The confusions of young torless - john maxwell coetzee

At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their school- fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. First published in 1906. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The luminous new novel from 'one of the best writers of our time', twice winner of the Booker Prize 'The Death of Jesus is full of truth' -- David Sexton, Book of the Week, Evening Standard In The Childhood of Jesus, Simon found a boy, David, and they began life in a new land, together with a woman named Ines. In The Schooldays of Jesus, the small family searched for a home in which David could thrive. In The Death of Jesus, David, now a tall ten-year-old, is spotted by Julio Fabricante, the director of a local orphanage, playing football with his friends. He shows unusual talent. When David announces that he wants to go and live with Julio and the children in his care, Simon and Ines are stunned. David is leaving them, and they can only love him and bear witness. With almost unbearable poignancy J. M. Coetzee explores the meaning of a world empty of memory but brimming with questions. **A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO WATCH OUT FOR IN 2020** (knihydobrovsky.cz)

It is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. It is selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Observer and Daily Telegraph. When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins. David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog Bolivar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it's here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of. In this mesmerising allegorical tale, Coetzee deftly grapples with the big questions of growing up, of what it means to be a parent, the constant battle between intellect and emotion, and how we choose to live our lives. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

This work contains two novellas. In the first, a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War, and in the second, a megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Jaká je hranice mezi lidstvím a barbarstvím? Desítky let byl soudce loajálním úředníkem impéria, staral se o záležitosti malé osady na hranicích a nevěnoval pozornost blížící se válce s barbary. Nicméně když do osady přijedou vyšetřovatelé, stane se svědkem krutého a nespravedlivého jednání s válečnými zajatci. Otřesen tímto zážitkem pocítí soucit s oběťmi a spáchá donkichotskou vzpouru, která z něj udělá nepřítele státu, stejného, jako jsou barbaři. Coetzeeho oceněný román je znepokojivou alegorií války mezi utlačovatelem a utlačovaným. Soudce není jen obyčejný člověk žijící v krizi svědomí na obskurním místě v časech dávno zapomenutých. Reprezentuje všechny lidi žijící v neúnosné spoluvině na režimech, kterým jsou slušnost a spravedlnost cizí. Na které straně stojí barbaři? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist.Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stories. Working alone, the writer is in sole charge of the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates with the patient in telling the story of their life. What kind of truth do the stories created by patient and therapist aim to uncover: objective truth or the shifting and subjective truth of memories explored and re-experienced in the safety of the therapeutic relationship? The authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, the gang, the settler nation where the brutal deeds of the ancestors have to be accommodated into a national story. Drawing on great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky and on psychoanalysts like Freud and Melanie Klein, they offer illuminating insights into the stories we tell of our lives. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

eBook:,Jaká je hranice mezi lidstvím a barbarstvím?Román od držitele Nobelovy ceny za literaturu. Desítky let byl soudce loajálním úředníkem impéria, staral se o záležitosti malé osady na hranicích a nevěnoval pozornost blížící se válce s barbary. Nicméně když do osady přijedou vyšetřovatelé, stane se svědkem krutého a nespravedlivého jednání s válečnými zajatci. Otřesen tímto zážitkem pocítí soucit s oběťmi a spáchá donkichotskou vzpouru, která z něj udělá nepřítele státu, stejného, jako jsou barbaři. Coetzeeho oceněný román je znepokojivou alegorií války mezi utlačovatelem a utlačovaným. Soudce není jen obyčejný člověk žijící v krizi svědomí na obskurním místě v časech dávno zapomenutých. Reprezentuje všechny lidi žijící v neúnosné spoluvině na režimech, kterým jsou slušnost a spravedlnost cizí. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Jaká je hranice mezi lidstvím a barbarstvím? Desítky let byl soudce loajálním úředníkem impéria, staral se o záležitosti malé osady na hranicích a nevěnoval pozornost blížící se válce s barbary. Nicméně když do osady přijedou vyšetřovatelé, stane se svědkem krutého a nespravedlivého jednání s válečnými zajatci. Otřesen tímto zážitkem pocítí soucit s oběťmi a spáchá donkichotskou vzpouru, která z něj udělá nepřítele státu, stejného, jako jsou barbaři. Coetzeeho oceněný román je znepokojivou alegorií války mezi utlačovatelem a utlačovaným. Soudce není jen obyčejný člověk žijící v krizi svědomí na obskurním místě v časech dávno zapomenutých. Reprezentuje všechny lidi žijící v neúnosné spoluvině na režimech, kterým jsou slušnost a spravedlnost cizí. Na které straně stojí barbaři? (patro.cz)

Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this "Definitive Edition" are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted about and tried to cope with her own sexuality. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreements with her mother. And like any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable and more vital than ever.Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. She was thirteen when she went into the Secret Annex with her family. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see. This title expresses many of the political concerns of its time: the Cold War, the fear of biological experimentation and the man-made apocalypse. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Hudební CD - Album The Visitor slavný kytarista natočil se skupinou Promise Of The Real, kterou vede Lukas Nelson, syn country legendy Willieho Nelsona. Kanadský hudebník už s kapelou spolupracoval na desce The Monsanto Years nebo koncertní desce Earth. Album The Visitor slavný kytarista natočil se skupinou Promise Of The Real, kterou vede Lukas Nelson, syn country legendy Willieho Nelsona. Kanadský hudebník už s kapelou spolupracoval na desce The Monsanto Years nebo koncertní desce Earth. Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. Invenční kytarista, skladatel, zpěvák a dnes už také podnikatel v hudebním průmyslu inspiroval celou řadu následovníků. Působil v kapelách Shadows a Buffalo Springfiled, v uskupení Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, ale především se proslavil jako sólový muzikant. Je označován za jednoho z největších rock'n'rollových interpretů a nejrespektovanějších kytaristů. Rok vydání : 2017 Seznam stop CD Already Great / Fly... (alza.cz)

Do you enjoy walking among the trees and watching for forest animals? Do you know how important forests are for our world and our health? This book is about the three main different types of forests, about where you can find them, what the weather is like there and which animals live in and under the trees. It is also an adventure story about two children who overhear plans to destroy a part of their forest and who ask other children to join them to help save it. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 2015. In The Soul of the Marionette, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free wil (knihydobrovsky.cz)

'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

This adventure story tells the beginnings of the legend of Robin Hood, a legend that has fascinated generations of children. It starts when Robin Hood comes home to England after fighting for King Richard the Lionheart. He finds that his house has been taken over by the bad Prince John and his servant the Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin goes into Sherwood Forest where, along with Maid Marion, he forms a band to fight back against the bad Prince and the Sheriff and to defend the poor. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit. Beset by body-double rumors and false alarms during a nine-month search, the Bush administration needed positive identification of the prisoner before it could make the announcement that would rocket around the world. At the time, John Nixon was a senior CIA leadership analyst who had spent years studying the Iraqi dictator. Called upon to make the official ID, Nixon looked for telltale scars and tribal tattoos and asked Hussein a list of questions only he could answer. The man was indeed Saddam Hussein, but as Nixon learned in the ensuing weeks, both he and America had greatly misunderstood just who Saddam Hussein really was. Debriefing the President presents an astounding, candid portrait of one of our era's most notorious strongmen. Nixon, the first man to conduct a prolonged interrogation of Hussein after his capture, offers expert insight into the history and mind of America's most enigmatic enemy. After years of parsing Hussein's leadership from afar, Nixon faithfully recounts his debriefing sessions and subsequently strips away the mythology surrounding an equally brutal and complex man. His account is not an apology, but a sobering examination of how preconceived ideas led Washington policymakers-and Tony Blair's government -astray. Unflinching and unprecedented, Debriefing the President exposes a fundamental misreading of one of the modern world's most central figures and presents a new narrative that boldly counters the received account. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

An old family document says that everyone who l ivesat Baskerville Hall is in danger from a terrifying animal which lives on Dartmoor. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies in a mysterious way, his nephew, the young Sir Henry Baskerville, comes to live on Dartmoor. Is he in danger too? Is there really a dangerous animal on the moor, or did someone murder Sir Charles? Sherlock Holmes, the world-famous detective, is the only person who can solve the case. Or can he? Even Holmes is worried. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Can you imagine being whooshed away by the wind to a magic land of witches and strange characters? Have you ever met Munchkins or Winkies or monkeys with wings and an all powerful wizard? This is the story of how Dorothy made some wonderful friends in a magic land and how she tried to get back home to Kansas. Did she manage? Youll have to read the story to fi nd out! Tags Friendship Fantasy Courage and persistence In this Reader you will find Games and language activities An audio recording of the story A picture dictionary Syllabus Vocabulary areas Colours, clothes, parts of the body, directions Grammar and structures Present simple, Verb infi nitive, Must and have to for obligation, Determiners some any, Adjectives of description and feeling, Prepositions of place (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Hudební CD - Koncertní album zachycující Neila Younga a skupinu Promise Of The Real ve špičkové formě během evropského turné 2019. Koncertní album zachycující Neila Younga a skupinu Promise Of The Real ve špičkové formě během evropského turné 2019. Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. Invenční kytarista, skladatel, zpěvák a dnes už také podnikatel v hudebním průmyslu inspiroval celou řadu následovníků. Působil v kapelách Shadows a Buffalo Springfiled, v uskupení Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, ale především se proslavil jako sólový muzikant. Je označován za jednoho z největších rock'n'rollových interpretů a nejrespektovanějších kytaristů. Rok vydání : 2022 (live) Seznam stop CD Mr. Soul (Live) / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Live) / Helpless (Live) / Field of Opportunity (Live) / Alabama (Live) / Throw Your Hatred Down (Live) / Rockin' in the Free World (Live) / Comes a Time (Live) / From Hank to Hendrix (Live) / On the... (alza.cz)

LP vinyl - Album The Visitor slavný kytarista natočil se skupinou Promise Of The Real, kterou vede Lukas Nelson, syn country legendy Willieho Nelsona. Kanadský hudebník už s kapelou spolupracoval na desce The Monsanto Years nebo koncertní desce Earth. Album The Visitor slavný kytarista natočil se skupinou Promise Of The Real, kterou vede Lukas Nelson, syn country legendy Willieho Nelsona. Kanadský hudebník už s kapelou spolupracoval na desce The Monsanto Years nebo koncertní desce Earth. Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. Invenční kytarista, skladatel, zpěvák a dnes už také podnikatel v hudebním průmyslu inspiroval celou řadu následovníků. Působil v kapelách Shadows a Buffalo Springfiled, v uskupení Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, ale především se proslavil jako sólový muzikant. Je označován za jednoho z největších rock'n'rollových interpretů a nejrespektovanějších kytaristů. Rok vydání : 2017 Rok reedice : 2018 Seznam stop LP 1... (alza.cz)

Kniha - autor Diana Gabaldon, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A collection of Lord John's shorter adventures, as 3 novellas are brought together in one volume. They are "Lord John & The Hellfire Club, LJ & The Succubus" and "LJ & The Haunted Soldier". Sweeping 18th century drama from the "Sunday Times" top 10 author. (alza.cz)

LP vinyl - Desáté album Eltona Johna vydané v roce 1975. Na albu se jako jeden z členů doprovodné kapely objevil slavný skladatel James Newton Howard. Desáté album Eltona Johna vydané v roce 1975. Na albu se jako jeden z členů doprovodné kapely objevil slavný skladatel James Newton Howard. Rok vydání 1975 Reedice 2015 Seznam stop Straan A Medley (Yell Help / Wednesday Night / Ugly) / Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future) / Island Girl / Grow Some Funk Of Your Own / I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford) Strana B Street Kids / Hard Luck Story / Feed Me / Billy Bones And The White Bird (alza.cz)

Hudební CD - Mayall John & The Bluesbreakers a jejich výběr z roku 1998. Mayall John & The Bluesbreakers a jejich výběr z roku 1998. Rok vydání : 1998 (kompilace) Seznam stop CD Mail Order Mystics / Wake Up Call / I Could Cry / Not At Home / When the Devil Starts Crying / Spinning Coin / Ain't No Brakeman / No Big Hurry / Dead City / Stone Gold Deal / Blues For the Lost Days / I Don't Mind / Movin' Groovin' Blues / Fan the Flames (Alternate Take) (alza.cz)

The untold story of the 999 young, unmarried Jewish women who were tricked into boarding a train in Poprad, Slovakia on March 25, 1942 that became the first official transport to Auschwitz.'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline MooreheadOn March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women-many of them teenagers-were sent to Auschwitz. Their government paid 500 Reichsmarks (about 160) apiece for the Nazis to take them as slave labour. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few would survive.The facts of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant today. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war. There were no men among them. Sent to almost certain death, the young women were powerless and insignificant not only because they were Jewish-but also because they were female. Now, acclaimed author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their poignant stories, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's history. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women-many of them teenagers-were sent to Auschwitz. Their government paid 500 Reichsmarks (about GBP160) apiece for the Nazis to take them as slave labour. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few would survive. The facts of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant today. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war. There were no men among them. Sent to almost certain death, the young women were powerless and insignificant not only because they were Jewish-but also because they were female. Now, acclaimed author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their poignant stories, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's history. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Stát se správným lídrem není tak lehké, jak se na první pohled může zdát. Aby kolem vás vše fungovalo, jak má, potřebujete k tomu hned několik vlastností, na kterých je třeba pracovat. Jak tyto vlastnosti vypilovat a jak je následně využít v praxi, je obsahem této stručně ale zároveň precizně napsané knihy. John C. Maxwell je celosvětově uznávaným odborníkem, který vás dovede tam, kam potřebujete. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth's climate to the edge of catastrophe?John Browne argues that we need not and must not put the brakes on technological advance. Civilisation is founded on engineering innovation; all progress stems from the human urge to make things and to shape the world around us, resulting in greater freedom, health and wealth for all. Drawing on history, his own experiences and conversations with many of today's great innovators, he uncovers the basis for all progress and its consequences, both good and bad. He argues compellingly that the same spark that triggers each innovation can be used to counter its negative consequences. Make, Think, Imagine provides an eloquent blueprint for how we can keep moving towards a brighter future. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

International bestselling new series. Enter the Wundrous world of Morrigan Crow and Nevermoor - the most fantastical children's series of the year."Exciting, mysterious, marvellous and magical ... quite simply one of the best children's books I've read in years" - Robin Stevens, author of Murder Most Unladylike"An extraordinary story full of magics great and small" - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars"Endlessly inventive, with a fresh delight on every page. Nevermoor rewrites the genre of the Chosen Child novel. This is a special book" - David Solomons, author of My Brother is a Superhero"A full-speed joy of a book; funny, quick-footed, and wildly, magically inventive" - Katherine Rundell, author of Rooftoppers"A wonderful, warm-hearted magical adventure" - Sunday Express"Funny and delightful" - The Sunday TimesMorrigan Crow is cursed, destined to die on her eleventh birthday. But, as the clock strikes midnight, she's whisked away by a remarkable man called Jupiter North and taken to the secret city of Nevermoor.There she's invited to join the Wundrous Society. Mystery, magic and protection are hers - if only she can pass four impossible trials, using an exceptional talent. Which she doesn't have...Perfect for fans of the Harry Potter series and His Dark Materials, this series takes readers into an extraordinary world, setting hope and imagination alive. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heart-breaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling. Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them. It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his father's violence in his blood. One who lives his mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will change their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years - they will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From distant Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium to a life amongst the stars in the third. While the world will change around them, their destinies will remain the same. It must play out as foretold. It is written. A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom is the extraordinary new novel from acclaimed writer John Boyne. Ambitious, far-reaching and mythic, it introduces a group of characters whose lives we will come to know and will follow through time and space until they reach their natural conclusion. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

English gentleman, Rudolf Rassendyll, travels to the small European country of Ruritania. When the king disappears, Rudolf must take his place. Will our hero find a way to rescue the king from his evil brother? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

LP vinyl - Koncertní album zachycující Neila Younga a skupinu Promise Of The Real ve špičkové formě během evropského turné 2019. Koncertní album zachycující Neila Younga a skupinu Promise Of The Real ve špičkové formě během evropského turné 2019. Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. Invenční kytarista, skladatel, zpěvák a dnes už také podnikatel v hudebním průmyslu inspiroval celou řadu následovníků. Působil v kapelách Shadows a Buffalo Springfiled, v uskupení Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, ale především se proslavil jako sólový muzikant. Je označován za jednoho z největších rock'n'rollových interpretů a nejrespektovanějších kytaristů. Rok vydání : 2022 (live) Seznam stop LP1 Mr. Soul (Live) / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Live) / Helpless (Live) / Field of Opportunity (Live) / Alabama (Live) / Throw Your Hatred Down (Live) / Rockin' in the Free World (Live) LP2 Comes a Time (Live) / From Hank to Hendrix (Live) / On the... (alza.cz)

Audiokniha:,The e-book reveals a set of rules obeyed by entrepreneurs who are running successful businesses in the long-term. Business is affected by many variables, but every entrepreneur can affect those which are essential for success! Which are they? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Není snad slavnějšího titulu o tom, jak být správným lídrem pro své zaměstnance. V této rozšířené a o nové kapitoly doplněné klasice najdete nejlepší návod, jak dohromady skloubit nejdůležitější aspekty správného lídra. Vize, časové plánování, rozpoznávání hodnot a správná motivace podřízených jsou jenom základ k tomu, co John C. Maxwell ve svém hlavním díle rozvíjí. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

One sleepy summer, an American woman arrives in England, and wakes everybody up. Isabel Archer is an interesting woman. Everybody thinks so. She is an independent woman. Everybody agrees. And she changes the lives of everyone she meets in England. But will England change her? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Late nineteenth-century London: a city of contrasts. Great wealth and terrible poverty, beauty and ugliness, purity and immorality. Oscar Wilde takes the reader into this strange and fascinating world through the strange story of the picture of Dorian Gray. Young, handsome and innocent, the aristocratic Dorian is visiting his friend, the kind and gentle painter Basil Hallward, when he meets Lord Henry Wotton. Entertaining and cynical, Lord Henry introduces Dorian to the idea of a world where the only value is beauty, and everything must serve this ideal. But how can Dorian survive ageing and ugliness? In front of his beautiful portrait, painted by Hallward, Dorian makes a terrible wish. This wish will come true, dragging Dorian into a world of the senses, of beauty and joy, but also of terror, of fear and ultimately of murder? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

LP vinyl - House of the Blues je album bluesového hudebníka Johna Lee Hookera , kompilující skladby původně vydané jako singly v letech 1951 až 1952, které vydalo vydavatelství Chess v roce 1959. House of the Blues je album bluesového hudebníka Johna Lee Hookera , kompilující skladby původně vydané jako singly v letech 1951 až 1952, které vydalo vydavatelství Chess v roce 1959. Seznam stop SIDE A WALKIN' THE BOOGIE / LOVE BLUES / UNION STATION BLUES (Traditional) / IT'S MY OWN FAULT / LEAVE MY WIFE ALONE / RAMBLIN' BY MYSELF / BABY YOU AIN'T NO GOOD (*) SIDE B SUGAR MAMA / DOWN AT THE LANDING / LOUISE / GROUND HOG BLUES (Traditional) / HIGH PRICED WOMAN / WOMEN AND MONEY / BAD BOY (*) (alza.cz)

Empty Planet offers a radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape.For half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have warned that a burgeoning planetary population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different kind of alarm. Rather than growing exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline.Throughout history, depopulation was the product of catastrophe: ice ages, plagues, the collapse of civilizations. This time, however, we're thinning ourselves deliberately, by choosing to have fewer babies than we need to replace ourselves. In much of the developed and developing world, that decline is already underway, as urbanisation, women's empowerment, and waning religiosity lead to smaller and smaller families. In Empty Planet, Ibbitson and Bricker travel from South Florida to Sao Paulo, Seoul to Nairobi, Brussels to Delhi to Beijing, drawing on a wealth of research and firsthand reporting to illustrate the dramatic consequences of this population decline - and to show us why the rest of the developing world will soon join in.They find that a smaller global population will bring with it a number of benefits: fewer workers will command higher wages; good jobs will prompt innovation; the environment will improve; the risk of famine will wane; and falling birthrates in the developing world will bring greater affluence and autonomy for women. But enormous disruption lies ahead, too. We can already see the effects in Europe and parts of Asia, as aging populations and worker shortages weaken the economy and impose crippling demands on healthcare and vital social services. There may be earth-shaking implications on a geopolitical scale as well.Empty Planet is a hugely important book for our times. Captivating and persuasive, it is a story about urbanisation, access to education and the empowerment of women to choose their own destinies. It is about the secularisation of societies and the vital role that immigration has to play in our futures.Rigorously researched and deeply compelling, Empty Planet offers a vision of a future that we can no longer prevent - but that we can shape, if we choose to. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The Importance of Being Earnest + CD audioAbout the series:The series Adult ELI Readers is divided into 6 levels according to the language level of the readers. It's in line with the indications of the Common European Framework of Reference for Language and comprise useful language certification exercises. This ensures that learners will meet language and structures they have already studied or which are commensurate with their level, making reading an achievable, enjoyable and stimulating experience.Stages:Stage 1 Elementary (600 headwords) A1Stage 2 Pre-Intermediate (800 headwords) A2 KETStage 3 Intermediate (1000 headwords) B1 PETStage 4 Upper intermediate (1800 headwords) B2 FCEStage 5 Advanced (2500 headwords) C1 CAEStage 6 Profi ciency Unabridged Texts C2 CPEAbout The Importance of Being Earnest + CD audio:Stage 6: Proficiency (Unabridged text) C2 CPEPlot:One of Oscar Wilde's funniest plays, The Importance of Being Earnest was described by dramatist as being 'a trivial comedy por seroius people'. The satire is biting, as Wilde uses wit and humor to expose seme of the trivialities and inconsistenciies of Victorian society.The book contains:- Information about Oscar Wilde's life- An introduction focusing on background and context- Notes on the text- Activities to help with technical vocabulary- Post- and pre-reading activities (knihydobrovsky.cz)

His name is Arthur Gordon Pym. He comes from Nantucket. Nantucket is a town in America, near the sea. People from Nantucket are often sailors. His grandfather is a lawyer. Hes famous and very rich. Gordon Pym is very lucky. He is only eighteen years old, but he has a small boat. Its name is Ariel. He often goes sailing on the Ariel near Nantucket. He has a good education and a dream he wants to go to sea. This is the sotry of his adventures at sea. He meets pirates, a ghost ship, and storms. He visits Kerguelens land, Prince Edwards Island and Tristan de Cunha before arriving in Antarctica. In this reader you will find Information about Edgar Allan Poes life, Focus On sections Antarctica and Pirates at Sea, Glossary of difficult words, Comprehension and extension activities, Final test. Syllabus Articles a, an, th232PNouns countable, uncountable, plural, possessiv232PPronouns subject, object Quantifiers someany, mor232PAdjectives possessive, opinion Prepositions place, time, movement Verbs Present Simple, Present Adverbs frequency, manner (knihydobrovsky.cz)

LP vinyl - Young the Giant je debutové album americké indie rockové skupiny Young the Giant z roku 2010. Kapela na desce pracovala s producentem Joem Chiccarellim. Její výroční reedice je k dispozici v nově zremasterované verzi na 180g 2LP. Americká rocková kapela Young The Giant pochází z Irvine v Kalifornii. Young the Giant je debutové album americké indie rockové skupiny Young the Giant z roku 2010. Kapela na desce pracovala s producentem Joem Chiccarellim. Její výroční reedice je k dispozici v nově zremasterované verzi na 180g 2LP. Americká rocková kapela Young The Giant pochází z Irvine v Kalifornii. Vznikla v roce 2004 jako The Jakes. Později se přejmenovala a v roce 2010 vydala eponymní debutové album na značce Roadrunner. Seznam stop LP1 Apartment (2020 Remaster) / My Body (2020 Remaster) / I Got (2020 Remaster) / Cough Syrup (2020 Remaster) / God Made Man (2020 Remaster) / 12 Fingers (2020 Remaster) / Strings (2020 Remaster) / Your Side (2020... (alza.cz)

LP vinyl - Soundtrack k filmu Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, který složil držitel pěti Oscarů skladatel John Williams. Soundtrack k filmu Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, který složil držitel pěti Oscarů skladatel John Williams. John opět přišel s naprosto dechberoucím soundtrackem a vytvořil úchvatné, děsivé, záhadné i intimní melodie, a zároveň vytvořil i nové aranže svých dobře známých klasických melodií Obsah: "Fanfare and Prologue" "Journey to Exegol" "The Rise of Skywalker" "The Old Death Star" "The Speeder Chase" "Destiny of a Jedi" "Anthem of Evil" "Join Me" "They Will Come" "The Final Saber Duel" "Battle of the Resistance" "Approaching the Throne" "The Force Is with You" "Farewell" "Reunion" "A New Home" "Finale" (alza.cz)

Jekyll is a famous London doctor, but something unusual is happening in his house. Who is his strange young friend? Why does Jekyll like him? And why does noone else like him? Stevensons dark thriller is the story of one mans need to find himself in the dark, foggy London of Victorian times. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Hudební CD - Revamp je pečlivě zvolenou kombinací těch nejlepších love songů, které Elton John stvořil společně s Bernie Taupinem, v podání největších talentů současného hudebního průmyslu. Album je protkáno dechberoucími aranžemi laděnými do žánrů od hip hopu a soulu přes rock až po pop. Revamp je pečlivě zvolenou kombinací těch nejlepších love songů, které Elton John stvořil společně s Bernie Taupinem, v podání největších talentů současného hudebního průmyslu. Album je protkáno dechberoucími aranžemi laděnými do žánrů od hip hopu a soulu přes rock až po pop. Na desce Revamp se podíleli P!nk, Logic, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Demi Lovato, Alessia Cara, Florence & The Machine, Mumford & Sons, Mary J. Blige, Q-Tip, Sam Smith, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Queens of the Stone Age nebo The Killers. „Když umělci milují některou z vašich písní a udělají si čas na její předělávku, je to vždycky ohromný kompliment. Jako skladatelé jsme s Berniem unešení, když zpěváci,... (alza.cz)

Hudební CD - EP kanadského hudebníka Neila Younga obsahuje mimo jiné i předělávku skladby The Times They Are A-Changin od Boba Dylana. Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. EP kanadského hudebníka Neila Younga obsahuje mimo jiné i předělávku skladby The Times They Are A-Changin od Boba Dylana. Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. Invenční kytarista, skladatel, zpěvák a dnes už také podnikatel v hudebním průmyslu inspiroval celou řadu následovníků. Působil v kapelách Shadows a Buffalo Springfiled, v uskupení Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, ale především se proslavil jako sólový muzikant. Je označován za jednoho z největších rock'n'rollových interpretů a nejrespektovanějších kytaristů. Seznam stop CD1 Alabama / Campaigner / Ohio / The Times They Are A-Changin' / Lookin' for a Leader - 2020 / Southern Man / Little Wing (alza.cz)

LP vinyl - EP kanadského hudebníka Neila Younga obsahuje mimo jiné i předělávku skladby The Times They Are A-Changin od Boba Dylana. Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. EP kanadského hudebníka Neila Younga obsahuje mimo jiné i předělávku skladby The Times They Are A-Changin od Boba Dylana. Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. Invenční kytarista, skladatel, zpěvák a dnes už také podnikatel v hudebním průmyslu inspiroval celou řadu následovníků. Působil v kapelách Shadows a Buffalo Springfiled, v uskupení Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, ale především se proslavil jako sólový muzikant. Je označován za jednoho z největších rock'n'rollových interpretů a nejrespektovanějších kytaristů. Rok vydání : 2020 Seznam stop LP1 Alabama / Campaigner / Ohio / The Times They Are A-Changin' / Lookin' for a Leader - 2020 / Southern Man / Little Wing (alza.cz)

Kniha - autor Andy Weir, 384 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Classroom-appropriate language Discussion questions and activities Q&A with Andy Weir Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. Damaged machinery, the unforgiving environment, or plain old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit, he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after... (alza.cz)

Hudební CD - EP Eldorado vyšlo původně v roce 1989 pouze v Japonsku a Austrálii. Neil Young ho nahrál s The Restless, tedy dvojicí Chad Cromwell (bicí) a Rick Rocas (baskytara). Deska obsahuje tři písničky, které se v odlišných verzích o rok později objevily na albu Freedom. EP je nyní k dispozici i na CD. EP Eldorado vyšlo původně v roce 1989 pouze v Japonsku a Austrálii. Neil Young ho nahrál s The Restless, tedy dvojicí Chad Cromwell (bicí) a Rick Rocas (baskytara). Deska obsahuje tři písničky, které se v odlišných verzích o rok později objevily na albu Freedom. EP je nyní k dispozici i na CD. Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. Invenční kytarista, skladatel, zpěvák a dnes už také podnikatel v hudebním průmyslu inspiroval celou řadu následovníků. Působil v kapelách Shadows a Buffalo Springfiled, v uskupení Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, ale především se proslavil jako sólový muzikant. Je označován za jednoho z největších... (alza.cz)

LP vinyl - Youngovo páté album vyšlo v roce 1974, nyní je možno ho získat na LP. Na vinylu deska nebyla k dispozici dlouhá léta, nereedovala se od počátku osmdesátých let! Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. Youngovo páté album vyšlo v roce 1974, nyní je možno ho získat na LP. Na vinylu deska nebyla k dispozici dlouhá léta, nereedovala se od počátku osmdesátých let! Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. Invenční kytarista, skladatel, zpěvák a dnes už také podnikatel v hudebním průmyslu inspiroval celou řadu následovníků. Působil v kapelách Shadows a Buffalo Springfiled, v uskupení Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, ale především se proslavil jako sólový muzikant. Je označován za jednoho z největších rock'n'rollových interpretů a nejrespektovanějších kytaristů. Rok vydání : 1974 (5.album) Rok reedice : 2016 Seznam stop LP Walk On / See The Sky About To Rain / Revolution Blues / For The Turnstiles / Vampire... (alza.cz)