Pokračování pouti Beatrice a Cada kouzelným světem Irpy.
V říši Irpa pohasla světla. Přeživší bitvy u Rinu se vydávají na dlouhý pochod do města Baihle, kde chtějí najít úkryt. Bea a její kamarád, dobrosrdečný hrdina Cad, mají ale jiný plán. Spolu s Arsajem a Vepřím čarodějem zamíří do Citadely moudrosti, aby nalezli odpovědi na nejtemnější záhady svého světa. Po cestě se vynořují další a další hrozby, ať už jde o příšery ze stínů nebo temnou spalující hmotu zvanou marast. Až setkání s nečekanou spojenkyní odhalí pradávné tajemství… a přinese novou jiskru naděje.
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from Sussex to London and imagines a new life in the big city... George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Foot, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough. They lived, loved, felt joy and fear, and ultimately died. But who were they? And what indissoluble thread binds them together? Simon Mawer's compelling and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. He has created stories that are gripping and heart-breaking, from the squalor and vitality of Dickensian London to the excitement of seafaring in the last days of sail and the horror of the trenches of the Crimea. There is birth and death; there is love, both open and legal but also hidden and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures is something that they cannot have known - the unbreakable bond of family.
Vizuálně i obsahově poutavá kniha přináší nový český překlad traktátu Tomáše Akvinského, doplněný latinským originálem i nejstarším českým překladem od Votky a Vojáčka z roku 1887. Text traktátu dále doprovází podrobný, didakticky koncipovaný průběžný komentář a vše je proloženo třiceti kvestiemi ve stylu Tomášovy Teologické sumy, v nichž se autoři pokoušejí o samostatné systematické řešení obtížných bodů, které při četbě Tomášova textu vyvstávají. Publikaci autoři připravili jako hold filosofickému a pedagogickému dílu svého učitele, prof. Stanislava Sousedíka, průkopníka scholastických studií v českých zemích.
Under the influence of the post-Fregean logical analysis, in the present discourse relationality tends to be identified with polyadicity and relations with universal polyadic predicates. This essay is an attempt to retrieve the Aristotelian understanding of relations as a genuine feature of the world of particulars, consisting of various kinds of “directedness” or “being towards” of one particular thing towards another. It emerges, however, that existing traditional theories are haunted with serious problems so that none of them appears to be defensible. The author undertakes a critical analysis of some of the most important conceptions of relations proposed within the Aristotelian-Scholastic tradition and tentatively proposes his own Neo-Aristotelian solution.
Frygea Forest. An ancient and mysterious place where trolls lurk in the mossy spaces between tree trunks and changelings scamper about, causing mischief. A place that Kyra and her sisters Margot and Janna return to every year to spend the summer at their grandma's farm: roasting marshmallows, catching frogs and befriending tiny, grumpy root goblins. But this summer is different, and as teenage Margot drifts apart from her sisters, slamming doors and keeping secrets, Kyra starts to worry. When Margot is enticed into the woods by the mysterious figures in the mist, Kyra resolves to do everything in her power to save her sister from danger, even if that means facing the spooky forces within Frygea Forest with just her kid sister, Janna, for help. Join Kyra and her sisters in this beautiful coming-of-age graphic novel about embracing the changes that come from growing up, but never letting go of the imagination that keeps you young. If you're careful, and ever so quiet, you might spot a root goblin marching along the ground, or a glittering alf darting amongst the leaves
Here are nine men. Each of them is at a different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each of them is striving - in the suburbs of Prague, in an over-developed Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a crap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Vibrating with detail and intelligence, pathos and surprise, All That Man Is is a portrait of contemporary manhood, contemporary Europe and contemporary life from a British writer of supreme gifts - the master of a new kind of realism.--Publisher description.
Karin Tidbeck's debut collection showcases her unique storytelling prowess, blending elements of fantasy and speculative fiction. Drawing inspiration from literary giants like Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft, the stories explore surreal landscapes and complex characters, inviting readers into thought-provoking realms. Tidbeck's imaginative narratives challenge perceptions of reality, weaving together themes of identity, existence, and the uncanny, making this collection a compelling addition to contemporary literature.
Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is: - How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations; - An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante; - A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying; - Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. But most of all, Selin does not expect to embark on a study of precisely how baffling love can be when you are trying to forge a self...
This Nigerian debut, shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize, is the heart-
breaking tale of what wanting a child can do to a person, a marriage and a
family; a powerful and vivid story of what it means to love not wisely but too
well
