Varia obscura

Varia obscura

Kde jsou ty časy, kdy se na sborníky vydávané k životnímu jubileu významných osobností čekalo jako na literární událost? Možná ne tak daleko, jak bychom si mysleli! Sborník Varia obscura, vydaný k 50. narozeninám Jaroslava Tulky, do této kategorie rozhodně patří. Věren svému

Obscura (Hart Joe)(Paperback)

Jude the Obscure (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

Hardy's last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure caused much outrage when it was published in 1895. Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but his ambitions to go to university are thwarted by class prejudice and his entrapment in a

Atlas Obscura - Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras

Secret Atlanta: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure (McDonald Jonah)(Paperback)

Atlas Obscura - Joshua Foer, kolektiv autorů

Je čas vylézt z ulity a vyrazit po nevyšlapaných cestičkách. Vydejte se za zázraky přírody, bizarními lidskými a přírodními výtvory i na tajemná místa po celém světě! Vaší příští destinací může být třeba podvodní sál v parku Witley v Anglii, kostel Saint-Étienne v

Paris (Mirrlees Hope)(Paperback)

Obscure, indecent and brilliant. -- Virginia Woolf Modernism's lost masterpiece. Paris: A Poem is a daring and dynamic experimental long poem written by the British writer Hope Mirrlees. Set on a single day in post-first world war Paris, this ambitious piece of modernist psychogeography brings

František Vláčil Život a dílo - Petr Gajdošík

Zásadní monografie o jednom z nejvýznamnějších filmových tvůrců české poválečné kinematografie. Obsáhlá publikace nabídne životní i tvůrčí příběh Františka Vláčila ve formě bohatě zdokumentovaného textu, jehož součástí bude mj. produkční historie všech

Atlas Obscura - Joshua Foer - e-kniha

eBook: Je čas vylézt z ulity a vyrazit po nevyšlapaných cestičkách. Vydejte se za zázraky přírody, bizarními lidskými a přírodními výtvory i na tajemná místa po celém světě! Vaší příští destinací může být třeba podvodní sál v parku Witley v Anglii, kostel

Malí fotografové - Nikola Logosová, Jiří Forejt, Tereza Nová

Jak vyvolat fotografii, jak funguje camera obscura a jak správně nasvítit portrét? To všechno se spolu se školáky Jasmínou a Kryštofem dozvíte v knize, kde vyprávění o principech i historii fotografie, zakomponovaných do poutavého příběhu, střídají praktické návody a

Ulysses (Joyce James)(Paperback)

Originally reviled as obscure and obscene, Joyce's masterpiece now stands as one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, the novel traces the paths of Leopold Bloom and other Dubliners through an ordinary summer day and night in 1904 -- a

Buddhism without Beliefs (Batchelor Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Demystifies Buddhism by explaining, without jargon or obscure terminology, what awakening is and how to practise

Disney Who's Who (Disney Books)(Paperback)

Get to know Disney's characters, from the famous to the obscure, in this comprehensive guidebook!In this updated edition, get to know more about your favorite Disney and Disney*Pixar characters--and meet some you may not know. What is the name of Alice's cat? Who is Gilbert Huph? How many hairs

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead

The Little Book of Suffolk (Storey Neil)(Paperback)

The Little Book of Suffolk is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about one of England's most colourful counties. It is an essential to the born and bred Suffolk folk or anyone who knows and loves the county. Armed with this fascinating tome

Zoroastrianism (Waterhouse John W.)(Paperback)

This obscure and ancient religion is receiving more and more attention in modern times due to its claimed influence by scholars upon Christianity. This particular author, however, focuses upon the relationship between Zoroastrianism and Judaism, as he sets out to prove that Christianity did in fact

Hitler (Kershaw Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of how a bitter, failed art student from an obscure corner of Austria rose to unparalleled power, destroying the lives of millions and bringing the world to the brink of

Georges Rouault and Material Imagining (Johnson Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is

Hitler - A Study in Tyranny (Bullock Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Covers Hitler's life, from his obscure beginnings through his advance to supreme absolute power and then his final decline and suicide in the bunker as Russian shells fell around him. This title is divided into three main sections, dealing with Hitler's early life, how he consolidated his position,

Zalmoxis: Obscure Pagan (Blaga Lucian)(Paperback)

Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) is judged by many to be Romania's most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth century. While scholars with access to his works in Romanian are well-aware of their importance, his writings have remained, until now, little known in the English-speaking world

Original Letters from India (Fay Eliza)(Paperback)

Eliza Fay's origins are obscure; she was not beautiful, rich, or outlandishly accomplished. Yet the letters she wrote from her 1779 voyage across the globe captivated E. M. Forster, who arranged for their British publication in 1925. The letters have been delighting readers ever since with their

Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities (Jones Paul Anthony)(Paperback)

From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Did you know, for example, that scandal derives from the Latin for 'stumbling block' and originally described a trap for a wild animal? In

Animaladies: Gender, Animals, and Madness (Adams Carol J.)(Paperback)

Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms? Highlighting the frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights activists, this book examines how the 'madness' of our relationships with animals intersects with the

Napoleon Bonaparte (Doyle William)(Paperback)

In the space of less than 20 years, Napoleon turned Europe upside down. Rising from obscure origins to supreme power by a mixture of luck, audacity and military genius, he was able to harness the energies released by the French Revolution to resolve the internal problems which it had created,