The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado (Friday Karl F.)(Pevná vazba)

The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado (Friday Karl F.)(Pevná vazba)

Joan - Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor (Fenwick Simon)(Pevná vazba)

The first biography of Joan Leigh Fermor, society beauty, professional photographer and

Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati the Ultimate Edition (Ryersson Scot D.)(Pevná vazba)

Life Magazine and the Power of Photography (Bussard Katherine A.)(Pevná vazba)

The first comprehensive consideration of Life magazine's groundbreaking and influential contribution to the history of photography From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, the vast majority of the photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated

Tales of the Samurai (Mitford A. B.)(Pevná vazba)

An anthology of classic tales focusing on Japanese life before the Meiji

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

Slaine: The Brutania Chronicles, Book Three - Psychopomp (Mills Pat)(Pevná vazba)

Albion, in a time of legend. Celtic warrior SL AINE united the tribes of the Earth Goddess Danu and became the first High King of Ireland, before returning to being a wanderer. Now, having journeyed to the Isle of Monadh to rescue Sinead from the Drune Lords, he's discovered that they have been

Junko Tabei Masters the Mountains (Rebel Girls)(Pevná vazba)

From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the historical novel based on the life of Junko Tabei, the first female climber to summit Mount Everest. Junko is bad at athletics. Really bad. Other students laugh because they think she is small and weak. Then her teacher takes the class

Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls from Around the World (Various)(Pevná vazba)

Meet a girl who fights dragons, a brave warrior queen, and a daughter in search of her Samurai father...This beautifully illustrated collection brings you eight fantastic fairy tales from around the world. Full of wit, charm, compassion and courage, these heroes will inspire and empower a new

The Art of Samurai Shodown (Snk)(Pevná vazba)

Rebel by vocation: Sen O'Faolin and the generation of The Bell (Carson Niall)(Pevná vazba)

Samurai: A Concise History (Wert Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike

Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code (Rebel Girls)(Pevná vazba)

From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes a story based on the exciting real-life adventures of Ada Lovelace, one of the world's first computer programmers. Growing up in nineteenth century London, England, Ada is curious about absolutely everything. She is obsessed with machines

Slaine: The Brutania Chronicles, Book Two - Primordial (Mills Pat)(Pevná vazba)

Albion, in a time of legend. Celtic warrior Slaine united the tribes of the Earth Goddess Danu and became the first High King of Ireland. After ruling for seven years, he travelled through time to fight for the Goddess in other eras before returning to save his people from the Fomorian sea devils

Peter Wyngarde: A Life Amongst Strangers (Wyngarde-Hopkins Tina)(Pevná vazba)

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, THE LIFE STORY OF ONE OF THE GREAT TELEVISION AND STYLE ICONS Peter Wyngarde: the name elicits memories of an actor with worldwide renown and instantly adhesive star quality, who was to hit his professional zenith via his starring roles in the smash hit TV series,

Kaiser Karl: The Life of Karl Lagerfeld (Bacque Raphaelle)(Pevná vazba)

An intimate and well-documented biography of Karl Lagerfeld, ex-creative director of Chanel and international fashion iconReveals the man behind the mask: the great couturier, the adorer of women, the unrepentant provocateurA huge bestseller in FranceWorldwide publication in English to mark the

Tomáš Špidlík - A Theological Life - Karel Sládek

Tomas Spidlik: A Theological Life offers one of the first comprehensive reflections on the life and work of the enigmatic Czech theologian. In part one, Karel Sladek explores Spidlik's thoughts on family, the formation of Jesuit priests, the ecumenical mission of the monastery at Velehrad in

Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest (Rebel Girls)(Pevná vazba)

From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes a historical novel based on the life of Dr. Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist and environmentalist from Kenya. Wangari lives in the lush, green, land of rural Kenya where the soil is perfect for planting, the trees

Christopher Wood (Norris Katy)(Pevná vazba)

The first fully illustrated account of the life and work of English painter Christopher Wood (1901-30), this authoritative work, which includes over 150 images, provides extensive visual analysis of individual paintings, set designs and drawings created by Wood in both Britain and France so

Letters of Thom Gunn (Gunn Thom)(Pevná vazba)

This selection of correspondence presents, for the first time, the private life and reflections of a maverick figure in the history of British and American

Josef Albers: Life and Work (Darwent Charles)(Pevná vazba)

The first full-scale biography of one of the 20th-century's great makers, theorists and

Samurai: An Illustrated History (Kure Mitsuo)(Pevná vazba)

Samurai: An Illustrated History brings the violent, tumultuous, and, at the same time, elegant world of the medieval Japanese samurai to life. This Japanese history book traces the story of a unique historical phenomenon: a period of 700 years--equivalent to the entire stretch of Western history

The Speech of the Birds: Mantiqu't-Tair (Attar Faridu'd-Din)(Paperback)

'Mantiqu't-Tair' is one of the masterpieces of Persian literature of which a complete and annotated translation into English is here presented for the first time as 'The Speech of the Birds.' The text revolves around the decision of the birds of the world to seek out a king. Their debilitating

To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan (Anas Abdullah)(Pevná vazba)

The Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas, 'perhaps the greatest warrior of the Afghan Arabs', fought the Soviet Union for a decade. As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan jihad, he counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of Al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam to Osama bin Laden to