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Pohádkový příběh, který čtenáře vtáhne do kouzelného světa skřítků, kouzel a pozoruhodných stvoření. V tomhle příběhu skřítci zachrání svůj důlní svět plný drahokamů.
In one complete volume, discover the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved series, celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! In the first novel, just before Earth is destroyed for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide, and they embark on a wild journey through time and space. The second installment finds Arthur and his companions in a peculiar predicament, searching for a place to eat just before facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers. In the third book, the inhabitants of Krikkit plan to destroy the universe, and only Arthur and his crew can prevent Armageddon. The fourth novel sees Arthur back on Earth, grappling with the reality of his past experiences as a gift-wrapped fishbowl brings him back to life. Finally, in the fifth book, just as Arthur begins to enjoy life, chaos ensues, and he must confront the potential obliteration of Earth, a hostile alien takeover of the Guide, and his daughter's struggles. This volume also includes the bonus story “Young Zaphod Plays It Safe.” With droll wit and sharp satire, Adams's work continues to resonate, making readers laugh until they cry.
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When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains - "Where shall we have dinner?" The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about. VOLUME TWO IN THE TRILOGY OF FIVE.
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”—Chicago Tribune The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert “universal” Armageddon and save life as we know it—and don’t know it! “Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading.”—Arizona Daily Star
From the unfathomable imagination of Douglas Adams, this is his internationally bestselling final book: a zany collection of essays, articles, anecdotes, and stories.
Ovason argues that previous translations have got it wrong, because they failed to realise that Nostradamus was writing in an esoteric language called the 'green language'. Where previous translations have seemed to stretch a point to make a quotation fit an historical event, Ovason reveals the prophet's true prophecies regarding the American and French revolutions, the Franco-Prussian, First, Second and Third world wars, earthquakes, floods, the Antichrist and the end of the world. Properly seen, Ovason argues, Nostradamus is the greatest Western prophet to commit his prophecies to writing since the Old Testament.
Don't Panic
Arthur Dent wordt net voordat de aarde wordt vernietigd om plaats te maken voor een intergalactische snelweg van de planeet gehaald door zijn vriend Ford Prefect, een onderzoeker voor de Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Ford heeft zich vijftien jaar lang voorgedaan als een werkloze acteur. Samen beginnen ze een reis door de ruimte, vergezeld door een kleurrijke groep medereizigers: Zaphod Beeblebrox, de tweehoofdig, drie-armige ex-hippie en totaal verknipte president van de melkweg; Trillian, Zaphod’s vriendin, die Arthur ooit op een cocktailparty probeerde te versieren; Marvin, een paranoïde, briljante en chronisch depressieve robot; en Veet Voojagig, een voormalige afgestudeerde student die geobsedeerd is door het verdwijnen van alle balpennen die hij in de loop der jaren heeft gekocht. Waar zijn deze pennen? Waarom worden we geboren? Waarom sterven we? Voor alle antwoorden, steek je duim naar de sterren!
John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date and provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.
Compiled from more than four hundred hours of channeling by Barbara Marciniak, Bringers of the Dawn imparts to us the wisdom of the Pleiadians, a group of enlightened beings who have come to Earth to help us discover how to reach a new stage of evolution. Master storytellers and humorists, they advise us to become media free, to work in teams, and to eliminate the words "should" and "try" from our vocabularies. We learn how to go beyond fear, how the original human was a magnificent being with twelve strands of DNA and twelve chakra centers, and who our "gods" are. Startling, intense, intelligent, and controversial, these teachings offer essential reading for anyone questioning their existence on this planet and the direction of our collective conscious--and unconscious. By remembering that we are Family of Light, that we share an ancient ancestry with the universe around us, we become "bringers of the dawn," consciously creating a new reality, a new Earth.
Po několika letech vyhledá Daniel opět svou bývalou snoubenku Karolínu a přesvědčí ji o své lásce. Žárlivá přítelkyně Marlo se však snaží získat Daniela pro sebe, a to za jakoukoliv cenu.
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. God only knows what it all means. And fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it's light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new?
Als een incheck-balie op Terminal Twee van de luchthaven Heathrow in een baaierd van oranje vlammen door het dak vliegt, zijn het altijd de gebruikelijke mensen die de verantwoordelijheid opeisen. Om te beginnen de IRA, vervolgens de PLO. De Britse Raad voor de Kernenergie verklaarde dat de situatie volkomen onder controle was, dat er slechts een kans van één op een miljoen bestond dat er geen radioactieve stoffen ontsnapt waren en dat de plek waar de explosie had plaatsgevonden uitstekend geschikt was om er een dagje met de kinderen te picknicken. Er kon geen enkele zinnige verklaring voor de explosie worden gegeven - het was eenvoudigweg een daad van god genoemd. Maar, denkt Dirk Gently, welke God ? En waarom ? Welke God zou er rondhangen op Terminal Twee van de luchthaven Heathrow om er de vluvcht van 15.37 naar Oslo proberen te treffen ?