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Accidental Conflict
In the short span of four years, America and China have entered a trade war, a tech war, and a new Cold War. This conflict between the world’s two most powerful nations wouldn’t have happened were it not for an unnecessary clash of false narratives. America falsely blames its trade and technology threats on China yet overlooks its shaky saving foundation. China falsely blames its growth challenges on America’s alleged containment of market-based socialism, ignoring its failed economic rebalancing.
In a hard-hitting analysis of both nations’ economies, politics, and policies, Stephen Roach argues that much of the rhetoric on both sides is dangerously misguided, amplified by information distortion, and more a reflection of each nation’s fears and vulnerabilities than a credible assessment of the risks they face. Outlining the disastrous toll of conflict escalation between China and America, Roach offers a new road map to restoring a mutually advantageous relationship.
The Scarlet Alchemist
You cannot create good without also creating evil.
Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay young forever. But for now, she's trapped in her impoverished village in southern China, practicing an illegal form of alchemy to keep food on the table - resurrecting the dead, for a price.
When Zilan finally has the chance to complete her imperial exams, she ventures to the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country in tasks she'll be lucky to survive, let alone pass. On top of that, her reputation for raising the dead has followed her, and the Crown Prince himself seeks out her help, suspecting a coming assassination attempt.
The more Zilan succeeds in her alchemy, the more she gets caught in the dangerous political games of the royal family. There are monsters lurking within the palace walls, and it's only a matter of time before they - and secrets of Zilan's past - catch up with her.
A dark YA fantasy duology set in an alternate Tang Dynasty China, where alchemy has led to income inequality as the rich eat gold to achieve eternal youth, and a poor biracial girl with the ability to raise the dead gets caught up in the dangerous political games of the royal family.
Co vzrušuje velké holky
Jaké přednosti má ženatý milenec? Nemusí se mu vařit ani prát a žehlit košile. Ženatý milenec se společnému stolování věnuje pouze okrajově a pro čisté prádlo si chodí k manželce. Ženatý milenec je řešení, které šetří čas.
Na druhé straně ženatý milý neodklízí sněhové závěje, které zasypaly váš dům poté, co se přesunul do své zákonité postele. Kouzlo Štědrého večera s ním prožíváte 27. prosince odpoledne a společného Silvestra slavíte druhý lednový pátek. Ženatý milenec je chyba systému, která způsobuje, že máte spoustu času v době, kdy o to vůbec nestojíte.
Co s ženatým milencem, o tom už delší dobu dumá nespokojená Ina. Hektický život novinářky a matky svérázných dcer si zkomplikuje rozhodnutím, že si v létě najde nového partnera. Humorný příběh se odehrává v kulisách záludné internetové seznamky, časopisecké redakce a lehce potřeštěné rodiny s početným zvířectvem.
A History of Water
From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal.
A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them – an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture, an art collector, historian and expert on water-music – returns home from witnessing the birth of the modern age to die in a mysterious incident, apparently the victim of a grisly and curious murder. The other – a ruffian, vagabond and braggart, chased across the globe from Mozambique to Japan – ends up as the national poet of Portugal.
The stories of Damiao de Gois and Luis de Camoes capture the extraordinary wonders that awaited Europeans on their arrival in India and China, the challenges these marvels presented to longstanding beliefs, and the vast conspiracy to silence the questions these posed about the nature of history and of human life.
Like all good mysteries, everyone has their own version of events.
A Times History Book of the Year 2022
A TLS Book of the Year 2022
Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
In 2017, a company known as Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth largest company. It was a watershed moment, a wake-up call for those in the West accustomed to regarding the global tech industry through the prism of Silicon Valley: Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft.
Yet to many of the two billion-plus people who live just across the Pacific Ocean, it came as no surprise at all.
Founded by the enigmatic billionaire Pony Ma, the firm that began life as a simple text-message operator invested in and created some of China's most iconic games en route to dreaming up WeChat - the Swiss Army knife super-app that combines messaging, shopping and entertainment. Through billions of dollars of global investments in marquee names from Fortnite to Tesla and a horde of start-ups, Ma's company went on to build a near-unparalleled empire of influence.
In this fascinating narrative - crammed with insider interviews and exclusive details - Lulu Chen tells the story of how Tencent created the golden era of Chinese technology, and delves into key battles involving Didi, Meituan and Alibaba. It's a chronicle of critical junctures and asks just what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in China.
End Times
One of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time offers a brilliant new theory of how society works
What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power?
For decades, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been studying world history like no-one else. Assembling vast databases mined from 10,000 years of human activity, and then developing new models, he has transformed the way we learn from the past. End Times is the result: a ground-breaking account of how society works.
The lessons, he argues, are clear. When the balance of power between the ruling class and the majority tips too far in favour of elites, income inequality surges. The rich get richer, the poor further impoverished. As more people try to join the elite, frustration with the establishment brims over, often with disastrous consequences. Elite overproduction led to state breakdown in imperial China, in medieval France, in the American Civil War - and it is happening now.
But while we are far along the path toward violent political rupture, Turchin's models also light the way to a brighter future. Drawing insight from those occasions in history where the balance was restored, End Times also points towards a different future: an escape from the patterns of the past.
Boje Čiernohorcov a túžby Slovákov /1839-1914/
Práca o prekladoch ideovo výraznej básne Nikolu I. Petrovia Njegoša, ktorá je označovaná ako čiernohorská hymna, vyžaduje, aby sme venovali zvýšenú pozornosť spoločenským, ideovým a politickým aspektom vo vysielajúcom i prijímajúcom prostredí.
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Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane
The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complicated defence, and its origins in modern law lie with the 'M'Naghten Rules' of 1843, formulated by British judges as a jury instruction in cases where a plea of insanity had been entered. Daniel M'Naghten shot and killed one Edward Drummond, believing him to be the British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, and was acquitted on the grounds of insanity, and the M'Naghten Rules still exert considerable influence over defences today.
Clearly a plea of insanity in murder cases is of critical importance when the death penalty is still applied, and even today it may still be the difference between a life sentence in a high-security prison, or an indeterminate one in a secure psychiatric hospital. Meanwhile, 27 of the USA's 50 states have retained or readopted the death penalty, and at least 54 other countries, including China, Russia, India, Iran and Saudi Arabia, also retain it.
Naturally, a criminal who was liable to swing for murder could, and sometimes did, make every attempt to appear insane, and this book examines some of these cases, as well as trials in which the accused was indeed judged to be insane. The failure rate is high; of seven American serial killers who deployed the defence in their trials, only two were successful, ending their days in secure psychiatric facilities; two were executed, and the other three either died or were killed while serving full-life sentences, or are still in gaol.
Top kuchyňa (3)
"TOP kuchyňa" vám prináša tie "Naj" inšpirácie a trendy pre zariadenie kuchyne snov na rok 2010. Taktiež chýba kvalitné grafické spracovanie titulu, príspevky od významných bytových dizajnérov a inšpirácie zo zahraničných výstav a prezentácie najlepš
ích kuchynských značiek. A samozrejme rady odborníkov.
Ako napríklad dizajnéri radia:
- Keď je kuchyňa malá
- Odvážne, farebne a s vkusom.
Niečo z obsahu:
Kuchyňa ako alchymistické laboratórium
Inšpirácie a trendy
Hranice prepychu
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Balans Chutne a zdravo
52-stranová publikácia plná nápaditých zdravých receptov a zaujímavého čítania o potravinách, ktoré by v našom jedálničku určite nemali chýbať.
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* Foodblogerky poradia alternatívy cukru pri pečení, prezradia aj návod na domáce müsli aj mandľové mlieko.
* Aj diabetici si môžu pochutiť na koláčoch bez toho, aby uškodili svojmu zdraviu. Prinášame recepty na výborné diakoláče.
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* Zázvor posilní imunitu a dodá jedlám výnimočnú chuť. Prinášame vám tipy na zázvorové koláče aj slané jedlá so zázvorom.
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* Nepremeškajte sezónu špargle a pripravte si z nej gurmánske menu podľa našich receptov.
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Teológia XX. storočia
Dvadsiate storočie je poznačené prebudeným záujmom o teologické myslenie ako prorockú otázku o Bohu a človekovi a ich vzájomnom vzťahu. Túto teológiu niektorí nazývajú aj "teológiou genitívu", lebo sa v nej po stáročiach objavili nové metodologick
é prístupy a oblasti, ako je antropologický prístup, hermeneutické hľadisko, kategória dejín, politický rozmer evanjelia, alebo je to teológia pestovaná z pohľadu Tretieho sveta, oslobodenia, ekumenizmu, ženy a podobne. Pretože takmer dve tretiny toh
to storočia sme zo známych dôvodov nemohli celkom zreteľne sledovať vývoj tohto myslenia vo svete, je táto publikácia možno prvou po roku 1989, ktorá sa u nás pokúša ukázať hlavné smery teologického uvažovania na prahu tretieho tisícročia. V 16 kapit
olách sa pred nami postupne otvárajú fascinujúce stránky úvah o tom, ako dnes teológia preniká do kultúrneho, politického, sekulárneho, multietnického a postmoderného sveta, aby sa stala nevyhnutnou podmienkou odpovede na otázku, kto je Boh a kde sa
nachádza človek po dvoch tisícročiach kresťanstva (chýba v nich snáď len zmienka o pravoslávnej teológii).
Jozef Leščinský
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Osud Tearlingu CZ - Královna Tearlingu 3.
Neuplynul ani rok a Kelsea se proměnila z obyčejné teenagerky v mocnou panovnici. Ale její boj proti korupci a snahy o nastolení řádu v sužované zemi jí přivedly do cesty nemalou řádku nepřátel. V čele s obávanou Rudou královnou, jejíž armáda se právě chystá napadnout Tearling…
Aby svůj lid ochránila, obětuje Kelsea to nejcennější, co má, sebe samu. Odevzdá zlé královně své safíry a spolu s nimi i svou moc, a alespoň na čas tak odvrací nevyhnutelný útok nepřátelských armád. Zatímco je právoplatná vládkyně vězněm v sousední zemi, Palcát – vládnoucí regent a jediný, komu Kelsea skutečně věří – shromažďuje své muže a plánuje velkolepou záchrannou akci. Země si totiž neporadí bez své královny. Začíná tak poslední souboj, poslední hra, v níž se Kelsein osud definitivně zpečetí. Stejně jako osud celého Tearlingu…
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Die Söhne des Drachen
China zur Zeit der Kulturrevolution. Zwei Brüder, deren Schicksale nicht unterschiedlicher im Waisenhaus, und Tan, Sohn des einflussreichen generals Ding Long. Eines haben sie allerdings gemeinsam: Sie lieben dieselbe Frau.
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Zákon o strelných zbraniach a strelive účinný od 1.5.2011 s vykonávacími predpismi
Úplné znenie zákona č. 190/2003 Z. z. o strelných zbraniach a strelive je ďalšou publikáciou z edície "Aktuálne právne predpisy."
Okrem úplného znenia zákona, v ktorom nájdete označené a o komentár redakcie doplnené tie časti ustanovení, ktoré boli
zmenené s účinnosťou od 1.mája 2011, publikácia obsahuje aj úplné znenie:
vyhlášky č. 229/2011 Z.z. o postupe pri posudzovaní zdravotnej spôsobilosti a psychickej spôsobilosti na držanie alebo nosenie strelných zbraní a streliva a o náležitostiach
lekárskeho posudku a psychologického posudku
vyhlášky č. 555/2003 Z.z., ktorou sa vykonávajú niektoré ustanovenia zákona č. 190/2003 Z.z. o strelných zbraniach a strelive a o zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov
vyhlášky 516/2003 Z.z. o technickom
postupe pri znehodnocovaní, ničení a výrobe rezov strelnej zbrane a streliva a spôsobe ich označovania
vyhlášky č. 208/2004 Z.z., ktorou sa ustanovuje vzor a náležitosti európskeho zbrojného pasu
Publikácie edície "Aktuálne právne predpisy" sa vyzna
čujú viacerými osobitosťami. K vybraným ustanoveniam, ktoré nie sú v právnom predpise pomenované, sú uvedené pre uľahčenie orientácie názvy v hranatých zátvorkách, ktoré sú určené redakciou. Tie ustanovenia, ktoré nadobudli poslednú aktuálnu účinnosť
, sú označené a okomentované tak, aby sa vedel čitateľ zorientovať v zmenách. V prípade, ak niektoré ustanovenia nadobúdajú účinnosť v nasledujúcich mesiacoch, publikácia obsahuje aj tieto znenia. V neposlednom rade sa na okraji každej strany nachádz
a priestor vyhradený na poznámky.
Publikácia je určená najmä všetkým držiteľom zbraní a streliva, ako aj ostatným, ktorí vykonávajú nejakú činnosť v súvisloti s touto problematikou.
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Beast Complex, Vol. 3
Short stories that set the scene for the best-selling BEASTARS series!
Seven dark, twisted tales from the world of BEASTARS!
Python Kameji faces a dilemma when he finds hyena Murou, the class bully, hanging from a noose in a classroom. Snow leopard Luke jeopardizes the career of his costar, Japanese deer Rosé, when he makes a shocking confession. Lion Eado and rabbit Ako, former classmates of dwarf rabbit Haru, meet again months after the mauling that ended their relationship. Plus, a tale featuring favorite beasts gray wolf Legoshi and spotted seal Sagwan as they attempt to rescue a kidnapped octopus. And more!
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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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Elsewhere
‘How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure you haven’t already died in the earthquake and are just living in the afterlife?’
In her highly anticipated English-language debut, Yan Ge explores isolation in nine iridescent, witty and wondrous tales. Both contemporary and ancient, real and surreal, the stories in Elsewhere range from China to Dublin to London and Stockholm.
From a group of writers lounging on the edge of a disaster zone to a mandarin ostracised from his old court trying to avoid assassination, and from a woman who inexplicably loses her voice to a couple who meet all too fleetingly at a cinema in Dublin, these are strange and beguiling stories of dispossession, longing and the diasporic experience.
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On Wars
A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them
Benjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders?people with emotions and ideologies, and constrained by inherited culture and institutions?who undertake such decisions, usually irrationally choosing war and seldom achieving their desired results.
Mann examines the history of war through the ages and across the globe?from ancient Rome to Ukraine, from imperial China to the Middle East, from Japan and Europe to Latin and North America. He explores the reasons groups go to war, the different forms of wars, how warfare has changed and how it has stayed the same, and the surprising ways in which seemingly powerful countries lose wars. In masterfully combining ideological, economic, political, and military analysis, Mann offers new insight into the many consequences of choosing war.
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AI 2041
A WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
*Now with a new foreword on ChatGPT*
How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?
AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand new forms of communication and entertainment. However, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order and bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up-both to AI's radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it.
In this provocative, utterly original work of "scientific fiction," Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, joins forces with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our AI world in 2041 in ten gripping short stories.
Gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future and reminds us that we are the authors of our own destiny.