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Ecce homo, in memoriam Jan Fridrich
Sborník Ecce Homo in Memoriam Jan Fridrich vychází na počest památky zakladatele moderní české paleolitické školy Doc. PhDr. Jana Fridricha, DrSc. (1938 - 2007) a podílí se na něm asi padesátka jeho přátel, kolegů a studentů, nejenom z České republiky, ale také z Německa, Polska, Slovenska nebo Austrálie. Okruh zájmů Jana Fridricha byl neobvykle široký, a tak se mu autoři sborníku rozhodli přizpůsobit alespoň formou a zařazením jednotlivých příspěvků. Sborník tak sestává ze tří tematicky odlišných částí, jež uvádějí krátké vzpomínky nejbližších spolupracovníků Jana Fridricha. První část je věnovaná paleolitu, druhá přírodním vědám a třetí archeologii obecně. Neoficiální čtvrtou část pak tvoří Janova dosud neukončená bibliografie. Příspěvky jsou psány v pěti jazycích a všechny mají české či anglické resumé. Sborník je vydáván jako první počin Knižnice České společnosti archeologické, o.p.s. Pracovníci této společnosti patřili mezi nejužší okruh přátel Jana Fridricha, a tímto sborníkem mu tak vzdávají svůj hold.
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Tenisový génius Roger Federer - druhé, doplněné vydání
Životní dráha sympatické megahviezdy Rogera Federera a fascinující pohled za kulisy profesionálního tenisu - příběh vylíčil sportovní novinář René Stauffler, jeden z nejlepších znalců Rogera Federera. Kniha je aktualizací a rozšířeným novým vydáním původního Federerova životopisu Tenisový génius. Je to výjimečná biografie o výjimečném člověku a nejlepším tenistovi světa s mnoha fotografiemi.
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Třepetavý zvuk ptačích křídel
Adam Georgiev byl Českou televizi označen za nejčtenějšího gay autora v České republice.
Zkušený spisovatel předkládá čtenářům temnou kontroverzní novelu o muži frustrovaném feminizací současné Evropy, který hledal své mužství v neonacismu a nakonec ho našel úplně jinde, od autora, jehož dílo se dočkává evropských překladů.
The Chain
In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that she and many other women had been subtly, patiently and painfully betrayed.
In this spellbinding memoir, she exposes one man's control over many women and the trauma he left behind, and celebrates the sisterhood that formed in his wake despite - and in spite of - him. Exploring how women are duped every day by individuals, she interrogates how society itself continually allows this to happen. She demonstrates that, no matter how intelligent, educated or self-aware they might be, over time a woman can be played into performing the age-old role of giver and nurturer: self-sacrificing and subordinate.
Both a devastating personal testimony and a searing indictment of persistent misogyny, The Chain is a book for any woman who has questioned her relationship and buried her doubts, for any woman who can't quite identify the source of her unease and for any woman who has been sheltered by the fierce protection of her female friends.
Trailblazer
You have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done.
Name any 'modern' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, mental health awareness, Black Lives Matter. While her name has been omitted from too many history books, it was Barbara that opened the doors for more famous names to walk through. And her influence owed as much to who she was as to what she did: people loved her for her robust sense of humour, cheerfulness and indiscriminate acts of kindness.
This is a celebration of the life of the founder of Britain's suffrage movement: campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace, the law, at home and beyond. Co-founder of Girton, the first university college for women, a committed activist for human rights, fervently anti-slavery, she was also one of Victorian England's finest female painters.
Jane Robinson's brilliant new book shines a light on a remarkable woman who lived on her own terms and to whom we owe a huge debt.
Dear Oliver
"Dear Dr. Sacks . . . You asked me if I could imagine what the world would look like when viewed with two eyes. I told you that I thought I could . . . But, I was wrong."
When Susan Barry first wrote to Oliver Sacks, she never expected a response, let alone the deep friendship that blossomed over ten years of letters.
Sue, herself a neuroscientist, wrote to share an extraordinary development in her own medical history. Born with problems with her vision, Sue had been told she would never acquire the ability to see in 3D - and yet she did, a development at odds with decades of research. Within days, Oliver replied, "Your letter fills me with amazement and admiration."
Sharing an interest in visual perception and a deep love of science, Sue and Oliver began writing back and forth, delving deeper into the mysteries of sight and marvelling at the adaptive capacity of the human body.
But in a painful twist of fate, as Sue's vision improved, Oliver's declined, and his characteristic typed letters shifted to handwritten ones. Sue later recognised this to be an early sign of the cancer that ultimately ended his extraordinary life.
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Hardy Women
A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER
'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all'
Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships with real women?
In this highly innovative book, acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re-examines Hardy's life through the eyes of the women who made him - mother, sisters, girlfriends, wives, muses. The story veers from shocking scenes such as his obsession with the sight of a woman hanged, to poignant vignettes of unfulfilled passion, to fascinating details of working women's lives in the nineteenth century.
Hardy Women is the story of how the magnificent fictional women he invented would not have been possible without the hardship and hardiness of the real ones who shaped his passions and his imagination. It is only through understanding and witnessing these hardy women that we can truly enter the heart of this great novelist and poet.
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Petőfi?
A Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon szerint Petőfi (Petrovics) Sándor, a magyar költészet egyik legkiemelkedőbb és legismertebb alakja Kiskőrösön született 1823. január 1-jén, és Fehéregyházán halt meg 1849. július 31-én.
A hivatalos álláspont szerint Petőfi a segesvári csatában esett el, halálának körülményei viszont még a mai napig sem tisztázódtak, A Megamorv Petőfi-expedíció 1989. július 17-én, a Bajkál-tó melletti Barguzinban történt ásatás során megtalálta azokat a csontokat, amelyeket Petőfi feltételezett földi maradványainak tartanak. Az esetleges szenzációs felfedezés híre a közéletben óriási vitákat váltott ki. A minden kétséget kizáró bizonyításra, az ún. DNS-vizsgálatra a hatóságok engedélyének hiányában nem került sor. Budapesten, a Fiumei Úti Sírkertben 2015. július 17. napján ugyan megtörtént Petőfi újratemetése, de állami részvétel nélkül.
Ezzel a könyvvel Petőfi Sándor születésének 200. évfordulója előtt tisztelgünk, és főként arra a kérdésre keressük a választ, hogy a budapesti sír valóban a nagy költő csontjait rejtheti-e magában. Nyomozásunk talán ismét ráirányíthatja a figyelmet arra, hogy a Petőfi-kutatás barguzini fejezetének lezárásával még tartozunk az utókornak.
Először röviden áttekintjük Petőfi eltűnésének körülményeit és a költő haláláról szóló elméleteket. Ismertetjük a szibériai teória kialakulására és kutatásának állomásaira vonatkozó adatokat, majd a barguzini ásatás előzményeit, és a csontváz megtalálásának részleteit. Taglaljuk az állampárt és a tudományos ellentábor álláspontját, továbbá bemutatjuk a rendszerváltás utáni politikai hozzáállást a barguzini kutatásokhoz.
Számba vesszük az MTA és a Megamorv-Petőfi Bizottság által 1989 óta lefolytatott vizsgálatokat és mérlegre tesszük azokat a bizonyítékokat, amelyek igazolják, illetve cáfolják, hogy Morvaiék valóban Petőfi csontjait hozhatták-e haza. Kitérünk a Petőfinek tulajdonított szibériai versekre, és azok magyarországi elemzésére. Ezek után megvizsgáljuk a hatalom viszonyulását híres történelmi nagyjaink temetéséhez, és elemezzük azokat a bonyodalmakat, amelyekkel szembe kellene néznünk egy hivatalos Petőfi-újratemetés kapcsán.
A könyv utolsó fejezetében arra vállalkozunk, hogy egy sokak számára talán szokatlan felmérés eredményét ismertessük, ugyanis a Kerepesi temetőben lévő Petőfi-sír vizsgálatához a radiesztézia módszereit alkalmaztuk.
A mérések többségére (pl. Petőfi szülei, Szendrey Júlia, Vörösmarty Mihály, Bajza József, Arany János, Jókai Mór, Kossuth Lajos, Vahot Imre, Gyulai Pál) a Fiumei Úti Sírkertben került sor, míg néhány esetben (pl. Bem József, Tompa Mihály, Prielle Kornélia, Széchenyi István) a sírokat máshol kellett felkutatnunk. A legenda ritkán ugyan, de találkozhat a valósággal, amennyiben a legenda tartalma bizonyítást nyer: "Az idő igaz, S eldönti, ami nem az."
Naked Portrait: A Memoir of Lucian Freud
Towards the end of the summer of 2016 I found an old diary in a cardboard box, hundreds of typed pages, the first dated 9 September 1989. I put the diary away without reading it; I had lost my father, my mother had died only three months earlier, and it was not the right time to think about anything. I was heartbroken.
As I remembered it the diary was about sitting again, an easy portrait this time, fully clothed, the manuscript mainly a record of my father’s remarkable stories. I imagined all his stories were amusing, uncontentious, but even if that had been true I still would not have been ready. It is unclear to me now how I was able so effectively to distort reality.’
In Naked Portrait Rose Boyt explores her complicated relationship with her beloved father, Lucian Freud, through the diary and other accounts of sitting for him, naked or otherwise. Enthralled by his genius, it was only after his death that she began to question the version of events she had come to accept. The shock of the truth is profound but what emerges is her love and compassion not just for herself as a vulnerable young woman, but for the man himself, who is shown in all his brilliant complexity.
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Dvě století v životě pozorovatele
Už jako devítiletý sdělil Jiří Grygar svým rodičům, že by chtěl být hvězdářem. Už tehdy ho fascinovalo, že existují způsoby, jak se něco dozvědět o povaze věcí, kterých se nemůžeme dotýkat a ani je nějak ovlivnit v jejich počínání. Ale můžeme je pozorovat na dálku, pozorování pečlivě zaznamenávat a pak přemýšlet, co se dá z kombinace poznatků dozvědět o povaze a vývoji vesmíru. Jeho přání stát se hvězdářem se po určitých peripetiích splnilo. Teď se ve své autobiografii věnuje popisu světa lidí, se kterými se během svého života setkal a kteří ovlivnili nejen jeho pozoruhodnou astronomickou kariéru, ale i jeho osobní život.
RNDr. Jiří Grygar, CSc. (1936) vystudoval fyziku na PřF MU v Brně a astronomii na MFF UK v Praze. Po promoci nastoupil do Stelárního oddělení Astronomického ústavu ČSAV v Ondřejově, kde se zabýval výzkumem zákrytových dvojhvězd. Později působil ve Fyzikálním ústavu ČSAV/AV ČR. V roce 1996 získal cenu Kalinga, kterou uděluje UNESCO za popularizaci vědy. Veřejnosti je znám jako autor řady populárních a vzdělávacích knih o vesmíru a zejména jako průvodce televizním seriálem Okna vesmíru dokořán.
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38,23 €
Fearless and Free
This is the iconic Josephine Baker in her own words.
Funny, candid and unconventional: the wildly famous but elusive Josephine Baker tells her own story in this enchanting memoir. Baker took Paris by storm in the 1920s, dazzling audiences with her humour, beauty and effervescence on stage. She became an icon. Hemingway, Cocteau and Picasso admired her; Shirley Bassey adored her. It was said she strolled the streets of Paris with her pet cheetah who wore a diamond collar.
Later, as one of the most recognisable women in the world, she became a spy for the French resistance, her celebrity working as her cover. She was awarded the Légion d’honneur for military service. After the war she became increasingly interested in civil rights, and in 1963 she spoke at the March on Washington alongside Martin Luther King. All this from a girl of mixed heritage, born in Missouri to a poor mother and a father she did not know.
Formed from a series of conversations with the French journalist Marcel Sauvage over a period of more than twenty years, and now translated into English for the first time, this gorgeous book offers an insight into one of the most beguiling figures of the twentieth century.
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Kingmaker
When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were scathing - and often downright sexist. Written off as a social climber, her glamorous social life and infamous erotic adventures overshadowed her true legacy. Much of what she did behind the scenes to shape the twentieth century, on both sides of the Atlantic, remained invisible. That is, until now: with a wealth of fresh research, Sonia Purnell unveils for the first time the full, spectacular story of how Harriman left an indelible mark on the world today.
There is practically no-one in twentieth-century politics, culture and fashion whose lives she did not touch. Her influence began at age twenty, when her father-in-law, Winston Churchill, engaged her as a "secret weapon" during World War II, wining, dining and seducing Americans over to the British cause against Hitler. It continued later in the US, where she hand-picked Bill Clinton from obscurity and vaulted him to the presidency. It extended further, over five decades and two continents, influencing figures like the Kennedys, Nelson Mandela, Truman Capote, Gianni Agnelli, Kay Graham, Gloria Steinem and Frank Sinatra.
Written with the novelistic richness and investigative rigour that only Sonia Purnell could bring to this story full of sex, power, yachts, palaces and fabulous clothes, Kingmaker sets out Harriman's rightful place at the heart of recent history.
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Catherine, Our Future Queen
From the Sunday Times bestselling author and Royal correspondent, Robert Jobson - with his extensive connections within the royal household - this revelatory new biography tells the full story of how Catherine, the Princess of Wales, became the woman she is today.
Kate Middleton's life's story seems like a modern-day fairy-tale.
An attractive, clever, and ambitious girl from unexceptional beginnings meets and falls in love with a wealthy prince destined to be King when they are both university undergraduates. Now, with the British monarchy in transition, Catherine is Princess of Wales and is set to become Queen.
Since her wedding on 29 April 2011, Catherine has endeared herself to the people of the UK, the Commonwealth and worldwide on her extensive travels, with her infectious smile, sense of style and down-to-earth nature. Her self-deprecation, willingness to laugh at herself, solid work-ethic - along with her husband, William, warmth, and accessibility - this royal family's dynamic duo have become the most popular members of the Royal Family. But it's not come without its fair share of commentary and scandal, particularly with recent revelations on the relationship of the 'Fab Four' with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as well as her own health scares.
As interest in the royals continues to gain legions of new, younger fans, there is increasing interest in their histories and back stories of the principal players in this story. This book aims to discover, through talking to close sources both on and off the record within the royal household, what has made Catherine the woman she is today.
Dopijem a pudem
Stolní společnost kolem Vladimíra Macury (v první fázi Petr Čornej, Jan Lukeš, Petr Kovařík a Vladimír Novotný, posléze rozšířená o Jasnu Hlouškovou, Pavla Janouška, Antonína Kostlána a další) začala v osmdesátých letech na Macurův popud psát „stolní paměti“. Pod názvem Dopijem a pudem postupně vznikala originální memoárová próza, kterou Vladimír Macura jako jediný ze stolní společnosti nadále doplňoval a dopisoval ještě v devadesátých letech. Dětství v Ostravě, šedesátá léta i specifický pohled na dobu normalizace doplňují třeba i vzpomínky na listopad 1989, viděný skrz akademické prostředí. Co to byl Baltský svaz a kdo patřil do Klikoživu? A co říkal Jankovičův trpaslíček? Paměti Vladimíra Macury vycházejí vůbec poprvé a jsou doplněné reprezentativním výborem z Macurovy básnické tvorby (vedle sbírky Nehodný kos i další verše z šedesátých a sedmdesátých let).
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25,58 €
All You Need Is Love
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing stunning new revelations, about the biggest band the world has ever seen.
In 1980-1981 former COO of Apple Corp, Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines interviewed everyone in the Beatles' inner circle and included a small portion of the transcripts in their international bestselling book The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. But left in their archives was a treasure trove of unique and candid interviews that they chose not to publish, until now. A powerful work assembled through honest, intimate, sometimes contradictory and always fascinating testimony, All You Need is Love is a one-of-a-kind insight into the final days, weeks, months and years of the Beatles phenomenon.
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The Warrior
An intimate biography of tennis's living legend Rafael Nadal.
Tennis is not short on history. When Nadal arrived on the scene in 2005, the record for men's singles titles at the French Open stood at six, held by Bjorn Borg. Almost twenty years later, Nadal has more than doubled Borg's total with a mind-boggling fourteen titles. His record will undoubtedly remain his signature achievement - the stat that will define him in memory twenty, fifty, even a hundred years from now. Fourteen certainly looks like the only major tennis record that will never be broken even if Nadal, a modest champion despite his flashy résumé, rejects that kind of definitive thinking.
Nadal has won big and won often on any of tennis's surfaces, securing two Wimbledon titles on grass and four U.S. Opens on acrylic hardcourts. But clay, the slowest and grittiest of the game's playgrounds, is where it all comes together best for his explosive movement and warrior mindset. Clay is the canvas on which he has mastered his choreography, underlining the precision, speed, and raw power required to accomplish one of the most impressive sporting achievements of the 21st century - it is the essential stuff of his life and success.
Legendary sports reporter and bestselling author Christopher Clarey has interviewed Nadal and his coaches from his first French Open victory at nineteen, marking his debut as a rising star on the premier clay-court event in the world, to his most recent victory in 2022, closing out an astonishing career as one of the greatest players of all time. Brimming with behind-the-scenes insight into the story of a global sporting icon, The Warrior is a must-read account for the loyal sports fan - and anyone interested in the evolution of excellence.
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22,95 €
Street Fighter
My life has been an adventure from my early years in a caravan to what looks like a stunning finale. I’ve experienced lots of success and some failures along the way and have had the good fortune to meet many amazing characters across the globe. I was encouraged by my family to recount some of the adventures I have had, which includes a near death experience on a business trip in Syria early on when my close friend was executed and I was released. This was my life-changing moment. The opencast coal industry is where I made my fortune, giving me money enough to do many other things, including corporate takeovers, building and running businesses internationally, particularly in the Falkland Islands, Middle East and Africa. Investing in the world of performance cars and dealing with the mercurial characters for many years on the inside of Formula 1 racing. Always challenging and nothing easy, but a great way to spend a life, with a few lessons learnt to be passed on to the next generation of entrepreneurs.
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Steve Jobs in Exile
'I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter into one of the most creative periods of my life.'Steve JobsSteve Jobs in Exile tells the largely unexplored story of the dozen years Steve Jobs spent building NeXt in the aftermath of his firing from Apple, the company he founded, in 1985. This period would see Jobs at his most creative, vulnerable and intense. It would redefine him as a designer and a leader, ultimately leading to the later resurgence and dominance of Apple following his triumphant return. Yet this crucial period remains woefully under-covered. Award-winning writer Geoffrey Cain changes that. Utilising a trove of new material, including dozens of hours of unbroadcast footage of Jobs at NeXT's meetings and retreats, new interviews and unpublished oral histories with Jobs and his colleagues, new first-hand material and countless internal documents, Steve Jobs in Exile is the definitive history of the most remarkable period in the life of Steve Jobs.
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Janacek's Sinfonietta
A definitive study of Janácek's Sinfonietta, tracing its creation, reception, and rise to international prominence. This book provides a musical 'biography' of Leoš Janácek's (1854-1928) most famous orchestral piece - his Sinfonietta - by analysing its sources, composition, reception history, recordings and musical component parts. The most up-to-date research on the genesis and performance history of the work, it considers in detail Janácek's orchestral writing, the inspiration and genesis of the Sinfonietta, a documentation of all the surviving sources for the work, the work's performance history during Janácek's lifetime and following his death until the end of the Second World War, including press reviews and relevant correspondence. The book also examines the growth in the worldwide popularity of the Sinfonietta. This evolved from cautious and hostile critical responses to the premiere recording in 1946 to its gradual acceptance as one of the key works of the 1920s, largely thanks to the advocacy of conductors whose work is considered in detail, alongside other significant recordings. Questions of performance, rehearsal, interpretation and the musical text are considered in a wide-ranging interview with the conductor Jakub Hruša, and a concluding chapter provides a detailed commentary on the music itself. The book includes a valuable appendix describing the annotated scores used by conductors such as Otto Klemperer, František Neumann and Henry Wood, as well as a comprehensive discography.
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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.
