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<p>By now it's clear that whether you're promoting a business, a product, or yourself, social media is near the top of what will determine your success or failure. With more than 100 tips, tricks, and insights, this book presents a ground-up strategy to produce a focused, thorough, and compelling pr...

<p>Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships.</p>

<p>Jeden z největších vizionářů naší doby.“ Aldous Huxley</p><p>Šestadvacet volně spojených povídek líčí budoucí kolonizaci Marsu. Celou knihou prostupuje zvláštní touha po dálkách, nostalgie a smutek nad pádem martského ráje, který lidé ničí od svého prvního přistání na písečné planetě. Když Marťan...

<p>A world-renowned historian presents a profoundly original, page-turning account of the Soviet Union's collapse</p>

<p>These stories cover the whole span of Kafka's writing career, from "Looking to See" written in his twenties, to his last work, "Josephine", and culminating in "The Metamorphosis"</p>

<p>Features one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. Here, the text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often triumphs in the theatre</p>

<p>A triology of three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction.</p>

<p>THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’</p> <p>Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece</p> <p>Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has aban...

<p>When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and...

<p>World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset.Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a f...

<p>Part of the popular Big Ideas series, this book introduces you to the subject that tells you all about what society is and what makes it tick. It includes over 80 ideas from the world's renowned sociologists, covering topics as diverse as issues of equality, diversity, identity and human rights; ...

<p>The perfect holiday…For a passionate crime</p> <p>It was not unusual to find the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun…she had been strangled.</p> <p>Ever since her arrival, the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the se...

<p>The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org-"The world's smartest website" (The Guard...

<p>The popular, NYT best-selling Elizabethan/sci-fi mashup series continues, with a Shakespearean take on the first Star Wars prequel, The Phantom Menace.</p>

<p>OBSERVER THRILLER OF THE MONTH`A page-turning, adrenaline-soaked read . . . an eloquent and meditative insight into motherhood and what it means, its many small trials and wonders.' Alison Flood, Observer`I devoured it in one breathless sitting. Outstanding.' Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You...

<p>A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good." Walk further into the deep dark wood, and discover what happens when a quick-witted mouse comes face to face with an owl, a snake ...and a hungry Gruffalo! Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Gr...

<p>The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit More than thirty-five years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo...

<p>Behind every good man is a great woman - or three. A New York Times bestseller: the kaleidoscopic new novel from Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone. Every Monday, sixty-year-old Felix Funicello sets up a new film for his weekly club at an old-fashioned cinema. But one night, he is confronted...

<p>The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891.</p><p>From the comic tales of The Canterville Ghost and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime to the marvelous fairy stories and fantasies of The Selfish Gi...

<p>A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown...