Lincoln in the Bardo

The Heart Goes Last

Paperback edition of Atwood's dystopian novel, set in a near-future in which American citizens can buy security by spending some time in prison. From the Booker Prize winning author of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blind Assassin". 'Gloriously madcap...' Stephanie Merritt, "Observer"

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398,0 Kč

Once Upon a Time in the East

Award-winning author Xiaolu Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons: how to be an artist when censorship kills creativity, how to be a woman when sexual abuse is commonplace, how to love when you've never been shown how. A story of modern China, it is WILD SWANS for a new generation.

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453,0 Kč

The Butchers of Berlin

Berlin 1943. August Schlegel lives in a world full of questions with no easy answers. Why is he being called out on a homicide case when he works in financial crimes? Why did the old Jewish soldier with an Iron Cross shoot the block warden in the eye then put a bullet through his own head? Why does Schlegel persist with the case when no one cares because the Jews are all being shipped out anyway?

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330,0 Kč

Treasure Islands

Billionaire Warren Buffet, currently the third wealthiest man in the world, paid the lowest rate of tax among his office staff, including his receptionist.In 2006 the world's three biggest banana companies did nearly L400 million worth of business in Britain but paid just L128,000 in tax between them.In January 2009, US law enforcement fined Lloyds TSB $350 million after it admitted secretly channelling Iranian and Sudanese money into the US banking system.Tax havens are the most important single reason why poor people and poor countries stay poor. They lie at the very heart of the global economy, with over half the world trade processed through them. They have been instrumental in nearly every major economic event, in every big financial scandal, and in every financial crisis since the 1970s, including the latest global economic downturn.In Treasure Islands, Nicholas Shaxson shows how this happened, and what this means for you.

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409,0 Kč