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Nova Kumalisi would do anything for her closest friend, Mal Wacken. She owes him her life. So, when he asked her to be the surrogate mother for him and his wife, in spite of her fears about how it would alter their friendship, Nova agreed. Eight years…
This uniquely exhaustive survey of the leading artist of Viennese Art Nouveau style offers art lovers an irresistible opportunity: page after page of Klimt's paintings and frescoes along with illuminating commentary about his life and career. The author…
KACAO77 is a Berlin graffiti writer recognized the world over for his complex style, elaborate sketches and most notably his large scale trademark graffiti comics that depict super heroes and villains in a science fiction universe all their own, not…
Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second,…
New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life, and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love. Returning…
A modern serial killer - hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open on the steps of Washington's Capitol…
Fotograf a publicista Andrej Bán v knihe Kosovo ponúka pohľad na ľudí a krajinu, ktorá prechádza ťažkými skúškami. Kosovo (Kosovská republika) je od roku 1999 pod administratívnou správou OSN, o bezpečnosť sa stará NATO a policajnú a súdnu misiu zabezpečuje…
Following a near-death experience as a child, the narrator becomes cursed with the ability to foresee the deaths of the people closest to him. These visions come to him in his dreams and, following a disastrous attempt to save a childhood friend from…
Čo majú spoločné mŕtva mačka, počítačový fanatik, elektrický mních presvedčený, že svet je ružový, kvantová mechanika, vyše 200 rokov starý profesor chronológie, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (básnik) a pizza? Na prvý pohľad nie veľa – to však iba do chvíle,…
Aleksandar is Comrade-in-Chief of fishing, the best magician in the non-aligned States and painter of unfinished things. He knows the first chapter of Marx's Das Kapital by heart but spends most of his time playing football in the Bosnian town of Visegrad…
Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Unable to afford the mortgage on his riverside apartment, he has been forced to move into a semi-detached converted pigsty next door to his parents, George and Pauline. His ravishing wife Daisy loathes the countryside,…
Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight year old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form brings a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic…
When she turned the page and her gaze flickered over the date on top it was as though the lightning outside had somehow grounded right into her. A billion volts of pain, a shriek of anguish you could actually see, and feel, as it pierced her.Camp David,…
The novel begins as Michael, a middle-aged man of means, is dressing for dinner at a friend's country house in Ireland. As he descends the grand staircase, he spots a small painting of a landing with an old linen press and the white marble statue of…
Unikátna knižka, inšpirovaná jedným z najvplyvnejších a najrešpektovanejších denníkov sveta. Okrem najdôležitejších titulných strán, ktoré nájdete priamo v knihe, sú k nej pribalené aj 3 DVD so všetkými titulkami New York Times od roku 1851 až po rok…
It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate…
Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for Glastonbury, an art restorer has been brutally murdered, and the newly discovered Rembrandt he was working on has disappeared. For Spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon, it has been six months…
In 325 AD, the oligarchs of the early Christian Church assembled in Nicaea. Their aim? To codify, organise and approve the tenets of the rapidly growing new faith. To separate heresy from truth and sin from faith. To collect and formalise the Bible itself.…
Publikácia Archeológia výtvarnej kritiky hovorí o slovenskom umení šesťdesiatych rokov z pozície textových dokumentov. Sleduje problémové ohniská dobových polemík, na základe ktorých opisuje praktiky formovania výpovedí a názorov rôznych osobností (O.…
An innocent man is days from execution.Only a guilty man can save him.Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would…
I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened in Ohio. John Smith, out there, on the run. To the world, he's a mystery. But to me . . . he's one of us. Nine of us came here, but sometimes I wonder if time has changed us—if we all…
Publikácia založená na zbere, analýze a interpretácii autentických výpovedí maliarok a maliarov, ktorí svojou tvorbou zásadným spôsobom ovplyvnili situáciu v slovenskej maľbe posledných desaťročí. Na rozdiel od štandardného rozhovoru, ťažisko orálnej…
Určujúcim predpokladom tejto práce je vlastne poznanie, že umenie je kontextuálna záležitosť: teda že to nie je akási uzavretá entita, na ktorej esencii a kvalitách sa možno raz a navždy, a najmä objektívne dohodnúť. Skôr je zrejmé, že Umenie „ako také“,…
Trees of the World presents almost 250 photographs of the world's most gorgeous trees from Europe, Africa, the Amerikas and Australia, including the baobab, yucca and dracaena amongst others
Výskum akčného umania na Slovensku vykazuje na základe politického vývoja pre rokom 1989 viaceré medzery. Alternatívne a neoficiálne umenie sa dostalo do pozornosti inštitucionálneho skúmania po roku 1989 ako jedna z ústredných tém, na základe čoho je…
Publikácia prináša vhľad do problematiky tela a telesnosti a prostredníctvom širších metodologických prístupov (postštrukturalizmus, feministické, rodové, psychoanalytické, fenomenologické, sociologické, antropologické prístupy), spolu s obsahovou štruktúrou,…
Katarína Macurová voľbou a spracovaním danej problematiky dobieha dedičný dlh nášho novodobého dejepisu umenia „päť minút po dvanástej hodine". Podujala sa upresniť a revidovať tradovaný mýtus o pedagogickom pôsobení Kolomana Sokola v Mexiku a o…