Pohádkové vyprávění o vysněném malém princi, který přichází z neznámé planety a snaží se pochopit lidský svět. Druhá část obsahuje útlou prózu, která je určena autorovu židovskému příteli, skrývajícímu se v roce 1943 před Němci ve Francii. ...
Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - ...
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, ...
Špičkový americký neurochirurg přibližuje čtenářům záhady lidského mozku. Vypráví o své cestě k oboru neurochirurgie, na příkladech svých pacientů seznamuje s možnostmi současné medicíny, ale přináší i praktické rady, jak udržovat mozek v ...
A perfect town is hiding secrets. Two teenagers are dead. Two murders unsolved. And a killer who claims to be coming back. Ellery's never been to Echo Ridge, but she's heard all about it. It's where her aunt went missing at age ...
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFive students go to detention. Only four leave alive. For fans of Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars, this is the perfect high school thriller.Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule.Sports star ...
The Mediations of the great Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius are simple yet profound works of stoic philosophy that continue to offer guidance and consolation to many with their eloquence, wisdom and humility.
Presents a story of how a Chinese product has for two millennia allowed knowledge, ideas and religions to spread across the world. In this book the author traces the invention's voyage, beginning with the Buddhist translators ...
Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, ...
In 1965, after being rejected by more than a dozen publishing houses, a book called "Dune" was brought out by the Chilton Book Company. Its respected author, journalist Frank Herbert, had written "Dune" with nothing more in mind than to ...
Autor sleduje významná období dějin svého rodného města od založení po smrt T. G. Masaryka především z hlediska vztahů a vzájemného působení příslušníků čtyř národnostních skupin, podílejících se na společenské, duchovní a kulturní ...
