Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djelí Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan’s reign of terror A fantastical, brutal and thrilling triumph of the imagination…Clark’s combination of historical and political reimagining is cathartic, exhilarating and fresh. —The New York Times A 2021 Nebula Award Winner A 2021 Locus Award Winner A New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick! A Booklist Editor’s Choice Pick! A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist A 2021 World Fantasy Award Finalist A 2021 Ignyte Award Finalist A 2021 Shirley Jackson Award Finalist A 2021 AAMBC Literary Award Finalist A 2021 British Fantasy Award Finalist A 2021 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award Nominee A 2020 SIBA Award Finalist A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR – Library Journal – Book Riot – LitReactor – Bustle – Polygon – Washington Post IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan’s ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die. Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan’s demons straight to Hell. But something awful’s brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up. Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, muddle Emily’s research, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones—the most elusive of all faeries—lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she’ll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all—her own heart.
The intrigue and royal conspiracy in the Bard’s Richard III is given a dark manga twist that will appeal to aficionados of both comics and the classics. Richard, the ambitious third son of the House of York, believes he is cursed, damned from birth to eternal darkness. But is it truly fate that sets him on the path to personal destruction? Or his own tormented longings? Based on an early draft of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Aya Kanno’s dark fantasy finds the man who could be king standing between worlds, between classes, between good and evil. Richard’s father, the patriarch of the House of York, is poised to become king of medieval England during the bloody Wars of the Roses. But just as success is imminent, he is abruptly cut down. Plunged into despair, Richard acts out in revenge and must face a powerful and beautiful new enemy.
An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014) In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one, with a deepening Buddhist understanding of reality, suffering, impermanence, and beauty. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by acclaimed travel writer and novelist Pico Iyer. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Knjiga Kriza super! pisana jednostavno i jezikom razumljivim široj čitateljskoj publici. Riječ je o tekstovima odabranih emisija koje su autori vodili na Hrvatskom katoličkom radiju, slično kao i ranija njihova zajednička knjiga Ranjeno dijete i ja. Upravo uspjeh ove potonje, koja je u dvije godine prodana u više od tri tisuće primjeraka, i koja je izazvala brojne pozitivne reakcije čitateljstva, potakla je autore na ovu novu knjigu. Tema krize, u vrijeme višegodišnje recesije gospodarstva, i kojoj se kraja ne nazire, te dubokih ekonomskih i političkih previranja u domovini i u svijetu nije mogla biti aktualnija. A pristup autorskog dvojca koji povezuje psihologiju i duhovnost čini knjigu životnom, zanimljivom i korisnom za bolje razumijevanje vlastite stvarnosti u nama samima i oko nas. Dr. sc. Dario Tokić, profesor teologije Živimo u doba recesije i globalne krize koja nas plaši i tjera u stres, a svaka stranica ove knjige osvješćuje nas da nismo bespomoćne žrtve, nego nositelji svoga razvoja. Proživljavanjem straha i drugih osjećaja nadvladavamo krizu i od žrtava postajemo pobjednici. Onima koji već svjesno rade na svom duhovnom razvoju knjiga Kriza, super! podrška je da nastave, a ohrabrenje onim koji se tek spremaju suočiti s tamnom stranom svoje ličnosti. Ako Vam je „slučajno“ došla u ruke, pročitajte je, pa ćete vidjeti da je primjerena trenutku. Dr. Josip Horvat, psihijatar Ova je knjiga nastala iz komunikacije autora sa slušateljima emisija “Tražimo istinu” na Hrvatskome katoličkom radiju i s polaznicima brojnih seminara i radionica koje autori drže diljem Hrvatske. Ona je izvrstan putokaz i poticaj čitateljima na komunikaciju sa samima sobom, sa svojim bližnjima i s Riječju. Knjiga Kriza, super! nije još jedan priručnik za olako i brzo rješavanje trenutnih poteškoća, već pratitelj na duže staze koji čitatelje stavlja pred neophodnost traženja istine o motivima vlastitoga djelovanja, kako bi krize u osobnom životu, u obitelji ili u široj društvenoj zajednici shvatili i upotrijebili za osobni rast i napredak odnosa s drugima. mr. sc. Suzana Vrhovski Peran, dipl. novinarstva i teologije
In His Debut as an author, Denzel Washington shares his personal story of growing up and the guiding hands who helped shape his life. His message is echoed by 73 other leading personalities in sports, politics, business, and the arts. They all describe how their lives were changed for the better by mentors who inspired and motivated them.
Pesme i poeme. Preveo Nikola Trajković. Pismo ćirilica.
Ilustrirala Danica Rusjan. VII. izdanje.
by Mirco De Cet (Author), Alan Kent (Author) Dont let the size of the books fool you. They many be small but they are packed full of information along with beautiful color photographs. The indispensable reference is a handy, thorough guide with knowledgeable text written by specialists in the field.
The history of nude photography is the history of people’s fascination with the topic. Indeed, the photographic depiction of the human body is the only subject that has enthralled photographers, theoreticians, and consumers over such a long period-more than 150 years. No other motif is as prevalent as this one during all the phases of development comprising the history of photography, no other is present, whatever the technique, and is a subject of discussion within the context of nearly all aesthetic movements. Nor has any other pictorial topic produced such a variety of specialities as the nude: from the ethnological interpretation of the body to the glamour shot, from nudist photography to the pin-up of today. No other photographic field of application has inspired as much desire as it has awakened official wrath. 1000 Nudes offers a cross section of the history of nude photography, ranging from the earliest nude daguerreotypes and ethnographic nude photographs to experimental nude photography. The period of time spanned by this work is from 1839 to roughly 1939, from the medium’s infancy to the end of the classic modernist period. Content-wise, the book pays tribute to the full range of pictorial approaches, from the manually elaborated artistic nudes of the turn of the century, enveloped in layers of theory, to the obscene postcard motifs which had not the slightest artistic pretension and were intended to exert a maximum effect on the buyer’s wallet. All the pictures shown are taken from the late Uwe Scheid’s collection, one of the world’s largest and most important collections of erotic photography.
From the author of Globalization and its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz’s The Roaring Nineties: Why We’re Paying the Price for the Greediest Decade in History blows the whistle on the devastation wrought by the free market mania of the nineties. This is the explosive story of how capitalism US-style got its comeuppance: how excessive deregulation, government pandering to big business and exorbitant CEO salaries all fed the bubble that burst so dramatically amid corporate scandal and anti-globalization protest. As chief economic advisor to the president at the time, Stiglitz exposes the inside of what went wrong, but also reveals how Bush’s administration is now making things worse – much worse – for the economy, the US and the rest of the world. Stiglitz takes us one step further, showing how a more balanced approach to the market and government can lead not only to a better economy, but a better society.
Award-winning reporter Jason Burke shows how the threat from Islamic terrorism comes not from a single criminal mastermind, or even from one group. In this revealing account, he characterizes it is a broad movement with profound roots in the politics, societies and history of the Islamic world. Using hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents, Burke shows how Al-Qaeda is a convenient label applied misleadingly to a diverse, disorganized global movement dedicated to fighting a cosmic battle with the West. This is the definitive account of the mysterious organization, retelling its story from scratch and challenging many myths that threaten the very foundations of the War on Terror.
Po riječima Lise Nichols, koju zahvaljujući inspirativnom nastupu u knjizi i filmu Tajna poznaju milijuni ljudi, nije slučajnost što je najjači mišić u ljudskom tijelu – srce. Zato i tvrdi, a to je dokazala i u vlastitu životu, kako baš korištenje srca, odnosno vlastite emocionalne snage čovjeku može omogućiti da živi život za kakav je rođen. Lisa u ovoj knjizi nudi jedinstven i moćan inspirativni program ostvarenja vlastite osobnosti i vlastitih snova bez obzira na sve. U kritičnim trenucima jedinstvenoga životnog putovanja, u kojem je bilo mnogo padova i uspona, Lisa Nichols naučila je prepoznati i ojačati svoje, kako ih naziva, odskočne mišiće, koji osiguravaju snagu i sposobnost nošenja sa životnim nedaćama. U inovativnom programu, koji je već preobrazio stotine tisuća života, ona razotkriva tih devet koraka ili mišića (mišić poduzimanja akcije, mišić vjere u sebe, mišić opraštanja…), čijim se jačanjem može osigurati ostvarenje života kakav svaki čovjek zaslužuje u skladu sa svojim unutarnjim potrebama, sposobnostima, sklonostima i, dakako, uloženim trudom.
Trnoružica, Belle, jasmin, Snjeguljica, Ariela, Pepeljuga. Ilustrirana zbirka sadrži šest priča o šest najljepših Disneyjevih princeza:Trnoružici, Belli, Jasmin, Snjeguljici, Arieli i Pepeljugi. Poznati likovi u sasvim novim pričama, prepunim čarolije i romantike, zasigurno će oduševiti sve male djevojčice – princezice.
Esempi di ville, piccole case private di abitazione scelti fra le opere piu recenti degli artisti di tutto il mondo. PRIMA SERIE. 110 architetti di 17 nazioni, 130 opere illustrate in 166 tavole con oltre 250 piante e disegni
Mnoge su priče ostale neispričane jer svjetioničar svoju priču ispriča vlastitoj okolini – obitelji, kolegi ili nekom rijetkom namjerniku koji se iskrca na svjetionik da mu bude gost. Takve se prenesu onoliko puta koliko je priča snažna. Neke zamru brzo, dok druge ostaju u predaji. I za one koje još žive, naposljetku se rijetko zna kome su se dogodile, kad i gdje zapravo? Jesu li istina ili tek legenda? Knjiga je rezultat trogodišnjeg razgovora s preostalim jadranskim svjetioničarima i iskustvu autora u suživotu na svjetioniku. Knjiga pripovijeda i o gradnji jadranskih svjetionika, predstavlja kratak presjek monumentalnog višedesetljetnog plana Austro-Ugarske države da uspostavi mrežu od stotinu svjetionika na obali istočnog Jadrana. Raspadom te države, zaustavljena je gradnja kompliciranih i čvrstih objekata za smještaj svjetioničara i njihovih obitelji. Uđite u do sad neistraženi svijet hrvatskih svjetionika i njihovih duša, svjetioničara…
Tesa O Konel sebe doživljava kao tipičnu tinejdžerku. Ove godine završava srednju školu i nema velike ambicije. Cilj joj je da se ne ističe mnogo, da ne provocira zlobne popularne devojke u školi, ali da ipak uspe da ubedi Džeja Stouna, staru simpatiju, da joj uzvrati ljubav. Možda bi joj plan uspeo da se u grad nije vratio Kol, Džejev brat. Kol, visok, veoma lep, sa divnim plavim očima, oduvek je bio bezobrazan prema Tesi i često ju je dovodio do ivice suza. Kad su bili mlađi, bio je njen glavni „mučitelj“ i neprijatelj broj jedan. Ali mladić koji se vratio nije ni nalik starom Kolu. U stvari, nije nalik nijednom momku kojeg je upoznala. Kol je podstiče na to da bude radoznala, da očekuje više od sebe, da pređe granice koje sama sebi nameće i da otkrije svoju pravu prirodu koju tako uporno skriva iza maske osrednjosti. Da li je taj mangup koji je uporno provocira njen anđeo čuvar? Upozorenje: mangupove fore će vas oboriti s nogu, naterati da vam srce suludo brzo lupa, izazvati salve smeha i poslati vas u internet pretragu ne biste li otkrili da li negde može da se poruči mangupov klon.
Platonis Opera Omnia. Recensuit, et commentariis instruxit Godofredus Stallbaum.
Plautus. In Five Volumes, Vol 3 [only]: Merchant, Braggart Warrior, Haunted House, The Persian. With an English Translation by Paul Nixon. Published by London: Heinemann 1924.
The Metaphysical Poets Paperback – January 1, 1977 by Edited By Helen Gardner (Author). In this important and influential anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as ‘metaphysical’. Contains amongst John Milton, Thomas Carew, Sir William Davenant, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert Southwell, John Donne and Richard Crashaw.
