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Camelots Court : Inside the Kennedy White House
Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls "Kennedy's leading biographer," delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors-their rivalries, personality clashes, and political battles. In Camelot's Court, Dallek analyzes the brain trust whose contributions to the successes and failures of Kennedy's administration-including the Bay of Pigs, civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam-were indelible. Kennedy purposefully put together a dynamic team of advisors noted for their brilliance and acumen, including Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, and trusted aides Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger. Yet the very traits these men shared also created sharp divisions. Far from being unified, this was an uneasy band of rivals whose ambitions and clashing beliefs ignited fiery internal debates. Robert Dallek illuminates a president deeply determined to surround himself with the best and the brightest, who often found himself disappointed with their recommendations.
The result, Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House, is a striking portrait of a leader whose wise resistance to pressure and adherence to principle offers a cautionary tale for our own time.
Originals
WINNER of the Chartered Management Institute's (CMI's) Mangement Book of the Year Awards 2017, and a #1 New York Times Bestseller! "Extraordinary." (JJ Abrams). "Fascinating." (Arianna Huffington). "Inspire creativity and change." (Richard Branson). "One of my favourite thinkers." (Malcolm Gladwell). "Masterful." (Peter Thiel). "One of the great social scientists of our time." (Susan Cain, bestselling author of Quiet). "Fresh research, counter-intuitive insights, lively writing, practical calls to action." (The Financial Times). The New York Times bestselling author examines how people can drive creative, moral, and organisational progress-and how leaders can encourage originality in their organisations. How can we originate new ideas, policies and practices without risking it all? Adam Grant shows how to improve the world by championing novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battling conformity, and bucking outdated traditions. Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt. Parents will learn how to nurture originality in children, and leaders will discover how to fight groupthink to build cultures that welcome dissent. Told through dazzling case studies of people going against the grain, you'll encounter an entrepreneur who pitches the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who challenged secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees who don't criticize him, and the TV executive who saved Seinfeld from the cutting room floor. Originals will give you groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and how to change the world.
A napfény gyermekei
Amikor egy szökőár elpusztítja tengerparti városukat Indiában, a tizenhét éves Ahalya Ghai és tizenöt éves húga, Sita árván és otthon nélkül marad. Miközben megpróbálnak eljutni egyházi iskolájukba, hogy menedékre leljenek, emberkereskedők kezébe kerülnek. Megerőszakolják és eladják őket egy mumbia bordélytulajdonosnak. Pokoli sors kezdődik számukra a szexipar legsötétebb mélységeiben, ahol a legnagyobb érték a gyermeki ártatlanság.
Eközben a világ másik felén, Washingtonban, az ügyvéd Thomas Clarke személyes és munkahelyi problémákkal küzd. Lányának tragikus halálától és tönkrement házasságától kísértve sorsfordító döntést hoz, és jószolgálati tapasztalatszerzés céljából Indiába érkezik egy szervezethez, amely a nemzetközi emberkereskedelem ellen küzd. Lelkiismerete feltámad, amikor Mumbaiban szembesül a szexipar szörnyűségeivel és a korrupt bírósági rendszerrel, amely szemet huny fölötte. Amikor megismeri Ahalya és Sita történetét, Clarke személyes missziójának tekinti, hogy segítsen rajtuk, leleplezve ezzel a nemzetközi hálózatot és a kegyetlen bűnözőket.
A három kontinensen és két kultúrán átívelő történet felejthetetlen utazásra viszi olvasóit a modern rabszolgaság alvilágába, valamint a szív legsötétebb - és legellenállóbb - bugyraiba.
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Sociální hnutí
Kniha je analýzou teorií a koncepcí zabývajících se zrodem, růstem a pádem sociálních hnutí. Zachycuje přibližně stoletý vývoj teoretické reflexe sociálních hnutí, pozornost zaměřuje zejména na historii posledního čtvrtstoletí, které je obdobím konfrontace teorie nových sociálních hnutí a teorie mobilizace zdrojů.
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Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years - Don'T Stop 5LP
KDO: V roce 1967 se v Londýně zformovala jedna z nejdůležitějších kapel rockové historie. Skupina se proslavila na konci šedesátých let během boomu tzv. British blues, který vedle Fleetwood Mac reprezentovali také Rolling Stones nebo Eric Clapton. V roce 1977 formace vydala album Rumours, které je s prodejem okolo 45 milionů podle statistik čtvrtou nejprodávanější deskou všech dob.
CO: Legendární americká skupina slaví 50 let od svého založení vydáním nové kompilace obsahující 50 skladeb, které poprvé mapují celou historii kapely. Od prvních bluesových momentů až k okamžikům, kdy se z Fleetwood Mac stala jedna z globálně nejúspěšnějších skupin všech dob. 50 Years - Don't Stop je k dispozici na 3CD a 5LP a také ve zkrácené CD variantě s dvacítkou vybraných skladeb.
LP 1
1. Shake Your Moneymaker [2:57]
2. Black Magic Woman [2:55]
3. Need Your Love So Bad [3:56]
4. Albatross [3:14]
5. Man Of The World [2:51]
6. Oh Well - Pt. I (Mono) [Remastered] [3:32]
7. Rattlesnake Shake (Remastered) [3:33]
8. The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown) [Remastered] [4:39]
9. Tell Me All The Things You Do (Remastered) [4:12]
10. Station Man (Single Version) [Remastered] [5:12]
LP 2
1. Sands Of Time (Single Version) [Remastered] [3:03]
2. Spare Me A Little Of Your Love (Remastered) [3:47]
3. Sentimental Lady (Single Version) [Remastered] [3:02]
4. Did You Ever Love Me (Remastered) [3:43]
5. Emerald Eyes (Remastered) [3:34]
6. Hypnotized (Remastered) [4:49]
7. Heroes Are Hard To Find (Single Version) [Remastered] [2:46]
8. Monday Morning (Remastered) [2:47]
9. Over My Head (Single Version) [Remastered] [3:09]
10. Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win) [Single Version] [Remastered] [3:46]
LP 3
1. Say You Love Me (Single Version) [Remastered] [4:02]
2. Landslide (Remastered) [3:20]
3. Go Your Own Way (Remastered) [3:39]
4. Dreams (Remastered) [4:17]
5. Second Hand News (Remastered) [2:54]
6. Don't Stop (Remastered) [3:13]
7. The Chain (Remastered) [4:29]
8. You Make Loving Fun (Remastered) [3:36]
9. Tusk (Remastered) [3:38]
10. Sara (Single Version) [Remastered] [4:36]
LP 4
1. Think About Me (Single Version) [Remastered] [2:44]
2. Fireflies (Single Version) [Remastered] [3:33]
3. Never Going Back Again (Live 1980 Tusk Tour) [Remastered] [4:07]
4. Hold Me (Remastered) [3:44]
5. Gypsy (Remastered) [4:23]
6. Love In Store (Remastered) [3:14]
7. Oh Diane (Remastered) [2:36]
8. Big Love (Remastered) [3:42]
9. Seven Wonders (Remastered) [3:39]
10. Little Lies (Remastered) [3:39]
LP 5
1. Everywhere (Remastered) [3:43]
2. As Long As You Follow (Remastered) [4:20]
3. Save Me (Single Version) [Remastered] [4:06]
4. Love Shines (Remastered) [4:48]
5. Paper Doll (Remastered) [3:58]
6. I Do (Edit) [Remastered] [3:49]
7. Silver Springs (Live From Warner Brothers Studio, Burbank, Ca, 5/23/1997) [Edit] [Remastered] [4:50]
8. Peacekeeper (Remastered) [4:10]
9. Say You Will (Remastered) [3:49]
10. Sad Angel (Remastered) [4:03]
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Vseobecne spravne pravo 4 vyd.
"Posudzovaná učebnica patrí medzi rozsiahlejšie texty svojej kategórie. Početnosť jej strán "má na svedomí" značný počet ilustračných príkladov, ktoré približujú vnímaniu študenta neraz zložitú teoretickú analýzu toho-ktorého právneho inštitútu. Takýto sposob spracovania považujem za mimoriadne progresívny a prínosný. Systematika učebnice je logická a netradičná najma tým, že obsahuje dosiaľ málo spracované alebo nespracované kapitoly. Ide najma o časť Európske správne právo. Pozitívne hodnotím aj zaradenie netradičnej části Vymožiteľnosť práva vo verejnej správe z pohľadu občana.c prof. JUDr. Katarína Tóthová, DrSc.
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Samuel Fritz
Monografie českého fotografa světového významu, ale i dosud nedoceněného kreslíře, grafika a malíře, návrháře originálních dekorací a bytových doplňků. Kniha si všímá mnoha aspektů Drtikolovy životní a tvůrčí dráhy, věnuje se především jeho fotografiím. Obsahuje 120 černobílých a 8 barevných celostránkových reprodukcí Drtikolových děl. Text věnuje vedle vlastní analýzy a charakteristiky fotografií velkou pozornost zařazení Drtikolova díla do širších duchovních a uměleckých kontextů doby jeho vzniku a uvádí i řadu autentických citátů z Drtikolovy korespondence a jeho zápisků. Anglická verze.
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V nepřítomnosti posvátného
Jedno z nejdůležitějších děl sociálně-ekologického myšlení devadesátých let. Autor v něm poukazuje na souvislost likvidace přírodních národů (soustředí se zejména na současné osudy původních národů Severní Ameriky a Aljašky) s masivním rozvojem moderních technologií a se stále vzrůstajícím vlivem korporací. Zdařile a pronikavě polemizuje s tezí, podle níž jsou technologie samy o sobě neutrální, a záleží jen na tom, kdo a jak je využívá.
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Flesh and Blood
No.1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the next enthralling thriller in her high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta-a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself. It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with her FBI profiler husband Benton Wesley when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny it's as if they're newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with shocking precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. No one heard or saw a thing. It's as if God did it. In this 22nd Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the middle of a nightmarish pursuit of a serial sniper who seems to leave no evidence except fragments of copper. The shots are so perfect, they cause instant death and seem impossible, and the death scenes aren't crime scenes because the killer was never within hundreds of yards of the victims. The victims seem to have nothing in common, and there is no pattern that might indicate where the Copperhead will strike next. First New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then into the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where Scarpetta dives a shipwreck, looking for answers that only she can discover and analyze. There she must face an unthinkable truth that points in the direction of her techno genius niece, Lucy, Scarpetta's own flesh and blood.
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Design for Information
The visualization process doesn't happen in a vacuum; it is grounded in principles and methodologies of design, cognition, perception, and human-computer-interaction that are combined to one's personal knowledge and creative experiences. "Design for Information "critically examines other design solutions --current and historic-- helping you gain a larger understanding of how to solve specific problems. This book is designed to help you foster the development of a repertoire of existing methods and concepts to help you overcome design problems. Learn the ins and outs of data visualization with this informative book that provides you with a series of current visualization case studies. The visualizations discussed are analyzed for their design principles and methods, giving you valuable critical and analytical tools to further develop your design process. The case study format of this book is perfect for discussing the histories, theories and best practices in the field through real-world, effective visualizations. The selection represents a fraction of effective visualizations that we encounter in this burgeoning field, allowing you the opportunity to extend your study to other solutions in your specific field(s) of practice. This book is also helpful to students in other disciplines who are involved with visualizing information, such as those in the digital humanities and most of the sciences.
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Camel Club
The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. Especially when the authorities are seemingly happy to write it off as a suicide. For Secret Service agent Alex Ford, monitoring the 'investigation', the suicide verdict doesn't ring true. As punishment for sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, he is reassigned to bodyguard duties. His abilities are tested to the limit when he is sent to protect the President during a visit to his hometown, where a terrorist cell has spent months plotting an event that will shake the world. Meanwhile, America's powerful intelligence chief Carter Gray is unnerved when he glimpses the face of an old acquaintance in Arlington Cemetery - but it is the face of a man supposedly long dead ...And as The Camel Club is poised to expose a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of Washington's highly secretive corridors of power, Alex Ford finds out that his worst nightmare is about to happen . ..
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Symbols and Allegories in Art
From antiquity, when the gods and goddesses were commonly featured in works of art, through to the twentieth century, when Surrealists drew on archetypes from the unconscious, artists have embedded symbols in their works. As with previous volumes in the Guide to Imagery series, the goal of this book is to provide contemporary readers and museum visitors with the tools to read the hidden meanings in works of art. This latest volume is divided thematically into four sections featuring symbols related to time, man, space (earth and sky), and allegories or moral lessons. Readers will learn, for instance, that night, the primordial mother of the cosmos, was often portrayed in ancient art as a woman wrapped in a black veil, whereas day or noon was often represented in Renaissance art as a strong, virile man evoking the full manifestation of the sun's energy Each entry in the book contains a main reference image in which details of the symbol or allegory being analyzed are called out for discussion.In the margin, for quick access by the reader, is a summary of the essential characteristics of the symbol in question, the derivation of its name, and the religious tradition from which it springs.
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Pochopení zázraků života
Tato kniha obsahuje pět kapitol z knihy b Hledání zázračného /b , které byly vybrána na základě důležitosti daných témat a rovněž v návaznosti na vydanou knihu b Duchovní hledání člověka /b , jež obsahuje výběr z přednášek G. Gurdžijeva. V knize se Petr Uspenskij věnuje analýze vlastní spolupráce se svým učitelem. Rozsáhlé pojednává o jeho učení a práci, vzpomíná na mnohé zajímavé příhody během jejich spolupráce i na návštěvy Gurdžijevových skupin, vyjadřuje se k mnoha tématům a čtenářům je svým literárním podáním i schopností srozumitelného formulování zřetelně osvětluje.
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Color Correction Handbook Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema
The colorist is responsible for the critical final stage of refinement of the film and broadcast image. Using all of the controls modern color correction software provides, colorists refine the mood, create style, add polish to scenes, and breathe life into the visuals. The craft of color correction can take considerable trial and error to learn, while the art of color grading takes years to perfect. Alexis Van Hurkman draws on his wealth of industry experience to provide a thoroughly updated edition of what has become the standard guide to color correction. Using a friendly, clear teaching style and a slew of real-world examples and anecdotes, Alexis demonstrates how to achieve professional results for any project, using any number of dedicated grading applications, or even an editing program's built-in color correction tools. From the most basic methods for evaluating and correcting an overall image to the most advanced targeted corrections and creative stylizations, Color Correction Handbook, Second Edition, is your one-stop guide.Among many valuable concepts and techniques, you'll learn to: * Set up a professional color correction environment using the latest technologies and adhere to the most up-to-date standards * Work with log-encoded media and LUTs * Analyze shots quickly and correct errors of color and exposure * Create idealized adjustments for key features such as skin tone, skies, and product shots * Develop strategies for balancing clips in a scene to match one another for continuity, and grading greenscreen clips destined for visual effects * Master a variety of stylistic techniques used to set a scene's mood * Apply principles of color and contrast to add depth and visual interest * Browse valuable research about memory colors, audience preferences, and critical corrections for achieving appealing skin tones and controlled environments * Follow along with the downloadable files that accompany this book, including HD footage, cross-platform exercises, and project files.
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Intimacy
A novel by the author of "The Buddha of Suburbia" and "My Beautiful Laundrette" which analyzes the agonies and joys of being connected to another person. Jay, who is leaving his partner and their two sons, reflects on the vicissitudes of his relationship with Susan.
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Red Rabbit
Tom Clancy returns to Jack Ryan´s early days, in an extraordinary novel of global political drama. Long before becoming President, Jack Ryan is a novice CIA Analyst. One of his first assignments is to debrief a high-level Soviet defector who tells an amaz
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Lewis Hamilton - My Story
Lewis Hamilton's explosive arrival on the Formula 1 scene has made front-page headlines. In My Story, for the first time Lewis opens up about his stunning debut season in grand prix racing, as well as his dad Anthony, his home life and his early years. The only book with the real story, as told by Lewis.In his first season in F1, Lewis Hamilton thrilled the world of motor racing by finishing on the podium in his first nine consecutive races - the first driver to do so in the sport's 57-year history - and drove to victories in Canada, America, Hungary and Japan. But bare statistics alone do scant justice to the amazing impact Lewis Hamilton has had on the sporting landscape. My Story gives the real account from Lewis himself, as he sets the record straight about his colourful life on and off the track.Given a grounded upbringing by his dedicated father in unremarkable Stevenage, Lewis tells about how he first tried out go-karting while on a cut-price family holiday in Ibiza. In his book he gives the real version of events at a motor sport dinner where, as a nine-year-old wearing a borrowed suit, he approached McLaren team boss Ron Dennis with the immortal words that were to change his life forever.He rose rapidly through the Junior and Formula ranks, dominating every series with his raw speed and canny race craft. Here Lewis candidly recalls those key moments that shaped his career and went some way towards compensating for the sacrifices made by his father Anthony in getting his son to the top.Lewis also charts how he got into the sport and was signed up by Ron Dennis, what motivates him, who are his closest friends, how he copes with the constant travelling, and the physical and mental challenges of driving a state-of-the-art Formula 1 car. He looks back in detail at the 2007 World Championship - the race wins, the frightening crash in Germany, his intense rivalry with team-mate Fernando Alonso, his special relationship with Ron Dennis, and the furore over the Ferrari allegations - right up to the dramatic last race of the season in Brazil.
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Debriefing the President
Set for release on the 10th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution, a riveting, revealing and newsmaking account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit. Beset by body-double rumors and false alarms during a nine-month search, the Bush administration needed positive identification of the prisoner before it could make the announcement that would rocket around the world. At the time, John Nixon was a senior CIA leadership analyst who had spent years studying the Iraqi dictator. Called upon to make the official ID, Nixon looked for telltale scars and tribal tattoos and asked Hussein a list of questions only he could answer. The man was indeed Saddam Hussein, but as Nixon learned in the ensuing weeks, both he and America had greatly misunderstood just who Saddam Hussein really was. Debriefing the President presents an astounding, candid portrait of one of our era's most notorious strongmen. Nixon, the first man to conduct a prolonged interrogation of Hussein after his capture, offers expert insight into the history and mind of America's most enigmatic enemy. After years of parsing Hussein's leadership from afar, Nixon faithfully recounts his debriefing sessions and subsequently strips away the mythology surrounding an equally brutal and complex man. His account is not an apology, but a sobering examination of how preconceived ideas led Washington policymakers--and the Bush White House--astray. Unflinching and unprecedented, Debriefing the President exposes a fundamental misreading of one of the modern world's most central figures and presents a new narrative that boldly counters the received account.
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Husserl a otázka Co je normální?
Edmund Husserl, zakladatel moderní fenomenologie, svým filosofickým dílem otevřel cestu pro určující směry a klíčové osobnosti duchovního a myšlenkového vývoje dvacátého a jedenadvacátého století. Detailní analýzy základních problémů lidského uvažování, prováděné soustavně po řadu desetiletí, ovlivňují mnohotvárnými podněty vývoj filosofie i příbuzných oborů už déle než sto let a poskytují účinné nástroje k orientaci ve světě a životě lidem způsobilým hlubší a komplexní reflexe. Husserlův přístup k otázce Co je normální? zřetelně ukazuje aktuálnos a živý smysl jeho myšlení, zároveň však naznačuje možnosti věrohodné a plodné polemiky s omyly a zmatky takzvaného postmodernistického uvažování.
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