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Last Best Hope
Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming injustices, paralyses, and divides
How, in a few decades, did the United States transform from a broadly prosperous middle-class country, with relatively healthy institutions and competent leaders, to a nation defined by discredited elites, hollowed-out institutions, and blatant inequalities-feared and pitied by our friends, mocked and sabotaged by our adversaries, first in the world in Covid cases and deaths, and led in recent years by an incompetent authoritarian bigot? Last Best Hope is a bracing account of our current crisis and of how a new era of civic revitalization may bring it to an end.
Combining reportage with historical narrative, autobiography, and political analysis, Packer depicts and assesses the four inadequate narratives that dominate American public life: Libertarian America, which imagines a nation of individuals responsible for their own fate, and serves the interests of corporations and the wealthy; Cosmopolitan America, the ideology of Silicon Valley and the professional elite,which celebrates globalization and leaves many American communities behind; Diverse America, which defines citizens as members of large identity groups that have inflicted or suffered oppression; and White America, a shallow nationalism that fears the contamination of non-whites and treachery of coastal elites, and poses the greatest threat to democracy in our lifetime.
At a time when many fear that the American experiment in self-government may collapse, or, in Abraham Lincoln's words, "die by suicide", Packer shows that none of these narratives can sustain American democracy. To point a better way forward, he looks back at previous eras of crisis to discover the resources for invigorating self-government. Combining trenchant social analysis with a vibrant and stinging essayistic voice and a deep knowledge of America's past and present, Last Best Hope is an essential contribution to the literature of national self-examination the times demand.
Order And Justice In Internat
The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. For most of the twentieth century, states and international society gave priority to a view of order that focused on the minimum conditions for coexistence in a pluralist, conflictual world. Justice was seen either as secondary or sometimes even as a challenge to order. Recent developments have forced a reassessment of this position.This book sets current concerns within a broad historical and theoretical context, explores the depth and scope of this presumed solidarism amidst the difficulties of acting on the basis of a more strongly articulated liberal position, and underscores the complexity and abiding tensions inherent in the relationship between order and justice. Chapters examine a wide range of state and transnational perspectives on order and justice, including those from China, India, Russia, the United States, and the Islamic world. Other chapters investigate how the order-justice relationship is mediated within major international institutions, including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the global financial institutions.
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Lacná kniha Štefánik - Muž činu (-90%)
Štefánik - Muž činu je ilustrovaná kniha o dobrodružnom a činorodom živote jednej z najdôležitejších osobností našich dejín.
Vieme, kto boli ženy jeho života? Čím si krátil voľný čas? S akými ťažkosťami v živote bojoval alebo kam sa upierala jeho pozornosť, keď sníval? Kniha rozpráva príbeh o chlapcovi z malej dediny, ktorý si získal rešpekt a uznanie ľudí na celom svete. Ukazuje Štefánika ako nebojácneho, odhodlaného a činorodého človeka, no okrem príbehu diplomata, generála a štátnika, približuje Štefánika aj ako človeka z mäsa a kostí.
Jeho životný príbeh je v knihe popretkávaný množstvom kurióznych a miestami aj vtipných historických súvislostí z prelomu 19. a 20. storočia obdobia nazývaného La Belle Époque.
Čitateľ sa vďaka nim dozvedá o tom, prečo bolo kedysi bežné mať veľa detí; dozvedá sa o absolventoch Evanjelického lýcea; o úteku profesora Janssena v balóne; o prvom metre v Paríži; o prvej svetovej vojne; o boľševickom prevrate v Rusku; o elektrických autách z konca 19. storočia a priekopníkoch letectva; ale aj o množstve dôležitých mílnikov, ktoré viedli k vzniku Československa.
Plne ilustrovanú knihu talentovanej ilustrátorky Anny Hájkovej a autora Adama Berku uzatvára historický kalendár a prehľadná mapa zobrazujúca všetky Štefánikove cesty, od rodných Košarísk až po exotický ostrov Tahiti a späť.
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Master And Commander
3 Cassettes, 4 1/2 hoursRead by Robert HardyAbridgedAudioBook contains an illustration of the sails of a square-rigged ship.The 1st installment in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series"The best historical novels ever written..."-The New York Times Book ReviewThis, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.Ă‚Â Ă‚Â Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the road of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
How to Use Your Enemies
'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone'
In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracian shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658). Gracian's work is available in Penguin Classics in The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence.
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Pictures and Words
Pictures and Words collects together the most outstanding contemporary examples of pictorial storytelling. Celebrating illustration that stands on its own to tell a story rather than simply accompanying or adorning another medium, the book includes extracts from graphic novels, comic strips and books, as well as single-panel cartoons and drawings. Words are present in the form of character dialogue or narration, or sometimes a story emerges from a series of illustrated panels that contain no text at all. With or without words, this is a highly expressive medium, dealing with a vast range of subjects from political issues to the most complex of human emotions. Comics and graphic novels are currently enjoying huge popularity in mainstream culture. This timely book brings together work by 30 key artists from around the world, including Paul Davis, Benoit Jacques and Andrzej Klimowski.
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Foundation and Earth
Members of the First Foundation establish contact with the telepathic robots of the planet Gaia and with their aid go on to search for humanity's long-lost ancestral planet, Earth. This is the sixth volume in the Foundation" selection of books."
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Plague and I
A title first published in 1948, presenting a humorous account of the author's trials and tribulations when she had to leave her home and family to go into a sanatorium, having contracted tuberculosis.
Gertrude And Claudius
Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. As only he could, Updike recasts a tale of medieval violence and presents the case for its central couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude's warmth and lucidity, Claudius's soldierly yet peaceable powers of command are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and familial dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, disaffected prince.
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Manipulation Techniques - Psychology of Persuasion
What this book can do for you: You support certified climate protection projects, receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press reviews in the book preview) as well as advice proven in practice, which leads step by step to success - also thanks to add-on.
Because the Machiavellian art of manipulation has a very bad reputation. But influencing other people is something that each of us uses every day. It is all the more important to recognize and understand these interpersonal power games as well as communicative tricks and tactics of other people. After all, who has the power determines the direction of the march and can enforce his goals. Seeing through manipulative strategies therefore provides a considerable amount of personal freedom. And this book shows what is important.
We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form.
Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process.
The publisher is also involved in numerous, well-documented charitable projects, e.g. on climate protection, and supports the quality of neural machine learning and international understanding through its translation from German into English.
Editor Simone Janson is chairwoman, publisher, and best-selling author. She was also one of the 20 most important German bloggers and columnist of renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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Heartstopper Volume Four
Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Charlie's beginning to feel ready to say those three little words: I love you.
Nick's been feeling the same, but he's got a lot on his mind - not least coming out to his dad, and the fact that Charlie might have an eating disorder.
As summer turns to autumn and a new school year begins, Charlie and Nick are about to learn a lot about what love means.
Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.
Lacná kniha The Disney Treasures (-70%)
The Disney Treasures is the ultimate interactive stroll down memorabilia lane. Selected from the vast archives of the Walt Disney Company, this historic collection includes Walt Disney's handwritten letters and notes, original sketches of beloved characters and other treasures, reproduced in facsimile form. Many of these special features are designed to be removable so readers can examine and hold masterfully reproduced bits of history. In addition, the book comes packaged with a 60-minute CD featuring previously unheard audio of Walt Disney speaking, radio commercials from the 1950s, and never-before-released sound tracks from the openings of the parks' most popular attractions. Author Robert Tieman, Manager of the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, California, has uncovered some never-before-seen 'treasures' and brought out nostalgic items sure to evoke the fondest memories. Highlights include replicas of Disney's opening day tickets and Walt Disney's first notes about his idea of the Mickey Mouse Club on television, the truly rare character sketches created by animators in the 1930s and 1940s. The Disney Treasures is the perfect book for Disney lovers everywhere. From beginning collectors to seasoned pros, The Disney Treasures offers a rare glimpse into one of the most beloved institutions in the world.
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Szörnyeteg vagy példakép?
A Szörnyeteg vagy példakép? a nácik felemelkedésének és
uralmának egyedülálló összefoglalása, amely nagy munkával
gyűjtött, első kézből származó beszámolókra támaszkodik.
Egyetemi hallgatók és középiskolás diákok,
politikusok, zenészek, diplomaták, kommunisták, fasiszták,
tudósok, olimpikonok, költők, újságírók, turisták,
sőt olyan hírességek, mint Charles Lindbergh és Samuel
Beckett, korabeli naplói, levelei és írásai szolgálnak forrásul.
Az olvasó szinte láthatja, hallhatja, tapinthatja azt az atmoszférát,
amiről a kor embere nem sejthette, varázslatos
megújuláshoz vagy borzalmas viharhoz vezet-e. Elgondolkodtató
kérdések következnek ebből a mai olvasó
számára: Mennyire lehetett felfogni, mi is történik valójában?
Meg lehetett-e ragadni a nemzetiszocializmus lényegét?
Érintetlennek lehetett-e maradni a propagandától?
Meg lehetett-e jósolni a holokausztot?
A történelem akaratlan szemtanúi újszerű betekintést
nyújtanak a harmadik birodalom összetettségébe, paradoxonjaiba és végső összeomlásába.
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Lacná kniha Spot Goes on Holiday (-70%)
Spot has fun on the beach in this classic lift-the-flap tale by Eric Hill. This is a reissue of the popular board book edition with a coloured cover.
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Bullet Train
FIVE KILLERS. ONE JOURNEY. BUT WHO WILL SURVIVE?
Discover the original and propulsive thriller from the massive Japanese bestselling author.
Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura has tracked him onto the bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard.
Nanao, the self-proclaimed 'unluckiest assassin in the world', and the deadly partnership of Tangerine and Lemon are also travelling to Morioka. A suitcase full of money leads others to show their hands. Why are they all on the same train, and who will get off alive at the last station?
(Bullet Train was originally published in Japan with the title Maria Beetle.)
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Sense and Sensibility
Tento titul je novým vydaním knihy Sense and Sensibility z roku 1994Sisters Marianne and Elinor couldnt be more different. Marianne is desperately romantic and longing to meet the man of her dreams, while Elinor takes a far more cautious approach
to love...Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu
na obálku.
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You've Reached Sam
Filled with the heartache of first love and loss, plus a touch of magic, Dustin Thao's You've Reached Sam is an emotional romance, with a powerful story about knowing when to say goodbye.
'Have your tissues at the ready when you dive into Dustin Thao's emotional novel' - PopSugar
Seventeen-year-old Julie has her future all planned out: move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city, spend a summer in Japan. But then Sam dies. And everything changes.
Desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls Sam's phone just to listen to his voicemail. And Sam picks up the phone . . .
What would you do if you had a second chance at goodbye?
The TikTok sensation and instant New York Times Bestseller!
Lacná kniha Age of Anger (-50%)
'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times 'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing book I've read in years' Joe Sacco 'Urgent, profound and extraordinarily timely' John Banville How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century, before leading us to the present. He shows that as the world became modern those who were unable to fulfil its promises - freedom, stability and prosperity - were increasingly susceptible to demagogues. The many who came late to this new world or were left, or pushed, behind, reacted in horrifyingly similar ways: intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an imaginary golden age, and self-empowerment through spectacular violence.It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the militants of the 19th century arose - angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and anarchist terrorists internationally. Today, just as then, the wider embrace of mass politics, technology, and the pursuit of wealth and individualism has cast many more millions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity - with the same terrible results Making startling connections and comparisons, Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency and profound argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other.
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Kiss And Tell
Presents a challenge to biographical norms by setting out to chart the life of someone unknown, intimate with their biographer, and still alive. The subject of the book is Isabel Rogers, a 25-year-old Londoner, and her biographer's approach to her life is complicated by their love affair.
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