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Think for Yourself
What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is 'identity' now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define 'rights', self-interest and civic duties? Introducing Ethics confronts these dilemmas, tracing the arguments of the great moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics. Logic is the backbone of Western civilization, holding together its systems of philosophy, science and law. Yet despite logic's widely acknowledged importance, it remains an unbroken seal for many, due to its heavy use of jargon and mathematical symbolism. Introducing Logic follows the historical development of logic, explains the symbols and methods involved and explores the philosophical issues surrounding the topic. It will take you through the influence of logic on scientific method and the various sciences from physics to psychology, and will show you why computers and digital technology are just another case of logic in action. Dave Robinson and Judy Groves' Introducing Philosophy explores the awkward and provocative questions that philosophers have always enjoyed asking, such as: what is the nature of reality? Can we prove that God exists? Does language provide us with a true picture of the world? Comprehensive and enjoyable, it examines the key arguments and ideas off all the significant philosophers of the Western world from Heraclitus to Derrida.
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The Pigeon Tunnel
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels.Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire, or visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, or celebrating New Year's Eve with Yasser Arafat, or interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in his The Constant Gardener, le Carre endows each happening with vividness and humour, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carre gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters. 'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times' Guardian 'John le Carre is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times 'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre ...they were a journey into the wider world ...These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi
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International Law and the Use of Force
This book explores the whole of the large and controversial subject of the use of force in international law; it examines not only the use of force by states but also the role of the UN in peacekeeping and enforcement action, and the growing importance of regional organizations in the maintenance of international peace and security. Since the publication of the second edition of International Law and the Use of Force the law in this area has continued to undergo a fundamental reappraisal. Operation Enduring Freedom carries on against Al Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan six years after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. Can this still be justified as self-defence in the 'war on terror'? Is there now a wide right of pre-emptive self-defence against armed attacks by non-state actors? The 2006 Israel/Lebanon conflict and the recent intervention of Ethiopia in Somalia raise questions about whether the 'war on terror' has brought major changes in the law on self-defence and on regime change. The 2003 invasion of Iraq gave rise to serious divisions between states as to the legality of this use of force and to talk of a crisis of collective security for the UN.In response the UN initiated major reports on the future of the Charter system; these rejected amendment of the Charter provisions on the use of force. They also rejected any right of pre-emptive self-defence. They advocated a 'responsibility to protect' in cases of genocide or massive violations of human rights; the events in Darfur show the practical difficulties with the implementation of such a duty.
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The use of force in invernational relations
This book is a translation of the original Slovak edition published in 2007.
The commentaries from today (a 2012 perspective) are included in obvious italics in the footnotes. The main idea if the book is that violence is integral to the nature of human beings as a biological species. Human beings primarily tend to exercise collective violence (war, genocide), which is often glorified by culture. This collective violence has been long an efficient function of the selective evolution of human civilization. The nations that have been successful are only those, which were both able to live in peace and able to fight in the most brutal manner, if and when necessary. Military capacities and the ability to deploy them are the principal criterion of survival and the benchmark that states use to compare their respective power. As a result of the above, the use of force is and will be a permanent fixture of international relations, at least as a potential threat. The legal regulation of actual warlike activity is also an important issue for analysis. However, a fully-fledged regulation of the war violence is impossible because war is a serious matter and the stakes are very high. On the other hand there exist factors which moderate warlike enthusiasm and reduce the likelihood of an outbreak of war - the book describes also them.
The final message of the book of Dr. Daniel Šmihula is that the phenomenon of violence, as the direct use of force or threat of force, is and will remain present in international relations. Each prosperous community and each nation needs to be able to live in peace and work at constructing its own prosperity and economic, technological and spiritual advancement. Simultaneosly, it must be capable of effectively waging war, if necessary.
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Collected Stories Vol. 2
By the time Isaac Bashevis Singer published the three short-story collections gathered in this Library of America volume--A Friend of Kafka (1970), A Crown of Feathers (1973), and Passions (1975)--he had made his home in America for nearly four decades. Earning his living as a columnist for the Yiddish newspaper Forverts (The Jewish Daily Forward), he had risen from nearly complete anonymity outside of his Yiddish readership to international celebrity as "the last of the great Yiddish fiction writers," as Anzia Yzierska once called him. Awarded prizes, feted in the United States and abroad, eagerly sought for lectures and interviews, he had brought about this remarkable transformation primarily though the translation of his stories. Often collaborating with his translators, Singer intended the English version of his stories to be regarded not as diminished approximations of his Yiddish stories but as works shaped by the author in the language of his adopted homeland. The sixty-five stories in Collected Stories: A Friend of Kafka to Passions--the second of three volumes--reflect Singer's origins in Poland and his long exile in America. Although he continued to write tales drawing on Jewish folk traditions and supernaturalism, many of his stories from the late 1960s and early 1970s take place in the United States, as Singer explored the psychic devastation wrought by the Nazi genocide on Holocaust survivors ("The Cafeteria"), evoked the fragility of transplanted forms of Jewish life and belief ("The Cabalist of East Broadway"), and reflected on the spiritual hazards of worldly success in America ("Old Love"). Stories such as "A Day in Coney Island," "A Tutor in the Village," and "The Son"--based on Singer's reunion with his son Israel Zamir after a twenty-year separation--show Singer blurring the line between autobiography and fiction, a tendency that marks much of his later writing. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Earning the Rockies How Geography Shapes Americas Role in the World
An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America's role in the world--from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Balkan Ghosts As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. There was a specific phrase from Kaplan's childhood that captured this perspective: A westward traveler must -earn the Rockies- by driving--not flying--across the flat Midwest and Great Plains. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Traveling west, in the same direction as the pioneers, Kaplan traverses a rich and varied landscape that remains the primary source of American power. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities that thrive on globalization, impoverished towns denuded by the loss of manufacturing--and paints a bracingly clear picture of America today. The history of westward expansion is examined here in a new light--as a story not just of genocide and individualism, but also of communalism and a respect for the limits of a water-starved terrain, a frontier experience that bent our national character toward pragmatism. Kaplan shows how the great midcentury works of geography and geopolitics by Bernard DeVoto, Walter Prescott Webb, and Wallace Stegner are more relevant today than ever before. Concluding his journey at Naval Base San Diego, Kaplan looks out across the Pacific Ocean to the next frontier: China, India, and the emerging nations of Asia. And in the final chapter, he provides a gripping description of an anarchic world and explains why America's foreign policy response ought to be rooted in its own geographical situation. In this short, intense meditation on the American landscape, Robert D. Kaplan reminds us of an overlooked source of American strength: the fact that we are a nation, empire, and continent all at once. Earning the Rockies is an urgent reminder of how a nation's geography still foreshadows its future, and how we must reexamine our own landscape in order to confront the challenges that lie before us. Praise for Earning the Rockies -A text both evocative and provocative for readers who like to think . . . In his final sections, Kaplan discusses in scholarly but accessible detail the significant role that America has played and must play in this shuddering world.---Kirkus Reviews -Earning the Rockies is a brilliant reminder of the impact of America's geography on its strategy. An essential complement to his previous work on the subject of geostrategy, Kaplan's latest contribution should be required reading.---Henry A. Kissinger -Robert D. Kaplan uses America's unique geography and frontier experience to provide a lens-changing vision of America's role in the world, one that will capture your imagination. Unflinchingly honest, this refreshing approach shows how ideas from outside Washington, D.C., will balance America's idealism and pragmatism in dealing with a changed world. A jewel of a book, Earning the Rockies lights the path ahead.---General (Ret.) James Mattis
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Lacná kniha Trenes rigurosamente vigilados (-90%)
Trenes rigurosamente vigilados, la novela más conocida de Bohumil Hrabal, es una divertida y entrañable historia sobre la resistencia frente al invasor alemán durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, protagonizada por los empleados de la estación de tren de un pequeño pueblo checoslovaco. El descubrimiento del amor y del deseo están presentes en la narración del despertar al mundo adulto del aprendiz y verdadero héroe de la novela, que sigue los pasos del hedonista factor de la estación tras la atractiva telegrafista. La ingenua humanidad que transmiten estos personajes se convierte en solemne cuando su forma de entender la vida, de entender lo que es un hombre, los lleva a rebelarse ante el invasor no ya con la palabra y la ironía, sino arriesgando su vida. Una imprescindible y sabia reflexión sobre lo que significa ser humano. . Bohumil Hrabal (Brno, Moravia, 1914 ? Praga, 1997), hijo de un gerente de una fábrica de cerveza, estudió en la universidad de Praga, donde llegaría a ser doctor en Derecho, aunque trabajó como obrero en la industria siderúrgica de Kladno. Este trabajo le proporcionó la inspiración para los textos hiperrealistas que escribió en aquella época. Además ejerció de oficinista, de comercial y de tramoyista entre otros oficios. En 1963 publica su primer libro, Perlas en el fondo, y en 1965 el segundo Trenes rigurosamente vigilados, que sería llevado al cine por el cineasta Jiri Menzel, film que obtuvo en 1967 el Oscar a la mejor película extranjera. En 1968 Hrabal es censurado y no volvería a aparecer un libro suyo hasta 1975. No obstante, seguían circulando de manera clandestina copias mecanografiadas de los originales y el autor seguía ganando reconocimiento dentro y fuera de Checoslovaquia. En febrero de 1997, un Hrabal ya senil cayó del quinto piso del hospital en el que estaba ingresado mientras daba de comer a las palomas. . Habral está considerado como uno de los grandes escritores checos del siglo XX y tal vez el más importante del periodo de la posguerra. Maestro del humor y la ironía, era capaz de ver lo genial del absurdo de la vida y de las situaciones cotidianas. Entre sus obras publicadas en castellano se encuentran Una soledad demasiado ruidosa, Yo que he servido al rey de Inglaterra y Anuncio una casa donde ya no quiero vivir (El Aleph).
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LA CIUDAD PERDIDA
En los Ăşltimos años, las novelas de la serie NUMA, escritas por Clive Cussler en colaboraciĂłn con Paul Krempecos, se han convertido en un Ă©xito de crĂtica y pĂşblico, con una legiĂłn de fans que reciben cada vez con más entusiasmo las nuevas entregas. Y sus expectativas, como ya pasara con Muerte blanca, nunca se ven defraudadas. Este es el caso de la nueva novela de la serie, Lost City, en la que una enzima capaz de prolongar la vida ha sido descubierta a setenta metros de profundidad en el Atlántico Norte, en el área conocida como “Lost City”. Pero, Âżpor quĂ© todos los que se dedican a recogerla son asesinados? ÂżPor quĂ© todos los cientĂficos de un remoto laboratorio griego desaparecen uno a uno? ÂżQuĂ© tiene todo esto que ver con un cuerpo que acaba de aparecer congelado en una cima de los Alpes? Para Kurt Austin, jefe del equipo NUMA y su compañero, Joe Zavala, está claro que ahĂ hay mucho por investigar, pero las respuestas a estas preguntas serán más abrumadoras de lo que piensan y representan el reto más peligroso que han tenido nunca que afrontar.Enriquecido con una acciĂłn que pone los pelos de punta y una imaginaciĂłn que nunca termina, Lost City es un thriller excepcional, uno de los mejores de sus autores.
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Sodom - M-16 (20th Anniversary Edition) CD
KDO: Sodom jsou německá speed/thrashmetalová kapela vedená zpěvákem Tomem Angelripperem, který jako jediný působí v kapele nepřetržitě od jejího vzniku dodnes. Skupina je považována za jeden z největších vlivů na současnou black-metalovou scénu.
CO: Desáté album skupiny "M-16" bylo pojmenováno podle útočné pušky americké armády a jedná se o koncepční album reflektující krutost a hrůzy války ve Vietnamu. Album vyšlo 22. října 2001 a nyní vychází v reedici u příležitosti dvacátého výročí vydání.
CD:
1. Among the Weirdcong
2. I Am the War
3. Napalm in the Morning
4. Minejumper
5. Genocide
6. Little Boy
7. M-16
8. Lead Injection
9. Cannon Fodder
10. Marines
11. Surfin' Bird
12. Bonus Track: Remember the Fallen (Live Wacken 2001)
13. Bonus Track: Blasphemer (Live Wacken 2001)
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Sodom - M-16 (20th Anniversary Edition Box set) LP
KDO: Sodom jsou německá speed/thrashmetalová kapela vedená zpěvákem Tomem Angelripperem, který jako jediný působí v kapele nepřetržitě od jejího vzniku dodnes. Skupina je považována za jeden z největších vlivů na současnou black-metalovou scénu.
CO: Desáté album skupiny "M-16" bylo pojmenováno podle útočné pušky americké armády a jedná se o koncepční album reflektující krutost a hrůzy války ve Vietnamu. Album vyšlo 22. října 2001 a nyní vychází v reedici u příležitosti dvacátého výročí vydání.
LP1:
1. A1 Among the Weirdcong
2. A2 I Am the War
3. A3 Napalm in the Morning
4. B1 Minejumper
5. B2 Genocide
6. B3 Little Boy
LP2:
1. C1 M-16
2. C2 Lead Injection
3. C3 Cannon Fodder
4. D1 Marines
5. D2 Surfin' Bird
6. D3 Bonus Track: Remember the Fallen (Live Wacken 2001)
7. D4 Bonus Track: Blasphemer (Live Wacken 2001)
LP3:
Live at Wacken 2001
1. E1 Agent Orange
2. E2 Code Red
3. E3 Der Wachturm
4. E4 M-16
Live in Tokyo 2002
5. F1 Amon The Weirdcong
6. F2 The Vice of Killing
7. F3 Eat Me
LP4:
Live at BangYourHead 2003
1. G1 The Saw Is The Law
2. G2 Outbreak of Evil
3. G3 Bombenhagel
Live in Bangkok 2002
4. H1 I Am The War
5. H2 Masquerade in Blood
6. H3 Sodomized
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Porter Gregory - Live In Berlin 2CD+DVD
Tracklist:
1. Holding on
2. Medley: on my way to harlem / what's going on
3. Take me to the alley
4. Don't lose your steam
5. Hey laura
6. Liquid spirit
7. Consequence of love
8. Medley: bass solo / smoke on the water / papa was a rolling
9. Musical genocide
10. Don't be a fool
11. Medley: work song / drum solo
12. In fashion
13. Be good (lion's song)
14. 1960 what?
15. Water under bridges
16. Medley: free / thank you (falettinme be mice elf agin)
CD1
1 Holding On
2 On My Way To Harlem / What s Going On
3 Take Me To The Alley
4 Don t Lose Your Steam
5 Hey Laura
6 Liquid Spirit
7 Consequence Of Love
CD 2
8 Bass Solo / Papa Was A Rolling Stone
9 Musical Genocide
10 Don t Be A Fool
11 Work Song / Drum Solo
12 In Fashion
13 Be Good (Lion s Song)
14 1960 What?
15 Water Under Bridges
16 Free / Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
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Porter Gregory - Liquid Spirit CD+DVD
Tracklist:
CD:
1 No Love Dying
2 Liquid Spirit
3 Lonesome Lover
4 Water Under Bridges
5 Hey Laura
6 Musical Genocide
7 Wolfcry
8 Free
9 Brown Grass
10 Wind Song
11 The 'In' Crowd
12 Movin'
13 When Love Was King
14 I Fall I Love Too Easily
15 Water Under Bridges (featuring Laura Mvula)*
16 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Jamie Cullum feat. Gregory Porter)*
17 Grandma's Hands (featuring Ben L'Oncle Soul)*
18 Liquid Spirit - 20 syl Remix*
DVD:
1 Grandma's Hands (Concert Film)*
2 Hoochie Coochie Man (Concert Film)*
3 She Was Too Good To Me (Concert Film)*
4 Someday We'll All Be Free (Concert Film)*
5 Work Song (Concert Film)*
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Lacná kniha La sombra del ciprés es alargada (-70%)
Pedro, el protagonista, es huérfano desde su ninez. A instancias de su tío y tutor viene a parar para su educación al hogar sombrío de don Mateo Lesmes, en la austera y recoleta ciudad de Ávila. Preceptor esforzado pero pésimo pedagogo, don Mateo educará al muchacho en la creencia de que para ser feliz, o al menos para no ser desgraciado, hay que evitar toda relación con el mundo, toda emoción o todo afecto. Sólo la vitalidad y juventud del protagonista podrán, anos después, ayudarle a superar el pesimismo inculcado. Sin embargo, los acontecimientos parecen obligarle a recordar lo aprendido... Delibes, con un impecable estilo que asombra aún más por cuanto se trata de su primera novela, consigue una espléndida obra donde la muerte, que rodea y golpea constantemente al protagonista, es vencida, finalmente, por la esperanza.
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Trenes rigurosamente vigilados
Trenes rigurosamente vigilados, la novela más conocida de Bohumil Hrabal, es una divertida y entrañable historia sobre la resistencia frente al invasor alemán durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, protagonizada por los empleados de la estación de tren de un pequeño pueblo checoslovaco. El descubrimiento del amor y del deseo están presentes en la narración del despertar al mundo adulto del aprendiz y verdadero héroe de la novela, que sigue los pasos del hedonista factor de la estación tras la atractiva telegrafista. La ingenua humanidad que transmiten estos personajes se convierte en solemne cuando su forma de entender la vida, de entender lo que es un hombre, los lleva a rebelarse ante el invasor no ya con la palabra y la ironía, sino arriesgando su vida. Una imprescindible y sabia reflexión sobre lo que significa ser humano. . Bohumil Hrabal (Brno, Moravia, 1914 ? Praga, 1997), hijo de un gerente de una fábrica de cerveza, estudió en la universidad de Praga, donde llegaría a ser doctor en Derecho, aunque trabajó como obrero en la industria siderúrgica de Kladno. Este trabajo le proporcionó la inspiración para los textos hiperrealistas que escribió en aquella época. Además ejerció de oficinista, de comercial y de tramoyista entre otros oficios. En 1963 publica su primer libro, Perlas en el fondo, y en 1965 el segundo Trenes rigurosamente vigilados, que sería llevado al cine por el cineasta Jiri Menzel, film que obtuvo en 1967 el Oscar a la mejor película extranjera. En 1968 Hrabal es censurado y no volvería a aparecer un libro suyo hasta 1975. No obstante, seguían circulando de manera clandestina copias mecanografiadas de los originales y el autor seguía ganando reconocimiento dentro y fuera de Checoslovaquia. En febrero de 1997, un Hrabal ya senil cayó del quinto piso del hospital en el que estaba ingresado mientras daba de comer a las palomas. . Habral está considerado como uno de los grandes escritores checos del siglo XX y tal vez el más importante del periodo de la posguerra. Maestro del humor y la ironía, era capaz de ver lo genial del absurdo de la vida y de las situaciones cotidianas. Entre sus obras publicadas en castellano se encuentran Una soledad demasiado ruidosa, Yo que he servido al rey de Inglaterra y Anuncio una casa donde ya no quiero vivir (El Aleph).
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Europe and the Roma
The first full, comprehensive account of the cultural representation of the Roma in European history
This remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their initial arrival in the late Middle Ages to the present day. To Europeans, the Roma appeared to be in complete contradiction with their own culture, because of their mysterious origins, unknown language and way of life. As representatives of an oral culture, for centuries the Roma have left virtually no written records of their own. Their history has been conveyed to us almost exclusively through the distorted images that European cultures project.
Persecuted and shunned, the Roma nonetheless spread out across the continent and became an important, indeed indispensable element in the European imagination. It is impossible to conceive of the culture of Spain, southern France and much of Central Europe without this pervasive Romani influence.
Europe and the Roma brilliantly describes the 'fascination and fear' which have marked Europeans' response to the Romani presence. Countless composers, artists and writers have responded to Romani culture and to fantasies thereof. Their projections onto a group whose illiteracy and marginalization gave it so little direct voice of its own have always been a very uneasy mixture of the inspired, the patronizing and the frighteningly ignorant. The book also shows the link between cultural violence, social discrimination and racist policies that paved the way for the genocide of the Roma.
Berlin
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin
Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the Second World War, the psychosis of genocide, and a city rent in two by competing ideologies. But people do not live their lives in fixed eras. An epoch ends, yet the people continue - or try to continue - much as they did before. Berlin tells the story of the city as seen through the eyes not of its rulers, but of those who walked its streets.
In this magisterial biography of a city and its inhabitants, bestselling historian Sinclair McKay sheds new light on well-known characters - from idealistic scientist Albert Einstein to Nazi architect Albert Speer - and draws on never-before-seen first-person accounts to introduce us to people of all walks of Berlin life. For example, we meet office worker Mechtild Evers, who in her efforts to escape an oncoming army runs into even more appalling jeopardy, and Reinhart Cruger, a 12-year-old boy in 1941 who witnesses with horror the Gestapo coming for each of his Jewish neighbours in turn. Ever a city of curious contrasts, moments of unbelievable darkness give way to a wry Berliner humour - from banned perms to the often ridiculous tit-for-tat between East and West Berlin - and moments of joyous hope - like forced labourers at a jam factory warmly welcoming their Soviet liberators.
How did those ideologies - fascism and communism - come to flower so fully here? And how did their repercussions continue to be felt throughout Europe and the West right up until that extraordinary night in the autumn of 1989 when the Wall - that final expression of totalitarian oppression - was at last breached? You cannot understand the twentieth century without understanding Berlin; and you cannot understand Berlin without understanding the experiences of its people. Drawing on a staggering breadth of culture - from art to film, opera to literature, science to architecture - McKay's latest masterpiece shows us this hypnotic city as never before.
Mluvčí za mrtvé - druhá kniha
Enderovo vítězství ve válce s termiťany otevřelo lidské rase víc než sedmdesát planet. Pod vedením Hvězdného kongresu lidstvo osídlilo Stovku světů. Ender celý život nesl tíhu viny za to, že vyvraždil celou civilizaci, a stal se proto prvním Mluvčím za mrtvé. Uběhly tři tisíce let. Kdokoli může kdykoli zavolat Mluvčího. A jeho úkolem je vysvětlit a obhájit mrtvé i živé. Za čí smrt bude Mluvčí hovořit na planetě Lusitania? Unese lidstvo tíhu kontaktu s další nehumanoidní inteligentní rasou? Bude se historie opakovat a lidstvo se opět v obraně dopustí xenocidy? Mluvčí za mrtvé překvapí v porovnání s předchozím svazkem série přesunem z polohy psychologické do polohy filozofické.
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide
One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China's establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China's internment camps for Muslim minorities.
Tahir, a prominent poet and intellectual, had been no stranger to persecution. After he attempted to travel abroad in 1996, police tortured him until he confessed to fabricated charges and sent him to a re-education through labour camp. But even having endured three years in the camp, he could never have predicted the Chinese government's radical solution to the Uyghur question two decades later. When he noticed that the park near his home was nearly empty because so many neighbours had been arrested, he knew the police would be coming for him any day. It soon became clear to Tahir and his wife that fleeing the country was the family's only hope.
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland. Among leading Uyghur intellectuals and writers, he is the only one known to have escaped China since the mass internments began. His book is a call for the world to awaken to the unfolding catastrophe, and a tribute to his friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced.
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Guardians of the Galaxy: All-New X-Men: the Trial of Jean Grey (Marvel Now)
Space and time collide! The arrival of the original X-Men in the present sent shockwaves through the Marvel Universe, but we've only seen the effects on Earth - until now! When an alien race discovers that Jean Grey - once (or perhaps future) host of the destructive Phoenix Force - is back on Earth, they decide to hold her accountable for the genocide committed by Dark Phoenix! Now, it's up to the spacefaring Guardians of the Galaxy to help the All-New X-Men save Jean from twisted intergalactic justice. A surprise ally from one character's past arrives to help, but will that be enough against the most powerful army in the universe? Don't miss the first encounter between two of Marvel's biggest franchises!COLLECTING: Guardians of the Galaxy 11-13, All-New X-Men 22-24
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