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A Little Silver Book of Sharp Shiny Slivers
Joe Hill A Little Silver Book of Sharp Shiny Slivers collects some of Joe Hill’s most off-beat writing. Here he reflects on the end of the world, explains why horror fiction matters, and offers up his own rules for writing. The author encounters one of literature’s lesser known talking bi viac

A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay viac

Adaptation to climate changes from the perspective of law
Milan Damohorský   Alexander Proelß   Vojtěch Stejskal Cílem esejů sestavených v tomto svazku je přispět k pochopení toho, co adaptace na klimatickou změnu znamená z hlediska práva. Jsou založeny na prezentací poskytnutých z České republiky, Německa, Řecka a Ukrajiny viac

Adolf Loos: Ruminations and Revisions / Essays
Christopher Long In this new collection of meticulously crafted essays, acclaimed architectural historian Christopher Long confronts some of the enduring myths and misconceptions concerning Adolf Loos's life, work, and ideas. Long's probing examination of the writings of historians, theorists, an viac

Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay 'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September viac

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
Joel Golby By the popular Vice contributor, a collection of full-throated appreciations, elaborate theories, and unflinching recollections Joel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a wide and devoted following. Now viac

Climb the Wall of Uruk
Kateřina Šašková Sborník příspěvků vydaný na počest profesora Petra Charváta. Vydala ZČU v Plzni. viac

Crossing Between Tradition and Modernity
Kirk A. Denton Kniha představuje soubor třinácti esejů k uctění památky Mileny Doleželové-Velingerové (1932-2012), členky pražské sinologické školy a významné odbornice na čínskou literaturu, která zastávala přední místo při zavádění literární teorie a její důsledné aplikace v sinologii. Milena viac

Essays on Adolf Loos
Christopher Long In this book of essays, noted architectural historian Christopher Long examines some of the many influences that shaped the work of the great architect Adolf Loos. Long’s finely tuned essays are exploratory journeys – brief excursions into Loos’s rich and complex intellectual wor viac

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Christopher Grau Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking films of recent years. This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Beginning with a helpful introduction that p viac

Fascism and Democracy
George Orwell The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ... this prospect frightens me much more than bombs' On the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death, a new collection of his brilliant essays written during the Second World War Fascism and Democr viac

Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws
Adrienne Mayor A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels--and the surprising truths behind them Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights--glimmering, long-bur viac

Free Society Fatally Endangered
Václav Klaus The book Free Society Fatally Endangered is a collection of English essays and speeches by Václav Klaus, which he has published or published in the years 2014-2021 around the world. viac

Game of Thrones: A Guide to Westeros and Beyond
Myles McNutt Feeling lost without Game of Thrones? Relive all 8 series with the ONLY official tie-in guide to the biggest TV series in the world. Delve deeper into Westeros than ever before. . . Covering all eight seasons of the hit HBO show, this remarkable volume offers a unique and e viac

Letters from Father Christmas
J. R. R. Tolkien This beautiful, deluxe slipcased edition of Tolkien’s famous illustrated letters from Father Christmas to his children includes for the first time every letter, picture and envelope that he sent them, reproduced in glorious colour. The perfect Christmas gift for Tolkien lovers of viac

Lyrical and Critical Essays
Albert Camus 'The literary output of Albert Camus was exceptionally concentrated and well organized, so that each part of it throws light on other parts....Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his cr viac

Messages from a Lost World
Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of the Nationalist regimes he loathed, and which came to power in the 1930s. In these poignant essays and addresses, f viac

Modern Manners
The Gentlewoman With contributions from a roster of The Gentlewoman’s impeccably engaging contributors and readers, including Ann Friedman, Eva Wiseman, Otegha Uwagba, Caroline Roux, Susan Irvine, and Joan Juliet Buck, this thoughtful, stylish collection of essays is an essential guide to naviga viac

On the Shoulders of Giants
Umberto Eco The final collection from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture. In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco’s perennial areas of interest explored in a lively and engaging viac

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Umberto Eco In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader―his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the nineteenth-century French novelist Nerval's Sylvie , for Little Red Riding Hood, Agatha Christie, Agent 007 and all his ladies. We se viac

Testaments Betrayed
Milan Kundera Testaments Betrayed is a book rich in ideas about the time in which we live and how we have become who we are, about Western culture in general. It is also a personal essay in which Kundera attacks the shifting moral judgements a persecutions of art and artists. viac

The Art of the Novel
Milan Kundera In seven independent but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as "an art born of the laughter of God". viac

The Climbing Zine Book
Collective of Authors   Luke Mehall The Climbing Zine began as a modest, stapled together, black and white publication, and has grown into a worldwide phenomenon. Our first 11 volumes had modest print runs, and now those issues are mostly in the hands of collectors. Here in The Climbing Zine Book we present our fav viac

The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. The prophet Al-Mustafa is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and viac

The Tent
Margaret Atwood One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescien viac

The Virus in the Age of Madness
Bernard-Henri Levy As seen on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS Forget the world that came before. The author of American Vertigo serves up an incisive look at how COVID-19 reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society. With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed m viac

The Written World And The Unwritten World
Italo Calvino A rich collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino’s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature. An extraordinary collection of essays, forewords, articles, and interviews, The Written World and the Unwritten World displays the remarkable viac

Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the sel viac

Wasted
Katie Treggiden   Glen Adamson We live in the age of the Anthropocene: human activity is the dominant force affecting the climate and man-made and organic materials are becoming irreversibly intertwined. As natural resources dwindle, designers are exploring the potential of increasingly plentiful waste streams viac

Why Liberty
Tom G. Palmer "Libertarianism is hot."--The Washington Post The ideas presented in this book are about an alternative view of politics: a politics, not of force, but of persuasion, of live-and-let-live, of rejecting both subjugation and domination. The essays are mainly written by younger pe viac

Writing with Intent
Margaret Atwood From one of the world's most passionately engaged literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory piece viac