The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges (Taseer Aatish)(Pevná vazba)

The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges (Taseer Aatish)(Pevná vazba)

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revengeWhen Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of

Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope (McCullough Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

Life-expectancy worldwide is twice what it was a hundred years ago. And because of modern medicine, many of us don't often see death up close. That makes it easy to live as if death is someone else's problem. It isn't. Ignoring the certainty of death doesn't protect us from feeling its effects

Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment (Bedat Maxine)(Pevná vazba)

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History (Woolf Greg)(Pevná vazba)

Stranger to History - A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands (Taseer Aatish)(Paperback / softback)

The story of a son's journey across the middle east to meet his estranged father - from an acclaimed young

Book of Two Ways: The stunning bestseller about life, death and missed opportunities (Picoult Jodi)(Pevná vazba)

Jodi Picoult's new bestseller explores life, death, and missed

Good Grief: Embracing Life at a Time of Death (Mayer Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

'The most life-affirming book ever written about death.' Sandi Toksvig'One of the most powerful and helpful books about grief that you will ever read.' Anita Anand 'Grief is more than the price of love. It is love. We must learn not just to live with it, but to make it welcome.' Mother and

Rasputin: The Untold Story (Fuhrmann Joseph T.)(Pevná vazba)

Based on new sources--the definitive biography of Rasputin, with revelations about his life, death, and involvement with the RomanovsA century after his death, Grigory Rasputin remains fascinating: the Russian peasant with hypnotic eyes who befriended Tsar Nicholas II and helped destroy the Russian

Ibn 'arabi: Heir to the Prophets (Chittick William C.)(Pevná vazba)

Renowned expert William Chittick covers the life and works of the legendary Spanish-born Sufi writer Ibn Arabi in this new biography. Discussing not only Ibn Arabi's work on the subject of mysticism, Chittick also examines Ibn Arabi's love

Anatomy of a Killing - Life and Death on a Divided Island (Cobain Ian (Y))(Pevná vazba)

The untold story of an IRA unit, and a killing that has echoed across the

A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla (Westergaard Azadeh)(Pevná vazba)

A lyrical biography of the eccentric engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla Born at the stroke of midnight during a lightning storm, Nikola Tesla grew up to become one of the most important electrical inventors in the world. But before working with electricity, he was a child who loved playing with the

A Matter of Death and Life (Yalom Irvin D.)(Pevná vazba)

A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her terminal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret. Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom devoted his career to counseling those suffering from anxiety and grief. But never

Mrs Death Misses Death (Godden Salena)(Pevná vazba)

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEMrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer,

Icarus: The Life and Death of the Abraaj Group (Brivati Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Arif Naqvi and his Dubai-based Abraaj Group were pioneers of private sector impact investment in emerging markets. Impact investing was a simple idea: private money is invested to build resilient economies in places as diverse as Ghana, Mexico, Pakistan, Nigeria, India, Kenya and the Middle East to

The Architecture of Health - Daniel A. Barber, Michael P. Murphy, Jeffrey Mansfield

A story about the design and life of hospitals—how they are born and evolve, the forces that shape them and the shifts that conspire to incapacitate them Reading architecture through the history of hospitals offers a tool for unlocking the elemental principles of architecture and the intractable

Making of Incarnation - FROM THE TWICE BOOKER SHORLISTED AUTHOR OF C AND SATIN ISLAND (McCarthy Tom)(Pevná vazba)

Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life (Long Kieran)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive monograph on Swedish modernist architect Sigurd Lewerentz. Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) is one of the most highly revered--as well as one of the most heavily mythologized--protagonists of modern European architecture. Arguably Sweden's most distinguished modernist, he is more

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Sykes Rebecca Wragg)(Pevná vazba)

In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the clich of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don't know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive

How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life (Seneca)(Pevná vazba)

Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca 'It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die,' wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to 'study death always,' and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and

Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death (Bloom Hyman)(Pevná vazba)

Themes of mortality and spirituality in the long-neglected art of a midcentury American pioneer 'Bloom's unsettling paintings are fueled by a sense of existence as a state of spiritual emergency and of art as a means for transfiguring fear.' -Holland Cotter, Art in America Hyman Bloom was a

Brighton Rock (Greene Graham)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of THE POWER AND THE GLORY. A story of gang war in the underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, only seventeen, has already brutally killed a man. Now believing he has escaped retribution, he is unprepared for Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge the

Understanding and Preventing Sudden Death: Your Life Matters (Mak Koon Hou)(Pevná vazba)

Sudden death is an uncommon condition. But when it occurs, especially in a young person, the acute loss can generate a substantial amount of grief with a great sense of disbelief. This mysterious and dreadful condition instils much fear and anxiety into the living, and more specifically for family

Josiah Wedgwood: A New Biography (Burton Anthony)(Pevná vazba)

Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all potters, working in traditional ways, but Josiah was to revolutionise the

Buried - Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt (Hessler Peter)(Pevná vazba)