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Slovenské a české dejiny 
Svetové dejiny, dejiny štátov 
Vojnová literatúra - ostané 
Druhá svetová vojna 
Armáda, zbrane a vojenská technika 
Moderné dejiny 
Archeológia, genealógia a heraldika 
Mytológia 
Stredovek 
Starovek 
Prvá svetová vojna 
Špionáž a spravodajské služy 
Novovek 
Pravek 
Templári 
História - ostatné
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Broken Republik
The compelling story of Germany's decline - where it all went wrong and how it could bounce back.
For many years, the post-war recovery of Germany was an inspirational story. All of Europe looked on with admiration and envy as the nation rebuilt and set standards for the rest to follow. Companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Siemens and Bayer rose to become global titans, while the country's political leaders earned respect around the world - even their football teams were the best. Such was its success that when the Berlin Wall fell, it appeared to reunify almost seamlessly. Where Germany led, the rest followed.
But, even at its zenith, there were signs of trouble, with a worrying lack of national identity at its heart. So, when events started to turn against Germany, the whole edifice began to crumble. As political and business leaders benefited from the status quo, they couldn't see the problems heading their way. Volkswagen's emissions fraud tainted its industrial reputation; abandoning nuclear power left the country at the mercy of Russia for its energy needs; and a growing divide between rich and poor stoked international tensions that opened the door to the rise of the far-right AfD party.
Journalists Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes have been reporting for years on the problems the country faces. Germany is not alone in this, but it is singularly ill-equipped to deal with them. Broken Republik is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand Germany's slide towards the brink.
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23,95 €
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
This is the incredible untold story of four women who helped win World War II by generating a wave of black propaganda.
Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was 21. Jane Smith-Hutton was the wife of a naval attaché living in Tokyo. Marlene Dietrich, the German-American actress and singer, was one of the biggest stars of the 20th century. These four women, each fascinating in her own right, together contributed to one of the most covert and successful military campaigns in WWII.
Members of the Office of Strategic Services, their task was to create a secret brand of propaganda produced with the sole aim to break the morale of Axis soldiers. Working in Europe, across enemy lines in occupied China and in Washington D.C., Betty, Zuzka, Jane and Marlene forged letters and 'official' military orders, wrote and produced entire newspapers, scripted radio broadcasts and songs and even developed rumours for undercover spies and double agents to spread to the enemy. And outside of a small group of spies, no one knew they existed. Until now.
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21,95 €
Dark Laboratory
From award-winning writer and theorist Tao Leigh Goffe, an urgent investigation into the intertwined history of colonialism and the climate crisis – and the lessons we can learn to fight for a better world.
Our planet is on the precipice of dramatic ecological breakdown and climate despair is at an all-time high. But there are many communities who have survived beyond the environmental destruction wrought on them by colonialism – and they hold the solutions for climate repair.
Using the Caribbean as a case study, Tao Leigh Goffe traces the vibrant and complex history of the islands back to 1492 and the arrival of Christopher Columbus when the Caribbean became the subject of Western exploitation. Charting the human and ecological forces that have shaped the islands, Goffe examines the legacy of fierce warrior Queen Nanny of the Maroons, engages in pressing cultural debate about stolen artefacts and human remains which are kept hidden in museum archives, and visits Indigenous farming cooperatives who are using ancestral knowledge to rebuild their communities.
Using the Caribbean as a both a warning and a guide, Dark Laboratory takes hopeful and galvanizing teachings from the islands communities to offer illuminating solutions to the ecological crisis. From guano to sugarcane, coral bleaching to invasive mongoose populations, Dark Laboratory is a lyrical, vibrant and urgent investigation into the greatest threat facing humanity.
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27,95 €
The Golden Throne
Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinnacle of world power, while his family and future are at the mercy of their own dynastic law: whichever of his five sons succeeds him must eventually kill all the others. So why not get a head start?
For the next fifteen years, as Suleyman the Magnificent and his terrifying pirate captain Barbarossa face down imperial enemies across two hemispheres, the self-fulfilling curse of the Ottomans gathers its own unstoppable momentum.
From the burning pyres of Paris to the rain-lashed mountains of Transylvania, from Buda to Basra, from Crimea to the coast of India, The Golden Throne is an intensely gripping yet entirely historical reconstruction of the life and world of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, revealing the price of succession and the terrible cost of success.
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23,95 €
Rain of Ruin
A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.
In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died in a final outburst of violence from the air. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final, terrible flourish to try to end the war.
Richard Overy’s remarkable new book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombing. This book explores the way in which the willingness to kill civilians and destroy cities became normalized in the course of a horrific war as moral concerns were blunted and scientists, airmen, and politicians followed a strategy of mass destruction they would never have endorsed before the war began. But it also engages with the new scholarship that shows how complex the effort to end the war was in Japan, where ‘surrender’ was entirely foreign to Japanese culture.
Česká knižní kultura na cestě od rukopisu ke knihtisku
Monografie na podkladě kratších studií nastiňuje obraz knižní kultury, knižní tvorby a čtenářské obce v českých zemích na přelomu 15. a 16. století. Zabývá se předpoklady vzniku a přijetí knihtisku v českých zemích a zkoumá některé jevy a vlivy, které působily v době přechodu od rukopisné k tištěné knize. Zároveň srovnáním se zahraničním vývojem zasazuje období raného českého knihtisku do mezinárodního kontextu. Vzhledem k probíhající diskusi o povaze českého humanismu a o tzv. národním humanismu se vyslovuje také k ideovým, kulturním i společenským konotacím tehdejší knižní kultury.
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20,57 €
A Training School for Elephants
In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa's resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephants - if only he could train them.
And so he commissioned the charismatic Irish adventurer Frederick Carter to ship four tamed Asian elephants from India to the East African coast, where they were marched inland towards Congo. The ultimate aim was to establish a training school for African elephants.
Following in the footsteps of the four elephants, Roberts pieces together the story of this long-forgotten expedition, in travels that take her to Belgium, Iraq, India, Tanzania and Congo. The storytelling brings to life a compelling cast of historic characters and modern voices, from ivory dealers to Catholic nuns, set against rich descriptions of the landscapes travelled.
Roberts digs deep into historic records to reckon with our broken relationship with animals, revealing an extraordinary - and enduring - story of colonial greed, ineptitude, hypocrisy and folly.
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21,95 €
Threads of Empire
A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets
Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power. Emperors, shahs, sultans and samurai crave them as symbols of earthly domination. Shamans and priests desire them to evoke the spiritual realm.
The world's 1% hunger after them as displays of extreme status. And yet these seductive objects are made by poor and illiterate weavers, using the most basic materials and crafts; hedgerow plants for dyes, fibres from domestic animals, and the millennia-old skills of interweaving warps, wefts and knots.
In Threads of Empire, Dorothy Armstrong tells the histories of some of the world's most fascinating carpets, exploring how these textiles came into being then were transformed as they moved across geography and time in the slipstream of the great. She shows why the world's powerful were drawn to them, but also asks what was happening in the weavers' lives, and how they were affected by events in the world outside their tent, village or workshop.
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21,95 €
The Far Edges of the Known World
What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world?
When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his new bleak and barbarous surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world was where civilisation ceased to exist. Our fascination with the Greek and Roman world, and the abundance of writing that we have from it, means that we usually explore the ancient world from this perspective too. Was Ovid's exile really as bad as he claimed? What was it truly like to live on the edges of these empires, on the boundaries of the known world?
Thanks to archaeological excavations, we now know that the borders of the empires we consider the 'heart' of civilisation were in fact thriving, vibrant cultures - just not ones we might expect. This is where the boundaries of 'civilised' and 'barbarians' began to dissipate; where the rules didn't always apply; where normally juxtaposed cultures intermarried; and where nomadic tribes built their own cities.
Taking us along the sandy caravan routes of Morocco to the freezing winters of the northern Black Sea, from Co-Loa in the Red River valley of Vietnam to the rain-lashed forts south of Hadrian's Wall, Owen Rees explores the powerful empires and diverse peoples in Europe, Asia and Africa beyond the reaches of Greece and Rome. In doing so, he offers us a new, brilliantly rich lens with which to understand the ancient world.
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23,95 €
Dějiny Sýrie
Sy?rie má společně s Egyptem a Mezopotámií jednu z nejdelších souvisly?ch historií a její dějiny sahají až k samému prahu lidské civilizace. Obsáhlá kniha Eduarda Gombára, Petra Charváta a Lukáše Pechy pokrývá nejstarší období, vpád muslimsky?ch Arabů i etapu, kdy byl Damašek hlavním městem rozsáhlé říše dynastie Umajjovců, sahající od Španělska po Střední Asii. Kniha přibližuje první světovou válku, po níž se historické území Bilád aš-Šám rozdělilo do několika samostatných států, a rovněž turbulentní období po skončení francouzského mandátu a získání nezávislosti, kdy se v zemi střídaly parlamentní demokracie a vojenské diktatury. Závěrečné kapitoly jsou věnovány arabskému jaru, které zemi uvrhlo do zničující občanské války, a přiblíženo je i revoluční dění na konci roku 2024
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46,90 €
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
Vypredané
15,05 €
Česká žena
V novém svazku edice Stručná historie Milena Lenderová živě a se smyslem pro detail i pro širší souvislosti líčí dějiny žen v českých zemích od středověku po práh 21. století. Shrnuje a vysvětluje, jak se v průběhu dějin proměňovala dívčí puberta, s jakými ambicemi vstupovaly v různých dobách ženy do manželství či jak vnímaly své mateřství. Přichází s novou historickou perspektivou v pohledu na násilí vůči ženám ve veřejném i soukromém prostoru a zamýšlí se nad tím, jak se v průběhu staletí měnila ženská sexualita. Sleduje, kdy a jak ženy pronikly na trh práce a na univerzity, a nezapomíná ani na ty, jež se dostaly na opačnou stranu sociálního spektra – na ženy zločinné.
Vypredané
18,28 €
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Wages for Housework
What would women do with their lives if they had more time? The riveting, untold story of a revolutionary campaign to change the way work is valued' The women of the world are serving notice. We want wages for every dirty toilet, every indecent assault, every painful childbirth, every cup of coffee and every smile. And if we don’t get what we want, we will simply refuse to work any longer!' Across the globe in the 1970s, a network of feminists distilled their struggles into a single demand: Wages for Housework! Today, it remains a provocative idea, and an unfulfilled promise.
Here historian Emily Callaci tells the story of this campaign by exploring the lives and ideas of its key creators, tracing their wildly creative political vision over the past five decades: from the early 1970s, when Selma James, a working-class political organizer, and Mariarosa Dalla Costa, a scholar-activist, started laying the foundations of Wages for Housework in London and Italy; through philosopher Silvia Federici reframing the campaign in the context of New York City’s fiscal crisis; to Wilmette Brown, lesbian poet and anti-war activist, and Margaret Prescod, community organizer, who brought the insights of Black feminism to the movement. Drawing on new archival research and extensive interviews, Callaci takes us deep inside the heart of the movement as it reached across Europe, America, Africa and the Caribbean. For these women, the wage was more than a demand for money: it was a starting point for remaking the world as we know it, imagining potential futures under capitalism – and beyond.
Then as now, Wages for Housework poses profound questions. What would it be like to live in a society that prioritizes care rather than production? How would this change our relationship with the natural world? And what would women do with their lives if they had more time?
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31,95 €
Between Two Rivers
Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.
What they left behind, in a vast region that once sat between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of pi. But they also capture breathtakingly intimate, raw and relatable moments, like a dog's paw prints as it accidentally stepped into fresh clay, or the imprint of a child's teeth.
In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals what these ancient people chose to record about their lives, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later. We find a lullaby to soothe a baby, instructions for exorcising a ghost, countless receipts for beer, and the adorable, messy writing of preschoolers. We meet an enslaved person negotiating their freedom, an astronomer tracing the movement of the planets, a princess who may have created the world's first museum, and a working mother struggling with 'the juggle' in 1900 BCE.
Together, these fragments illuminate not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.
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21,95 €
The Lives of the Caesars
A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detail
The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. To rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. No biography invites us into the lives of the Caesars more vividly or intimately than that by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, written from the centre of Rome and power, in AD 121.
Placing each Caesar in the context of the generations that had gone before, and connecting personality with policy, Suetonius injected flesh and blood into their stories, which continue to inform how we understand the drama of power today. Their shortfalls, foreign policy crises and sex scandals are laid bare; we are shown their tastes, their foibles, their eccentricities; and we sit at their tables and enter their bedrooms, resulting in a series of biographies mediated through the lives of the Caesars themselves.
That Rome lives more vividly in people's imagination than any other ancient empire owes an inordinate amount to Suetonius, and now award-winning author and translator Tom Holland brings us even closer in a new, spellbinding translation. Giving a deeper understanding of the personal lives of the Caesars and of how they inevitably informed what happened across the vast expanse of empire, The Lives of the Caesars is an astonishing, immersive experience of a time and culture at once familiar and utterly alien to our own.
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25,95 €
Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice
Could we ever see Vladimir Putin in the dock for his crimes? What about a Western ally like Benjamin Netanyahu? Putting a country's leader on trial once seemed unimaginable. But as Steve Crawshaw describes in Prosecuting the Powerful - a blend of powerful eyewitness reporting and gripping history - the possibilities of justice have been transformed.
Crawshaw includes recent stories from the front lines of justice in Ukraine, Israel/Palestine and at The Hague, as well as his earlier encounters with war criminals like Slobodan Milošević. He tells the stories of those who have demanded protection for civilians and accountability for war criminals - from the Swiss businessman who is the reason why we have the Geneva Conventions today and the prosecutors at Nuremberg to the Syrian police photographer who helped put one of Bashar al-Assad's torturers behind bars. He also follows the extraordinary unfolding story of two of the world's most powerful and well-connected leaders currently under indictment at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
From Gaza to Bucha and beyond, survivors seek justice for the crimes committed against them. But for that to happen, governments must finally abandon their double standards and have the courage to support prosecutions of those who commit atrocities, whether opponents or allies.
For all the current darkness, this is a historic opportunity. The scales of justice can and must be balanced. Now is the moment.
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23,95 €
Jane Austen's Bookshelf
Publishing to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth.
It all started with a book that made me curious.
When rare books dealer Rebecca Romney found an emerald clothbound edition of Evelina by Frances Burney, she was happy to discover that she'd stumbled across a novel by one of Jane Austen's favourite authors. Inspired by the connection between the two writers, she returned to Austen's books with a new lens, picking out clues sprinkled throughout her works that pointed to the writers she had admired.
Austen read William Shakespeare, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson, all authors Rebecca had read. But Austen also read Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Lennox, Hannah More, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hester Piozzi, and Maria Edgeworth, all authors Romney hadn't. These female writers all sat proudly on Austen's bookshelf, but have disappeared from ours.
Romney became fascinated with these writers and wanted to answer three important questions: What were the stories behind the lives of these women? Why have they disappeared from our bookshelves? Who wrote them out of history? She had a mission, an obligation: she needed to collect Jane Austen's bookshelf.
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31,95 €
Dejiny európskeho stredoveku III. Neskorý stredovek
Tretím zväzkom sa uzatvára originálne kompendium dejín stredoveku z pera historikov z Filozofickej fakulty Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave. Autori približujú čitateľom, tak ako aj v predchádzajúcich dvoch dieloch, politicko-mocenské, ideové, kultúrne i náboženské súvislosti dejín starého kontinentu, tu konkrétne od polovice 13. storočia do konca 15. storočia. Erudované texty sú doplnené prehľadnými zoznammi panovníkov a pápežov sledovaného obdobia. Publikáciu využijú predovšetkým študenti a učitelia historických disciplín, no s úžitkom si v nej budú listovať všetci záujemcovia o minulosť.
Milenky, manželky, matky
Kniha se zabývá partnerskými vztahy mužů a žen ze středních městských vrstev české společnosti druhé poloviny 19. století. Pozornost je věnována všem etapám (před)manželského vztahu. V textu jsou reflektovány ideální modely partnerských protějšků, strategie nalézání a volby partnera, prožívání období namlouvání, změny zapříčiněné sňatkem a příchodem dětí. Zpracována je také diskuse o reformě manželství probíhající na počátku 20. století mezi představiteli katolické církve a jejich oponenty. Součástí knihy je problematika rozvodu a manželské rozluky, prožívání vdovství a vdovectví. Kromě ego-dokumentů tvoří pramennou základnu zejména preskriptivní literatura, společenské katechismy, dobová odborná literatura a periodický tisk.
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27,97 €
Kategória odbornej literatúry história a vojnová literatúra poskytuje informácie o historických udalostiach, kultúrach, politických konfliktoch a vplyve vojen na spoločnosť.
História je dôležitou súčasťou našej identity a chápania sveta. Tieto knihy poskytujú podrobné informácie o rôznych obdobiach, sociálnych, hospodárskych a politických dejinách. Vojnová literatúra sa zameriava na vojenské konflikty, vojenskú stratégiu, zbrane a ich vývoj, a osudy vojakov a civilistov.
K najznámejším autorom patria Stephen E. Ambrose, Antony Beevor, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Anne Applebaum či slovenskí autori ako Dušan Kováč alebo Vojtech Zamarovský.
