Hľadanie: Ferdinand Hoffmann
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The Know It Alls The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
The Beginning: a Stanford University lab embarked on an idealistic quest to create an artificial intelligence that would benefit society, perhaps even profit the makers. There were few women or minorities in the department and its head rejected the very idea of authority, but really – what could go wrong?
Now: more and more aspects of our lives are being dictated by a tiny, unaccountable elite, a breakaway sect of free-market libertarians who are determined to bypass government and enrich themselves at the expense of society. Pioneers and self-proclaimed geniuses like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and Mark Zuckerberg have not only made the Internet what it is today – their impact on the world has been profound.
This is a history of Silicon Valley through its eleven greatest entrepreneurs and a damning indictment of the greed, bias and outright prejudice of an industry that is fracturing America and taking the rest of us with it.
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Three Seconds
Three Seconds won the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award 2009 for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year.
Piet Hoffman is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even aware of his existence. When a drug deal he is involved in goes very wrong, he is faced with the hardest mission of his life: to infiltrate Sweden's most infamous maximum security prison.
Intelligent, gripping, brutal, Three Seconds is the latest thriller from Roslund and Hellstr m, the heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as masters of Scandinavian crime.
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Misere
The coming of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century witnessed unprecedented changes in society: rapid economic progress went hand-in-hand with appalling working conditions, displacement, squalor and destitution for those at the bottom of the social scale. These new circumstances presented a challenge to contemporary image-makers, who wished to capture the effects of hunger, poverty and alienation in Britain, Ireland and France in the era before documentary photography. In this groundbreaking book, the eminent art historian Linda Nochlin examines the styles and expressive strategies that were used by artists and illustrators to capture this misere, roughly characterized as poverty that afflicts both body and soul. She investigates images of the Irish Famine in the period 1846–51; the gendered representation of misery, particularly of poor women and prostitutes; and the work of three very different artists: Théodore Géricault, Gustave Courbet and the less wellknown Fernand Pelez. The artists’ desire to depict the poor and the outcast accurately and convincingly is still a pertinent issue, though now, as Nochlin observes, the question has a moral and ethical dimension – does the documentary style belittle its subjects and degrade their condition?
Table of Contents
Misere: An Introduction • 1. Misere: The Irish Paradigm • 2. The Gender of Misery •
3. Géricault, Goya and the Representation of Misery • 4. Representing Misery: Courbet’s
Beggar Woman • 5. Fernand Pelez: Master of Miserable Old Men • Conclusion
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Blitzscaling
LinkedIn co-founder, legendary investor and author of the NYT Bestseller The Start-up of You reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies.
For most of the world, the terms "Silicon Valley" and "startup" are synonymous. Indeed, Silicon Valley is home to a disproportionate number of companies that have grown from garage startups into global giants.
But what is the secret to these startups' extraordinary success? Contrary to the popular narrative, it's not their superhuman founders or savvy venture capitalists. Rather, it's that they have learned how to Blitzscale.
Blitzscaling is a specific set of practices for igniting and managing dizzying growth; an accelerated path to the stage in a startup's life-cycle where the most value is created. It prioritizes speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty, and allows a company to go from "startup" to "scaleup" at a furious pace that captures the market.
Drawing on their experiences scaling startups into billion-dollar businesses, Hoffman and Yeh offer a framework for blitzscaling that can be replicated in any region or industry. Readers will learn how to design business models that support lightning-fast growth, navigate necessary shifts in strategy at each level of scale, and weather the management challenges that arise as their company grows.
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The Wolf The UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY Series
A MASTERPIECE IN EPIC HISTORICAL FANTASY - A NEW VOICE TO RIVAL DAVID GEMMELL OR GEORGE RR MARTIN A great war has come to the land under the Northern Sky. Beyond the Black River, among the forests and mountains of the north, lives an ancient race of people. Their lives are measured in centuries, not decades; they revel in wilderness and resilience, and they scorn wealth and comfort.
By contrast, those in the south live in the moment, their lives more fleeting. They crave wealth and power, their ambition is limitless, and their cunning unmatched. When the armies of the south flood across the Black River, the fragile peace between the two races is shattered.
On a lightning-struck battlefield, the two sides will fight - for their people, for their land, for their very survival. Two sides. One victor.
The Wolf is a thrilling, savagely visceral, politically nuanced and unexpectedly wry exploration of power and identity - and how far one will go to defend them. WHAT REVIEWERS ARE ALREADY SAYING ABOUT CAREW'S BREATHTAKING FANTASY EPIC:'The next George RR Martin' - Mail on Sunday'Imagine Game of Thrones rewritten by John le Carre . .
A marvellously accomplished debut' - Guardian'Full of dark conspiracies, larger-than-life characters, and tense battles' - Paul Hoffman, author of The Left Hand of God
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Various - Kvatreto hvězd české country 4CD
CD 1 - PAVEL BOBEK
1. Všem dívkám, co jsem měl kdy rád
2. Má dívka „N"
3. Lásko, mně ubývá sil
4. Nedělní ráno
5. Můj rodný dům
6. Pojď stoupat jak dým
7. Proč nemáš mě ráda
8. Tam, kde leží Phoenix
9. Dálniční hlídka
10. Country boy
11. Kobylka
12. Odvykám
13. Oh, Ruby, nechtěj mi lásku brát
14. Zmírám láskou
15. Rokenrolu dal jsem všechny nejlepší své dny
16. Houston
17. Veď mě dál, cesto má
18. Pojď dál a zpívej
CD 2 - MICHAL TUČNÝ
1. Měsíčku
2. Směs hitů:
3. Chtěl bych být medvídkem
4. Pověste ho vejš
5. Poslední kovboj
6. Snídaně v trávě
7. Cesty toulavý
8. Rád se brouzdám rosou
9. Koukám, jak celá země vstává
10. Báječná ženská
11. Prodavač
12. Kosmickej vandr
13. El Paso , feat. Tomáš Linka
14. Abych tu žil
15. Nečekej už dál
16. Tak už mi nefňukej
17. Jen tohle chci ti říct
18. Slámu v botách nosím
19. Já tajně cvičím
20. Pane můj
21. Pět minut snít
22. Slunce sháním
23. Dnešní noc bude tak dlouhá
24. Bessie
25. Buráky
26. Až příjde ten den
CD 3 - HONZA VYČÍTAL
1. Marion Lee
2. Kocour prospektor
3. Vracecí kocour
4. Hej, chlape!
5. Ovoce z Lenina
6. Adios, čas nespoutáš
7. Zálesácká bowle
8. Stringybark Creek
9. Hráči
10. Tři melouny
11. Do černejch hor
12. Dva tuláci
13. Dívka jménem Flora
14. Matilda
15. Hvězda tvá, ta indiánská
16. V tomhle mrtvým buši
17. Já zapomněl víc, než ty vůbec o ní budeš znát
18. Pravda pravdoucí
CD 4 - MIREK HOFFMANN
1. U silnice E 55
2. Dívka s vlasem medovým
3. Pastor z Little Fort
4. Proklatej vůz
5. Byl jsem v country nebi
6. Mám kovboje cejch
7. Ať tě country pohladí
8. V buši je domov můj
9. Poslední přání
10. Dám si přes rameno pingl
11. Tisíc čárek
12. Má pýchu králů
13. Jó, to byl den
14. Chceš si vzít chlapa
15. Kytku růží jsem jí dal
16. Kuchař z Fowler’s Bay
17. Nejhezčí holku si brát
18. Tak Good by, adieu
The Mysteries of Cinema
People who saw the first moving pictures at the end of the nineteenth century were delighted by a new art that communicated without words - yet they were also alarmed to be witnessing events in a strange, mute, spectral realm, where the laws of time and space were suspended and magical transformations could occur. Some early commentators hailed cinema as a blessing and praised it for resurrecting the dead; others likened it to a hypnotic trance or a hallucinogenic drug. The medium has always been excited by speed, and it enjoys sending the body on furious kinetic chases; at the same time, it stealthily probes our minds, invading our dreams and titillating our desires. Although this is an art kindled by light and inflamed by colour, it is nurtured by darkness and can reduce life to an insubstantial shadow play. Either way, as Peter Conrad argues in this brilliant book, the movie camera has given us new eyes and changed forever our view of reality.
The Mysteries of Cinema sets out to map this ambiguous territory by taking readers on a thematic roller-coaster ride through movie history. Directors and critics speculate about the nature of cinematic vision, and there are contributions to the debate from writers like Kafka, Virginia Woolf and Joan Didion, artists including Salvador Dali, George Grosz and Fernand Leger, and the composers Arnold Schoenberg and Dmitri Shostakovich. The book begins from the audacious innovations of silent film, and examines the influence of French surrealism and German expressionism; it accounts for the appeal of Hollywood genres like the Western, the horror film and the musical, and ends by considering the fate of the moving image in our visually glutted society.
Combining contagious enthusiasm with an eye for the subjective quirks of filmmakers and the allure of favourite performers, Conrad delivers an astonishing addition to the literature on the seventh art.
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Movies of the 1970s
The 1970s: that magical era betwixt the swinging ’60s and the decadent ’80s, the epoch of leisure suits and Afros, the age of disco music and platform shoes. As war raged on in Vietnam and the Cold War continued to escalate, Hollywood began to heat up, recovering from its commercial crisis with box-office successes such as Star Wars, Jaws, The Exorcist, and The Godfather. Thanks to directors like Spielberg and Lucas, American cinema gave birth to a new phenomenon: the blockbuster.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, while the Nouvelle Vague died out in France, its influence extended to Germany, where the New German Cinema of Fassbinder, Wenders, and Herzog had its heyday. The sexual revolution made its way to the silver screen (cautiously in the U.S., more freely in Europe) most notably in Bertolucci’s steamy, scandalous Last Tango in Paris. Amid all this came a wave of nostalgic films (The Sting, American Graffiti) and Vietnam pictures (Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter), the rise of the antihero (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman), and the prestigious short-lived genre, blaxploitation.
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Nik Tendo - Restart & Lunazar CD
1 Já To Miluju
2 Není Limit
3 Nemůžu Spát ft. Kamil Hoffmann
4 Tempo ft. Ca$hanova Bulhar & Luca Brassi10x
5 Back Seat
6 Goyard ft. Yzomandias
7 Milujou Crew ft. Jickson
8 365247 ft. Koky
9 Hraješ Si Na Co ft. Viktor Sheen
10 Už Bylo Na Čase
11 Loyal ft. Robin Zoot & Young Leosia
12 Mix Emocí
13 Sbohem
14 6 Feet ft. Astralkid22
15 Nekonečný
16 Restart ft. Yzomandias
17 Back Seat (Metal Remix)
18 Už Bylo Na Čase (Decky Remix)
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
With this publication Aperture presents an elegantly updated and refreshed edition of the classic Henri Cartier-Bresson volume in the Aperture Masters of Photography series. With an introduction by notable curator Clément Chéroux, this edition includes new, image-by-image commentary and a chronology of this influential and iconic artist's life. Initially presented as the History of Photography series in 1976, the first volume of the Masters of Photography series featured Cartier-Bresson and was edited by legendary French publisher Robert Delpire, who cofounded the series with Aperture's own Michael Hoffman. This redesigned and expanded version honors the selection of images from the original series, which Cartier-Bresson himself created with Delpire, encapsulating the spontaneity and intuition for which this legendary photographer is so celebrated.
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A First Bible Story Book and A First Book of Prayers
Two beautifully illustrated books combined in one slipcase to make the perfect gift for a child's christening, First Communion, or birthday.A First Bible Story Book retells 13 specially selected stories from both the Old and New Testaments. Mary Hoffman's lively narratives preserve all the mystery, wonder, and excitement of the Bible, from Noah's Ark to The Last Supper.A First Book of Prayers features prayers to suit all occasions and is an inspirational book that the whole family can share and enjoy. Both books feature the charming illustrations of Julie Downing, which bring the best-loved characters and events to life and illustrate key themes.A perfect introduction to the Bible and its stories for young children ages 5 to 7.
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Stern Portfolio No. 73 Cinema
In 1975, the young Parisian photographer Brigitte Lacombe met Donald Sutherland and Dustin Hoffman at the Cannes Film Festival; these new acquaintances would go on to open doors for her. That same year she was hired as a photographer for the filming of Fellini's Casanova. Since then, Lacombe's famous images have reflected a who's who of Hollywood cinema. This collection spans a masterfully choreographed array of photographs Lacombe took-all the way from the sets of 1970s cinema classics to film milestones of the new millennium, including Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Conveying a certain intimacy without unmasking any mystery, Lacombe's images capture classical beauty in a way that is fresh and exciting.
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Crystal Cove
Justine Hoffman has made a safe and comfortable life for herself on the island of Friday Harbour but there is still something missing. Love. And after years of waiting and dreaming, she is willing to do whatever it takes to change her destiny. But when Justine discovers that someone cast a spell on her when she was born, with the result that she will never find her soul mate, she is determined to change her fate. But she could never have dreamt of the dangerous complications that will follow ...Meeting the mysterious Jason Black, Justine unleashes a storm of desire and danger that threaten everything she holds dear - because Jason has secrets of his own, and he wants more from her than fate will ever allow.
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Little Man, What Now?
From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany
'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks'
A young couple fall in love, get married and start a family, like countless young couples before them. But Lammchen and 'Boy' live in Berlin in 1932, and everything is changing. As they desperately try to make ends meet amid bullying bosses, unpaid bills, monstrous mothers-in-law and Nazi streetfighters, will love be enough?
The novel that made Hans Fallada's name as a writer, Little Man, What Now? tells the story of one of European literature's most touching couples and is filled with an extraordinary mixture of comedy and desperation. It was published just before Hitler came to power and remains a haunting portrayal of innocents whose world is about to be swept away forever. This brilliant new translation by Michael Hofmann brings to life an entire era of austerity and turmoil in Weimar Germany.
'An inspired work of a great writer ... Fallada is a genius. The "Little Man" is Mr Everybody' Beryl Bainbridge
'There are chapters which pluck the nerves...there are chapters which raise the spirits like a fine day in the country. The truth and variety of the characterization is superb...it recognizes that the world is not to be altered with moral fables' Graham Greene
'Fallada deserves high praise for having reported so realistically, so truthfully, with such closeness to life' Herman Hesse
'Fallada at his best' Philip Hensher
'Performs the most astounding task, of taking us to a moment before history' Los Angeles Review of Books
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Graphic Design Visionaries
Featuring 75 of the world's most influential designers, this book presents the story of graphic design through the fascinating personal stories and significant works that have shaped the field. Arranged in chronological order, the book shows the development of design, from early innovators such as Edward McKnight Kauffer and Alexey Brodovitch to key figures of mid-century Swiss Design and corporate American branding. The book profiles masters of typography, such as Wim Crouwel; visionary magazine designers, such as Leo Lionni and Cipe Pineles; designers who influenced the world of film, such as Saul Bass and Robert Brownjohn; and the creators of iconic poster work, such as Armin Hofmann, Rogerio Duarte and Yusaku Kamekura. Combining insightful text and key visual examples, this is a dynamic and richly illustrated guide to the individuals whose vision has defined the world of graphic design.
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1000 Chairs, updated version
More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designer. The particular curve of a backrest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the color of the entire artifact; each element reflects the stylistic consciousness of an era.
From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto to Verner Panton and Eva Zeisel, from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the history of the chair is so complex that it requires a comprehensive encyclopedic work to do it full justice. They are all here: Thonet’s bentwood chairs and Hoffmann’s sitting-machines, Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair and Ron Arad’s avant-garde armchairs. Early designers and pioneers of the modern chair are presented alongside the most recent innovations in seating.
This dedicated compendium displays each chair as pure form, along with biographical and historical information about the pieces and their designers. An illuminating tome for design aficionados and an essential reference for collectors!
Avedon: Murals&Portraits
No photographer had a more serious and deeply felt response to the political and cultural impact of the 1960s and early 1970s than Richard Avedon, whose iconic portraits of key figures of the era influenced the course of photography in the decades that followed. In four monumental photographic murals (reproduced in large gatefolds) and many related portraits, he portrayed Andy Warhol's gender-bending Factory, with Viva and Candy Darling; Abbie Hoffman and the radical agitators of the Chicago Seven; Allen Ginsberg's family, friends, and fellow artists; and the U.S. Mission Council in Saigon alongside searing portraits of victims of the Vietnam War.
The photographs are accompanied by images of archival material, including Avedon's diaries, correspondence, and contact prints. Major essays explore Avedon's penetrating incursions into the history and spirit of these tumultuous years.
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Dream Lake
Zoe Hoffman is as gentle and romantic as they come, and when she meets the startlingly handsome Alex Nolan, all her instincts tell her to run. But something about him intrigues Zoe, so she attempts to make Alex open his mind to the possibility that love isn't for the foolish. Alex Nolan is about as bitter and cynical as they come, battling his demons with the help of a whiskey bottle, until he is visited by a mysterious ghost. Has Alex finally crossed over the threshold to insanity? The ghost doesn't know who he is, or why he is stuck in the Nolans' Victorian house. All he knows is that he loved a girl once. And Alex and Zoe hold the key to unlocking the mystery that keeps him trapped there.
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Nejhledanější muž BD
V hamburské islámské komunitě se jedné noci objeví neznámý muž na pokraji smrti. Napůl Čečenec, napůl Rus, který má u sebe 500 dolarů a tajné informace o milionovém kontě v jedné soukromé bance. Jeho identita zůstává záhadou - je Issa terorista nebo oběť špinavých praktik mezinárodního zločinu? Když vyjde najevo, odkud pocházejí peníze na účtu, jeho život bude opět v ohrožení a začnou se o něj intenzivně zajímat všechny tajné služby.
Réžia: Anton Corbijn
Hrajú: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Nina Hoss, Robin Wright, Daniel Brühl, Homayoun Ershadi, Martin Wuttke, Grigorij Dobrygin
Zvukové normy: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Dĺžka: 122 min
Jazykové verzie: česká, anglická
Titulky: české
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