Rosalind Miles

V knihe Bojovné ženy obľúbená spisovateľka Rosalind Milesová a uznávaný vojenský historik Robin Cross vykresľujú portréty viac ako sto mimoriadnych žien za posledné tri tisícročia - od vražednej kráľovnej Boudicy, ktorá sa kruto pomstila Rimanom za k rivdy, ktoré boli spáchané na jej rodine a na jej kmeni, až po vojnové vodkyne dnešných čias, ako bola Golda Meierová či Margaret Thatcherová, od legendárnej britskej špiónky Virginie Hallovej až po letecké eso z hruhej svetovej vojny Hannu Rietschov ú. "Bojovali ako čertice, oveľa lepšie než muži." Georges Benjamin Clemenceau "Amazonky so zlatým brnením a so striebornými mečmi milujú mužov, ale zabíjajú novorodencov mužského pohlavia." Hellanikos "Naozaj, moji muži sa stávajú ženami a moje ženy mužmi." Xerxes "Briti nerozlišujú medzi pohlaviami, keď si vyberajú veliteľa." Tacitus Bojovné ženy vracajú vojnové zásluhy žien na čestné miesto v dejinách, ktoré im právom patrí. Sú adekvátnym prejavom úcty všetkým ženám. Tým, ktoré bojovali vo v ojnách v minulosti, aj tým, ktoré i v súčasnosti berú do rúk zbrane v častiach sveta, ktoré trpia násilím.

'A refreshing variation on the will-intelligent-robots-bring-Armageddon genre . . . this colorful mixture of expert futurology and quirky speculation does not disappoint' Kirkus 'A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.' Isaac Asimov, The First Law of Robotics What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate for our human-robot future? For even as robots and AI intrigue us and make us anxious about the future, our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology - it also concerns what robots tell us about being human. From present-day Facebook and Amazon bots to near-future 'intimacy' bots and 'the robot that swiped my job' bots, bestselling American popular science writer David Ewing Duncan's Talking to Robots is a wonderfully entertaining and insightful guide to possible future scenarios about robots, both real and imagined. Featured bots include robot drivers; doc bots; politician bots; warrior bots; sex bots; synthetic bio bots; dystopic bots that are hopefully just bad dreams; and ultimately, God Bot (as described by physicist Brian Greene). These scenarios are informed by discussions with well-known thinkers, engineers, scientists, artists, philosophers and others, who share with us their ideas, hopes and fears about robots. David spoke with, among others, Kevin Kelly, David Baldacci, Brian Greene, Dean Kamen, Craig Venter, Stephanie Mehta, David Eagleman, George Poste, George Church, General R. H. Latiff, Robert Seigel, Emily Morse, David Sinclair, Ken Goldberg, Sunny Bates, Adam Gazzaley, Tim O'Reilly, Tiffany Shlain, Eric Topol and Juan Enriquez. These discussions, along with some reporting on bot-tech, bot-history and real-time societal and ethical issues with robots, are the launch pads for unfurling possible bot futures that are informed by how people and societies have handled new technologies in the past. The book describes how robots work, but its primary focus is on what our fixation with bots and AI says about us as humans: about our hopes and anxieties; our myths, stories, beliefs and ideas about beings both real and artificial; and our attempts to attain perfection. We are at a pivotal moment when our ancient infatuation with human-like beings with certain attributes or superpowers - in mythology, religion and storytelling - is coinciding with our ability to actually build some of these entities.

Rosalind Miles' The Women's History of the World was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and translated into almost forty languages.Now it is time for a new women's history - for more famous, infamous and little-known rebels. We begin with the French Revolution when women took on the fraternite of man, then it's off to America to round up the rebels fighting side by side for freedom with their men, before heading back to Britain to witness the courage of the suffragettes. From Australia to Iceland, from India to China and from many other countries, we track women who - often at a very high cost to themselves - have stood up to age-old cruelties and injustices. Recording the important milestones in the long march of women towards equality through a colourful pageant of astonishing women, we chart the birth of modern womanhood. Women in sport, women in business, women in religion, women in politics and women in power - all female life is there. We end in the present day thrilled with what women have done - and can and will do. Rebel Women is as brave and as brilliant as its renegades, viragos and heroines.

V knihe Bojovné ženy obľúbená spisovateľka Rosalind Milesová a uznávaný vojenský historik Robin Cross vykresľujú portréty viac ako sto mimoriadnych žien za posledné tri tisícročia - od vražednej kráľovnej Boudicy, ktorá sa kruto pomstila Rimanom za k rivdy, ktoré boli spáchané na jej rodine a na jej kmeni, až po vojnové vodkyne dnešných čias, ako bola Golda Meierová či Margaret Thatcherová, od legendárnej britskej špiónky Virginie Hallovej až po letecké eso z hruhej svetovej vojny Hannu Rietschov ú. "Bojovali ako čertice, oveľa lepšie než muži." Georges Benjamin Clemenceau "Amazonky so zlatým brnením a so striebornými mečmi milujú mužov, ale zabíjajú novorodencov mužského pohlavia." Hellanikos "Naozaj, moji muži sa stávajú ženami a moje ženy mužmi." Xerxes "Briti nerozlišujú medzi pohlaviami, keď si vyberajú veliteľa." Tacitus Bojovné ženy vracajú vojnové zásluhy žien na čestné miesto v dejinách, ktoré im právom patrí. Sú adekvátnym prejavom úcty všetkým ženám. Tým, ktoré bojovali vo v ojnách v minulosti, aj tým, ktoré i v súčasnosti berú do rúk zbrane v častiach sveta, ktoré trpia násilím.