První a dnes asi nejaktuálnější Shakespearova tragédie pojednává o střetu civilizací. Je to hra o násilí, mstě i magické moci slova. Ve hře najdeme předobrazy pozdějších velkých dramatikových postav, jako je král Lear, Hamlet, Jago, Coriolanus, Kleopatra aj.

Influential photographer Annie Leibovitz presents her remarkable portraits in this re-issue of her acclaimed and bestselling collection. With an essay by Alexandra Fuller and an afterword by Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 is the photographer\'s follow-up to her two landmark compilations, Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 and A Photographer\'s Life, 1990-2005. For this collection,

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Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father and so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing

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This new edition of Ann Browne\'s popular text on language and literacy is now completely up-to-date, covering everything students of primary and early years education need to know about language and

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Gilbert Shelton is the creator of the multi-million selling Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy\'s Cat. Wonder Wart-Hog was his earliest creation and probably still his favourite. The character has appeared over the years in publications varying from Drag Cartoons to Zap Comix as well as several comics of his own. There is even a Wonder Wart-Hog motocross

This 1925 survey constitutes one of the most complete histories of world tattoo practices. It was written at the end of a significant era in anthropological fieldwork, when the efforts of missionaries and the impact of European imperialism had suppressed all but the final vestiges of indigenous native tattoo traditions. Subsequent opportunities for original fieldwork related to tattooing were rare,

The Irish Times bestseller and award-winning autobiography from one of the world\'s greatest and most controversial horseracing jockeys, Kieren Fallon. Kieren Fallon is one of the world\'s greatest jockeys, but in addition to his many achievements, his career was marked with controversy. A British Champion Jockey six times, Kieren Fallon won more than 2,250 races--including the Derby three times, and

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