Piccadilly - London's West End and the Pursuit of Pleasure (Hoare Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

Piccadilly - London's West End and the Pursuit of Pleasure (Hoare Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

The first book to chart the hedonistic history of London's

Albert and the Whale (Hoare Philip)(Pevná vazba)

What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence (Schwarzman Stephen A.)(Pevná vazba)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist,

What It Takes - Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence (Schwarzman Stephen A.)(Pevná vazba)

From Blackstone chairman, CEO and co-founder Stephen Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show readers how to think about management, entrepreneurship, investing and

The East End in Colour 1960-1980 (Granick David)(Pevná vazba)

-Previously unpublished color photographs of London's East End showing a time before great change When a local photographer was invited to examine 1,000s of David Granick's color slides in early 2017, he knew he'd seen something special. These images capture the post-war streets of Stepney,

Wonders of Nature (Hoare Ben)(Pevná vazba)

Toulouse-Lautrec - Matthias Arnold, Helmut Wandmaker

The Prince of Pigalle: In pursuit of pleasure in the Belle EpoqueToday, the painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 1901) is considered as one of the most inspired portrayers of human figures. This physically handicapped scion of the old French nobility was fascinated by life

Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge (Narby Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

The Forgotten Flight: Terrorism, Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Justice (Newberger Stuart H.)(Pevná vazba)

Small Pleasures Of Life (Delerm Philippe)(Pevná vazba)

A timeless celebration of life's small pleasures and a guide to the French art of living a good

Book of Idle Pleasures (Kieran Dan)(Pevná vazba)

The Book of Idle Pleasures is a restorative gift book for the stressed out, tired and

Dtente: The Chance to End the Cold War (Crowder Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name D tente, and - perhaps - a chance to end the Cold War. The leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, hoped to forge a new relationship

The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan (Wynn Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

Bluets (Nelson Maggie)(Pevná vazba)

A raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or

Algebra of Happiness - The pursuit of success, love and what it all means (Galloway Scott)(Pevná vazba)

Never Apologise, Never Explain (Craig James)(Paperback / softback)

The second in the thrilling Inspector Carlyle crime series set in the heart of London's West End, taking in all the memorable places like Covent Garden, Piccadilly Circus and the British

End of Watch, 3 (King Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

#1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book Now an AT&T Audience Original Series The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical 'Mercedes Killer' drives

Kent: West and the Weald (Pevsner Nikolaus)(Pevná vazba)

An expanded and fully revised edition of John Newman's classic survey of the buildings of West Kent, first published in 1969. Here is an extraordinary concentration of architecture of the first rank, and an immense variety of landscape and townscape, from the deep woods of the Weald to the shingles

Lehman Trilogy (Massini Stefano)(Pevná vazba)

The novel in verse that inspired the sensational West End and Off-Broadway play, The Lehman Trilogy is the story of a family and a company that changed the

The Hop About (Mackelprang Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

A man, an amputee, a dual amputee, wanders the West alone on half of a foot to discover what life has to offer. He takes off, running the only way he still knows how, in a car. A car procured from selling his prosthetic leg (the expensive one) on eBay.This true tale follows him on an adventure to

Gallery of Clouds (Eisendrath Rachel)(Pevná vazba)

A personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading. Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney's sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one of the finest works of prose fiction in the English language. Shakespeare borrowed an episode from

Lost Railways of Limerick and the South West (Johnson Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Sunday Best: A Celebration of Diversity (Waggett Katie)(Pevná vazba)

- A photographer's celebration of London's cultural and religious diversity In the wake of a terror attack and determined not to let the voices of separatism win out, photographer Katie Waggett embarked on an intimate survey of London's many religions. Her portraits, set alongside personal quotes,

Epicureanism: A Very Short Introduction (Wilson Catherine)(Paperback)

Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and considered nature to consist of atoms and the void