Hľadanie: Fire with Fire
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Stoicizmus pre vyrovnaný život
Žiť v modernom svete nie je ľahké. Trápia nás nízke platy, vysoké ceny v obchodoch, sme prepracovaní, máme problémy s duševným zdravím a dokonalé fotografie zo sociálnych sietí v nás vyvolávajú úzkosť. Valia sa na nás vojny, epidémie, klimatické krízy, a než sa nazdáme, zmietame sa vo víre ďalších katastrofických správ. Ako si poradiť v týchto náročných časoch?
Máme dobrú správu! Záchranou pred životnými neúspechmi a pohromami môže byť filozofia stoikov. Starovekí filozofi Seneca, Epiktétos a Marcus Aurelius hľadali odpovede na rovnaké otázky, aké trápia aj nás. V každodennom živote môžeme plne kontrolovať len tri veci: svoj charakter, svoje reakcie a to, ako sa správame k druhým. Uvedomenie si, že ostatné veci sú mimo našej kontroly, prináša v konečnom dôsledku úľavu a vnútorný pokoj. Stoicizmus vám pomôže zbaviť sa strachu a úzkosti a ukáže vám, ako sa stať silným človekom.
Obľúbená publicistka denníka The Guardian Brigid Delaney sa obracia k múdrosti stoikov, aby pochopila najhlbšie otázky týkajúce sa našej existencie. V tomto úprimnom diele, plnom srdečnosti, humoru a nadhľadu, skúma, ako žiť bohatý a zmysluplný život.
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Kniha obsahuje soubor editovaných rozhovorů s aktéry polistopadové transformace české ekonomiky, s deseti muži a jednou ženou, který je nejen reflexí samotného transformačního období devadesátých let 20. století, ale také zajímavou ukázkou prolínání velkých dějin a osobních kariérních trajektorií. Rozhovory zachycují širokou paletu zkušeností, od nejvyšší, rozhodovací úrovně (Fond národního majetku, ministerstva) přes reflexe účastníků privatizačního procesu a "transformujících" se manažerů dříve socialistických podniků až po nové podnikatele, kteří se chopili příležitosti a stali se majiteli a zakladateli firem. Výpovědi pamětníků jsou doplněny metodologickou statí a interpretační kapitolou, jež sleduje některé ze strategií "vyrovnávání se s minulostí", tedy jak si narátoři udržují symbolický odstup od negativních jevů doprovázejících dnešní obecné povědomí o transformaci a privatizaci.
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The Shadow Cabinet
All is not as it seems within the halls of Her Majesty’s Royal Coven…
Despite thinking they’ve thwarted the prophecy, the witches are still reeling from the events of the past few months.
Ciara now occupies her twin sister’s body as she prepares to take on the role of High Priestess. But why are the sinister government agents of the Shadow Cabinet so invested in her coronation?
And then there’s the small matter of Dabney Hale: freshly escaped from Grierlings prison, he’s on the hunt for a mythical object that will give him unimaginable power. Leonie’s brother is on the trail, but doesn’t know the danger he now faces, and so she sets off to bring him home and bring Hale to justice.
Meanwhile, Theo and Holly are left to their own devices. Theo to work out how her miraculous transformation took place and Holly to discover what’s going on with her mum and dad. Elle’s Instagram-perfect world is about to come crashing down in the most terrifying way.
Payback’s a witch as Ciara, Leonie, Elle, Theo and Holly are about to find out.
A Christmas Sermon
By the time this paper appears, I shall have been talking for twelve months; and it is thought I should take my leave in a formal and seasonable manner. Valedictory eloquence is rare, and death-bed sayings have not often hit the mark of the occasion. Charles Second, wit and sceptic, a man whose life had been one long lesson in human incredulity, an easy-going comrade, a manoeuvring king—remembered and embodied all his wit and scepticism along with more than his usual good humour in the famous "I am afraid, gentlemen, I am an unconscionable time a-dying."
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Blood Is The Life (EN)
A man visits his friend, a Scandinavian artist who lives in an old Italian villa. They go out on the balcony, enjoying the calm and beautiful night. Then the guest suddenly sees a strange mound of earth with a body next to it. The artist knows the story and it goes way back in time. Angelo and Cristina were a couple in love who did not get the chance to be together.
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B. J. Harrison Reads Fear and Was It A Dream? (EN)
A man’s beloved woman suddenly dies of pneumonia. He cannot cope with the loss and spends a whole night wandering around the cemetery searching for her. However, what he finds and sees there is far from what he expected. Would you feel fear after reading "Was It A Dream?"? Then it may be interesting for you to find out what the characters in Maupassant’s short story "Fear" have to say about it as well.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Yellow Wallpaper (EN)
A woman is suffering from severe postpartum psychosis and her husband takes her to a colonial mansion where they can spend the summer. The woman is however closed and isolated in a single room where her nervous depression gets worse with the time. The only thing she sees all day long is a yellow wallpaper which she studies in so many details that she finally finds a creeping woman behind the pattern.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (EN)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus reveals the story behind the man we all know. In this children's fantasy story, baby Claus is discovered in a forest by a supreme immortal and placed in the care of a lioness and later a wood nymph. Claus is kind towards children and spends his time making toys for them, but not everyone is pleased with his activities and will do all they can to make it stop.
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Bunton Emma - My Happy Place LP
KDO: Emma Bunton je britská zpěvačka, která se nejprve proslavila jako členka (Baby Spice) dnes již legendárních Spice Girls, než se v roce 2001 vydala na sólovou dráhu.
CO: V reedici na barevném vinylu vychází čtvrté studiové album „My Happy Place“ z roku 2019.
LP (transparent magenta vinyl)
1. A1 Baby Please Don't Stop
2. A2 I Wish I Could Have Loved You More
3. A3 Too Many Teardrops
4. A4 I Only Want to Be with You (feat. Will Young)
5. A5 Don't Call Me Baby
6. B1 You're All I Need to Get By (feat. Jade Jones)
7. B2 Come Away with Me (feat. Josh Kumra)
8. B3 Emotion
9. B4 2 Become 1 (feat. Robbie Williams)
10. B5 Here Comes the Sun
Intrinsic
We are in a motivational mess today.
Many of us feel like we are going through the motions - as workers, managers, spouses and partners, parents and citizens. We feel jaded and unhappy with the organizations we are part of, whether that's the company we work for or our child's school. And some of us feel deeply alienated from the wider societies in which we live, particularly in the face of vast social problems - from climate change to our increasingly 'winner takes all' world.
But life doesn't need to be this way. Motivation thinking holds the key to this promise. Intrinsic uses motivation thinking not just to accurately diagnose these problems, but to find solutions. As a leading expert on motivation, Sharath Jeevan helps us see how we can achieve more lasting fulfilment and success in our work, careers, relationships, parenting, and as citizens.
Jeevan applies the concepts of Purpose (how what we do helps others), Autonomy (our ability to positively change things) and Mastery (our sense of continually getting better) to help us see our motivation in these key life areas in a radically new light.
Jeevan takes us on a journey around the world to find practical and inspirational answers to solving our motivational crisis, harnessing ground-breaking research, from psychology and economics to philosophy and behavioural science.
Intrinsic shows us how we can fall back in love with our lives, and create the lives we want.
Touch of Death
The eighth step into the Darkness takes place on the American side of the Atlantic. It features two short stories by a single author – Texas native Robert Ervin Howard. Sadly enough, Howard died at age 30, but he still managed to create several immortal heroes – and was one of the founders of the now popular genre of heroic fantasy (along with J.
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Rebel Without A Bra
Planet Hy Man is in turmoil. Her leader lost on earth. Will Mex rise to the challenge or fade faster than her hair dye?
Mex is heading for the Edinburgh Festival in search of lost energy. Hot on her heels is Beryl, her leader who has already dropped Mex in it once and may do again. Beryl has a planet to save and an arch rival to beat. A feat made near impossible considering her arch-rival has taken over Beryl’s “operations room” along with every high- tech spying equipment going.
As time runs out Beryl turns to Mex. Mex having discovered gin hooks up with a troupe of performing transvestites, tosses her mobile to the wind, and delves into the seedier side of the festival. Saving Planet Hy Man could not be further from her mind if she was comatose.
Will Beryl convince Mex to sober up and save their planet or will Mex stick with the padded bras and all who wear them?
Rebel Without A Bra is the quirky second book in the Planet Hy Man science fiction comedy series. If you like high-mileage heroines, fast-paced satire, and meticulously crafted universes, then you’ll love Kerrie Noor’s otherworldly farce.
Buy Rebel Without A Bra to blast into a battle of the sexes today!
A cross between Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Alice in Wonderland and Red Dwarf, ?????
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The Sheikh Wanted Her Pregnant 1-3
Do Arab girls grow up wanting to be Cinderella? Or does their Cinderella story have a twist?Emma Cole didn’t know. She was an innocent, 22 year-old American and this was her first time in Dubai. The exotic land entranced her. The men, or more precisely, one man, took her breath away. She saw him on the day she arrived, and then her dreams and her coffee shop.Sheikh Nadeem was gorgeous and mysterious with eyes that devoured her. His allure was hypnotic. And pinned between his body and the wall, she could do nothing to resist him.“You will come with me tomorrow,” he demanded.“No, I will not,” she replied, even as she planned what she would wear.Italian sports cars, palaces, teasing, domination, being tied up, this was Nadeem’s world. Who was he? And what would this powerful man do to her?Do Arab girls want to be Cinderella? Emma didn’t know about them, but she did. What she got, though, was Cinderella with a twist. And it was that erotic twist that would change her life forever.'THE SHEIKH WANTED HER PREGNANT 1-3’ is the complete series and includes the #1 international bestsellers ‘The Sheikh Wanted Her Pregnant.’ The collection is for those who like sizzling breeding erotica and scorching Sheikh romance.
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Seducing an Heiress on a Train
Seducing an heiress has never been easier…
Roguish Oliver, Viscount Conway, desperately needs money to save his family’s estate from debt collectors, and he knows just what to do - marry an heiress. When he sets foot on a train leaving London, he bumps into Rayne, the most bewitching woman he’s ever met, and as luck would have it, she’s an American heiress. The woman swears she won’t marry, especially a fortune hunter. Oliver must win her for his bride at any cost, even if it means compromising the lady on a train and stealing her heart.
Avoiding fortune hunters has never been harder…
Rayne Egerton is happy to escape the New York ballrooms to travel with her father through England while he tends to business. What should have been an enjoyable Christmas vacation turns upside down with a moment of unexpected passion when a stranger in the cabin next to her steals a scorching kiss. The mysterious Lord Conway is everything that Rayne desires and fears in a man with his sinfully good looks, wicked smile and devastating kiss. As heiress to her father’s fortune, she isn’t going to give up her freedom for any man unless he can love her without her money. As the train rolls through snowy English countryside, she starts to wonder if Oliver may be the Christmas gift she’d been secretly hoping for.
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The Power of Regret : How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
'No regrets.' You've heard people proclaim it as a philosophy of life. That's nonsense, even dangerous, says Daniel H. Pink in his latest bold and inspiring work. Everybody has regrets. They're a fundamental part of our lives. And if we reckon with them in fresh and imaginative ways, we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose.
In The Power of Regret, Pink draws on research in psychology, neuroscience, economics and biology to challenge widely-held assumptions about emotions and behaviour. Using the largest sampling of attitudes about regret ever conducted from his own World Regret Survey - which has collected regrets from more than 16,000 people in 105 countries - he identifies the four core regrets that most people have. These four regrets, Pink argues, operate as a 'photographic negative' of the good life. By understanding what people regret the most, we can understand what they value the most. And by following the simple, science-based, three-step process that he sets out, we can transform our regrets in a positive force for working smarter and living better.
With Pink's signature blend of big ideas and practical takeaways, captivating stories and crisp humour, The Power of Regret offers an urgent and indispensable guide for a life well-lived.
Graciela Iturbide's Mexico - Photographs
Iturbide is modern Mexico's subtlest, most profound chronicler
Graciela Iturbide, best known for her iconic photographs of Mexican indigenous women, has engaged with her homeland as a subject for the past 50 years in images of great variety and depth. The intensely personal, lyrical photographs collected and interpreted in this book show that, for Iturbide, photography is a way of life--as well as a way of seeing and understanding Mexico, with all its beauties, rituals, challenges and contradictions.
The Mexico portrayed here is a country in constant transition, defined by tensions and exchanges between new and old, urban and rural, traditional and modern. Iturbide's deep connection with her subjects--among them political protests, celebrations and rituals, desert landscapes, cities, places of burial and Mexico's artistic heritage--produces indelible images that encompass dreams, symbols, reality and daily life.
Published to accompany the first major museum exhibition of Iturbide's work on the East Coast, this volume presents more than 100 beautifully reproduced black-and-white photographs, accompanied by illuminating essays inviting readers to share in Graciela Iturbide's personal artistic journey through the country she knows so intimately.
One of the most influential photographers active in Latin America today, Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide (born 1942) began studying photography in the 1970s with legendary photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Seeking "to explore and articulate the ways in which a vocable such as 'Mexico' is meaningful only when understood as an intricate combination of histories and practices," as she puts it, Iturbide has created a nuanced and sensitive documentary record of contemporary Mexico.
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Thunder - Laughing On Judgement Day (Blue & White) 2LP
KDO: Thunder je britská hard-rocková skupina, která vznikla v roce 1989 rozštěpením tehdejší formace Terraplane. Během devadesátých let se kapela proslavila hlavně v domovské Anglii, ale také v Japonsku.
CO: V rozšířené reedici vychází druhé album Thunder „Laughing On Judgement Day“ z roku 1992. Album bylo, stejně jako jeho předchůdce „Backstreet Symphony“ úspěšné u kritiky i fanoušků, vyšplhalo na druhou příčku britské hitparády a bylo oceněno zlatou deskou.
2LP
LP1
1. A1 Does It Feel Like Love? (2009 Remaster)
2. A2 Everybody Wants Her (2009 Remaster)
3. A3 Low Life in High Places (2009 Remaster)
4. A4 Laughing On Judgement Day (2009 Remaster)
5. B1 Empty City (2009 Remaster)
6. B2 Today the World Stopped Turning (2009 Remaster)
7. B3 Long Way from Home (2009 Remaster)
8. B4 Fire to Ice (2009 Remaster)
LP2
1. C1 Feeding the Flame (2009 Remaster)
2. C2 A Better Man (2009 Remaster)
3. C3 The Moment of Truth (2009 Remaster)
4. C4 Flawed to Perfection (2009 Remaster)
5. C5 Like a Satellite (2009 Remaster)
6. D1 Baby I'll Be Gone (2009 Remaster)
7. D2 A Better Man (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire London, 2005)
8. D3 The Moment of Truth (Live at Nottingham Rock City, 2011)
9. D4 Like a Satellite (Live at Sheffield City Hall, 2007)
Czechoslovakia Exiled
It is the best-run and highest-quality Czech newspaper in the entire free world. With these heart-warming words Jiří Voskovec belauded Hlas domova, the exile periodical issued by František Váňa in remote Australia for almost three decades. And yet, this book is about more than just Hlas domova; it is also about the rise of an alternative Czechoslovak exile centre in Melbourne. If the Council of Free Czechoslovakia aspired to be an umbrella organisation coordinating exile activities throughout individual countries, its disunity and the constant infighting that characterised this organisation gradually led to an erosion of confidence and a steep decline in its authority in the eyes of the entire political diaspora. This naturally led to the heavy atomisation of exiles around the world and to the emergence of several power centres of Czechoslovak exile life, with Melbourne gaining prominence thanks to the strong community of Czechoslovaks and especially as the result of František Váňa and his associates activities. In a certain sense, Váňa was the ideal exile, a kind of reference figure in the Czech exile community, someone you could compare to only a few dozen equally versatile, generally recognised and selflessly working individuals (Ferdinand Peroutka, Pavel Tigrid and Josef Škvorecký, to name a few), although they generally enjoyed better starting conditions than their colleague in inhospitable and isolated Australia.
How I Built This
The number one Wall Street Journal Business Book Bestseller and Top 10 New York Times Bestseller
'A must-read for anyone who wants to start a business, grow a business, or be inspired by those who do' - Adam Grant, author of Originals
Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, his book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world's top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch and build a successful venture.
Great ideas often come from a simple spark: a football player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country produces and figures out a way to turn it into shoes (Allbirds). A former Buddhist monk decides the very best way to spread his mindfulness teachings is by launching an app (Headspace). A sandwich cart vendor finds a way to reuse leftover pita bread and turns it into a multimillion-dollar business (Stacy's Pita Chips).
Award-winning podcast creator Guy Raz has interviewed more than 200 highly successful innovators from across the world, from the founders of Five Guys, Airbnb and Bumble to James Dyson and Reed Hastings of Netflix, to uncover amazing true stories like these. In How I Built This, he shares tips for every entrepreneur's journey: from the early days of formulating your idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to finding your market and, finally, to paying yourself a real salary. This is a must-read for anyone who has ever dreamed of starting their own business or wondered how trail-blazing go-getters made their own dreams a reality.