Radu Oltean

Dacia. Razboaiele cu Romanii, vol. I -Sarmizegetusa

Anul aparitiei: 2013

O carte cu un subiect deosebit de pasionant editata in conditii grafice excelente, cu ilustratii color reusite.

Stuart Nadler (Author)

Wise Men

Editura: LITTLE BROWN & CO INC

Anul aparitiei: 2013

Hilly Wise is the son of one of the most powerful and wealthy lawyers in the United States. When Hilly finds himself falling for Lem's niece, Savannah, his affection for her collides with his father's dark secrets. The results shatter his family, and hers. Years later, haunted by his memories of that summer, Hilly sets out to find Savannah. Nadler tells a beautifully told multigenerational story about love and regret.

Otten Valerie (Author)

Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon (editie in lb franceza)

Editura: BIBLIOBAZAAR

Anul aparitiei: 2014

C]'est le cinema qui nivelle tout," schrieb Andre Bazin in seinem Artikel Pour un cinema impur uber die unuberschaubare Menge an Literaturverfilmungen im Kino. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit der Analyse von Filmadaptationen am Beispiel von Julian Schnabels Le Scaphandre et le Papillon aus dem Jahr 2007, der Verfilmung von Jean-Dominique Baubys Memoiren. Die Filmadaptation soll im Hinblick auf den Umgang des Medium Films mit Subjektivitat bzw. autodiegetischen Erzahlstrukturen betrachtet werden. Wie wird Subjektivitat im Film erzeugt? Im theoretischen Teil sollen einige Voraussetzungen fur die Analyse von Literaturverfilmungen unter medienwissenschaftlichen, semiotisch-linguistischen als auch literaturwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven bestimmt werden. Im praktischen Teil der Arbeit werden die Erzahlstrukturen des Films Le Scaphandre et le Papillon in Bezug zu seiner Vorlage analysiert. Die Kernthemen der Analyse sind die Erzahlstrukturen aus der autodiegetischen Erzahlung, das voice-over Verfahren und dessen Funktionen fur den Film und schliesslich die Ubertragung und Darstellung von Innenweltvorgangen im Film."

Novalis

Hymns to the Night and Spiritual Songs (Revised) (2ND ed.)

Anul aparitiei: 2013

NOVALIS: HYMNS TO THE NIGHT A new edition of Novalis' Hymns To the Night, and Spiritual Songs, translated by George Macdonald, with an introduction and notes by Carol Appleby. Includes the German text. Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772-1801) is the most mystical of the German Romantic poets. He is at once the most typical and the most unusual of the German Romantic writers, indeed, of all Romantic poets. His best known work, Hymns To the Night, was published in 1800. Novalis is supremely idealistic, far more so than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Heinrich Heine. He died young, which makes him, like Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, something of a hero (or martyr). He did not write as much as Shelley, but his work, like that of Keats or Arthur Rimbaud, promised much. For Michael Hamburger, Novalis' poetry is almost totally idealistic: Novalis's philosophy, then, is not mystical, but utopian. That is why his imaginative works are almost wholly lacking in conflict. They are a perpetual idyll. It's true that Novalis' work is supremely idealistic, and utopian. But it is also mystical, because it points towards the invisible, unseen and unknown, and aims to reach that ...

Parkinson, James

An Essay on the Shaking Palsy

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Synthia Andrews

Calea energiei. Trezirea fortei interioare si extinderea constiintei individuale

Editura: Daath

Anul aparitiei: 2014

„Dispuneţi de toate instrumentele necesare. Corpul şi mintea voastră sunt echipate cu tot ce aveţi nevoie. Energia care vă menţine corpul în forma actuală, este accesibilă. Ştiţi cum poate fi accesată, numai că aţi uitat acest lucru. Activările energetice din această carte vă pot împrospăta memoria. Nu v-aţi născut cu un manual de utilizare despre cum să faceţi uz de corpul vostru energetic şi nimeni nu vă poate oferi unul. Tot ce puteţi face, este să vă reamintiţi cum să-l folosiţi, exersând efectiv acest lucru.“ Synthia Andrews, ND

Kinney, Jeff

Hard Luck ( Diary of a Wimpy Kid #08 )

Anul aparitiei: 2013

Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?

Tyson, Mike

Undisputed Truth

Anul aparitiei: 2013

Reviewed by Robert Anasi. It's been a quarter-century since Mike Tyson demolished Michael Spinks in 91 seconds to become the youngest lineal heavyweight champion in boxing history. Today, the world in which he took center stage seems impossibly distant. In 1988, boxing was the only major combat sport (UFC 1 was five years away) and American cities were trapped in a cycle of violence a disaster propelled by social neglect and drug wars. Pundits likened inner cities to war zones and chose incarcerating a generation of African-American men as a final solution. As a child of this blighted landscape, Tyson became the boogeyman of white-flight nightmare. It was a role he embraced one that proved very lucrative. Boxing was in a long decline, but every one of Tyson's fights became a major event. He brought in the celebrities and high rollers, filling casinos and pumping pay-per-view buys with a charisma unmatched by any heavyweight since Muhammad Ali. From the safe remove of their television screens, America loved to hate (or perversely love) Tyson, whom they perceived as a scary black man. This fascination should have faded after Tyson lost the title to Buster Douglas, or when he went to ...

Guillem Balague

Messi (Hardback)

Anul aparitiei: 2013

Lionel Messi's career has been a stellar ascent, and shows no signs as yet of slowing down. Born in Rosario in Argentina in 1987, he began playing football at a very young age, and it wasn't long before his skill and potential was noticed in Europe by Barcelona. He debuted in the 2004-5 season, breaking FC Barcelona's team record for youngest footballer to score a league goal, and being part of the outstanding team that won La Liga that year. His breakthrough season was 2006-7, when he became a first team regular, and in 2008-9 he scored 38 goals to play an integral part in the team's triple-winning success. He surpassed this achievement in 2009-10 with 47 goals in all competitions, and again in 2010-11 with 53 goals. Since Pep Guardiola took over as manager of Barcelona in 2008, Messi has become Barcelona's all-time top scorer in all official club competitions - at the age of 25. He scored an astonishing 91 goals in the calendar year 2012 alone. He won the FIFA World Player of the Year Award in 2009, and won the inaugural FIFA BALLON D'OR in 2010 and again in 2011 and 2012. He has also excelled on the international stage, playing for his national team. The diminutive Argentinian ...

Albom, Mitch

The First Phone Call from Heaven

The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out. An allegory about the power of belief--and a page-turner that will touch your soul--Albom's masterful storytelling has never been so moving and unexpected. Readers of The Five People You Meet in Heaven will recognize the warmth and emotion so redolent of Albom's writing, and those who haven't yet enjoyed the power of his storytelling, will thrill at the discovery of one of the best-loved writers of our time.

Hawking, Stephen

My Brief History

Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution. "My Brief History" recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs, this concise, witty, and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a particular black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology. Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his ...

Telespan : Cimitirul

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Adrian Green este un homosexual roman care se muta la Londra pentru ca… e obosit. Desi nu prea mai are chef de munca, isi gaseste, totusi, un job: administrator de cimitir. Pe masura ce interactioneaza cu diversi clienti, vii sau morti, Adrian ne spune exact ce crede el despre religie, bani, sex sau moarte, concepte pe care le descrie cu o sinceritate cruda, foarte mult umor si sarcasm. Cimitirul Wormholt devine spatiul in care Green isi da seama ca fericirea sta in acceptarea adevarului

Rinzler, Lodro

Walk Like a Buddha: Even If Your Boss Sucks, Your Ex Is Torturing You, and You're Hungover Again

Anul aparitiei: 2013

From the author of the best-selling Buddha Walks into a Bar . . . , tips for living with integrity, compassion, and happiness -- from his popular Huffington Post advice column. Since the summer of 2010, young Buddhist teacher Lodro Rinzler has been writing a popular advice column for the Huffington Post and the Interdependence Project called "What Would Sid Do?" ("Sid" being Lodro's nickname for Siddhartha Gautama--the prince who became the Buddha). Lodro's insightful and often funny answers to questions--ranging from how to forgive, to how to deal with a boss who's a bully, to whether or not it's OK to join Match.com--have made him the Dear Abby of the spiritual-but-not-religious crowd. This book gathers all of Lodro's Huffington Post columns, along with much as-yet-unpublished material, to provide a guide to life in a Q&A format that allows you to easily access wisdom for dealing with the myriad challenges of life--traditional challenges as well as uniquely modern ones related to things like social justice and social media.

Scott-Clark, Cathy

The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel

Anul aparitiei: 2013

In the page-turning tradition of "Black Hawk Down," the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai Mumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world's most exclusive luxury hotels. For sixty-eight hours, hundreds were held hostage as shots rang out and an enormous fire raged. When the smoke cleared, thirty-one people were dead and many more had been injured. Only the courageous actions of staff and guests--including Mallika Jagad, Bob Nichols, and Taj general manager Binny Kang--prevented a much higher death toll. With a deep understanding of the region and its politics and a narrative flair reminiscent of "Midnight in Peking," journalists Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy vividly unfold the tragic events in a real-life thriller filled with suspense, tragedy, history, and heroism.

Codrut Nicolau

Jurnal de bancher pe drumuri

Editura: Benefica

Anul aparitiei: 2013

"Jurnal de bancher pe drumuri" este o carte care s-a nascut in timp, pe un blackberry, in calatoriile autorului. Desi nu se considera scriitor in adevaratul sens al cuvantului, bancherului nu-i lipsesc talentul, umorul sau pofta de a umbla prin lume. Daca "Ioana" este cea care ii face bagajul pentru a-i arata "cat de grozav e sa calatoresti," prietenii ii cer prin sms-uri noi pagini de jurnal, iar editorul - un material "cu diacritice." Aceasta este, pe scurt, povestea jurnalului. SCRII CU INTELIGENTA SI CU HAZ. "Scrii voluptuos despre o viata a ta ce are gust, miros, textura. Ai un scris ce cam da chef de trait, de iubit, de hoinarit si de visat. Miros de aer tare, plin de viata. Scrii tandru, scrii impacat. Mai scrie. As mai vrea sa citesc. Am terminat de citit si zambeam..." -OANA PELLEA CARE-I FAZA CU BANCHERUL? Daca reporterul Aristide Buhoiu avea succes pe vremuri cu emisiunea Drumuri prin memorie, bancherul nostru ar trebui sa fie citit de toti cei care n-au mai apucat-o. Care-i faza cu bancherul? Nu va ginditi la cine stie ce incostumat la paispe ace care se da destept scriind despre intilniri cu celebritati ale bancnotei verzi si ale neoliberalismului anything goes. Omul e ...

Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier De Seingalt

The Complete Memoirs of Casanova the Story of My Life (All Volumes in a Single Book, Illustrated, Complete and Unabridged)

Anul aparitiei: 2013

His life was more colourful than the most far-fetched tale. Enjoy this edition of his memoires, complete and unabridged in a single volume. What can be said about Casanova? Writer, seducer, poet, socialite, philosopher, friend of royalty, Mozart and Voltaire, wit, playwright, lover of life, man on the run. His life was more colourful than the most far-fetched tale and he was a lover and seducer as well as loved and seduced himself. His memoires run to several volumes of gripping narrative, being considered to be the most authentic source of the European social customs of the Eighteenth Century. Enjoy this edition of his memoires, complete and unabridged in a single volume.

Grant, R G

Commanders - 2013

Anul aparitiei: 2013

From Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world to the generals leading today's campaigns in Afghanistan, Commanders casts new light on the leaders who have forged history on the battlefield. Focusing on the greatest leaders in naval, field, and aerial warfare, such as Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and Horatio Nelson, the book gives an at-a-glance overview of each commander's life, provides a timeline, key data, and a psychological profile outlining the commander's strengths and weaknesses. Commanders also follows great leaders from outside the Western tradition, including the great Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Native American, and African leaders, explaining who fought whom and why. Publisher Marketing: From Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world to generals leading today's campaigns in the Middle East, "Commanders" illuminates the leaders who have forged history on the battlefield. Each entry features key data, a timeline, and an analysis of the commander's strengths and weaknesses, making "Commanders" a truly comprehensive look at the greatest leaders in naval, field, and aerial warfare.

Nikola Tesla , David H. Childress

Nikola Tesla , David H. Childress : Fantasticele inventii ale lui Nikola Tesla

Editura: Vida

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Hutchins, Scott

A Working Theory of Love

Anul aparitiei: 2013

An extraordinary debut novel that hits that sweet spot where humor and melancholy comfortably coexist (Entertainment Weekly) Before his brief marriage imploded, Neill Bassett took a job feeding data into what could be the world s first sentient computer. Only his attempt to give it language through the journals his father left behind after committing suicide has unexpected consequences. Amidst this turmoil, Neill meets Rachel, a naive young woman escaping a troubled past, and finds himself unexpectedly drawn to her and the possibilities she holds. But as everything he thought about the past becomes uncertain, every move forward feels impossible."

Cameron, W Bruce

The Dogs of Christmas

Anul aparitiei: 2013

From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture While nursing a broken heart, Josh Michaels is outraged when a neighbor abandons his very pregnant dog, Lucy, at Josh's Colorado home. But Josh can't resist Lucy's soulful brown eyes, and though he's never had a dog before, he's determined to do the best he can for Lucy--and her soon-to-arrive, bound-to-be-adorable puppies. Soon in over his head, Josh calls the local animal shelter for help, and meets Kerri, a beautiful woman with a quick wit and a fierce love for animals. As Kerri teaches Josh how to care for Lucy's tiny puppies and gets them ready to be adopted through the shelter's "Dogs of Christmas" program, Josh surprises himself by falling for her. But he's fallen even harder for his new furry family, which has brought incredible joy into Josh's life. He barely has time to sit down, between chasing after adventurous Sophie and brave Oliver, but when he does, his lap is quickly filled by the affectionate Lola. And Rufus and Cody's strong bond makes Josh wonder about his own relationships with his family. With Christmas and the adoption ...