Hamish Hamilton (44 kníh )
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John Updike Always Looking ENFollowing on from the acclaimed Just Looking and Still Looking, Always Looking is an insightful collection of art criticism and a masterclass in appreciating art - from the great American man of letters, John Updike.Always Looking treats readers to a series of elegant and sensitive essays on art, and includes writing on a comprehensive array of subjects, both American and European. In 'The Clarity of Things', Updike…
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Ali Smith Artful ENAdapted from four lectures given at Oxford University by Ali Smith, author of bestselling The Accidental, Artful is a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought: 'On Time', 'On Form', 'On Edge' and 'On Offer and On Reflection'. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, the writer of a…
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Susan Sontag As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh ENAs Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh reveals the inner life of Susan Sontag. Providing a unique insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, Susan Sontag's As Conscious is Harnessed to Flesh chronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at the height of her powers. As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh follows Sontag through the turbulent…
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Matthew Sweney Básník Sylvestr Pollet CZAmerický básník Sylvester Pollet (1939 - 2007) byl výraznou postavou olomouckého festivalu Poezie bez hranic 2002 a jedním ze stěžejních amerických nakladatelů představujících české básníky v angličtině. Rozsáhlý výbor z Polletovy poezie citlivě přeložil básník Petr Mikeš. Publikace obsahuje stručný Polletův životopis a komentovanou analýzu jeho celoživotního díla, zabývá se jeho českou a americkou recepcí a…
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Zadie Smith Changing My Mind EN'Changing My Mind' finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal & cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate & precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books & bad movies, family & philosophy, British comedians & Italian divas.
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Lydia Davis EssaysThe visionary, fearless Lydia Davis presents a dazzling collection of essays on reading and writing, exploring the full scope of possibility within existing forms of literature and considering how we might challenge and reinvent these forms...
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Mohsin Hamid Exit West ENDiscover the unforgettable novel picked among 2017's most anticipated books by the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Buzzfeed, New York Times and many more... An extraordinary story of love and hope, travelling from the Middle East to London and beyond, from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people, attempting to do an extraordinary thing …
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Zadie Smith Feel FreeThe one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays. No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has boundless curiosity and the boundless wit to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and…
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Paul Theroux Figures in a LandscapeThe Sunday Times bestseller Paul Theroux collects a rich feast of his writing and essays - from travel to personal memoir - published all together here for the first time. Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, ...
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Noam Chomsky Global DiscontentsAn essential guide to geopolitics in 2017 — and how we should be fighting back — from the world's leading public intellectual What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow?From escalating climate change to the devastation in Syria, pandemic state surveillance to looming nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes stock of the world today. Over…
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Zadie Smith Grand UnionThe first ever collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swing Time and White Teeth. In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in...
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Richard McGuire Here ENRichard McGuire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman's editorship at RAW in 1989. Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, it collapsed time and space to tell the story of the corner of a room - and its inhabitants - between the years 500,957,406,073 BC and 2033 AD. The strip remains one of the most influential and widely discussed contributions to the medium, and it…
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Omar Musa Here Come the DogsIn small town suburbia, three young men are ready to make their mark. Solomon is all charisma, authority and charm, down for the moment but surely not out. His half-brother, Jimmy, bounces along in his wake, underestimated, waiting for his chance to...
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Mohsin Hamid How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia ENHow to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is Mohsin Hamid's spectacular, thought-provoking novel of modern Asia. In this keenly-awaited follow-up to his bestselling The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid confirms his place as a radically inventive story-teller with his finger on the world's pulse. The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its…
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Ceridwen Dovey In the Garden of the FugitivesNearly twenty years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past. He is older than her, a ghost from her university days, a former benefactor she has tried hard to forget. In his own youth, ...
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Julian Hoffman IrreplaceableFor readers of George Monbiot, Mark Cocker and Robert Macfarlane - an urgent and lyrical account of endangered places around the globe and the people fighting to save them...
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Noam Chomsky Making the Future ENIn Making the Future, Noam Chomsky takes on a wide range of hot-button issues including the ongoing financial crisis, Obama's presidency, the limits of the two-party system, nuclear Iran, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, corporate power, and the future of American politics. Laced throughout his critiques are expressions of commitment to democracy and the power of popular struggles. 'Progressive legislation and social…
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Sarah Elaine Smith Marilou is EverywhereOne summer, a teenager disappears from Deep Valley, Pennsylvania. Jude is beautiful, intelligent, and mixed race. The cops search for her - but not as hard as they would if she were a white girl. Watching this mystery unfold is Cindy, ...
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John Updike My Father's Tears and Other Stories ENA beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. In 'Fiftieth' old friends reconnect at a class reunion, and one of them is left wondering, 'What does it mean: the enormity of having been children and now being old, living next to death.' In the story 'The Full Glass' the protagonist describes somewhat ruefully the…
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Arundhati Roy My Seditious HeartTwenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete non-fiction. My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up ...
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Zadie Smith NW ENThis is the story of a city. The north-west corner of a city. Here you'll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And many people in between. Every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds. And then there are the visitations: the rare times a stranger crosses a threshold without permission or warning, causing…
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Paul Theroux On the Plain of SnakesThe master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico. Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America...
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John Onians Sloup, váza, obelisk CZSoubor esejí věnovaných významu třech základních architektonických prvků : sloupu, vázy, obelisku. Sborník představuje tyto elementy v retrospektivě kritického pohledu na vývoj architektonického myšlení od pravěku do současnosti. Mezinárodní uměnovědný diskurs emeritních profesorů Pennsylvánské universtiy (J. Rykwert), University Anglie (John Onions), Cambridgeské university (Dalibor Veselý), spolu s děkanem Cooper…
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Susan Sontag StoriesThe complete short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant & influential writers of the twentieth century - collected together for the first time. Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical...