The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard
The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard''s first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn…
This publication is a carefully curated, research-based exploration of a region where architecture emerges not as monumentality, but as method: flexible, bioclimatic, and socially coded.
The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard''s first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn…
Highly acclaimed holistic therapist Estelle Bingham distils decades of wisdom on metaphysical teachings to help readers unlock the healing and affirming possibilities of Embodied Heart Energy.‘There is only one word for Estelle Bingham’s practice: transformative.…
You can’t escape the shadows . . .The Elite are imprisoned, the Reaper King is once again banished from the world and the city of Nubis is trying to return to normal. So is Mia,…
Druhý díl hororové ságy sledující několik generací rodiny Caskeyových nás znovu zavede do zapadlého alabamského městečka Perdida. Elinor se ujala role vládkyně klanu a její vliv na rodinu i celé město neustále sílí.Rodinná pila začíná…
Muriel Spark’s classic novel of the power of loyalty and influence, now available in a stunning package that is accessible for all readers.At an Edinburgh school in the 1930s, glamorous, outspoken Miss Jean Brodie is…
Text knihy sestává z životních příběhů postav, jejichž osudy pokrývají dvacáté století od jeho prvního roku po jeho závěr. Hlavní pozornost je věnována linii rodu Kolrossů, který má své kořeny v pošumavském českém městečku Čachrov,…
A provocative study that reconsiders our notion of play—and how its deceptively wholesome image has harmed and erased people of color.Contemporary theorists present play as something wholly constructive and positive. But this broken definition is…
A story about stories within stories as four interconnected mysteries take the reader through the ages, from Shakespeare’s day to a 19th century Gothic former Priory, to 1920s Venice, and finally to 1940s California, from…