Abacus

Adventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's most important volcanoes, from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia, exploring Tamsin Mather's obsession with these momentous geological formations, the cultural and religious roles they have played in the minds of those living around...

Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea ... Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, imagines a new life in the big city ... George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Food, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married...

Az irodalom történetét minden bizonnyal lehetetlen megírni az álnevek története nélkül. Az álnév és névtelenség jelensége behálózza az irodalom minden korszakát, izgalmas és összetett mintázatokat kialakítva. Antológiánk a Bázis Egyesület tagjainak álneves költészetéből állt össze, és a kortárs magyar irodalom egy...

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board...

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable...

Are there tangible benefits in flossing? Is it wrong to fake orgasms? What does the perfect online dating ad look like? Should we bother doing the ironing? Is it really impossible to buy the perfect Christmas gift? (Other than this book, of course.) Economists might not be the first people you would think of to give you advice on such diverse areas...

Magyar nyelvű interaktív múzeumpedagógiai mesekönyv N. Tóth Anikó írónő tollából. Egy múzeum? Hm. Érdemes betérni? Naná! Különleges, titokzatos hely, tágas termekkel, kincseket rejtő tárlókkal, a zegzugos múltat felidéző tárgyakkal. Ahol minden megtörténhet. Ahol fordulatos kalandok részese lehetsz. Ahol rendkívüli találkozásokat...

Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent French - will be of service to a greater, more...

Ha a szépirodalmi szövegre mint nem autonóm, hanem egy komplex hálózat részeként működő jelenségre tekintünk, akkor az irodalmiság olyan, eddig főként elszigetelten működtetett jelenségei kerülnek hirtelen új megvilágításba, mint a hatás, az intertextualitás, a kanonizáció, a transz kulturalitás, a siker, a nyelvhasználat,...

Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort, their home a mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to lose his sight, Langley returns from the war with his lungs seared by gas, and when both of their parents die, they seem perilously ill-equipped to deal...

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner tells a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse...

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss ...'Wallace's...

In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished for ever, while the other was a dismembered, bleeding trunk. In their place, a new superpower had arisen: the empire of the Arabs. So profound was this upheaval that it spelled, in effect, the end of the ancient...

Kétségbeesett idősödő férfi, a kórházi közeg sajátos életképei, széthullott életek, családi konfliktusok, a képzelet és a valóság határán egyensúlyozó betegek. Milyen bonyodalmakba keveredik, mekkora kétségbeesés hajtja azt a megszállott, öregedő férfit, aki mindenáron arra vágyik, hogy a klinika elismert professzora...

Truly eye-opening ...There is almost no situation that Harford cannot dissect with his sharp economist's tools ...economics has never been this cool' NEW STATESMAN If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this really rational behaviour? And how come your idiot boss is so overpaid? In fact, the behaviour...

Can true love triumph in the face of fierce family opposition? Mr Ali's marriage bureau is flourishing but trouble isn't far away once son Rehman begins secretly to woo TV journalist Usha in the small cafes and on the beautiful beaches of South Indian Vizag in an ill-advised romance. Meanwhile the lovely Aruna has a problem or two all her own. She enjoys...

In this third volume of highly original 'detective' stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí , kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka...

Do tejto antológie sa dostali také texty z posledných 10 – 15 rokov maďarskej poézie na Slovensku, ktoré majú azda najväčší potenciál osloviť slovenské publikum. Jej cieľom je prostredníctvom básní nadviazať spojenie so súčasnou slovenskou literatúrou, vstúpiť do jej priestoru, inšpirovať ju k ďalším kontaktom, zapôsobiť...

Az EU irodalmi díjas Richard Pupala művének, a Nők és férfiak, állatok című novelláskötetének magyar fordítása, amely bekerült az Anasoft litera irodalmi díj döntőjébe is. Meghökkentő mesék. Kisemberek kicsi, mikrovilágbeli, közép európai, meglepetésszerű epizódjai. Egy tűsarkús nő lábára rácsapott kocsiajtó. Egy...

The New York Times bestseller, a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child. 'It's impossible not to be moved' Stephen King'Exceptionally powerful and scaldingly relevant' Observer'Stunning...this novel will break your heart and fire up your courage' Mail on Sunday'Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching' Reese WitherspoonTwelve-year-old...

The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest and most formidable state the world had yet seen. Beginning...

Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting - from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell us 'your call is important to us'. How did we get to a place where bullshit is not just rife but apparently so effective that it's become the communications strategy...