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The Witches - Salem, 1692
'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ...Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMES It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before panic had infected the entire colony, nineteen men and women had been hanged, and a band of adolescent girls had brought Massachusetts to its knees. Vividly capturing the dark, unsettled atmosphere of seventeenth-century America, Stacy Schiff's magisterial history draws us into this anxious time. She shows us how quickly the epidemic of accusations, trials, and executions span out of control. Above all, Schiff's astonishing research reveals details and complexity that few other historians have seen.
Science - A History In 100 Experiments
A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments - epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. The history of science is a fascinating and long one, covering thousands of years of history. The development of scientific experiments involves some of the most enlightened cultures in history, as well as some great scientists, philosophers and theologians. As the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman said, 'If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong', the simplest summary of what science is all about. And science is nothing without experiments. Everything in the scientific world view is based on experiment, including observations of phenomena predicted by theories and hypotheses, such as the bending of light as it goes past the Sun. From the discovery of microscopic worlds to weighing the Earth, from making electricity to the accelerating Universe and gravitational waves, this stunning book by renowned science writers John and Mary Gribbin tells the fascinating history of science through the stories of 100 groundbreaking experiments.
Hroby bez diktátorů
Klasická historiografie ani náznakem nepřipouští, že by císař Napoleon I. a vůdce německého národa Adolf Hitler mohli přežít svoji vlastní smrt. První ve vyhnanství na ostrově Svaté Heleny, druhý v berlínském podzemním krytu na konci dubna 1945; že oba mohli dožít svoje životy v ústraní, daleko od hlučného davu. Většina indicií, které zmiňuje tato kniha, dokazují nebo naznačují, že by to tak vskutku mohlo být, že opak by mohl být tou pravou neměnnou historickou pravdou. Příběh obou diktátorů není životopisnou studií, ale spíš analýzou poslední chvil jejich rozporuplného života. Autor představuje hlubokou analýzu obsáhlého historického materiálu, který mu umožnil dopracovat se k překvapivým závěrům, o čemž se vzdělaný čtenář přesvědčí po přečtení této knihy.
Sterling Ruby
A comprehensive study of one of the most versatile artists and acute observers of our time, who fuses art and fashion American artist Sterling Ruby works in a large variety of media, including sculpture, ceramics, painting, and video art. Ruby is influenced by a wide range of sources, including marginalized societies, maximum-security prisons, modernist architecture, artefacts and antiquities, graffiti, waste and consumption, and urban gangs. Through these, he examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint.
Dějiny alchymie v Českých zemích, v Polsku a na Slovensku
Dějiny alchymie patří k oblastem přírodních věd, jejichž studium patří k velmi obtížným, už proto, že tato nauka existovala téměř dvě tisíciletí, a objevila se na třech kontinentech. Na její dlouhé pouti nalézáme úspěchy i ztroskotání. Tím hlavním bylo u praktikující alchymie marné hledání kamene filosofů a transmutace obecných kovů v drahé chemickou či metalurgickou cestou, případně oběma najednou. Alchymisté netušili, že to není možné a právě tímto hledáním, ve skutečnosti marným, prokládali cestu budoucí chemii. Stejně neúspěšně skončily pokusy o přípravu univerzálního léku. To jsou jen dvě oblasti alchymie, která však zahrnovala mnohem více, jak to naznačuje tato kniha.
Je zaměřena na středoevropský region, kde jsou dějiny této nauky stále málo prozkoumané, a je to oblast, kterou zahraniční odborná literatura vesměs opomíjí, s výjimkou mimořádného rudolfínského období. I v něm se ale obvykle pozornost soustřeďuje na dvojici John Dee – Edward Kelley. Jednotlivé bloky knihy představují čtenáři rovněž domácí protagonisty této nauky v Čechách a na Moravě, v Polsku a na Slovensku.
Hlavním přínosem této knihy o historii alchymie je její zaměření na středoevropský region, kde jsou dějiny této nauky stále málo prozkoumané a zahraniční odbornou literaturou vesměs opomíjené, s výjimkou mimořádného rudolfínského období. Jednotlivé části knihy představují čtenáři hostující i domácí protagonisty této nauky v Čechách a na Moravě, v Polsku a na Slovensku. Přičemž právě poslední ze zmiňovaných oblastí byla dlouhou dobu doslova terra incognita zdejší historiografie.
Jelikož však teritorium někdejší polsko-litevské unie zahrnovalo kromě Litvy i podstatnou část dnešní Ukrajiny a Běloruska, stejně jako byla vzájemně propojena historie česká a rakouská, potažmo slovenská a maďarská (uherská), nepředstavuje de facto předmětné pojednání jen dějiny alchymie na území Koruny české, Polska a Slovenska, nýbrž v celé střední a východní Evropě, navíc s přesahem na alchymistickou scénu regionů dalších, vzhledem k tomu, že na rozvoji středoevropské alchymie se podíleli renomovaní alchymisté němečtí, francouzští, angličtí, italští a švýcarští, i díky pobytu českých studentů na univerzitách v Německu, Francii a Itálii!
Blitzed - Drugs in Nazi Germany
'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow 'A huge contribution...remarkable' Antony Beevor, BBC RADIO 4 'Extremely interesting ...a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw The sensational German bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich, from Hitler to housewives. The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops' resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940. The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also impaired and confused decision-making, with Hitler and his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany. While drugs cannot on their own explain the events of the Second World War or its outcome, Ohler shows, they change our understanding of it. Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story.
Stalin and the Scientists
Long listed for the The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016. An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union's scientists became both the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world. Simon Ings weaves together what happened when a handful of impoverished and underemployed graduates, professors and entrepreneurs, collectors and charlatans, bound themselves to a failing government to create a world superpower. And he shows how Stalin's obsessions derailed a great experiment in 'rational government'.
Česká kartografie
Kniha Česká kartografie je jednou z prvních na našem knižním trhu, která se komplexně zabývá vývojem kartografie na českém území. V knize je přehledně vysvětleno, co je vlastně náplní kartografie a jaký je její vztah k ostatním souvisejícím vědním oborům. Nejobsáhlejší kapitolou je přehledně zpracovaný vývoj mapových děl, a to od počátku vzniku map na našem území až po současnost, kdy jsou mapová díla vytvářena pomocí nesrovnatelně kvalitnějšího a přesnějšího vybavení. Kniha vás seznámí s osobnostmi tohoto oboru, které se zasloužily o dochování vskutku skvělých grafických děl, jež zaujmou nejen oko odborníka. Pro lepší představu čtenáře je textová část doplněna ilustracemi významných mapových děl, na kterých je zřetelně vidět, jakým vývojem tento bezpochyby zajímavý obor procházel.
Věříme, že kniha zaujme jak odbornou, tak laickou veřejnost a stane se dobrým průvodcem dějinami kartografie.
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The Invention of Science
We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history. Before 1492 it was assumed that all significant knowledge was already available; there was no concept of progress; people looked for understanding to the past not the future. This book argues that the discovery of America demonstrated that new knowledge was possible: indeed it introduced the very concept of 'discovery', and opened the way to the invention of science. The first crucial discovery was Tycho Brahe's nova of 1572: proof that there could be change in the heavens. The telescope (1610) rendered the old astronomy obsolete. Torricelli's experiment with the vacuum (1643) led directly to the triumph of the experimental method in the Royal Society of Boyle and Newton. By 1750 Newtonianism was being celebrated throughout Europe. The new science did not consist simply of new discoveries, or new methods. It relied on a new understanding of what knowledge might be, and with this came a new language: discovery, progress, facts, experiments, hypotheses, theories, laws of nature - almost all these terms existed before 1492, but their meanings were radically transformed so they became tools with which to think scientifically. We all now speak this language of science, which was invented during the Scientific Revolution. The new culture had its martyrs (Bruno, Galileo), its heroes (Kepler, Boyle), its propagandists (Voltaire, Diderot), and its patient labourers (Gilbert, Hooke). It led to a new rationalism, killing off alchemy, astrology, and belief in witchcraft. It led to the invention of the steam engine and to the first Industrial Revolution. David Wootton's landmark book changes our understanding of how this great transformation came about, and of what science is.
The New York Times Complete World War II
The Times' complete coverage of World War II is now available in a paperback edition of this unique book. Hundreds of the most riveting articles from the archives of the Times including firsthand accounts of major events and little-known anecdotes have been selected for inclusion in The New York Times: World War II. The book covers the biggest battles of the war, from the Battle of the Bulge to the Battle of Iwo Jima, as well as moving stories from the home front and profiles of noted leaders and heroes such as Winston Churchill and George Patton. The book features more than 600 articles hand selected by respected World War II historian and writer, editor Richard Overy guides readers through the articles, putting the events into historical context. The enclosed DVD-ROM includes every article published by the Times during the war--nearly 100,000--which is fully searchable and easy to navigate. Beautifully designed and illustrated with hundreds of maps and historical photographs, this book and DVD-ROM package is the perfect gift for any war, politics, or history buff.
A világ háborúja
Niall Ferguson a fiatal brit történésznemzedék egyik leghíresebb és szakmailag is legelismertebb képviselője. 1985-ben kitüntetéssel szerezte meg diplomáját Oxfordban, ahol 2000-ben a politikatudományok és a pénzügytörténet professzorává nevezték ki. Azóta oktatott a New York-i Stern Business Schoolban, a New York Egyetemen, valamint a Harvard és a Stanford Egyetemeken. Munkásságának sokszínűsége, olvasmányos stílusa, közérthető nyelvezete miatt gyakran hasonlítják a néhány éve elhunyt, Magyarországon is ismert brit történészhez, A. J. P. Taylorhoz. A világ háborúja alapján készült többrészes televíziós dokumentumfilm-sorozatot Magyarországon is bemutatták.
A XX. század az emberiség történetének messzemenően legvéresebb százada. A "gyűlölet évszázada" az első világháborút megelőző konfliktusokkal kezdődött, és a hidegháború utórezgéseinek számító háborúskodásokkal végződött. Hogyan magyarázható meg az erőszak megdöbbentő mértéke és hevessége, amikor a tudomány és a gazdaság fejlődésének köszönhetően az emberiség jelentős része jobban élt, mint korábban bármikor? Miért torkollhatott a fejlődés népirtásba? Mik voltak például a holokauszt okai? Niall Ferguson talán legjelentősebb könyvében a rá jellemző éleslátással, elevenséggel és eredetiséggel kísérli meg felfejteni, mi romolhatott el a modern kor beköszöntével. A történeti, gazdasági és evolúciós elméletek úttörő jellegű összekapcsolása révén "A világ háborúja" forradalmi módon újraértelmezi a modern kort.
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Revolution
Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was - again - at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange, the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation and parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities and duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished and the English novel was born. It was an era in which coffee houses and playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely and in which shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in our towns and villages. But it was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly and irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies and farmland to one of soot and steel and coal.
Mythomania
Despite our culture's proclaimed respect for scientific reason, we live in a society that is no less bedazzled-and bedevilled-by myth than those of our remote ancestors. Roland Barthes first examined the mythical resonances of consumer products in the 1950s. Far from being demystified, consumerism has since morphed into a universal religion, its compulsory ritual of shopping essential to our economic survival. Myth has also invaded the political realm, as terrorists brandish black flags and recite theological mantras as they martyr themselves. Peter Conrad's exhilarating book exposes the absurdity and occasional insanity of our godforsaken, demon-haunted contemporary culture. Conrad casts his brilliant beam upon subjects from The Queen to the Kardashians, via Banksy, Nando's, vaping, the vogue of the cronut, the mushroom-like rise of Dubai, the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, the growth of the Pacific garbage patch...In Judge Judy, he shows us a matronly Roman goddess dispensing justice with a fly swatter. In the metamorphosis of Caitlyn Jenner from Olympic athlete and paterfamilias into idealized female form, he sees parallels to the deeds of the residents of Mount Olympus themselves. Finally, after surveying advances in biomedical engineering and artificial intelligence, he asks whether we might be on the brink of a post-human world.
The Pursuit of Power - Europe, 1815-1914
'Transnational history at its finest ...social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one great canvas of immense detail and beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Dazzlingly erudite and entertaining' Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times A masterpiece which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change. The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation. The book aims to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural, political and technological changes. It was a time where what was seen as modern with amazing speed appeared old-fashioned, where huge cities sprang up in a generation, new European countries were created and where, for the first time, humans could communicate almost instantly over thousands of miles. In the period bounded by the Battle of Waterloo and the outbreak of World War I, Europe dominated the rest of the world as never before or since: this book breaks new ground by showing how the continent shaped, and was shaped by, its interactions with other parts of the globe. Richard Evans explores fully the revolutions, empire-building and wars that marked the nineteenth century, but the book is about so much more, whether it is illness, serfdom, religion or philosophy. The Pursuit of Power is a work by a historian at the height of his powers: essential for anyone trying to understand Europe, then or now.
The Vikings
Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword 'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today' Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. This encyclopedic study brings together the latest research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewellery, kingship, poetry and family life. The result is a rich and compelling picture of an extraordinary civilisation.
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The German War
WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE. The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, the Third Reich expended and exhausted all its moral and physical reserves, leading to total defeat in 1945. Yet 70 years on - despite whole libraries of books about the war's origins, course and atrocities - we still do not know what Germans thought they were fighting for and how they experienced and sustained the war until the bitter end. When war broke out in September 1939, it was deeply unpopular in Germany. Yet without the active participation and commitment of the German people, it could not have continued for almost six years. What, then, was the war Germans thought they were fighting? How did the changing course of the conflict - the victories of the Blitzkrieg, the first defeats in the east, the bombing of Germany's cities - change their views and expectations? And when did Germans first realise that they were fighting a genocidal war? Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, The German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War. Told from the perspective of those who lived through it - soldiers, schoolteachers and housewives; Nazis, Christians and Jews - its masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs, hopes and fears of a people who embarked on, continued and fought to the end a brutal war of conquest and genocide.
The History Thieves
In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official trust'. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should, be told. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As successive governments have been selective about what they choose to share with the public, we have been left with a distorted and incomplete understanding not only of the workings of the state but of our nation's culture and its past. In this important new book, Ian Cobain offers a fresh appraisal of some of the key moments in British history since the end of WWII, including: the measures taken to conceal the existence of Bletchley Park and its successor, GCHQ, for three decades; the unreported wars fought during the 1960s and 1970s; the hidden links with terrorist cells during the Troubles; the sometimes opaque workings of the criminal justice system; the state's peacetime surveillance techniques; and the convenient loopholes in the Freedom of Information Act. Drawing on previously unseen material and rigorous research, The History Thieves reveals how a complex bureaucratic machine has grown up around the British state, allowing governments to evade accountability and their secrets to be buried.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Floating Piers
Waterborne: Christo and Jeanne-Claude s Floating Piers on Lake Iseo From June 18 to July 3, 2016, 100 kilometers east of Milan and 200 kilometers west of Venice, thousands of people will walk on water. The Floating Piers by Christo and Jeanne-Claude will deploy 70,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric above a modular floating dock system of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes to create a temporary, three-kilometer walkway across the surface of Lake Iseo, connecting the mainland to the islands of Monte Isola and San Paolo.The piers will be 16 meters wide and approximately 40 centimeters high, with sloping sides. Visitors will experience the artwork by walking from Sulzano to Monte Isola and over to San Paolo. The mountains surrounding the lake will also offer a bird s-eye view of the project, revealing unnoticed angles and perspectives.The Floating Piers will be Christo and Jeanne-Claude s first large scale project since they realized The Gates in 2005 and will draw upon their established history of projects in Italy, including Wrapped Fountain and Wrapped Medieval Tower in Spoleto, 1968; Wrapped Monuments in Milan, 1970; and The Wall Wrapped Roman Wall in Rome, 1973 74. As with all of Christo and Jeanne-Claude s projects, The Floating Piers will be funded entirely through the sale of Christo s original works of art. After the 16-day exhibition, all components will be removed and recycled.This book presents rich photographic coverage of The Floating Piers alongside sketches, models, documents and designs, revealing the process behind this waterborne work of art. Incorporating everything from approval procedures to the manufacture of fabric and anchoring elements, it testifies not only to Christo and Jeanne-Claude s unique creative imagination but also to the immense technical, bureaucratic, and logistical feats that allowed the concept to take float.Text in English and Italian"
Black Square - Adventures in the Post-Soviet World
When I first lived in Ukraine, I was preoccupied with its ideas of the past and future. Once Maidan started, there was nothing but the present; every hour held the possibility of transformation, and of terrible violence...' After leaving university in 2004, Sophie Pinkham moved to Siberia to volunteer for the Red Cross, tackling the rising AIDS crisis by folding origami tulips. Over the next decade, she travelled and worked across the post-Soviet world, from Lake Baikal to the Black Sea, at a time when the young countries of the region were struggling to define their new identities. Black Square is a multidimensional portrait of a period of tumultuous change, and of a generation that came of age after the fall of the USSR, only to see protestors shot on Kiev's main square, Crimea annexed by Russia, and a bitter war in eastern Ukraine. We meet a charismatic doctor fighting the AIDS epidemic even as he struggles with his own drug addiction; an iconoclastic artist with a penchant for public nudity; and a Russian-Jewish clarinettist agitating for Ukrainian liberation. With a deep knowledge of the literature and legends of the region, and a keen outsider's eye for the dark absurdities of post-Soviet society, Black Square delivers an indelible impression of a region, and a world, on the brink.
Kategória odbornej literatúry história poskytuje informácie o historických udalostiach, kultúrach, politických konfliktoch a ich vplyve na spoločnosť.
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