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Accountable
"Uses a combination of great stories and thoughtful analysis to suggest that we must find a way to change the purpose of our corporations if we are to build a society that works for all of us.
Rebecca M. Henderson, John & Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University
"Fresh, balanced, highly readable and deeply informed"
John Pepper, former Chairman and CEO of P&G
"Thought-provoking and insightful, Accountable offers a pragmatic and original roadmap to transform capitalism into a system that's more inclusive, sustainable, and just."
Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation
Capitalism is failing and the tools we are relying on to fix it - corporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government control - are only making things worse.
-Chevron boasts about the $50 million per year it spends on renewable energy whilst it spends 200 times that on oil exploration
-Goldman Sachs touts its 10,000 Women initiative but its board ranks 358th out of the Fortune 500 for gender diversity and women earn 55% less than men do on average
By focusing on corporations rather than people, we've put our faith in empty trends and brand-focused window-dressing. Why should those responsible for our current crisis be trusted to fix it?
In Accountable, authors Michael O'Leary and Warren Valdmanis offer a blueprint for everyone to take responsibility for using their economic power as consumers, as investors, as employees, and as voters to trigger a fundamental shift away from an economy that is unethical, unfair, and destructive to our environment and institutions. Their investigation cuts through the tired dogma of current economic thinking to reveal a hopeful truth: if we can make our corporations accountable to a deeper purpose, we can make capitalism both prosperous and good.
Trenchant and gripping, this is an indispensable guide and call to action for citizens to take control of our economic power and hold corporations to a higher standard.
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Life: A User’s Manual
How should I live?
What is my purpose?
Can I find happiness?
Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B.
Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions about how they should live and, from Ancient Greece to Japan, philosophers have attempted to solve these questions for us. The timeless wisdom that they offer can help us to find our own path. In this insightful, engaging book, renowned existential psychotherapist and philosophical counsellor Antonia Macaro and bestselling philosopher Julian Baggini cover topics such as bereavement, luck, free will and relationships, and guide us through what the greatest thinkers to ever walk the earth have to say on these subjects, from the Stoics to Sartre.
Discover advice from the world's greatest thinkers on questions like:
Is there a right way to grieve?
What is free will?
How can we learn from past mistakes?
Do we make our own luck?
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Something Out of Place
The blistering non-fiction debut from the author of the critically acclaimed A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
'A fearless, interrogative work that speaks so much to structural inequality and misogyny. A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' Sinead Gleeson
Here, Eimear McBride unpicks the contradictory forces of disgust and objectification that control and shame women. From playground taunts of 'only sluts do it' but 'virgins are frigid', to ladette culture, and the arrival of 'ironic' porn, via Debbie Harry, the Kardashians and the Catholic church - she looks at how this prejudicial messaging has played out in the past, and still surrounds us today.
In this subversive essay, McBride asks - are women still damned if we do, damned if we don't? How can we give our daughters (and sons) the unbounded futures we want for them? And, in this moment of global crisis, might our gift for juggling contradiction help us to find a way forward?
'Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius' Guardian
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Lacná kniha Something Out of Place (-70%)
The blistering non-fiction debut from the author of the critically acclaimed A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
'A fearless, interrogative work that speaks so much to structural inequality and misogyny. A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' Sinead Gleeson
Here, Eimear McBride unpicks the contradictory forces of disgust and objectification that control and shame women. From playground taunts of 'only sluts do it' but 'virgins are frigid', to ladette culture, and the arrival of 'ironic' porn, via Debbie Harry, the Kardashians and the Catholic church - she looks at how this prejudicial messaging has played out in the past, and still surrounds us today.
In this subversive essay, McBride asks - are women still damned if we do, damned if we don't? How can we give our daughters (and sons) the unbounded futures we want for them? And, in this moment of global crisis, might our gift for juggling contradiction help us to find a way forward?
'Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius' Guardian
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Mezinárodní turismus
Publikace přináší komplexní pohled na problematiku mezinárodního turismu. Je určena odborníkům soukromého i veřejného sektoru působícím v mezinárodním prostředí, včetně studentů vysokých a středních škol zaměřených na turismus či institucí zabývajících se rozvojem turismu. Nové vydání knihy je aktualizováno s ohledem na vývoj mezinárodního turismu a souvisejících oblastí. Kniha je rozšířena o pasáže zaměřené na možnosti sledování významu turismu ve světové ekonomice a mezinárodních ekonomických vztazích a zabývá se novou metodikou sledování turismu, která bude používána od roku 2014. Aktualizace kvantitativních údajů se týká zejména kapitol zaměřených na regionální rozložení mezinárodního turismu a jeho hlavní zdrojové země a destinace. Rozšíření doznala i kapitola věnující se konkurenceschopnosti, turismu v rozvojových zemích a zcela nově jsou podle Vize 2030 zpracovány předpokládané trendy mezinárodního turismu.
První část knihy se věnuje analýze postavení cestovního ruchu ve světové ekonomice a mezinárodních ekonomických vztazích. Druhý blok je zaměřen na regionální a subregionální rozložení mezinárodního turismu. Třetí část charakterizuje vybrané subjekty mezinárodního turismu v podobě cestovních kanceláří, hotelových skupin a zejména vládních a mimovládních mezinárodních organizací. Mezi další témata publikace patří turismus v rozvojových zemích, hodnocení konkurenceschopnosti v mezinárodním turismu, prosazování principů udržitelnosti a řešení otázek spojených s důsledky členství v EU v legislativní oblasti. Výklad je doplněn praktickými příklady.
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Don't Be Evil - The Case Against Big Tech
An award-winning Financial Times columnist exposes the threat that Big Tech poses to our democracies, our economies and ourselves
Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1% of cell phones globally. And 80% of corporate wealth is now held by 10% of companies - not the GEs and Toyotas of this world, but the digital titans.
How did we get here? How did the tech industry get to dominate our world so completely? How did once-idealistic and innovative companies come to manipulate elections, violate our privacy, and pose a threat to the fabric of our democracy? In Don't Be Evil, Financial Times global business columnist Rana Foroohar documents how Big Tech lost its soul - and became the new Wall Street.
Through her skilled reporting and unparalleled access - won through nearly 30 years covering business and technology - she shows the true extent to which the 'Faang's (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google) crush or absorb any potential competitors, hijack our personal data and mental space and offshore their exorbitant profits. What's more, she reveals how these threats to our democracies, our livelihoods and our minds are all intertwined. Yet Foroohar also lays out a plan for how we can resist, creating a framework that fosters innovation while also protecting us from the dark side of digital technology.
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Meine Freunde und ich LHR mit kopieverlagen + CD
Meine Freunde und ich wendet sich an Kinder nicht-deutscher Muttersprache im Übergang von Vorschule und Kindergarten zur Grundschule und ist konzipiert als Grundlage für Sprachfördermaßnahmen.
We are the Weather
From the bestselling author of Eating Animals, a brilliantly fresh and accessible take on climate change - and what we can do about it
'Climate change is the greatest crisis humankind has ever faced.
It is that straightforward, that fraught.
Where were you when you made your decision?'
It is all too easy to feel paralysed and hopeless in the face of climate crisis, but the truth is that every one of us has the power to change history's course. We have done it before: making collective sacrifices to protect our freedoms, our families, our way of life. And we can do it again.
In this extraordinarily powerful and deeply personal book, Jonathan Safran Foer lays bare the battle to save the planet. Calling each one of us to action, he answers the most urgent question of all: what will it take for things to change?
It all starts with what we eat for breakfast.
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Citizens
Citizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselves and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive as individuals, organisations, and nations.
Over the past decade, Jon Alexander’s consultancy, the New Citizenship Project, has helped revitalise some of Britain’s biggest organisations including the Co-op, the Guardian and the National Trust. Here, with the New York Times bestselling writer Ariane Conrad, he shows how history is about to enter age of the Citizen.
Because when our institutions treat people as creative, empowered creatures rather than consumers, everything changes.
Unleashing the power of everyone equips us to face the challenges of economic insecurity, climate crisis, public health threats, and polarisation.
Citizens is an upbeat handbook, full of insights, clear examples to follow, and inspiring case studies, from the slums of Kenya to the backstreets of Birmingham – and a foreword by Brian Eno.
It is the perfect pick-me-up for leaders, founders, elected officials – and citizens everywhere. Organise and seize the future!
Connections
In this riveting journey through the hidden realms of the human mind, a world-renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist explores the origins of human emotion, and examines what mental illnesses reveal about all of us - how the broken can illuminate the unbroken.
Why do we feel what we feel?
Mental illness is one of the greatest causes of human suffering, but the reasons we bear this burden, and the nature of these diseases, have remained mysterious. Now, our understanding has reached a tipping point. In Connections, Professor Karl Deisseroth intertwines gripping case studies from his experience as an emergency psychiatry physician, with breakthrough scientific discoveries from astounding new technology (including optogenetics, which he developed to allow turning specific brain cells on or off, with light).
By linking insights from this technology to deeply moving stories of his patients and to our shared evolutionary history, Deisseroth tells a larger story about the origins of human emotion. A young woman with an eating disorder reveals how the mind can rebel against the brain's most primitive drives of hunger and thirst; an older man, smothered into silence by dementia, shows how humans evolved to feel joy and its absence; and a lonely Uyghur woman far from her homeland teaches both the importance - and challenges - of deep social bonds.
Addressing some of the most timeless questions about the human condition while illuminating the roots of misunderstood disorders such as depression, psychosis, schizophrenia and sociopathy, Connections transforms the way we understand the brain, and our selves.
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Civilization
Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history book.
From the beginning of human history, the one thing that has defined us is our talent for making things, from basic technology and everyday objects, such as bowls and hand axes, to high-tech inventions, such as supersonic aircraft, smart devices, and Mars rovers.
Objects speak volumes about a civilization, telling us how our ancestors lived - as well as what they believed in and valued. A bronze cat mummy shows us how highly the ancient Egyptians valued their feline companions, while a mechanical tiger toy tells the story of rising tensions between an Indian sultan and European colonisers. With stunning, specially commissioned photography, Civilization shows you the objects that our ancestors treasured - from the jewellery worn by the Mesopotamians to the prized ritual vessels used by the people of the Shang dynasty - and gives you an insight into what gave each culture its own identity.
From astrolabes and aeroplanes to vacuum cleaners and X-rays, DK uses its hallmark visual style to weave the extraordinary legacy of our creativity into a unique view of world history that will change the way you see the objects all around us.
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Grand Union
A treasure trove of outstanding stories from 'the best writer of our generation' (Gary Shteyngart) - the perfect gift for the Zadie Smith fan in your life
'She's already one of our best novelists and essayists, this reminds us that her short stories are right up there too' Observer
'Sexy and hilarious. There is no moment in Grand Union when we are not entertained, or doubt that we are in the company of one of our best contemporary writers' Guardian
'Brilliant. Another slam dunk. Street life, patois, music, food, clothes, hair: Smith has her finger on the pulse of life and the utter weirdness of whatever has just become normal. This is a book of and for the times, sobering in its clarity but bracingly witty and clever' Evening Standard
'Smith's dialogue crackles with mordant wit. This dazzling collection of stories will leave you with plenty to think about' Independent
Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.
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The Capybaras
Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and the New York Public Library
For kids ages 4-8, a charming and hilarious tale about capybaras: the beloved animal sensation capturing children’s hearts!
Hens and their chicks love their warm, snug home. Life is simple and comfortable in the chicken coop, where everyone knows their place and worries are far away.
Until one day, when the capybaras appear.
To the hens, the capybaras are too big, too wet, and too hairy. They don’t even follow the rules! But it’s hunting season, and the capybaras need somewhere safe to hide. Can the hens learn to get along with their unexpected guests?
This delightful story shares the importance of opening our hearts to each other, no matter our differences, and the marvelous surprises that can happen along the way.
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In Great Numbers : How Numbers Shape the World We Live in
In Great Numbers will introduce children to the fascinating world of numbers and explains how they help us in our daily life. Imagine a world without numbers. How would we ask for three scoops of ice cream? Or know whether we've got 60 minutes left to play with our friends rather than 60 seconds? Why does a -minute have 60 seconds anyway and not 100? Where does zero come from and what language do computers understand? - Without the wonder-ful invention of numbers how would we be able to count, measure, and compare? Over the centuries, people have conceived more and more clever ways to use them to understand the world around us, build cities, find our way home, and more. In Great Numbers is a fun book that will help children realize how fascinating and fun numbers can be.
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Die Maßnahme
"Die Maßnahme ist nicht für Zuschauer geschrieben worden, sondern nur für die Belehrung der Aufführenden. Aufführungen vor Publikum rufen erfahrungsgemäß nichts als moralische Affekte für gewöhnlich minderer Art beim Publikum hervor. Ich gebe daher das Stück seit langem nicht für Aufführungen frei", stellt Brecht 1956 fest. Die vorliegende Ausgabe präsentiert, der erheblichen Unterschiede wegen, die Fassungen von 1930 sowie von 1931 im Paralleldruck und dokumentiert somit die Umarbeitung des Stückes, die Brecht nach der Uraufführung unter Berücksichtigung von Zuschauerreaktionen und Kritiken vornahm.
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Can We Be Happier
From the bestselling author of Happiness and co-editor of the annual World Happiness Report
Most people now realize that economic growth, however desirable, will not solve all our problems. Instead, we need a philosophy and a science which encompasses a much fuller range of human need and experience.
This book argues that the goal for a society must be the greatest possible all-round happiness, and shows how each of us can become more effective creators of happiness, both as citizens and in our own organizations.
Written with Richard Layard's characteristic clarity, it provides hard evidence that increasing happiness is the right aim, and that it can be achieved. Its language is simple, its evidence impressive, its effect inspiring.
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Szökés Egyiptomba
Charterjárat indul a paradicsomba vagy a szexparadicsomba. Attól függ, ki milyen céllal ül fel az Egyiptomba tartó repülőgépre. Van, aki csak egyszerű turistaként élvezni akarja az ötcsillagos tengerparti szállodák valóban paradicsomi körülményeket. Másokat főleg a jól szituált, magányos nőket a fiatal és jóképű helybeli fiúk vonzzák, akik gyorsan és komplikációmentesen hajlandóak kiegészíteni a szállodák exkluzív szolgáltatásait. Karolina, a szőke hajú és tejfehér bőrű művészettörténész lány pedig szerelemi csalódásából lábadozva fordít hátat korábbi életének, és vállalja el egy utazási iroda idegenvezetői állását egy elegáns egyiptomi hotelben.
Ahogy telnek a hetek és váltják egymást a csoportok, Karolina egyre több meglepő és izgalmas újdonságot fedez fel környezetében. Kilépve a luxushotel kulisszái közül feltárul előtte az igazi Egyiptom, ahol kincseket ér egy európai vízum, ahol fegyverek rejtőznek az autók csomagtartójában, és ahol fiúk teszik kockára az életüket egy jobb élet reményében. Egy nap aztán felbukkan a kék szemű Hassen, és attól kezdve semmi sem lesz már olyan, mint volt.
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Putinovi agenti
Prostor, v němž žijeme, jsme si navykli vnímat jako bezpečný. V roce 1996 Česko vstoupilo do NATO a o šest let později i do Evropské unie, což ve veřejnosti posílilo přesvědčení, že odteď nám žádná velká rizika nehrozí. A že se tedy v klidu můžeme soustředit na vše možné, jen ne na ochranu našich svobod a bezpečnosti. Jenže zatímco jsme se věnovali byznysu, cestování, zábavě nebo práci, Rusko odsud nikdy nestáhlo své tajné agenty, naopak v posledních letech jejich řady výrazně posílilo. Dostali řadu úkolů, politické krytí od vedení Kremlu, v podstatě nekonečné prostředky na svoji činnost. S jasným cílem podkopat zdejší stále se usazující a vratkou demokracii, vnést do ní chaos, oslabit její zakořeňování do obranných a politických struktur Západu a zmocnit se našich tajemství. S podobným překvapením hledí v poslední době na rozsáhlé aktivity ruské špionáže i v mnoha dalších zemích EU. Ukazuje se, že ničivé působení ruských tajných služeb není reliktem dob dávno minulých, které pohřbil pád Železné opony, ale že je naopak načase se jimi vážně zabývat. Ondřej Kundra je český novinář, který se ve svých textech věnuje investigativním tématům, především zneužívání moci, korupci, nefunkčnosti justice a činnosti tajných služeb. Od roku 1999 spolupracuje s týdeníkem Respekt, kde dlouhodobě vede jeho domácí redakci. V roce 2011 získal za politické analýzy a investigativní texty novinářskou Křepelku. A zároveň dvakrát Novinářskou cenu v kategorii investigativní žurnalistika. V roce 2014 vydal knihu o známé mecenášce umění Meda Mládková. Můj úžasný život.
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There Is Never Anything But The Present and Other Inspiring Words of Wisdom
'The perfect guide for a course correction in life' Deepak Chopra
For decades, people have turned to the inspiring words of pioneering Zen scholar Alan Watts for guidance, support and spiritual sustenance. In this thought-provoking collection of aphorisms and quotations, Watts reminds us all to slow down, to recognize we are not the universe but part of it and to enjoy each moment that composes our lives. This is a timeless work to reflect upon, to live by and to read for inspiration, knowledge and growth.