51,54 zł

!Yo puedo leer con los ojos cerrados! (I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! Spanish Edition) Random House

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Edici n en espa ol y rimada del cl sico de la colecci n Beginner Books de Dr. Seuss con su protagonista estrella El Gato Ensombrerado El Gato Ensombrerado nos ense a que, aun sin ver las palabras, leer es divertido Y mientras m s lea

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35,06 zł

I Can Read with my Eyes Shut! HarperCollins Publishers

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go" In this delightful book, Dr. Seuss celebrates the joys of reading, encouraging young children to take pride in their budding reading abilities.

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33,56 zł

I Can Read with my Eyes Shut HarperCollins Publishers

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go" In this delightful book, Dr. Seuss celebrates the joys of reading, encouraging young children to take pride in their budding reading abilities.

Sklep: Libristo.pl

28,99 zł

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

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30,99 zł

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

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Sklep: Gigant.pl

45,51 zł

I Can Read with My Eyes Shut] Random House UK Ltd (A Division of Random House...

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Illus. in full color. "In Seuss's familiar rhymed couplets and illustrations, the Cat in the Hat shows Young Cat some wonderful stuff about reading with both eyes open."--"School Library Journal.

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11,15 zł

Spalona Żywcem Wyd. Kieszonkowe - Souad

Książki & Multimedia > Książki

Opis - Pierwsze na świecie świadectwo ofiary zbrodni honorowej. Miała siedemnaście lat i zakochała się: zhańbiła rodzinę. Więc rodzina wydała na nią wyrok śmierci... Pokochała go pierwszą miłością. Myślała, że się z nią ożeni. Ale ukochany zniknął, a ona odkryła, że jest w ciąży. A w jej świecie to najcięższa zbrodnia... W zapomnianej przez Boga wiosce w Cisjordanii kobiety są warte mniej niż zwierzęta domowe. Tu mężczyzna jest panem życia i śmierci żony, córki, siostry. Brat może bezkarnie zabić siostrę, matka - córkę, kolejną bezużyteczną dziewczynkę, jaka się urodzi. Tu kobiecie odbiera się godność, a nawet życie zgodnie z odwiecznym obyczajem i uświęconą tradycją. A śmierć jest karą dla dziewczyny, która zhańbi rodzinę. Tak jak Souad. Wyrok wydaje jej ojciec. Szwagier dokonuje egzekucji. Oblewa Souad benzyną i podpala... SOUAD przeżyła - cudem, ale rodzina usiłowała zabić ją nawet w szpitalu. Na zawsze jednak pozostanie straszliwie okaleczona - na ciele i duszy. I wciąż musi się ukrywać; dopóki żyje, jej rodzinę okrywa hańba. Spalona żywcem, opublikowana pod pseudonimem szokująca opowieść o piekle, jakim było jej dzieciństwo i młodość, stała się międzynarodowym bestsellerem. Wydana w 37 w krajach książka przerywa tabu milczenia wobec istniejącej nadal w krajach muzułmańskich barbarzyńskiej tradycji. Nieludzkiego obyczaju, prawa mężczyzn, na mocy którego co najmniej pięć tysięcy kobiet pada co roku ofiarą zbrodni honorowej. Nazwa - Spalona Żywcem Wyd. Kieszonkowe Autor - Souad Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Amber Kod ISBN - 9788324159406 Kod EAN - 9788324159406 Wydanie - 1 Rok wydania - 2016 Tłumacz - 31182,maria rostworowska; Format - 110 x 175 x 14 Ilość stron - 224 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2016-06-23

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32,40 zł

Ginger You're Barmy Penguin

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When it isn't prison, it's hell - or at least that's the belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike "Ginger" Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service. 'This novel has the ring of complete authenticity ... the mingling of horror and farce are all brilliantly evoked' A N wilson in the Spectator 'Vivid, funny and with a compassion made all the more moving by the harshness of its military setting' Selina Hastings in the Daily Telegraph p>Frowning, Mark went into the kitchen for his customary cup of cocoa. It was late, but Mrs Mallory was still ironing, the line of her mouth grim and purposeful in a face that was unusually tired and unhappy. Mr Mallory was smoking behind a newspaper, sunk in the depths of his armchair. Patricia was at the table in her dressing-gown, eating cornflakes - her favourite food. The creaking of the ironing board, the crackle of cornflakes and the occasional rustle of the newspaper were the only sounds. Mark sensed a tension that was like static electricity in the air. 'Hallo, Pat,' he said. 'Been working late?' Patricia pulled a face behind her mother's back. 'No she hasn't, the more's the pity,' rapped out Mrs Mallory. 'She's been roaming the streets, worrying the life out of her mother and father.' 'I told you I went to the pictures,' said Patricia into her cornflakes. 'I suppose you think that your father and I have scrimped and saved to give you children a good education so that you can waste your time and money down at the pictures,' said Mrs Mallory, pressing down fiercely on a handkerchief. Patricia's spoon dropped into her bowel with a clang, and she left the room. Mr Mallory flipped down the top half of his newspaper. 'You shouldn't have said that.' His wife put down her iron with a thump. 'Now don't you start. I've had quite enough.' She stopped abruptly, remembering Mark's presence. He shuffled awkwardly towards the door. 'Well, it's getting late. I'll be pushing off to bed I think,' he said, glancing at the clock and his watch. 'Clare's gone already. She was feeling tired I think. Good night, Mrs Mallory. Good night, Mr Mallory.' 'Wait till I get you a cup of cocoa, Mark,' said Mrs Mallory. 'No thank you, really.' 'But you always have a cup of cocoa.' 'Thanks, but I don't really feel like one tonight. Thanks very much.' And he managed to make his escape He climbed the dark, tortuous stairs heavily. A roar of falling water as a door opened and closed indicated that someone had just emerged from the lavatory. He hung back in case it was Clare. But it was one of the twins, in fluffy pyjamas, who flitted across the landing like a moth, eyes half-shut under the electric light. He had scarcely closed the door of his room when there was a tap on it. 'Come in,' he called in a low voice, expecting Clare and steeling himself for a long and exhausting reconciliation. But to his surprise, Patricia slipped into the room.

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70,24 zł

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? Random House USA Inc

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor. "Invaluable."--Deborah Tannen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of You're the Only One I Can Tell and You Just Don't Understand Alan Alda has been on a decades-long journey to discover new ways to help people communicate and relate to one another more effectively. If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? is the warm, witty, and informative chronicle of how Alda found inspiration in everything from cutting-edge science to classic acting methods. His search began when he was host of PBS's Scientific American Frontiers, where he interviewed thousands of scientists and developed a knack for helping them communicate complex ideas in ways a wide audience could understand--and Alda wondered if those techniques held a clue to better communication for the rest of us. In his wry and wise voice, Alda reflects on moments of miscommunication in his own life, when an absence of understanding resulted in problems both big and small. He guides us through his discoveries, showing how communication can be improved through learning to relate to the other person: listening with our eyes, looking for clues in another's face, using the power of a compelling story, avoiding jargon, and reading another person so well that you become "in sync" with them, and know what they are thinking and feeling--especially when you're talking about the hard stuff. Drawing on improvisation training, theater, and storytelling techniques from a life of acting, and with insights from recent scientific studies, Alda describes ways we can build empathy, nurture our innate mind-reading abilities, and improve the way we relate and talk with others. Exploring empathy-boosting games and exercises, If I Understood You is a funny, thought-provoking guide that can be used by all of us, in every aspect of our lives--with our friends, lovers, and families, with our doctors, in business settings, and beyond. "Alda uses his trademark humor and a well-honed ability to get to the point, to help us all learn how to leverage the better communicator inside each of us."--Forbes "Alda, with his laudable curiosity, has learned something you and I can use right now."--Charlie Rose

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152,87 zł

DORRIS DAY 10 CD 23 ORIGINALS ALBUM I WANT TO VE HAPPY WYDAWCA

Muzyka > Płyty kompaktowe > Jazz, Swing

DORRIS DAY 10 CD 23 ORIGINALS ALBUM I WANT TO VE HAPPY 1. You're My Thrill - Doris Day 2. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Doris Day 3. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) - Doris Day 4. Sometimes I'm Happy - Doris Day 5. You Go to My Head - Doris Day 6. I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Doris Day 7. When Your Lover Has Gone - Doris Day 8. That Old Feeling - Doris Day 9. Crazy Rhythm - Doris Day 10. Here in My Arms - Doris Day 11. I Know That You Know - Doris Day 12. I Want To Be Happy - Doris Day 13. Do Do Do - Doris Day 14. I Only Have Eyes for You - Doris Day 15. Oh Me! Oh My! Oh You! - Doris Day 16. Tea for Two - Doris Day 17. I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful) - Doris Day 18. Get Happy - Doris Day 19. The Man I Love - Doris Day 20. Too Marvelous For Words - Doris Day 21. The Very Thought Of You - Doris Day 22. Limehouse Blues - Doris Day 23. Melancholy Rhapsody - Doris Day 24. With a Song In My Heart - Doris Day 25. Canadian Capers (Cuttin' Capers) - Doris Day 26. (Why Did I Tell You I Was Going To) Shanghai - Doris Day 27. Lullaby of Broadway - Doris Day 28. Fine and Dandy - Doris Day 29. In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town - Doris Day 30. Somebody Loves Me - Doris Day 31. Just One of Those Things - Doris Day 32. You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me - Doris Day 33. I Love the Way You Say Goodnight - Doris Day 34. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Doris Day 35. Moonlight Bay - Doris Day 36. Till We Meet Again - Doris Day 37. Love Ya - Doris Day 38. Christmas Story - Doris Day 39. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Doris Day 40. Cuddle up a Little Closer - Doris Day 41. Every Little Moment (Has a Meaning of It's Own) - Doris Day 42. Tell Me - Doris Day 43. Ain't We Got Fun - Doris Day 44. The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) - Doris Day 45. I Wish I Had a Girl - Doris Day 46. It Had to Be You - Doris Day 47. Nobody's Sweetheart - Doris Day 48. My Buddy - Doris Day 49. Makin' Whoopee - Doris Day 50. I'll See You in My Dreams - Doris Day 51. Sentimental Journey - Doris Day 52. It's Magic - Doris Day 53. By the Light of the Silvery Moon - Doris Day 54. Your Eyes Have Told Me So - Doris Day 55. Just One Girl - Doris Day 56. Ain't We Got Fun - Doris Day 57. If You Were the Only Girl - Doris Day 58. Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee - Doris Day 59. I'll Forget You - Doris Day 60. King Chanticleer - Doris Day 61. The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away) - Doris Day 62. I Can Do Without You - Doris Day 63. The Black Hills of Dakota - Doris Day 64. Just Flew In From the Windy City - Doris Day 65. A Woman's Touch - Doris Day 66. Higher Than a Hawk (Deeper Than a Well) - Doris Day 67. Tis Harry I'm Plannin' to Marry - Doris Day 68. Secret Love - Doris Day 69. Till My Love Comes to Me - Doris Day 70. Ready, Willing and Able - Doris Day 71. Hold Me in Your Arms - Doris Day 72. You Can Take My Word for It Baby - Doris Day 73. There's a Rising Moon - Doris Day 74. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) - Doris Day 75. You, My Love - Doris Day 76. I'm Glad There Is You - Doris Day 77. Bewitched - Doris Day 78. Hoop De Doo - Doris Day 79. It All Depends On You - Doris Day 80. You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) - Doris Day 81. Stay on the Right Side, Sister - Doris Day 82. Mean to Me - Doris Day 83. Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me) - Doris Day 84. Sam, the Old Accordion Man - Doris Day 85. Shaking the Blues Away - Doris Day 86. Ten Cents a Dance - Doris Day 87. I'll Never Stop Loving You - Doris Day 88. Never Look Back - Doris Day 89. At Sundown - Doris Day 90. Love Me or Leave Me - Doris Day 91. The Song Is You - Doris Day 92. Hello, My Lover, Goodbye - Doris Day 93. But Not For Me - Doris Day 94. I Remember You - Doris Day 95. I Hadn't Anyone Till You - Doris Day 96. But Beautiful - Doris Day 97. Autumn Leaves - Doris Day 98. Don't Take Your Love from Me - Doris Day 99. There'll Never Be another You - Doris Day 100. Gone With the Wind - Doris Day 101. The Gypsy in My Soul - Doris Day 102. Day By Day - Doris Day 103. A Guy Is a Guy - Doris Day 104. Sugarbush - Doris Day 105. The Pajama Game (Opening)/Racing with the Clock] - Doris Day 106. I'm Not At All in Love - Doris Day 107. I Never Be Jealous Again - Doris Day 108. Hey There - Doris Day 109. Once a Year Day! - Doris Day 110. Small Talk - Doris Day 111. There Once Was a Man - Doris Day 112. Steam Heat - Doris Day 113. Hernando's Hideaway - Doris Day 114. Seven and a Half Cents - Doris Day 115. Finale - Doris Day 116. I See Your Face before Me - Doris Day 117. Close Your Eyes - Doris Day 118. The Night We Called It a Day - Doris Day 119. Dream a Little Dream of Me - Doris Day 120. Under a Blanket of Blue - Doris Day 121. You Do Something to Me - Doris Day 122. Stars Fell On Alabama - Doris Day 123. Moon Song - Doris Day 124. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) - Doris Day 125. Soft as the Starlight - Doris Day 126. Moonglow - Doris Day 127. The Lamp Is Low - Doris Day 128. Hooray for Hollywood - Doris Day 129. Cheek to Cheek - Doris Day 130. It's Easy to Remember - Doris Day 131. The Way You Look Tonight - Doris Day 132. I'll Remember April - Doris Day 133. Blues in the Night - Doris Day 134. Over the Rainbow - Doris Day 135. Our Love Is Here To Stay - Doris Day 136. In the Still of the Night - Doris Day 137. Night and Day - Doris Day 138. Easy to Love - Doris Day 139. I Had the Craziest Dream - Doris Day 140. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Doris Day 141. Soon - Doris Day 142. That Old Black Magic - Doris Day 143. You'll Never Know - Doris Day 144. A Foggy Day - Doris Day 145. It Might As Well Be Spring - Doris Day 146. Nice Work If You Can Get It - Doris Day 147. Three Coins in the Fountain - Doris Day 148. Let's Face the Music and Dance - Doris Day 149. Pennies from Heaven - Doris Day 150. Oh, But I Do - Doris Day 151. Cuttin' Capers - Doris Day 152. Steppin' Out With My Baby - Doris Day 153. Makin' Whoopee - Doris Day 154. The Lady's in Love with You - Doris Day 155. Why Don't We Do This More Often - Doris Day 156. Let's Take a Walk around the Block - Doris Day 157. I'm Sitting on Top of the World - Doris Day 158. Get Out and Get Under the Moon - Doris Day 159. Fit as a Fiddle (And Ready for Love) - Doris Day 160. Me Too (Ho-Ho! Ha-Ha!) - Doris Day 161. I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze - Doris Day 162. Let's Fly Away - Doris Day 163. Show Time (Part One) - Doris Day 164. I Got the Sun in the Morning - Doris Day 165. Ohio - Doris Day 166. I Love Paris - Doris Day 167. When I'm Not Near the Boy I Love - Doris Day 168. People Will Say We're in Love - Doris Day 169. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face - Doris Day 170. The Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Doris Day 171. They Say It's Wonderful - Doris Day 172. Wonderful Guy - Doris Day 173. On the Street Where You Live - Doris Day 174. Medley: the Sound of Music/Show Time (Part Two) - Doris Day 175. Mister Tap Toe - Doris Day 176. I Give My Heart To You - Doris Day 177. Pillow Talk - Doris Day 178. Heart Full of Love - Doris Day 179. Anyway the Wind Blows - Doris Day 180. Oh! What a Lover You'll Be - Doris Day 181. No - Doris Day 182. Love Me in the Daytime - Doris Day 183. I Enjoy Being a Girl - Doris Day 184. Tunnel of Love - Doris Day 185. He's So Married - Doris Day 186. Roly Poly - Doris Day 187. Possess Me - Doris Day 188. Inspiration - Doris Day 189. What Every Girl Should Know - Doris Day 190. Mood Indigo - Doris Day 191. When You're Smiling - Doris Day 192. A Fellow Needs a Girl - Doris Day 193. My Kinda Love - Doris Day 194. What's the Use of Wondrin' - Doris Day 195. Something Wonderful - Doris Day 196. A Hundred Years from Today - Doris Day 197. You Can't Have Everything - Doris Day 198. Not Only Should You Love Him - Doris Day 199. What Does a Woman Do - Doris Day 200. The Everlasting Arms - Doris Day 201. When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' along - Doris Day 202. Choo-Choo Train - Doris Day 203. Bright and Shiny - Doris Day 204. I Want to Be Happy - Doris Day 205. Keep Smilin', Keep Laughin', Be Happy - Doris Day 206. Singin' in the Rain - Doris Day 207. Gotta Feelin' - Doris Day 208. Happy Talk - Doris Day 209. Make Someone Happy - Doris Day 210. Ridin' High - Doris Day 211. On the Sunny Side of the Street - Doris Day 212. Clap Yo' Hands - Doris Day 213. Stay with the Happy People - Doris Day 214. Twinkle and Shine - Doris Day 215. I Believe in Dreams - Doris Day 216. I'll Buy That Dream - Doris Day 217. My Ship - Doris Day 218. All I Do Is Dream of You - Doris Day 219. When I Grow Too Old To Dream - Doris Day 220. We'll Love Again - Doris Day 221. I Have Dreamed - Doris Day 222. Periwinkle Blue - Doris Day 223. Someday I'll Find You - Doris Day 224. You Stepped Out of a Dream - Doris Day 225. O What a Beautiful Dream - Doris Day 226. Time to Say Goodnight - Doris Day 227. Everybody Loves a Lover - Doris Day 228. Teacher's Pet - Doris Day 229. The Circus on Parade - Doris Day 230. Over and Over Again - Doris Day 231. Why Can't I? - Doris Day 232. This Can't Be Love - Doris Day 233. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World - Doris Day 234. My Romance - Doris Day 235. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Reprise) - Doris Day 236. Little Girl Blue - Doris Day 237. Sawdust Spangles and Dreams (Finale) - Doris Day 238. If I Can Help Somebody - Doris Day 239. Nearer My God to Thee - Doris Day 240. The Prodigal Son - Doris Day 241. Abide With Me - Doris Day 242. Bless This House - Doris Day 243. You'll Never Walk Alone - Doris Day 244. In the Garden - Doris Day 245. Walk with Him - Doris Day 246. Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) - Doris Day 247. Be Still and Know - Doris Day 248. I Need Thee Every Hour - Doris Day 249. The Lord's Prayer - Doris Day 250. Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) - Doris Day 251. Secret Love - Doris Day

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36,60 zł

Under the Duvet Penguin

Powieści i opowiadania

'When people ask me what I do for a crust and I tell them that I'm a novelist, they immediately assume that my life is a non-stop carousel of limos, television appearances, hair-dos, devoted fans, stalkers and all the glitzy paraphernalia of being a public figure. It's time to set the record straight. I write alone, in a darkened bedroom, wearing my PJs, eating bananas, my laptop on a pillow in front of me ...' Her novels are adored by millions around the world

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131,03 zł

RICHARD CLAYDERMAN CD THE INTRO COLLECTION UNBREAK MY HEART WYDAWCA

Muzyka > Płyty kompaktowe > Muzyka klasyczna

Richard Clayderman: The Intro Collection [3CD] CD 1: 1. Ballade Pour Adeline - Richard Clayderman 2. Hello - Richard Clayderman 3. The Way We Were - Richard Clayderman 4. Angels - Richard Clayderman 5. And I Love You So - Richard Clayderman 6. The Way You Look Tonight - Richard Clayderman 7. Do You Know Where You're Going To? (Theme From Mahogany) - Richard Clayderman 8. Unbreak My Heart - Richard Clayderman 9. Candle In The Wind - Richard Clayderman 10. Je T'Aime - Richard Clayderman 11. Don't Know Why - Richard Clayderman 12. You're Beautiful - Richard Clayderman 13. How Deep Is Your Love - Richard Clayderman 14. Solitaire - Richard Clayderman 15. How Do I Live - Richard Clayderman 16. (They Long To Be) Close To You - Richard Clayderman 17. Love Letters In The Sand - Richard Clayderman 18. Make It wWth You - Richard Clayderman 19. I Love Paris - Richard Clayderman 20. For All We Know - Richard Clayderman CD 2: 1. As Time Goes By - Richard Clayderman 2. Yesterday - Richard Clayderman 3. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Richard Clayderman 4. Yesterday Once More - Richard Clayderman 5. The Windmills Of Your Mind - Richard Clayderman 6. Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Richard Clayderman 7. What Now My Love - Richard Clayderman 8. Top Of The World - Richard Clayderman 9. Moon River - Richard Clayderman 10. Begin The Beguine - Richard Clayderman 11. Slow Boat To China - Richard Clayderman 12. The Shadow Of Your Smile - Richard Clayderman 13. Rainy Days And Mondays - Richard Clayderman 14. Bewitched - Richard Clayderman 15. Night And Day - Richard Clayderman 16. Superstar - Richard Clayderman 17. Moonlight And Roses - Richard Clayderman 18. Autumn Leaves - Richard Clayderman 19. You'll Never Walk Alone - Richard Clayderman 20. My Way - Richard Clayderman CD 3: 1. Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Richard Clayderman 2. Memory - Richard Clayderman 3. The Phantom Of The Opera - Richard Clayderman 4. I Don't Know How To Love Him - Richard Clayderman 5. Tara's Theme (From Gone With The Wind) - Richard Clayderman 6. Over The Rainbow - Richard Clayderman 7. Theme From The Thorn Birds - Richard Clayderman 8. Stranger In Paradise - Richard Clayderman 9. People - Richard Clayderman 10. Cavatina - Richard Clayderman 11. Hill Street Blues - Richard Clayderman 12. Chariots Of Fire - Richard Clayderman 13. Goldfinger - Richard Clayderman 14. Flashdance (What A Feeling) - Richard Clayderman 15. Love Changes Everything - Richard Clayderman 16. On The Street Where You Live - Richard Clayderman 17. Another Suitcase In Another Hall - Richard Clayderman 18. Take That Look Off Your Face - Richard Clayderman 19. Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born) - Richard Clayderman 20. Sleepy Shores - Richard Clayderman

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40,80 zł

Letter from America Penguin

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When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in Cooke's wry, liberal and humane style. This selection, made largely by Cooke himself and supplemented by his literary executor, gives us the very best of these legendary broadcasts. Over half have never appeared in print before. It is a remarkable portrait of a continent - and a man. Fred Astaire 26 June 1987 Movie stars don't make it. Nor statesmen. Not Prime Ministers, or dictators unless they die in office. Not even a world-famous rock star, unless he's assassinated. But last Monday, none of the three national television networks hesitated about the story that would lead the evening news. On millions of little screens in this country and I don't doubt in many other countries around the world, the first shots were of an imp, a graceful wraith, a firefly in impeccable white tie and tails. And for much longer than the lead story usually runs, for a full five minutes on NBC, we were given a loving retrospective of the dead man, ending with the firm declaration by Nureyev that 'He was not just the best ballroom dancer, or tap dancer, he was simply the greatest, most imaginative, dancer of our time.' And the newsmen were right to remind us of the immortal comment of the Hollywood mogul, who, with the no-nonsense directness of an expert, reported on Fred Astaire's first film test: 'Has enormous ears, can't act, can't sing, dances a little.' That Hollywood mogul, long gone, spent his life ducking round corners, to avoid being identified as the oaf who looked in the sky and never saw the brightest star. However, that expert opinion was, as the lawyers say, controlling at the time and in Astaire's first movies, there was no thought of allowing him to act or sing. But not for long. And thanks to the invention of television, and the need to fill vast stretches of the afternoon and night with old movies, it has been possible for my daughter, for instance, to claim Fred Astaire as her favourite film star from the evidence of all the movies he made fifteen, ten, five, three years before she was born. When I got the news on Monday evening here, and realized with immediate professional satisfaction that the BBC had smartly on hand a musical obituary tribute to him I put together eight years ago, I couldn't help recalling the casual, comic way this and similar radio obituaries came about. I was in London at the end of 1979, and Richard Rodgers - one of the two or three greatest of American songwriters - had just died, I believe on New Year's Eve or the night before. Britons, by then, were getting accustomed, without pain, to making what used to be a two-day Christmas holiday into a ten-day much-needed rest. For all laborious research purposes, the BBC was shut up. And there was no retrospective programme on the life and music of Richard Rodgers in the BBC's archives. Of course, in a gramophone library that looks like an annex to the Pentagon, there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of recordings of his songs. The SOS went out to a writer, a producer, and - I presume - a man who had the key to the gramophone library. The silent place was unlocked, and the three of them laboured through the day to put together an hour's tribute to Richard Rodgers. It was done. It was competent enough, but rushed to an impossible deadline. This hasty improvisation happened just when my own music producer and I, who had enjoyed working together for six years or so on American popular music, were wondering what we could offer next. We'd done a sketch history of jazz, through individuals. We'd gone through all the popular music of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, and were stumped for a new series, at which point I asked if we mightn't go and talk to the head of the channel, network or whatever. We went in, and the genial boss asked me what we had in mind. 'A morgue,' I said. A what? 'Where', I asked, 'is your morgue?' He was not familiar with the word, a newspaper term. 'Well,' I said, 'all newspapers have them.' 'How d'you mean?' 'If, I explained, 'Mrs Thatcher died tonight and you woke up and read a two-sentence obituary, you'd be rightly outraged. But if you saw a two-page obituary, you'd take it for granted. When d'you suppose it was written?' 'That's right,' he said thoughtfully. What I was proposing was a morgue of the Americans eminent in popular music and jazz, so they'd not get caught short again. A splendid idea, the man said; pick your stars. We made a list and were commissioned to return to America and finish all of them. Naturally, we looked at a calendar, and birthdates of Hoagy Carmichael, Earl Hines, Harold Arlen, Ethel Merman, Stephane Grappelli, Ella Fitzgerald. But then, in a spasm of panic, we thought of two giants - if the word can be used about two comparative midgets: Irving Berlin and Fred Astaire. Berlin was then 91. And Fred Astaire was just crowding 80. The boss man, to whom the idea of a morgue had been, only a few minutes before, quaint if not morbid, wondered what we were waiting for. Better get busy, at once, on Berlin and then on Astaire. I remember doing the Astaire obit, then and there, while I was still in London. Meanwhile, we'd simply pray every night that the Lord would keep Irving Berlin breathing till I could get home and get busy. I remember being picked up in a car by a charming young girl to get to the BBC and record my Astaire narration - there wasn't a moment to lose. She asked me, in the car, what the script was that I was clutching. 'It's an obituary', I said, 'of Fred Astaire.' 'Fred Astaire,' she shrieked, 'dead?' and almost swerved into a bus. 'Of course, he's not dead,' I said, 'but he's going to be one day.' She, too, was new to the institution of a morgue. I recalled that when I was a correspondent for a British paper in the United States, and when for example. Dean Acheson was appointed Secretary of State, the first cable I had from my editor said, 'Welcome Acheson obituary soonest.' How ghoulish, she said. I imagine that to two generations at least, it's assumed that Fred Astaire, this slim, pop-eyed newcomer to Hollywood who couldn't act, couldn't sing, danced a little, only made a fool of the mogul through the movies he made, with Ginger Rogers, in the mid- and late 1930s. But long before then, from the mid-1920s on, he was already an incomparable star - as a dancer - to theatre audiences both in New York and in London. Perhaps more in London than anywhere, certainly in the 1920s, with the early Gershwin hits, Funny Face and Lady Be Good, and lastly, in 1933, in Cole Porter's Gay Divorce (which was the title of the theatre show; Hollywood would not then allow so shocking a title and called the movie version, The Gay Divorcee). Of all the thousands of words that have been written this week, and will be written, there is a passage I went back to on Tuesday night which, I think, as well as anything I know, sums up Astaire's overall appeal - the appeal that takes in but transcends one's admiration for his dancing and for his inimitably intimate singing style. This was written in November 1933, by a theatre critic who had so little feel for dancing that he marvelled why London should go on about 'Mr Astaire's doing well enough what the Tiller Girls at Blackpool do superbly'. The critic, the writer, was James Agate, the irascible, dogmatic, opinionated but brilliant journalist, and I believe the best critic of acting we have had this century. He is writing his review of Gay Divorce, after declaring yet again his contempt for musical comedy as an entertainment for idiots, deploring the play's plot and the acting and hoping 'Micawberishly, for something to turn up'. 'Presently,' he wrote, 'Mr Fred Astaire obliged, and there is really no more to be said.' Except

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Penguin

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Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned. This morning the lockworks rattle strange; it's not a regular visitor at the door. An Escort Man's voice calls down, edgy and impatient, 'Admission, come sign for him,' and the black boys go. Admission. Everybody stops playing cards and Monopoly, turns towards the day-room door. Most days I'd be out sweeping the hall and see who they're signing in, but this morning, like I explain to you, the Big Nurse put a thousand pounds down me and I can't budge out of the chair. Most days I'm the first one to see the Admission, watch him creep in the door and slide along the wall and stand scared till the black boys come sign for him and take him into the shower room, where they strip him and leave him shivering with the door open while they all three run grinning up and down the halls looking for the Vaseline. 'We need that Vaseline,' they'll tell the Big Nurse, 'for the thermometer.' She looks from one to the other: 'I'm sure you do,' and hands them a jar holds at least a gallon, 'but mind you boys don't group up in there.' Then I see two, maybe all three of them in there, in that shower room with the Admission, running that thermometer around in the grease till it's coated the size of your finger, crooning,

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Goodbye to All That Penguin

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In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.

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