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  • Facets of Perception
    J.W. Capek
    'If you were a diamond from another universe and falling to earth this night, there would be a milieu of facets of light to experience. Facets of light, time, emotion, and colors...'In Facets of Perception: Stories of Transformation and Survival,  J.W. Capek examines reality as something shaped by perception rather than certainty. The collection opens by questioning authority, ...
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    13,00 €

  • The Basement Door
    J. Anderson / Stella M. Čapek / Susan Dean
    The mysterious door in your basement is a portal to any time and place. What do you find when you walk through it? The Basement Door answers this question with a cornucopia of tales, spanning a wide range of styles from middle-grade fiction to high fantasy, from memoir and poetry to science fiction and romance. There’s something for every reader, if you are brave enough to open...
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    22,14 €

  • STORIES FROM A YELLOW PAD
    Romana Capek-Habekovic
    In Stories from a Yellow Pad, everyday encounters become windows into unexpected moments of insight, irony, and beauty. Written in a vivid, often first-person voice, this collection offers a tapestry of short stories-some imagined, some drawn from fleeting interactions, and others inspired by the people who pass in and out of daily life.Set against a variety of cultural backdro...
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    13,53 €

  • R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
    Karel Čapek / Nigel Playfair / Paul Selver
    Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) is the seminal science fiction drama that gave the world the very word 'robot.' First performed in 1921, this visionary play confronts the paradox of technological progress and the moral dilemmas it creates. In an age of artificial intelligence, automation, and existential crisis, R.U.R. remains uncannily prescient-both a theatri...
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    22,60 €

  • The Source Of The Wind
    Ella Capek
    PAIN IS NEVER FOR NOTHING. NOT IF YOU USE IT.WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT, YOU’LL KNOW JUST ENOUGH.Raphi Cohen is a twenty-four-year-old preschool teacher, who just got broken up with for the fourth time by the same girl. It’s a torturous loop she’s stuck in. But that’s what love is, right?When Raphi’s best friend Jeremiah forces her into therapy for her relationship woes, she finall...
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    12,14 €

  • Krakatit
    Karel Čapek / Edward Lawrence Hyde
    After inventing an explosive that could devastate humanity, an obsessed scientist struggles to keep his deadly discovery out of sinister hands. As threats multiply, he faces manipulation, betrayal, and moral conflicts in a tense race against those determined to exploit his work.His quest takes him across a volatile 1930s Europe, as he confronts the destructive potential of huma...
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    17,47 €

  • Almost Real - R.U.R
    Karel Čapek / Matt Borne
    In this electrifying reimagining of Karel Čapek’s 1920 play that coined the word robot, Helena Glory infiltrates Rossum’s Universal Robots with a daring agenda. As she unravels the factory’s dark secrets, enhanced robots worldwide begin to revolt, plunging humanity into chaos. Trapped on an island of rogue machines, Helena uncovers a shocking truth about herself that blurs the ...
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    10,97 €

  • Rossum’s Universal Robots
    Karel Čapek
    First performed in 1921, Rossum’s Universal Robots: A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue is an influential science fiction play that introduced the word, 'robot' to the English language and the science fiction genre at large.In 1932, Helena Glory, President of the League of Humanity, heads to the island factory of Rossum’s Universal Robots to learn about the hist...
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    8,65 €

  • Enduring
    David Martyn / J.W. Capek / Stacey Venzel
    Perhaps the most multifaceted and complex of all emotions, love is a basic need. It crosses generations and even species. With nearly limitless variations and nuance, it asks nothing of us... or demands everything. We will sacrifice our dreams, our time, and sometimes even our lives to feel loved, to protected our loved ones, and to prove the depth of our feelings. And more oft...
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    15,13 €

  • R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots); A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue
    Karel Čapek / Nigel PlayfaiR
    R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots); A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole bo...
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    20,85 €

  • Krakatit
    Karel Čapek
    Prokop is a scientist who has a passion for the chemistry of explosives; this passion flowers in the discovery of Krakatit, a new explosive infinitely more powerful than any previously known, an explosive capable of wrecking the world; the small box of Krakatit is stolen; Prokop, in a panic of fear lest his terrible discovery do irreparable harm to humankind, begins frantically...
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    25,28 €

  • R.U.R. Or, Rossum’s Universal Robots
    Karel Čapek / Nigel Playfair / Paul Selver
    R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots, is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who authored many plays and novels, many with science-fiction and dystopian themes. R.U.R. is perhaps the best known of these works because it brought the word robot into the English language. Robot is derived from the Czech word meaning 'worker.'The play is set in the island headquar...
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    12,07 €

  • The Deerwhere Awakening
    J.W. Capek
    Exploring the possibilities of being human, across three genders and beyond, The Deerwhere Awakening is a timely story for our present. Deerwhere is the culmination of humanity’s search for Utopia. After centuries of wars, overpopulation, political disruption, and global pandemics, there followed a New Confederation of Peace: of work, of service to others, and of recreation. To...
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    16,94 €

  • Adrion’s Passage
    J.W. Capek
    Survival is beyond gender, technology, or politics. It is a beautiful spring day when the people of the Deerwhere community meet an insurmountable natural catastrophe. Survival is completely dependent on human resilience and cooperation. A dystopian city-state must transform into recovery. Exposed to a variety of cultures, challenges of nature, and personal fears, the people of...
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    13,15 €

  • Ever Aequum
    J.L. Snyder / J.W. Capek
    THE DEERWHERE CODEX defines humanity beyond the genders of Female, Male, and Uniale. Humanness can be explored through sentient Quantum Computers or corporeal beings on a water world in the Multiverse.In The Deerwhere Awakening, humanity’s quest for utopia had come to fruition. The Founders imagined a place where humans, all three genders-uniales, females and males, would conte...
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    11,80 €

  • Fragments of Time
    J.W. Capek
    Fragments of courage. Fragments of upheaval. Dividing the human experience into diverse narratives-science fiction, fantasy, romance, nature study, adventure-author J.W. Capek presents short stories of universal ideas seen from a myriad of unique perspectives. Deeply personal and rich with authenticity, these are stories of mischief, love, and the fundamental changes that make ...
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    11,32 €

  • War with the Newts
    Karel Capek
    ’War with the Newts’ is Karel Capek’s darkly humorous allegory of early twentieth-century Czech politics. Captain van Toch discovers a colony of newts in Sumatra which can not only be taught to trade and use tools, but also to speak. As the rest of the world learns of the creatures and their wonderful capabilities, it is clear that this new species is ripe for exploitation - th...
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    9,62 €

  • Bohemia Under Hapsburg Misrule
    Et Al / Thomas Čapek
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSBohemia Under Hapsburg Misrule: A Study Of The Ideals And Aspirations Of The Bohemian And Slovak Peoples, As They Relate To And Are Affected By The Great European War Edited By Thomas ČapekThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair ...
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    10,74 €

  • The Absolute at Large
    Karel Capek
    This story centers on the invention of a reactor that can annihilate matter to produce cheap and abundant energy. Unfortunately, it produces something else as a by-product, the absolute. The absolute is a spiritual essence that according to some religious philosophies allegedly permeates all matter. It is associated with human religious experience, as unsuspecting humanity is t...
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    7,52 €

  • The Cechs (Bohemians) in America
    Thomas Capek
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    15,41 €

  • La guerra de las salamandras
    Karel Capek
    La guerra de las salamandras es una novela satírica de ciencia ficción del periodista y escritor checo Karel Capek, publicada en 1936 en Praga. En esta novela Capek narra mediante múltiples personajes los sucesos que preceden el descubrimiento de las salamandras gigantes identificadas por los científicos como Andrias Scheuchzeri, deteniéndose en la reacción de la prensa, en las...
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    17,90 €

  • The Čechs (Bohemians) in America; a study of their national, cultural, political, social, economic and religious life
    Thomas Capek
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    14,42 €

  • Money and other stories
    Karel Capek
    In this extraordinary collection of nine stories, called in the original Czech Painful Tales (Trapné povídky), one of the masters of twentieth century fiction details human situations where the heartbreak and blockedness in life predominate.In Money a brother is trapped between warring and manipulative sisters; in Helena a mismatched pair come to further grief through misunders...
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    11,88 €

  • Noble Metal Nanoparticles
    Ignác Capek
    This book introduces the reader the chemistry of reaction approaches by which noble metal nanoparticles are synthesized, including synthetic approaches using the Brust-Schiffrin method , a high-temperature solution-phase synthesis, polymer and biological entities, weak and strong reducing and capping agents, the low and high temperatures, various additives and various novel app...
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    272,46 €

  • Hordubal
    Karel Capek / Otto Pick
    Karel Capek (1890-1938) ist einer der wichtigsten tschechischen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts. In seinem Schauspiel R.U.R. taucht erstmals das Wort Roboter auf. Karel Capek widmete sich einem breiten Arbeitsfeld: Realismus, Drama und utopische Literatur. Sein Werk gilt als meisterhaftes Beispiel der tschechischen Sprache. Inhaltlich finden sich eine klare Beobachtungsgabe...
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    9,40 €

  • Masaryk erzählt sein Leben
    Camill Hoffmann / Karel Capek
    Tomáš Masaryk (1850-1937) war ein tschechischer Philosoph, Schriftsteller und Politiker sowie Mitbegründer und erster Staatspräsident der Tschechoslowakei (1918-1935). Masaryk stammte aus einfachen Verhältnissen. Er war Sohn eines slowakischen Kutschers auf kaiserlichen Gütern und einer Bauerntochter und Köchin aus Auspitz. Masaryk heiratete 1878 bei einem Amerikaaufenthalt die...
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    12,93 €

  • War with the Newts
    Karel Capek
    2017 Reprint of 1959 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  With a New Introduction by Lewis Gannett.  Originally published in Czech in 1936 and in English in 1937, this is the author’s prophetic and stirring novel about man’s fatal propensity to stuff himself with sweets until he becomes ill.  It is considered on en...
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    15,65 €

  • The Absolute at Large
    Karel Capek
    2017 Reprint of 1927 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.   The Absolute at Large was first published in 1922. The novel begins on New Year's Day 1943 - a future date at the time of writing - and describes the fundamental transformations in society as the result of a new mystical source of virtually free energy....
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    13,26 €

  • R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
    Karel Capek / David Wyllie
    'R.U.R.' (Rossum’s Universal Robots) (Czech: 'Rossumovi univerzální roboti') is a science fiction play originally written in the Czech language. It premiered in 1921 and is noted for introducing the term 'robot' to the English language.The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called 'robots.' Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to th...
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    10,82 €

  • R.U.R. - Rossum’s Universal Robots
    Karel Capek
    A phenomenal Czech science fiction play that introduced robots to modern literature. R.U.R. - Rossum’s Universal Robots explores the ethical implications behind humanity’s enslavement of a man-made race.Opening in the Roboti factory, this play poses moral and ethical questions as we watch humans create a new life form. R.U.R. are intelligent robots built with the ability to thi...
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    22,55 €


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