The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Gerstein Mordicai)(Paperback)

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Gerstein Mordicai)(Paperback)

The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis' The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire

The First Drawing (Gerstein Mordicai)(Pevná vazba)

Imagine you were born before the invention of drawing, more than thirty thousand years ago.You would live with your whole family in a cave and see woolly mammoths walk by You might even see images of animals hidden in the shapes of clouds and rocks.You would want to share these pictures with your

General - The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo (Errachidi Ahmed)(Paperback / softback)

On 11 September 2001, in a cafe in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers

Penguin Pocket Jokes (Pickering David)(Paperback / softback)

Have you heard the one about the man who walked into a bar? This book is a useful reading for those searching for the perfect

Juergen Teller: The Keys to the House (Teller Juergen)(Paperback)

Unlike many photographers who maintain a strict divide between their commercial and private work, Teller has always combined the two. Indeed this merging is one reason for Teller's progressive edge. The Keys to the House contains recent photographs of Teller's life at and around his house in

The Man Who Walked in Color (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Paperback)

For Georges Didi-Huberman, artist James Turrell is an inventor of impossible spaces and unthinkable sites, of aporias, of fables. Creator of some of the most fascinating works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, Turrell uses as his medium the most elemental material of sight and

To Reach the Clouds - The Walk film tie in (Petit Philippe)(Paperback / softback)

One night in 1974, Philippe Petit secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time, making eight crossings over the course of an hour. This memoir tells the story of how he conspired,

Goblins (NE) (Reeve Philip)(Paperback / softback)

The squabbling goblins who live in the great towers of Clovenstone spend their time fighting and looting. Only clever young Skarper understands that dark magic is rising again. Trolls, giants, cloud-maidens, boglins, swamp monsters, tree-warriors and bloodthirsty goblins are swept into a fabulous

Mountains of Grace (Irvin Kelly)(Paperback)

When wildfires threaten her Montana home, Mercy Yoder finds herself torn between the Amish man who proposed without a declaration of love and the Englisch smoke jumper who can't seem to stay away.Mercy Yoder loves her students and her life in the tiny village of West Kootenai, nestled at the foot

Into the Wild (Krakauer Jon)(Paperback / softback)

Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people

The Man Who Laughs (Hugo Victor)(Paperback)

'The Man Who Laughs' tells of a facially disfigured boy, Gwynplaine, who is taken in by a carnival vendor and performs at fairs in England. It is later discovered that there is more to his past than meets the eye... Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form,

Orientalist - In Search of a Man caught between East and West (Reiss Tom)(Paperback / softback)

The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself 'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to research the oil business on the Caspian Sea, and

Something's Wrong with Us 6 (Ando Natsumi)(Paperback)

A spine-chilling and steamy romance between a Japanese sweets maker and the man who framed her mother for murder -- Something's Wrong With Us is the dark, psychological, sexy shojo series readers have been waiting for! A New Spark Nao is more nervous than ever as her body begins to accommodate a

Something's Wrong with Us 2 (Ando Natsumi)(Paperback)

A spine-chilling and steamy romance between a Japanese sweets maker and the man who framed her mother for murder -- Something's Wrong With Us is the dark, psychological, sexy shojo series readers have been waiting for Under the Full Moon Even after her mother's passing, Nao continues to make

Something's Wrong with Us 5 (Ando Natsumi)(Paperback)

A spine-chilling and steamy romance between a Japanese sweets maker and the man who framed her mother for murder -- Something's Wrong With Us is the dark, psychological, sexy shojo series readers have been waiting for Two Fates Under One Tragic Moon Nao may have managed to infiltrate Kogetsuan by

The Man Who Laughs (Hugo Victor)(Paperback)

'The Man Who Laughs' (first published in 1869) is Victor Hugo's scathing indictment of the injustice and inequality within Britain's political system. It is the story of Gwynplaine, the two-year-old heir to a rebel lord, who is abducted upon the orders of a vindictive monarch, and whose face is

The Man Who Planted Trees (Giono Jean)(Paperback)

Twenty years ago Chelsea Green published the first trade edition of The Man Who Planted Trees, a timeless eco-fable about what one person can do to restore the earth. The hero of the story, Elzeard Bouffier, spent his life planting one hundred acorns a day in a desolate, barren section of Provence

The Places in Between (Stewart Rory)(Paperback)

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving

Man Who Ate Everything (Steingarten Jeffrey)(Paperback / softback)

THE MAN WHO ATE EVERYTHING was the winner of The Guild of Food Writers Book of the Year and was a bestseller in the UK and

Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Doyle Roddy)(Paperback / softback)

From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you long after reading. 'He loved me and he beat

The Bible Knowledge Commentary Gospels (Walvoord John F.)(Paperback)

Walk with Those Who Walked with Jesus In the Gospels we witness the most crucial turning point in world history and the reason we believe what we do. The New Testament begins with four accounts of the 'good news' of the Son of God. Drawing on the research of Dallas Theological Seminary scholars,

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Chesterton G. K.)(Paperback)

G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing and secret identities, and this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont. The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world. The

Irish Round Towers (McDonnell Hector)(Paperback / softback)

The Round Towers of Ireland are among the most enigmatic and extraordinary constructions of the early Irish Church. With a gazeteer at the back, and numerous rare early engravings, this is an excellent small guide to the

Chief Engineer - The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge (Wagner Erica)(Paperback / softback)