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Bardskull
Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned fifty. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about myth or narrative; rather, it is a sequence of incantations, a series of battles.
Each of the three journeys sees Shaw walk alone into a Dartmoor forest and wait. What arrive are stories – fragments of myth that he has carried within him for decades: the deep history of Dartmoor itself; the lives of distant family members; Arthurian legend; and tales from India, Persia, Lapland, the Caucasus and Siberia. But these stories and their tellers don’t arrive as the bearers of solace or easy wisdom. As with all quests, Shaw is entering a domain of traps and tests.
Bardskull can be read as a fable, as memoir, as auto-fiction or as an attempt to undomesticate myth. It is a magnificent, unclassifiable work of the imagination.
The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
'Searingly honest . . . compelling, hard to read and hard to put down' Literary Review'A frank and moving story . . . an urgent plea' Telegraph‘Who speaks? Who is able to make themselves heard? And if this fundamental political gesture remains inaccessible to so many people who figure among the most dominated, the most dispossessed, the most vulnerable, does it not fall to artists, writers and intellectuals to speak of them and for them’When Didier Eribon’s mother began to lose her physical and cognitive autonomy, the author and his brothers were compelled to place her in a nursing home, despite their misgivings. A few weeks later, she died. In The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman, Eribon embarks on a historical, political and personal meditation on what it means to grow old in our society, and the care we provide for those who cannot afford to pay for better services. Tracing his mother’s rapid decline – and drawing on works by Simone de Beauvoir, Norbert Elias, Annie Ernaux and Michel Foucault, among others – Eribon offers an honest, original and wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between ageing, gender and class, transmuting his own rage, sadness and shame into a strikingly nuanced portrait of the most overlooked human experience. Translated by Michael Lucey
The Heart is Meat
IN THE EARLY 80s, New York City''s Gansevoort Meatpacking District, a small irregular patch of the West Village, was a wild confluence of meat market workers, gay men hitting The Mineshaft or The Anvil, transgender sex workers, homeless huddled around burn barrels, New Jersey mafiosos, veterans of three wars, heroes of the French Resistance, and Holocaust survivors. Michael Backus was newly arrived to the city when he began working at Adolf Kusy Meats in 1982, a young man fresh out of college who had never imagined himself in any city, much less New York. But he was going to be a fiction writer and while ignorant of what that might actually entail, understood that writers lived in New York.
Líbánky s Múzou na Hané
V knize na pomezí literatury faktu a beletrie nahlédne čtenář v krátkých medailonech na život a dílo tří slavných českých malířů – Mánesa, Svolinského a Zrzavého, kteří měli blízký vztah k Olomouci a olomouckému kraji. Následující příběhy jsou fiktivní, avšak opřené o historická fakta. Josef Mánes po kroměřížském sněmu opakovaně pobýval na zámku v Čechách pod Kosířem. Tamní rod Silva-Tarouca mu poskytl mecenášské zázemí a četné příležitosti k uměleckému růstu. Haná tak inspirovala jednoho z našich nejvýznamnějších umělců 19. století. Karel Svolinský, rodák ze Svatého Kopečka, vytvořil v 50. letech 20. století novou výzdobu olomouckého orloje. Po sporech s funkcionáři přistoupil na kompromis, navrhl mozaiku v duchu socialistického realismu, do níž prosadil svůj osobitý umělecký styl a zdůraznil krásu i noblesu hanáckého lidu. Jan Zrzavý byl již proslulým malířem, když jej rektor UP po válce pozval do Olomouce, aby se stal spoluzakladatelem katedry výtvarné výchovy na Pedagogické fakultě Ústavu výtvarné výchovy. V letech 1947–1950 zde vyučoval malbu a kompozici. Z Olomouce byl donucen odejít z politických důvodů.
The Ambassadors
History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Richelieu and Mazarin inhabited a 16th-century world we can hardly imagine today, but it is from their time that we can begin to see the outline of today's Europe.
The Ambassadors includes a brilliant analysis of the people who built the Western side of the Cold War. Henry Kissinger is a pivotal figure in the post-war world, and his story is in some ways typical: he failed in his most important aims and succeeded in ways he never expected. Robert Cooper's pieces together history and considers the illuminating fragments it leaves behind.
Gizi Fleischmannová, 2. vydanie
Gizi Fleischmannová (1892 – 1944) sa narodila v Bratislave v tradičnej židovskej rodine. Bola vedúcou predstaviteľkou ženskej sionistickej organizácie na Slovensku. V čase holokaustu viedla Pracovnú skupinu, ilegálnu odnož Ústredne Židov. Ako žena a sionistka riadila mužov zo všetkých prúdov židovského spektra. Organizovali pomoc na zastavenie deportácií a zmiernenie utrpenia. Uplácaním úradníkov zachránila tisíce Židov, sama však neunikla pozornosti štátnej bezpečnosti. Zahynula v jednom z posledných transportov do Osvienčimu.
Josephine Baker: Tanec jejího života
Extravagantní zpěvačka a tanečnice, majitelka nočního klubu, válečná hrdinka, zámecká paní, matka dvanácti dětí, a nakonec bojovnice za práva černochů po boku Martina Luthera Kinga – to všechno byla jedna žena. Josephine Bakerová.
Její život byl pestrý a bohatý a nebyla v něm nouze o překvapivé zvraty. I když jí okolnosti nebyly vždy nakloněny, nikdy se nevzdávala. Naopak si vždy šla tvrdohlavě za svým, nepřestávala usilovat o zrušení segregace a zapáleně bojovala za práva obyčejných Afroameričanů. Role, v níž byla stejně významnou a úspěšnou jako v roli okouzlující hvězdy varietních pódií.
Poutavé inspirativní vyprávění mapuje téměř celý život slavné Pařížanky původem z chudinské černošské čtvrti v St. Louis. Dozvíte se, jak se z obyčejné tanečnice stala miláčkem Města světel, za co získala vyznamenání od slavného generála Charlese de Gaulla, jaké prožívala milostné peripetie i jak dopadl její sen o „duhové rodině“ adoptivních dětí různých barev pleti.
We Are Bellingcat
'John le Carre demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' Financial Times
'Uplifting . . . Riveting . . . What will fire people through these pages, gripped, is the focused, and extraordinary investigations that Bellingcat runs . . . Each runs as if the concluding chapter of a Holmesian whodunit' Telegraph
'We Are Bellingcat is Higgins's gripping account of how he reinvented reporting for the internet age . . . A manifesto for optimism in a dark age' Luke Harding, Observer
How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time?
Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future. Here, their founder - a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop - tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering, galvanising citizen journalists across the globe to expose war crimes and pick apart disinformation, using just their computers.
From the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 over the Ukraine to the sourcing of weapons in the Syrian Civil War and the identification of the Salisbury poisoners, We Are Bellingcat digs deep into some of Bellingcat's most successful investigations. It explores the most cutting-edge tools for analysing data, from virtual-reality software that can build photorealistic 3D models of a crime scene, to apps that can identify exactly what time of day a photograph was taken.
Ugly Truth
In November 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell in-depth investigation that exposed, with disturbing insider detail, how leadership decisions at Facebook enabled, and then tried to cover up, massive privacy breaches and Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The story quickly shot to the top of the paper's most emailed list. It would earn the team of Times reporters a prestigious Loeb award, the George Polk award, and a spot on the Pulitzer short list. But it only skimmed the surface.
The investigation's lead reporters, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, spent eighteen months piecing together the story of how one of the most powerful companies in the world tried to bury a damning truth-that Facebook has become a conduit for disinformation, hate speech, and political propaganda. The unrivalled sources of these two veteran journalists led them to perhaps the most recognizable names in the tech industry: Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. Both have long existed as archetypes of uniquely 21st century executives-he, the tech "boy genius" turned billionaire, she, the ultimate woman in business, an inspiration to millions through her books and speeches.
An Ugly Truth is the definitive story of Facebook's fall from grace, following the embattled company from 2011, when its power and positive influence was undisputed, to 2020, when it will face its biggest test yet-the US presidential election. What are the ultimate ramifications when a few individuals are in charge of the technology used by half the world's population? Can they control the technology they've unleashed into the world? And if not, can we, as individuals and as a society, control them?
El Jefe: Pronásledování Prcka Guzmána
Zásadní kniha o vzestupu a pádu nejvýznamnějšího mexického narkobarona Joaquína Prcka Guzmána od reportéra deníku The New York Times, jehož reportáže o soudním procesu obletěly svět
Joaquín Prcek Guzmán je nejlegendárnějším mexickým překupníkem drog. Jako šéf drogového kartelu Sinaloa patřil k nejnebezpečnějším mužům na světě. Díky svému neohroženému vzestupu k moci, své brutalitě, šarmu, slabosti pro luxus, zálibě v přestrojování, opakovaným dramatickým útěkům z vězení i nepravděpodobnému setkání se Seanem Pennem si vypěstoval i image nejznámějšího psance na světě. Nakonec byl po mnohaletém plánování při odvážné operaci amerických a mexických bezpečnostních složek zatčen.
Tato kniha nabízí celý Prckův epický příběh od jeho skromného původu až po odsouzení v brooklynské soudní síni. Reportáž o procesu z pera dlouholetého reportéra The New York Times Alana Feuera věnujícího se trestnímu právu patří k nejpoutavějším žurnalistickým počinům posledních let.
ALAN FEUER je novinář pokrývající pro deníky Metro a The New York Times soudní procesy a trestní soudnictví. Ve svých článcích se věnuje gangům, vězením, policejním přečinům, nespravedlivě odsouzeným a vládní korupci. Žije v New Yorku.
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V osídlach smrti
Táto kniha je darom z nebies pre tých, ktorí si myslia, že nemajú v živote žiadnu nádej. (o. Víctor Salomón)
Držíte v rukách pravdepodobne jeden z najsilnejších príbehov obrátenia, aký bol kedy napísaný. Kniha V osídlach smrti sleduje životné cesty Patricie Sandovalovej, dnes medzinárodnej pro-life rečníčky a úspešnej katolíckej moderátorky, ktorá sa po rozvode rodičov vrhla na cestu sexu a drog. V priebehu roka a pol podstúpila tri umelé potraty. Neskôr dokonca sama pracovala na potratovej klinike. Ťažko závislá od metamfetamínu, hlboko ponorená v New Age praktikách a so zlozvykom vytrhávať si vlasy napokon skončila na ulici, kde ju stretol Boh.
Tento strhujúci životný príbeh je dôkazom skutočnosti, že aj keby boli hriechy človeka ako šarlát, vďaka Božiemu milosrdenstvu neexistuje dôvod prestať veriť v jeho obrátenie.
Z Božej milosti sa dnes Patricia delí o svoj príbeh s miliónmi ľudí na preplnených štadiónoch. Vystupovala v rozhlasových a televíznych reláciách ako Bookmark (Záložka), Life on the Rock (Život na skale), Women of Grace (Ženy milosti), At Home with Jim and Joy (Doma s Jimom a Joy), Cara a Cara (Zoči-voči) či Nuestra Fe en Vivo (Naša viera žije). S otcom Víctorom Salomónom moderuje vlastnú reláciu De Dos en Dos (V pároch) na katolíckej televíznej stanici EWTN.
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Elizabeth II
With just under a thousand portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, the National Portrait Gallery boasts some of the most treasured and famous official portraits of the Queen captured at key historic moments, as well as day-to-day images of the monarch at home and with family, following her journey from childhood, to princess and Queen, mother and grandmother. This publication highlights the most important portraits of Elizabeth II from the Gallery's Collection. Paintings and photographs from the birth of Elizabeth II to the present will take readers on a visual journey through the life of Britain's foremost icon.
The book will reflect on the Queen's life, presenting family photographs alongside important formal portraits to explore how, as her reign became record-breaking, she became an iconic figure in modern British culture and history. The publication features works by key artists depicting the Queen from 1926 to the present day, including Baron, Cecil Beaton, Dorothy Wilding, Patrick Lichfield, Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz and David Bailey.
This book features an introductory essay by Alexandra Shulman, exploring how the collected portraits depict the Queen throughout her life and reign, and a timeline of key historical events and moments from Elizabeth II's life.
Svätá Bakhita - Božia otrokyňa
Jedna študentka sa raz Bakhity opýtala, čo by robila, keby stretla svojich bývalých únoscov. Odpovedala: Ak by som sa mala stretnúť s tými, ktorí ma uniesli, a dokonca aj s tými otrokármi,
ktorí ma týrali, pokľakla by som a pobozkala im ruky. Lebo keby sa tieto veci nestali, dnes by som nebola kresťankou a rehoľníčkou.
Z tohto jedného tvrdenia sa odhaľujú tri cnosti. V prvom rade to ukazuje jej odpustenie: už dávno pretrhla akékoľvek reťaze nenávisti a zatrpknutosti. Ďalej to odhaľuje jej vieru: videla, ako
tajomná Božia prozreteľnosť funguje aj v tom najhoršom utrpení. Nakoniec to ilustruje jej vďačnosť. Bola hlboko vďačná za to, že si našla cestu k Bohu a stala sa rehoľníčkou.
Murakami T : The T-Shirts I Love
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet and shares photos of his extensive unique personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public.
This is the ultimate gift for Murakami fans.
Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000-vinyl-record collection, and his obsession with running, but few have heard about a more intimate, and perhaps more unique, passion: his T-shirt-collecting habit.
In Murakami T, the famously reclusive novelist shows us his T-shirts - including gems found in bookshops, charity shops and record stores - from those featuring whisky, animals, cars and superheroes, to souvenirs of marathons and a Beach Boys concert in Honolulu, to the shirt that inspired the beloved short story 'Tony Takitani'. Accompanied by short, frank essays that have been translated into English for the first time, these photographs reveal much about Murakami's multifaceted and wonderfully eccentric persona.
'The world's most popular cult novelist' Guardian
The Other Side of the Coin : The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe
When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace.
Angela has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal Household for twenty-five years, initially as Her Majesty's Senior Dresser and then latterly as Her Majesty's Personal Advisor, Curator, Wardrobe and In-house Designer. As the first person in history to hold this title, she shares a uniquely close working relationship with The Queen.
In The Other Side of the Coin, The Queen has personally given Angela her blessing to share their extraordinary bond with the world. Whether it's preparing for a formal occasion or brightening Her Majesty's day with a playful joke, Angela's priority is to serve and support. Sharing never-before-seen photographs - many from Angela's own private collection - and charming anecdotes of their time spent together, this revealing book provides memorable insights into what it's like to work closely with The Queen, to curate her wardrobe and to discover a true and lasting connection along the way.
'The book documents the unique working relationship between Her Majesty The Queen and the woman who has been her Personal Assistant and Senior Dresser for more than two decades: Angela Kelly. It gives a rare insight into the demands of the job of supporting the Monarch, and we gain privileged insight into a successful working relationship, characterised by humour, creativity, hard work, and a mutual commitment to service and duty. Angela is a talented and inspiring woman, who has captured the highlights of her long career with The Queen for us all to share.' - Samantha Cohen, Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen (2011-2018)
Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy and
Dior and His Decorators is the first work on the two interior designers most closely associated with Christian Dior. Like the unabashedly luxurious fashions of Dior's New Look, which debuted in 1947, the interior designs of Victor Grandpierre and Georges Geffroy infused a war-weary world with a sumptuous new aesthetic--a melding of the refined traditions of the past with a wholly modern sense of elegance. Author Maureen Footer recounts the lives and work of this influential trio, illustrated with a trove of evocative vintage photographs. Grandpierre designed Dior's first couture house, creating not only the elegantly restrained look of the salons but also the template for the Dior brand, including typeface, logo, and packaging. Both Grandpierre and Geffroy (who worked independently) designed the interior of Dior's townhouse. After the couturier's untimely death in 1957, Grandpierre and Geffroy went on to design salons for other couturiers, as well as homes for the likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Marcel Rochas, Gloria Guinness, Daisy Fellowes, and Maria Callas.
Kamalas Way
A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to be elected Vice President of the United States.
In Kamala's Way, longtime Los Angeles Times reporter Dan Morain charts how the daughter of two immigrants born in segregated California became one of this country's most effective power players. He takes readers through Harris's years in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, explores her audacious embrace of the little-known Barack Obama, and shows the sharp elbows she deployed to make it to the US Senate. He analyses her failure as a presidential candidate and the behind-the-scenes campaign she waged to land the Vice President spot. And along the way, Morain paints a vivid picture of her family, values and priorities, as well as the missteps, risks and bold moves she's made on her way to the top.
Kamala's Way is a comprehensive account of the Vice President-Elect and her history-making career.
The Ambassadors
History does not run in straight lines. It is made by men and women and by accident. The path of events and ideas does not stretch smoothly from Thucydides, through Machiavelli and thence to perpetual peace. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. This is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Richelieu and Mazarin inhabited a world we can hardly imagine today; but it is from their time that we can begin to see the outline of today's Europe. Talleyrand and the Congress of Vienna in 1815 take us closer to the present day. Talleyrand was a man of the ancien regime; but he was the first European statesman to see America. It is at this Congress that, for the first time, a humanitarian question - the slave trade - was discussed. Humanitarian issues have formed part of the diplomatic agenda ever since.
Robert Cooper's incisive and elegantly written book includes a brilliant analysis of the people who built the Western side of the Cold War. The high point of the drama was the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its contrast between the open debate that John F. Kennedy used to help him make decisions and the closed system in Moscow. Henry Kissinger is a pivotal figure in the post-war world, as well as one of the great writers on diplomacy. His story is in some ways typical: he failed in his most important aims, and succeeded in ways he never expected. Meanwhile a notable and neglected success story is that of German diplomacy in the last half-century.
Robert Cooper's masterly The Ambassadors pieces together history and considers the fragments it leaves behind. It is these fragments that prove so illuminating.
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.
