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Hegel fur Anfänger
Durch das Labyrinth des Hegelschen Geistes. Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) gilt als der deutsche Philosoph, dessen Werk am stärksten die Weltgeschichte beeinflusste. Er vollendete den Deutschen Idealismus und entwarf das umfassendste und einheitlichste System der deutschen Philosophie.Sein prominentester Schüler war Karl Marx.Doch die berühmte »Phänomenologie« bleibt mitunter selbst Fachgelehrten dunkel. Dieses Buch bietet sich als Wegbegleiter an und führt Schritt für Schritt durch das Labyrinth des Hegelschen Geistes.
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Encounters
Zimbabwe, 1994. A group of children spot peculiar lights in the sky over the grounds of their school. From this moment on, six young people's lives are changed forever.
Gary hides the anguish he feels now his mum's left, acting out in fury and hatred. Chloe has no words for the thing she fears most every day. Karl is the headmaster's son, now fallen from grace.
Tendai knows he can never live up to his grieving father's ideals. And Sixpence watches all, knowing he'll never be like these other children. All of them have seen something they can't explain.
In amongst these tangled, tortured lives, comes a group of psychologists to verify the spookily similar claims of every witness. Their daughter, Holly, can tell there's more to it than aliens or mass hysteria - can she reveal the dark truths that haunt them?Inspired by true accounts, this is the long-awaited new novel from Costa-award-winner Jason Wallace.
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A világ legboldogabb embere
Eddie Jaku mindig és elsősorban németnek tartotta magát, és csak azután zsidónak. Büszke volt a hazájára. De ez egy csapásra megváltozott 1938 novemberében a kristályéjszakán, amikor megverték, letartóztatták, és koncentrációs táborba hurcolták.
Az ezt követő hét évben Eddie-nek nap mint nap elképzelhetetlen szörnyűségekkel kellett szembesülnie előbb Buchenwaldban, azután Auschwitzban, majd pedig a nácik halálos erőltetett menetében. Elveszítette a családját, a barátait, a hazáját.
De mivel túlélte, Eddie megesküdött, hogy ezentúl mindennap mosolyogni fog. Azzal tiszteleg az elveszítettek előtt, hogy elmondja történetét, közkinccsé teszi bölcsességét, és a lehető legjobb életet éli. És most már meggyőződése, hogy ő "a világ legboldogabb embere".
Ebben a megrázó, szívbemarkoló, de végső soron reményteli visszaemlékezésben a százéves Eddie - Edith Eva Egerhez és Viktor E. Franklhoz hasonlóan - arról ír, hogyan találhatunk rá a szabadságra és a boldogságra a legeslegsötétebb időkben is.
Eddie Jaku 1920-ban Németországban született Abraham Jakubowicz néven. A második világháborúban több koncentrációs táborban raboskodott, mígnem 1945-ben sikerült megszöknie a halálmenetből. 1950-ben a családjával Ausztráliába költözött. A Sydney-i Zsidó Múzeum 1992-es megalakulása óta önkéntes munkát végez az intézményben.
Hetvenhárom éve boldog házasságban él feleségével, Flore-ral. Két fiuk született, számos unokája és dédunokája van. A legmagasabb ausztrál állami elismerés, a Medal of the Order of Australia kitüntetettje.
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Death - An Oral History
In this illuminating collection of oral-history style interviews, Casey Jarman talks to a funeral industry watchdog about the (often shady) history of the death trade; he hears how songwriter David Bazan lost his faith while trying to hold on to his family; he learns about cartoonist Art Spiegelman using his college LSD trips to explain death to his children; and he gets to know his own grandparents, posthumously. These are stories of loss, rebuilding, wonder, and wild speculation featuring everyone from philosophers to former death row wardens and hospice volunteers. In these moving, enlightening, and often funny conversations, the end is only the beginning.
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Travellers' Tales - Bags Unpacked
Much can be learned about a person from the manner in which they travel. From heiresses to actors, aristocrats to pop stars, writers, composers, dancers and designers, here are the personalities who have travelled through our modern era, whether by train, plane, car or canoe, accompanied by luggage that defines good taste.
With suitably glamorous style, over fifty individuals are described in witty and perceptive detail. Everyone who's anyone is here: from Madonna to Marilyn Monroe, from the Duchess of Windsor to Karl Lagerfeld, from Audrey Hepburn to Keith Richards, from the firm's eponymous founder Louis Vuitton to artist Jeff Koons, who has created his own controversial homage to the masters of art on the company's bags.
Every traveller has a tale to tell: every bag reveals a personal secret. In her canvas Louis Vuitton bag Greta Garbo never kept more than a pair of blue espadrilles, flannel pyjamas and some pots of her favourite jam. (But she had a trunk specially made for her seventy pairs of Ferragamo shoes.) Ernest Hemingway, who owned and lost several Vuitton trunks, rediscovered in 1957 notes for a novel that he'd absentmindedly left in a trunk in the basement of the Paris Ritz some thirty years before. Richard Burton made sure that Elizabeth Taylor always had enough Louis Vuitton trunks (as well as furs and jewels), through both their marriages; in fact, the trunks outlasted her next two husbands as well.
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Conjuctures and Refutations
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.
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King and Emperor - A New Life of Charlemagne
'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves
A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers, and the father of present-day Europe
Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state. That is why he is so often called by the French 'Charlemagne', and by the Germans 'Karl der Grosse'. His strength of character was felt to be remarkable from early in his long reign. Warfare and accident, vermin and weather have destroyed much of the evidence for his rule in the twelve centuries since his death, but a remarkable amount still survives.
Janet L. Nelson's wonderful new book brings together everything we know about Charlemagne and sifts through the evidence to come as close as we can to understanding the man and his motives. Nelson has an extraordinary knowledge of the sources and much of the book is a sort of detective story, prying into and interpreting fascinating material and often obdurate scraps, from prayerbooks to skeletons, gossip to artwork.
Above all, Charles's legacy lies in his deeds and their continuing resonance, as he shaped duchies and counties, rebuilt and founded towns and monasteries, and consciously set himself up not just as King of the Franks, but as the new 'Emperor governing the Roman Empire'. His successors - in some ways to the present day - have struggled to interpret, misinterpret, copy or subvert Charlemagne's legacy. Nelson gets us as close as we can ever hope to come to the real figure, as understood in his own time.
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Lacná kniha King and Emperor - A New Life of Charlemagne (-90%)
'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves
A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers, and the father of present-day Europe
Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state. That is why he is so often called by the French 'Charlemagne', and by the Germans 'Karl der Grosse'. His strength of character was felt to be remarkable from early in his long reign. Warfare and accident, vermin and weather have destroyed much of the evidence for his rule in the twelve centuries since his death, but a remarkable amount still survives.
Janet L. Nelson's wonderful new book brings together everything we know about Charlemagne and sifts through the evidence to come as close as we can to understanding the man and his motives. Nelson has an extraordinary knowledge of the sources and much of the book is a sort of detective story, prying into and interpreting fascinating material and often obdurate scraps, from prayerbooks to skeletons, gossip to artwork.
Above all, Charles's legacy lies in his deeds and their continuing resonance, as he shaped duchies and counties, rebuilt and founded towns and monasteries, and consciously set himself up not just as King of the Franks, but as the new 'Emperor governing the Roman Empire'. His successors - in some ways to the present day - have struggled to interpret, misinterpret, copy or subvert Charlemagne's legacy. Nelson gets us as close as we can ever hope to come to the real figure, as understood in his own time.
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Das Kapital
Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" ist ohne Zweifel eines der Schlüsselwerke der politischen Philosophie. Bis heute wird es kontrovers diskutiert und immer wieder rücken seine Thesen ins Blickfeld einer breiten Öffentlichkeit. Weitgehend ungelöst scheinen demnach die Fragen, denen sich Marx in seiner scharfsichtigen Analyse widmet: Wie schafft es der Mensch, in einer kapitalistisch organisierten Gesellschaft die Zügel in der Hand zu behalten? Und was ist nötig, damit er hinter ihren offenbar rätselhaften Prozessen nicht gänzlich "verschwindet"?
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EDDA
Die "Edda" ist die bedutendste Sammlung altnordischer Götter- und Heldenlieder des Mittelalters. Sie überliefert den Glaubens- und Sagenschatz der Wikinger und Germanen und wurde vermutlich im 13. Jahrhundert zusammengetragen. Den größten Raum nehmen dabei die Erzählungen aus der Nibelungensage ein, die später im berühmten "Nibelungenlied" verarbeitet wurden und auch Richard Wagner zu seinem "Ring der Nibelungen" inspirierten. Ein außergewöhnliches Leseerlebnis mit Texten von betörender Kraft und lyrischer Dichte in der Übertragung von Karl Simrock.
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David Bowie: The Life
Drawn from a series of conversations between David Bowie and Dylan Jones across three decades, together with over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators - some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie - this oral history is an intimate portrait of a remarkable rise to stardom and one of the most fascinating lives of our time.
Profoundly shaped by his relationship with his schizophrenic half-brother Terry, Bowie was a man of intense relationships that often came to abrupt ends. He was a social creature, equally comfortable partying with John Lennon and dining with Frank Sinatra, and in Dylan Jones's telling - by turns insightful and salacious - we see as intimate a portrait as could possibly be drawn.
Including illuminating, never-before-seen material from Bowie himself, drawn from a series of Jones's interviews with him across three decades, DAVID BOWIE is an epic, unforgettable cocktail-party conversation about a man whose enigmatic shapeshifting and irrepressible creativity produced one of the most sprawling, fascinating lives of our time.
Južná Morava - vreckový sprievodca/anglicky
Mapový průvodce věnovaný jižní Moravě. Čtenáře seznamuje s nejzajímavějšími městy, vesnicemi, zámky, hrady a dalšími pamětihodnostmi této krásné části České republiky. Nechybí ani kapitoly věnované vínu a vinařské turistice, stejně jako tipy na cyklistické výlety. Publikaci bohatě ilustrují barevné fotografie Libora Sváčka, ke každé oblasti (Znojemsko, Mikulovsko, Slovácko, Brno a okolí, Moravský kras) je připojena vlastní mapka. Zvláštní kapitoly jsou věnované jihomoravským památkám zapsaným na seznamu UNESCO (vila Tugendhat, Lednicko-valtický areál), a jako tip na výlet jsou připojena města Zlín a Kroměříž.
Labyrinths
Sedmý knižní svazek fotografických cyklů Josefa Sudka navazuje na cykly Okno mého ateliéru a Zátiší. V nejintimnějším prostoru svého ateliéru fotografoval Josef Sudek po řadu let náhodná uskupení předmětů, v kterých hledal a dokázal nalézt neobyčejná tajemství. Důležitou roli zde hrál zejména papír, ale i sklo. Od zátiší se tyto labyrinty – jak jim Josef Sudek říkal – lišily svou neuceleností, neuspořádaností, otevřeností. Umožňavaly mu denně nacházet něco nového, objevovat netušené tvary a konstelace. Úvodní studii ke knize napsala Daniela Hodrová.
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OWC Kalevala
The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region of Karelia, that straddles the border of eastern Finland and north-west Russia, developed an oral poetry that was to last into the nineteenth century. This poetry provided the basis of the Kalevala. It was assembled in the 1840s by the Finnish scholar Elias Lonnrot, who took 'dictation' from the performance of a folk singer, in much the same way as our great collections from the past, from Homeric poems to medieval songs and epics, have probably been set down. Published in 1849, it played a central role in the march towards Finnish independence and inspired some of Sibelius's greatest works. This new and exciting translation by poet Keith Bosley, prize-winning translator of the anthology Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic, is the first truly to combine liveliness with accuracy in a way which reflects the richness of the original.
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The Bad Boy of Athens
`Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' Sebastian Barry
Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as `our most irresistible literary critic' (New York Times). This striking new collection exemplifies the way in which Mendelsohn - a classicist by training - uses the classics as a lens to think about urgent contemporary debates.
There is much to surprise here. Mendelsohn invokes the automatons featured in Homer's epics to help explain the AI films Ex Machina and Her, and perceives how Ted Hughes sought redemption by translating a play of Euripides (the `bad boy of Athens') about a wayward husband whose wife returns from the dead. There are essays on Sappho's sexuality and the feminism of Game of Thrones; on how Virgil's Aeneid prefigures post-World War II history and why we are still obsessed with the Titanic; on Patrick Leigh Fermor's final journey, Karl Ove Knausgaard's autofiction and the plays of Tom Stoppard, Tennessee Williams, and Noel Coward. The collection ends with a poignant account of the author's boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, which inspired his ambition to become a writer.
In The Bad Boy of Athens, Mendelsohn provokes and dazzles with erudition, emotion and tart wit while his essays dance across eras, cultures and genres. This is a provocative collection which sees today's master of popular criticism using the ancient past to reach into the very heart of modern culture.
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Die Leiden Des Jungen Werther
Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werther Erstdruck: Leipzig (Weygand) 1774. Hier in der zweiten Fassung von 1787. Vollstandige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2013. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Goethes Werke. Hamburger Ausgabe in 14 Banden. Textkritisch durchgesehen und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Erich Trunz, Hamburg: Christian Wegener, 1948 ff. [Seitenkonkordanz zu einer Mischauflage aus den Jahren 1959 und 1960.] Die Paginierung obiger Ausgabe wird in dieser Neuausgabe als Marginalie zeilengenau mitgefuhrt. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Gemalde von Georg Melchior Kraus, 1775. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt."
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Little History of Economics
A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field
What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, yet the unfamiliar jargon and math of economics can seem daunting. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young readers new to economics and for all readers who seek a better understanding of the full sweep of economic history and ideas.
Economic historian Niall Kishtainy organizes short, chronological chapters that center on big ideas and events. He recounts the contributions of key thinkers including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and others, while examining topics ranging from the invention of money and the rise of agrarianism to the Great Depression, entrepreneurship, environmental destruction, inequality, and behavioral economics. The result is a uniquely enjoyable volume that succeeds in illuminating the economic ideas and forces that shape our world.
The Great Economists
A Times Best Business Book of 2018
What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time?
'The best place to start to learn about the very greatest economists of all time' Professor Tyler Cowen, author of The Complacent Class and The Great Stagnation
Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest, before we even try to apply them to today's issues. Linda Yueh is renowned for her combination of erudition, as an accomplished economist herself, and accessibility, as a leading writer and broadcaster in this field; and in The Great Economists she explains the key thoughts of history's greatest economists, how their lives and times affected their ideas, how our lives have been influenced by their work, and how they could help with the policy challenges that we face today.
In the light of current economic problems, and in particular economic growth, Yueh explores the thoughts of economists from Adam Smith and David Ricardo through Joan Robinson and Milton Friedman to Douglass North and Robert Solow. Along the way she asks, for example: what do the ideas of Karl Marx tell us about the likely future for the Chinese economy? How does the work of John Maynard Keynes, who argued for government spending to create full employment, help us think about state investment? And with globalization in trouble, what can we learn about handling Brexit and Trumpism?
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50 Fashion Designers
Fifty major fashion designers are profiled in this book in fullcolor spreads that showcase their most memorable creations. Red carpet regulars such as Armani, Prada, Calvin Klein, and Dolce & Gabbana are included, as well as the classic clothiers Christian Dior, Karl Lagerfeld, and Oscar de La Renta. While some of these designers have designed for the masses-Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Diane von Furstenberg-others prefer the fierce over the functional: Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne West.
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