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Over Cold War Seas


Michael Napier describes the naval air power deployed by NATO, Warsaw Pact and neutral countries throughout the Cold War.In 1949, an Iron Curtain was drawn across Europe, and the Cold War that ensued between the Western North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries and the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact lasted through to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. NATO and Warsaw Pact naval forces spread over the world’s oceans, and the powerful forces of the US Navy’s Second Fleet patrolled the North Atlantic, while the Sixth Fleet was positioned in the Mediterranean. The age of the nuclear-powered supercarrier arrived in 1957 with the USS Forrestal, while the Soviet Union’s first aircraft carrier, the Kiev, was commissioned in 1975.In Over Cold War Seas, respected aviation author Michael Napier examines the naval air power of the major combatant forces as it developed from 1949 through to 1989. All the major naval aircraft types are covered, both fixed wing and helicopters, which entered service in the 1950s for light transport or rescue duties and evolved into multi-purpose machines capable of performing anti-submarine and airborne early warning missions. This detailed text is supported by a wide range of first-hand accounts of operational flying during the Cold War, as well as over 220 high-quality, contemporary images.
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39,49 €

Science for Governing Japan's Population


Twenty-first-century Japan is known for the world''s most aged population. Faced with this challenge, Japan has been a pioneer in using science to find ways of managing a declining birth rate. Science for Governing Japan''s Population considers the question of why these population phenomena have been seen as problematic. What roles have population experts played in turning this demographic trend into a government concern? Aya Homei examines the medico-scientific fields around the notion of population that developed in Japan from the 1860s to the 1960s, analyzing the role of the population experts in the government''s effort to manage its population. She argues that the formation of population sciences in modern Japan had a symbiotic relationship with the development of the neologism, ''population'' (jinko), and with the transformation of Japan into a modern sovereign power. Through this history, Homei unpacks assumptions about links between population, sovereignty, and science. This title is also available as Open Access.
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Eagle Days


By the summer of 1940, Great Britain watched as France succumbed to the might of Adolf Hitler’s forces. Her forces driven off the continent, many rescued from capture at Dunkirk, only the Royal Air Force, supported by the country’s newly established radar system, now stood in the way of the country being invaded. Herman Goering had promised his Fuhrer his air force would sweep the British skies of all opposition to allow Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of southern England, to commence. The intense aerial combat over the coming months across the English Channel and the countryside of southeast England would not reflect the optimism of Nazi propaganda.Researching and blending a diverse range of primary sources together (Luftwaffe air crews’ personal letters and diaries), with official combat reports, and contemporary German newspapers, Victoria Taylor weaves a rich, multifaceted tapestry of the military, political, social and cultural influences that shaped the German air force’s mentality and morale during the Battle of Britain.Eagle Days transforms the Luftwaffe’s historical role during the RAF’s ‘Finest Hour’ from a cartoonish antagonist to a multidimensional, flawed-yet-formidable opponent. The narrative contains not just the voices of the air crews who conducted the fighting, but uniquely never-before-translated primary source material of other contemporary eyewitnesses, (Luftwaffe’s paratroopers, anti-aircraft gunners and air signalmen). Eagle Days will offer all fans of this period a refreshing, comprehensive and exciting new account of the Luftwaffe’s real experiences during the Battle of Britain.
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33,49 €

Magic Pill


Over the last decade, an extraordinary scientific breakthrough has taken place. A new kind of drug has arrived on the market, working in an unprecedented way to revolutionise weight loss and dieting. In 2023, Johann Hari began injecting himself with one of the weight loss drugs transforming how we look, feel and live. What began as a personal journey soon took him on an international investigation, tackling some of the most world-changing issues as he asked: Who should be taking these medications? How are they set to change not only the way we think about weight loss, but our economies? What are the benefits - and what are the risks? This is the book to read on the weight loss drugs taking over the world.
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17,95 €

Waiting In Hope


Now available in trade paper! Waiting in Hope gives women an uplifting, accessible resource to comfort, guide, and strengthen them through the journey of infertility. Featuring 31 reflections that address specific aspects of waiting and hoping, each chapter weaves personal narrative, Scripture, and prayers to encourage women longing for a child.Weary moms have their pick of hundreds of Christian devotionals and books offering encouragement for the trials of motherhood. Women who suffer miscarriage can also choose from a handful of resources, thanks to an industry trend making space for books on grief. But what about the one in six women who face the heartache of infertility? Where can they turn for comfort and guidance while grieving their dreams and grappling with unfulfilled longing?Waiting in Hope fills the gap for a biblically grounded, gospel-driven resource that specifically addresses the unique struggles of infertility. Offering 31 reflections filled with biblical wisdom, testimonies, and personal narrative, Waiting in Hope helps women work through their complex emotions, grow in their faith, restore strained relationships, and move forward in their journeys with perseverance and confidence in the Lord.Much needed Christian resource for the nearly 15 percent of women who face infertility, childlessness, and extended waiting for a childCompassionate, biblically rich devotional that doesn''t give false hope or platitudesProvides an infertility-specific, journal-like companion to use continuously throughout your journeyAs seasoned infertility ministry leaders, Jenn Hesse and Kelley Ramsey have committed to help women turn to Jesus as their hope in sorrow. This book is the resource they wish they''d had ten years ago in the middle of their infertility grief. Women need to hear the good news that Jesus is with them in their wait, and that they can live a life of purpose regardless of how their wait ends. 
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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics


In two often neglected passages of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant submits that the Critique is a ''treatise'' or a ''doctrine of method''. These passages are puzzling because the Critique is only cursorily concerned with identifying adequate procedures of argument for philosophy. In this book, Gabriele Gava argues that these passages point out that the Critique is the doctrine of method of metaphysics. Doctrines of method have the task of showing that a given science is indeed a science because it possesses ''architectonic unity'' ? which happens when it realizes the ''idea'' of a science. According to Gava''s novel approach, the Critique establishes that metaphysics is capable of this unity, and his reading of the Critique from this perspective not only illuminates the central role of the Transcendental Doctrine of Method within it, but also clarifies the relationship between the different parts of the work.
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32,99 €

Good Governance in Nigeria


Drawing on original fieldwork in Nigeria, Portia Roelofs argues for an innovative re-conceptualisation of good governance. Contributing to debates around technocracy, populism and the survival of democracy amidst conditions of inequality and mistrust, Roelofs offers a new account of what it means for leaders to be accountable and transparent. Centred on the rise of the ''Lagos Model'' in the Yoruba south-west, this book places the voices of roadside traders and small-time market leaders alongside those of local government officials, political godfathers and technocrats. In doing so, it theorises ''socially-embedded'' good governance. Roelofs demonstrates the value of fieldwork for political theory and the associated possibilities for decolonising the study of politics. Challenging the long-held assumptions of the World Bank and other international institutions that African political systems are pathologically dysfunctional, Roelofs demonstrates that politics in Nigeria has much to teach us about good governance.
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Partisan Warfare in Greece 1941–44


This fully illustrated study examines the German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation forces in Greece during 1941–44 as well as those of the two Greek Resistance organizations. Italy’s failed invasion of Greece in 1940–41 led to the German invasion of Yugoslavia in spring 1941 being extended into Greece, and, after the fall of Athens and Crete in April and May, the division of the country under German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation. The royal government and Army survivors withdrew to British-ruled Egypt, but at home resistance organizations of differing political character soon sprang up, forming guerrilla forces that exploited Greece’s rugged terrain and limited communications. The strongest resistance force was the Communist-dominated National Liberation Front (EAM) with its partisan Greek Popular Army (ELAS). Agents of the Western Allied powers had only brief success in mediating cooperation between the mutually hostile EAM/ELAS, and the National Republican Greek League (EDES) with its EOEA. Foreshadowing the Greek Civil War that would follow liberation, ELAS and EOEA clashed, in the background to their separate operations against the Axis occupiers.Drawing upon a wide range of sources, Phoebus Athanassiou charts the development of the fighting in occupied Greece: a struggle as ferocious as that fought in neighbouring Yugoslavia, which cost both the resistance and the Axis forces some 15,000 men killed.
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Philosophy of Mathematics from the Pythagoreans to Euclid


This Element looks at the very beginning of the philosophy of mathematics in Western thought. It covers the first reflections on attempts to untie mathematics from its practical usage in administration, commerce, and land-surveying and discusses the first ideas to see mathematical structures as constituents underlying the physical world in the Pythagoreans. The first two sections focus on the epistemic status of mathematical knowledge in relation to philosophical knowledge and on the various ontological positions ancient Greek philosophers in early and classical times ascribe to mathematical objects – from independent and separate entities to mere abstractions and idealisations. Section 3 discusses the paradigmatic role mathematical deductions have played for philosophy, the role of mathematical diagrams, and mathematical methods of interest for philosophers. Section 4, finally, investigates a couple of individual concepts that are fundamental for both philosophy and mathematics, such as infinity.
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23,49 €

No Such Thing as Normal


''Confronting, thought-provoking and hopeful'' SARAH GRAHAM''A rallying cry for the importance of social and systemic approaches to psychiatric distress'' EMMA BYRNE''Stimulating and timely on psychiatry''s tendency to pathologise the ''abnormal'''' DANIEL TAMMET''A shocking and powerful critique ... this is essential reading'' HELEN KINGThere is no such thing as a normal brain, yet we live in a world that treats disorder as disease.Psychiatry rests on the belief that mental distress can ultimately be explained by biology: brain structures, chemical imbalances and genetics. Treatments from lobotomies to electroconvulsive therapy to prescription drugs have been touted as cures for ''disorder''. And somewhere along the way, the pharmaceutical industry has leapfrogged its patients, making millions designing drugs to treat disorders, then billions dreaming up disorders that require drugs. We are now diagnosed and treated for mental disorders more than ever, despite increasing evidence that environmental factors play a far greater role than biological ones. Laying out the steps for a mental health system that helps rather than harms, Marieke Bigg asks: how can we heal when faced with an industry that banks on keeping us sick?
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26,99 €

Takeover


From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler''s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler''s National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging war hero and avowed monarchist, was a reluctant president bound by oath to uphold the constitution. The November elections offered Hitler the prospect of a Reichstag majority and a path to political power. But instead, the Nazis lost two million votes. As membership hemorrhaged and financial backers withdrew, the Nazi Party threatened to fracture. Hitler talked of suicide. The New York Times declared he was finished. Yet somehow, in a few brief weeks, he was chancellor of Germany.In fascinating detail and with previously un-accessed archival materials, Timothy W. Ryback tells the remarkable story of Hitler''s dismantling of democracy through the democratic process. He provides a fresh perspective and insights into Hitler''s personal and professional lives in these months, in all their complexity and uncertainty-backroom deals, unlikely alliances, stunning betrayals, an ill-timed tax audit, and a fateful weekend that changed our world forever. Above all, Ryback makes clear why a wearied Hindenburg, who disdained the "Bohemian corporal," ultimately decided to appoint Hitler chancellor in January 1933.Within weeks, Germany was no longer a democracy.
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Od Srdca k srdcu (modrá)


Detský modlitebník s výberom piesní z Jednotného katolíckeho spevníka je pre najmenších prvým učiteľom modlitby už štyri desaťročia. Obsahuje základné kresťanské modlitby, slávenie svätej omše, priebeh sviatosti zmierenia a modlitby na rozličné príležitosti. Vychádza už v dvadsiatom štvrtom vydaní, v novom grafickom spracovaní s ilustráciami Martina Kellenbergera a je výborným darčekom na prvé sväté prijímanie. v troch farebných prevedeniach – (pôvodná) modrá, bledozelená a ružová
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4,90 €

Od srdca k srdcu (ružová)


Detský modlitebník s výberom piesní z Jednotného katolíckeho spevníka je pre najmenších prvým učiteľom modlitby už viac ako tri desaťročia. Obsahuje základné kresťanské modlitby, slávenie svätej omše, priebeh sviatosti zmierenia a modlitby na rozličné príležitosti. Vychádza už v dvadsiatom treťom vydaní, v novom grafickom spracovaní s ilustráciami Martina Kellenbergera a je výborným darčekom na prvé sväté prijímanie.
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4,90 €

Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české XVIII. (1956–1967)


Roku 1967, necelých dvacet let po převratu, který měl být důkazem neomylnosti marxisticko--leninské teorie, připustil prezident Antonín Novotný: „Dopustili jsme se chyb, soudruzi? Dopustili.“ První reformní vlnu, která se zvedla po odhalení kultu osobnosti o desetiletí dříve, se přitom ještě podařilo zabrzdit a hlasy reformistů potlačit. Na přelomu padesátých a šedesátých let zadlužená ekonomika dál zaostávala za kapitalistickým Západem, centrálně řízené hospodářství se míjelo s očekáváním konzumně naladěné společnosti, lidé naplňovali své potřeby prostřednictvím šedé ekonomiky, kvetla korupce, a především rostla poptávka po rozkrytí policejní a justiční zvůle uplynulých let. Osmnáctý svazek Velkých dějin zemí Koruny české komplexně pojednává o letech 1956–1967, pro něž se vžilo označení „období tání“. Politické, hospodářské a kulturní dějiny doprovázejí sondy do každodenního života za socialismu – od hodnocení životní úrovně přes bydlení, práci či zdraví po intimní zónu rodinného prostředí nebo náboženské víry.
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43,83 €

Strategic Responsiveness


Because the constitutional separation of powers often leads to delay or obstruction rather than coordinated policymaking, U.S. presidents are increasingly acting unilaterally to move policy. With the issuance of executive orders, signing statements, and policy memoranda, unilateralism has become a defining feature of the American presidency. Can Congress effectively use checks and balances to counter presidential unilateralism? Strategic Responsiveness takes a theoretically developed and empirically oriented approach— situated within legal and historical contexts—to explore the system of separated powers. The authors find that Congress is not as weak as many perceive it to be and show how members of Congress often anticipate individualized policy loss and choose to respond. These policy struggles shape the constitutional order as surely as broad, statutory constraints might. While the aggrandizement of the presidency and the usurpation of congressional control are not countered, ordinary policy losses are. For members and senators, presidential overreach is fine as long as the policy wins continue, but policy losses may motivate members to reassert congressional prerogatives in policymaking through increased oversight. Strategic Responsiveness reveals how profoundly important policy-level disputes are in the politics of maintaining a particular constitutional order.
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Hlásaj slovo, naliehaj vhod i nevhod


Pri príležitosti životného jubilea vladyku Cyrila Vasiľa SJ, arcibiskupa – košického eparchiálneho biskupa, vydala Košická eparchia prostredníctvom Byzantinos o.z. jubilantove vybrane homílie pod názvom „Hlásaj slovo, naliehaj vhod i nevhod.“ Publikácia predstavuje výber najvýznamnejších homílií a príhovorov arcibiskupa Cyrila Vasiľa SJ, ktoré predniesol počas 16 rokov svojej biskupskej služby vo Vatikáne i na Slovensku. Jedná sa predovšetkým o príhovory, ktoré predniesol počas dôležitých celoslovenských podujatí, púti, akademických stretnutí, pastoračných návštev i eparchiálnych slávností. Výber príhovorov mapuje jeho dlhoročné pôsobenie doma i v zahraničí, čerpá z jeho skúseností v pastorácii, katolíckom skautingu, médiách aj akademickej oblasti, reflektuje jezuitskú formáciu a zachytáva jeho jedinečný hlas v súčasnej cirkevnej i spoločenskej diskusii. Kazateľská tvorba vladyku Cyrila vyniká hlbokou teologickou reflexiou, historickým prehľadom a schopnosťou prenášať duchovné princípy do aktuálnych spoločenských otázok. V duchu tradície Vrablecovej homiletickej školy, ktorej ako absolvent bratislavského seminára je odchovancom, spája jasnú štruktúru s bohatstvom duchovného obsahu a aktuálnosťou posolstva. Kniha chce osloviť nielen kňazov a kazateľov, ale aj širokú verejnosť, ktorá hľadá duchovnú inšpiráciu a odpovede na výzvy dnešnej doby.
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11,00 €

Naučte se říct, co chcete


Potřebujete vysvětlit předškolákovi, že nemůže žít jen ze zmrzliny? Chcete se vymezit vůči příliš starostlivé tchyni? Rádi byste se domluvili s partnerem nebo si konečně v práci řekli o lepší podmínky, ale něco vám v tom neustále brání? Nejste v tom sami! Většině z nás působí podobná vyjádření potíže. Může vám v tom bránit strach z konfliktu, pocit viny, nebo dokonce obava, že někoho zklamete. Přitom právě schopnost jasně vyjádřit své potřeby je základním kamenem zdravých vztahů a vlastní spokojenosti. Autorka vás s lehkostí a humorem provede procesem objevování a vyjadřování vlastních potřeb, a to s jediným cílem – aby vaše cesta k harmonickým vztahům byla co nejpříjemnější. Díky jednoduchým, ale účinným nástrojům a technikám se naučíte sdílet svá přání a očekávání sebejistě, výstižně a bez zbytečného stresu. Tato kniha vám ukáže, jak srozumitelně a efektivně vyjádřit své potřeby a nastavit hranice ve vztazích – ať už s partnerem, dětmi, přáteli, rodinou, nadřízenými, nebo kolegy v práci.
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13,50 €

Gerodontológia


Percento starších ľudí v populácii neustále rastie a tým sa zvyšuje potreba lepšieho poznania špecifík poskytovania zdravotnej starostlivosti tejto skupine obyvateľstva vrátane ošetrovania chrupu a ústnej dutiny. Predmet gerodontológia bol zaradený do pregraduálnej výučby zubného lekárstva na Slovensku pred vyše 20 rokmi, no absentovala učebnica. Predložená publikácia vychádza z koncepcie paralelných slovenských a anglických textov, ktoré majú slúžiť nielen na odborné vzdelávanie v príslušnej problematike, ale súčasne aj umožňovať slovenským študentom zdokonaľovanie sa v anglickej terminológii a naopak, zahraničným študentom zlepšovanie sa v slovenskom jazyku. Stačí učebnicu otočiť! Obsah je rozdelený na dve časti, všeobecnú a špeciálnu tak, aby komplexne zachytával celý predmet. Okrem diagnostiky a liečby patológie ústneho zdravia zahŕňa tiež problematiku sprievodných celkových chorôb, preventívne opatrenia a zásady komunikácie s gerontologickými pacientami.
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28,50 €

Poutníci v zemi na Nilu


Koptské křesťanství v Egyptě – starobylé, vytrvalé a stále živé – tvoří fascinující paralelní svět k dominantnímu islámu. Autorka, inspirována dlouhodobým pobytem v této zemi, přináší třináct reportážních zastavení, která čtenáře zvou na pouť egyptskou krajinou i duchovní pamětí. Všímá si každodenního života Koptů, jejich identity, víry, rituálů i fyzické přítomnosti křížů, klášterů a chrámů, které se jako nenápadné majáky rozsvěcují mezi mešitami a dunami pouště. V jejich stopách ožívá posvátný příběh – o putování, věrnosti i naději. Kniha je členěna do tří oddílů podle základních poloh koptské zbožnosti. První část, Poutníci v zemi na Nilu, sleduje trasu Svaté rodiny a představuje čtyři místa, kde se podle víry Koptů Ježíš, Maria a Josef zastavili. Druhý oddíl, Ve společenství andělů, přivádí čtenáře do kolébky mnišství. Pět reportáží z různorodých klášterů přibližuje životní styl, duchovní rytmus i kulturní význam míst, kde se setkává nebe se zemí. Třetí část, Staví se nový chrám, ukazuje současnou tvář koptské církve. Čtyři moderní chrámy v odlišných prostředích – od velkoměsta po skalní krajinu – dokládají, jak starodávná spiritualita nachází nové formy a prostory. Předkládaná monografie přináší do našeho prostředí svébytným a originálním způsobem velmi důležité téma koptského křesťanství, především pak posvátnou, poutní geografii dnešního Egypta. V češtině se tak objevuje téma, které zde dosud nebylo zpracováno, ba i ve světovém měřítku bychom nalezli jen několik prací s tímto zájmem… Jedná se o živou, čtivou monografii doplněnou o řadu map a fotografií. Výklad je velmi osobní a oplývá citáty z primárních biblických, historických či hagiografických textů. Lukáš de la Vega Nosek
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18,87 €

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.