Glass Industry and T.g. Hawkes
The purpose of this work is to present information about the late-19th- and early-20th-century cut-glass industry in Corning, New York. The book focus
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The Art of War Illustrated - Sun Tzu
<p>If you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win numerous battles without a single loss. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still used as a book of military strategy today. Napoleon, Mae Zedong and Douglas MacArthur all claimed to have drawn inspiration from it. And beyond the world of war, modern-era busin...
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Madness in the Multitude
This book explores how our conceptions of human security in the latter half of the 20th century, analyzing the debate about how best to promote and ad
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Shadow of Sirius
W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century. At 82, Merwin produced ‘his best book in a decade – and one of t
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The Rise & Fall of Great Powers - Rachman Tom
Anotace: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR - The Seattle Times - The Globe and Mail - Kirkus Reviews - Daily Mail - The Vancouver Sun From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past. Look in the back of the book for a convers...
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The Rise & Fall of Great Powers - Tom Rachman
<p>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - The Seattle Times - The Globe and Mail - Kirkus Reviews - Daily Mail - The Vancouver Sun From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past. Look in the back of the book for a convers...
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50 masterpieces of Czech Fin de Siecle Art from the Collections of the Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen - kolektiv autorů
Anotace: The collection of the fin de siécle art from the collections of the Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen is one of the best in the context of Czech public collections. It includes all the important styles and trends that appeared on the art scene of the time, i.e. naturalism, symbolism, impressionism and art nouveau. Czech art at this time was in the process of int...
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50 masterpieces of Czech Fin de Siecle Art from the Collections of the Gallery of West Bohemia in Pi - kolektiv autorů
<p>The collection of the fin de siécle art from the collections of the Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen is one of the best in the context of Czech public collections. It includes all the important styles and trends that appeared on the art scene of the time, i.e. naturalism, symbolism, impressionism and art nouveau. Czech art at this time was in the process of inte...
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The Postcard: The International Bestseller - Berest Anne
Anotace: A moving novel from the bestselling author of HOW TO BE PARISIAN WHEREVER YOU ARE"A deeply moving book." -LEILA SLIMANI *** "A powerful exploration of family trauma." -LAUREN ELKIN"A work of rare grace and importance."-THE GUARDIANIn January 2003, the Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opera Garnier; on the oth...
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The Postcard: The International Bestseller - Anne Berest
<p>A moving novel from the bestselling author of HOW TO BE PARISIAN WHEREVER YOU ARE "A deeply moving book." -LEILA SLIMANI *** "A powerful exploration of family trauma." -LAUREN ELKIN "A work of rare grace and importance."-THE GUARDIAN In January 2003, the Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image ...
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The Secret Garden (0062692577)
Kniha - autor Frances Hodgson Burnett, 272 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialization in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911). When Mary Lennox, the unloved, contrary and spoiled ten-year-old, is found alone in the deserted house after her pa...
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I Served the King of England : Featuring an Introduction by Adam Thirlwell - Bohumil Hrabal
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL'Our very best writer today' Milan KunderaSparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German ...
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The Art of Pin-up. 40th Anniversary Edition - Dian Hanson
<p>Everyone loves cheesecake! This book features the top 10 pin-up artists of the 20th century, from Enoch Bolles to Gil Elvgren, George Petty, and Alberto Vargas, plus Dian Hanson's history of the art form. Each chapter includes original art and associated calendars, magazine covers, original model photos, and preparatory sketches.</p> <p> </p> &l...
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The Mountains Sing: Runner-up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Phan Que Mai Nguyen
<p>Winner of the 2021 International Book Awards Winner of the 2021 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award Winner of the 2020 Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for Fiction Winner of the Blogger's Book Prize, 2021 * Shortlisted for the People's Book Prize, 2021 'An epic account of Viet Nam's painful 20th-century history, both vast in scope and intimate in ...
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Citizen: My Life After the White House, 1. vydání - Bill Clinton
A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all. On 20th January 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics — eight of them as President of the United States — Bill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen. Only fifty-four years old, full of energy and ideas, he wante...
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Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READ & 100th OPRAH WINFREY BOOK CLUB PICK'Radiant and brilliantly crafted' New York Times-----Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls bring loving chaos to their close-knit Italian American neighbourhood. William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear t...
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Lichtenstein - Janis Hendrickson
<p>Meet the pioneer of Pop art in this introduction to Roy Lichtenstein, whose high-impact cartoon-based images exploded onto the art scene at the end of the 1950s and transformed the notion of fine art forever. Appropriating the form and content of mass media, Lichtenstein reveled in American consumer culture while elevating it for critique at the same time.</p&...
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Jasan Burin architekt: Jistoty a pochyby - Klára Brůhová,Marco Maio,Petr Vorlík
Anotace: Kniha sleduje životní osudy a dílo česko-amerického architekta Jasana Burina (1929). Úvod patří jeho poutavému životnímu příběhu, zaznamenanému formou osobního vyprávění, jádrem knihy nicméně zůstává jeho architektonická práce. Burinova pestrá architektonická tvorba je interpretovaná v kontextu dějin architektury 20. století a představená důkladněji prostřednict...
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Jasan Burin architekt - Jistoty a pochyby / Certainties and doubts - Petr Vorlík
<p>Kniha sleduje životní osudy a dílo česko-amerického architekta Jasana Burina (1929). Úvod patří jeho poutavému životnímu příběhu, zaznamenanému formou osobního vyprávění, jádrem knihy nicméně zůstává jeho architektonická práce. Burinova pestrá architektonická tvorba je interpretovaná v kontextu dějin architektury 20. století a představená důkladněji prostřednictv...
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Steve Schapiro. Andy Warhol and Friends - Steve Schapiro
<p>A front-row view of Andy Warhol’s relentless rise from a cult New York Pop artist to a 20th-century icon, documented by legendary photojournalist Steve Schapiro in more than 120 photos. From working at the Factory to art openings and hanging out with his entourage, including the Velvet Underground in Los Angeles, witness Warhol at the peak of his creativity, cool...
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