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«Hay dos sensaciones que siempre se recuerdan a lo largo de la vida: la primera vez que la persona amada sostiene tu mano y la primera vez en que un bebé recién nacido te toma de un dedo. En esos precisos momentos quedas unido al otro por el resto de la eternidad». En la Praga de los años...

El centro de Praga es el corazón que bombea vida al resto de la urbe. En sus alrededores se puede pasear esquivando los lugares típicos para realizar buenas compras en tiendas singulares y disfrutar del encanto de sus calles.

Hará todo para proteger a su familia, incluso si eso implica ignorar el horror Berlín, 1930. Cuando el partido nazi se encumbra en el poder, el esposo de Sofie, Jürgen Rhodes, se ve beneficiado por el nuevo gobierno. Aunque ellos no comparten la ideología de Hitler, la nueva posición de...

Trent'anni dopo "Il nome della rosa" Umberto Eco torna a narrare un nuovo romanzo di ambientazione storica. Lungo il XIX secolo, tra Torino, Palermo e Parigi, troviamo una satanista isterica, un abate che muore due volte, alcuni cadaveri in una fogna parigina, un garibaldino che si chiamava Ippolito Nievo, il falso bordereau di Dreyfus per l'ambasciata tedesca, la crescita di quella falsificazione nota come "I protocolli dei Savi Anziani di Sion", che ispirerà a Hitler i campi di sterminio, gesuiti che tramano contro i massoni.

Incluso las redes más delicadas son capaces de salvarnos 1863. Estados Unidos se desangra en una guerra fratricida que enfrenta a las colonias abolicionistas del norte con las esclavistas del sur. Stella, una ingeniosa esclava de Nueva Orleans, borda mapas cifrados en trozos de ropa para ayudar...

París, 1897. Un hombre escribe sentado a una mesa en una habitación abarrotada de muebles: he aquí al capitán Simonini, un piamontés afincado en la capital francesa, que desde muy joven se dedica al noble arte de crear documentos falsos.

Hombre de pocas palabras, misógino y glotón impenitente, el capitán se inspira en los folletines de Dumas y Sue para dar fe de complots inexistentes, fomentar intrigas o difamar a las grandes figuras de la política europea. Caballero sin escrúpulos, Simonini trabaja al servicio del mejor postor.

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator’s open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark, spare prose, Prague is an introspective and intimate account of the making of a novel from life.

Una vez más, Moreno-Ruiz, haciendo buena su aseveración de que siempre es reportero, incluso cuando escribe ficción, hibrida con humor situaciones reales sobre las que ensaya, en el sentido más intelectual del término -aunque según él cabe hacerlo como quien habla de rugby- a través de la ficción literaria.

Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia's artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country's socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague's twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some "end of history," whether fascist, communist, or democratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed Absurdistanv.

In 1939 Rev. Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, a social worker, accepted a mission from the American Unitarian Association: They were to leave their home and young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help address the mounting refugee crisis. Armed with only $40,000, the Sharps quickly learned the art of spy craft and covertly sheltered political dissidents and Jews and helped them escape the Nazis.

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, a perverse kind of heroism.

Ved sit barnebarns bryllup i New York genkender Josef en kvinde, som han ikke har set i 60 år, og som han troede var død i Auschwitz. Hvad skete der, efter de sidste gang så hinanden i Prag i 1940? De elskende fra Prag er en uforglemmelig kærlighedshistorie i skyggen af Anden Verdenskrig om det unge, forelskede par, Lenka og Josef, der gifter sig i al hast, da truslen om krig kommer nærmere. Josef sætter kurs mod New York, men Lenka insisterer på at blive tilbage med sine forældre og sin søster og støde til senere, når de har papirerne i orden. Skæbnen vil det dog anderledes.

In the summer of 1968, the year of Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship that could be something more. Having reached southern Germany, they decide on a whim to visit Czechoslovakia, where Alexander Dubcek's 'socialism with a human face' is smiling on the world. 

With humor and easy-to-understand language, marine scientist Ellen Prager and meteorologist Dave Jones use frequently asked and zany questions about the ocean and atmosphere to combat misinformation and make science engaging and understandable for all. From dangerous marine life, coral reefs, and the deep sea to lightning, hurricanes, weather forecasting, the Sun, and climate change, they reveal what's fact, what's fiction, and how to find science-based answers.

Ein Prozess wie ein Todesurteil – und nur ein einziger Mann könnte die Wahrheit retten. Erleben Sie einen historischen Krimi voller Spannung, düsterer Atmosphäre und gnadenloser Machtspiele im Dreißigjährigen Krieg. Prag im Jahr 1633: General Holk leitet ein Tribunal gegen Offiziere, die in der blutigen Schlacht von Lützen ihre Pflicht vernachlässigt haben sollen. Doch unter den Angeklagten gibt es Zweifel an der Schuld – und nur ein einziger Zeuge könnte sie entlasten: Leutnant Haunsberger.

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dennis Prager - described in Jewish Week as "one of the three most interesting minds in American Jewish life" - offers compelling arguments in favor of Judaism, developed over many years of speaking to people from virtually every religion and culture.

The Infant Jesus of Prague from Catholic Book Publishing is a glorious booklet designed to increase the love offered to the Divine Infant and encourage more Catholics to venerate the Infant Jesus. This perennial favorite is an excellent resource for all who wish to enhance their devotion or learn more about the Infant Jesus of Prague.

Come ogni mattina, Franz Kafka si reca nel suo ufficio di impiegato, ma questa volta alla scrivania trova seduto uno sconosciuto. Una situazione degna dei suoi romanzi. Lo sconosciuto gli rivolge domande allusive, inquietanti, sembra al corrente di qualcosa che l'interrogato ignora, e infine si dilegua minacciando di tornare presto. Nessuno, nell'edificio, lo ha visto né entrare né uscire.

Il contenuto di questo audiolibro costituisce un capitolo tratto da "Interferenze - Memorie di un radioascoltatore disorganico" di Valerio Di Stefano

In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, their train is delayed in Saxon Switzerland. In the brief time the train is idle, Natalia learns the truth about her father - who she believed died during her infancy - and meets a remarkable woman named Dr. Magdalena Schaeffer, whose family will become a significant part of her future. Shaken by these events, Natalia arrives at a spa on the shore of Lake Hevíz in Hungary. Here, she meets Count Miklós Andorján, a journalist and adventurer. The following year, they will marry.