This final volume of previously unpublished drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia trilogy. Danzig Baldaev\'s unparallelled ethnographic achievement, documenting more than 3,000 tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a prison guard. His recording of this esoteric world was reported to the KGB, who unexpectedly supported him, realizing the importance

As his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media activity almost as much as for his social interventions, contemporary approach to the readymade, and knowledge of Chinese traditional crafts, Ai\'s fame extends throughout and beyond the art world. Drawn from TASCHEN\'s limited Collector\'s Edition, this monograph

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Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain\'s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is

Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil: Umbriel, a floating city, casts a terrifying shadow - for wherever it falls, people die and rise again. And inside Umbriel\'s shadow, a great adventure begins - and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a deep secret. A daring spy on the trail of a vast conspiracy. A mage obsessed

Příběh malého Pipa začíná v bažinatém kraji Kentu. Když tam jednou o Vánocích náhodou potká uprchlého vězně, netuší, že se jeho život už brzy navždy změní. Sled úžasných událostí následujících po tomto setkání a tragický, záhadný příběh slečny Havishamové a její krásné, ale chladné adoptivní dcery Estelly činí z Nadějných vyhlídek jedno z nejoblíbenějších děl Charlese Dickense. The story of young Pip

The sequel to Jonas Jonasson\'s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they\'re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Izgalmas és egyszerre tartalmas anyanyelvi történetek a hétköznapok hőseiről. Az újságcikkek kiszótárazva várják a nyelvtanulókat, hogy az élő nyelv szófordulatait könnyebben megismerhessék. Ezen kívül könnyed lexikai gyakorlatok szakítják meg a szövegeket, melyek a szórakoztatáson túl az olvasott kifejezések elsajátítását segítik. A kötetet középfokra készülőknek éppúgy ajánljuk, mint azoknak akik

Vražda na faře / The Murder at the Vicarage - Zrcadlová četba

From the world\'s favourite author, David Walliams - ten cautionary tales and a delightfully dreadful cast of characters; all in a gorgeously gifty FULL COLOUR format! Are you ready to meet the World\'s Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls! * Like Sofia Sofa - a TV super-fan so stuck to the sofa that she\'s turning into one! * Or Dribbling Drew - a boy whose drool gets him into

Un voyage animé avec une jeune protagoniste. Attention les enfants, les ręves deviennent parfois réalité ! Thčmes : - Ręve et fantaisie - Animaux - Jeux et activités - CD Audio - Vocabulaire illustré Sophie dort dans son lit et elle fait un beau ręve. Elle ręve de passer une journée dans un cirque. Sophie ręve de rencontrer Gustave le clown, Juliette la danseuse, un superbe cheval blanc et Plume l’éléphant.

\"About a Boy\" is Nick Hornby\'s comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller. \'How cool was Will Freeman?\' Too cool! At thirty-six, he\'s as hip as a teenager. He\'s single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He\'s also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents\' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.

In his book Josef Hrdlička opens the question of what exactly constitutes Exile Poetry, and indeed whether it amounts to a category as fundamental as Romantic or Bucolic lyricism. He covers the intricately complex and diverse topic of exile by exploring selected literary texts from antiquity to the present, giving due attention to writers that have influenced the exile discourse; from Ovid, Goethe

Příběh o setkání letce, jehož letadlo havarovalo v africké poušti, a malého chlapce z daleké planety je vhodný pro čtenáře všech generací. Pobízí nás k přemýšlení nad otázkami dobra a zla a hledání podstaty přátelství, opravdové krásy a odpovědnosti za ty, které máme rádi. Antoina de Saint-Exupéryho, francouzského spisovatele, novináře a pilota, k napsání Malého prince inspirovala skutečná havárie

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of

\"A \"politika\" szót kötetünk címében akár idézőjelbe is tehetnénk. Mert hát összesen két olyan asszony életpályája kerül elő, akik a szó szoros értelmében vett \"politikusok\" voltak: a keresztényszocialista Slachta Margit, illetve a szociáldemokrata Kéthly Anna - mindketten országgyűlési képviselők, a maguk idejében nőként egyetlenek a törvényhozásban. Ám a politika, a történelmi helyzet forgandósága

This miniature version of Men, Stefan Mays charged compilation of male nudes, contains all the energy, vitality and thrill of its precursor. And, it still contains all the delightful photographs that made the larger volume so delectable. Yet, this s pecial diminutive format makes it more affordable and accessible, as well as, more convenient to shelve and browse. Stefan May commissioned by magazines

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it, the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this, she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, \"Pride and

An acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother\'s possessive grief, an abducted girl\'s equivocal memories, a farmer\'s