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Film, hudba 
História 
Osobnosti 
Šport 
Literatúra 
Umenie 
Politika 
Náboženstvo 
Veda, vynálezy 
Biznis 
Mafia, podsvetie 
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The Coen Brothers
From such cult hits as Raising Arizona (1987) and The Big Lebowski (1998) to major critical darlings Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Ethan and Joel Coen have cultivated a bleakly comical, instantly recognizable voice in modern American cinema. In The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, film critic Adam Nayman carefully sifts through their complex cinematic universe in an effort to plot, as he puts it, "some Grand Unified Theory of Coen-ness." The book combines critical text-biography, close film analysis, and enlightening interviews with key Coen collaborators-with a visual aesthetic that honors the Coens' singular mix of darkness and levity. Featuring film stills, beautiful and evocative illustrations, punchy infographics, and hard insight, this book will be the definitive exploration of the Coen brothers' oeuvre.
Úvod do pamäti
Kniha Rudolfa Chmela Úvod do pamäti je svojráznou memoárovou reflexiou autora -- literárneho vedca, verejného intelektuála, diplomata a politika, v ktorej sa cez jeho individuálnu pamäť zrkadlí aj kolektívna reflexia, národná aj štátna, respektíve stredoeurópska. Z tohto prieniku individuálneho a kolektívneho osudu sa odvíja zaujímavé rozprávanie o zložitých, neraz protirečivých dejinách súčasnosti, dejinách, ktoré mnohí žili a mnohých budú určovať aj v budúcnosti.
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Saze na hrušce
Kniha vychází u příležitosti 100. výročí narození slavného plzeňského rodáka Miroslava Horníčka, významného prozaika, dramatika, herce a režiséra. Jde o nové vydání knihy vzpomínek na dětství prožité v rodné Plzni. Předmluvu napsal dlouholetý přítel Miroslava Horníčka a taktéž plzeňský rodák, významný básník a prozaik Miroslav Holub.
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Krkonošští rodáci vzpomínají 2
Krkonošská oblast je pozoruhodná nejen svými přírodními krásami, ale především lidmi. Výběr pamětníků narozených ve 20. a 30. letech 20. století, s jejichž osudy se seznámíme na následujících stránkách, není náhodný a plynně navazuje na první vydání osudů krkonošských rodáků, jejich příbuzných a blízkých. Pamětníci a pamětnice jsou pečlivě vybráni tak, aby prostřednictvím jejich příběhů byli čtenáři seznámeni s historickým odkazem regionu a jeho přesahem do současnosti. Proto v knize zazní hlasy mužů a žen z českého i německého prostředí a různorodého sociálně-ekonomického zázemí. Výpovědi pamětníků jsou citlivě uspořádány a zpracovány tak, aby neovlivnily jejich vnitřní soudržnost, formální i obsahovou jedinečnost a interpretační autentičnost. Z toho důvodu je většinou zachován i hovorový a často jadrný jazyk.
Už se na to nechce dívat
Bohuslav Sobotka patřil dlouhodobě k nejpopulárnějším politikům v České republice. Schopný vrcholný politik se přesto v závěru svého působení stal pro část lidí neoblíbeným. Byť se mnohým jeho kariéra jevila jako nudná a nezáživná, skutečnost byla opačná – napínavá i dramatická, jak kniha popisuje. Jeho cesta do čela ČSSD a k postu premiéra ale zdaleka nebyla jednoduchá. Ačkoliv jeho začátky a následující kariérní postupy byly z pohledu diváka pohádkové, jeho konec byl spíše hororový. V důsledku politického přetlaku a debaklu v osobním životě se Bohuslavu Sobotkovi v krátkém časovém úseku téměř zhroutilo vše, co v průběhu svého politického působení tak pracně budoval. V roce 1989 vstoupil do ČSSD a po sedmi letech zasedl do lavice v Poslanecké sněmovně. V roce 2002 se stal nejmladším ministrem financí v české historii a za další tři roky prvním místopředsedou vlády Jiřího Paroubka. Nakonec byl v roce 2011 zvolen předsedou strany a po třech letech dosáhl nejvyšší mety a byl jmenován předsedou vlády ČR. Tento politik byl pro mnohé lidi obtížně čitelným, proto bylo snahou autora přiblížit tuto osobnost z jiného úhlu pohledu.
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American Kingpin
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it
In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons—free of the government’s watchful eye.
It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone—not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers—could buy and sell contraband detection-free. Spurred by a public outcry, the federal government launched an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, with no leads, no witnesses, and no clear jurisdiction. All the investigators knew was that whoever was running the site called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts.
The Silk Road quickly ballooned into $1.2 billion enterprise, and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin. He enlisted a loyal crew of allies in high and low places, all as addicted to the danger and thrill of running an illegal marketplace as their customers were to the heroin they sold. Through his network he got wind of the target on his back and took drastic steps to protect himself—including ordering a hit on a former employee. As Ross made plans to disappear forever, the Feds raced against the clock to catch a man they weren’t sure even existed, searching for a needle in the haystack of the global Internet.
Drawing on exclusive access to key players and two billion digital words and images Ross left behind, Vanity Fair correspondent and New York Times bestselling author Nick Bilton offers a tale filled with twists and turns, lucky breaks and unbelievable close calls. It’s a story of the boy next door’s ambition gone criminal, spurred on by the clash between the new world of libertarian-leaning, anonymous, decentralized Web advocates and the old world of government control, order, and the rule of law. Filled with unforgettable characters and capped by an astonishing climax, American Kingpin might be dismissed as too outrageous for fiction. But it’s all too real.
Jiří z Poděbrad - král český
Postava "kališnického krále" Jiřího z Poděbrad se zapsala do našich dějin nesmazatelným písmem a je stále předmětem zájmu odborníků i laické veřejnosti. V roce významného výročí zvolení Jiřího z Poděbrad českým králem vychází sborník prací předních českých historiků, kteří rozebírají osobu a vládu tohoto panovníka z nejrůznějších úhlů, a to nejen jeho období vlády, problematiku první volby panovníka, vztah k domácí a zahraniční šlechtě, ale také jeho význam coby historické a kulturní ikony v našich ne tak dávných dějinách a samozřejmě i dnes. Kniha vychází v rámci projektu Společné století pod záštitou ČVUT a Města Poděbrady.
Čapáci - Ján a Jozef Čapkovičovci
"Jedinečné futbalové dvojičky, ktorých životný príbeh rozosmeje každého čitateľa. Ich životná energia a spôsob rozprávania sú jedinečné.Páni z Teheľného poľa a československí reprezentanti."
Hit so Hard
A stunningly candid portrait of the Seattle grunge scene of the '90s and a memoir of an addict during the last great era of rock 'n' roll excess, by Hole drummer Patty Schemel
Patty Schemel's story begins with a childhood surrounded by the AA meetings her parents hosted in the family living room. Their divorce triggered her first forays into drinking at age twelve and dovetailed with her passion for punk rock and playing the drums. Patty's struggles with her sexuality further drove her notoriously hard playing, and by the late '80s she had focused that anger, confusion, and drive into regular gigs with well-regarded bands in Tacoma, Seattle, and Olympia, Washington. She met a pre-Nirvana Kurt Cobain at a Melvins show, and less than five years later, was living with him and his wife, Hole front-woman Courtney Love, at the height of his fame and on the cusp of hers. As the platinum-selling band's new drummer, Schemel contributed memorable, driving beats to hits like "Beautiful Son," "Violet," "Doll Parts," and "Miss World." But the band was plagued by tragedy and heroin addiction, and by the time Hole went on tour in support of their ironically titled and critically-acclaimed album Live Through This in 1994, both Cobain and Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff had died at the age of 27
With surprising candor and wit, Schemel intimately documents the events surrounding her dramatic exit from the band in 1998 that led to a dark descent into a life of homelessness and crime on the streets of Los Angeles, and the difficult but rewarding path to lasting sobriety after more than twenty serious attempts to get clean. Hit So Hard is a testament not only to the enduring power of the music Schemel helped create but an important document of the drug culture that threatened to destroy it.
My Life, Our Times
Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.
In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss of his eyesight as a student and the death of his daughter within days of her birth, he shares the passionately-held principles that have shaped and driven him, reminding us that politics can and should be a calling to serve. Reflecting on the personal and ideological tensions within Labour and its successes and failures in power, he describes how to meet the challenge of pursuing a radical agenda within a credible party of government.
He explains how as Chancellor he equipped Britain for a globalised economy while swimming against the neoliberal tide and shows what more must be done to halt rising inequality. In his behind-the-scenes account of the financial crisis and his leading role in saving the world economy from collapse, he addresses the question of who was to blame for the crash and why its causes and consequences still beset us.
From the invasion of Iraq to the tragedy of Afghanistan, from the coalition negotiations of 2010 to the referendums on Scottish independence and Europe, Gordon Brown draws on his unique experiences to explain Britain's current fractured condition. And by showing us what progressive politics has achieved in recent decades, he inspires us with a vision of what it might yet achieve today.
Riveting, expert and highly personal, this historic memoir is an invaluable insight into our times.
Lásky Milana Rastislava Štefánika
Viete, že skoro všetky knihy o M. R. Štefánikovi napísali muži? Ako je to možné? - veď ženy Štefánika milovali a obdivovali. Túto knihu napísala autorka, žijúca v Štefánikovom rodnom kraji. S hlbokou láskou, obdivom a pochopením sa zahĺbila do jeho životných osudov. Pozrela sa na neho ženskými očami. Prečo je jeho život taký zaujímavý a inšpirujúci aj po toľkých rokoch? Čo bolo na Štefánikovi také očarujúce, že nás jeho osobnosť fascinuje ešte aj dnes? Postupne čitateľov zoznamuje so skromným prostredím, z ktorého budúci generál, letec, astronóm, cestovateľ a zakladateľ ČSR pochádzal, z jeho užšou i širšou rodinou. S hlbokou znalosťou hovorí o jeho neľahkom detstve, o veľmi skromných materiálnych podmienkach počas štúdií, ťažkých začiatkoch, ale aj o neuveriteľnej usilovnosti a obetavosti, ktoré nakoniec priniesli úspech. Aký bol vzťah Štefánika k ženám? Prečo ho ženy mali tak rady, pomáhali mu a milovali ho? Aké boli ženy, ktoré on miloval a ony opätovali jeho lásku? To všetko sa odohráva na pozadí jeho ďalekých ciest, expedícií, jeho životných zápasov a národnooslobodzovacieho úsilia, vojenskej kariéry, až po jeho tragický koniec. Ale ani potom to nekončí. Čo sa dialo po jeho smrti? Aký je jeho odkaz pre nás a pre dnešok?
Churchill
Across almost 50 years, Winston Churchill produced more than 500 paintings. His subjects included his family homes at Blenheim and Chartwell, evocative coastal scenes on the French Riviera, and many sun-drenched depictions of Marrakesh in Morocco, as well as still life pictures and an extraordinarily revealing self-portrait, painted during a particularly troubled time in his life. In war and peace, Churchill came to enjoy painting as his primary means of relaxation from the strain of public affairs.
In his introduction to Churchill: The Statesman as Artist, David Cannadine provides the most important account yet of Churchill's life in art, which was not just a private hobby, but also, from 1945 onwards, an essential element of his public fame. The first part of this book brings together for the first time all of Churchill's writings and speeches on art, not only Painting as a Pastime, but his addresses to the Royal Academy, his reviews of two of the Academy's summer exhibitions, and an important speech he delivered about art and freedom in 1937.
The second part of the book provides previously uncollected critical accounts of his work by some of Churchill's contemporaries: Augustus John's hitherto unpublished introduction to the Royal Academy exhibition of Churchill's paintings in 1959, and essays and reviews by Churchill s acquaintances Sir John Rothenstein, Professor Thomas Bodkin and the art critic Eric Newton. The book is lavishly illustrated with reproductions of many of Churchill's paintings, some of them appearing for the first time. Here is Churchill the artist more fully revealed than ever before.
Proč?
První české vydání vzpomínek Any Milić Peclové, manželky Oldřicha Pecla, českého právníka, podnikatele a člena protikomunistické opozice, který byl po únorovém převratu v politickém procesu s Miladou Horákovou a dalšími v roce 1950 odsouzen k trestu smrti a popraven.
A. M. Peclová žila v Československu v letech 1933–1951. Příběh jejího manželství se odvíjí na pozadí historických milníků českých dějin.
Díky jejímu specifickému a živému vypravěčskému stylu se čtenářům otevírá barvitá koláž událostí a jejich aktérů, kterými byly významné osobnosti své doby. Obzvláště působivé jsou pasáže věnované vztahu jejího muže se spolužákem z gymnázia Závišem Kalandrou a jejich činnosti po únoru 1948, která skončila politickým procesem s Miladou Horákovou a 27. června 1950 i na popravišti. Manželé Peclovi se osobně znali a stýkali i s dalšími aktéry procesu – Antonií Kleinerovou, Františkem Přeučilem i Miladou Horákovou. Nechybí ani pasáže věnované osobnostem druhého odboje, literárnímu vědci Albertu Pražákovi, spisovateli a diplomatovi Zdeňku Němečkovi, sociální pracovnici a političce Růženě Pelantové, nebo rodině známé spisovatelky historických románů Ludmily Vaňkové.
Své paměti autorka prokládá citáty z oficiálních propagandistických knih k politickým procesům s Miladou Horákovou i Rudolfem Slánským. Autorka paměti komentuje a to nejen ve vztahu k svému muži, Oldřichu Peclovi, ale i Titově Jugoslávii.
S kotvou na čepici 2
Pokračování úspěšného a milého vyprávění labského kapitána. Autorovi byl shůry dán dar slova, který se záviděníhodnou pamětí využil v příbězích a historkách z „šífortu“, plných humoru, ale i nostalgie, a zachytil tak pro nás kus plavecké historie, která již nenávratně odplouvá.
Publikace je doplněna mnoha fotografiemi, mimo jiné i Václava Novotného.
A Spy Named Orphan
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets.
He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal and defection to Moscow reverberated for decades.
Christened `Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was the perfect spy and Britain's most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge amounts of top-secret intelligence, an international code-breaking operation was rapidly closing in on him. Moments before he was unmasked, Maclean vanished.
Drawing on a wealth of previously classified material, Roland Philipps now tells this story for the first time in full. Philipps unravels Maclean's character and contradictions: a childhood that was simultaneously liberal and austere; a Cambridge education mixing in Communist circles; a polished diplomat with a tendency to wild binges; a marriage complicated by secrets; an accelerated rise through the Foreign Office and, above all, a gift for deception.
Taking us back to the golden age of espionage, A Spy Named Orphan reveals the impact of one of the most dangerous and enigmatic Soviet agents of the twentieth century, whose actions heightened the tensions of the Cold War.
Churchill and Orwell
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini "men we could do business with," if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom--that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin. Churchill and Orwell is a perfect gift for the holidays!
A Man for All Markets
A New York Times bestseller
In a remarkable career, Edward O. Thorp rose up from nothing to become a professor at MIT, invented card counting and the world's first wearable computer, beat the casinos of Las Vegas at blackjack and roulette, then became a bestselling author and a hedge fund heavyweight, ushering in a revolution on Wall Street. Now he shares his incredible life story for the first time, revealing how he made his fortune and giving advice to the next generation of investors. An intellectual thrill ride, replete with practical wisdom, A Man for All Markets is a scarcely imaginable tale of ludicrous success.
Nejlepší partie 1934-1937
Kniha obsahuje 60 Aljechinových partií z období 1934 - 1937, komentovaných Aljechinem. Jedná se o překlad druhé části knihy Meine besten Partien 1924-1937.
How to Murder Your Life
'I was twenty-six years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America. That's all that most people knew about me. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets: I was a drug addict, for one. A pillhead. I was also an alcoholic-in-training who guzzled warm Veuve Clicquot after work alone in my boss's office with the door closed; a conniving and manipulative uptown doctor-shopper; a salami-and-provolone-puking bulimic who spent a hundred dollars a day on binge foods when things got bad (and they got bad often); a weepy,wobbly, wildly hallucination-prone insomniac; a tweaky self-mutilator; a slutty and self-loathing downtown party girl; and - perhaps most of all - a lonely weirdo. But, you know, I had access to some really fantastic self-tanner.'
By the age of 15, Cat Marnell longed to work in the glamorous world of women's magazines - but was also addicted to the ADHD meds prescribed by her father. Within 10 years she was living it up in New York as a beauty editor at Conde Nast, with a talent for 'doctor-shopping' that secured her a never-ending supply of prescribed amphetamines. Her life had become a twisted merry-go-round of parties and pills at night, while she struggled to hold down her high-profile job during the day.
Witty, magnetic and penetrating - prompting comparisons to Bret Easton Ellis and Charles Bukowski - Cat Marnell reveals essential truths about her generation, brilliantly uncovering the many aspects of being an addict with pin-sharp humour and beguiling style.
'New York's enfant terrible...Her talent has resided in her uncanny ability to write about addiction from the untidy, unsafe, unhappy epicentre of the disease, rather than from some writerly remove.' Telegraph
'I LOVE this book' Catriona Innes, Cosmopolitan Magazine UK
'An unputdownable, brilliantly written rollercoaster' Shappi Khorsandi
'Brilliantly written and harrowing and funny and honest' Louise France, The Times Magazine
'Easily one of the most anticipated memoirs of the year...[Marnell's] got an inimitable style (and oh my god, so many have tried) and a level of talent so high, it's impossible not to be rooting for her.' NYLON
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.
