We say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice. In a world in love with data, it is possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on... Zobraziť viac
Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol... Zobraziť viac
In this book, Andy Gill assesses the circumstances behind Dylan's most famous songs, tracing the artist's progress from young tyro folkie to acclaimed protest singer, and through the subsequent changes which saw him invent folk-rock and transform rock... Zobraziť viac
Why We Travel uses the reasons why we travel to explore human motivation and looks deeply at what we can gain from venturing out into the world... Zobraziť viac
Baek Sehee's second volume of memoirs further explores her psychiatric sessions and struggles with dysthymia with the same empathy, insight and reassurance that made I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki a worldwide bestseller... Zobraziť viac
When he became director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater into a modern machine. He stayed in power for decades, and created a personal fiefdom unrivalled in US history... Zobraziť viac
Source Code describes with unprecedented candour Bill Gates’ life from his childhood in Seattle to dropping out of Harvard aged 20 in 1975. Shortly afterwards he wrote, with Paul Allen, the programme which became the foundation of Microsoft ... Zobraziť viac
From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full... Zobraziť viac
Dazzling stories of love, magic and betrayal . . .A sensational collection from internationally bestselling author Olivie Blake.Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, the spirit tethered to a magical bridge rapidly approaches burnout ... Zobraziť viac
From Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State Killer, Unmasked is a memoir... Zobraziť viac
The official, access-all-areas inside story of the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula 1 Team... Zobraziť viac
Heidi is the timeless tale of an orphan girl who goes to live with her cold and frightening grandfather in the mountains of Switzerland - and who, in the end, brings cheer and comfort into the hearts of everyone who knows her... Zobraziť viac
The spellbinding new book by the prizewinning writer Kapka Kassabova tells the story of her time with the last moving pastoralists in Europe: a gripping portrayal of human-animal interdependence, and a plea for a different way of living... Zobraziť viac
In 1940 Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland. What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come... Zobraziť viac
Slavný humoristický román Zdeňka Jirotky navazuje na tradici českého humoru a autory, jakými byli J. Hašek, K. Čapek nebo K. Poláček, zároveň je zde také patrná inspirace anglosaskou humoristickou prózou J. K. Jeroma a P. G. Wodehouse... Zobraziť viac
The inspiring, long-awaited autobiography of video game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero... Zobraziť viac
Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen... Zobraziť viac
A music-obsessed retrospective, beginning with his childhood epiphany of rock 'n' roll in the early 1960s into an infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave blasting forth from New York City... Zobraziť viac
Combining brand-new interviews, never-before-seen images and fascinating ephemera from her personal archives, this book creates a visual landscape of Marina Abramovic's personal and artistic life... Zobraziť viac
In this book of eight essays, the noted architectural historian Christopher Long takes on the meanings of Adolf Loos's writings and design work, the cultural world in which he was embedded, and... Zobraziť viac
