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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Locke John
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Goverment (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by John Locke. Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning...
Cake & Prostheses. Minidramas and short prose
Rühm Gerhard
An inveterate experimenter with image and text and music, Gerhard Rühm is truly one of the major figures of the postwar European avant-garde. Yet reprehensibly little of his work has appeared in English. This edition brings together a selection of his work spanning the past seven decades, displaying...
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
Petraeus David - Roberts Andrew
Two leading authorities - a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time - collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and a penetrating an...
Jednou budeš Arab 6
Sattouf Riad
Šestý a závěrečný díl autorovy komiksové bibliografie zastihuje protagonistu a vypravěče Rijáda na prahu dospělosti. Budoucí úspěšný kreslíř si ve francouzském provinčním městě Rennes a později v Paříži klestí cestu k profesionální kariéře, hledá vlastní umělecký výraz a současně se snaží zbavit str...
Labyrintem Bible
Pastričák Daniel
Rozsahem střídmá knížka z pera renomovaného spisovatele a kazatele Daniela Pastirčáka není akademické kompendium ani encyklopedická příručka. Autor v ní zve čtenáře na tematický výlet po třech stezkách, které mapují to nejdůležitější, co v Knize knih najdeme: vztah mezi Stvořitelem a jeho stvořením,...
Metamorphosis
Kafka Franz - Brand Karl
Night has fallen on Prague's St Nicholas Street. At long last, silence reigns in the home: father, mother and sisters have gone to bed. Only Franz is sitting wide awake behind his desk. Working rapidly, he begins to write down a disturbing story. Its first sentence opens a masterpiece that would go ...
Společnost spektáklu
Debord Guy
Společnost spektáklu (1967) je nejzávažnější teoretickou prací francouzského situacionisty Guye Deborda (1931-1994). Tvořivě v ní navazuje na Hegela, Marxe a Lukácse, aby postihl strukturu, fungování a rozpory soudobé kapitalistické společnosti, a to zejména její západní formy. Kniha silně ovlivnila...
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Poe Edar Allan
With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex This collection of Poe s best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Prema...
The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, T...