Irsko je zemí hrdinů. Někteří z nich jsou slavní a vypráví se o nich v mýtech a legendách, jiní téměř upadli v zapomnění. Začněme ale příběhem o narození prvního ze slavných irských hrdinů. Byl synem jednoho z božských Tuatha de Danann a sám se časem také stal bohem. Prý byl i otcem Cuchulainovým. Jmenoval se Lugh a byl vnukem strašného démona Balora... (z přebalu knihy)
This book brings together all the work in a new field of physics, the chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics. The author shows how computers have been able to help researchers, by mapping the whole plane of solutions of non-linear equations.
When it comes to the craft of writing, bestselling novelist David Lodge finds much to celebrate, analyze, and confess. In this absorbing collection of seventeen essays he ponders the work of writers he particularly admires, current and past trends in literary style, and the mechanics of the craft itself. Revealing, enlightening pieces on Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis and Anthony Burgess are interspersed with personal reflections on Lodge's own artistic and technical struggles. His insights into the contemporary world of publishing, and mass culture in general, are both trenchant and refreshing. As entertaining as it is edifying, this collection of fine writing about writing will prove valuable to students of the art as well as to Lodge's many, loyal readers who wish to know more about his own work.
Christopher Banks, an English boy who was orphaned after his parents disappeared in Shanghai under suspicious circumstances, returns to Shanghai twenty years later in the hopes of learning what really happened to his parents.