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Holes
The iconic, multi-million bestselling novel, in a 25th anniversary edition with exclusive new material inside. An unmissable modern classic.
Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre (which isn't green and doesn't have a lake) he is not surprised. Every day he and the other inmates are told to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, reporting anything they find. Why? The evil warden claims that it's character building, but this is a lie. It's up to Stanley to dig up the truth.
A masterpiece of storytelling that combines sly humour with irresistible, page-turning writing.
New 25th anniversary edition includes exclusive material from author Louis Sachar, a foreword from acclaimed author Phil Earle and brilliant readers' notes from Scott Evans (The Reader Teacher).
Black Holes
At the heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole 4 million times more massive than our Sun. A place where space and time are so warped that light is trapped if it ventures within 12 million km. According to Einstein, inside lies the end of time. According to 21st-century physics, the reality may be far more bizarre.
Black holes lie where the most massive stars used to shine and at the edge of our current understanding. They are naturally occurring objects, the inevitable creations of gravity when too much matter collapses into not enough space. And yet, although the laws of nature predict them, they fail fully to describe them.
Black holes are places in space and time where the laws of gravity, quantum physics and thermodynamics collide. Originally thought to be so intellectually troubling that they simply could not exist, it is only in the past few years that we have begun to glimpse a new synthesis; a deep connection between gravity and quantum information theory that describes a holographic universe in which space and time emerge from a network of quantum bits, and wormholes span the void.
In this groundbreaking book, Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw take you to the edge of our understanding of black holes; a scientific journey to the research frontier spanning a century of physics, from Einstein to Hawking and beyond, that ends with the startling conclusion that our world may operate like a giant quantum computer.
Lacná kniha Holes (-50%)
Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck going back generations, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre. Nor is he very surprised when he is told that his daily labour at the camp is to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, and report anything that he finds in that hole. The warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up the truth. In this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar has created a masterpiece that will leave all readers amazed and delighted by the author's narrative flair and brilliantly handled plot.
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What are Black Holes?
This eBook explores current (and past) theories pertaining to the existence of black holes in our universe. It aims to provide its readers with a fundamental understanding of what black holes are, what they are composed of, and where they developed.
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My Heart and Other Black Holes
A brilliant and heartbreaking novel perfect for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why.
Aysel and Roman are practically strangers, but they've been drawn into an unthinkable partnership. In a month's time, they plan to commit suicide - together.
Aysel knows why she wants to die: being the daughter of a murderer doesn't equal normal, well-adjusted teenager. But she can't figure out why handsome, popular Roman wants to end it all....and why he's even more determined than she is.
With the deadline getting closer, something starts to grow between Aysel and Roman - a feeling she never thought she would experience. It seems there might be something to live for, after all - but is Aysel in so deep she can't turn back?
White Holes
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Let us journey into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we'll see geometry fold, we'll feel the equations draw tight around us. Eventually, we'll pass it: the remains of a star, deep and dense and falling further far. And then - the bottom. Where time and space end, and the white hole is born...
With lightness and magic, here Carlo Rovelli traces the ongoing adventure of his own cutting-edge research, of the uncertainty and joy of going where we've not yet been. Guiding us to the edge of theory and experiment, he invites us to go beyond, to experience the fever and the disquiet of science. Here is the extraordinary life of a white hole.
Black Holes & Time Warps
Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time. Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know? Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component. Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.
Holes
Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck going back generations, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre. Nor is he very surprised when he is told that his daily labour at the camp is to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, and report anything that he finds in that hole. The warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up the truth. In this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar has created a masterpiece that will leave all readers amazed and delighted by the author's narrative flair and brilliantly handled plot.
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Black Holes
A Brief History of Time for the 21st Century
At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It's time to explore our universe's most mysterious inhabitants
Black Holes
At the heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole 4 million times more massive than our Sun. A place where space and time are so warped that light is trapped if it ventures within 12 million km. According to Einstein, inside lies the end of time. According to 21st-century physics, the reality may be far more bizarre.
Black holes lie where the most massive stars used to shine and at the edge of our current understanding. They are naturally occurring objects, the inevitable creations of gravity when too much matter collapses into not enough space. And yet, although the laws of nature predict them, they fail fully to describe them.
Black holes are places in space and time where the laws of gravity, quantum physics and thermodynamics collide. Originally thought to be so intellectually troubling that they simply could not exist, it is only in the past few years that we have begun to glimpse a new synthesis; a deep connection between gravity and quantum information theory that describes a holographic universe in which space and time emerge from a network of quantum bits, and wormholes span the void.
In this groundbreaking book, Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw take you to the edge of our understanding of black holes; a scientific journey to the research frontier spanning a century of physics, from Einstein to Hawking and beyond, that ends with the startling conclusion that our world may operate like a giant quantum computer.
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1001 golf holes you must play
Every golfer dreams of having the chance to play a great hole. With over 800 illustrations from international golf courses across the world 1001 Golf Holes takes you to the world's best. Fact boxes provide instant information on the course, location, architect, designer, length and par of each hole, while longer entries give further insight into playing the hole, the designer's intention and the history of the greats who have played there. Whether you're in the game for the thrill, the strategy, the locations, or even for the occasional hole-in-one, each hole has a story to tell, and a challenge for golfers to master. Covering 3-par, 4-par and 5-par, the challenging, the scenic, the celebrity-designed, and the most demanding, this magnificent guide will let you discover the 1001 holes you simply must play.
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Black Holes and Baby Universes
Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller, A Brief History of Time. Now, in his first collection of essays and other pieces - on subjects that range from the warmly personal to the wholly scient
ific - Stephen Hawking is revealed variously as the scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen, and - as always - the rigorous and imaginative thinker. Whether he is remembering his first experience of nursery school; puncturing the arrogance of
those who think science can best be understood only by other scientists and should be left to them; exploring the origins and the future of the universe; or reflecting on the phenomenon of A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking's wit, directness o
f style and absence of pomp are vital characteristics at all times.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustrač
ná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
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A Brief History of Black Holes
Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.
The Earth goes around the Sun, and the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole - the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy.
In A Brief History of Black Holes University of Oxford astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst charts the scientific breakthroughs that have uncovered the weird and wonderful world of black holes, from the collapse of massive stars to the iconic first photographs of a black hole in 2019.
A cosmic tale of discovery, you'll learn: why black holes aren't really 'black', that you never ever want to be 'spaghettified', how black holes are more like sofa cushions than hoovers, and why beyond the event horizon, the future is a direction in space rather than in time. Full of wit and learning, this captivating book explains why black holes contain the secrets to the most profound questions about our universe.
Sherlock Holmes 1
Novelou Štúdia v krvavočervenom sa začínajú dobrodružstvá najslávnejšej detektívnej dvojice všetkých čias, Sherlocka Holmesa a doktora Watsona.
Doktor Watson si po návrate z aktívnej vojenskej služby hľadá byt. Sherlock Holmes zase hľadá spolubývajúceho. Dohoda uzavretá medzi mužmi sa zdá byť obojstranne výhodná. No ak si doktor Watson myslel, že život na Baker Street 221B bude plynúť pokojne a hladko, mýlil sa. Netreba ho však ľutovať. Veď vďaka jeho zápiskom sa môžeme nechať zatiahnuť do vyšetrovania nevysvetliteľných vrážd a následne, v príbehu Podpis štyroch, do prípadu nezvestného dôstojníka. Čitateľovi sa črtajú príjemné vyhliadky na ďalšie záhady, jeden stratený poklad a jeden poklad nájdený. Nakoniec sa doktor Watson môže pokladať za šťastlivca.
Týmto zväzkom otvárame nové vydanie holmesovskej ságy, ktorá sa pýši zaujímavým dizajnom a brilantnými ilustráciami pre potechu každého milovníka kníh a obdivovateľov Sherlocka Holmesa obzvlášť.
Holes
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.
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Sherlock Holmes 6: Údolie hrôzy
Vražda Johna Douglasa v malebnom zámočku Birlstone priláka pozornosť verejnosti a vďaka zdanlivo nevysvetliteľným okolnostiam aj pozornosť Sherlocka Holmesa. Polícia je v koncoch, a tak opäť raz s prosbou klope na dvere Baker Street 221B a angažuje neoficiálneho detektíva. Ako sa ukáže, smrť Johna Douglasa je iba malým ohnivkom v celej reťazi udalostí, ktoré sa odohrali pred mnohými rokmi v Pensylvánii, v údolí, kde strach a teror ležal na ľuďoch ako tieň a kde zákon a poriadok nemal žiadnu moc. V Údolí hrôzy. Dej románu sa odohráva ešte pred osudovým stretnutím Sherlocka Holmesa a profesora Moriartyho (v zbierke Sherlock Holmes 4: Spomienky na Sherlocka Holmesa), no je to tiež jeden z prípadov, do ktorého zasiahla ruka génia zločinu.
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Trianon – triumf a katastrofa 2. vydanie
4. júna 1920 bola podpísaná Trianonská mierová zmluva, ktorá dala bodku za historickým Uhorskom. Zmluva priniesla strednej Európe protichodné očakávania a pocity. Na jednej strane radosť spojenú s veľkými nádejami, na druhej obavy, pocit krivdy a osudovej katastrofy. Trianon stále vyvoláva vášne a snahy po revízii. Tie hovoria o historickej nespravodlivosti, o náprave krívd a spojení rozdeleného národa. Po sto rokoch v nových európskych kontextoch ide už len o politickú mobilizáciu a nezodpovedné účelové politické hry. Kniha mapuje cestu, ktorá priviedla Maďarov k tejto katastrofe a hodnotí ju zo slovenského pohľadu. Vnútorná politika pred vojnou, agresívne ciele Uhorska počas nej a definitívna porážka štátu viedli k jeho rozpadu a k turbulentným udalostiam roku 1919, keď si Slovensko komplikovane hľadalo cestu k novému štátu a nové nestabilné Maďarsko sa potácalo od ľavicového k pravicovému radikalizmu. V oboch prípadoch pôsobilo ako potenciálna vojenská hrozba, nositeľ aktívnej propagandy proti svojim susedom, rovnako sa však stávalo obeťou eskalovaných územných ašpirácií. Trianon sa javí ako zavŕšenie jednej historickej etapy, súčasne však otvára novú, spojenú s bojom za a proti jeho revízii. Obyčajní ľudia sa stávali nevinnými obeťami týchto historických procesov a mocensko-politických ašpirácií na oboch stranách hranice.
Sherlock Holmes 9: Apokryfy Sherlocka Holmesa
Arthur Conan Doyle napísal viac diel o svojom detektívovi, ako obsahuje tradičný „kánon“ Sherlocka Holmesa, t. j. kompletné dielo zahŕňajúce štyri romány a 56 poviedok, ktoré sme vydali v predchádzajúcich zväzkoch edície.
Sherlock Holmes je postava, ktorá vedie pestrý literárny život a príležitostne si odskočí rozdať pár rád pri detektívnom pátraní v iných poviedkach, pátra po zločine na javisku v divadle, ako na starého známeho naňho narazíme pri čítaní eseje alebo novinového článku z pera A. C. Doylea.
Všetky tieto nekanonické diela sa medzi holmesológmi označujú ako Apokryfy. Apokryfy Sherlocka Holmesa sú staro-nové, objavné a autentické sherlockovské zážitky určené pre všetkých holmesológov, fanúšikov a každého, kto si obľúbil postavu veľkého detektíva.