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Welcome to Amsterdam - a city where the past and present collide. Whether you want to cruise the reflective waterways, wonder at the works of the Old Masters in the Rijksmuseum, or indulge in the city's hedonistic nightlife, ...

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Ian McEwan Amsterdam EN

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 1998 On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers too,…

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Ian Mc Ewan Amsterdam EN

When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge, persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the…

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Amsterdam EN

The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Amsterdam will lead you straight to the best attractions Amsterdam has to offer. The guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of Amsterdam's stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot. You'll find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets in this fully updated and expanded guide, plus…

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Russell Shorto Amsterdam EN

This is the first 'biography' of the city of Amsterdam - in the same vein as Peter Ackroyd's London. Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year history, Amsterdam will bring the place to life: its sights and…

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Christopher Catling, Gabriella Le Breton Amsterdam EN

Active travelers trust National Geographic to deliver what they want in a guidebook: expert advice, insider tips, and the cultural feel of each destination not easily found online. These guides are pitch-perfect for today's experiential travel enthusiasts who Amsterdam's profusion of cultural and natural treasures Vincent van Gogh and the Rembrandthuis museums, Artis Royal Zoo, Albert Cuyp flea market, floating…

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Amsterdam EN

The DK Eyewitness Amsterdam Travel Guide will lead you straight to the best attractions Amsterdam has to offer. The guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the city's stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot. You'll find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets in this fully updated and expanded guide, plus…

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Edward Gorey Amphigorey Too

This follow-up to the darkly humorous Amphigorey is wittier, more macabre, and more wondrous than ever. Master illustrator and iconic gothic storyteller Edward Gorey gives his fans 20 more nonsensically and ...

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Edward Gorey Amphigorey

An illustrated collection of 15 macabre short stories. In this gorgeously detailed volume, American artist and author Edward Gorey accents amphigory (nonsense verse or composition) with his signature cross-hatched pen-and-ink drawings...

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Amphibious Jeeps in detail EN

Another in the famous in detail series, this time on the Ford GPA, GAZ-46 MAV & SKODA 973.

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William Steig Amos and Boris

Amos the mouse and Boris the whale are friends who have very little in common. Boris rescues Amos, who has set out to sail the seas - but might there be a time when Boris needs rescuing too? ...

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Guillermo Arriaga Amores Perros / Psí lásky ES

Scénář ke stejnojmennému filmu Amores Perros v němž se proslavil mexický herec Gabriel García Bernal. Tři zacyklené příběhy ze tří propastně odlišných prostředí mexického hlavního města (psí zápasy o velké peníze v lidové čtvrti, přepychový dům modelky a kůlna bezdomovce) spojuje láska (i neláska), která nabývá mnoha ne vždy krásných podob, a samozřejmě psi. Psí láska je metaforou lásky nelidské, dohnané do…

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Guillermo Arriaga Amores perros EN

Amores Perros is a bold, ambitious and intensely emotional story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Guillermo Arriaga's screenplay is as inventively structured as a Paul Auster lovel: a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives, exploring the lives of disparate characters who are catapulted into unforeseen dramatic situations, instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog…

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Francine Rivers Amor Redentor

Califronia... la fiebre del oro, 1850. Una época en la que los hombres vendían sus almas por una bolsa de oro y las mujeres sus cuerpos por un lugar para dormir. Ángela no espera más que traición por parte de los hombres. Fue vendida a la prostitución de niña y sobrevive manteniendo vivo el odio que la consume. Lo que más odia son los hombres que la utilizan, déjandola vacía y muerta por dentro. Entonces conoce a…

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David Hosp Among Thieves EN

Hosp’s latest Scott Finn legal thriller is inspired by the true story of a daring art heist that took place in Boston in 1990. The case, still unsolved, involved the theft of nearly half a million dollars’ worth of paintings from a museum. In this rendering of the case, Finn, a Boston attorney, stumbles onto the solution to the mystery when his investigations on behalf of a client, a professional crook, take him…

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Karen von Kunes Among the Sinners

Written in English by Karen von Kunes, an author of short stories and literary criticism, and a Senior Lector at Yale University who was included in The 2012 Princeton Review of The Best 300 Professors (published by Random House)...

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Sebastian Fitzek Amokspiel DE

Dieser Tag soll ihr letzter sein. Die renommierte Kriminalpsychologin Ira Samin hat ihren Selbstmord sorfältig vorbereitet. Zu schwer lastet der Tod ihrer ältesten Tochter auf ihrem Gewissen. Doch dann wird sie zu einem brutalen Geiseldrama in einem Radiosender gerufen. Ein Psychopath spielt ein makabres Spiel: Bei laufender Sendung ruft er wahllos Menschen an. Melden die sich am Telefon mit einer bestimmten parole,…

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Amnesty Interantional Report 2013 EN

The Amnesty International Report 2013 documents the state of human rights in 159 countries and territories during 2012. While governments paid lip service to their commitment to human rights, they continued to use national interests, national security and concerns about public security to justify violating those rights. In response, people all over the world took to the streets and explored the explosive potential…

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Peter Carey Amnesia

When Gaby Baillieux, a young woman from suburban Melbourne, releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australias prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free...

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Peter Carey Amnesia EN

When Gaby Bailleux released the Angel Worm into Australia's prison system, allowing hundreds of asylum seekers to walk free, she also let the cat out of the bag. The Americans ran the prisons, like so many parts of her country, and so the doors of some 5000 American places of incarceration also opened. Both countries' secrets threatened to pour out. Was this a mistake, or had Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix…

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Joyce Annette Barnes Amistad

Contemporary / British English. It is 1839. The slave ship, Amistad, is carrying African slaves to America. There is a bloody fight on the ship, and the Africans are free. But soon they are in prison in the US...

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J.P. Felix Amino Acids in Human Nutrition and Health EN

Human health issues relating to amino acids are extremely broad and include metabolic disorders of amino acid metabolism as well as their presence in food and use as supplements. This book covers the biochemistry of amino acid metabolism in the context of health and disease. It discusses their use as food supplements, in clinical therapy and nutritional support and focuses on major recent developments, highlighting…

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Maurice Blanchot Aminadab

Maurice Blanchot Aminadab című regénye Kafka erőteljes hatását tükrözi. Ezért is közöljük sorozatunkban a prágai író műveiről szóló tanulmányait tartalmazó, Kafkától Kafkáig című kötet után.

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Deborah Alexander Amina and the Shell EN

Amina and her family live in a beautiful lush valley on a tropical island. After yet another storm ruins their vegetable garden, Amina finds a tunnel through the debris to the other side of the mountain, where giants live. As soon as she arrives, amina has her first encounter with the giants. One of them picks up the beautiful shell she is hiding in and carries it off. She needs the help of some clever mice to…

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