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Two-Dimensional Man
Paul Sahre ranks alongside modern-day design heroes Stefan Sagmeister and Chip Kidd as one of the most influential graphic designers of his generation. Two-Dimensional Man is a fresh take on the traditional design monograph: part memoir, part art book, part meditation on creativity. Throughout, Sahre combines poignant personal essays about living creatively with artwork culled from his extraordinary 30-year career. In his revealing stories, Sahre portrays the creative life as one of constant questioning, inventing, failing, dreaming, and-ultimately-making. In Two-Dimensional Man, Sahre documents how moments like these have informed his life as a designer and artist, and proves that humour and meaning can be found anywhere, if you're only willing to look.
Nick Cave - Mercy on Me
"Reinhard Kleist, master graphic novelist and myth-maker has - yet again - blown apart the conventions of the graphic novel by concocting a terrifying conflation of Cave songs, biographical half-truths and complete fabulations and creating a complex, chilling and completely bizarre journey into Cave World. Closer to the truth than any biography, that's for sure! But for the record, I never killed Elisa Day." - Nick Cave
Musician, novelist, poet, actor: Nick Cave is a Renaissance man. His wide-ranging artistic output always uncompromising, hypnotic and intense is defined by an extraordinary gift for storytelling. Employing a cast of characters drawn from Cave's music and writing, Reinhard Kleist's graphic novel, Nick Cave: Mercy On Me, paints an expressive and enthralling portrait of a formidable artist and influencer. Kleist captures Cave's childhood in Australia; his early years fronting The Birthday Party; the sublime highs of his success with The Bad Seeds; and the struggles he encountered along the way to self expression. Nick Cave: Mercy on Me, like Cave's songs, is by turns electrifying, sentimental, morbid and comic but always engrossing.
Průkopník letecké dopravy Josef Sedlář
Zakládající kádr pilotů Československých státních aerolinií nebyl příliš široký, první zmínky o budoucích pilotech lze nalézt v březnu 1923, kdy velitelé leteckých pluků dostali úkol nominovat po šesti zkušených a spolehlivých rotmistrech. Z návrhů velitelů pluků major Holeka vybral celkem 19 pilotů, kteří přicházeli v úvahu pro provozování letecké dopravy. V pravidelném provozu ČSA koncem roku 1923 potom najdeme šest pilotů, jmenovitě rotmistry Josefa Sedláře, Tomáše Galinovského, Karla Brabence, Františka Výborného, Bohuslava Hrazdila a Karla Dovolila.
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Jiří Kajínek - Můj život bez mříží
Nové vydání autentického vyprávění JIŘÍHO KAJÍNKA, propuštěného díky milosti udělené prezidentem republiky, o svém dětství, dospívání, láskách, zálibách, o vztahu k lidem, ke svobodě… Nově je do knihy zařazena fotografie originálu milosti prezidenta republiky a fotografie pořízené na svobodě (na Karlově mostě).
Nové vydání autentického vyprávění JIŘÍHO KAJÍNKA, propuštěného díky milosti udělené prezidentem republiky, o svém dětství, dospívání, láskách, zálibách, o vztahu k lidem, ke svobodě… Nově je do knihy zařazena fotografie originálu milosti prezidenta republiky a fotografie pořízené na svobodě (na Karlově mostě).
Nové vydání autentického vyprávění JIŘÍHO KAJÍNKA, propuštěného díky milosti udělené prezidentem republiky, o svém dětství, dospívání, láskách, zálibách, o vztahu k lidem, ke svobodě… Nově je do knihy zařazena fotografie originálu milosti prezidenta republiky a fotografie pořízené na svobodě (na Karlově mostě).
V závěru knihy je příslib vydání druhé knihy o tom, co bylo dál…, o vězení a samozřejmě o životě po propuštění na svobodu.
V prvom roku nového tisícročia
Autor prináša čitateľovi ďalšie voľné pokračovanie literárneho spracovania jeho denníkových záznamov, zachytávajúcich jeho vnútorné prežívanie prvého roku tohto tisícročia.
Titul voľne nadväzuje na pred časom vydané tituly autora:
V dotyku s Pavlom Straussom VII.,
V dotyku s Pavlom Straussom X.,
Posledný rok,
V jubilejnom roku 2000.
Dielo autor venoval nadchádzajúcim nedožitým 90-tým narodeninám Milana Rúfusa a Závažnej Porube „...ktorú nám on urobil Naveky Závažnou.“.
It Takes a Tribe
Tough Mudder is not a race. It's a challenge.Unlike other endurance events, Tough Mudder encourages team spirit. The course's design forces you to seek help from others and with twenty obstacles, forty tons of ice and five hundred thousand litres of Grade-A mud set over ten to twelve miles, you're going to need it.This revival of community is the key to the company's success. In It Takes a Tribe, co-founder and CEO Will Dean explores the mental, physical and social principles behind the experience and reveals how he built a global tribe. Arguing for clear principles, bravery and persistence, Dean shows a new generation of entrepreneurs why it's important to create a brand that people identify with and love.It Takes a Tribe is the astonishing inside story of Tough Mudder, and a textbook for anyone looking to start a business or find more followers.'Gripping - reveals what it takes to stand by your values' ADAM GRANT, Wharton professor and bestselling author of Originals and co-author of Option BWill Dean is co-founder and CEO of Tough Mudder. Will was included in Fortune's '40 Under 40' list and received the US National EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Emerging Award. He was born in the UK and is a graduate of the University of Bristol and Harvard Business School. Prior to founding Tough Mudder, he worked as a counter-terrorism officer at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He divides his time between London and New York
Unstoppable - My Life So Far
The fiercely honest, fearless, darkly funny autobiography of global tennis star Maria Sharapova
In the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. They ring the bell, though no one is expecting them and they don't speak English. They have arrived from Russia with just seven hundred dollars and the conviction that this six-year-old girl will be the world's next great tennis star. They are right.
This is Maria Sharapova's gripping and fearless autobiography, telling her story from her roots in the small Siberian town her parents fled to after the Chernobyl disaster, through her arrival in the US with nothing and her phenomenal rise to success - winning Wimbledon aged just seventeen - to the disasters that threatened her career and her fight back. Here the five-time Grand Slam winner gives us candid insights into her relationship with her father, who gave up his job and life in Russia to dedicate himself to his daughter; the truth behind her famous rivalry with Serena Williams; the injuries and suspension controversy that threatened to end it all; and her recent battle to get back on court.
Told with the same combative, no-holds-barred attitude as her game, it's a story of crazy luck, mistakes, rivalries, sacrifice, survival and, above all, the constant, unwavering determination to win.
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Pedagog, filozof, politik, první československý prezident. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk je osobnost, která se nesmazatelně zapsala nejen do našich dějin. Tato unikátní obrazová publikace z pera zkušeného autora mapuje barvitě nejen jeho život, ale i dobu, ve které žil: Zachycuje jeho dětství a studentská léta, přibližuje činnost vědce i politika, představuje jeho rodinu i blízké spolupracovníky. Kniha vznikla ve spolupráci s Masarykovým ústavem a Archivem Akademie věd ČR, díky čemuž může text provázet přes 400 dobových fotografií i osobní dokumenty. V knize najdete například: Rodný list TGM Výpis z maturitní zkoušky Jmenování řádným profesorem české pražské univerzity Diplomatický pas A spoustu dalšího…
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Cesta
Jak to vypadá, když se punkový bubeník rozhodne nepít, nekouřit a nedrogovat? Lukáš Vincour napsal autobiografickou knihu o tak trochu netradiční cestě člena několika úspěšných hudebních skupin. Nahlédnete do zákulisí kapel, se kterými se vypracoval od prvních koncertů ve sklepech a garážích až po vyprodané kluby po celé Evropě. Na své cestě prošel vývojem, ve kterém se oprostil od nepsaných pravidel subkultury a došel tak k osobní svobodě. A nebojí se o tom otevřeně mluvit ve své prvotině, kde bez obalu popisuje postoj k veganství, punku a svobodě. Jeho životní filozofie a osobní přiznání vás prostě nejen donutí k zamyšlení, ale inspiruje vás k přehodnocení ustálených vzorců ve společnosti. Stal se vzorem i pro děti na základních školách, kde je motivuje k nalezení svého potenciálu. Jeho bezmezná touha plnit si sny ho dovedla až k tomu, že se jednoho dne rozhodl napsat, a vlastními silami vydat tuto knihu.
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk - známý i neznámý
První československý prezident T. G. Masaryk byl složitou a jedinečnou osobností a dobrat se objektivní pravdy o něm, jeho díle i činech není jednoduché. Tato kniha není žádnou souhrnnou biografií a neklade si za cíl ukázat Masaryka v celé jeho osobnostní šíři. Zabývá se především některými klíčovými dramatickými, jistým způsobem dokonce záhadnými momenty Masarykova života s cílem poznat, jaký byl vlastně člověk, co považoval za zásadní a důležité a jak se dokázal vyrovnat s krizovými situacemi. T. G. Masaryk měl vysokou úroveň vzdělanosti, rozhled a schopnost zúročovat vlastní životní zkušenosti, až do vysokého věku si dokázal zachovat duševní svěžest a vitalitu. Někde uvnitř něj dřímala obrovská duševní síla a optimistická vyrovnanost, které mu pomáhaly překonávat těžkosti, nástrahy či rány osudu, jenž mu nebyl vždy příznivě nakloněn.
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Walk Through Walls - A Memoir
'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' ObserverThis memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us from her early life in communist ex-Yugoslavia, to her time as a young art student in Belgrade in the 1970s, where she first made her mark with a series of pieces that used the body as a canvas, the book also describes her relationship with the West German performance artist named Ulay who was her lover and sole collaborator for 12 years. Abramovic has collaborated with stars from Lady Gaga to Jay-Z, James Franco and Willem Dafoe. Best known for her recent pieces 'The Artist is Present' and '512 Hours', this book is a fascinating insight into the life of one of the most important artists working today, and the woman who has been described as 'the grandmother of performance art'.
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NEOBYČAJNÝ DENNÍK PÍSANÝ NA CESTÁCH NAŠEJ NÁDEJE
Kniha približuje charakteristické črty Františkovho pontifikátu prostredníctvom apoštolských ciest na periférie sveta. Pápeža Františka predstavuje nielen ako pútnika pokoja, ale aj ako nepohodlného proroka, vyzývajúceho miestne cirkvi, aby sa venovali tým, ktorých spoločnosť vylučuje na okraj.
Vatikanista Andrea Tornielli opisuje udalosti zo zákulisia pápežských letov a v exkluzívnom rozhovore sprostredkúva Františkove názory i dojmy z ciest.
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Lacná kniha S Františkom na cestách (-10%)
NEOBYČAJNÝ DENNÍK PÍSANÝ NA CESTÁCH NAŠEJ NÁDEJE
Kniha približuje charakteristické črty Františkovho pontifikátu prostredníctvom apoštolských ciest na periférie sveta. Pápeža Františka predstavuje nielen ako pútnika pokoja, ale aj ako nepohodlného proroka, vyzývajúceho miestne cirkvi, aby sa venovali tým, ktorých spoločnosť vylučuje na okraj.
Vatikanista Andrea Tornielli opisuje udalosti zo zákulisia pápežských letov a v exkluzívnom rozhovore sprostredkúva Františkove názory i dojmy z ciest.
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S Františkom na cestách
NEOBYČAJNÝ DENNÍK PÍSANÝ NA CESTÁCH NAŠEJ NÁDEJE
Kniha približuje charakteristické črty Františkovho pontifikátu prostredníctvom apoštolských ciest na periférie sveta. Pápeža Františka predstavuje nielen ako pútnika pokoja, ale aj ako nepohodlného proroka, vyzývajúceho miestne cirkvi, aby sa venovali tým, ktorých spoločnosť vylučuje na okraj.
Vatikanista Andrea Tornielli opisuje udalosti zo zákulisia pápežských letov a v exkluzívnom rozhovore sprostredkúva Františkove názory i dojmy z ciest.
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Everybody Loves Our Town - A History of Grunge
Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle Sound', emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early part of the 1980s. With the unexpected success of Nirvana's single 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' in 1991, grunge became a household word overnight and launched an American music movement on a par with punk and hip-hop. In Everybody Loves Our Town , Mark Yarm draws from exclusive interviews to tell the whole story: the founding of originators like Soundgarden and the Melvins, the early successes of the Sub Pop record label, the rise of powerhouses Nirvana and Pearl Jam, the media hype, the suicide of Kurt Cobain, and finally, the genre's mid-to-late-nineties decline.
Gorbachev - His Life and Times
' ... deeply penetrating history and engrossing psychological study.' Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs MagazineFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era 'An engaging, poignant portrayal of one of the most significant of Russian leaders.' Kirkus review. 'William Taubman's Gorbachev, like his Khrushchev, is an extraordinary achievement, full of new information, filled with shrewd judgments, a two-in-a-row triumph in the writing of great lives.' - John Lewis Gaddis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of George F. Kennan: An American Life `Nobody before Taubman has achieved an in-depth psychological portrait...what made Gorbachev tick, as a man and a leader, has always been hooded in speculation...A highly readable, reliable and accurate work, one that will be used by all future generations of historians... This monumental biography will become the standard personal portrait, especially of the years before Gorbachev became party secretary. Taubman has charmed more out of him than any of his subordinates ever managed to' Robert Service, Literary Review `Impressive... full of fascinating detail' Peter Conradi, Sunday Times `Comprehensive and immensely readable' The Economist This is the definitive biography on one of the most important and controversial figures of the 20th century. Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives, and interviews with Kremlin aides and adversaries, as well as foreign leaders, Taubman's intensely personal portrait extends to Gorbachev's remarkable marriage to a woman he deeply loved, and to the family that they raised together. Nuanced and poignant, yet unsparing and honest, this sweeping account has all the amplitude of a great Russian novel.90 illustrations When Mikhail Gorbachev became its leader in March 1985, the USSR was still one of the world's two superpowers. By the end of his tenure six years later, the Communist system was dismantled, the cold war was over and, on 25th December 1991, the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist. While not solely responsible for this remarkable upheaval, he set decisive changes in motion. Assessments of Gorbachev could not be more polarised. In the West, he is regarded as a hero. In Russia, he is widely hated by those who blame him for the collapse of the USSR. Admirers marvel at this vision and courage. Detractors, including many of his Kremlin comrades, have accused him of everything from naivete to treason.
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Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-In)
Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears. History's most unlikely friendship--this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearest companion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim. In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo great loves--Prince Albert and John Brown--Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The two form an unlikely bond and within a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen's teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a friend close to her heart. This marked the beginning of the most scandalous decade in Queen Victoria's long reign. As the royal household roiled with resentment, Victoria and Abdul's devotion grew in defiance. Drawn from secrets closely guarded for more than a century, Victoria & Abdul is an extraordinary and intimate history of the last years of the nineteenth-century English court and an unforgettable view onto the passions of an aging Queen.
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The Unfinished Palazzo
Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned and the project was abandoned with only one storey complete. Empty, unfinished, and in a gradual state of decay, the building was considered an eyesore. Yet in the early 20th century the Unfinished Palazzo's quality of fairytale abandonment, and its potential for transformation, were to attract and inspire three fascinating women at key moments in their lives: Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim. Each chose the Palazzo Venier as the stage on which to build her own world of art and imagination, surrounded by an amazing supporting cast, from d'Annunzio and Nijinsky, via Noel Coward and Cecil Beaton, to Yoko Ono. Luisa turned her home into an aesthete's fantasy where she hosted parties as extravagant and decadent as Renaissance court operas - spending small fortunes on her own costumes in her quest to become a 'living work of art' and muse to the artists of the late belle epoque and early modernist eras. Doris strove to make her mark in London and Venice during the glamorous, hedonistic interwar years, hosting film stars and royalty at glittering parties. In the postwar years, Peggy turned the Palazzo into a model of modernist simplicity that served as a home for her exquisite collection of modern art that today draws tourists and art-lovers from around the world. Mackrell tells each life story vividly in turn, weaving an intricate history of these legendary characters and the Unfinished Palazzo that they all at different times called home.
Picturing Prince - An Intimate Portrait
PICTURING PRINCE sees the late icon's former art director, STEVE PARKE, revealing stunning intimate photographs of the singer from his time working at Paisley Park. At least half of the images in the book are exclusively published here for the first time; most other images in the book are rare to the public eye. Alongside these remarkable images are fifty engaging, poignant and often funny written vignettes by Parke, which reveal the very human man behind the reclusive superstar: from shooting hoops to renting out movie theatres at 4am; from midnight requests for camels to meaningful conversations that shed light on Prince as a man and artist. STEVE PARKE started working with Prince in 1988, after a mutual friend showed Prince some of Steve's photorealistic paintings. He designed everything from album covers and merchandise to sets for Prince's tours and videos. Somewhere in all of this, he became Paisley Park's official art director. He began photographing Prince at the request of the star himself, and continued to do so for the next several years. The images in this book are the arresting result of this collaboration.
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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.
