Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business (Shortland Anja)(Pevná vazba)

Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business (Shortland Anja)(Pevná vazba)

Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business. Millions of people live, travel, and work in areas with significant kidnap risks, yet kidnaps of foreign workers, local VIPs, and tourists are surprisingly rare and the vast majority of abductions are peacefully resolved - often for remarkably

Risk & Reward - An Inside View of the Property/Casualty Insurance Business (Catlin Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

Anja Niemi: In Character (Niemi Anja)(Pevná vazba)

Anja Niemi: In Character is the first career retrospective monograph by one of the most exciting talents working in contemporary photography. Niemi's work has emerged as a distinctive force within the venerable tradition of conceptual self- portraiture.A photo artist who works

Arthur Ransome on the Broads (Wardale Roger)(Paperback)

In Arthur Ransome on the Broads Roger Wardale tells the inside story of the two classic children's novels, Coot Club and The Big Six, that stemmed from the eight holidays that Ransome and his wife spent cruising in hired craft on the Norfolk Broads in the 1930s. Drawing freely upon Ransome's

How to Kidnap the Rich - 'A joyous love/hate letter to contemporary Delhi' The Times (Raina Rahul)(Pevná vazba)

Optioned by HBO with Riz Ahmed as executive

Le Corbusier, Unite D'Habitation, Marseille (Grunwald Anja)(Pevná vazba)

Anatomy - A Cutaway Look Inside the Human Body (Druvert Helene)(Pevná vazba)

Merchants of Truth - Inside the News Revolution (Abramson Jill)(Pevná vazba)

The Desolations of Devil's Acre (Riggs Ransom)(Pevná vazba)

Instant #1 bestseller The epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs. Jacob and his friends will face deadly enemies and race through history's most dangerous loops in this thrilling page-turner. The Desolations of Devil's Acre is the newest

Tales of the Peculiar (Riggs Ransom)(Pevná vazba)

A companion to the New York Times bestselling Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, now a major motion picture directed by Tim Burton. Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A

Vladimir Kramnik: The Inside Story of a Chess Genius (Hensel Carsten)(Pevná vazba)

Stones from the Inside: Rare and Unseen Images (Wyman Bill)(Pevná vazba)

Hollow City (Riggs Ransom)(Pevná vazba)

Read the sequel to the New York Times #1 best-selling book. The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is now a major motion picture from visionary director Tim Burton, staring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Samual L. Jackson, and Judi Dench.Like its predecessor,

Missee Lee (Ransome Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

Nancy Blackett, the terror of the seas, has finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them

Swallowdale (Ransome Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

The four Swallows, John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake full of such plans and they can't wait to meet up with Nancy and Peggy, the Amazon Pirates. When the Swallow is shipwrecked and the Amazon's fearsome Great-Aunt makes decides to make a visit their summer seems

Disney Princesses: The Castle Collection - Step inside the enchanting world of the Disney Princesses!(Pevná vazba)

To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII (Caiani Ambrogio a.)(Pevná vazba)

A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state 'In gripping, vivid prose, Caiani brings to life the struggle for power that would shape modern Europe. It all makes for a historical read which is both original and

A City Inside: Hardcover Edition (Walden Tillie)(Pevná vazba)

Shifting between the everyday and the surreal, A City Inside recounts one woman's life, starting from her childhood home, to the first love that she will never forget, to the creation of the idea of herself that she can grow old with and the home that she can grow old in. Tillie Walden creates a

We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea (Ransome Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

'Like to spend a night in the Goblin?'The Swallows are staying on the Suffolk coast while they wait for their father to return home from China. But although the harbour is bursting with bobbing yachts, barges and steamers, this year there's no chance of any sailing for the landlocked

Power on the Inside: A Global History of Prison Gangs (Roth Mitchel P.)(Pevná vazba)

Power on the Inside is the first book to examine the historical development of prison gangs worldwide, from those that emerged inside mid-nineteenth-century Neapolitan prisons to the new generation of younger inmates challenging the status quo within gang subcultures today. Historian-criminologist

The Monocle Guide to Good Business (Monocle)(Pevná vazba)

The Monocle Guide to Good Business follows up on the success of The Monocle Guide to Better Living. The book offers multifaceted perspectives on the world of work today and in the future--from compelling business ideas to inspiring company cultures. Ever since the launch of Monocle in 2007 this

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Inside Story of the Legendary 1970 World Cup (Downie Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Winter Holiday (Ransome Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays.' Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons, along with Dick and Dorothea -- 'the D's' -- plan a race to find the North Pole. Can the Swallows and Amazons save their

The Conference of the Birds (Riggs Ransom)(Pevná vazba)

With enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob Portman's story continues as he takes a brave leap forward into The Conference of the Birds, the fifth novel in the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs. With his dying words, H--Jacob Portman's final