In This World of Wonders: Memoir of a Life in Learning (Wolterstorff Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

In This World of Wonders: Memoir of a Life in Learning (Wolterstorff Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

World-renowned Christian philosopher. Beloved professor. Author of the classic Lament for a Son. Nicholas Wolterstorff is all of these and more. His memoir, In This World of Wonders, opens a remarkable new window into the life and thought of this remarkable man.Written not as a complete life story

Walk This World (Nieminen Lotta)(Pevná vazba)

A celebration of life in a

No Lawyers in Heaven - A Life Defending Serious Crime (Milner Henry)(Pevná vazba)

In this remarkable memoir, Milner gives a real insight into the life of a top London criminal lawyer and into the mind of his clients, along the way introducing us to some of the most colourful characters ever to appear on either side of the

Making the Grade: Promoting Positive Outcomes for Students with Learning Disabilities (Young Nicholas D.)(Pevná vazba)

This book contains a compilation of best practices in special

Shakespearean Arrivals: The Birth of Character (Luke Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

In this distinctive study, Nicholas Luke explores the abiding power of Shakespeare's tragedies by suggesting an innovative new model of his character creation. Rather than treating characters as presupposed beings, Luke shows how they arrive as something more than functional dramatis personae - how

Winter in White: Winter in White (Sabuda Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Silent hush of snowy white... This jewel of a book celebrates the wonders of winter, from snow dancing across branches to the scrape of an ice skate across a pond to the whoosh of a sled down a hill. With magnificent pop-ups by legendary writer, artist, and paper engineer Robert Sabuda, this book

Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer (Glynn John)(Pevná vazba)

A gripping portrait of life in a Montauk summer house--a debut memoir of first love, identity and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family. They call Montauk the end of the world, a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic. The house was a ramshackle split-level set on a hill, and

Another Day in the Life (Starr Ringo)(Pevná vazba)

'This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And this is, I feel, a better way for me to do it.' - Ringo Starr Ringo's picture book, Ringo in book

The Natural History of Selborne (White Gilbert)(Pevná vazba)

Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He notes everything from the habits of an

The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild (Sala Enric)(Pevná vazba)

In this spirited memoir, world-renowned conservationist Enric Sala weaves fascinating tales of the natural world, revealing how connections in nature promise a thriving economy as well as a healthy planet. Enric Sala wants to change the world--and in this compelling book, he shows us how. Once we

Manmade Wonders of the World (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Wave - A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami (Deraniyagala Sonali)(Paperback / softback)

A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of grief -- of learning to live with grief -- that begins in Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously

Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (Goldring Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

This illustrated biography follows Nicholas Hilliard's long and remarkable life (c. 1547-1619) from the West Country to the heart of the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts. It showcases new archival research and stunning images, many reproduced in color for the first time. Hilliard's portraits--some

Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens Charles)(Pevná vazba)

After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby becomes a schoolteacher in a boys' school in Yorkshire to support his family. There he sees injustices and cruelty and stands up to the schoolmasters to right these wrongs. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form,

A Brief History of Life on Earth (DuPont Clemence)(Pevná vazba)

The story of life on earth unfolds in dramatic fashion in this amazing picture book that takes readers from 4.6 billion years ago to the present day. It's difficult to grasp the enormous changes life on Earth has undergone since it first came into existence, but this marvellously illustrated book

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

The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Poet's Memoir (Reece Spencer)(Pevná vazba)

An exquisite memoir of a life saved by poetry. This is a portrait of the artist, narrated by a priest and a poet and a gay man with tenderness and searing honesty. Spencer Reece weaves the poetry he loves into how he has lived, the poetry as solace and relief, as confirmation and rescue, as

The Boundaries of Realism in World Literature (Kvas Kornelije)(Pevná vazba)

This study provides a broad examination of the use of realism in literature. In particular, the author analyzes the such writers as Thackeray, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and

The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington (Carrington Gabriel Weisz)(Pevná vazba)

In this memoir, Gabriel Weisz Carrington, son of the renowned Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother and declare her not an icon or a goddess but, first and foremost, an

My Godforsaken Life - Memoir of a Maverick(Pevná vazba)

Great Lives in Graphics: Anne Frank (Button Books)(Pevná vazba)

This graphic retelling of Anne's story gives children a visual snapshot of her life and the world she grew up

A Life in Parts (Cranston Bryan)(Pevná vazba)

A poignant, intimate, funny, inspiring memoir--both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft--from Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history's most successful TV shows, Breaking Bad. Bryan Cranston landed his first role at seven, when his father

The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England (Perkins Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life - Adventures in Anxiety (Pritchett Georgia)(Pevná vazba)

It's a beautiful moment) worry has accompanied her at every turn. This memoir is a joyful reflection on just how to live - and sometimes even thrive (sometimes not) - with