Keith Roberts Knihy

Kniha líčí život vojáků vybavených zbraněmi s doutnákovým zámkem, počínaje dobou vlády královny Alžběty, kdy začaly být tyto zbraně v Anglii používány, až do konce 17. století, kdy je nahradily zbraně křesadlové. Poznejte všední život vojáka a jeho výstroj i výzbroj v době, kdy došlo k pokusu španělské Armady o invazi do Anglie, k anglické občanské válce, restauraci i slavné revoluci.

Uvedená kniha s podtitulem Úvod do molekulární biologie buňky představuje svého druhu ojedinělou publikaci. Především proto, že je jakýmsi mostem mezi velmi podrobnými obsáhlými monografiemi o molekulární buněčné biologii a praktickými potřebami výuky na vysokých a středních školách.

Book by Rembrandt

Reproduces works of a major nineteenth-century artist, who did much to synthesize classical themes, modern subjects, and Impressionist technique

"Ladies from Hell" contains five long stories. "The Shack at Great Cross Halt" describes a Britain dominated by motorways, juggernauts and a tyranny, in which the unfortunates of society eke out a miserable existence scavenging items which fall of lorries. "The Ministry of Children" shows comprehensive schools having become terrifying battlegrounds dominated by vicious gangs. "The Big Fans" concerns an experiment in wind-powered electricity which accidentally unleashes an apocalyptic storm of effects. "Our Lady of Destruction" ironically depicts a future in which a Stalinist British government taxes 'non-productive' people (i.e. artists) at over 100% an assigns them individual Overseers to regulate their work. And "Missa Privata" shows an opera singer in a communist-dominated Britain making a defiant individual gesture which will bring about her own ruin. These are not stories of spaceships and alien worlds; rather they are studies of imminent social change, written out of passionate concern about the directions in which our society may be heading - stories, in fact, in the great Orwellian tradition. Most importantly, they are stories about people: believable, defiant individuals struggling against oppressive forces.

It's the eve of the 20th-century's final conflict. But Stan Potts is ready for Armageddon. In his Austin Champ, specially equipped with his own unique survival kit, he heads for Corfe Castle, the Purbecks & the girl of his dreams. It's to be an eventful journey. This latest & most ambitious novel by Keith Roberts is both the story of one lonely man & a compulsively readable account of a civilisation's catastrophe & the clawing-up to a new social order. Across Potts' gaze pass the ravaged survivors; the mutant genius born outside his time; the villagers of the new stone age with their credulous, sexually complex lives; the iron age horsemen; the terror of the sea-borne marauders. Finally, after the pillage, the cruelty of superstition, the fragility of love & its horrific consequences, the story leaps from the Dark Ages into a new awareness & Stan Potts' tale is told. Dream or reality? Future or racial memory? Forecast or myth? Every reader will pass his own verdict on this uniquely challenging book. But all will agree that The Chalk Giants is 1st & last a stunning feat of story telling, a worthy successor to Pavane & The Boat of Fate by an acknowledged master of the genre.

The entry of the Scots into the English Civil War (1642–1651) on 19 January 1644 on the side of Parliament radically changed the balance of power in the North of England. The Royalists in the North were forced onto the defensive and besieged in York. In a bold march Prince Rupert outmanoeuvred his enemies and relieved York without a shot being fired. However, when Rupert met the allied army in battle on Marston Moor on 2 July his cavalry was defeated by Cromwell's Ironsides who then turned on the Royalist infantry. The result was a hard-fought but catastrophic defeat; the Royalist army was crushed and their forces driven from the north of England.

Pieter Bruegel, který se stal nejvýznamnějším nizozemským malířem šestnáctého století, se narodil přibližně v letech 1525 až 1530 v severním Brabantsku a zemřel roku 1569 v Bruselu. Dokázal spojit některé podněty renesanční malby s mimořádným smyslem pro detail a v jeho tvorbě pak vyvrcholila nizozemská drobnomalba. Především vyzrálým zpodobováním venkova a krajiny výrazně ovlivnil další vývoj malířství.