Hľadanie: Other Minds
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Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories
The most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz, with a foreword by Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
"Borowski's sharp-edged descriptions of life in Nazi concentration camps shatter the limits of even Kafka's most surreal imaginings."-Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal
"The most important work of the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz."-Timothy Snyder, from the foreword
In 1943, the twenty-year-old Polish poet Tadeusz Borowski was arrested and deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. What he experienced in the camp left him convinced that no one who survived Auschwitz was innocent.
All were complicit; the camp regime depended on this. Borowski's tales present the horrors of the camp as reflections of basic human nature and impulse, stripped of the artificial boundaries of culture and custom. Inside the camp, the strongest of the prisoners form uneasy alliances with their captors and one another, watching unflinchingly as the weak scrabble and struggle against their inevitable fate. In the last analysis, suffering is never ennobling and goodness is tantamount to suicide.
Bringing together for the first time in English Borowski's major writings and many previously uncollected works, this is the most complete collection of stories in a new, authoritative translation, with a substantial foreword by Timothy Snyder that speaks to its enduring relevance.
Moon-Face & Other Stories
Moon-Face & Other Stories was written in the year 1906 by Jack London. This book is one of the most popular novels of Jack London, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The Other Family
Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her.
He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect?
Then suddenly Richie is no longer there, and without him Chrissie's carefully constructed life is in jeopardy.The one big fact she had always tried to keep from her daughters threatens to overwhelm them all. For Richie had still been married to his first wife, the one with a son that he had abandoned in Newcastle.
And now, with Richie gone and the practicalities of wills and money to be sorted out, it is finally time for the two families to face each other ...
Howl Kaddish and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history.
'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked'
Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. They include the apocalyptic 'Howl', which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956; the moving lament for his dead mother, 'Kaddish'; the searing indictment of his homeland, 'America'; and the confessional 'Mescaline'. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, they show why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.
The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe
When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace. Angela has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal Household for twenty-five years, initially as Her Majesty’s Senior Dresser and then latterly as Her Majesty’s Personal Advisor, Curator, Wardrobe and In-house Designer. As the first person in history to hold this title, she shares a uniquely close working relationship with The Queen. In The Other Side of the Coin, The Queen has personally given Angela her blessing to share their extraordinary bond with the world. Whether it’s preparing for a formal occasion or brightening Her Majesty’s day with a playful joke, Angela’s priority is to serve and support. Sharing never-before-seen photographs – many from Angela’s own private collection – and charming anecdotes of their time spent together, this revealing book provides memorable insights into what it’s like to work closely with The Queen, to curate her wardrobe and to discover a true and lasting connection along the way.
This special edition of The Other Side of the Coin has been revised and updated to mark The Queen's Platinum Jubilee, containing previously unseen chapters covering the Royal Household's isolation during the pandemic, Angela's own devotion to service to keep the monarch safe, and the light and laughter that was shared behind closed doors, even in the darkest moments.
Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier (EN)
"Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier" collects five of Captain Charles King's frontline stories, and offers a glimpse of American army life in the mid- to late 19th century. It follows his campaigns in the American-Indian wars in a number of battles. It offers valuable insights into life in the military at this time as well as stunning first-hand accounts of combat in these theatres.
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Bartleby the Scrivener and other stories (EN)
Melville’s Bartleby is a classic American short story, a strange tale of an assiduous copyist whose catch-phrase is ‘I would prefer not to’. It is joined here by two other stories from The Piazza Tales, Melville’s idiosyncratic collection: The Lightning-Rod Man and The Bell Tower.
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Fast Minds
Populárně naučný americký bestseller o hyperkinetické poruše (ADHD) u dospělých se srozumitelnými formulacemi vyvolává i otázky, zda se to náhodou netýká také vás.
ADHD (z angl. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) je zkrácený název hyperkinetické neurovývojové poruchy pozornosti, která se vyskytuje od raného dětství a kulminuje hyperaktivitou ve školním věku. V téměř polovině případů přetrvává do dospělosti a vyskytuje se u 4-5 % dospělých. Hyperaktivitu nahrazují spíše pocity vnitřního neklidu, impulzivita a poruchy pozornosti. Důvodem, proč se mnoha dospělým s ADHD nedostane pomoci, je existence mnoha různých projevů této poruchy, takže dva pacienti se stejnou diagnózou se mohou potýkat s velmi odlišnými problémy. Lidé, kteří se s jednou situací dokážou s lehkostí vypořádat, mohou být zcela bezmocní v situaci jiné. Studenti, kteří lehce propluli střední školou, mohou zcela selhávat na vysoké škole nebo v rámci postgraduálního studia. Lidé, kteří nemají potíže v raném období svého života, se mohou potýkat s problémy v práci, s dětmi, s chodem domácnosti či v manželství.
Dva američtí psychiatři Surman a Bilkey se pokusili shrnout svoje letité medicínské zkušenosti a spolu s publicistkou Weintraubovou napsali praktický manuál nejen pro hyperaktivní pacienty, ale i pro ty, kteří se třeba jen domnívají, že ADHD trpí. Pro potřeby své knihy vytvořili novotvar FAST MINDS. Jde o akronym složený z názvů celé řady příznaků, které mohou, ale nemusí upozorňovat na nebezpečí ADHD.
FAST MINDS znamená množinu těchto symptomů: ZAPOMĚTLIVOST (Forgetful), NENAPLNĚNÍ SVÉHO POTENCIÁLU (Achieving below potential), STEREOTYP ZAJETÝCH KOLEJÍ (Stuck in a rut), PROBLÉMY S ČASEM (Time challenged), POTÍŽE S MOTIVACÍ (Motivationally challenged), IMPULZIVITA (Impulsive), VYHLEDÁVÁNÍ NOVÝCH PODNĚTŮ (Novelty seeking), ROZTĚKANOST (Distractible) a ROZTRŽITOST (Scattered).
Tato kniha je určena každému, kdo bojuje s uvedenými rysy FAST MINDS, nebo má potvrzenou diagnózu ADHD, případně si myslí, že by mohl ADHD mít, nebo má obavy o někoho jiného. Lidem s příznaky FAST MINDS se vždy doporučuje kontaktovat odborníka, který zhodnotí jejich stav a případně poskytne léčbu. Autoři se domnívají, že léčba bude mnohem úspěšnější, pokud využijí zkušeností z této knihy.
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Poděkování * Předmluva * Úvod * ČÁST I. Porozumět FAST MINDS (Co znamená FAST MINDS? * Nalaďte se na svoje FAST MINDS * Může za to FAST MINDS) * ČÁST II. FAST MINDS Manuál pro ovládání (Použijte prefrontální seznam * Buďte svým vlastním generálním ředitelem * Nedělejte věci jen tak přemýšlejte o nich! * Najděte, v čem a jak jste dobří * Dobře se cítit, dobře fungovat * Pomozte druhým lidem pochopit) * ČÁST III. Budujte život, po jakém toužíte (Získejte z medikace co nejvíce * Co dalšího funguje * Úspěšná cesta) * Přílohy (Příloha A: Shrnutí a pracovní sešit * Příloha B: Záznam myšlenek * Příloha C: FAST MINDS záznam symptomů * Příloha D: FAST MINDS denní záznam * Příloha E: FAST MINDS plánovač kritických momentů * Příloha F: Sebeposuzovací škála ADHD pro dospělé * Příloha G: Pro další zkoumání)
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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes
Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones. Winner of the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novella.
A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s—a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires.
A couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son’s death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm…
And a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his back yard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game.
From Bram Stoker Award finalist Eric LaRocca, this is devastating, beautifully written horror from one of the genre’s most cutting-edge voices.
What have you done today to deserve your eyes?
Chamber Music And Other Poems
Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest of his literary production.
This volume, which includes Joyce's first published book, Chamber Music, as well as his later collection Pomes Penyeach and several other uncollected poems, reveals a lesser-known facet of the great modernist's artistic career and a glimpse into his poetical sensibility.
B. J. Harrison Reads The Dunwich Horror and Other Tales (EN)
"The Colour Out of Space", "The Call of Cthulhu" and 15 more stories are combined in the collection "The Dunwich Horror and Other Tales". Horror, supernatural occurrences, science fiction and fantasy intertwine in order to give you goosebumps and send shivers up and down your spine.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Happy Prince and Other Tales (EN)
B. J. Harrison reads "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" which consists of various children’s stories by Oscar Wilde. Originally published in 1888, the work includes five memorable stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend" and "The Remarkable Rocket".
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Love of Life & Other Stories
Love of Life & Other Stories was written in the year 1907 by Jack London. This book is one of the most popular novels of Jack London, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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Eugenics and Other Evils (EN)
"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all." ‘Eugenics and Other Evils’ (1922) is a magnificent takedown of the entire basis of eugenic thought – the idea that controlled breeding will improve the human population.
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A Journey in Other Worlds
What did our ancestors dream of when they gazed up at the stars and looked beyond the present? Wildly imaginative but grounded in reasoned scientific speculation, A Journey in Other Worlds races far ahead of the nineteenth century to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy, with big businesses using incredible advances in science to improve life on the planet as a whole. Seeking other planets habitable for the growing human population, the spaceship Callisto, powered by an antigravitational force known as apergy, embarks on a momentous tour of the solar system. Jupiter proves to be a wilderness paradise, full of threatening beasts and landscapes of inspired beauty, where the explorers must fight for their lives. Dangers less tangible but equally deadly await the Callisto crew on Saturn, which yields profound secrets about their fate and the ultimate destiny of mankind. Thoughtful, adventurous, and replete with a dazzling array of futuristic devices, A Journey in Other Worlds is a classic, unforgettable story of utopias and humankind’s restless exploration of the stars.
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The Brother of the Other
Kniha se věnuje kulturním procesům vyjednávání symbolických hranic přináležení v českém imigračním kontextu. Na základě kvalitativní analýzy biografických rozhovorů s přistěhovalci z Běloruska, Ukrajiny a Ruska žijících v České republice autorka zjišťuje, jak se utvářejí symbolické hranice přináležení skrze stigma v každodenních interakcích v sociálním a kulturním kontextu imigrace. Kniha si všímá rozporuplné kulturní reprezentace této skupiny migrantů v českém prostoru etnizovaných vztahů – zvláštního napětí mezi pozicí ‚Druhého‘ (‚Other) a ‚Bratra‘ (‚Brother‘) ve vztahu k Čechům. Toto napětí odráží minulé i současné procesy vytváření národa ve střední a východní Evropě, historické politické vztahy mezi socialistickým Československem a Sovětským svazem a migrační procesy v období po roce 1989. Kniha nabízí nový vhled do kulturního repertoáru českého imigračního kontextu a vyjednávání hranic češství.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Man from Snowy River and Other Poems (EN)
"The Man from Snowy River and Other Poems" is one of the best known collections of poems by Banjo Paterson and was published first in 1895. It includes 48 poems which are described by Rolf Boldrewood as "the best bush ballads". From horseback pursuits, through romantic views of rural life, and humorous incidents with a drover of sheep, "The Man from Snowy River and Other Poems" will give you the possibility to immerse yourself into Australia’s nature and feel its different and colorful sides.
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Jarre Jean-Michel - Welcome To The Other Side: Live In Notre-Dame VR CD+BD
Tracklist:
CD
1. The Opening
2. Oxygene 2 (JMJ Rework Of Kosinski Remix)
3. The Architect
4. Oxygene 19
5. Oxygene 8
6. Zero Gravity
7. Exit
8. Equinoxe 4
9. Stardust
10. Herbalizer
11. Oxygene 4 (JMJ Rework Of Astral Projection Remix)
12. The Time Machine
BLU-RAY
1. The Opening
2. Oxygene 2 (JMJ Rework Of Kosinski Remix)
3. The Architect
4. Oxygene 19
5. Oxygene 8
6. Zero Gravity
7. Exit
8. Equinoxe 4
9. Stardust
10. Herbalizer
11. Oxygene 4 (JMJ Rework Of Astral Projection Remix)
12. The Time Machine
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B. J. Harrison Reads An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Tales (EN)
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Tales" is a collection of 23 stories by the American author Ambrose Bierce. It consists of some of the author’s best known works such as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", "Chickamauga", "A Horseman in the Sky" and many others. The American Civil War, execution of plantation owner, twist endings, stream of consciousness narration, soldiers who are morally challenged, horses running through the sky, murder and supernatural occurrences.
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5,99 €