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Vincent Peters Selected WorksOver the last quarter century, Vincent Peters's photographs have graced the pages of Vogue, Glamour, and GQ and defined fashion campaigns from Dior to Hugo Boss to Yves Saint Laurent. One of the most sought-after portrait and fashion photographers...
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Edgar Allan Poe Selected Tales ENSince their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very…
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Edgar Allan Poe Selected Tales ENA unique selection of 24 tales. Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of…
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Jerome Klapka Jerome Selected Stories / Výběr z povídek ENVýběr povídek a úvah známého humoristy, zpracovaný ojedinělým způsobem - na levé straně je původní text, na pravé straně pak překlad do češtiny, čímž odpadá pracné a zdlouhavé hledání ve slovníku. Méně obvyklé výrazy, ustálená rčení nebo slovní spojení jsou navíc v původním i přeloženém textu zvýrazněny. 3. vydání.
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Katherine Mansfield Selected Stories ENPowerful and evocative, each of Katherine Mansfield's short stories is a masterclass in the form that made her name. Cut tragically short at the age of 34, hers was a life of passion that took her from New Zealand to Bohemian London and Paris. These various landscapes are reflected with verve in her writing, and are peopled with astutely and intimately drawn characters: lonely Miss Brill in her ermine, Colonel…
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Anton Chekhov Selected Stories ENPraised by Tolstoy as an incomparable artist, Chekov is considered one of the masters of the short story. This collection features twenty of his most noted stories, including The Confession, Ninotchka, and The Cure for Drinking.
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Virginia Woolf Selected Short Stories'Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour - landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! ...
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Rabindranath Tagore Selected Short Stories ENIn 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. These short stories, written mostly in the 1890s, vividly portray Bengali life and culture. Tagore’s treatment of caste culture, bureaucracy and poverty paint a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century India, and all are interwoven with Tagore’s…
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Rainer Maria Rilke Selected Poems of Rainer Maria RilkeFor poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, a National Book Award-winning poet brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of...
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Rainer Maria Rilke Selected PoemsHailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and `willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. ..
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Rabindranath Tagore Selected Poems ENIn 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. Tagore’s poetry continues to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world.
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William Blake Selected Poems ENSúborné dielo rebela anglickej poézie, plné mnohoznačností, tajomných symbolov, mystiky, sexu a religiozity, pomocou ktorých Blake preberá otázky ľudského života, jeho existencie. William Blake include questions of the proper place of intellectual control in the personality, the place of impulse, the relations between authority and those it controls (and therefore between elders and children), the relations of…
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Sylvia Plath Selected Poems ENArranged in probable order of composition, and featuring both lyrics and tunes, this collection of poems and songs written by Burns late in his career reveals his emotional range for modern readers.
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John Keats Selected poems ENOne of the greatest of the Romantic poets, Keats was a passionate believer in Art and Beauty. A liberal in his views, Keats lived during a time of political unrest, and his poetry is often indirectly critical of the conventional political, religious and sexual beliefs that governed his society. Although most of his poetry spans only four years his poetic development was rapid. His poems range from the light…
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Robert Burns Selected poems ENThe myth that has grown up around Robert Burns, Scotland's greatest popular poet, has sometimes obscured his original poetic gifts. The educated son of a poor cotter, Burns became known for his rustic background, his fraternity with the working man, his Jacobite loyalty and his amorous entanglements. Yet his contribution to literature is immense. His use of dialogue and colloquial speech is comparable to that of…
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Martin Boďa Selected Methodological Issues in Technical Efficiency Measurement of Bank Branches ENThe monograph originated in response to a number of critical methodological issues that arise in technical efficiency measurement in banking, especially with a focus upon the branch level. Its ambition is to clear some ambiguities that continue to trouble empirical research in this field and that include the issue of selecting an appropriate model of banking or choosing a suitable comprehensive measure of technical…
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Hans Christian Andersen Selected Fairy Tales ENHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!' (from 'The Ugly Duckling') This collection brings together some of Hans Christian Andersen's most popular fairy tales - including 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Ugly Duckling' and 'Thumbelina' - in a celebration of one of the world's most…
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William Mills Tompkins Selected by Extraterrestrials ENBill Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy as a teenager, when the Navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of the radars and gun emplacements. He was personally present at the “Battle of L.A.” when a thousand rounds of ammo were fired at UFOs, and one of the Nordic craft may have selected him to be their rep in the evolving aerospace…
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Alexander Exner, Hella Exner, Gerhard Hochreiter Selbststeuerung von UnternehmenTopführungskräfte mischen häufig bei zeitintensiven operativen Entscheidungen mit. Dabei wäre es wichtiger, sie könnten sich auf das Wesentliche in ihrem Unternehmen konzentrieren. Die Autoren erklären anhand des Konzepts ...
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Kathy Reichs Seizure ENThe breathtaking follow-up to Virals, Kathy Reichs' brand new forensic series. HEART-STOPPING FORENSIC ACTION WITH A LETHAL TWIST. The Virals' home on Loggerhead Island is under threat, and only one thing can save it: a lot of money. A 300-year-old legend Rumour has it that notorious pirate Anne Bonny hid her treasure somewhere in Charleston in 1720. No-one knows where, but Tory Brennan - great-niece of famous…
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László Krasznahorkai Seiobo There Below ENOne of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's finest novels available in stunning redesigned paperback. Beauty, in Laszlo Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred - even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to mortal realms in search of perfection. An ancient Buddha being restored; the Italian renaissance painter Perugino managing his…
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