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Alexander


'A thrilling story, wonderfully told by one of the great historians' KEN FOLLETT'Dazzling... This is biography of great brilliance and rare resonance' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A pulsating, vivid life of a true historical titan' DAN JONES'A splendid book, lively, erudite... where myth and heroism meet' RORY STEWARTA stunningly written new biography of Alexander the Great, based on a series of important new discoveries and the author’s own translations of source material from twelve ancient languages. In 336 BCE, at the age of twenty, Alexander, a wide-eyed boy from the hills of Macedon, inherited a tumbledown kingdom, a pile of debts and an army which answered to nobody. Desperate to hold on to power, he led the army east, into the heart of the vast Persian Empire, and inadvertently began the greatest military campaign in history. The young man became a king, the king became a hero, the hero became a living god, and the god died aged thirty-two, broken-hearted in Babylon. For centuries, historians have told his story, yet Alexander has remained a mystery. But now, the ruins of his cities have emerged from the bottom of the sea and the dust of Central Asian hillsides. The diaries of Babylonian astronomers who knew him have been deciphered. The tombs of his ancestors have been unearthed. For the first time, instead of the legend, we can meet Alexander the man. Based on more than a decade of cutting-edge research, Alexander allows readers to feel the desert wind and experience the full horror of battle. Richardson’s research has taken him from the catacombs of Egypt to the passes of Afghanistan. Alexander is a cinematic work of non-fiction: a revelatory retelling of one of the most famous and elusive stories in history.
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How to Use a Fork


'Swayne deserves to join Oliver Sacks and Henry Marsh on the list of top popular neuroscience writers' - Melanie Reid, The Times 'Beautifully observed, beautifully written . . . an extraordinary journey in science, medicine, and creativity' - Rory Stewart'An incredible voyage of discovery . . . intensely moving and awe-inspiring' - Marina Hyde'Full of detailed reality . . . a tribute to the spirit of people faced with calamity' - Literary Review'In How to Use a Fork, the beautiful science of brain plasticity meets remarkable human stories of survival and recovery. We discover the woman who thought her arm was a baby, the man who saw mannequins peering at him through the dark, and the patient who found his way back to human interaction through music. As a medical student, Orlando Swayne was taught that a broken brain doesn’t mend. But as a junior doctor, he began to meet patients for whom this was clearly not the case. Intrigued by what he saw, he delved deep into the emerging neuroscience of brain reorganisation, and discovered that over time brain tissue creates new networks and regenerates. Developments in neurology continue to reveal new capabilities that allow functions we thought to be lost to be restored. The key to recovery, a return to some semblance of our previous selves after brain injury, lies in neurorehabilitation: painstaking work that rebuilds shattered lives. Irresistible to anyone who is curious about the mysteries of the brain, How to Use a Fork is a fascinating journey into the outer reaches of human experience.
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26,99 €

How to Build a Spitfire


A unique homage to the fighter aircraft that won the Battle of Britain, marrying the story of how the author built a replica Spitfire in his garden with the plane's operational history. In April 2018 David Price, dedicated aviation museum volunteer and author of The Crew and Mosquito Men, decided to build a Spitfire replica in his back garden. In How to Build a Spitfire he juxtaposes the story of the ups and down of his own ambitious project to recreate an icon of British aviation with a narrative of the development of the Spitfire itself, focusing in particular on the production of the aircraft and its various component parts – including the Merlin engine. The story includes incredible testimonies from workers in the Supermarine factory in Southampton and in other Spitfire production facilities. Bringing together the sometimes light-hearted tale of a personal quest, enthusiastically pursued, with an authoritative account of the technical workings of a war-winning weapon, and the stories of the men who flew it, How to Build a Spitfire is a distinctive and affectionate homage to an enduring symbol of British engineering genius and national resilience.
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14,99 €

The Secret History of the Universe


From the author of the global bestseller The Secret History of the World comes an epic new history of the relationship between spiritual belief and cutting-edge science. Jonathan Black shows that from Marie Curie to today’s architects of AI, many of our greatest scientists have been guided by secret, mystical and ‘higher’ teachings towards an understanding of the universe familiar to the builders of the pyramids of Giza or the Temple at Jerusalem. He explores how these discoveries, foreshadowed and paralleled by geniuses including Carl Gustav Jung and Hilma af Klint, raise deep and urgent questions about our understanding of the universe. Is the material universe we perceive with our senses an illusio? s a higher intelligence directing i? re events in the future already fixe? ow does modern physics show we are all connected in ways old science said were impossibl? re different kinds of intelligence - divine and less benevolent - emerging around u? his is the science hardline atheists don’t want you to know about.
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33,49 €

Literally


A joyful, realistic and relatable guide to being autistic, whether you know you are, think you may be or love someone who is. There are three reasons why this book is called Literally:Number 1: Autistic people can take things literally. Number 2: This is a literal book. Clear in its language, easy to understand and accessible. Number 3: It’s relatable. What do you say when someone says something so profoundly relatable that it connects to your own experience perfectly? ‘LITERALLY!’Tenuous fourth reason: It looks great on a front cover. Illustrator and content creator Ella Willis was 22 when they were formally diagnosed with autism but this was no surprise. Growing up they felt like they’d surely been dropped on earth by aliens and would eventually be rescued. Social blunders, overstimulation, intense joyful special interests: with the label of autism, these experiences made so much more sense. In Literally, Ella is here to help you navigate all parts of being autistic, destigmatize neurodivergence and offer accessible, practical and hopeful advice. From getting a diagnosis to self-diagnosis, stimming to masking, navigating relationships to sensory issues, Ella uses their personal story, research, illustrations and interviews to provide a clear-eyed view of the autistic experience. This is the book to help you – or your loved ones – thrive.
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22,99 €

Genres of Teaching


As learning is the purpose of teaching, learning theory ought to provide a strong theoretical basis for pedagogical practice. But learning theorists do not speak with one voice, and education has struggled for generations with multiple learning theories developed across the various branches of psychology. Looking back at this history reveals a hidden imperative to characterize learning as a unified construct – a drive that has blinded us to the simplest and most obvious solution to the problem of multiple learning theories. That solution is to recruit separate theorizations of learning to the long-established educational goals of teaching skills, teaching concepts, and teaching cultural practices. Employing this strategy, Genres of Teaching delivers a stable and cumulative knowledge base for teaching.
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41,99 €

Bannockburn


Relive the battle for a nation. As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June 1314 near the Bannock Burn, many would have thought that the result a foregone conclusion. But two days later, the English were routed, Edward II fled to the coast and took ship for home, and few English and Welsh soldiers escaped from Scotland unhurt. This emphatic victory was the moment that enabled Scotland to remain independent and pursue a different destiny. In this book, best-selling author Alistair Moffat offers fresh insights into one of the most famous battles in history, yet one which is surprisingly little understood. Where exactly was it fought; and what happened at the Scottish council of war the night before the second day to persuade the Scots to attack at daw? his book follows in detail the events of those two days that changed history, and captures all the fear, heroism, confusion and desperation as he describes the tactics and manoeuvres that led to a stunning and unexpected Scottish victory.
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12,49 €

A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit


In June 1949, the US and British governments secretly agreed to mount a joint covert action operation to overthrow the communist government in Albania. The top-secret plan would use exiled dissidents to conduct subversive intelligence, paramilitary and propaganda operations to foment an uprising against Albania's authoritarian ruler Enver Hoxha. The Albanian operation is a vital but misunderstood part of Cold War history. A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit explains how the West, it its first secret attempt to subvert a communist state behind the iron curtain, ultimately backed away from trying to bring down Hoxha's regime. Instead, Albania was the test case of anti-communist covert action where the West served its apprenticeship before rolling out this capability on a global scale. Drawing on a range of material and primary sources, this is the first book to take an international look at this crucial flashpoint and incorporate the motives and actions of all four major actors - the Anglo-Americans, the Communist powers, Albania's regional neighbours, and the Albanian rebels themselves. A tale of subterfuge, secrecy and skulduggery, this is a compulsively readable and fascinating examination of one of the most important, and least examined, major flashpoints of the Cold War.
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33,49 €

The Crusader Storm


'Bold, vital and urgent . . . Blows the old parochial Western accounts clean away' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB'Refreshing and astutely judged . . . immensely enjoyable' JONATHAN PHILLIPSA spectacular new panoramic history of the Crusades. From their foundation in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern world. In an era shaped by many conflicts, this was not simply a war between Christianity and Islam, but an epic contest among multiple rival empires, dynasties and cultures. The Crusader Storm unfolds through a kaleidoscope of perspectives: a Byzantine renegade, a crusader princess, a Turkish matriarch, a young Arab nobleman, a Syriac archbishop, Saladin's leading commander and the vizier of Egypt. Between them, information, technologies and ideas - as well as weapons - crossed borders at astonishing speed as their societies fought, allied and traded. Their entangled fates reshaped not only the Middle East, but the medieval world itself. Drawing on sources from Arabic, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Latin and Hebrew traditions, Nicholas Morton's enthralling panorama transforms our understanding of the Crusades - revealing them not as a single clash of faiths, but as a dynamic era of war, commerce, innovation and exchange that defined the course of history.
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33,49 €

The Return of the Great Powers


'This bracing tour d'horizon of the once and future world order, although aimed at the informed layman, is well worth reading . . . Simms has done much to rescue the reputation of geopolitical writing, often the preserve of the charlatan, the witless pundit and the video gamer. His newest work is no exception' THE TIMES'Timely . . . thought-provoking' FINANCIAL TIMES'Cuts through the noise to give the reader geopolitical clarity'TIM MARSHALL'Shines powerful light on the state of contemporary geopolitics . . . Profound'ANDREW ROBERTS'Wide-ranging and provocative'FIONA HILL'Simms is one of the most knowledgeable and formidable analysts of how the Great Powers will shape the new order'RANA MITTERFrom an acclaimed historian, a sweeping study of the past, present, and future of the Great Powers, revealing the new rules of global leadership. From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between great powers. In the West, this meant the struggle for supremacy in Europe and the Americas, while in the East, it encompassed those vying for control over the successor states to Genghis Khan's empire. Between 1989 and the year 2000, great power rivalry temporarily gave way to globalization, with liberal democracy on the march and national chauvinism seemingly in retreat. But events of the past decade have made one thing abundantly clear: the great powers are back. In The Return of the Great Powers, renowned historian Brendan Simms offers a new history of the rise, fall, and return of the Great Powers in our time. He shows that over the past ten years or so, the major global actors have already resumed making decisions based on geopolitical rather than global economic considerations. Delivering a clear-eyed reckoning with today's most pressing geopolitical issues, from the Ukraine war to the future of American dominance, The Return of the Great Powers insists that we can only understand the future of the great powers by looking to the history that forged them.
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Prestaňte príliš premýšľať


Od autora medzinárodného bestsellera „Neverte všetkému, čo si myslíte“ prichádza sprievodná príručka, ktorá vám pomôže zmeniť paralyzujúci cyklus prílišného premýšľania na jasné a intuitívne rozhodovanie. Váš mozog je naprogramovaný tak, aby nad rozhodnutiami príliš premýšľal – nie preto, že by s vami niečo nebolo v poriadku, ale preto, že vám veľmi záleží na tom, aby ste urobili správne rozhodnutie. Ak ste sa niekedy ocitli v nekonečnej slučke „čo keby“, analyzovali každú možnosť až do vyčerpania alebo hľadali rady u všetkých okolo seba a napriek tomu ste sa stále cítili stratení, táto kniha je vašou cestou von. Na rozdiel od tradičných prístupov, ktoré vás nechajú uviaznuť medzi nekonečnou analýzou a nejasnou intuíciou, autor ponúka kontraintuitívny systém, ktorý úplne obchádza začarovaný kruh prílišného premýšľania. Nejde o to robiť dokonalé rozhodnutia, ale robiť rozhodnutia, ktoré sú v súlade s vašou jasnou mysľou, a nie s chaosom. Kniha predstavuje psychologický a praktický rámec, ktorý vám pomôže prekonať „paralýzu z premýšľania“ a prejsť k rozhodnému a ucelenému konaniu. Presúva dôraz z hľadania „dokonalého“ rozhodnutia na rozho- dovanie ukotvené v jasnosti a dôvere v seba samého. JOSEPH NGUYEN je autor, youtuber, popularizátor poznania arešpektovaný duchovný líder nereprezentujúci nijakú ideológiu ani organizáciu. Jeho misiou je pomôcť iným objaviť zmysel ich existencie, naplniť ich duchovný potenciál a zbaviť sa mentálneho a emocionálneho trápenia.
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11,99 € 17,99€

Túžba tvoriť


Reprezentatívna publikácia vydaná pri príležitosti 150. výročia narodenia Tomáša Baťu prináša výber 149 nadčasových myšlienok jednej z najvýznamnejších osobností československej histórie. Kniha predstavuje Baťu nielen ako podnikateľa, ale predovšetkým ako človeka, ktorý veril v zodpovednosť, prácu na sebe, službu spoločnosti a odvahu tvoriť budúcnosť. Každá myšlienka je doplnená autentickými historickými fotografiami, ktoré čitateľa prenášajú do atmosféry Baťovho Zlína a života firmy Baťa. Publikácia tak prepája inšpiratívne citáty s vizuálnym príbehom doby, ktorá zásadne ovplyvnila moderný prístup k podnikaniu, vzdelávaniu aj vedeniu ľudí. Symbolickou súčasťou knihy je „149 + 1“ – posledná prázdna strana, ktorá patrí samotnému čitateľovi. Vyzýva ho k tomu, aby sa stal spolutvorcom vlastného života a formuloval svoju vlastnú myšlienku, hodnotu či víziu budúcnosti. Kniha Túžba tvoriť nie je iba publikáciou o histórii. Je pozvaním na zamyslenie nad tým, ako možno Baťove princípy zodpovednosti, disciplíny, odvahy a ľudskosti využívať aj v súčasnom svete.
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24,03 € 34,99€

Placebo ste vy


Je možné liečiť len silou myšlienky – bez liekov či operácie? Pravda je taká, že sa to deje častejšie, než by ste čakali. V knihe Placebo ste vy Dr Joe Dispenza uvádza množstvo zdokumentovaných prípadov ľudí, ktorým sa podarilo zvrátiť rakovinu, srdcové ochorenia, depresiu, paralyzujúcu artritídu a dokonca aj tras pri Parkinsonovej chorobe vďaka tomu, že verili placebu. Podobne Dr. Joe uvádza príbehy ľudí, ktorí ochoreli a dokonca zomreli ako obete kliatby či voodoo prekliatia – alebo po tom, ako im bola nesprávne diagnostikovaná smrteľná choroba. Viera môže byť taká silná, že farmaceutické spoločnosti používajú dvojito a trojito zaslepené randomizované štúdie, aby sa pri hodnotení nových liekov pokúsili vylúčiť vplyv mysle na telo. Dr. Joe neskúma len históriu a fyziológiu placebo efektu, ale kladie otázku: „Je možné učiť princípy placeba a bez spoliehania sa na akúkoľvek vonkajšiu látku vyvolať rovnaké vnútorné zmeny v zdraví človeka a nakoniec aj v jeho živote?“ Následne sa delí o vedecké dôkazy (vrátane farebných skenov mozgu) o úžasných uzdraveniach na svojich workshopoch, na ktorých sa účastníci učia jeho model osobnej transformácie založený na praktických aplikáciách takzvaného placebo efektu. Kniha končí „návodom“ na meditáciu zameranú na zmenu presvedčení a vnímania, ktoré nás brzdia – čo je prvý krok k uzdraveniu. Kniha Placebo ste vy spája najnovší výskum v oblasti neurovied, biológie, psychológie, hypnózy, behaviorálneho podmieňovania a kvantovej fyziky, aby demystifikovala fungovanie placebo efektu a ukazuje, ako sa zdanlivo nemožné môže stať možným.
Na sklade 2Ks
19,99 €

Čachtická pani


Aj štyristo rokov po uväznení a smrti na Čachtickom hrade vyvoláva meno Alžbety Bátoriovej v ľuďoch zimo- mriavky. Jej príbeh opakovane priťahuje spisovateľov, filmárov, čitateľov aj divákov. Prečo nás stále tak fascinuje? Odpoveď spočíva v tom, ako sme si ju pretvorili podľa svojej fantázie, prispôsobili najtemnejším stránkam ľudskej osobnosti. Z historickej postavy sa vypracovala až na popkultúrnu ikonu – „krvavú grófku“. Bola však skutočne „beštiou“, ktorá sa kúpala v krvi panien, alebo sa stala obeťou najväčšieho politického sprisahania v dejinách Uhorska? Dnes žijeme v dobe, keď nám už strašidelné historky nestačia. Chceme vedieť, kým Alžbeta Bátoriová sku- točne bola. A o to sa snaží táto kniha, ktorá po prvýkrát chronologicky mapuje celý jej život – od narodenia a dynastického spojenia rodov Bátori a Nádašdy cez krutú realitu života v Uhorsku sužovaného vojnami až po šokujúce obvinenia a proces s jej údajnými spolupáchateľmi. Odhaľuje mýty, ktoré dodnes v príbehu „krvavej grófky“ prežívajú, a ukazuje, ako vznikli. Podáva hypotézy, ktorými jej prípad vysvetľujú rôzni autori, a ponúka aj jednu vlastnú verziu. Vychádza pritom z dostupných faktov a zasadzuje ich do kontextu doby, v ktorej život, smrť, česť a zrada nehrali vyrovnanú partiu. Autorská dvojica, píšuca pod pseudonymom Bergerová/Walter, sa venuje skúmaniu histórie investigatívnym spôsobom. Na osoby a udalosti nazerá detektívnymi očami a s využitím možností súčasnej doby sa snaží odhaľovať a analyzovať fakty, búrať mýty a reinterpretovať legendy. V knižnej sérii FAKTY • MÝTY • LEGENDY chcú autori prinášať objektívnejší pohľad na postavy dejín, nezaťažený zaužívanou interpretáciou histórie.
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11,67 € 15,99€

Jedno pre dušu


Nájsť moderné duchovné poučenie prispôsobené otcom rodín dnešnej doby nie je úplne jednoduché. Práve dnes však otcovia intenzívne vnímajú potrebu sústrediť sa na podstatu, pretože žijú vo svete, kde musia znášať mnohé tlaky. Tieto „otcovské desaťminútovky“ sú inšpirované stretnutiami Abbé mousse papas (čo by sa dalo voľne preložiť ako Kňaz s otcami na pive), pri zrode ktory´ch stál francúzsky kňaz Raphaël Cournault. Kniha ponúka desať prehľadny´ch a dynamických kapitol pre zaneprázdnených otcov. Vzťahy s manželkou, deťmi, vlastným otcom, peniaze, práca, záľuby atď.: desať hlavných tém z každodenného života otcov tu autor približuje s hĺbkou a dobroprajnosťou.
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11,37 € 15,99€

Mama sa modlí


Vtipná, úprimná a povzbudivá kniha pre mamy, ktoré túžia po modlitbe aj uprostred každodenného chaosu. Claire de Féligondeová ponúka krátke zamyslenia, praktické tipy a modlitby pre bežný rodinný život – s humorom, nadhľadom a veľkou dávkou povzbudenia. Kniha ukazuje, že aj unavená a zaneprázdnená mama môže nájsť cestu k Bohu v obyčajných chvíľach dňa.
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15,99 €

Encyklika Rerum Novarum


Svätý Otec Lev XIV. si vybral meno Lev s odvolaním sa na Leva XIII., autora jednej z najvýznamnejších encyklík v histórii Cirkvi Rerum Novarum, ktorá vyšla v roku 1891 a bola označená za magnu chartu katolíckej sociálnej náuky. Publikácia obsahuje celé znenie encykliky ako aj dve fundované štúdie: Michal Vivoda Od Leva XIII. k Levovi XIV. a Milan S. Ďurica Sto rokov encykliky Leva XIII.
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2,48 € 3,00€

States without Armies


One of the fundamental assumptions regarding the modern state is that it must have the capacity to defend itself from external enemies. Yet, there are twenty-one countries today-one ninth of the United Nations' membership-that do not maintain standing armies. What historical contexts, geographical endowments or socio-economic conditions allow or even encourage a state to go without an army? When does a country decide not to have an army, and under what circumstances is the issue even discussed? What kind of security provisions or guarantees, if any, do countries that consider demilitarization seek prior to making such a decision? And what are the disadvantages and benefits of not fielding a standing army? Zoltan Barany addresses all of these questions and more with three core arguments. First, he shows that the question of whether to create a new army or disband an extant force tends to arise at critical historical junctures for a nation. This may follow a civil war, a military coup, or an economic collapse. Second, virtually all of the states that do not maintain standing armies enjoy formal or informal security arrangements that provide explicit guarantees or implicit assurances that sovereignty will be safeguarded. Third, demilitarized states are more democratic and generally better off - and often far better off - in terms of political stability and nearly every measurable variable of socio-economic well-being than similar countries that maintain standing armies. States without Armies sheds new and counterintuitive light on the role of force in the international state system.
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42,99 €

Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood


John D’Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone unfailingly went to confession and Sunday Mass become a lapsed Catholic? How does a family who worshipped Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported Richard Nixon produce an antiwar activist and pacifist? How does a family in which the word divorce was never spoken raise a son who comes to explore the hidden gay sexual underworld of New York Cit? emories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is D’Emilio’s coming-of-age story in which he takes readers from his working-class Bronx neighborhood to an elite Jesuit high school in Manhattan to Columbia University and the political and social upheavals of the late 1960s. He shares his personal experiences of growing up in a conservative, tight-knit, multigenerational family, how he went from considering entering the priesthood to losing his faith and coming to terms with his same-sex desires. Throughout, D’Emilio outlines his complicated relationship with his family while showing how his passion for activism influenced his decision to use research, writing, and teaching to build a strong LGBTQ movement. This is not just John D’Emilio’s personal story; it opens a window into how the conformist baby boom decade of the 1950s transformed into the tumultuous years of radical social movements and widespread protest during the 1960s. It is the story of what happens when different cultures and values collide and the tensions and possibilities for personal discovery and growth that emerge. Intimate and honest, D’Emilio’s story will resonate with anyone who has had to chart their own path in a world they did not expect to find.
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25,49 €

Rozšírte svoje vedomosti z nových oblastí ako ekonómia, manažment a marketing. Zaujímate sa o vesmír a jeho fungovanie, správanie živočíchov či históriu času? Správny smer do života a pozitívnu psychológiu prinesie motivačná literatúra. Knihy odborné - z oblasti práva, pedagogiky, sociológie či medicíny - ukrýva práve táto sekcia.

Kategória Odborná a populárno-náučná literatúra zahŕňa knihy a texty, ktoré poskytujú informácie a odborné znalosti v rôznych odboroch. Táto kategória sa líši od beletristickej literatúry a zameriava sa na vedomostný prínos.

Odborná literatúra obsahuje podrobné informácie, teórie a výskum v rôznych oblastiach ako veda, medicína, technológia, právo, ekonomika a psychológia. Populárno-náučná literatúra je prístupnejšia verejnosti a zaujímavo prezentuje tématické úseky, históriu, biografie a vedecké objavy.

Odborná a populárno-náučná literatúra je dôležitá pre vzdelávanie, osobnostný rozvoj a celoživotné učenie. Pomáha nám porozumieť svetu, objavovať nové perspektívy a zlepšiť naše schopnosti. Tieto diela od renomovaných autorov sú zdrojom inšpirácie a prínosov pre naše profesionálne a osobné životy.

K najznámejším autorom odbornej literatúry patria Stephen Hawking, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Kahneman či zo slovenských autorov Roman Králik, či Vojtech Zamarovský.