Hana Do Books

The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai...Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award.Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners. This collection's title story, The Wandering Earth, is the biggest SF movie ever to come out of China - taking the world's #1 box office ranking in February 2019. Liu's writing takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason, navigate and, above all, survive in a desolate cosmos.

On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon. His pursuit of ball lightning will take him far from home, across mountain peaks chasing storms and deep into highly classified subterranean laboratories as he slowly unveils a new frontier in particle physics. Chen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in his discoveries. He will be pitted against scientists, soldiers and governments with motives of their own: a physicist who has no place for moral judgement in his pursuit of knowledge; a beautiful army major obsessed with new ways to wage war; and a desperate nation facing certain military defeat.

Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died.Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and within a year everyone over the age of thirteen will be dead, their chromosomes irreversibly damaged.And so the countdown begins.Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge they'll need to keep the world running.But the last generation may not want to carry the legacy of their parents' world. And though they imagine a better, brighter future, they may not be able to escape humanity's dark instincts...

Cílem této nové učebnice standardní hovorové čínštiny je vést studujícího po nejpřímější cestě ke zvládnutí nového jazyka. Důraz je kladen především na schopnost začít komunikovat co nejdříve. Tomu je přizpůsobena struktura učebnice – látka v lekcích se odvíjí od autentických dialogů. Věty v rozhovorech jsou tedy od začátku složitější, ale to je jen drobná daň za to, že ihned na konci první lekce studující používá reálnou čínštinu. Připravené dialogy fungují jako sada ověřených šablon, do kterých se studující naučí správně dosazovat připravenou slovní zásobu. Koláče nebývají bez práce, ale díky praktickému návodu se studující bude z vlastnoručně napečených koláčů radovat prakticky okamžitě. Učebnice je vhodná pro výuku s učitelem i pro samouky; pracuje s moderními reáliemi a představuje jazyk v jeho přirozeném prostředí.