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Beck Dorey-Stein From the Corner of the Oval OfficeIn 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in Washington DC when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers. The ultimate DC outsider, she joined the elite team who accompanied ...
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Libuše Dušková From syntax to Tex ENThe volume presents the author’s articles written in the last fifteen years, dealing with the interaction between syntax, functional sentence perspective (information structure) and text in present-day English. It is divided into five parts, I Syntactic Constancy, II Syntax FSP Interface, III FSP and Semantics, IV Syntax, FSP, Text and V Style, which reveal the two facets of functional sentence perspective:…
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W. V. Quine From Stimulus to ScienceW. V. Quine is one of the most eminent philosophers alive today. Now in his mid-eighties he has produced a sharp, sprightly book that encapsulates the whole of his philosophical enterprise, including his thinking on all the key components of his...
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Nythamar de Oliveira From Social to Cyber JusticThe book contains critical analyses of injustice in connection to law and ethics, and develops normative alternatives linked to justice. It covers the relevant issues from social justice to...
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Tembi Locke From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding HomeA poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her...
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Heidi Blake From Russia with BloodRussia's resurgent encroachment into the West is the defining geopolitical story of our time – and a topic of insatiable public fascination. Putin's use of targeted killing is designed to crush opponents, frighten critics into silence, exterminate ...
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Malcolm Bradbury, Richard Ruland From Puritanism to Postmodernism ENFrom a Modernist/Postmodernist perspective, leading critics Richard Ruland (American) and Malcolm Bradbury (British) address questions of literary and cultural nationalism. They demonstrate that since the seventeenth century, American writing has reflected the political and historical climate of its time and helped define America's cultural and social parameters. Above all, they argue that American literature has…
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Ali McNamara From Notting Hill with Love... Actually ENA fabulously fun romantic comedy debut, referencing all those much-loved chick flick classics: Four Weddings; Sleepless in Seatle; When Harry Met Sally, to name just a few!
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Ali McNamara From Notting Hill with Four Weddings... Actually ENMovie addict Scarlett O'Brien is finally living the jet-setting life she's dreamed of, but it all hangs by a shiny, golden thread. Flying between London and New York, running two businesses, and planning her wedding to handsome fiancé Sean along with her best friends Oscar and Maddie life couldn't be better. Then Scarlett meets paparazzi darling Gabriella Romero, and life suddenly becomes even more extravagant and…
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Gareth E. Roberts From Music to Mathematics ENTaking a music first approach, Gareth E. Roberts's From Music to Mathematics will inspire students to learn important, interesting, and at times advanced mathematics. Ranging from a discussion of the geometric sequences and series found in the rhythmic structure of music to the phase-shifting techniques of composer Steve Reich, the musical concepts and examples in the book motivate a deeper study of mathematics.…
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David Walsh From Lance to Landis ENFor eight years, the Tour de France, arguably the world’s most demanding athletic competition, was ruled by two men: Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis. On the surface, they were feature players in one of the great sporting stories of the age–American riders overcoming tremendous odds to dominate a sport that held little previous interest for their countrymen. But is this a true story, or is there a darker version of…
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Myer Fredman From Idomeneo to Die ZauberfloteThis is the first book by an experienced conductor to explore the orchestras contribution to Mozarts greatest operatic works: Idomeneo, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Die Schauspieldirektor, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni...
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Myer Fredman From Idomeneo to Die ZauberfloteThis is the first book by an experienced conductor to explore the orchestras contribution to Mozarts greatest operatic works: Idomeneo, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Die Schauspieldirektor, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, La...
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Caitlin Doughty From Here to EternityAs a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces...
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Caitlin Doughty From Here to EternityFascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the...
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Caitlin Doughty From Here to EternityFascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely...
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Alan Moore From HellAlan Moore (Watchmen) and Eddie Campbell (Bacchus), grandmasters of the comics medium, present a book often ranked among the greatest graphic novels of all time: From Hell.Two master storytellers. Five unsolved murders. A hundred years of mystery.....
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Martin Šauer From GSM to LTE ENWireless systems such as GSM, UMTS, LTE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth offer possibilities to keep people connected while on the move. In this flood of technology, From GSM to LTE: An Introduction to Mobile Networks and Mobile Broadband enables readers to ex
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Rashmila Shakya From Goddess to Mortal ENThis title shows a unique and rare combination of innocence and power as reflected through the narratives the Rashmila Shakya.
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Jeremy W. Dale From Genes to Genomes ENRapid advances in a collection of techniques referred to as gene technology, genetic engineering, recombinant DNA technology and gene cloning have pushed molecular biology to the forefront of the biological sciences. From Genes to Genomes: Concepts and Applications of DNA Technology explains key ideas underlying the most central techniques in the context of the ways in which they are used. The book opens with a…
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Robert Fulghum From Fulghum II/Něco z Fulghuma II ENPrvní česko-anglické dvojjazyčné vydání výběru z díla Roberta Fulghuma. Do knihy, která by měla sloužit jak Fulghumovým fanouškům, tak žákům angličtiny, byly vybrány eseje a příběhy z celého díla oblíbeného amerického spisovatele, jež u nás vychází od roku 1992 v překladu Jiřího Hrubého. Prvně si tak čtenáři budou moci vychutnat vypravěčský dar Roberta Fulghuma i v originále, a konečně posoudit, zda má pravdu, když…
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Robert Fulghum From Fulghum I/Něco z Fulghuma I CZRobert Fulghum vydal sedm veleúspěšných knih. Na světě existuje více než 16 milionů výtisků jeho knih, byly vydány ve 27 jazycích ve 103 zemích. Jeho zatím poslední kniha esejů Co jsem to proboha udělal? vyšla v r. 2007 v newyorském nakladatelství St. Martin´s Press. Jeho zatím jediný román Třetí přání vyšel dosud v češtině a maďarštině.Z obsahu: Všechno, co opravdu potřebuju znát, jsem se naučil v mateřské školce …
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Gene Sharp From Dictatorship to Democracy ENFrom Dictatorship to Democracy was a pamphlet, printed and distributed by Dr Gene Sharp and based on his study, over a period of forty years, on non-violent methods of demonstration. Now in its fourth edition, it was originally handed out by the Albert Einstein Institution, and although never actively promoted, to date it has been translated into thirty-one languages. This astonishing book travelled as a photocopied…
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Sandee Cohen From Design Into Print ENA designer in New York creates a beautiful design but when she prints it the colors become muddy. An art director in Seattle sends a file to the print shop, and they call him to say the job won’t print. The editor of a college paper can’t figure out why all the pictures in the paper are jagged. And a freelance designer is Chicago needs to bid on her first print job. Linescreen, DPI, CMYK, RIPs, bleeds, spots, and…
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