Alena Amchová Books

Výživa není v žádném životním období tak důležitá, jako v době těhotenství. Vše, co si tehdy dopřejeme či nedopřejeme, se odrazí na zdraví našeho očekávaného dítěte a stane se základem jeho úspěšného duševního i fyzického vývoje. I sklonu k mlsnosti nebo nezdravému přejídání se dá zabránit, pokud si my samy uvědomujeme, jak důležitá je hodnotná a vyvážená strava pro zdravý vývoj našeho potomka. (překvapivé a objektivní informace o potravinách, které byste měla v těhotenství jíst, ale nejspíš je nejíte)

Podtitul: Prekvapivý pôvod ľudských vynálezov v prírode. Kniha skúma, ako príroda inšpirovala a formovala ľudské vynálezy a technológie. Autor Phil Gates odhaľuje fascinujúce spojenie medzi biologickými procesmi a technickými inováciami, pričom sa zameriava na to, ako sa prírodné mechanizmy a adaptácie stali základom pre mnohé z našich najvýznamnejších objavov. Prostredníctvom rôznych príkladov a analýz ukazuje, ako sa ľudská kreativita a prírodné zákony prelínajú, a ponúka nový pohľad na vývoj technológií. Kniha je výnimočná svojou schopnosťou prepojiť vedu s každodenným životom, čím podnecuje čitateľov k zamysleniu nad tým, ako veľmi sú naše vynálezy ovplyvnené svetom okolo nás. Gatesov prístup je prístupný a podnetný, čo robí z tejto knihy zaujímavé čítanie pre každého, kto sa zaujíma o vedu, technológiu a prírodu.

Ilustrovaný slovník zábavnou a přitažlivou formou přibližuje dětem anglický a německý jazyk a podněcuje jejich chuť k poznání cizích jazyků. Výrazy ve slovníku – barvy, dny v týdnu, měsíce, roční období, čísla nebo členy rodiny - jsou řazené podle anglické abecedy.

Publikace z pera zkušeného onkologa a psychoterapeutů je určená všem pacientům s karcinomem a jejich rodinám. Metody v ní popsané jim pomohou překonat rakovinu či jinou životu nebezpečnou nemoc.

Fascinující historie autorčiny rodiny, především příběh její pratety Fanny, odehrávající se v Číně a Hongkongu v době 2. světové války. Do osudů členů celé rodiny se promítá pohnutá historie Dálného východu v době války v Pacifiku. Kniha odráží orientální duchovní moudrost a tradice mnoha generací a zároveň odkrývá dlouho pohřbená rodinná tajemství.

Vlaky a vláčky fascinují chlapce i chlapy od pěti do sta let. Kniha je pokladem informací o nich. Dozvíte se, jak vypadala nejstarší lokomotiva, jak se cestovalo na železnici v 19. století, jak funguje železniční doprava dnešní doby, ale také jak se rozvíjela železniční doprava u nás. Pro železniční modeláře má kniha navíc hodnotu cenné obrazové dokumentace.

Americká návrhářka s dospievajúcou dcérou vyhrá v lotérii 60 miliónov dolárov. Život oboch žien sa dramaticky zmení, ale výhra im neprinesie len radosť.

Set against a gripping backdrop, this debut thriller captivates readers with its intricate plot and unexpected twists. The story follows a protagonist who navigates a web of deception and danger, unveiling secrets that challenge their understanding of trust and betrayal. With well-developed characters and a fast-paced narrative, the book keeps readers on the edge of their seats, making it a must-read for fans of suspense and intrigue. The author masterfully blends tension and emotion, ensuring an unforgettable reading experience.

She's accused of four murders. She's only guilty of three... When Ruby was a child growing up in Miami, she saw a boy from her school struggling against the ocean waves while his parents were preoccupied. Instead of helping him, Ruby dove under the water and held his ankle down until he drowned. She waited to feel guilty for it, but she never did. And, as Ruby will argue in her senior thesis while studying psychology at Yale, guilt is sort of like eating ice cream while on a diet - if you're already feeling bad, why not eat the whole carton? And so, the bodies start to stack up. Twenty-five years later, Ruby's in an interrogation room under suspicion of murder, being shown four photographs. Each is a person she once knew, now deceased. The line-up includes her husband Jason. She is responsible for three of the four deaths... but it might be the crime that she didn't commit that will finally ensnare her. From the Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer of The Bold Type, this darkly funny and compulsively page-turning novel is perfect for fans of Caroline Kepnes' You and Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister the Serial Killer.

There have always been many ways to die. But now, in an ultra-modern Hospital there was a new one. The most horrifying one of all.

“Like a runaway locomotive—a manically entertaining thriller. Robin Cook knows how to make the pages fly.”—Kirkus Reviews At a prestigious Florida medical center, brain cancer patients are treated with a 100% success rate. Sean Murphy, a young medical student, finds it hard to believe. Is it a miracle cure? Or the biggest con job in the history of medicine? As Sean delves deeper into the mystery, he begins to uncover secrets that get at the heart of a nearly unbelievable conspiracy he never could have imagined...

The master of the medical thriller returns with his latest heart-pounding drama Twenty-eight-year-old Sean McGillin seems the picture of youthful good health, until he fractures a leg while skating in New York City's Central Park. Nothing life-threatening, yet within twenty-four hours of his surgical treatment he is dead. Next, a thirty-six-year-old mother, Darlene Morgan receives minor knee surgery to repair a torn ligament - and within twenty-four hours she too has died. New York City medical examiners Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton appear again in Robin Cook's electrifying twenty-fifth novel, as they confront a series of puzzling hospital deaths of young and healthy patients after undergoing successful treatment. Despite resistance from her superiors, Laurie doggedly pursues the investigation. Though it seems impossible to determine why and how these patients are dying, she comes to realise that not only are the fatalities somehow related - they're cold-bloodedly intentional. Can it be that Laurie has stumbled upon the trail of a remarkably clever serial killer - one with a very unusual motive and with disturbing ties to both medical research and the cut and thrust of modern health care? As Laurie's personal life continues to unravel disastrously, the need for answers becomes ever more urgent.

A brillant cancer researcher discovers his daughter is a victim of leukemia resulting from a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy his career if he tries to fight it.

Lucy Hillová je třináctiletá trošku zaražená dívka, chovající jediný tajný sen: stát se slavnou dostihovou závodnicí. Dramatický příběh se odvíjí od tří malých obrázků s jezdeckými motivy. Lucy v sobě náhle objevuje ohromnou odvahu, když bezohledný vyděrač ohrožuje rodinu její nejlepší kamarádku Jenny.

Here is Robin Cook's most controversial medical thriller-the shocking story of experimental fertilization, the passion to create life, and the power to destroy it.

At forty-eight, Tim Cranmer is a retired secret servant living in rural England, enjoying his manor house, vineyard, and young mistress, Emma. However, his past looms large, embodied in Larry Pettifer, a bored radical don and Tim's former double agent during the Cold War. Their rivalry, rooted in their shared boyhood, resurfaces when both Larry and Emma mysteriously vanish. Tim is left to wonder if they have run off together or if Larry has ensnared Emma in a dangerous game. As he embarks on a search for them, Tim finds himself pursued by his former masters, turning the tables on his role as the hunter. He delves into his past, following Larry and Emma through the perilous terrain of their new alliance. As he navigates the moral complexities of post-Cold War Europe—through the remnants of England after Thatcher and the chaotic landscapes of Moscow and Southern Russia—Tim faces a profound dilemma. Stripped of his past and future, he grapples with his humanity as the values he once fought for begin to erode, and the specter of a reinvigorated Russian empire haunts the remnants of the Soviet dream. This narrative showcases John le Carré at his finest.

Brian Murphy si s rodinou užívá pohodový letní pobyt na mysu Cape Cod, když se u jeho ženy Emmy začnou projevovat silné příznaky chřipky. Následuje hektický návrat domů do New Yorku, po prodělaném záchvatu v autě je Emma značně dezorientovaná a na pohotovosti upadá do kómatu. V nemocnici jí diagnostikují koňskou encefalomyelitidu východního typu neboli EEE, vzácné a vysoce smrtelné virové onemocnění přenášené komáry. Záhy navíc jejich malá dcera vykazuje znepokojivé příznaky stejné nemoci. Situace se stane ještě strastiplnější, když Brian obdrží závratný účet za pobyt v nemocnici, a co hůř, pojišťovna náklady neproplatí s odvoláním na pochybné klauzule v Brianově pojistce. Naštvaný Brian přísahá, že bude hledat spravedlnost…

With the emotional complexity of Everything I Never Told You and the psychological suspense of The Girl on the Train, O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison delivers a brilliantly paced, beautifully written debut novel about one woman's reckoning with a youthful mistake. Named one of the best books of the year by San Francisco ChronicleAt nineteen, Annie Black trades a bleak future in a washed-out California town for a London winter of drinking and abandon. Twenty years later, she is a San Francisco lighting designer and happily married mother of three who has put her reckless youth behind her. Then a photo from that distant winter in Europe arrives inexplicably in her mailbox, and an old obsession is awakened. Past and present collide, Annie's marriage falters, and her son takes a car ride that ends with his life hanging in the balance. Now Annie must confront her own transgressions and fight for her family by untangling the mysteries of the turbulent winter that drew an invisible map of her future. Gripping, insightful, and lyrical, A Small Indiscretion announces the arrival of a major new voice in literary suspense as it unfolds a story of denial, passion, forgiveness—and the redemptive power of love.

Devastated by the death of her boyfriend after a routine surgery, fourth-year medical student Lynn Pierce investigates the accident and discovers a string of suspicious deaths at the hospital.

Čtrnáctiletá Gillian je feministka do morku kostí. Ovšem až do té doby, kdy se poprvé zamiluje a tak o svých zážitcích a pocitech píše své kamarádce Alexe.