114,40 zł

Tactimania by Glenn Flear (miękka okładka)

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Wersja językowa książki - angielska.   Tactimania  is a puzzle book with a difference. Grandmaster Glenn Flear makes sure the puzzles are unfamiliar to the reader by selecting them only from games played by himself or his wife Christine. The puzzles start at a moderate level then get steadily more difficult. The reader will be challenged by the puzzles and entertained by the manga-style illustrations that feature throughout. Glenn Flear  is a respected grandmaster, author and coach. Early in his career, Glenn achieved one of the greatest-ever chess surprises when, as a last minute substitute, he won the London 1986 tournament ahead of a host of famous players. Glenn and Christine married during this event! Christine is a five-time French Women's Champion and their son James, a computer artist, created the illustrations.ISBN: 978-1-906552-98-5 - 264 pages - Published 3 June 2011Reviews"The vast majority of positions were unfamiliar to me, and that's obviously important if we are testing ourselves. The cartoon characters from the cover appeared throughout the book which I - as well as my kids - found appealing. But don't imagine this isn't a serious work: the hardest test positions are as tough as any from Neishtadt." Ronan Bennett  and  GM Daniel King , while adding Tactimania to The Guardian's Book of the Year shortlist (full column)"The types who like their puzzle books austere may not see the point, but I liked the pictures, with their gentle humour sprinkled throughout. Along with the clean presentation of the puzzles, it makes for an attractive book all-round... Initially I didn't find any [of the puzzles] especially difficult, but they quickly became more challenging, and the trickier ones are marked as such." GM Luke McShane , New in Chess "Quality Chess regularly puts on the market something that makes the heart of every chess player happy but also forces the student to work. Glenn Flear's Tactimania delivers hundreds of puzzles for the reader, arranged by theme and increasing in difficulty - don't try to solve them all in a row! Of course it's also a wonderful book for anyone who gives chess lessons." Bab Wilders , Nederlands Dagblad"Humorous, full colour cartoons used to liven up the text... The major selling point of the book is the freshness of the material. Not everyone will be particularly familiar with the games of GM Flear, so the vast majority of the positions should be new to readers. So instead of solving the same old positions time and again, readers will find their skills stretched more by this book than by various others." Sean Marsh , (full review)"Overall, Tactimania is an above average tactics book. It is nicely produced on glossy, thick-stock paper; includes challenging puzzles that are likely to be unknown to the reader; offers fully annotated solutions with in depth explanations; all presented in a colorful and enjoyable manner. It is probably best for the prospective reader to be rated 1600 or higher, but anyone can benefit from using this book to develop their 'gut-feeling' for tactics. [5/6 stars]" Michael McGuerty , ChessCafe "A somewhat unusual tactical puzzle book... Charming, entertaining, and useful if you like to solve tactical puzzles" Arne Moll , ChessVibes (full review)

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64,24 zł

99 Days Balzer & Bray

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

This New York Times bestselling novel, perfect for fans of Jenny Han, Sarah Dessen, and Morgan Matson, is now in paperback.Molly Barlow is facing one long, hot summer-99 days-with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for . . . his brother.Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first night back in Star Lake, and that's how I know everyone still remembers everything. She has every right to hate me, of course: I broke Patrick Donnelly's heart the night everything happened with his brother, Gabe. Now I'm serving out my summer like a jail sentence: Just ninety-nine days till I can leave for college and be done.Day 4: A nasty note on my windshield makes it clear Julia isn't finished. I'm expecting a fight when someone taps me on the shoulder, but it's just Gabe, home from college and actually happy to see me. "For what it's worth, Molly Barlow," he says, "I'm really glad you're back."Day 12: Gabe wouldn't quit till he got me to come to this party, and I'm surprised to find I'm actually having fun. I think he's about to kiss me-and that's when I see Patrick. My Patrick, who's supposed to be clear across the country. My Patrick, who's never going to forgive me.

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29,72 zł

Sleeping Giants Themis Files Book 1 PENGUIN BOOKS LTD (UK)

Literatura obcojęzyczna

If you loved The Passage, World War Z, The Martian or Interstellar: this is a must-read thriller for you. * * * Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. The people looking down see something far stranger...”We always look forward. We never look back.”That girl grows up to be Dr. Rose Franklyn, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered. An enormous, ornate hand made of an exceptionally rare metal, which predates all human civilisation on the continent. „But this thing ...it’s different. It challenges us. It rewrites history.”An object whose origins and purpose are perhaps the greatest mystery humanity has ever faced. Solving the secret of where it came from - and how many more parts may be out there - could change life as we know it. „It dares us to question what we know about ourselves.”But what if we were meant to find it? And what happens when this vast, global puzzle is complete...? „About everything.”* * * ‘Bursts at the seams with big ideas.A sheer blast from start to finish. I haven’t had this much fun reading in ages’ Blake Crouch, author of the Wayward Pines trilogy ‘A stellar debut which masterfully blends sci-fi, political thriller and apocalyptic fiction. So much more than the sum of its parts - a page-turner of the highest order’ Kirkus Reviews ‘Reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z, this is a luminous conspiracy yarn that shoots for (and lands among) the stars’ Pierce Brown, author of Red Rising

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77,86 zł

High Returns from Low Risk - A remarkable stock Market paradox John Wiley & Sons Inc

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

For generations investors have believed that risk and return are inseparable. But is this really true? In High Returns from Low Risk, Pim van Vliet, founder and fund manager of multi-billion Conservative Equity funds at Robeco and expert in the field of low-risk investing, combines the latest research with stock market data going back to 1929 to prove that investing in low-risk stocks gives surprisingly high returns, significantly better than those generated by high-risk stocks.Together with investment specialist Jan de Koning, he presents this counterintuitive story as a modern upbeat stock market equivalent of 'the tortoise and the hare'. This book helps you to construct your own low-risk portfolio, select the right ETF or to find an active low-risk fund in order to profit from this paradox. And it explains why investing in low-risk stocks works and will continue to work, even once more people become aware of the paradox. It's also a personal story, one that links our human nature and behavior to a prudent and successful investment formula. High Returns from Low Risk gives all the tools one needs to achieve excellent, long-term investment results."I loved reading the book. It's educational, humble, funny and philosophical; quite rare attributes for a financial book. In today's world where individuals will have to take more and more responsibility for their savings, this book serves a need: providing sound and pragmatic advice about how to manage one's savings. Furthermore, this book puts forward an inconvenient truth about investment that is close to my heart: more risk doesn't necessarily mean more return. On the contrary, it is sound and pro-active risk management that permits investment portfolios to have sustainable long-term returns" Fiona Frick, CEO Unigestion, Switzerland"Explaining a financial theory to a broad audience is no easy task, and refuting one of the oldest and best known investment theories: higher risk for higher returns, harder still. But Pim (and Jan) manage to convince the reader in this easy to read and accessible book of their approach. They not only explain low-risk investing, but offer readers a whole set of investment (and even life) lessons at the same time. I would recommend every investor read this book. It may not turn all readers into low-risk investors, but it certainly will offer valuable insights into the risk/return question." Ronald van Genderen, CFA, Manager Research Analyst at Morningstar, The Netherlands"The low-risk effect, that is the idea that historically, unlike many well-known theories, average return across stocks doesn't appear to go up with most standard measures of risk, is one of the most important 'anomalies' in modern finance. Pim van Vliet is one of the pioneers in studying this effect and using it to improve investor portfolios. Anyone interested in systematic equity investing should carefully read this important book." Clifford S. Asness, Founder, Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer at AQR Capital Management, USA"Pim van Vliet's experience as one of pioneers of low volatility investing gives him unique insight into one of the most fascinating economic anomalies of our time. The idea that risk, properly defined, generates a positive return, is one of those ideas that becomes even more profound when we learn it is not true. There is no cosmic risk karma that pays people for taking risk, and this book will help people understand what types of investment risks generate premiums, and which actually will cost you money." Eric Falkenstein, Author of 'The Missing Risk Premium': Why Low Volatility Investing works, USA

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263,68 zł

Joel Sternfeld Steidl Publishers

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

I went to Central Park to find the place behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art where Jennifer Levin had been killed.§It was bewildering to find a scene so beautiful to see the same sunlight pour down indifferently on the earth. As I§showed the photograph of this site to friends, I realized that I was not alone in thinking of her when walking by the Met.§It occurred to me that I held something within: a list of places that I cannot forget because of the tragedies that identify§them, and I began to wonder if each of us has such a list. I set out to photograph sites that were marked during my§lifetime. Yet, there was something else that drew me to this work. I think of it as the question of knowability. Experience§has taught me again and again that you can never know what lies beneath a surface or behind a façade. Our sense of§place, our understanding of photographs of the landscape is inevitably limited and fraught with misreading. §Joel Sternfeld§Between 1993 and 1996, Joel Sternfeld photographed 50 infamous crime sites around the US. On This Site, contains§images of these unsettlingly normal places, ordinary landscapes left behind after tragedies, their hidden stories§disturbingly invisible. Each photograph is accompanied by a text describing the crime that took place at the location.§This is the first Steidl edition of On This Site, originally published in 1996 to great acclaim.§A major figure in the photography world, Joel Sternfeld was born in New York City in 1944. He has received numerous§awards including two Guggenheim fellowships, a Prix de Rome and the Citibank Photography Award. Sternfeld s§books published by Steidl include American Prospects (2003), Sweet Earth (2006), Oxbow Archive (2008) and§First Pictures (2011).

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22,17 zł

CAR SCIENCE Hammond Richard Dorling Kindersley Ltd

KSIĄŻKI > obcojęzyczne > albumy > motoryzacja i technika

Top Gear's Richard Hammond is in the driving seat for this turbo-charged tour through the nuts and bolts of car technology. Underneath the bonnet of every car there's a lot of fast, furious, and spectacular science going on. G-force, combustion, power, you name it, a car's got it. Help your child discover all about the science of cars in this explosive tour. Find out how cars revolutionised the world, see how a car functions with jaw-dropping diagrams, cutaway drawings and cool graphics. Steer to the fundamental science behind the mechanics and then sit back for an exciting look into the future of minimal emissions, maximum fun. Plus, find great things your child will love to make and do! Produkt poekspozycyjny lub końcówka magazynowa. Może posiadać nieznaczne uszkodzenia (np. metki cenowe, przybrudzenia, zarysowania, zagięcia).

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98,19 zł

Storyteller HarperCollins

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

The #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of 2021So, I've written a book.Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters...the list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.

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34,43 zł

The Storyteller Simon & Schuster

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!'), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters...the list goes on.I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.

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88,12 zł

Wed to the Wild God

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

When I find a gorgeous stranger in an alley, covered in blood, you'd think the logical thing would be to go to the authorities.Not me. I take him home.I've got my reasons, though. See, Kassam is cursed with hedonism. He's a god from another world, accidentally stuck in ours. Anyone (and everyone) around him falls under his spell. It's impossible to resist. Like scratching an itch. And being around Kassam? Boy, do I itch.But trying to send the god home to his world is a near-impossible task. Between everyone we meet trying to kiss him and the gods of this world trying to get rid of him, I'm in over my head. There's only one solution that will keep me safe -- marry him. Being the wife of a god will protect me from immortal machinations.Now, I just need to figure out a way to protect my heart from Kassam himself.

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46,37 zł

Love Wager Penguin Books

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Pre-order the next feel-good, hilarious and swoon-worthy book by Lynn PainterHALLIE PIPER IS TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF.After crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it's time to become a full-on adult.She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe. But when she logs into the dating app to look for new love, she finds none other than Jack: the guy whose hotel room she'd snuck out of.After agreeing they are absolutely not interested in each other, Jack and Hallie realise that they're each other's perfect wing-person - and join forces in their searches for The One. They even make a wager to see who can find true love first.But when they agree to be fake dates for a weekend wedding, all bets are off.Because as they pretend to be a couple, they struggle to remember why dating for real was a bad idea to begin with... Praise for Lynn Painter'The most sidesplittingly funny, sexual tension-filled book I've read in a long, long time. I dare you not to fall in love!' ALI HAZELWOOD, author of THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS'Smart, sexy, and downright hilarious. Mr Wrong Number is an absolutely pitch-perfect romantic comedy' CHRISTINA LAUREN, author of THE UNHONEYMOONERS

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61,99 zł

The Hidden Oracle puffin books

Literatura dziecięca i młodzieżowa >Literatura dla dzieci

How do you punish an immortal?By making him human.After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour.But Apollo has many enemies - gods, monsters and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Apollo needs help, and he can think of only one place to go . . . an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood....

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62,90 zł

Photo.Kosycarz Kosycarz Foto Press

PolskaAlbumyWydawnictwa naukowe i popularno-naukoweHistoria Polski 1990Historia Polski 1945-1989

The Polish version of this album appeared on the market in 2006 and became one of the most popular albums published in Pomorze and Poland in the last six years. To date, seven volumes of this album have appeared.The authors of the photographs are Zbigniew and Maciej Kosycarz, father and son, photographic journalists and chroniclers. Just after the end of the Second World War in 1945, Zbigniew Kosycarz came to Gdańsk. The first photograph in the album is of an advertising pillar still with German posters on it but onto which the first Polish posters have also been stuck. The devastated city and the awakening life - these and others from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were taken by Zbigniew Kosycarz, the indefatigable chronicler of Gdańsk and the region. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, we often have similar situations and places but this time seen through the lens and the eyes of Maciej Kosycarz.The three hundred and twenty images selected from over a million photographs taken by Zbigniew and Maciej Kosycarz and published on a hundred and sixty pages in this album show over sixty years of the history of Poland and Europe connected with Gdańsk, Gdynia, Sopot and the Pomorze region. The photographs show not only great and well-known events but also and mainly the everyday lives of people, their clothes, play and work. In them you can see situations that are very similar to those in well-known images by photographers in Paris, New York or Budapest. It turns out that, at those very same times, life was also going on in Gdańsk, Gdynia, Sopot and Pomorze. And it is precisely this life, just like in those other cities, that has been captured in the photographs of Zbigniew and Maciej Kosycarz.The decision to publish the first album in 2006 was undoubtedly affected by the success of the exhibition entitled ?Gdańsk ? an ordinary city through the lens of father and son?. It was shown not only in Gdańsk but also in Budapest, Mostar, Belgrade, Holbaek in Denmark, Kaliningrad and Kalmar and evoked very warm and kind responses from all those who saw the photographs at the exhibition. Some of the photographs from this exhibition were later published in the album.Thanks to the photographs and their descriptions, the album has brought to life in an interesting way the history and life of the last decades in Poland, using the example of Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia. Many people, despite geographical and political differences, will surely find similarities to the situations in their own home countries.

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64,24 zł

Dennis Cooper - Frisk Grove Press

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

When Dennis is thirteen, he sees a series of photographs of a boy apparently unimaginably mutilated. Dennis is not shocked, but stunned by their mystery and their power; their glimpse at the reality of death. Some years later, Dennis meets the boy who posed for the photographs. He did it for love. Surrounded by images of violence, the celebrity of horror, news of disease, a wasteland of sex, Dennis flies to Europe, having discovered some clues about the photographs: "I see these criminals on the news who've killed someone methodically, and they're free. They know something amazing. You can just tell." What they know may lie in bodies themselves. Bodies are unavoidably real; what's in them must have something to say, even in a society that lives on images and fantasies. An isolated windmill in Holland provides the perfect setting for Dennis to find out more about bodies--of which there are many--and what is inside them. In Frisk, as in the award-winning Closer, Dennis Cooper explores the limits of our knowledge and the dividing line between the body and the spirit. Frisk is a novel about the power of fantasy and faith, about the ecstasy and horror of being human. The body's power extends to us all, but what power do we have over it, over its appetites and satisfactions? The answer to these questions is a work of imaginative courage and clarity: a murder mystery that implicates us all and a horror story in which the monster is love.

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37,49 zł

Shark In The Park Penguin Random House Children's UK

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Timothy Pope has a brand new telescope and he's testing it out at the park. Peep through the die-cut holes in this book to see if you can spy a shark. Is that really a shark? Turn the page and find out . . . A delightful, entertaining story - with i

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146,44 zł

5th Wave Collection Penguin LCC US

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Rick Yancey's entire blockbuster bestselling 5th Wave series is now available in a boxed set-great for binge-reading!In The 5th Wave, Cassie finds herself in a world devastated by alien attack, desperate to save herself and find her lost brother. As the onslaught from the Others-the beings that look human and kill anyone they see-continues, Cassie's mission is to stay alone and stay alive. But then she meets Evan Walker, who may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother--or even saving herself. Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death.In The Infinite Sea, the heart-stopping action continues as the situation gets even worse for Cassie and the rest of Earth's remaining human survivors. No one knows the depths to which the Others will sink, nor can they imagine the heights to which the human spirit can reach as they face the ultimate test.In The Last Star, Earth's remaining survivors will need to decide what's more important: saving themselves . . . or saving what makes them human. The final book in this epic series will leave you awestruck.Included in this Collection: The 5th Wave, The Infinite Sea, The Last Star"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."-Entertainment Weekly"Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."-Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review"A modern sci-fi masterpiece."-USA Today

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