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Premchand`s Short Story Reader
Publikace je kritickým vydáním 22 povídek zakladatele moderní hindské prózy - Dhanpata Ráje, známého v literárním světě jako Prémčand (1880-1936). Jsou vybrány z obrovského korpusu, který čítá přes 300 povídek. Text vznikl na základě různých indických vydání, jejich porovnáním, odstraněním tiskařských chyb a sjednocením interpunkce a pravopisu vůbec. U různých indických vydavatelů se interpunkce a pravopis podstatně liší. Dnešní hindština používá interpunkci evropskou, ale ta ve většině vydání není systematicky dodržována. Vzhledem k tomu, že autor používá četné výpůjčky z perštiny a arabštiny, bylo třeba opravit systematický a pečlivě, s použitím diakritických znamének, i transliterace výpůjček v hindském písmu dévanágarí.
Při výběru se sestavovatel řídil jazykovým a stylistickým kritériem. Tyto povídky se považují za nejlepší ze všech, které autor napsal (podtitul knihy je: Premčand kí šréšth kahániján - Prémčandovy nejlepší povídky). Mnohé z nich se vyskytují i v jiných výběrech, které vyšly v Indii. Tento výběr je reprezentativní i po stránce tematické. Přináší líčení života v rodině, postavení indické ženy v rodině i ve společnosti a život vesničanů a nejnižších společenských kast. Dále jsou tu zastoupeny náměty historické, vlastenecké, dětské, psychologické atd. Prémčand jako dobrý znalec lidské psychiky je považován za zakladatele psychologické prózy v hindštině.
Přínosem tohoto výběru je i lexikální a frazeologické zpracování textů. Slovní zásoba je řazena podle hindského abecedního pořadí a kromě anglických ekvivalentů zahrnuje také etymologické a gramatické vysvětlivky k lexémům, které jsou označené zkratkami. Pro lepší porozumění textům byly do hesláře zařazeny i veškeré vysvětlivky a poznámky k historickým a kulturním reáliím. Kniha je určena neindickému čtenáři a může posloužit i jako učební pomůcka pro studenty indologie a jiné zájemce o hindskou literaturu.
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Týždenný diár Cyril 2023 PVC čierna, 150 x 90 mm
Týždenný diár, kalendárium s českými a slovenskými menami, fázy mesiaca, ročné obdobie, letný a zimný čas, osobné záznamy, doležité telefónne čísla, tabulkový kalendár 2024 CZ-SK, plánovací kalendár 2023 CZ-SK, miesto na poznámky, znamenia zverkohruhu, riadkový prehlad + mesiaca, štrťročný planovací kalendár, abecedný zoznam mien.
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Týždenný diár Cyril 2023 PVC bordó, 150 x 90 mm
Týždenný diár, kalendárium s českými a slovenskými menami, fázy mesiaca, ročné obdobie, letný a zimný čas, osobné záznamy, doležité telefónne čísla, tabulkový kalendár 2024 CZ-SK, plánovací kalendár 2023 CZ-SK, miesto na poznámky, znamenia zverkohruhu, riadkový prehlad + mesiaca, štrťročný planovací kalendár, abecedný zoznam mien.
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Týždenný diár Cyril 2023 PVC modrá, 150 x 90 mm
Týždenný diár, kalendárium s českými a slovenskými menami, fázy mesiaca, ročné obdobie, letný a zimný čas, osobné záznamy, doležité telefónne čísla, tabulkový kalendár 2024 CZ-SK, plánovací kalendár 2023 CZ-SK, miesto na poznámky, znamenia zverkohruhu, riadkový prehlad + mesiaca, štrťročný planovací kalendár, abecedný zoznam mien.
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Pokémon Elite Trainer Box SS11 (Lost Origin)
Toto špeciálne darčekové balenie je plné všetkého, čo každý zberateľ Pokémon kariet, a hlavne každý hráč, potrebuje!
Obsahuje 8 boostrov (balíčkov) zo setu Lost Origin (v každom je 10 náhodných kariet), 65 obalov na karty s grafikou legendárnej Giratiny, 45 kariet energií na tvorbu vlastných balíčkov, 6 kociek na počítanie zranení, hádzaciu mincu, 2 žetóny kondícií, VSTAR žetón (na označenie použitia špeciálnej schopnosti VSTAR Pokémonov), praktickú krabičku na karty so štyrmi predelovačmi a samozrejme pravidlá, prehľad edície Lost Origin (obe v angličtine) a kód na online verziu tohto produktu v Pokémon TCG Live.
Ak hľadáte darček pre pokémoních nadšencov tak Elite Trainer Boxom určite chybu neurobíte.
Obsah hry:
8 Lost Origin booster (balíčkov)
65 obalov na karty s Giratinou
45 kariet energií
1 prehľad edície Lost Origin
6 kociek pre označenie poškodenia v hre
zberateľská minca Pokémon s Giratinou
2 akrylové tokeny pre označenie špeciálnych stavov a VSTAR token
zberateľská krabička na karty so 4 predelovačmi
karta s kódom pre Pokémon Trading Card Game Live
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Pán prsteňov I. Spoločenstvo prsteňa
"Tento príbeh narastal pri rozprávaní, až sa stal dejinami Veľkej vojny o Prsteň a obsahuje mnoho pohľadov do ešte starodávnejších dejín, ktoré mu predchádzali - napísal v predslove k druhému vydaniu J. R. R. Tolkien o tejto vari najznámejšej knižnej trilógii minulého storočia. Čarovný svet elfov a hobitov je paralelným svetom ""veľkých ľudí"". Jeho hlavnou témou je Prsteň ako ohnivko, ktoré ho púta k Hobitovi. Proti akýmkoľvek alegóriám sa autor bránil a všetky možné posolstvá a vnútorné významy spájané s jeho knihou sa mu zo srdca protivili. Preto je túto knihu potrebné chápať ako najobľúbenejšie dejiny pradávneho veku a nijako inak. Knihu preložil Otakar Kořínek."
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Legami Vodná hra
Mini vodná hra Legami vám prinesie veľkú radosť z hernej konzoly bez potreby batérií alebo káblov.
Pomocou ovládacích prvkov sa pokúste vystreliť prstene do vesmíru a zasiahnuť ciele, aby ste dokončili svoju misiu na Mars. Ideálne na dlhé výlety alebo lenivé dni doma.
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Písečníci
Americký spisovatel George R.R. Martin (1948), autor monumentálního cyklu Píseň ledu a ohně, si získal přízeň čtenářů také jako povídkář. Ve svém vesmíru, obydleném mnoha druhy vesmířanů i nestvůr, neřeší kosmologické nebo technické problémy, ale zaj
ímá se o lidské reakce ve vyhraněných situacích, ať již jde o duše zbloudilé z lůna církve, koráby ztroskotané na primitivních světech nebo opuštěné a zmírající civilizace.
Tato sbírka obsahuje sedm raných Martinových próz, jež jsou navzdory krutým s
cénám neobvykle poetické, mezi jinými slavnou povídku Ve znamení kříže a draka (Hugo 1980), vystavěnou hned na dvou geniálních nápadech, a ještě slavnější Písečníky (Nebula 1979, Hugo 1980), krvavý horor, který založil autorovu světovou proslulost.Pr
eklad: Jana a Jan Jam Oščádalovi
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Free!
Chris Barez-Brown, author of Shine, brings us a new book which inspires you to set your own rules at work, and make your job work for you. 'Life and work are intrinsically linked. They are not separate; they are one. If we want to live an extraordinary life, we have to make our work equally extraordinary. When your work resonates with purpose, you jump out of bed every morning, excited by the possibilities the day holds for you. Everything else in your life seems to have a glow about it, and you exude much more personal shine. My aim in writing this book is to help you feel like that every day. To help you make your work work for you. To feel truly free. Reading Free will: remind you that you are fantastic and have the ability to do amazing things; show you that work is your slave, not the other way round; help you make work your ticket to an extraordinary future and put you in the driving seat and show you a route to freedom.' "Buy this book and free your mind, life and career". (Shaa Wasmund, bestselling author of Stop Talking, Start Doing). "Successful people love what they do. You can too. Read Free and learn how to make work work for you". (Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There). Chris Barez-Brown is on a mission to bring creative leadership to the business world and beyond. After helping turn Carling Black Label into the first British billion pound brand, he joined? What If!, the innovation and ideas agency. There he helped some of the world's biggest businesses get better at innovating. In 2009 he founded Upping Your Elvis, a business whose sole focus is to release the genius of organisations by helping their people shine more brightly. He works with the likes of Coca-Cola, Nike, Diageo and WPP to help their teams make an extraordinary impact. His previous book, Shine: How to survive and thrive at work, found a global audience. As Seth Godin said, 'This book doesn't read: it buzzes.
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Bohemians
"The unforgettable story of the birth of modern America and the western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity" "The Bohemians" begins in 1860s San Francisco. The Gold Rush has ended; the Civil War threatens to tear apart the country. Far from the front lines, the city at the western edge roars. A global seaport, home to immigrants from five continents, San Francisco has become a complex urban society virtually overnight. The bards of the moment are the Bohemians: a young Mark Twain, fleeing the draft and seeking adventure; literary golden boy Bret Harte; struggling gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard; and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbrith, poet and protectorate of the group. Ben Tarnoff's elegant, atmospheric history reveals how these four pioneering western writers would together create a new American literature, unfettered by the heavy European influence that dominated the East. Twain arrives by stagecoach in San Francisco in 1863 and is fast drunk on champagne, oysters, and the city's intoxicating energy. He finds that the war has only made California richer: the economy booms, newspapers and magazines thrive, and the dream of transcontinental train travel promises to soon become a reality. Twain and the Bohemians find inspiration in their surroundings: the dark ironies of frontier humor, the extravagant tales told around the campfires, and the youthful irreverence of the new world being formed in the west. The star of the moment is Bret Harte, a rising figure on the national scene and mentor to both Stoddard and Coolbrith. Young and ambitious, Twain and Harte form the Bohemian core. But as Harte's star ascends--drawing attention from eastern taste makers such as the "Atlantic Monthly"--Twain flounders, questioning whether he should be a writer at all. The Bohemian moment would continue in Boston, New York, and London, and would achieve immortality in the writings of Mark Twain. San Francisco gave him his education as a writer and helped inspire the astonishing innovations that radically reimagined American literature. At once an intimate portrait of an eclectic, unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, "The Bohemians" reveals how a brief moment on the western frontier changed our country forever.
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Hard Choices
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All of us face hard choices in our lives,' Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the centre of world events. 'Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.' In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the Unites States Senate. To her surprise, her formal rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted. Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm's way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, travelled nearly one million miles and gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the twenty-first century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications and health. Drawing on conversations with numerous leaders and experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of girls, youth and LGBT people. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trendlines from the headlines and describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day. Secretary Clinton's descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer readers a masterclass in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use 'smart power' to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world - one in which America remains the indispensable nation.
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Szépasszony Lunáris kalendáriuma 2016
Lunárny cyklus bol pevným bodom v živote našich dávnych predkov, nebol ničím umelým, vytvorila ho príroda sama. Zem a Mesiac vytvárajú prirodzené časové cykly, ktoré organizmus dobré pozná, či si to naša myseľ uvedomuje alebo nie. Ak vieme, kedy a ako nás môže Mesiac ovplyvniť, nemôžu nás rozhodiť žiadne vrtochy života.
Kalendár aj publikácia prinášajú veľmi užitočný prehľad diania na oblohe v roku 2016. Po jednotlivých mesiacoch popisujú polohy planét, Slnka a Mesiaca, zatmenie, konjunkcie či zákryty nebeských telies a meteorické roje.
V publikácii sa okrem tradičných babičkiných rád dozviete aj recept na dlhovekosť, naučíte sa jógovú zostavu pozdrav Mesiacu a Milan Špůrek sa zamyslí nad dĺžkou života.
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12,34 €
12,99 €
50 Festivals to Blow Your Mind
From the people who've been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years, Lonely Planet's 50 Festivals To Blow Your Mind will make your next trip an unforgettable one. There's something about festivals. Whether it's a giant, joyous party or a respectful honouring of tradition, a seemingly bizarre adherence to ritual or a celebration of a quirky obsession - a festival is a uniquely human thing to be involved in. We get together to dance, sing, eat, laugh, drink, dress up, light fires, take our clothes off, throw tomatoes at each other, roll around in mud - just about anything really, but we seem to like doing it in really large groups with bags and bags of enthusiasm. Festivals are life-affirming and take our desire to have a good time with friends and family to a global level. They continue to thrive because they ignite curiosity and help to promote understanding, compassion and a greater acceptance of other races, cultures and traditions. Contents: All action Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta // USA Argungu Fishing Festival // Nigeria Holi // India and Nepal Las Bolas de Fuego // El Salvador Rouketopolemos (Rocket War) // Greece Saidai-ji Eyo Hadaka Matsuri // Japan Songkran Water Festival // Thailand Art and culture AgitAgueda Art Festival // Portugal Edinburgh Fringe Festival // UK Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival // China South by Southwest // USA Sundance Film Festival // USA White Nights Festival // Russia World Body Painting Festival // Austria Calm and tranquil Floating Lantern Festival // Hawaii The International Highline Meeting Festival // Italy Pingxi Lantern Festival // Taiwan Foodie Bordeaux Fe?te le Vin // France MAD Symposium // Denmark Maine Lobster Festival // USA Oktoberfest // Germany South Beach Food and Wine Festival // USA Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival // UK Just one big party Amsterdam Gay Pride/Europride // The Netherlands Burning Man // USA Carnevale // Italy Carnival // Brazil Chinese New Year // Singapore Feast of San Jeronimo // Nicaragua Mardi Gras // USA St Patrick's Day // Ireland Up Helly Aa Fire Festival // Scotland Music Coachella // USA Glastonbury Festival // UK Montreal International Jazz Festival // Canada Rhythm and Vines // New Zealand Roskilde Music Festival // Denmark Sonar // Spain Splendour in the Grass // Australia WOMADelaide // Australia Off the wall Air Guitar World Championships // Finland Boryeong Mud Festival // South Korea Buso Festival // Hungary Dia de los Muertos // Mexico Ivrea Orange Festival // Italy Kanamara Matsuri Festival // Japan La Tomatina // Spain Thaipusam Festival // Malaysia UFO Festival // USA Wife Carrying Festival // Finland About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
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Thrive
This is a ground-breaking argument for better treatment of mental health from Richard Layard (author of Happiness) and David M. Clark. Britain has become a world leader in providing psychological therapies thanks to the work of Richard Layard and David Clark. But, even so, in Britain and world-wide the majority of people who need help still don't get treatment. This is both unjust and a false economy. This book argues for change. It shows that mental ill-health causes more of the suffering in our society than physical illness, poverty or unemployment. The authors argue that spending more on helping people to recover from mental health problems - and stay well - would generate massive savings to national economies, as those who suffer from depression and anxiety disorders account for nearly a half of all disability and are predominantly of working age. Modern talking therapies, such as CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), are highly effective and people generally prefer them to medication. So, if more sufferers got these treatments, lives would be turned around and the cost would be fully covered by the huge savings. Thrive explores the new effective solutions to the misery and injustice caused by mental illness. It describes how successful psychological treatments have been developed and explains what works best for whom. It also urges us to do all we can to prevent these problems in the first place through better schools and a better society. And, most importantly, it offers real hope. "Extremely easy and pleasurable to read. It's the most comprehensive, humane and generous study of mental illness that I've come across". (Melvyn Bragg). "Professors Layard and Clark (the Dream Team of British Social Science) make a compelling case for a massive injection of resources into the treatment and prevention of mental illness. This is simply the best book on public policy and mental health ever written". (Martin Seligman). Richard Layard is one of the world's leading labour economists, and in 2008 received the international Prize for Labour Economics. A member of the House of Lords, he has done much to raise the public profile of mental health. His 2005 book Happiness has been translated into 20 languages. David Clark, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, is Europe's leading expert on CBT, responsible for much of the world-wide progress in treatment methods. With Layard, he was the main driver behind the UK's Improved Access to Psychological Therapy programme.
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Hard Choices
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67TH SECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE. 'All of us face hard choices in our lives,' Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the centre of world events. 'Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.' In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the Unites States Senate. To her surprise, her formal rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted. Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm's way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, travelled nearly one million miles and gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the twenty-first century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications and health. Drawing on conversations with numerous leaders and experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of girls, youth and LGBT people. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trendlines from the headlines and describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day. Secretary Clinton's descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer readers a masterclass in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use 'smart power' to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world - one in which America remains the indispensable nation.
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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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Great by Choice
THE NEW QUESTION Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times. THE NEW STUDY Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins's prior work by its focus not just on performance, but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today. With a team of more than twenty researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness - beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years - in environments characterized by big forces and rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these "10X companies" to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments. THE NEW FINDINGS The study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as: * The best leaders were not more risk taking, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid. * Innovation by itself turns out not to be the trump card in a chaotic and uncertain world; more important is the ability to scale innovation, to blend creativity with discipline. * Following the belief that leading in a "fast world" always requires "fast decisions" and "fast action" is a good way to get killed. * The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies. The authors challenge conventional wisdom with thought-provoking, sticky, and supremely practical concepts. They include 10Xers; the 20 Mile March; Fire Bullets then Cannonballs; Leading above the Death Line; Zoom Out, Then Zoom In; and the SMaC Recipe. Finally, in the last chapter, Collins and Hansen present their most provocative and original analysis: defining, quantifying, and studying the role of luck. The great companies and the leaders who built them were not luckier than the comparisons, but they did get a higher Return on Luck. This book is classic Collins: contrarian, data driven, and uplifting. He and Hansen show convincingly that, even in a chaotic and uncertain world, greatness happens by choice, not by chance.
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28,45 €
29,95 €
Jamie's Kitchen
Jamie Oliver's new book, Jamie's Kitchen has only been home a few days and it's already a victim of sticky page syndrome. Like its predecessors--The Naked Chef, The Return of the Naked Chef and Happy Days with the Naked Chef--its beautiful photograph
s are slightly slick with olive oil and the clear layout of recipes is traced across with fingerprints of chilli jam, while crumbs of polenta and splinters of rosemary nestle in the gritty crease of the spine. And that is the best recommendation for
any cook book. Oliver's recipes are truly irresistible and this book might well be his best ever--both in quantity (100 recipes) and quality. The Channel Four series associated with the book will focus on his experience of setting up a restaurant sch
ool to turn unemployed kids into professional chefs. While Jamie's Kitchen isn't a course book per se, he takes home cooks through kitchen essentials including poaching, boiling, steaming, stewing, frying, roasting, grilling and baking--all in a no-n
onsense style. He proves to be a terrific pupil of his own culinary education, spun in true-to-form Jamie style by the results of his experiments. He has learnt his lessons well from his time at the River Café with recipes such as spring minestrone,
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he borders of increasingly popular Spanish and Middle Eastern flavours with sweet roasted garlic soup and Lebanese lemon chicken respectively, and makes sure to throw in some dinner party dynamite with headliners such as fresh mackerel cooked in pome
granate, lime juice and tequila, and a baked chocolate pudding that's almost too good to share.. Will you be able to get or give a better cookbook than Jamie's Kitchen? You could try, but we wouldn't bet on it. --Fiona Buckland--This text refers to t
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