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Servants of God, Slaves of the Church


In Servants of God, Slaves of the Church, Lisa Kaaren Bailey uncovers the surprising intimacy between sacred devotion and coerced labor in early medieval Europe. From queens who scrubbed monastery floors to enslaved women forced into lifelong service, acts of humility and acts of subjugation often looked the same and were interpreted through the same religious lens. Drawing from sermons, letters, miracle stories, and hagiographies, Bailey shows how metaphors of service shaped not only elite piety but also the lived experience of those at the very bottom of the social order. This is a story of lives that were often absent from the historical record: those who lit church lamps, laundered liturgical linens, and sustained Christian worship through their unseen labor. Bailey weaves together theology, cultural history, and feminist historiography to trace how Christian ideas about virtue, sin, and the will both justified unfreedom and offered tools to contest it. Her use of "critical fabulation" animates the archive without fictionalizing it, allowing glimpses of agency in places where it was rarely recorded. By placing the metaphor of service alongside its social reality, Servants of God, Slaves of the Church reshapes how we think about labor, power, and religious meaning in the centuries after Rome. A deeply informed work of both historical scholarship and moral insight, this book gives voice to the voiceless and demands a reconsideration of what it meant to serve God.
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Rogue States


In Rogue States, Matthew A. Frakes reveals the connection between US national security strategy at the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror. Throughout a series of crises from 1981 to 1991, the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush recognized that emerging threats to global security – terrorism, regional aggression, weapons of mass destruction, and narcotics trafficking – converged into a single growing phenomenon that they eventually called "rogue states." In confronting Libya, Panama, and Iraq, Reagan and Bush created the strategies that drove US national security after 9/11. Frakes argues that Reagan and Bush's improvised responses to crises of terrorism, aggression, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction – culminating in the Gulf War of 1991 – established a lasting enforcement role for the United States against rogue states in the post–Cold War world. The effort to redefine US national security around this threat created a new framework to guide the country's approach to global security after the Cold War – one that ensured after 9/11 that the War on Terror became a war on rogue states.
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The New Dark Age


In an increasingly polarized age, culture wars are everywhere. They are often dismissed as superficial or confected disagreements designed to distract us from more important issues. Is this true, or are they actually more fundamental than tha? n this thoughtful and passionate intervention, renowned theologian and moral philosopher Nigel Biggar argues that the 'culture wars' are in fact political and moral debates that cut to the very quick of some of the most substantial questions of our time, ranging from the welfare of children to the way we conceive and manage ethnic and cultural differences in diverse societies. The fact that these debates are so often characterized by bad faith, lack of scruple and mindless abuse exposes the rot at the heart of the intellectual culture of the West, most especially in universities. The authoritarian suppression and the smearing of isolated dissidents, combined with the intimidation of a conflict-averse majority of bystanders, are alarming symptoms of a dangerous reality: our hard-won and fragile liberal culture of rational truth-seeking and good faith civility is under serious threat. A new dark age looms. Mixing first-hand experience with broad ethical, political and cultural reflection, this is a powerful and erudite polemic from one of our most respected thinkers. No one who cares about the future of Western civilization can afford to miss it. Also available as an audiobook.
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Rôzne texty


Knihu francúzskeho metafyzického spisovateľa Reného Guénona (1886-1951) Rôzne texty (franc. Mélanges) zostavil editor Roger Maridort pre vydavateľstvo Gallimard v roku 1976 pri príležitosti dvadsiateho piateho výročia autorovej smrti so zámerom ponúknuť čitateľom reprezentatívny výber z bohatého korpusu Guénonových textov, ktoré boli pôvodne publikované časopisecky. Pokrýva celý časový oblúk autorovej tvorby (najstarší text pochádza z r. 1909, posledný je z r. 1950) a takisto hlavné oblasti jeho záujmu. Devätnásť textov je rozdelených do troch častí: Metafyzika a kozmológia; Tradičné vedy a umenia; O niektorých moderných omyloch. Vo všetkých ostáva Guénon verný svojim východiskám a tiež zámerom: predstaviť západným záujemcom presne a neskreslene dôležité metafyzické témy a motívy, s ktorými sa môžeme stretnúť nielen vo východných náukách, ale vo vlastnej podobe aj v západnej duchovnej tradícii.
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Trauma narodenia


Trauma narodenia z roku1924 patrí k jeho najvýznamnejším prácam. Tvrdí v nej, že narodenie je zásadná traumatizujúca situácia, ktorá sa vyznačuje separáciou od matky a je príčinou úzkosti, ktorú sa človek pokúša prekonať po celý život a tiež v celých dejinách kultúry a prostredníctvom kultúrnych výtvorov ako jej kompenzácie. Poukázaním na rozhodujúci vzťah matky a dieťaťa v ranom detstve, pôvod úzkosti a význam objektových vzťahov ovplyvnil Rank mnohých ďalších teoretikov z oblasti humanitných vied a prispel k novému smerovaniu psychoanalytického skúmania v 20. storočí.
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Dilexi Te. Apoštolská exhortace o lásce k chudým


Východiskem exhortace Dilexi te je Boží láska k chudým, slabým a ubohým, kteří jsou často vystaveni opovržení svého okolí. Exhortaci začal připravovat v posledních měsících svého života ještě papež František – navázal tak na svou encykliku Dilexit nos. Po jeho smrti si text osvojil a o vlastní myšlenky rozšířil papež Lev XIV. Text má klasickou strukturu: 1. co nám říká k tématu Bible; 2. stručné dějiny charitativní činnosti a sociální nauka církve; 3. výzvy pro dnešní církev. Chudí jsou v první řadě naši bližní, nikoli pouze sociálněekonomická kategorie nebo objekt něčí péče. Když nám Ježíš Kristus říká: „Cokoli jste udělali pro jednoho z těchto mých nejposlednějších bratří, pro mne jste udělali“ (Mt 25,40), není to jen projev lidské laskavosti. Kristus nám tím říká, že chudí tvoří Jeho tělo a láska k nim je znakem církve věrné Božímu srdci a evangeliu.
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Conquer Your Emetophobia


Emetophobia is not simply a fear of vomiting. In severe cases, it can invade every aspect of a person''s life, making them avoid having children, rigorously restrict their diets or stop eating almost entirely, and limit their social activities due to fear. In this empathetic guide, clinical counsellor and emetophobia expert Anna Christie shares how emetophobia controlled her life for years, and how she finally overcame it for good. The book gradually walks you through the steps to recovery, starting with being able to read "that word" without discomfort. Each step is designed to be taken at your own pace, with no pressure to race ahead to a fixed finish line, but rather to mindfully extend your comfort zone at a sustainable rate.You may have lived with emetophobia for years. You may even have tried to overcome it before, without success. This guide will help you to take the next step in your recovery journey and make real progress towards overcoming emetophobia.
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Dost dobrý život


Dnešní rychlá a na výkon zaměřená doba na nás vytváří ohromný tlak, který svými vlastními nároky častokrát ještě zvyšujeme. Chceme být „úspěšní“. Mít peníze ale neznamená být šťastný. Mít hezké tělo neznamená být zdravý. A být obklopen lidmi neznamená cítit se milován. Proto vám odhalím můj příběh „úspěšného chlapa“, který se svým špatně směřovaným úsilím připravil v životě o vše, co je v něm opravdu důležité. Naštěstí jsem dostal šanci se ze svých chyb včas poučit a ani vy je nemusíte opakovat.
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Ptáci lidských sídel


Někteří s námi žijí už tisíce let, jiní přišli teprve nedávno. Jedni už bez nás žít nedokáží, s druhými se musíme soužití ještě učit. Tato příručka vám ukáže způsoby, jak se lidé a ptáci mohou vzájemně obohatit. Jak je určovat? Příručka představuje 67 druhů ptáků – ty nejběžnější, které potkáváme v zahradách i v centrech měst, ale také vzácné zimní hosty či druhy ubývající a ohrožené. Jak jim pomáhat? Ptáci ve městech a obcích čelí mnohým výzvám a nebezpečím. Nechte se inspirovat, jak můžeme ptákům život s námi usnadnit. Jak řešit konflikty? Soužití s ptáky občas není jednoduché. Nechte si poradit, jak řešit problémy, abyste mohli mít z blízkosti ptáků radost.
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School Isn't For Everyone (and what you can do instead)


Unschooling, a learner-centred educational philosophy, breaks away from the confines of traditional schooling, advocating for a more organic, child-centric approach. Its essence lies in the belief that learning is a natural and lifelong process. It is cemented in the fact that children are innately curious and capable of directing their own education when provided with a nurturing and resource-rich environment. This book delves into the principles of unschooling, providing insights into its benefits, challenges, and practical application. School Isn''t For Everyone shows what is possible when you leave school behind and start living a life of learning. It discusses the principles that form this educational philosophy, explains how unschooling works, sets out what the parents'' role is and explores what children do all day when they don''t follow a curriculum. It draws on current theory and evidence whilst sharing practical tips and being grounded in the reality of day-to-day life with children. It does this by including interviews with unschooling families, exercises for parents to help reinforce ideas, listing key points in every chapter and including diagrams to illustrate the concepts being explored. Whether you are a parent looking for alternatives to school, are already home educating and exploring the possibilities, have found yourself unexpectedly unschooling or are certain that this is the route for you, this book serves as a guide to both understanding and implementing the core principles, taking you on a journey from schooled to unschooled and releasing you and your child into a life full of learning.
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Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism


In this contemporary classic, Lewis Gordon presents his iconic, detailed existential phenomenological investigation of antiblack racism as a form of Sartrean bad faith. Bad faith, the attitude in which human beings attempt to evade freedom and responsibility, is treated as a constant possibility of human existence. Antiblack racism, the attitude and practice that involves the construction of black people as fundamentally inferior and subhuman, is examined as an effort to evade the responsibilities of a human and humane world. Gordon argues that the concept of bad faith militates against any human science that is built upon a theory of human nature and as such offers an analysis of antiblack racism that stands as a challenge to our ordinary assumptions of what it means to be human. A foundational text in black existentialism, this 30th anniversary edition includes a substantial introduction by Mabogo Moreto address the ongoing importance of Gordon’s thought in critiquing and resisting racist bad faith in our contemporary moment.
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The Queen


Crown jewels, coronations and corgis, this is a warm and nostalgic biography of powerhouse monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, written by experienced biographer Michelle Morgan. Structured around 100 vignettes, the reader will be invited into an intimate telling of key moments of her long life. Many of the stories relate to milestones, such as her wedding to Prince Philip, the coronation, the birth of her children along with grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and her various jubilees. Interspersed with these, are fascinating stories that have been lost or forgotten over the past century. From immersive accounts of her working life, such as trips around the country and abroad to the people she met (including her neighbour for a time, Marilyn Monroe!), and the anecdotes they shared. The book includes striking photographs of the Queen at different stages of life. From shy princess to World War II mechanic, through to Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith, the Queen was a stoic stalwart to the end. Told with insight and warmth, this is the perfect tribute to our longest-reigning monarch.
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Tiny Gardens Everywhere


In the heart of bustling European and American cities lies an overlooked yet vibrant corner of resilience, ingenuity and magic: our gardens. From pre-industrial England to modern-day Ohio, via the Paris Commune, Barackia in pre-war Berlin, Soviet allotments in Estonia, the orchards tended by Black migrants in Washington and food forests in contemporary Amsterdam, ordinary people, working with each other and with nature, cultivated life in the unlikeliest of places. Over the past three hundred years, these tiny gardens, often born from necessity and shaped by precarity, immigration and environmental crisis, have thrived by recycling nutrients, remedying contaminated soil and transforming how we think about our relationship to the earth. Tiny Gardens Everywhere is a hymn to the most fertile agriculture in recorded human history, showing that it occurred not on farms - the product of gigantic exertions of fossil fuels and technology - but with little effort in small garden beds. And the resourcefulness, intuition and inherited methods of their growers accomplished many of today's sustainability goals by producing local, diverse and organic food. Acclaimed historian Kate Brown unearths the long and battered story of gardeners and their gardens, asking what happens when these urban Edens are not seen as retreats from the city but become part of its social fabric, alive with histories of displacement, conflict and resistance. This is a book about land, but also about community, repair and the quiet revolutions that begin when someone plants a seed in unloved ground.
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Procesný manažment. Analýzy, modelovanie, implementácia, 2. vydanie


Druhé vydanie publikácie „Procesný manažment“ poskytuje komplexný pohľad na teoretické základy procesného manažmentu a ich praktickú aplikáciu v súčasnom podnikateľskom prostredí. Obsahuje najnovšie poznatky a metodiky týkajúce sa podnikových procesov, zameraných na optimalizáciu, modelovanie a zlepšovanie výkonnosti prostredníctvom procesných analýz. Zdôrazňuje význam integrácie procesného manažmentu s informačnými technológiami a manažmentom zmien, ponúkajúc konkrétne odporúčania pre efektívnu implementáciu v organizáciách. Táto publikácia je neoceniteľným zdrojom pre manažérov hľadajúcich spôsoby, ako posilniť výkon svojich tímov, ako aj pre študentov vysokých škôl, ktorí sa pripravujú na kariéru v oblasti manažmentu.
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The Leisure Ethic


After a century of warnings, the 500-year reign of the work ethic is over. The work ethic has shaped our character, given purpose to our lives, and driven civilization forward. Now, as technology replaces human labour, we are faced with a profound dilemma; this crisis will leave us in a deep civilizational malaise, profoundly bored, ethically impoverished and without direction. In The Leisure Ethic, David Edward Tabachnick challenges the moral authority of work ethic and puts forth a long forgotten ancient alternative to work that can help reform and redirect our efforts toward building lives of ethical leisure. Through a historical and philosophical exploration of work, laziness, technological unemployment, and leisure, Tabachnick seeks to free our thinking and action from the shackles of the obsolete work ethic. Far from a curse, The Leisure Ethic demonstrates that the end of work can be a turning point that frees us from drudgery and opens the door to reimagining human purpose beyond productivity.
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Dazai Shundai: Writings on Political Economy


Dazai Shundai (1680–1747) is a critical figure in Japanese political thought, who developed his philosophy in response to a perceived crisis in the status of the ruling samurai class, of which he was a member. This volume introduces sections from his most significant work of political thought, Keizairoku (1729), and its addendum Keizairoku shui (1744). Extracts present Shundai's program of political and economic reform, as he grappled with the upheavals and opportunities accompanying the breakdown of feudal agrarianism and the emergence of a modern commercial economy. While Shundai accepted the inevitability of this economic transition, his vision of political economy remained conservative, with a focus on strengthening samurai-class supremacy. Peter Flueckiger offers a critical introduction to Shundai's ideas, exploring the nuances of his engagement with Confucian thought, and extensive annotations provide further textual and historical context. This volume thus demonstrates how Shundai's writings prefaced increasingly ambitious theories of state-managed economic growth in early modern and modern Japan.
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Bloody, Brilliant Tudors


Did Henry VIII really plan to have Anne Boleyn’s beloved dog thrown out the windo? as Elizabeth I secretly a ma? ho were the Grey sisters, and why is theirs one of the saddest Tudor stories of al? rom Henry VII to Elizabeth I, Bloody, Brilliant Tudors answers all these questions and more. Come with us as we delve into the people and places behind the world-famous Tudor myths and legends. Through various tales exploring the whole of the glittering dynasty, we’ll learn about the lesser-known facts and figures behind these myths. Each reign serves up a wealth of fascinating historical stories to reveal the Tudor world in a new light.
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Judaism and the Philosophy of Religion


Analytic philosophy of religion is a vibrant area of inquiry, but it has generally focused on generic forms of theism or on Christianity. David Shatz here offers a new and fresh approach to the field in a wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the analytic philosophy of religion from the perspective of Judaism.  Exploring classical Jewish texts about philosophical topics in light of the concepts and arguments at the heart of analytic philosophy, he demonstrates how each tradition illuminates the other, yielding a deeper understanding of both Jewish sources and general philosophical issues. Shatz also advances growing efforts to imagine Jewish philosophy not only as an engrossing, invaluable part of Jewish intellectual history, but also as a creative, constructive enterprise that mines the methods and literature of contemporary philosophy. His book offers new pathways to think deeply about God, evil, morality, freedom, ethics, and religious diversity, among other topics.
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The Emergent Mind


As heard on BBC Radio 4 Start the WeekA New Scientist Best Book of the YearA Next Big Ideas Club Book of the Year‘Excellent’ – Geoffrey Hinton, the ‘godfather of AI’ and Nobel laureate in Physics‘An indispensable guide to both ourselves and the coming age of AI’ – Mustafa Suleyman, bestselling co-author of The Coming WaveWritten by experts at the forefront of cognitive science and artificial intelligence, The Emergent Mind is an essential read for anyone captivated by the mysteries of human intelligence or the transformative rise of AI. Have you ever wondered how our minds work – how we think, feel, and act? How is this different from artificial intelligence? And with AI advancing so rapidly, how are these two worlds beginning to intersec? n this groundbreaking book, leading scientists Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland answer these urgent questions by exploring a powerful idea called ‘emergence’ – the concept that complex systems can form from the interaction of simple parts. By applying this to both the human brain and AI, they reveal how mind-like abilities take shape. By using the concept of neural network – the same framework inspired by the human brain that powers today’s AI – this book offers a clear and engaging guide to understanding intelligence. The Emergent Mind offers a fascinating tour of our minds, showing how we make decisions, why we change our minds and how our thoughts are shaped by our experiences. It's a groundbreaking look at how a data-driven neural network can create thoughts, emotions, and ideas – a mind – in both humans and machines. ‘Fascinating’ – Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of How Emotions Are Made‘Deeply stimulating and disarmingly accessible’ – Robert Sapolsky, author of Determined‘Lucid, invaluable’ – Steven Pinker, author of Rationality
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