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  • Complete Czech Beginner to Intermediate Course

    Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new language with Teach Yourself

    by David Short ...
    This product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding audio support.- You can purchase the book and audio support as a pack (ISBN: 9781444106916)- The audio support is also sold separately (ISBN: 9781444107012)(copy and paste the ISBN number into the search bar to find these products)Are you looking for a complete course in Czech which takes you effortlessly from beginner ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Languages of Water

    by Eugen Bacon, Francesca Rendle-Short, David Carlin, Dominique Hecq, Quyen Nguyen-Hoang, Erin Latimer, Andrew Chin, Oz Hardwick, Aldegunda Matoyo, Clara Chow, Tamantha Smith, Clare Rhoden, Cheng Tim Tim, Stephen Embelton, Nicki Bacon, Seb Doubinski, Pandora, E. Don Harpe, Ramya Jirashinghe, Kyongmi Park, Zephyr Li, Nuzo Onoh, Andrew Hook, Sudeep Chatterjee ...
    Languages of Water is a rare but intimate fusion of East, West and Africa, a stunning artefact of writerly immersion and cultural exchange. This child of digital collaboration brings together writers, illustrators and translators of poetry, fiction and essays, and refuses to be contained.In a playful interrogation of French literary theorist, critic and philosopher Roland Barthes' le plaisir du ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

    by Vítězslav Nezval, David Short (Translator) ...
    Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood on the night of her first menstruation. Referencing Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Marquis de Sade's Justine, K. H. Macha's May, F. W. Murnau's film Nosferatu, Nezval employs the language of the pulp serial novel to ... Read more

    $11.53 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Near and the Far

    new stories from the Asia-Pacific region

    Edited by David Carlin, Francesca Rendle-Short ...
    From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them.It’s a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. It’s post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her foster child, who provokes painful reminders of her past. It’s contemporary Bangkok, and a writer’s encounter ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • God's Rainbow

    by Jaroslav Durych, Rajendra A. Chitnis ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes we neither directly commit nor have the power to prevent. Set in the Czechoslovakian borderland shortly after WWII amid the sometimes violent expulsion of the region’s German population, Jaroslav Durych’s poetic, deeply symbolic novel is a literary touchstone ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Ploughshares into Swords

    by Vladislav Vancura, Rajendra Chitnis ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    The first English-language translation of a classic Czech antiwar novel written in the wake of WWI.Originally published in 1925, Ploughshares into Swords is an expressionist antiwar novel in which Vladislav Vančura tells the story of the denizens of the Ouhrov estate in language as baroque as the manor that ties them all together. The fragmented narrative introduces the reader to such characters ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Strategic Writing

    Multimedia Writing for Public Relations, Advertising and More

    by Angie Hendershot, Lisa Loewen, Charles Marsh, Bonnie Poovey Short, David W. Guth ...
    This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements:Pop-up definitions to explain terminologyLive links to external research and real-world examplesInteractive quizzes featuring multiple choice, true false, and fill-in-the-blank questions.Featuring examples of strategic writing throughout the book, this practical, multidisciplinary text takes students through the fundamental concepts, genres, ... Read more

    $110.00 USD

  • Reb.A.I.

    A Short Story Collection

    by Cargo-Y Shorts Das ...
    Reb.A.I.... Equal parts rebel and Jedi.... A collection of short stories in the clinch with power, greed, technology, corruption, inequality, and the illionaire. illionaire: them unsatisfied with simple abuse... them who elect to design torment through their oblivious acquisition of power. Satire in the face of serious, civilization spanning crimes. Humor wedged in the center of unanswered ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Why I Write?

    And Other Early Prose Pieces

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    “Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal’s later virtuosity.”—New Yorker“A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett. . . . Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership.”—Kirkus ReviewsThis collection of the earliest prose by one of literature’s greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Maréchal put it, “the moment when Hrabal ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Bury It Deep

    by Cargo-Y Shorts Das ...
    Shovel dirt into the hole.... Another shovel of dirt to fill.... Bury It Deep! Bury it deep! No... not buried... dug up....Bury It Deep: A manifestation of evil that cannot be avoided uproots in a Mesoamerican tribe's village. The tribe disappears.... An entity turns the flesh of a Professor of Geology, Govver Kennedy, into a tome of wickedness known as the Corpus Altum... the body deep. The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Sound of the Sundial

    by Hana Andronikova ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    The Sound of the Sundial is the internationally acclaimed novel by Czech sensation Hana Andronikova, told over the course of a single day and night, but spanning three continents and much of the twentieth century.In this intimate and affecting love story about a Jewish teacher and a German-Czech builder, Andronikova sends her readers on a captivating journey through time and memory, from the Czech ... Read more

    $17.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Learn French for pre-intermediate

    An audiocourse of French for pre-intermediate learners

    by Tomas Dvoracek ...
    Narrated by David Girten, Benjamin Jaquet, Jeff Short ...

    Abridged

    18 hours 18 min

    Thank you for your interest in the audiocourse Learn French for pre-intermediate_Part 01 by Audioacademyeu. The course is deigned for slightly advanced learners who have already studied French for one or two years and have mastered the basics. The course is based on contextual learning, which means that you will not only learn words, but also sentences in which you can use the words you have ... Read more

    $16.54 USD or Free with Kobo Plus