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Pity the Nation
Account of war in the late-20th century both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this book combines political analysis and war reporting: it is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over a decade. Fisk's book recounts the details of a terrible war but it also tells a story of betrayal and illusion, of Western blindness that had led inevitably to political and military catastrophe. Fisk's book gives us a further insight into this troubled part of the world.
Companies Built to Last
Are you the driving force behind your company's success?
As an entrepreneur, business owner, CEO, director, or manager, you shoulder the responsibility for your organisation's growth and sustainability. It's a challenging role, and even the best of us occasionally ask ourselves: Am I doing everything right?
Companies Built to Last is the follow-up to the No. 1 bestseller The Seven Laws of Guaranteed Growth. This book introduces the Bitsing method, a scientifically proven system developed over the past 30 years. In just seven straightforward steps, you'll learn how to guide your organisation toward its goals while avoiding the common pitfalls that trip others up.
Whether you're leading a large multinational or running a smaller business, this book provides a practical, hands-on guide to embedding the Bitsing method into your everyday operations. With real-world examples, actionable tools, and expert tips, you'll have everything you need to ensure long-term success. The seven-step method will help you, for instance, make more informed decisions about your business positioning, marketing investments, and sales growth.
But Companies Built to Last isn't just about achieving success-it's about building a business that people genuinely want to be part of. It's about creating a company that not only drives profit but also has a positive impact on society and the environment. It's about building something you can be truly proud of.
Let's transform your business-forever.
The Complete Creative Director
Creative directors are often thrust into leadership roles with little practical guidance. The result? Stress, costly mistakes, missed opportunities-and sometimes, a team that's far from inspired. As the role becomes more demanding, the need for clear, actionable advice is more urgent than ever.
The Complete Creative Director is here to fill that gap, offering essential tools to help you lead with confidence and creativity. This is the first comprehensive manual for creative directors, providing straightforward advice that you can easily incorporate into your daily routine. It will help you understand exactly what's expected of you as a creative and give you the confidence to meet those expectations.
You'll gain a solid grasp of best practices while learning to adapt them to fit your unique style and personality. The book also offers techniques for managing anxiety, so you can approach your role with focus and authority. You'll discover how to build strong relationships-both inside and outside your organisation-while fostering a creative culture.
Additionally, you'll learn how to develop a thriving creative department, master pitches, and effectively engage with the commercial side of the business. Ultimately, this book will make you more resilient in the face of setbacks, adaptable to constant change, and better equipped to focus on what truly matters: delivering exceptional creative work.
Conversational Design
Designers in public organizations face the challenges of managing influential stakeholders, shifting priorities, and the complexities of drafting and implementing policy. Often, they lack the headspace to think deeply about designing for effective public engagement.
"Conversational Design" helps designers within public and social organizations improve co-design and informed decision making practices. The book offers practical tools and case studies to stimulate participation and foster better conversations, all aimed at achieving shared goals. It also provides a fresh perspective on consolidating data from civic conversations into actionable insights for policymakers. This critical, often overlooked step ensures that citizen voices have a stronger impact on design and policymaking processes.
By presenting a novel understanding of design, this book serves both practitioners and scholars of design, as well as professionals in related fields that use objects and tools to shape social situations. It guides readers in making informed decisions on complex social challenges.
Everything is a Prototype
Ever wondered why some people seem to thrive on the unknown while others struggle? Unlock the secret to innovation with "Everything is a Prototype." This guide dismantles the fear of failure, redefining it as a stepping stone to success in any field. It reveals how historical misunderstandings about making mistakes have stifled creativity and offers a new perspective: deliberate error-making as a pathway to genius.
The book provides insights and tools for embracing experimentation, leading to breakthroughs in any field, making it a must-have for those seeking personal and professional growth. Its approachable content ensures that readers at all levels can grasp the transformative concepts within.
"Written with clarity, humour, and deep insight into how we learn through experimentation, this book will help you explore new ideas fearlessly, seize endless second chances, and boost your chances of success in any endeavour. You'd be crazy not to read it." Jake Knapp (Author Sprint and Make Time)
Writing is not Magic, it's Design
Designers are visual thinkers: they are used to sketches, not drafts, and rely on visuals instead of words. As a result, writing is a strange skill for a designer, leading to blank-page anxiety and procrastination. But no more! This book helps designers overcome the challenge of communicating with words.
It introduces a writing method that fits how designers think, guiding them in clarifying thoughts, breaking down complex ideas into manageable pieces, and using writing to spark new ideas. Writing is a communication problem at its core: the writer knows something the reader doesn't and must show it using words. So, like design, writing should be simple, clear, and precise.
By mastering the craft of writing, designers shape more than just sentences; they shape thoughts. Writing is a journey into harnessing the human mind's ability to generate insights. And while writing may look like a skill, it's a creative superpower, and - thanks to his book - one anyone can master!
Relation of Elements
Discover a new way to explore three-dimensional design and architecture using prepositions.
"Relation of Elements" explores the role of prepositions in architecture and design, a part of speech often overlooked when describing and designing architecture. The book demonstrates how language can shape our understanding of objects and spaces and allows you to discover new ways to shape and define space.
The book aims to inspire architects and designers to think creatively by manipulating prepositions and exploring the connections between different composition and structure elements. By making subtle changes to the prepositions used in describing design problems, one can introduce novelty and improvements in the outcome of a project.
Contingent Agencies
Contingent Agencies is an artistic research project initiated by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer. It is dedicated to the dynamic relationship between human and nonhuman forces as conditions for the emergence of atmospheres. The cross-disciplinary investigation utilizes practices of notating, reflecting, showing, and sharing that are employed in different media and within different theoretical contexts such as phenomenology, enactivism, and new materialism. This book, which is supplemented by an extensive online archive, contains numerous research artifacts such as texts, drawings, photo series, diagrams, sound recordings, and video stills and is intended as an invitation to a wider community to participate in this investigation.
Green Building Envelopes
In the face of climate change, architecture must transcend traditional boundaries to address pressing environmental and social challenges.
This volume explores the transformative potential of a visionary approach that seamlessly integrates plants and greenery into architectural design. By redefining buildings as living systems, these concepts enhance air quality, provide acoustic insulation, optimize energy efficiency, and create thriving oases of biodiversity.
From lush rooftop gardens to verdant façades and planted interiors, the featured projects showcase how innovative architects and designers are reimagining the relationship between nature, people, and the built environment. The book highlights the diverse ways organic resources are being incorporated into contemporary constructions and how they serve as independent planning elements and design features, often in synergy with cutting-edge building technologies. With case studies from around the globe, this book celebrates the beauty, functionality, and necessity of green building envelopes in shaping sustainable, vibrant cities.
Eat the Ones You Love
A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh from the acclaimed author of Spare and Found Parts and Other Words for Smoke.
During a visit to her local shopping mall, Shell Pine sees a ‘HELP NEEDED’ sign in a flower shop window. She’s just left her fiancé, lost her job, and moved home to her parents’ house. She has to bring some good into her life, so she takes a chance. And flowers are just the good thing she’s been looking for, as is Neve, the beautiful florist. The thing is, Neve needs help more than Shell could possibly imagine.
An orchid growing in the heart of the mall is watching them closely. The beautiful florist belongs to him, and he’ll do just about anything to make sure he can keep growing big and strong. Nothing he eats— nobody he eats—can satisfy him, except the thing he most desires. Neve. He will stop at nothing to eat the one he loves.
Infused with wit, heart and horror, this is a story about possession, monstrosity and working in retail. It is about hunger and desire, and other terrible things that grow.
Bliss Montage
What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. From a woman who lives in a house with all of her ex-boyfriends, to a toxic friendship built around a drug that makes you invisible, to an ancient ritual that might heal you of anything if you bury yourself alive, these and other scenarios reveal that the outlandish and the everyday are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly similar.
Crooked Plow
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller’s unique blend of magic and social realism won it three literary awards and global acclaim
‘I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'”Say something!” she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand.’
Deep in Brazil’s neglected Bahia hinterland, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother’s bed and, momentarily mystified by its power, decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together forever.
Heralded as a new masterpiece, this fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil’s poorest region, three generations after the abolition of slavery, is at once fantastic and realist, covering themes of family, spirituality, slavery and its aftermath, and political struggle.
Lonely Planet England 13
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to England.
Discover England's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from hiking the epic clifftops of the Seven Sisters from Beachy Head to Eastbourne; to enjoying a tipple of scrumpy cider, freshly pressed from the apple orchards of central and south Somerset; and exploring the gaudy graffiti and political street-art murals of Brick Lane and Shoreditch in London.
Build a trip to remember with Lonely Planet's England travel guide:
Our classic guidebook format contains the most comprehensive level of information for planning multi-week trips
All-new structure and design that's easy to use so you can navigate England effortlessly
Exciting itineraries help you create your perfect adventure with suggestions for extended journeys, day trips, walking tours and activity-led excursions
Expert local recommendations on eating, drinking, nightlife, shopping, accommodation, festivals, when to go and more
Vibrant photography and maps including a pull-out map of London
Get fresh takes on must-visit sights from Cutty Sark to Stonehenge and Royal Sandringham Estate
Essential information toolkit containing tips on arriving, transport, local etiquette, using money, LGBTIQ+ travel advice, useful words and phrases, accessibility and responsible travel
Connect with English culture through stories that delve deep into local life, history and traditions
Covers: London; Canterbury & Southeast England; Oxford, the Cotswolds & the Thames Valley; Bristol, Bath & Southwest England; Devon & Cornwall; Cambridge & East Anglia; Birmingham & the Midlands; Yorkshire; Manchester, Liverpool & Northwest England; The Lakes, Cumbria & the Northeast
Create a trip that's uniquely yours and get to the heart of this extraordinary country with Lonely Planet's England.
Bob Marley - Little People, Big Dreams
Discover the inspirational story of Bob Marley, the man who moved the world with his music and inspired generations with his message of peace, love and hope.
Born to a Black mother and a white father, little Bob learned at a very young age that life could be difficult for reasons that don't make sense. He was often bullied for the colour of his skin, but he never let unkindness harden his heart; instead, he dreamt of a world where everyone could belong.
At twelve years old he moved to the sunny Caribbean town of Kingston and promptly fell in love with Ska, a popular style of music indigenous to Jamaica, and spent years writing songs and taking guitar lessons to hone his skills. And then? Bob Marley and the Wailers were born!
From then on, Bob began to practise Rastafari beliefs, and through Reggae used their lyrics and melodies to fight for social justice and advocate for peace. Before long, his songs were spreading a message of unity across the world.
Bob Marley was, and is, a cultural icon, whose work and message remain as relevant as ever. His story demonstrates the power of music as a force for good and the joy to be found when we open our hearts to others.
This powerful book features quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the musician and activist's life.
Little People, BIG DREAMS is a bestselling biography series for children that explores the lives of outstanding individuals, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. Each of them achieves incredible things, yet they all began life as a child with a dream.
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Učiteľka na dôchodku Julija Votčer najprv dvíhala na Majdane mobily nebohých demonštrantov a oznamovala smutnú správu ich príbuzným. Potom založila organizáciu Moľfar a dodnes vozí na front potraviny, šatstvo, technológie i lieky pre vojakov.
Gréckokatolícky kňaz Vasyľ Ivaňuk odšoféroval v prvý rok vojny s humanitárnou pomocou pre civilistov i vojakov 80-tisíc kilometrov. Dnes sa pravidelne vracia na Donbas, aby slúžil liturgie a ďalej distribuoval pomoc.
Učiteľka francúzštiny Anna Zajcevová prežila s niekoľkomesačným synom Svjatoslavom a rodičmi 65 dní v podzemí Azovstaľu, jej manžel skončil ako vojak v ruskom zajatí.
Vysokoškolský pedagóg Ihor Kozlovskyj šiel vysypať smeti a skončil ako politický väzeň na 700 dní v pivničnej kobke. Oleksandr Sarabun prežil ilovajské peklo a na front sa vrátil s protézou.
Aj to sú hrdinovia časozberných reportáží Stanislavy Harkotovej, ktorá mapuje dianie na Ukrajine priamo v teréne už od roku 2015. Správu o ruskej invázii sa dozvedela cestou vo vlaku do Kramatorska. Na vojnou sužovaných územiach strávila súvisle niekoľko mesiacov. Jej knižný debut Ešte sme nezomreli je správou o ľuďoch vo vojne, ktorú ilustrujú fotografie oceňovaného fotografa Juraja Mravca.
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AI: Umelá inteligencia
V krátkom čase dokáže spracovať informácie obsiahnuté v tisíckach článkov, kníh či umeleckých diel a vygenerovať text, obraz alebo pieseň. Expresne rýchlo zvláda vyhodnotiť genetické či molekulárne informácie a pomôcť pri hľadaní nových liekov na doteraz neliečiteľné choroby. V reálnom čase spracúva astronomické dáta z teleskopov a posúva ľudstvo bližšie k nájdeniu odpovede na to, ako vznikol vesmír. V budúcnosti by mohla riadiť robotické misie na Mars, prispieť k predĺženiu života, pomáhať so vzdelávaním detí bez ohľadu na ich predispozície a sociálny status, dohliadať na našu bezpečnosť či upratovať naše domácnosti.
Umelá inteligencia je fenomén, ktorý zásadným spôsobom mení takmer všetky oblasti nášho života: od medicíny, vedy, vzdelávania a umenia cez podnikanie i pracovný trh až po (kyber)kriminalitu či vyšetrovanie zločinov. Jej súčasny´ vy´voj má však aj svoje limity. Trénovanie a prevádzka modelov umelej inteligencie sú vy´počtovo i finančne extrémne náročné. Spotrebúva sa pritom také množstvo energie, že firmy špecializujúce sa na danú oblasť zvažujú vy´stavbu vlastny´ch jadrovy´ch reaktorov. Zároveň stále existujú úlohy, s ktory´mi si dnešná AI nevie poradiť.
Prostredníctvom série tematických rozhovor, ktoré viedli redaktori rešpektovaného technologického portálu Živé.sk Filip Hanker, Ján Trangel a Maroš Žofčin, tak nazriete pod povrch revolučného fenoménu. A cez prizmu expertov a expertiek na danú problematiku nahliadnete do budúcnosti, ktorá bude spätá s umelou inteligenciou a robotmi. Pridanou hodnotou knihy sú prehľadné súpisy najzaujímavejších trendov pre oblasti, ako sú nielen medicína, výskum vesmíru, podnikanie či trh práce, ale aj etika, právo, kybernetická bezpečnosť alebo vplyv AI na deti i mládež. Ďalším praktickým bonusom je slovník pojmov a skratiek, v ktorom autori knihy zrozumiteľným jazykom vysvetľujú potrebnú terminológiu. Sériu rozhovorov ilustrujú umelecké fotografie respondentiek a respondentov z dielne fotografov redakcie Aktuality.sk a vydavateľstva Ringier Slovakia Media, s. r. o.
Kniha Umelá inteligencia: Pripravte sa na budúcnosť je unikátnym pohľadom na fenomén AI hneď z viacerých dôvodov. Je prvou knihou slovenskej proveniencie, ktorá dala dokopy špičkových slovenských odborníkov a odborníčky i zástupcov podnikateľskej sféry, aby ponúkli vlastný pohľad na život v ére AI. O najnovších trendoch, možných scenároch pre budúcnosť i rizikách umelej inteligencie hovorí 16 autorít z oblasti vedy, právnej či medicínskej praxe alebo podnikania, ktorí sa dokážu pozrieť na obe strany pomyselnej mince. Nazrite vďaka nim pod povrch revolučného fenoménu a nahliadnite do budúcnosti, ktorá bude spätá s umelou inteligenciou a robotmi.
Pripravte sa na budúcnosť s najnovšou knihou vychádzajúcou pod hlavičkou Živé.sk a Aktuality.sk, do ktorej prijali pozvanie nasledujúci hostia a hostky: Mária Bieliková, Michal Valko, Štefan Korec, Žofia Chrobáková, Vanda Benešová, Jozef Rodina, Daniela Vacek, Miroslav Chlipala, Michal Gregor, Radoslav Balajka, Zuzana Juráneková, Lukáš Hlavička, Marek Rosa, Ivana Molnárová, Dalibor Cicman a František Novák.
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Vymotávač
Čo všetko sa dá dosiahnuť pomocou dokonale pripravenej psychologickej manipulácie? Sú akcie a zľavy skutočne také výhodné, alebo je to len dômyselný trik obchodníkov? A prečo sme ochotní odovzdať svoje celoživotné úspory do rúk neznámym ľuďom?
Manipulatívne techniky ovplyvňujú naše konanie a život ako taký, pričom si to mnohokrát ani neuvedomujeme, keďže sú sofistikovane zaobalené do priateľsky pôsobiacich a ego hladkajúcich podôb.
Vymotávač približuje bežne využívané prefíkané praktiky, stratégie, psychologické hry či nástroje založené na psychometrickom marketingu, a to prostredníctvom rozporuplného osobného príbehu hlavného hrdinu Tommyho Adamsa, obchodníka ponúkajúceho pochybné finančné produkty cez telefón. Aj keď sú jeho praktiky mimoriadne neférové, nápadne sa podobajú marketingovým kampaniam obľúbených svetových značiek a obchodov.
Kniha ťa prevedie neľútostným svetom manipulácií, pričom rozoberá viaceré etické a morálne otázky, no zároveň zodpovie aj tú najdôležitejšiu: Ako sa ubrániť voči manipulatívnym technikám, ktoré na nás striehnu na každom kroku?
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Sicilské dědictví
Sara Marsalová neví, co si počít. Její podnikání i manželství ztroskotaly, a navíc přišla o milovanou pratetu. Rosiina smrt však Saře nabízí únikovou cestu na Sicílii, kam se musí vydat, aby prodala cenný pozemek a také vypátrala, co se stalo s Rosiinou matkou, Sařinou prababičkou Serafinou. Ta kdysi neodcestovala do Ameriky s manželem, ale zůstala v Itálii, kde nakonec také zemřela – nebo byla zavražděna? Sara na malebném sicilském venkově postupně odhaluje osud svéhlavé Serafiny, dozvídá se o jejím boji za lepší život jak pro sebe, tak pro ostatní ženy ve svém okolí, a o nebezpečí, kterému se vystavovala svou neochotou přizpůsobit se konvencím.
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Eleonora z Avignonu
Roku 1347 je Elea Blanchet uznávanou porodní bábou a bylinkářkou, ale musí jednat obezřetně – stačí málo, aby dopadla jako její matka. Když se však náhodou setká s věhlasným papežovým osobním lékařem Guyem de Chauliacem, dostane nečekanou příležitost stát se jeho učednicí. Její nový svět plný poznání a prestiže však brzy ohrozí mor pustošící Evropu. Navíc do Avignonu přijíždí královna Johana Neapolská, obviněná z vraždy manžela, a Elea se stává její porodní bábou. Jak mor postupuje a město zachvacuje strach, začíná hon na čarodějnice – a Elea se ocitá v nebezpečí. Historický román <i>Eleanora z Avignonu</i> je strhujícím a pozoruhodným příběhem o ženě, jež odmítá přijmout omezení své doby, a ukazuje, že vždy má cenu vzepřít se nepřízni osudu.
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