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Brian pořád skvěle kreslí, ale taky se pořád chová dost divně. Jeho vztah s Laurie se komplikuje a situace v partě se následně vyhrotí na na filmařském výletě na chatu u pláže. Zjevení mimozemských medúz rozhodně nikomu na pohodě nepřidá. Odkud pocházejí? Zrodily se snad v bludišti Brianovy mysli? A jak do toho všeho zapadá osamělá maminka, vraždící Pařát a exkluzivní parmezán? Bludiště 2 pokračují v započaté trajektorii – ani v druhém díle chystané trilogie nechybí labilní adolescenti, hlubinné vize či amatérské osmičkové filmy.

Mimoriadne introspektívna kniha – príbeh konfrontácie jedného človeka s históriou. Obama úprimne píše o svojich skúsenostiach s kandidatúrou čierneho Američana na funkciu prezidenta, od ktorého celé generácie očakávajú „nádej a zmeny“, o morálnych výzvach, keď má rozhodovať na najvyššej úrovni. Otvorene hovorí o silách, ktoré mu kládli prekážky doma i v zahraničí, aj o tom, ako život v Bielom dome ovplyvnil jeho manželku a dcéry, a nebojí sa odhaliť pochybnosti o sebe samom. Kniha tlmočí presvedčenie Baracka Obamu, že demokracia nie je darom z neba, ale systémom založeným na empatii a spoločnom porozumení, ktoré treba dennodenne budovať.

A chaotically violent and hauntingly beautiful novel from one of the greatest American novelists, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy.

Fantagraphics is proud to present a new edition of Woodring's classic graphic novel.

"Brilliantly written...a joy to read...Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous." - Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Maxine Tarnow runs a fine little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side. All is ticking over nice and normal, until she starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler’s aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, and an array of bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course. Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance? Hey. Who wants to know?

The monograph originated in response to a number of critical methodological issues that arise in technical efficiency measurement in banking, especially with a focus upon the branch level. Its ambition is to clear some ambiguities that continue to trouble empirical research in this field and that include the issue of selecting an appropriate model of banking or choosing a suitable comprehensive measure of technical efficiency. In addition, the monograph proposes for the most frequent technical efficiency measures a method for identification of sources from which possible technical inefficiency emanates.