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História, vojnová literatúra 
Náboženstvo 
Psychológia, etika, logika 
Motivačná literatúra 
Medicína 
Ekonómia, manažment, marketing 
Prírodné vedy 
Filozofia 
Politológia 
Právo 
Encyklopédie populárno-náučné 
Literárna veda, jazykoveda, slovníky 
Počítačová literatúra 
Sociológia, etnológia 
Pedagogika 
Veda, technika, elektrotechnika 
Odborná a náučná literatúra - ostatné
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Lesbians: Where are we now?
?What does it mean to be a lesbian now? Has the quest for lesbian liberation stalled, and if so, why?
Part-memoir, part frontline reportage and part cultural commentary, Julie Bindel examines what defines lesbian culture, love, friendship and happiness today. She distinguishes the particular challenges facing lesbians from the very different experiences of gay men, and asks: why do lesbians so often seem to face particular hostility? Comparing past attitudes to today, she argues that lesbians continue to suffer from bigotry and discrimination because sexism and enforced gendered roles are still left unchallenged. She explores why many of the biggest assaults on lesbian freedom and wellbeing around the world now come, not just from conservatives, but also from so-called progressives, who are often antagonistic to lesbians organising and socialising autonomously.
Rooted in her own remarkable story, this personal and passionate book is both an investigation into the obstacles to lesbian flourishing, and a testament to the particular delights of being a lesbian.
Alien Earths
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. The question should have an obvious answer: yes or no. But once you try to find life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life?
Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger works from Carl Sagan’s former office at Cornell University, where she built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to find life on faraway worlds, using Earth’s diverse biosphere and its history as a Rosetta Stone. With infectious enthusiasm, she provides an eye-opening insider’s guide to the most unusual exoplanets that have shaken our worldview – planets covered in oceans of lava, lonely wanderers lost in space, and others with more than one sun in their sky – as well as the best contenders for Alien Earths. She also shows how close imagined scifi worlds come to reality.
We live in an incredible new epoch of exploration. As our witty and knowledgeable tour guide, Professor Kaltenegger shows how we discover not merely new continents, like the explorers of old, but whole new worlds circling other stars – and how we could spot life there. Worlds from where aliens may even be gazing back at us. What if we're not alone?
Creative Leadership
The old, top-down approach to leadership doesn't work any more. What we need is a more flexible, creative approach – one that empowers people to do their best work, rather than tells them to do so.
In Creative Leadership, Rama Gheerawo applies the mind of a design expert to the twenty-first-century organisation. In particular, his book shows how success in the future will increasingly be dependent on a mastery of three basic principles: creativity, clarity and empathy. Drawing on his own experience in leading over 100 design projects with government, business and the third sector, it sets out a blueprint for engagement and success that applies to everything from small enterprises, to large multinationals.
Wreckers
Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.
'Clever and compelling book. The storytelling and the scholarship fairly spark off each other. It could be a model for how academics should write history for a general audience' The Times
'a flowing, gripping narrative, Wreckers is distinguished by enchanting stories' Peter Moore, Literary Review
While figures such as Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan are celebrated for their maritime achievements - reaching the Americas, India, and circumnavigating the globe - focusing solely on these voyages distorts our perspective on the past. Many explorers ended up as castaways, clinging to the splintered timbers of their wrecked ships, while those who survived often faced resistance and ridicule from indigenous communities across the globe.
Drawing on maritime stories from various languages and continents - from Brazil and Southeast Africa to India and the Philippines - Wreckers shares dramatic tales of the sea and the events on land that followed. This offers an alternative timeline for the century after Columbus' 1492 voyage and sheds light on the fractures and fault lines that accompanied the increasing geographical range of European ships.
Simon Park argues that even when Europeans arrogantly claimed their own superiority, the truth was that they were often driven by a profound sense of greed and envy, and their actions included numerous mishaps. For example, in his hunt for gold, Martin Frobisher - who fancied himself England's Columbus and Cortés combined - transported worthless rocks across the Atlantic by the tonne. In the search for spices, Captain and profiteer Manuel de Sousa de Sepúlveda's ship was so overladen, it spewed its fragrant cargo when it crashed off the coast of South Africa. Moreover, in every place they went, Europeans depended on local know-how and goodwill - relying on indigenous knowledge of languages, geography, food and medicines.
Wreckers reveals the precarious balance between imperious European powers, cunning locals who colluded to further their own agendas, and others who showed great tenacity in their resistance to European incursions. By focusing on stories of failure, defiance and comeuppance, Wreckers - a term Park uses to refer both to those who were wrecked and those involved in wrecking - offers a gripping and original account of a tumultuous period. It challenges the notion of unstoppable European dominance and enables a reimagining of history as a space of possibilities then, now and in the future.
Listy filozofom
Od mladosti som pracoval ako historik filozofie, zaoberal som sa slovenskou i európskou filozofiou, najmä osvietenskou. Výsledky som uverejnil v mnohých štúdiách a vo viacerých knihách. Pri styku s niektorými filozofmi minulosti zostalo mi však čosi osobnejšie, čo som vtedy nenapísal. Časť z toho im adresujem teraz. Na ich oslovenie som si zvolil formu listu. Nie je vo filozofii nová. Listy písali už Platón, Epikuros, Seneca, Pascal a mnohí iní. Kým však títo autori svojich adresátov aj poúčali, ja som ďaleko od toho, aby som poúčal Platóna, Voltaira či Poppera. Mám však výhrady voči niektorým ich názorom, a tie im predkladám. V listoch možno byť osobnejší, dôvernejší, štýl môže byť voľnejší, možno povedať všeličo, čo sa do štúdie nehodí.
Využívam túto možnosť a píšem predovšetkým o problémoch, ktoré sa ma osobne, ba bytostne dotýkajú, ktoré ma sprevádzajú a pália už desaťročia a ktoré sa ani týmito Listami neriešia. Možno však nájdu u niektorých čitateľov odozvu. Nie sú totiž len moje osobné, ale sú to problémy storočí a tisícročí.
Teodor Münz
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Rozmýšľam príliš veľa
Kto by si pomyslel, že inteligencia môže byť príčinou utrpenia a nešťastia? A predsa ku mne na konzultácie často prichádzajú ľudia, ktorí sa sťažujú, že premýšľajú až príliš. Myseľ im nedopraje ani chvíľu pokoja, dokonca ani v noci. Sú otrávení vlastnými pochybnosťami, otázkami, ostrým uvedomovaním si reality. Sužujú ich príliš vyvinuté zmysly, ktorým neunikne žiadny detail. Najradšej by „vypli“ svoju myseľ, no trpia predovšetkým tým, že sa cítia byť iní, nepochopení a zranení dnešným svetom. Väčšinou si len povzdychnú: „Asi nie som z tejto planéty.“ Kniha, ktorú držíte v rukách, je akýmsi manuálom pre tieto nadmerne výkonné mozgy.
Christel Petitcollin je psychoterapeutka, mentorka, rečníčka a spisovateľka v oblasti komunikácie a osobného rozvoja. S nadšením sa venuje medziľudským vzťahom a svojim knihám dokáže vdýchnuť čaro jednoduchosti, zrozumiteľnosti a praktickosti. Jej predchádzajúca kniha Ako sa vytrhnúť z rúk manipulátora (Échapper aux manipulateurs) zožala u čitateľov veľký úspech.
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A Little History of the World
The internationally bestselling guide to the extraordinary human story, for the curious of all ages
The world has existed for over 4 billion years, but humanity arrived much more recently. Here E. H. Gombrich brings to life the full story of human experience on Earth. He paints a colourful picture of remarkable people and events, from Confucius to Catherine the Great, from the invention of art to the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
This is a book dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of mankind's experience across the centuries. It is both a guide to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this is a timeless account of our shared history.
Little Histories - Inspiring Guides for Curious Minds
A Little History of the United States
A character-filled history that brings the American saga to life
A New York Times Bestseller
"Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to reflect anew on America's past and present. . . . We can all use not just a good refresher course on American history, but also some good historical thinking on how we might better realize freedom, equality, and E pluribus unum."-Daily Beast
The United States is one of the most powerful countries in the world. This is the remarkable story of how it came to be. Beginning with the first contact between the old world and the new over 500 years ago, this Little History moves through the centuries from the first European explorers and slave-owning farmers, to the Declaration of Independence and the Civil War, to the Great Depression and the wars of the twentieth century.
We meet key figures, including founding father Benjamin Franklin, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull, the abolitionist Harriet Tubman, and the civil rights activist Rosa Parks. This is a fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the great, diverse American saga to life.
Little Histories - Inspiring Guides for Curious Minds
A Little History of Literature
A vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels
Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today’s graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has researched, taught and written on the entire glorious span of human literary activity, here guides readers on a journey ‘through the looking glass’ to show how literature from across the world can transport us, transfix us, and teach us about ourselves.
He introduces key works, from the Epic of Gilgamesh and Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot, George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, and looks afresh at literature’s links to power, identity and taste. From the rude jokes within Anglo-Saxon riddles to the guilty pleasures of potboilers and fan fiction, this celebratory guide offers wit, humour and deep learning to all who enjoy literature, and who want to understand it anew.
Little Histories – Inspiring Guides for Curious Minds
Sociální kompetence
Triádu úspěšných publikací Sociální andragogika a Osobnostní management uzavírá kniha Sociální kompetence od téhož autora. Společným tématem knih je naplňování tužeb: Jací jsme? Jakými hodláme být? Co chceme dokázat? Co jsme schopni a ochotni pro to udělat?
Sociální kompetence jsou klíčovou oblastí sociální psychologie a psychologie osobnosti. Významně ovlivňují utváření pozitivních vztahů mezi lidmi. Kniha se ve svých kapitolách zabývá sociální inteligencí, utvářením a rozvíjením vztahů, konflikty a jejich řešením, uměním vyjednávat. Stranou nezůstávají ani problematické okruhy v rámci porozumění a dorozumění.
Svatodušní novéna, 4. vydání
Svatodušní novéna Vojtěcha Kodeta je v podstatě modlitbou rozvrženou na devět dní – každý den se skládá z úryvku z Písma, z meditace a z uvedení do modlitby. Zájemci se ji modlí před slavností Seslání Ducha svatého, před biřmováním a během duchovních obnov. Jednotlivci z ní můžou čerpat před důležitými životními rozhodnutími.
Modleme se za nové vylití Ducha Svatého na nás i na celou církev!
Tides of Fortune
An ambitious look at how the twentieth century’s great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competition between the United States and China How will the United States and China evolve militarily in the years ahead? Many experts believe the answer to this question is largely unknowable. But Zack Cooper argues that the American and Chinese militaries are following a well-trodden path. For centuries, the world’s most powerful militaries have adhered to a remarkably consistent pattern of behavior, determined largely by their leaders’ perceptions of relative power shifts. By uncovering these trends, this book places the evolving military competition between the United States and China in historical context. Drawing on a decade of research and on his experience at the White House and the Pentagon, Cooper outlines a novel explanation for how militaries change as they rise and decline. Tides of Fortune examines the paths of six great powers of the twentieth century, tracking how national leaders adjusted their defense objectives, strategies, and investments in response to perceived shifts in relative power. All these militaries followed a common pattern, and their experiences shed new light on both China’s recent military modernization and America’s potential responses.
Seven Social Movements That Changed America
How do social movements arise, wield power and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a ground-breaking work, narrating the stories of many of America’s most influential twentieth-century social movements. Beginning with the turn-of-the-century settlement house movement, Gordon then scrutinises the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and its successors, the violent American fascist groups of the 1930s. Profiles of two Depression-era movements follow—the Townsend campaign that brought us Social Security and the creation of unemployment aid. Proceeding then to the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, which inspired the civil rights movement and launched Martin Luther King Jr.’s career, the narrative barrels into the 1960s–70s with Cesar Chavez’s farmworkers’ union. The concluding chapter illumines the 1970s women’s liberation movement through the dramatic story of the Boston-area organisations Bread and Roses and the Combahee River Collective. Separately and together, these seven chapters animate American history, reminding us of the power of collective activism.
Toxická feminita
Odvážná kniha o tom, jak ženám škodí představy o ženství
Není možné být ženou jen tak, bez přívlastků. Být žena znamená být nějaká žena, většinou podle kulturně a společensky narýsovaných standardů: nejdřív hodná holka, pak silná, nezávislá superwoman, potom starostlivá máma, a občas i pořádná mrcha. Všechny tyto role jsou pro ženy svazující — ale jako každá společenská role také automatické a neuvědomované, často pohodlné a někdy i výhodné. Sophia Fritz ve své brilantní knize Toxická feminita s nekompromisní a odvážnou upřímností jednotlivé role a stereotypní podoby ženství pojmenovává, rozkládá na prvočinitele a ukazuje, v čem jsou pro ženy, ale i pro muže a celou společnost zraňující a škodlivé.
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Nakam
Autorka se věnuje skupině Nakam, polovojenské organizaci přeživších holokaustu, kterou vedl Aba Kovner a která plánovala genocidní pomstu na německém národě. Kniha je výsledkem mnohaletého výzkumu, během nějž poprvé úplně a komplexně zdokumentovala činnost skupiny. Tato organizace "Mstitelů" čítala asi padesát mladých mužů a žen, kteří po druhé světové válce plánovali vyvraždit šest milionů Němců jako pomstu za holokaust. Ačkoli kniha líčí snahu Židů pomstít se Němcům, Poratová poznamenává, že "většina Židů si spíše než cestu pomsty zvolila cestu pozitivní: budování země, zakládání komunit a rodin". Právě toto považuje za zásluhu židovského národa: "Navzdory všemu, co jim bylo provedeno, si drtivá většina z nich vybrala život."
A Little History of Mathematics
A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe
Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economics—all aspects of modern life rely on some kind of maths. But how did our ancestors think about numbers? How did they use mathematics to explain and understand the world around them? Where do numbers even come from?
In this Little History, Snezana Lawrence traces the fascinating history of mathematics, from the Egyptians and Babylonians to Renaissance masters and enigma codebreakers. Like literature, music, or philosophy, mathematics has a rich history of breakthroughs, creativity and experimentation. And its story is a global one. We see Chinese Mathematical Art from 200 BCE, the invention of algebra in Baghdad's House of Wisdom, and sangaku geometrical theorems at Japanese shrines. Lawrence goes beyond the familiar names of Newton and Pascal, exploring the prominent role women have played in the history of maths, including Emmy Noether and Maryam Mirzakhani.
A Little History of Religion
A rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanity's earliest days to our own times
Religion is distinctly human. We can't help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all-powerful being make the universe? When we die, is there anything else to come? And what will it be like? Questions like these have occupied human minds across the ages. In our search for answers, we have come up with different stories.
Richard Holloway tells the history of the major religions from the dawn of belief to the twenty-first century. Ranging far beyond Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, he writes for those with faith and those without, and for those who might be making up their minds.
Little Histories - Inspiring Guides for Curious Minds
A Little History of Philosophy
A lucid guide to humankind's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer
Philosophy begins with the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them just how little they genuinely understood.
This engaging Little History introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their most compelling ideas about the universe and our place in it. Nigel Warburton guides us on a tour of the lives and work of thought-provoking philosophers - from the certainty of Descartes ('I think, therefore I am') to Hannah Arendt who examined crimes against humanity and taught us 'the banality of evil'.
Little Histories - Inspiring Guides for Curious Minds
Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century
War is urbanising. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the largest and most intense battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated urban areas. In the Ukraine War, Russian and Ukrainian troops have converged on urban areas, Kyiv, Mariupol, and Bakhmut, to fight brutal attritional sieges. Meanwhile the Battle of Gaza rages. Through a close analysis of recent urban conflicts and their historical antecedents, sociologist Anthony King explores the changing typography of the urban battlescape. Whilst many tactics used in urban warfare are not new, he shows how operations in cities today have coalesced into localised micro-sieges, which extend from street level – and below – to the airspace high above the city, as combatants fight for individual buildings, streets and districts. At the same time, digitalized social media and information networks communicate these battles to global audiences across an urban archipelago, with these spectators often becoming active participants in the fight. Fully revised and updated to include detailed examples from Ukraine and Gaza to illustrate the anatomy of twenty-first century urban warfare, the second edition of this popular text is a timely reminder of the costs and the horror of war and violence in cities. As such, it offers an invaluable interdisciplinary introduction to urban warfare in the new millennium for students of international security, urban studies and military science, as well as military professionals.
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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.
