Darius in the Shadow of Alexander (Briant Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

Darius in the Shadow of Alexander (Briant Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

The last of Cyrus the Great's dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet, despite being the most powerful king of his time, Darius remains an obscure figure.As Pierre Briant

The Brandon Men: In the Shadow of Kings (Bryson Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

The Shadow (Patterson James)(Pevná vazba)

The Shadow returns, in James Patterson's explosive reimagining of the iconic detective who has thrilled readers across generations. Only two people know that 1930s society man Lamont Cranston has a secret identity as the Shadow, a crusader for justice. One is his greatest love, Margo Lane, and the

The Timeless Way of Building (Alexander Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is

Geometry of Holding Hands (McCall Smith Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

The thirteenth novel in Alexander McCall Smith's much-loved Isabel Dalhousie

Yves Saint Laurent: A Moroccan Passion (Berg Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

In this facsimile of a handwritten leather-bound journal, Pierre Berg , the longtime partner of Yves Saint Laurent, remembers their life together In this handwritten, personal memoir, Pierre Berg recalls his life with Yves Saint Laurent in Morocco. He remembers their arrival in Marrakech in 1966,

The Wonders of Florence (Cestaro Dario)(Pevná vazba)

The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in colored pages shaped into Florence's most

Macarons (Herm Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

Pierre Herme is universally acknowledged as the king of French pastry with shops in Tokyo, Paris and London. He is the best, and has even been described as a couturier of pastry. This is a man at the top of his art and there is no question his macarons are in a league of its own. Macarons are the

Music Lessons - The College de France Lectures (Boulez Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

First publication in English of an extraordinary and prestigious series of Lectures given by Pierre Boulez, arguably the most influential composer of the second half of the last

Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era (Alexander Kimberly S.)(Pevná vazba)

In Treasures Afoot, Kimberly S. Alexander introduces readers to the history of the Georgian shoe. Presenting a series of stories that reveal how shoes were made, sold, and worn during the long eighteenth century, Alexander traces the fortunes and misfortunes of wearers as their footwear was altered

The Three Musketeers (Dumas Alexandre)(Pevná vazba)

D'Artagnan dreams of joining the Musketeers, the special guards to the King of France. But in Paris, he's drawn into a dangerous hunt for the Queen's missing royal jewel. D'Artagnan must journey to London and retrieve the diamond before the king of France notices it's gone-- and before the queen's

Ghosts of the Shadow Market (Clare Cassandra)(Pevná vazba)

Ghosts of the Shadow Market (Clare Cassandra)(Pevná vazba)

Alexander Wong: Archiphantasy (Wong Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

In this highly-anticipated monograph, Alexander Wong presents a selection of incisive essays on contemporary architecture and design concepts, along with a wide range of magnificently photographed

The Shadow of the Wind (Zafon Carlos Ruiz)(Pevná vazba)

Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him

Exodus (Alexander Dr T Desmond)(Pevná vazba)

Recounting the greatest event of divine salvation in the Old Testament, the book of Exodus is not merely a story about the Lord God rescuing enslaved Israelites from the power of a despotic and xenophobic dictator. More importantly, it highlights how a compassionate and justice-seeking God

Chasing the Past: Geopolitics of Memory on the Margins of Modern Greece (Sintes Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

Thinking in the Past Tense - Eight Conversations (Bevilacqua Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

History of Alexander (Quintus Curtius)(Pevná vazba)

Quintus Curtius was apparently a rhetorician who lived in the first century of the Roman empire and, early in the reign of Claudius (41-54 CE), wrote a history of Alexander the Great in 10 books in clear and picturesque style for Latin readers. The first two books have not survived--our narrative

All Human Wisdom (Lemaitre Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars

Deep Learning in Science (Baldi Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

This is the first rigorous, self-contained treatment of the theory of deep learning. Aimed at scientists, instructors, and students interested in artificial intelligence and deep learning, it demonstrates many applications in physics, chemistry, and biomedicine. It includes a full set of exercises

Death's Long Shadow (Cutler Judith)(Pevná vazba)

The arrival of an unexpected guest means trouble ahead for the residents of Thorncroft House in this deftly-plotted Victorian mystery. On a freezing winter's night, with the household in mourning following the death of the dowager Lady Croft, the residents of Thorncroft House are roused from their

Tyna of the Lake (Utkin Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

The latest installment in the Gamayun Tales series introduces a clever heroine who has a secret even she doesn't know about. Tyna of the Lake rescues the Hunter's son from a life of servitude to her father the Water Spirit. Their attempt to make an escape to the surface world is interrupted when

In a Time of Distance - And Other Poems (McCall Smith Alexander)(Pevná vazba)