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Awake
‘I cannot think of a single person who wouldn’t find hope and inspiration in these pages.’ – Mel Robbins, author of The Let Them TheoryThe brutally honest New York Times bestseller.Perfect for fans of Untamed, Awake is a powerful memoir of self-discovery, authenticity and finding the courage to rethink and rebuild your life after heartbreak. A truly brilliant read, it’s also a fascinating account of a woman learning to question the rules of the oppressively patriarchal US church in which she grew up.At 2.30 am on July 11, 2020, author and mother-of-five Jen Hatmaker woke up to her husband of 26 years voice texting his girlfriend in bed next to her. Life as she knew it was over. In Awake, she scrutinises the toxic systems that led to the end of her marriage, sharing intimate, sometimes hilariously hard moments along the way.Beautifully written and shot through with deep emotion, this is a story of hope and resilience, of unpicking the past and challenging limitations around the kind of person you can be. It’s a love letter to friendship, family and the power of community, and a roadmap showing how to cope, survive, and even thrive when all seems lost.‘This book doesn’t just speak to your heart, it revives it.’ – Jenna Kutcher, author of How Are You, Really?
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Dark Squares: A cult leader, a child prodigy and the chess revolution
'A powerful memoir'Garry Kasparov'Heart-breaking, hilarious, ultimately transcendent'Jeannette Wall'Compelling and unique'Ben Mezrich'I haven't been this inspired by an underdog story in a long time'Bobby Hall (aka Logic)___________Educated meets The Queen's Gambit in this extraordinary memoir by International Master and Chess.com co-founder Danny Rensch, who describes his upbringing in an abusive cult - and how chess ended up saving his life.Born into the Church of Immortal Consciousness, Danny Rensch spent his childhood navigating the isolated confines of a cult. Despite psychological manipulation, physical abuse and neglect, he persevered. An international chess master and world-class commentator, Rensch's remarkable journey led him to being the face of Chess.com, one of the largest online gaming platforms in the world.With unflinching honesty, Rensch recounts his life, starting from the moment he discovered chess in the summer of 1995, all the way up to being at the centre of the investigation into the most explosive cheating scandal in chess history.He chronicles the traumas of being 'special' in a cult that forced separation from his mother. Mentored by an alcoholic Russian chess master, he found solace alongside suffering in his obsession with chess - an ancient game which became his only escape.Deeply heartfelt, keenly reflective and haunting, Dark Squares is the never-before-told story of Danny Rensch's resilience, survival, and his enduring love for the game that saved him.
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Příběh BLACKPINK - Neautorizovaný průvodce
Vše, co potřebuješ vědět o nejvýznamnější k-popové dívčí skupině! Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé a Lisa, profily členek, společné začátky, turné, alba, ale i sólové úspěchy... Projdi se časem a zjisti, jak BLACKPINK dobyly svět!
Stray Kids - Neautorizovaný průvodce, 2. vydání
Prozkoumej vzrušující cestu skupiny Stray Kids od jejich začátků po ohromující úspěch. Objev sílu jejich hudby, nezdolné odvahy a nekonečného talentu, který tě bude inspirovat stejně jako miliony fanoušků po celém světě. Seznámíš se s jednotlivými členy kapely a dozvíš se, komu by chutnala i smažená bota a komu fakt nejde randění. Kromě toho na tebe čeká spousta fotek a pikantností ze zákulisí!
Adrian Newey: Príbeh najslávnejšieho konštruktéra F1
Jeho monoposty vyhrávali a stále vyhrávajú. Navrhol autá pre najlepších jazdcov sveta minulého i tohto storočia a získal s nimi najviac titulov. No musel sa prizerať, ako v „jeho" formule zomiera po nevydarenej zákrute legendárny Ayrton Senna. Nežije však minulosťou - žije v prítomnosti a myslí na budúcnosť. Tvrdí, že „vidí" vzduch, ktorého prúdenie je jeho najväčší súper. Najslávnejší dizajnér Formuly 1 - Adrian Newey.
Ilustrovanú biografiu Adrian Newey dopĺňa 200 fotografií a niekoľko precízne spracovaných infografík, ktoré zachytávajú jeho výnimočnú kariéru.
Threads
From a Nottingham alleyway to a global empire, Threads is the story of a truly unique British fashion icon.‘I always say that you can find inspiration in everything. And if you can't, look again’ – Sir Paul SmithSir Paul’s journey has been anything but conventional: from leaving school at fifteen with a dream of being a professional racing cyclist to a life-altering accident that would change everything. After meeting the love of his life and immersing himself in the exciting new world of the 1960s London art and fashion scene, he would go on to build a global fashion empire that started off as a tiny shop tucked behind a dark, damp corridor in Nottingham.For the first time, and with his signature wit, Paul shares candid memories of a life in style, including what it was like to dress legends including David Bowie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Giorgio Armani and Sir Alex Ferguson; how he fought to keep his brand independent in a world of globalized homogeneity; and why, after five decades of success, you can still find him on the shopfloor every Saturday meeting his customers.Guided by his father’s advice of working hard and repairing everything by hand, Threads is more than a fashion memoir. It is a masterclass in how to stay curious, stay independent and always look for the extraordinary in the everyday.
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Night People
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘His storytelling is vivid, humorous, and refreshingly honest' DUA LIPA'Compelling, wry, self-aware, genuinely endearing' THE GUARDIAN‘A ride you have to take’ ZANE LOWE‘A heartfelt love letter to a bygone era’ BBC‘The most life-affirming coming-of-age story I’ve read in an age' PETE PAPHIDESDISCOVER MARK RONSON’S ELECTRIFYING MEMOIR ABOUT HIS DJ DAYS IN ‘90s NEW YORKMark Ronson was born a night person. With hedonistic creatives for parents, parties became his playground. Yet, having moved to New York City from London at a young age, he always felt like a bit of an outsider, until discovering himself in the pulsing, unifying joy of the city’s parties and hip-hop scene.
Each night brought a heady mix of music, ambition, danger, delight, and possibilities. Having well and truly caught the DJing bug, he worked to find his place and make his name in the city that never sleeps. Night People conjures the undeniable magic of '90s New York.
It evokes the rush of a time and place where fashionistas and rappers on the rise danced alongside club kids and 9-to-5'ers – and invites us into the tribe of creatives and partiers who came alive when the sun went down. A heartfelt coming-of-age tale, Night People is the definitive account of a cultural moment and the making of a musical mastermind.
Hope in Action
'A powerful guide to claiming your power and using it to build a better, more just world' – Hillary Rodham ClintonWhen Sanna Marin became prime minister of Finland at just thirty-four years old, she captivated the world’s attention with her progressive ideas and her boldness amidst major crises.In her powerful personal memoir Hope in Action, she shares the extraordinary journey of her trailblazing career, and her vision for a new kind of leadership.Marin’s story is one of resilience and hope. The first in her family to attend university, she broke barriers to become a global icon of progressive leadership. Her term as prime minister – the youngest in the world at the time – saw historic milestones, as she led Finland through the Covid-19 pandemic, and her government implemented many progressive reforms addressing climate change, social justice and equality. She helped the country navigate neighbouring Russia’s devastating full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Finland’s rapid joining of NATO – the swiftest entry for any country in the alliance’s history.Through vivid retellings of her experiences, Marin shares how she overcame significant political challenges, and how she coped with her personal life becoming public, including the incident that sparked a media frenzy and prompted women, including Hillary Clinton and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to express their support.Hope in Action is much more than a memoir – it’s a call to action as Marin urges the next generation of leaders to bring their full, authentic selves to the job. Her story is an empowering testament to the opportunities we have to effect real change in our worlds.
Hold Still
Where does the impulse to create come from? What are the forces that shape an artist’s work? This ground-breaking memoir, a unique interplay of narrative and image, charts the making of one of America’s greatest artists. As Sally Mann tells her story, her work’s preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South is revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her.Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder."In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own experience. This is the record of an artist’s life, and a meditation on place, people, family, and the nature of creativity itself.
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This Is for Everyone
A Waterstones and Financial Times Book of the Year 2025The instant Sunday Times bestseller‘Charming, clever, self-effacing, interesting and thoughtful’ – The Observer‘Visionary . . . Full of warmth and humanity’ – Kate Bush‘A remarkable book by a remarkable man’ – The Mail on SundayThe groundbreaking memoir from the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. This is the story of our modern age.The most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of visionary. Born in the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Berners-Lee famously shared his invention, the World Wide Web, for no commercial reward. Its widespread adoption changed everything, transforming humanity into the first digital species. Through the web, we live, work, dream and connect.In this intimate memoir, Berners-Lee tells the story of his iconic invention, exploring how it launched a new era of creativity and collaboration while unleashing a commercial race that today imperils democracies and polarizes public debate. As the rapid development of artificial intelligence heralds a new era of innovation, Berners-Lee provides the perfect guide to the crucial decisions ahead – and a gripping, in-the-room account of the rise of the online world.Filled with Sir Tim’s characteristic optimism, technical insight and wry humour, this is a book about the power of technology – both to fuel our worst instincts and to profoundly shape our lives for the better. This Is for Everyone is an essential read for understanding our times and a bold manifesto for advancing humanity’s future.‘Who is the greatest living Englishman? It would be hard to argue against the merits of Tim Berners-Lee’ – Stephen Fry
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Rowdy Girl
With raw honesty and vulnerability, Rowdy Girl illuminates the realities of animal agriculture through tracing the author’s journey from a poor upbringing to life as the wife of a Texas cattle rancher. Unable to reconcile the cruel realities of her husband Tommy’s business, Renee King-Sonnen begins to question some of society’s most basic assumptions about the animals we eat and the food systems we uphold. These questions spark a profound transformation—and a determination to save the very cattle her husband’s livelihood depends on. The couple’s opposing worldviews lead to escalating conflict, pushing their marriage to the brink. Seeking support, King-Sonnen connects with online vegan communities and launches a secret Facebook diary, The Vegan Journal of a Cattle Rancher’s Wife. With a growing following, she rallies support for an ambitious plan: buy Tommy’s herd, take over the ranch, and transform it into an animal sanctuary. The suspense peaks in December 2014, when Tommy agrees to sell her the cattle for $30,000—if she can raise the funds before they’re sent to slaughter. More than a memoir, Rowdy Girl is a story of spiritual awakening and ethical transformation. It reveals the shared ground between ranchers and vegans—a commitment to compassion, tradition, and sustainability—while challenging the foundations of animal agriculture. Through her deeply personal journey, King-Sonnen invites readers to consider their own relationship with animals, the food they eat, and the possibility of living with greater compassion.
Zápisky odstřelovače
Vzpomínky proslulého sovětského odstřelovače Zajceva, jehož osudy ztvárnil film Nepřítel před branami. Jeho Zápisky jsou považovány za nejlepší záznam o stalingradské bitvě z pera přímého účastníka bojů a představují klasické dílo válečné literatury.
Vagabond Soul
Vagabond Soul tells the story of a young woman who came of age in the Swinging Sixties and spent the next decade fearlessly traversing the globe in search of romance and adventure. While Carrie Evans’ first memoir, The Fun We Had, traces her peripatetic childhood and teaching career in ten countries, this second volume offers a thoughtful and intimate look at her personal life.Embracing the era’s ethos of Free Love, Carrie launches into adult life with exuberance, fearlessness and a touch of naivety. After reading this book, some may wonder how Carrie is still here to tell her tale. Her youthful adventures are full of risk-taking—some might say recklessness—as she hitches her way across the Continent and embarks on expeditions further afield, entering into many a romantic liaison along the way.Vagabond Soul is a vivid portrait of a life lived boldly. It is a testament to resilience, curiosity and the enduring appeal and consequences of choosing adventure over convention. At times you may be shocked, but you will certainly be entertained and amused as Carrie finds herself in extraordinary situations, only to emerge unscathed and triumphant.
Ultimátní průvodce Enhypen - Neautorizovaný průvodce
Jsi fanoušek ENHYPEN – nebo je teprve objevuješ? Tenhle ultimátní průvodce tě vtáhne do jejich světa! Poznej členy, jejich příběhy i největší hity a zjisti, proč si získali miliony ENGENE po celém světě.
Hannah Arendt
The long-awaited and revelatory biography of Hannah Arendt ? one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century ? and the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day.
Born in Germany in 1906 to a Jewish family, Hannah Arendt became a chronicler able to translate personal experience into concise analysis; an analytical thinker who wrested from Plato, Kant, and Heidegger that which seemed eternal yet was of the utmost contemporary relevance; a free spirit who felt an obligation only to her friends, her lovers, and the truth. Arendt's mode of thinking and the sheer range of her interlocutors and influences form an intellectual panorama of the twentieth century that is unparalleled. For her entire life, she refused to think within boundaries ? her teachers, friends, and intellectual allies included Heidegger, Bultmann, Mannheim, Brecht, and Benjamin, to name but a few.
Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents in both Germany and the USA, Thomas Meyer traces Arendt's journey from Königsberg to Paris ? where she fled after being imprisoned in 1933 ? and finally to New York in 1941, illuminating her formative years and the development of her radical and brilliant books, as well as her famous affair and lifelong philosophical debate with Martin Heidegger, whose Nazism was a permanent challenge to her.
Woman, friend, lover, journalist, Jew, human rights activist, philosopher and political theorist, Arendt continues to exert fascination as both icon and thinker. Meyer's biography centres on two pivotal phases: Arendt's years in Paris after fleeing Nazi Germany, and her time in the United States leading up to the landmark publication of The Origins of Totalitarianismin 1951. It was her coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961, however, that would make her world-famous ? and notorious. Her coining of the phrase *the banality of evil* to describe the Nazi bureaucrat who had helped orchestrate the Holocaust remains one of the most debated and resonant formulations in modern thought, as controversial today as when she first wrote it.
The result is not only a meticulous reconstruction of an extraordinary life but a compelling invitation to rethink her legacy for our own troubled times. At a moment of acute political polarisation, with liberalism in crisis and urgent debates about freedom, responsibility, and truth unfolding all around us, Arendt's ideas resonate more powerfully than ever ? and this magnificent biography restores to us the full complexity of the woman behind them.
Lindbergh : Shadows on the Wall. 45th Ed.
“What is merely beautiful has always bored me. I’m interested in what is powerful and real.” ?Peter LindberghWith such credits as shooting the first American Vogue cover under Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, bringing together for the first time a group of young women who would become the ’90s supermodels, and numerous solo exhibitions at world-renowned institutions including the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, and the Gagosian in London, Peter Lindbergh (1944–2019) was a master of his craft who made his mark in the halls of photography history.The industry quickly became enamored with his almost anti-fashion photography, capturing the zeitgeist and the spirit of his subjects rather than pursuing today’s search for perfection, which he considered inhuman.Handpicked from 37,000 unreleased photos from his groundbreaking 2017 Pirelli calendar shoot, Shadows on the Wall offers an intimate insight into a pool of extraordinary talent: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Charlotte Rampling, Dame Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Kate Winslet, Léa Seydoux, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz, Robin Wright, Rooney Mara, Uma Thurman, and Zhang Ziyi.Lindbergh’s message is simple. These intimate images represent a different kind of beauty, far away from society’s obsession with youth and perfection; one which is concerned with individuality, the courage to be yourself, and your very own sensibility.
John Berger
An illuminating new life of the peerless thinker, artist and author of Ways of SeeingTom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to the city of his birth, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerland and France. Curious about the origin of a piece of writing or art, Tom would scan something in and email it. Then there’d come a call, very early, very late. ‘Hello? Is that Tom? This is John. John Berger. Can I tell you a story?’ Tom realised he was bringing this archive back into John’s life, peering together through holes in time, remembering things he couldn’t himself. And then, at the beginning of 2017, John died.In this extraordinary new book, Overton explores the life and work of one of the great cultural figures of the last century, who came of age in a world threatened by nuclear apocalypse, and grew old in a world dominated by the idea that human life should be ordered with the logic of profit, always looking forward, never back. Berger’s work reimagined the relationship between art and technology; charted the disappearance of peasants from the world and documented migrant labour; explored with huge compassion the AIDS crisis; was trenchantly opposed to the new world order that emerged in the 1990s and the War on Terror and passionately committed to the Palestinian cause. There were so many different subjects to his work; so many precisely chosen forms. Cutting through the reverence that can build around any writer of his scope of achievement and drawing on both personal memory and a vast and previously unseen trove of material, Overton comes face to face with John Berger, showing the continued importance of a figure, whose work focused on the creating and recreating of communities past and present. For at the centre of this book, above all, is the idea that John Berger wants our company, and we need his.
Utolsó kenet
,,Kérdezgetik tőlem, hogy ha újrakezdhetném az egészet, mai fejjel máshogy csinálnék-e valamit. Hát kurvára nem. Tisztán és józanul nem lettem volna Ozzy. És akkor sem, ha normálisan és értelmesen viselkedek."
2018-ban a Sötétség hatvankilenc éves Hercege, Ozzy Osbourne utolsó turnéjára indult. Az arénákat sorra megtöltő, diadalmas búcsúkörút azonban váratlanul félbeszakadt, amikor az addig sokak által elpusztíthatatlannak hitt énekes egészségi állapota rohamosan romlani kezdett.
Ozzy most a rá jellemző nyers őszinteséggel és fekete humorral mesél hat éven át húzódó pokoljárásáról, az egyre súlyosabb betegségekkel folytatott küzdelméről. Mindeközben feleleveníti fordulatos életének megannyi őrült epizódját, több mint fél évszázados karrierjének legfontosabb állomásait is. A birminghami kezdetektől a milliós lemezeladásokon át egészen a 2025 nyarán megrendezett búcsúkoncertig követhetjük útját, ahol még egyszer, utoljára együtt zenélhetett a Black Sabbath többi alapító tagjával, és méltó módon, a színpadon köszönhetett el közönségétől.
Az Utolsó kenet a hard rock és a heavy metal legendás alakjának végső számvetése kalandos életével és halhatatlan életművével.
Jozef Gabčík. Človek, vojak, legenda
Keď sa povie Jozef Gabčík, väčšina z nás si predstaví vojaka v uniforme, agenta, odbojára, atentát, kryptu v kostole. A okamih, ktorý zmenil dejiny.
Odstránenie jedného z najmocnejších predstaviteľov nacistického Nemecka však nebolo otázkou jednej chvíľky, keď Gabčík s Kubišom splnili svoju misiu, ale výsledkom dlhých príprav, množstva rozhodnutí a náročného výcviku. Historik Martin Posch odhaľuje komplexný sled udalostí, ľudí na pozadí, zvraty a súvislosti, ktoré zasadzuje do širšieho kontextu nacistickej okupácie, fungovania domáceho i zahraničného odboja a politických okolností, bez ktorých by sa operácia Anthropoid nikdy nebola mohla uskutočniť. Sleduje Gabčíkovu cestu zo slovenského Poluvsia cez Francúzsku cudzineckú légiu, československé jednotky v zahraničí, vznik SOE a výcvikové strediská britskej tajnej služby v Škótsku až po odbojové siete v Protektoráte Čechy a Morava.
Príbeh Jozefa Gabčíka sa nezačína atentátom na Reinharda Heydricha. Je kombináciou odhodlania, chýb, nádeje, náhod aj obetí. Kto bol Jozef Gabčík pred tým, než sa stal súčasťou jednej z najodvážnejších operácií druhej svetovej vojny? Čo ho priviedlo k rozhodnutiu, z ktorého nebolo cesty späť? A čo o ňom vieme dnes – bez legiend, mýtov a ideologických nánosov? Autor vychádza z dobových prameňov, archívnych dokumentov aj osobných svedectiev a približuje Jozefa Gabčíka ako človeka z mäsa a kostí – syna, vojaka, priateľa aj veliteľa. Venuje sa aj tomu, ako ho vnímame dnes a ako sa pohľad naňho ako na národného hrdinu a symbol odvahy menil v čase.
dostupné aj ako:
Čítanie o slávnych osobnostiach je mnohokrát inšpirujúce. Motivujú nás biografie slávnych umelcov, známych hercov alebo významných politikov.
Absolútne prvou biografiou všetkých čias je zrejme Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, ktorú napísal grék Cornelius Nepos a opisoval v nej životy viacerých gréckych vojenských generálov. Neskôr mal už skoro každý významný vodca svoju biografiu, vrátane Cicera, Júliusa Cézara alebo Alexandra veľkého.
Pri čítaní životopisných kníh máme jedinečnú možnosť sledovať dlhú cestu, ktorú museli títo slávni ľudia prejsť. Uvidíme množstvo pádov a chýb, kvôli ktorým sa ale tieto osoby nevzdali a zobrali ich ako príležitosť zlepšiť sa vo všetkyćh oblastiach. Mnoho v sebe skrývajú aj úprimné rozhovory, ktoré sú často otvorenými vyznaniami a v tejto kategórii nájdete isto aj knihu o človeku, ktorého považujete za svoj vzor a je pre vás inšpiráciou.
Môžete si vybrať, či budete čítať o danej osobe z pohľadu iného človeka, alebo či siahnete po autobiografii. Obidve možnosti majú svoje čaro.
Je všeobecnou pravdou, že dobrá kniha môže ovplyvniť smerovanie nášho života. Pri biografickej literatúre to platí stonásobne, pretože v ruke držíme príbeh reálneho človeka, z ktorého môžeme čerpať mnoho inšpirácie a tipov.
Nájdete tu biografie z oblasti biznisu, filmu a hudby, histórie, literatúry, športu, mafie a podsvetia, náboženstva, politiky, osobností vedy a umenia.
