Hľadanie: Genetika CZ
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Gene Eating
Why are we all getting fatter?
Why are some people hungrier than others?
And why don't diets work?
In an age of misinformation and pseudo-science, the world is getting fatter and the diet makers are getting richer. So how do we break this cycle that's killing us all?
Drawing on the very latest science and his own genetic research at Cambridge University, Dr Giles Yeo has written the seminal 'anti-diet' diet book. Exploring the history of our food, debunking marketing nonsense and toxic diet advice, and confronting the advocates of 'clean eating', Dr Giles translates his pioneering research into an engaging, must-read study of the human appetite.
Inspiring and revelatory, Gene Eating is an urgent and essential book that will empower us all with the facts we need to establish healthy relationships with food - and change the way we eat.
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The Minders
Five strangers guard our secrets.
Only four can be trusted...
In the 21st century, information is king. But computers can be hacked and files can be broken into - so a unique government initiative has been born. Five ordinary people have been selected to become Minders - the latest weapon in thwarting cyberterrorism. Transformed by a revolutionary medical procedure, the country's most classified information has been taken offline and turned into genetic code implanted inside their heads.
Together, the five know every secret - the truth behind every government lie, conspiracy theory and cover up. In return, they're given the chance to leave their problems behind and a blank slate to start their lives anew.
But not everyone should be trusted, especially when they each have secrets of their own they'll do anything to protect...
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10,50 €
Hidden Valley Road
Unforgettable' The Times 'Grippingly told and brilliantly reported' Mail on Sunday 'Startlingly intimate' Sunday Times 'Fascinating' Daily Mail 'Groundbreaking' Evening Standard 'Exceptional and moving' Spectator 'Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again.' -David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon One of the New York Times' '20 most anticipated books of 2020': the heartrending story of a mid-century American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. 'An extraordinary case study and tour de force of reporting.' -Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins - aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony - and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after the other, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institutes of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother, to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amidst profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love and hope. 'This book tore my heart out. It is a revelation-about the history of mental health treatment, about trauma, foremost about family-and a more-than-worthy follow-up to Robert Kolker's brilliant Lost Girls.' -Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me and Give Me Your Hand
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12,30 €
12,95 €
Genius and Anxiety
Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But many have vanished from our collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth.
These visionaries all have something in common - their Jewish origins and a gift for thinking outside the box.
In 1847 the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world's population, and yet they saw what others could not. How?
Eating to Extinction
From a tiny crimson pear in the west of England to great chunks of fermented sheep meat in the Faroe Islands, from pistachios in Syria to flat oysters in Denmark, from a wild honey harvested with the help of birds to an exploding corn that might just hold the key to the future of food - these are just some of the thousands of foods around the world today that are at risk of being lost for ever.
In this captivating and wide-ranging book, Dan Saladino spans the globe to uncover the stories of these foods. He meets the pioneering farmers, scientists, cooks, food producers and indigenous communities who are preserving food traditions and fighting for change. All human history is woven through these stories, from the first great migrations to the slave trade to the refugee crisis today. But Eating to Extinction is about so much more than preserving the past. It reveals a world at a crisis point: the future of our planet depends on reclaiming genetic biodiversity before it is too late.
Eating to Extinction is an astonishing journey through the past, present and future of food, a love letter to the diversity of global food cultures, and a work of great urgency and hope.
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17,58 €
18,50 €
Učitelka (CZ verze) DVD
Kategórie: dráma, čs. tvorba
Dĺžka: 98 min.
Jazykové verzie: slovenská, česká
Titulky: slovenské, české, anglické
Zvukové normy: 5.1, 2.0
Réžia: Jan Hřebejk
Hrajú: Zuzana Mauréry, Peter Bebjak, Csongor Kassai, Martin Havelka, Zuzana Konečná, Ondřej Malý, Attila Mokos, Éva Bandor, Richard Labuda
Zdánlivě empatická a laskavě vyhlížející učitelka manipuluje prostřednictvím svých žáků jejich rodiči za účelem osobního obohacení, ať už v podobě materiálních výhod, či dokonce vidiny milostného poměru. Nejen z obavy o prospěch svých milovaných dětí většina rodičů třídní učitelce základní školy podléhá a poskytuje jí nejrůznější služby, dárky a jiné pozornosti. Najdou se však tři rodiny, které se rozhodnou učitelce vzepřít a stávající situaci se společně s ředitelkou školy pokusí zvrátit na konspirativní třídní schůzce. Děj strhujícího a velmi aktuálního snímku o síle lidského charakteru inspirovaného skutečnou událostí se sice odehrává na začátku 80. let, ale jde o příběh univerzální, který by se mohl odehrát kdekoliv a v jakékoli době, neboť zkorumpovanost, stejně jako malost a vypočítavost vládnou světem bez ustání.
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7,99 €
Lacná kniha Poles Apart (-50%)
We humans are social animals, naturally driven to form close-knit groups. All too often, though, these groups become partisan. They start to compete with one another. They become mutually hostile. Why does this happen? And what can be done to counter the tendency
In Poles Apart, an expert on polarisation, a behavioural scientist and a professional communicator explain why we are so prone to be drawn into rival, often deeply antagonistic factions. They explore the shaping force of our genetic make-up on our fundamental views and the nature of the influences that family, friends and peers exert. They pinpoint the economic and political triggers that tip people from healthy disagreement to dangerous hostility, and the part played by social media in spreading entrenched opinions. And they help us to understand why outlooks that can seem so bizarre and extreme to us seem so eminently sensible to those who hold them.
Above all, by meticulously showing how and why polarisation affects every part of our lives - influencing everything from our friendship circles to our approach to health issues - they show what practical and effective steps we can all take to narrow divisions, build respect for others, and create a greater degree of common understanding.
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9,25 €
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Rosa
A beautifully illustrated and unique history of the rose-the "queen of flowers"-in art, medicine, cuisine, and more.
Few flowers have quite the same allure or as significant a place in history as the rose. A symbol of love, power, royalty, beauty, and joy, the rose has played many roles, both literal and symbolic, in poetry, art, literature, music, fashion, medicine, perfume, decoration, cuisine, and more.
In this beautifully illustrated guide, award-winning horticulturist Peter E. Kukielski and his coauthor, Charles Phillips, tell the fascinating and many-layered history of this "queen of flowers." The book explores many stories from the long association of roses with human societies, from their first cultivation-likely in China some five thousand years ago-to their modern genetic cultivars. It shows how roses have been prominent across time and many cultures, including ancient Greece and Rome, Christianity, Islam, and Sufism.
The book, with more than 140 color illustrations, offers a unique look at the essential contributions that roses have made throughout human history.
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29,40 €
30,95 €
Genetics
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Genetics is an accessible, authoritative and insightful introduction to the code that shapes the lives of all living things - DNA.
Written by broadcaster and geneticist Adam Rutherford, Genetics breaks down the DNA code - an alphabet of four letters and twenty-one words - that has been passed down from cell to cell for four billion years.
You'll learn how in the 150 years since DNA was first discovered, we are beginning to understand, and even radically rewrite, the code of life on Earth.
Written by the leading lights and most outstanding communicators in their fields, the Ladybird Expert books provide clear, accessible and authoritative introductions to subjects drawn from science, history, and culture.
For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small hardback format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Each beautifully illustrated book features the first new illustrations produced in the original Ladybird style for nearly forty years.
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9,98 €
10,50 €
Minds Make Societies
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies
“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature.” Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.
Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles. In fascinating, thought-provoking passages, he explores questions such as, Why is there conflict between groups? Why do people believe low-value information such as rumors? Why are there religions? What is social justice? What explains morality? Boyer provides a new picture of cultural transmission that draws on the pragmatics of human communication, the constructive nature of memory in human brains, and human motivation for group formation and cooperation.
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Who Ate the First Oyster
Who wore the first pants?
Who painted the first masterpiece?
Who first rode the horse?
This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations.
In this book, writer Cody Cassidy digs deep into the latest research to uncover the untold stories of some of these incredible innovators (or participants in lucky accidents). With a sharp sense of humor and boundless enthusiasm for the wonders of our ancient ancestors, Who Ate the First Oyster? profiles the perpetrators of the greatest firsts and catastrophes of prehistory, using the lives of individuals to provide a glimpse into ancient cultures to show how and why these critical developments occurred, and educate us on a period of time that until recently we've known almost nothing about.
Poruchy funkce gonád
Poruchy determinace a diferenciace pohlaví nepatří mezi často se vyskytující poruchy, ale jejich psychické, etické a sociální následky jsou velmi závažné. Autorky této publikace se uvedenými aspekty zabývají z hlediska dětské endokrinologie, genetiky a histologie. Přehledné členění nejrozsáhlejší části se věnuje nejprve postupu diferenciace gonád, následuje klasifikace poruch (s absencí či přítomností Y chromozómu v genotypu, nadměrný počet chromozómů, genové mutace, nesestouplá testes a receptorové poruchy). V jednotlivých kapitolách jsou popisovány klinické znaky, možnosti léčby a doplněny kasuistiky. Část probírající genetiku jednotlivých poruch se zaměřuje na jejich klinickou a genetickou prognózu, pasáže věnované histologii se orientují na morfologii dysgenetických gonád, přičemž zvláštní pozornost náleží nádorům spojeným s konkrétními defekty. Všechny tři části doprovází reprezentativní seznam literatury.
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7,54 €
7,94 €
Lacná kniha Sexuální agrese - Znásilnění z pohledu medicíny a práva (-90%)
Kniha pohlíží na sexuální agresi z úhlů jednotlivých profesí, které se účastní procesního řízení v rámci vyšetřování tohoto násilného sexuálního deliktu. Jednotlivé kapitoly jsou sepsané kriminalistou, genetikem-kriminalistou, právníkem, ženským lékařem, soudním znalcem v oboru sexuologie, soudním patologem a psychologem-psychiatrem. Měly by postihnout možná úskalí a zásadní chyby při vyšetřování znásilněné. Tyto chyby totiž vedou v praxi k sekundární viktimizaci postižené, k zásadním omylům při zajištění usvědčujících materiálů a jiným pochybením v rámci procesního řízení.
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2,17 €
21,73 €
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James Bond, agent 007, skončil aktivní službu a užívá si zasloužený odpočinek na Jamajce. Klid však nemá dlouhého trvání – objeví se totiž jeho starý přítel Felix Leiter ze CIA a požádá ho o pomoc. Mise na záchranu uneseného vědce se ukáže být zrádnější, než se na začátku zdálo. Bond se během vyšetřování dostane na stopu nevyzpytatelného zločince, který disponuje nebezpečnou a velmi ničivou novou technologií.
Formát obrazu: 16:9
Celková stopáž: 163 min
Zvuk: CZ, EN
Titulky: české, anglické
Režie: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Scénář: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Kamera: Linus Sandgren
Hudba: Hans Zimmer
Hrají: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Ana de Armas, Naomie Harris, David Dencik, Rory Kinnear
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35,14 €
36,99 €
Superior: The Return Of Race Science
Financial Times Book of the Year
Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year
Guardian Book of the Year
New Statesman Book of the Year
'Roundly debunks racism's core lie - that inequality is to do with genetics, rather than political power' Reni Eddo-Lodge
Where did the idea of race come from, and what does it mean? In an age of identity politics, DNA ancestry testing and the rise of the far-right, a belief in biological differences between populations is experiencing a resurgence. The truth is: race is a social construct. Our problem is we find this hard to believe.
In Superior, award-winning author Angela Saini investigates the concept of race, from its origins to the present day. Engaging with geneticists, anthropologists, historians and social scientists from across the globe, Superior is a rigorous, much needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of the belief that race is real, and that some groups of people are superior to others.
The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution Of The Wolf Into Man’S Best Friend
The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today.
Sykes paints a vivid picture of the dog as an ancient and essential ally. While undoubtedly it was the mastery of fire, language and agriculture that propelled Homo sapiens from a scarce, medium-sized primate to the position we enjoy today, Sykes crucially credits a fourth element for this success: the transformation of the wolf into the multi-purpose helpmate that is the dog. Drawing upon archaeology, history and genetics, Sykes shows how humans evolved to become the dominant species on Earth, but only with the help of our canine companions.
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11,88 €
12,50 €
Kung Fu Panda 3 (CZ obal) DVD
Jedna z nejúspěšnějších animovaných sérií na světě se vrací a v jejím čele nestojí nikdo jiný než slavný kung-fu bojovník, tak trochu i do šířky urostlý panda Po. A vše začne tím, že se znenadání objeví Poův ztracený biologický otec, společně pak odcestují do tajného pandího ráje, kde se setkají s dalšími pandími členy široké a černobílé rodiny. Ale pak Kai, padouch s nadpřirozenými schopnostmi, proletí Čínou jako vichřice a začne porážet všechny mistry kung-fu, Po musí udělat nemožné: naučit vesnici plnou legraci milujících, těžkopádných bratří umění kung-fu, aby se z nich stalo neohrožené společenství Kung Fu Pand!
Dĺžka: 94 min.
Zvuk: 5.1 CS, EN
Titulky: CS
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7,59 €
7,99 €
Monsters
The year is 1964.
Bailey doesn't realize he is about to fulfil his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office. Secretive, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, Bobby is the perfect candidate for a secret US government experiment, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Bailey's only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone's control. As the monsters of the title multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, the story reaches a crescendo of moral reckoning.
A 360-page tour de force of visual storytelling, Monsters' narrative canvas is copious: part familial drama, part thriller, part metaphysical journey, it is an intimate portrait of individuals struggling to reclaim their lives and an epic political odyssey that plays across two generations of American history.
Monsters is rendered in Barry Windsor-Smith's impeccable pen-and-ink technique, the visual storytelling, with its sensitivity to gesture and composition, the most sophisticated of the artist's career. There are passages of heartbreaking tenderness, of excruciating pain, of redemption and sacrifice, and devastating violence. Monsters is surely one of the most intense graphic novels ever drawn.
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30,35 €
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Codes of the Temporary: Manifesto of Architecture
This book opens many questions. Can architectural research still be eros towards study, the deepening of its principles? Can a temporary, ephemeral, mutant building, a minimal set-up be the privileged place of our attention? And, can we with the enchantment of micro visions of nature see other geometries and transform them into constructive, geometric, material, modular genetic codes for a vision of architecture? Finding freedom is a first, experimental response of the author.
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20,85 €
21,95 €