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Čingischán a Mongolská říše
Připravte se vstoupit do říše Čingischána – rozlehlé oblasti dobytých zemí, vypálených měst a nemilosrdných vojevůdců – do světa, v němž přežijí jen ti nejodvážnější. Otočte stránku a vydejte se na výpravu, která vás zavede na stezky mířící od větrných stepí Dálného východu
až k nám do srdce Evropy. Na této pouti potkáte kočovné válečníky, kteří srazili mocné říše na kolena, budete kráčet po boku cestovatelů, kteří překonali rozlehlé světadíly, a budete žasnout nad vynalézavostí Mongolů. Pospěšte si. Chán na nikoho nečeká.
Hlavní témata:
Taktika & válečné stroje, vynálezy & obchod, expanze & plenění
Fascinující vzestup otroka Temüdžina, který si podmanil velkou část Asie
Vydejte se s Mongoly na vítězná tažení Čínou, Evropou i Blízkým východem
Staňte se svědky krvavých bitev, jež smetly celé národy a vyhladily dynastie
Podvrh, nebo fakta? Marco Polo na dvoře Kublaj-Chána
Navštivte říši Tamerlána, jenž ovládal dobytá území neúprosným terorem
Mongolové na Moravě, kultura, všední život, ženy v říši, příprava jídla
Autori:
Edoardo Albert, Alice Barnes-Brown, Hareth Al Bustani, Charles Ginger, Michael E. Haskew, James Hoare, James Horton, John Man, Scott Reeves, David Smith, Frances White, Derek Wilson, Steve Wright
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Motherland
Motherland is a ground-breaking exploration of African culture and identity, told via Luke Pepera's journey through 500,000 years of history to connect with his extraordinary heritage. Pepera tackles the questions many people of African descent ask - Who are we? Where do we come from? What defines us? And how might knowledge of deep history affect our understanding of our identity?
With illuminating examples, Pepera explores aspects of African identity from nomadic culture to matriarchal society. We meet an array of intriguing characters including Mansa Musa, the wealthiest man who ever lived, and the Kandake Queen Amanirenas, who defeated the Romans in Nubia. We learn how the response to the actor Chadwick Boseman's death demonstrated Yoruba beliefs about ancestral veneration, and how the rap battle evolved from earlier forms of African oral literature.
Interwoven with Luke's own experiences of exploring his Ghanaian family history, this is a comprehensive, relevant and beautifully told account of the stories that have shaped Africa.
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The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis
The shocking true story of the German monarchy's collaboration with the Nazis - already a bestseller in Germany, now in English for the first time.
**AWARDED THE GERMAN NON-FICTION PRIZE 2022**
'Malinowksi's work is a near-masterpiece, relating a story not synthesised in this way before, and about which any number of self-serving myths exist' - Simon Heffer, The Telegraph
'Stephan Malinowski's brilliant book strikes a balance between the forensic analysis of individual behaviour and a new understanding of how the toxic political culture of a defeated monarchy helped to disrupt democracy in Germany' - Christopher Clark
The disappearance of the Hohenzollern family from the history of Germany in November 1918 as the Kaiser fled into Dutch exile is one of the most startling, rapid instances of a once all-powerful royal family becoming almost overnight irrelevant and marginal. Except this is not exactly what happened.
Stephan Malinowski's German bestseller is an extraordinary work of recovery. It suited both the Weimar Republic and then the Third Reich to view the Hohenzollerns with contempt, and yet the royal family's hatred of the former and approval of the latter were for millions of Germans a significant factor in their own view of their country and its government.
With forensic and often shocking detail, Malinowski shows that, far from being ridiculous, marginal figures the Hohenzollerns lay at the heart of Germany's ongoing nightmare. Despite formally losing power, the members of the royal family remained prominent, catastrophically allowing many other conservative Germans to stay distanced from the new republic and to eventually betray conservative traditions and values. Battered from both left and right, the Republic collapsed in 1933 in part because conservative forces, fearful of both Communism and Fascism, had abandoned their own principles just as much as the leading members of former royal family had, who were themselves beguiled by and fooled by Hitler.
This is an important and shocking book, as well as a devastating picture of an inadequate and trivial royal family painfully underequipped to fulfil its role.
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51,95 €
The Great Siege of Malta
'Marcus Bull's revisiting of the siege through the eyes of the Ottomans and a global lens that shifts our angle of vision has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of the events of 1565... his approach is investigatory, based on a forensic study of all the available evidence and posing open-ended questions... the coverage of the siege itself is succinct and full of interesting perspectives' - Roger Crowley, Engelsberg Ideas
A major new account of the epic siege of the island fortress of Malta
Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic - a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldiers, native Maltese, adventurers and Knights Hospitaller on a strategically crucial but near waterless island and a vast, seemingly all-powerful Ottoman armada. With three quarters of the Mediterranean's coasts already in the hands of the Sultan and his allies, all eyes were now on Malta.
This superb new account of the siege emphasises the crucial importance of the siege while at the same time putting it in a far wider context. While since mistakenly recast as a climactic battle between the West and the East, it was also much more interesting and nuanced than that - both sides had many other interests and priorities beyond Malta. Süleyman the Magnificent had conquered and subsumed regions from Hungary to the Persian Gulf; Philip II was building an empire in America and Asia.
Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness stories, Marcus Bull gives a vivid sense of the period's technologies, values and assumptions. It was a grim world built on the labour of many thousands of disposable galley-slaves, shockingly brutal forms of warfare and religious absolutism. But it was also a world filled with the most extraordinary new discoveries and ideas. Both these worlds come together in the siege and in this book.
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38,95 €
Židovské deti z Vasutinky a Rómovia
Ilustrovaná kronika skutočných osudov, ktorá zachytáva bolesť, prežitie aj nádej židovských detí a rodín počas pogromov, prenasledovania a genocídy. Autor s hlbokou ľudskosťou svedčí nielen o krutosti nenávistných režimov, ale aj o výnimočných prejavoch odvahy a solidarity, keď rómske komunity chránili svojich židovských susedov. Kniha je mementom a výzvou postaviť sa proti rasizmu, antisemitizmu a ľahostajnosti — slovom aj činom.
#holokaust #židovskéOsudy #rómskaSolidarita #Rómovia #protiNenávisti #antisemitizmus #rasizmus #nikdyviac #skutočnéPríbehy
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22,45 €
The Last Tsar
The definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world's foremost expert.
When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas's life is often described as tragic, it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs - it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy.
Based on a trove of new archival discoveries, The Last Tsar narrates how Nicholas's resistance to reform doomed the monarchy. Encompassing the captivating personalities of the era, it untangles the struggles between the increasingly isolated Nicholas and Alexandra and the factions of scheming nobles, ruthless legislators, and pragmatic generals who sought to stabilize the restive Russian empire either with the Tsar or without him. By rejecting compromise, Nicholas undermined his supporters at crucial moments. His blunders cleared the way for all-out civil war and the eventual rise of the Soviet Union.
Definitive and engrossing, The Last Tsar uncovers how Nicholas II stumbled into revolution, taking his family, the Romanov dynasty, and the whole Russian Empire down with him.
The Taiwan Story
An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters – for China, the West and everyone’s future
When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities.
Taiwan is now a flourishing democracy and an economic success story: just one of its companies produces over 90 per cent of the semiconductors that power the world’s economy. It is a free and vibrant society. For the United States and the West, the island is a bastion of freedom against China’s assertive presence in the region. And yet China, increasingly bellicose under Xi Jinping, insists Taiwan is part of its territory and must be returned to it. Should China blockade the island and mount an invasion, it would set off a chain reaction that would pitch it against the US – escalating a regional war into a global one. Taiwan is thus a geopolitical powder keg.
The Taiwan Story helps us understand how and why we’ve arrived at this dangerous moment in history. With unparalleled access to Taiwan’s political leaders and a deep understanding of the island’s history and culture, Professor Kerry Brown provides a new reading of Taiwan, its twenty-three million people, and how they navigate being caught in this frightening geopolitical standoff. This is the essential book delving into Taiwan’s unique story, buried beneath the headlines, told in an accessible, expert and urgent way.
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21,95 €
Patria
An adventurous, dazzling and original continent-sized history that brings South America’s untold past and fascinating present to life
Stretching from the edge of Antarctica to the shores of the Caribbean, South America is a continent of stunning natural beauty and biodiversity, a cultural and culinary powerhouse that feeds, fuels and cools the planet. Yet this vast region remains an enigma to many outsiders, its 450 million inhabitants often forgotten, or stereotyped as eternal victims of colonialism, crime and corruption.
Patria reveals an alternative history of South America, spanning thousands of miles and five centuries to the present. Looking beyond modern borders, Laurence Blair takes as his waymarks nine countries that can’t be found on a map: vanished realms, half-imagined utopias and dismembered homelands. He travels to each in turn – on foot and horseback, by rail and river – to trace their rise, fall and unexpected afterlives.
Blair goes in search of ancient Amazonian civilisations, a rebel Inca dynasty in the jungle, and the Patagonian power that defeated Imperial Spain. His journey ranges from a seafaring Peruvian kingdom made rich by bird droppings, to a fearsome nation of fugitives that defied slavery in Brazil, and an insurgent desert confederation that went down fighting with an Andalusian conman. He falls in with Bolivia’s landlocked navy, the African freedom fighters who marched over the Andes to liberate the hemisphere, and the New World Napoleon who led Paraguay to its ruin.
Patria incorporates groundbreaking recent scholarship, striking archaeological discoveries and vivid eyewitness reporting – including encounters with drug lords, Indigenous leaders, refugees bound for the United States and former guerrillas – to weave an epic of survival, resistance and revolution. This is the story of South America as is rarely told: at the epicentre of global history and the forging of the modern world.
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21,95 €
Bojovníci železné opony
Leninova teze o tom, že bolševická revoluce musí zvítězit na celém světě, má jeden jediný důvod – z domnělého „ráje“ nesmí být kam utéct. A když přeměna celosvětového řádu nevyšla, musela vzniknout Berlínská zeď i železná opona. Jeden z největších zločinů komunistické totality pokřivil osudy lidem na obou stranách opevněné hranice. Těm na východní straně pochopitelně daleko více. Tato publikace se zaobírá příběhy lidí, kterým se železná opona na naší západní hranici nesmazatelně zapsala do života – nejen v dobrém, ale především ve zlém. Byli to padouši i hrdinové. Ovšem odpovědět si na otázku, kdo byl padouch a kdo hrdina, je v nejednom případě velmi těžké…
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21,94 €
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Samurajové. Neuvěřitelné osudy legendárních japonských bojovníků.
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Holding the Line
From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK.
It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spending weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment. Her mission: was to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike.
Over the year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families, increasingly engaged and heartbroken. She recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives, sisters and daughters. She saw rights she'd taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about, as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them, or didn't care, or simply could not know.
This book is the true story of the families who held the line, and of Kingsolver's commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselves in their fight to keep their families from destitution.
It is a story about the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle.
FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
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Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world. How did a nomad come to conquer China and master the sea? Based on ten years of research and a lifetime of immersion in Mongol culture and tradition, Emperor of the Seas brings this little-known story vibrantly to life.
Kublai Khan is one of history's most fascinating characters. He brought Islamic mathematicians to his court, where they invented modern cartography and celestial measurement. He transformed the world's largest land mass into a unified, diverse and economically progressive empire, introducing paper money. And, after bitter early setbacks, he transformed China into an outward looking sea-faring empire.
By the end of his reign, the Chinese were building and supplying remarkable ships to transport men, grain, and weapons over vast distances, of a size and dexterity that would be inconceivable in Europe for hundreds of years. Khan had come to a brilliant realization: control the sea, and you control everything.
A master storyteller with an unparalleled grasp of Mongol sources, Jack Weatherford shows how Chinese naval hegemony changed the world forever - revolutionizing world commerce and transforming tastes as far away as England and France.
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Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI - a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. If we are so wise, why are we so self-destructive?
NEXUS considers how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world.
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Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon.
NEXUS explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and of rediscovering our shared humanity.
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Land Between the Rivers
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We begin the story with ancient Sumer, and Gilgamesh building the walls of Uruk ('Iraq') to make a great name for himself around the turn of the third millennium BC. We end it in 1958, as the last royal family of Iraq is slaughtered on the steps of a small royal palace in Baghdad, the most effervescent, free, and promising capital in the Middle East.
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The Endless Country
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Inside the Stargazers Palace
In 1506 a comet appears above Augsburg. As the astronomer Johann Virdung explains, it heralds conflict, the destruction of crops and the death of kings. He concludes his theories with a poem. In 1680 Isaac Newton peers at a comet through a telescope for the first time. He calculates its orbit and distance from the Sun. Of its meaning, he says nothing. No poetry ensues.
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V kategórii Svetové dejiny sa vám naskytne jedinečná príležitosť poznať udalosti, civilizácie, kultúry a osobnosti, ktoré formovali celý náš svet od jeho úplných počiatkov až po súčasnosť.
Poznajte vzostupy a pády veľkých impérií, od starovekého Egypta, cez Rímsku ríšu až po Britské impérium. Skúmajte revolúcie, vojny, vedecké objavy a kultúrne premeny, ktoré ovplyvnili dejiny ľudstva.
Táto kategória obsahuje knihy, ktoré vám priblížia nielen politický a spoločenský vývoj rôznych kontinentov a národov, ale aj významné kultúrne, náboženské a vedecké prelomy v dejinách sveta. Či už máte záujem o obdobie renesancie v Európe, dynastie v Číne, starovek v Mezopotámii alebo modernú históriu 20. storočia, v tejto kategórii sa ponúra do bohatstva svetových dejín.
Pridajte sa k nám na ceste objavovania minulosti a porozumenia udalostiam, ktoré formovali svet, v ktorom žijeme dnes.
