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The Age of Absurdity - Why Modern Life Makes it Hard to be Happy
The good news is that the great thinkers from history have proposed the same strategies for happiness and fulfilment. The bad news is that these turn out to be the very things most discouraged by contemporary culture. This knotty dilemma is the subject of TheAge ofAbsurdity- a wry and accessible investigation into how the desirable states of wellbeing and satisfaction are constantly undermined by modern life. Michael Foley examines the elusive condition of happiness common to philosophy, spiritual teachings and contemporary psychology, then shows how these are becoming increasingly difficult to apply in a world of high expectations. The common challenges of earning a living, maintaining a relationship and ageing are becoming battlegrounds of existential angst and self-loathing in a culture that demands conspicuous consumption, high-octane partnerships and perpetual youth. In conclusion, rather than denouncing and rejecting the age, Foley presents an entertaining strategy of not just accepting but embracing today's world - finding happiness in its absurdity.
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Lacná kniha L´Ingenu (-70%)
Ce bon sauvage venu du Canada ne ressemble personne. C'est un Huron qui parle le français et subjugue ces dames. On le surnomme l'Ingénu car il ignore beaucoup, dit navement ce qu'il pense comme il fait tout ce qu'il veut... Belle liberté que cette franchise ! Comment ! On l'empche de marier " sa jolie marraine sous prétexte de religion ! Quoi ! Un jaloux l'embastille aprs qu'il a sauvé une province ! Drôle de pays que cette France... Les femmes y succombent par vertu, les philosophes croupissent en prison, et les puissants décident en dépit du bon sens... L'homme aux quarante écus fait le mme constat. Sa maigre fortune est encore amputée de taxes absurdes tandis que les plus riches en sont exonérés. Ainsi, la nation s'appauvrit tandis que certains s'enrichissent. La raison, décidément, voyage petite journée... Voltaire, dans ces contes, en est le colporteur... --Ce texte fait référence une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre. "
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Lacná kniha Aká je to hviezda? (-90%)
Nová generácia sprievodcov do prírody! Naučíte sa spoznávať a spoľahlivo určiť všetky hviezdy a súhvezdia. Sprievodca obsahuje mapy hviezdnej oblohy na každý mesiac. Rýchlu orientáciu vám umožní farebný kód.
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Kedves rágcsálóbarátaim!
A nevem Stilton, Geronimo Stilton. Itt Rágcsáliában, Egér-sziget fővárosában a könyveim mind bestsellerek! Hát nem olvastátok még őket? Igazán mulatságos történetek: könnyebbek, mint a friss mozzarella, kívánatosabbak, mint az edami, és ízesebbek, mint az érett parmezán... igazán bajuszemelő történetek, szavamra!
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Egy kellemes tavaszi napon Patty Spring meghívott engem egy nagyon különleges indián kézműves bolt megnyitójára. Mennyi mindent tanultam ott... Ám az igazi izgalom akkor kezdődött, amikor odahaza megpróbáltam felakasztani a Pattytől kapott álomfogót. Megcsúsztam, elestem, elájultam, és mély álomba szenderültem... valahogy így kezdődött az én nagy indiánkalandom!
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Lacná kniha Pirouettes dans les ténebres
Gibbon, drôle de nom pour un drôle de garçon, "bancal et délabré". C'est l'identité choisie par le narrateur après que son père est mort en hurlant son nom. Sa mère n'a pas survécu longtemps. On ne commence pas plus mal sa vie, surtout quand on est doté de bras démesurés et d'une maladresse tenace. Orphelin, Gibbon est pris en charge par le docteur Delafosse, "bonimenteur à la journée, oracle désabusé". La charge ne s'éternise pas, le bon docteur meurt, et le destin de Gibbon de se jouer chez Victor, directeur d'un asile psychiatrique en banlieue parisienne. Un drôle de gus aussi, passionné par la restauration de meubles, bon bougre et grigou, loufoque, "mandarin sévère ou plaisantin de café" : histrion grand pontife pour lequel le héros sera le livreur, l'assistant. Une existence remplie de chaises, d'armoires, de confituriers, de guéridons, de rencontres féminines comme celle de Tatiana, fille d'artistes hauts en couleur. Avec elle, Gibbon et Victor formeront un trio désopilant, écumant toutes les salles de ventes... Roman initiatique où le bonheur de conter s'épanouit dans un style vif et alerte, Pirouettes dans les ténèbres est un récit tout en mouvement, sans relâchement, dans un décor original, habillé de personnages extravagants. --Céline Darner
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A Siker Törvénye Tizenhat Leckében - IV. kötet
A kiadó előszava
13. Lecke: EGYÜTTMŰKÖDÉS
Hogyan fejleszti a hatalmat az Együttműködés?
14. Lecke: KUDARC
Első fordulópont
Második fordulópont
Harmadik fordulópont
Negyedik fordulópont
Ötödik fordulópont
Hatodik fordulópont
Hetedik fordulópont
"Személyes találkozás a szerkesztőddel"
15. Lecke: TOLERANCIA
Hogyan szüntessük meg a háborút?
A háttér
A Terv
Tolerancia!
16. Lecke: AZ ARANYSZABÁLY
Az ima hatalma
Az én etikai kódexem
Személyes elemző szolgáltatás
Határozatlanság
Utószó
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Popcorn ELT Readers 1: Madgascar 1 + CD
In the New York Zoo, Alex, a lion; Marty, a zebra; Melman, a giraffe; and Gloria, a hippo; are best friends. But when Marty escapes in a bid to experience life outside the zoo, his three friends break free to find him. Their travels take them across the ocean en route for Africa, until an accident on board find the animals washed up on the beautiful but bewildering island of Madagascar.
Anglická zjednodušená četba pro děti na motivy úspěšných holywoodských kreslených filmů.
The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems
Businesses need a new type of problem solving. Why? Because they are getting people wrong.
Traditional problem-solving methods taught in business schools serve us well for some of the everyday challenges of business, but they tend to be ineffective with problems involving a high degree of uncertainty. Why? Because, more often than not, these tools are based on a flawed model of human behavior. And that flawed model is the invisible scaffolding that supports our surveys, our focus groups, our R&D, and much of our long-term strategic planning.
In The Moment of Clarity, Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel Rasmussen examine the business world’s assumptions about human behavior and show how these assumptions can lead businesses off track. But the authors chart a way forward. Using theories and tools from the human sciences—anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology—The Moment of Clarity introduces a practical framework called sensemaking. Sensemaking’s nonlinear problem-solving approach gives executives a better way to understand business challenges involving shifts in human behavior.
This new methodology, a fundamentally different way to think about strategy, is already taking off in Fortune 100 companies around the world. Through compelling case studies and their direct experience with LEGO, Samsung, Adidas, Coloplast, and Intel, Madsbjerg and Rasmussen will show you how to solve problems as diverse as setting company direction, driving growth, improving sales models, understanding the real culture of your organization, and finding your way in new markets.
Over and over again, executives say the same thing after engaging in a process of sensemaking: “Now I see it . . .” This experience—the moment of clarity—has the potential to drive the entire strategic future of your company. Isn’t it time you and your firm started getting people right?
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Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps : The Atlas of Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know
Explore the world as you never knew it with Vargic's astonishing miscellany of curious maps. This Atlas includes four fold out whole printed maps and a double sided removable poster showing. The Map of Stereotypes and The Map of Video Websites. Vargic's Miscellany is a collection of 64 maps and infographics. You can see the world mapped out by stereotypes; discover the Internet in cartographical form; marvel at the maps of global technology and culture; and explore the world through infographics and statistics. This wonderful and strange atlas is a treasure trove of interesting, unexpected and bizarre facts - a glorious celebration of our big beautiful diverse world. Includes: The Map of Stereotypes Maps of Internet, YouTube and Gaming Maps of Literature, Music and Sport. The Map of Separatist Europe 51 infographic maps - from lighting strikes to sexual partners, heavy metal bands to tractors And many more...
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Kráľ
V rozdelenom meste treba mať pri ruke zbraň alebo tvrdé päste - inak sú vaše dni zrátané. A zároveň musíte mať jasno v tom, na ktorú stranu sa postaviť. Výnimočná noirová gangsterka, ktorá vás dokonale omráči! Literárny knock-out!
Varšava, rok 1937. Proti sebe tu stojí niekoľko rôznych svetov. Židia a kresťania. Fašisti a socialisti. Elegantné nablýskané centrum mesta a na druhej strane biedne okrajové štvrtí ponorené po uši do blata.
Sedemnásťročný Mojžiš Bernštajn sedí v prvom rade preplnenej sály Mestského kina a pred jeho očami sa odohráva pästiarsky súboj o titul majstra Varšavy. Nie je to však len zápas dvoch mužov, Andrzeja Ziembińského a Jakuba Šapira, ale aj súboj medzi Poliakmi a Židmi. A to na tribúnach i mimo nich. Mladý Mojžiš ešte netuší, že tento večer ho bude sprevádzať celý život a veľmi živo sa mu vynorí aj keď si o pol storočia neskôr v Tel Avive sadne k písaciemu stroju, aby na papier preniesol spomienky na predvojnové varšavské podsvetie, ktorému kraľoval Kmotor Kaplica. Pekné autá, dievčatá, studená vodka a horúca krv - to je jeho svet.
Szczepan Twardoch, hviezda súčasnej poľskej literatúry nás zavedie do Varšavy, akú už nikde nenájdeme. Živé kulisy, v ktorých sa odohráva jeho román, totiž už o pár rokov padnú za obeť besneniu druhej svetovej vojny. A tak sa nám do rúk dostáva skvelá dobová gangsterka s nezvyčajnou dokumentárnou hodnotou.
Vynikajúci román Szczepana Twardocha Kráľ, po ktorom siahla aj televízna stanica Canal+ a urobila z neho úspešnú televíznu minisériu, vychádza v preklade Alexandra Horáka.
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Az én rózsaszín ruhatáram
Ugye te is szeretsz csinosan öltözni? Sőt, egészen biztosan van kedvenc színed és ruhadarabod is. Ez a szuper öltöztetőkönyv tele van érdekes feladatokkal és színes matricákkal. Válogass kedvedre a ruhák, cipők, kalapok és ékszerek között! A rajzos feladatokhoz szükséges matricák mellett sok olyat is találsz itt, melyet bárhová felragaszthatsz.
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Ragassz és színezz! Az első szavaim - Az én világom
Micsoda móka vár! Minden egyes matrica beragasztásával új szót tanulhatsz!
Megtalálod a képen az ágyat, a virágot és a csillagokat? Hát persze! Végül ne felejtsd el őket kiszínezni!
Matricás színezőnk kifejezetten a legkisebbeknek készült. A képeket könnyű kiszínezni, a matricák pedig újraragaszthatók, így a feladatok megismételhetők. A szókincs eközben újabb és újabb szavakkal gyarapodik.
Ragassz, színezz, és tanulj játszva!
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The Sedona Method : Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being
The fastest, easiest, and most powerful self-improvement technique available. The Sedona Method can allow you to effortlessly release limiting thoughts and feelings that have plagued you for years.
After over 25 years of helping tens of thousands of people worldwide, this book offers the revolutionary Sedona technique in an easy-to-learn format, teaching you to reach your goals by letting go.
The Sedona Method offers a simple yet highly effective way to eliminate the painful emotions and limiting thoughts that sabotage your success, happiness and well-being. Master the releasing process and learn how to achieve your goals, improve your relationships and experience the life you've always wanted.
Modern personal development techniques, such as affirmations, positive thinking and NLP have focused on changing our thinking and reprogramming the mind. With such practical techniques and enlightening true stories, this book shows you how to manifest what you want, while being at ease with what you already have.
With the Sedona Method you can:
* Experience dramatic shifts in self-esteem and self-confidence that will improve your career, ignite passionate romances, create wealth, launch businesses and much more
* Enjoy deep feelings of inner peace that bring more joy and happiness to everyday life
* Discover boundless energy, radiant health and sound sleep
* Experience freedom from long-standing emotional challenges such as fear and anxiety, anger issues, stress, depression and emotional traumas
* Put an end, once and for all, to the struggle of quitting smoking, drinking, overeating and other impulsive, addictive, self-defeating behaviour
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Az én csodás matricás táskám
Ez a csodaszép lila táska telis-tele van matricákkal és izgalmas feladatokkal.
Színezz, rajzolj és díszítsd a képeket több mint 500 matricával!
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Druhá strana
Michael Connelly je jedným z najúspešnejších amerických autorov detektívok nielen vo svete, ale aj na Slovensku. Je autorom dvadsiatich ôsmich románov, ktoré vyšli aj v slovenskom preklade. Harry Bosch už nie je policajný detektív. Od polície odišiel dobrovoľne, keďže jeho šéf proti nemu rozbehol disciplinárny súd. Harryho obhajca je jeho nevlastný brat Mickey Haller. Mick však zároveň zastupuje aj človeka, ktorý čelí zdanlivo nepriestrelnému obvineniu z brutálnej vraždy. Haller je presvedčený, že jeho klient je nevinný, preto sa usiluje prehovoriť Boscha, aby mu s prípadom pomohol. Harryho čaká neľahké rozhodnutie: prejde na druhú stranu k obhajobe a pridá sa k ľuďom, proti ktorým celý život tvrdo bojoval?
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Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English
Today scientists are a resolutely monoglot community, using exclusively English - but the rise of English was anything but inevitable and only very recent. In a sweeping history, from the Middle Ages through to today, Michael Gordin untangles the web of politics, money, personality and international conflict that led to the English language dominated world of science we now inhabit. He takes us on a journey from the fall of Latin to the rise of English, telling how we lost Dutch, Italian, Swedish and many other languages on the way. The significance of language in the nationalistic realm of science is astounding - just one word mistranslated into German from Russian, triggered an inflammatory contest between Germany and Russia for the credit of having discovered the periodic table. In Michael's hands we see that science isn't the universal quest for truth we thought, but rather the subject of political jockeying, national rivalry, and fierce competition. Intelligent, revealing and full of amazing stories, Scientific Babel shows how the world has remade science just as much as science has transformed the world.
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The Shifts and the Shocks - What We've Learned - and Have Still to Learn - from the Financial Crisis
In The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf - one of the world's most influential economic commentators and author of Why Globalization Works - presents his controversial and highly original analysis of the economic course of the last seven years. There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis which began in 2007-8. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis, but the most persuasive and complete account yet published of what the crisis should teach us about modern economies and economics. The book identifies the origin of the crisis in the complex interaction between globalization, hugely destabilizing global imbalances and our dangerously fragile financial system. In the eurozone, these sources of instability were multiplied by the tragically defective architecture of the monetary union. It also shows how much of the orthodoxy that shaped monetary and financial policy before the crisis occurred was complacent and wrong. In doing so, it mercilessly reveals the failures of the financial, political and intellectual elites who ran the system. The book also examines what has been done to reform the financial and monetary systems since the worst of the crisis passed. 'Are we now on a sustainable course?' Wolf asks. 'The answer is no.' He explains with great clarity why 'further crises seem certain' and why the management of the eurozone in particular 'guarantees a huge political crisis at some point in the future.' Wolf provides far more ambitious and comprehensive plans for reform than any currently being implemented. Written with all the intellectual command and trenchant judgement that have made Martin Wolf one of the world's most influential economic commentators, The Shifts and the Shocks matches impressive analysis with no-holds-barred criticism and persuasive prescription for a more stable future. It is a book no-one with an interest in global affairs will want to neglect. "We have been inundated with books about the 'financial' aspects of the crisis. There have also been many books about specific institutions or memoirs by retired policy-makers. We need something different. There are two dimensions of the crisis that have received surprisingly little treatment. One is the link between developments in the macro-economy and the behaviour of the financial sector. The other is the global dimension of the crisis. Both these lie at the heart of Martin Wolf's analysis of the causes of the crisis and of his proposals to reduce the risk of another crisis. For these two reasons this is an important book that will be influential. Most important of all, it is in my view the right analysis and remedy." (Mervyn King). "To think straight about the causes and solutions of the financial crisis we must reject orthodox assumptions that more finance and global financial integration are limitlessly beneficial. The Shifts and the Shocks does just that, providing an intellectually sparkling and vital account of why the crisis occurred, and of the radical reforms needed if we are to avoid a future repeat." (Adair Turner). "Martin Wolf is unsurpassed in the world of economic journalists. His superb book may be the best of all those spawned by the Great Recession. It is analytical and rigorous without ever succumbing to fatalism or complacency." (Lawrence Summers
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Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World
Sergio Vieira de Mello - a humanitarian, peacemaker and state builder - was at centre of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Born in 1948, just as the post-World War II order was taking shape, he died in a terrorist attack on UN headquarters in Iraq in 2003 as the battle lines in the twenty first-century's first great polarizing struggle were being drawn. This is a dual biography: the story of a man who never stopped learning and the biography of a perilous world whose ills are too big to ignore but too complex to manage quickly or cheaply. Even as Vieira de Mello arranged food deliveries, organized refugee returns, or negotiated with warlords, he pressed his colleagues to join him in grappling with such questions as: When should killers be engaged and when should they be shunned? When is military force justified? How can outsiders play a role in healing broken people and broken places? He did not have the luxury of simply posing these questions, he had to find answers, apply them, and live with the consequences.
29. február
Život na nič nečaká a smelo plynie ďalej, ale čo ak staré jazvy rastú spolu s vami a aj po rokoch priveľmi bolia?
Timea po komplikáciách vo vzťahu prahne po oddychu pre svoju unavenú dušu, preto vzkriesi svoju lásku k literatúre.
Keď v jednej zo starých kníh náhodne objaví zažltnuté svadobné oznámenie svojej milovanej tety a neznámeho muža, prebudí sa v nej zvedavosť. K žiadnej svadbe totiž nikdy nedošlo.
Tetine vyhýbavé odpovede vyvolávajú ďalšie otázky, preto Timea začne hľadať pravdu na vlastnú päsť.
Prečo sa svadba nekonala a kto je záhadný Oliver?
Aké tajomstvá ukrývajú ľudia, ktorí spolu plánovali zostarnúť?
Ako to celé súvisí s magickým 29. februárom?
Odhaľte s Timeou kúsok po kúsku jednotlivé časti skladačky a ponorte sa do prekvapivého príbehu, ktorý vás nenechá chladnými.
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