My Darling Mr Asquith - The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley (Buczacki Stefan)(Pevná vazba)

Windrush: A Ship Through Time (Arnott Paul)(Pevná vazba)

The life, times and extraordinary history of the Windrush: the vessel that created modern

Through The Looking Glasses - 'Exuberant...glasses changed the world' Sunday Times (Elborough Travis)(Pevná vazba)

A personal and insightful look at the extraordinary life and times of eyewear from the Ancient Greeks to Google Glass by the author of The Bus We Loved and A Walk in the

The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema (Kolker Robert P.)(Pevná vazba)

Welles. Hitchcock. Kubrick. These names appear on nearly every list of the all-time greatest filmmakers. But what makes these directors so great? Despite their very different themes and sensibilities, is there a common genius that unites them and elevates their work into the realm of the sublime?

Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical (Jones Jacqueline)(Pevná vazba)

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she livedGoddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she

Friendship - The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond (Denworth Lydia)(Pevná vazba)

Churchill: An Extraordinary Life (Gristwood Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

Winston Churchill is one of the best-known and most revered figures of our time, the man who led Britain through its 'darkest hour'. The last year alone has seen two feature films of his life. Many books have been published about his life and work, but very few have looked at his life through the

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell (Dugoni Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni's coming-of-age story is, according to Booklist, 'a novel that, if it doesn't cross entirely over into John Irving territory, certainly nestles in close to the border.'Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born

Stuff of Life: Arranging Things Ordinary & Extraordinary (Robertson Hilary)(Pevná vazba)

Hilary Robertson reveals a multitude of ways to style and display the 'stuff of life'--the flotsam and jetsam of possessions, from pictures and ornaments to hats and bicycles, that we accumulate over the course of time. In the first chapter, How to Arrange your Stuff, Hilary identifies and

Life as Creative Constraint: Autobiography and the Oulipo (Kemp Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and formal gymnastics has seen its work caricatured as 'lifeless' - impressively virtuoso but moreinterested in

Feynman and His Physics: The Life and Science of an Extraordinary Man (Resag Jrg)(Pevná vazba)

This book takes the reader on a journey through the life of Richard Feynman and describes, in non-technical terms, his revolutionary contributions to modern physics. Feynman was an unconventional thinker who always tried to get to the bottom of things. In doing so, he developed an intuitive view

ExtraOrdinary. A Villains Story - Victoria Schwabová, Enid Balam

#1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, launches her incredible world of super beings with this ALL-NEW dazzlingly illustrated graphic novel set in the five years between Vicious and Vengeful. A must for all Schwab fans everywhere! This collection also features, for

The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century (Angelov Dimiter)(Pevná vazba)

The extraordinary life and writings of Theodore Laskaris, an imaginative philosopher-emperor ruling over a Byzantine state in exile after the disastrous Fourth Crusade, illuminate the transformation of the politics and culture of Byzantium and unveil little-known aspects of the medieval encounters

The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things --- Stories from Science and Observation (Wohlleben Peter)(Pevná vazba)

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES'As you read these pages you will understand why I so admire Peter Wohlleben] and am so in love with his work.'--JANE GOODALLNature is full of surprises: deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator: With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore (Lefvre Edwin)(Pevná vazba)

With new commentary and Insights on the life and times of JesseLivermore Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the fictionalizedbiography of perhaps the most famous financial speculator of alltime-Jesse Livermore. This annotated edition bridges the gapbetween Edwin Lefevre's fictionalized account of

The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary (Lugavere Max)(Pevná vazba)

The author of the New York Times bestselling Genius Foods is back with a lifestyle program for resetting your brain and body to its 'factory settings,' to help fight fatigue, anxiety, and depression and to optimize cognitive health for a longer and healthier life.The human body was honed under

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown (Glenconner Anne)(Pevná vazba)

An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Lady Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's The Crown.Lady Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and

The Darling Dahlias and the Poinsettia Puzzle (Albert Susan Wittig)(Pevná vazba)

It's Christmas, 1934, and the citizens of Darling, Alabama, are unwrapping a big package of Christmas puzzles. Mildred Kilgore and Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square--if they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two of the biggest puzzles of his career

Bob Crewe: Sight and Sound: Compositions in Art and Music (Albrecht Donald)(Pevná vazba)

The first book to explore the extraordinary musical life and remarkable paintings of one of America's greatest ever songwriters. Best known for having written and produced some of the seminal records of American popular culture--from 'Big Girls Don't Cry' for the Four Seasons to 'Silence is Golden'

Divided Affections - The Extraordinary Life of Maria Cosway, Celebrity Artist and Thomas Jefferson's Impossible Love (Burnell Carol)(Pevná vazba)

Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney (Kennedy Kate)(Pevná vazba)

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the

Lord of the Isle - The Extravagent Life and Times of Colin Tennant (Lord Glenconner) (Courtney Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

Endurance - The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zatopek (Broadbent Rick)(Paperback / softback)

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. In the summer of 1952 Emil Zatopek became the king of the running world with an unprecedented distance treble at the Olympic Games in Helsinki. Together with his wife Dana, who won another gold medal in the javelin, they were the embodiment

Little Life (Yanagihara Hanya)(Pevná vazba)

A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and

Taste: My Life Through Food (Tucci Stanley)(Pevná vazba)

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen. Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in The Tucci Cookbook