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A History of Romance Novels


When you pick up the latest Emily Henry novel, or settle in for an evening with the newest volume of your favorite romantasy, you are taking part in a process stretching back two millennia. The ancient Greeks considered it a highlight of one's life to hear with one's own ears the words of the great romantic poets of their day. The Romans enjoyed sprawling romantic epics that only reunited their lovers after continent-spanning struggles against foreign armies, pirates, and treacherous monarchs. The Middle Ages sung hushed stories of lust far from the ears of the Church, while its great poets probed the darker boundaries of courtly love, and the writers of the seventeenth century delighted in giving young women ten-volume romances, delivered over the course of a decade, to fill their bookshelves and lonely hours. Writing about love, its complexities, and resolutions, has been a part of the literary tradition since its inception, but it is only in the last three centuries that the format has grown into the publishing juggernaut we know today. From the intensely observed novels of Jane Austen, through the great Sensation Novels of the 1860s that fused romance and mystery, and into the great industrial and marketing machine that was Mills & Boon and Harlequin at their height, new developments in publishing have linked up with new ideas about womanhood, sex, and romance, to produce an ever-evolving approach to the romance novel, culminating in our own modern Golden Age, where more people from more backgrounds are writing more types of romance than ever before for a readership than is larger than it has ever been, and is consuming its favourite literary form in convenient new formats. A History of Romance Novels: From Trembling Innocents to Hunky Werewolves explores the long story of our love affair with love stories, during both its eras of creative flourishing, and the long periods of industrially motivated stagnation, to give even the most dedicated romance reader a few new veins to mine, and a few more characters to fall in love with.
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The Edwardians


In January 1901, Edward VII, then the longest-waiting monarch to ascend to the British throne, succeeded his mother, Queen Victoria, who had reigned over a growing empire for 63 years.Edward’s reign would be much shorter – only nine years – but it was a period of British history that saw life change rapidly for those who now lived in the Edwardian Era.It began when Britain was at war in South Africa, and it lasted longer than the monarch whose name it took. It would be brought to its end by the advent of a much greater and more terrible conflictThe Edwardians: Life and Times of the Golden Age takes us on a journey through those first few years of the 20th century, when it can be said that modern Britain began to take shape.New technology – new modes of transport, new labour-saving devices – affected everyday life. There were new attitudes to social welfare, and reforms were introduced in a bid to improve the lot of even the poorest in society – albeit the picture often painted of Edwardian tea parties on the lawn on lazy summer days was still reserved for relatively few people in a Britain, which many now regard as the last great hurrah of the aristocracy in their so-called Golden Age.The Edwardians: Life and Times of the Golden Age tells the story of life in Britain – at the beginning of Edward’s reign over the most powerful nation on Earth – through the events, great and small, of what has also been known as the ‘Age of Optimism’.
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ShipCraft 35 - British Anti-Aircraft Cruisers


The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the subjects, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references – books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. This volume completes Les Brown’s coverage of British cruisers of the Second World War, concentrating on ships with a primarily anti-aircraft role. It begins with the innovative inter-war conversions of old ‘C’ class ships and moves on to the Dido class – not originally designed as AA ships but armed with a new 5.25in dual-purpose gun that made them effective air-defence ships. Also included are the small number of merchant ships converted to cruiser-standard AA ships. With its unparalleled level of visual information – paint schemes, models, line drawings and photographs – this book is simply the best reference for any modelmaker setting out to build one of these famous cruisers.
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25,49 €

Black Redcoats


During the Anglo-American War of 1812, British forces launched hundreds of amphibious raids on the United States. The richest parts of the United States were slave-states, and thousands of enslaved African Americans fled to British forces in what was to be the largest emancipation of enslaved Americans until the abolition of slavery in the USA. From these refugees from slavery, the British built a force - the Corps of Colonial Marines. Black redcoats, they were a fusion of two great American fears, the return of the British King and an uprising by their own oppressed slaves. The Corps of Colonial Marines turned Britain's campaign on America's coasts from one of harassment to one of existential threat to the new nation. Although small in number, the Colonial Marines - fighting to liberate their own families as much as for Great Britain - exerted a massive psychological impact on the United States which paralysed American resistance with fear of a widespread slave uprising, and allowed British forces in the Chesapeake to burn down Washington DC. As well as examining this little-remembered part of British military and African-American history, this book will also look to the post-war history of the Colonial Marines, their continued survival as a unique ethnic group in the Caribbean today, and their involvement in the largest act of armed African-American resistance to slavery. The "Battle of Negro Fort" in 1816 was the only time American forces left American territory to destroy a fugitive slave community - a community led by former Colonial Marines who, when faced with American attack, raised the British flag. This book brings black history to the fore of the War of 1812, and gives a voice to those enslaved people who - amidst great power competition between a slave-holding Republic and a slave-holding Empire – demonstrated exceptional bravery and initiative to gain precious freedom for themselves and their descendants.
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The Full Story of the Air and Sea Battles of the Falklands War


Despite the Falklands War between Argentina and the UK lasting only ten weeks, it still had an enduring impact on military technology worldwide. Not since the Second World War had two capable navies and air forces clashed in open ocean. In a logistical master class, the British mustered 115 ships with no warning and sent them 8,000 miles south within days/ weeks. They initiated their campaign by sinking a large Argentine warship with a nuclear-powered submarine (SSN); the only time this has happened. It was also the first time that sea-skimming anti-ship missiles dominated naval tactics. In addition to this, the British launched an amphibious landing in the jet era, with only 28 serviceable Harrier fighters against 112 fighter jets – it was also the first time air-to-air combat depended entirely on a fighter aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing (the Harrier). On the first day of Britain’s recovery effort, an RAF Vulcan bomber dropped twenty-one bombs to get one on target. After considerable ‘research under fire’, on the war’s last full day an RAF Harrier dropped a single laser guided bomb and scored a bullseye. As such, the war marks an important transition in British aviation technology. While both sides had six ships sunk, the British use of SSNs forced the entire Argentine navy to retreat to port. High British ship losses remain controversial, and they are compared here with losses in Operation Pedestal, the long-range naval action on a similar scale to save Malta in the Second World War. Losses were overall lower in the Falklands War, and the reasons behind this are discussed. The book also reveals what might have happened if the Argentine dictators had launched their war several months later, as originally considered.
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The Other Fuhrer: Muck-Lamberty and Adolf Hitler


Germany 1920. A new political movement is born. It is led by a charismatic ex-serviceman whose aim is to create a ‘National Community’ in the war-devastated country. His followers call him ‘Führer.’ But this is not Adolf Hitler. His name is Friedrich Lamberty, better known as Muck, and his methods are very different from Hitler’s. He and his followers, who call themselves the New Crowd, trek through the centre of Germany singing, dancing and playing with local people. By the end of 1920 they have brought hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes to join in a ‘revolution of the soul.’ But then an unexpected and shocking development causes the New Crowd to break up. Muck disappears from the scene as quickly as he arrived. The story of Muck-Lamberty’s rise and fall, told here for the first time in English, throws new light on Germany in the early twentieth century. It examines the country’s unique youth movement, the impact on young people of world war and revolution, the strange post-war dance craze, the revolution in sexual behaviour, and the development of new ways of thinking about what it meant to be German - and Jewish. In each of these areas, Muck-Lamberty is compared with Adolf Hitler to find out why he was initially more successful than the Nazi leader, but then failed to establish himself as a ‘Führer.’
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Stack


Neville Stack was once one of Britain’s favourite aviators. He came to fame as the first man to fly a light plane to India. And, having been honoured by the king for that achievement, he followed it with more than a decade of derring-do. Stack circled the Med, crossed Arabia countless times, and even flew down to Banjul. He served in both World Wars and all three branches of the Armed Forces, broke record after record, and had his own flying circus. He piloted a prime minister, the Shoe King, and the odd sultan. But he also crashed more often than he was willing to admit, wrote bawdy songs – and recorded them, too – and played a controversial role in the Spanish Civil War. And he left behind a rich chronicle of his exploits, including newspaper articles, a memoir in song, and flight commentaries actually dictated in mid-air. Drawing upon that chronicle, and also upon British Government files and a host of other fascinating sources, this book takes a close look at Captain Stack’s life and flights. It talks about his aeroplanes and his friends, who included Amy Johnson, Sir Alan Cobham, and the treacherous Master of Sempill. It goes back to the places he saw first-hand. And it tells the full story of his final, tragic fall from grace. Exuberant, colourful, and ever so light on its feet, STACK provides an intimate and singular account of one of the true heroes of flying’s Golden Age.
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14,99 €

Go for Goosebumps


Life can feel like wading through porridge. We are all struggling with something. Now more than ever, we all need encouragement and are desperate to get help, inspiration, and more goosebump moments from wherever we can find them. With red, amber and green signals for when to stop, get ready and go on your goosebump journey, ‘Go for Goosebumps!’ is a book to dip into when we need encouragement to help us through our struggles. Self-soothing practical suggestions, words of encouragement, a different perspective, all drawn from the frontlines of my company’s work in health, justice, policing, security, and international development. Work tackling some of the most complex modern-day issues such as terrorism, corruption, addiction, and medical forensics, often in the world’s trouble spots. With encouragement to help us through our everyday ‘meh’ moments through to the darkest seasons of our life, this is the practical and uplifting companion we all need as we journey in our quest for more joy, meaning and goosebump moments. This is the encouragement we need to navigate a good way forward, even in hard times, one encouragement at a time.
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14,99 €

Unhealed Wounds


In the shadow of a failed international intervention in Somalia, Gareth Owen lands in war-torn Angola, thrust into a besieged city teetering on the brink. Malanje, encircled by UNITA rebels deploying medieval tactics, becomes ground zero for a crack team of Irish aid workers fighting to stave off starvation for tens of thousands of children. Amid mortar fire and minefields, Owen bears witness to haunting violence and unwavering human spirit. His eight-month emotional descent unfolds as a complex tapestry of deep camaraderie, visceral fear, and the painful reckoning of his own privilege. At the heart lies a brutal legacy —colonial plunder and Cold War complicity – tempered with the inspirational humanitarian ethics of a bygone era. Three decades later, Owen’s story resurfaces—raw and unflinching. Unhealed Wounds interrogates the mythology of white saviourism, sheds light on forgotten lives and demands remembrance in an age of eroding global solidarity. Powerful and evocative, this memoir invites readers to urgently contemplate what has been lost from the true embodiment of humanity’s collective cause: connection between and respect for all peoples. Far more than a personal account, it is a searing moral reckoning for our divisive contemporary times of eroding internationalism and encroaching global catastrophe.
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15,99 €

Gamogamy: A Framework for Relational Identity


Gamogamy: Where Love Meets Identity is a groundbreaking new book that changes the way we understand love, intimacy, and connection. In a world that divides us into “monogamous” or “polyamorous,” Gamogamy offers something radically different: a model based on orientation, not behaviour. It introduces a powerful new vocabulary… monogamous, ambigamous, and multigamous, to help individuals make sense of their inner relational wiring, regardless of how they currently live or love. Whether you’ve struggled to feel at home in monogamy, found yourself thriving in open dynamics, or felt torn between loyalty and longing, Gamogamy helps explain why. It unpacks the difference between instinct and identity, behaviour and structure, and offers a compassionate lens for people whose needs don’t fit traditional moulds. With vivid examples, clear definitions, and thought-provoking insights, this book is both a personal revelation and a cultural challenge. It’s not about how to do relationships, it’s about how to understand yourself within them. Perfect for those in therapy, questioning long-term partnerships, or simply curious about how human connection really works, Gamogamy is a timely and transformative guide for anyone ready to step beyond inherited scripts and claim a relationship model that truly fits.
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Ako prežiť a zvíťaziť v chaose dnešného sveta


Ako sa rozhodovať v čase chaosu, neistoty a tlaku? Táto kniha prináša nový pohľad na to, čo rozhoduje o prežití a stabilite firiem. Rastislav Silný v nej predstavuje existenciálny manažment – rámec, ktorý pomáha vlastníkom a lídrom firiem orientovať sa v zložitých situáciách, robiť zásadné rozhodnutia a obstáť v nepredvídateľnom prostredí. Zároveň ponúka pohľad na osobnú ekonomickú nezávislosť a odolnosť, ktorý je relevantný pre každého, kto premýšľa o budúcnosti svojej rodiny. Kniha spája exaktné myslenie s podnikateľskou realitou a ukazuje, že v dnešnom svete už nestačí len rásť – treba vedieť obstáť. #podnikanie, #manažment, #biznis, #vedeniefirmy, #rozhodovanie, #strategia, #kriza, #neistota, #chaos, #leadership, #uspech, #zlyhanie, #zmysel, #hodnoty, #dlhodobost, #firma, #organizacia, #existencialnymanazment, #prezitie, #kolapsfirmy, #riziko
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Dobytí říše Inků: Tažení Francisca Pizarra v letech 1532–1537


Dobytí říše Inků nesporně patří k vrcholům španělské conquisty na jihoamerickém kontinentu. V roce 1532 se poblíž zničeného Tumbesu vylodila výprava o síle 168 mužů. V jejím čele stál Francisco Pizarro, čtyřiapadesátiletý conquistador, který získal svolení španělské koruny pokračovat v objevech a dobývání doposud neznámých oblastí Nové světa. Pizarro stejně jako řada dalších dobyvatelů toužil po moci a bohatství. Shodou okolností vstoupil na území Peru v době, kdy říší Inků zmítal bratrovražedný boj mezi příslušníky vládnoucí dynastie. V Cajamarce se poprvé setkal s Atahualpou, jenž se zmocnil vlády nad impériem. Jejich konfrontace skončila krveprolitím a inkovým zajetím. Ačkoli zajatý panovník nabídl Španělům neslýchaný obnos ve zlatě a stříbře, nakonec byl conquistadory popraven. Pizarro a jeho muži obsadili hlavní město Cuzco, a završili tak pokoření nejmocnější říše v Novém světě. Peru se stalo španělskou kolonií. Dobyvatelé získali bohatství, které překonávalo jejich nejodvážnější představy. Jak mohlo několik stovek mužů ovládnout impérium čítající 10 milionů obyvatel, jemuž nebylo v „Indiích“ rovno? Srazily mocnou říši na kolena heroismus, udatnost, fyzická, technologická a intelektuální převaha Evropanů? Skutečně Inkové rezignovali na jakýkoli odpor a poddali se „nevyhnutelnému“ osudu?
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Komentár zákona Slovenskej národnej rady č. 372/1990 Zb. o priestupkoch v znení neskorších predpisov je už tretím aktualizovaným a doplneným vydaním. Pre potreby spoločnosti bol komentovaný zákon viackrát novelizovaný a od posledného druhého vydania komentára v roku 2020 boli prijaté legislatívne zmeny, ktoré je nutné premietnuť do aktuálneho tretieho vydania. Zmeny zákona reagovali na zvýšený počet deliktov páchaných v digitálnom prostredí, zníženie vekovej hranice trestnej a s tým spojenej aj priestupkovej zodpovednosti či úpravu prístupu k mladistvým páchateľom. Tretie prepracované znenie komentára vyhotoveného odborným autorským kolektívom prináša aktuálny výklad jednotlivých ustanovení zákona spoločne so súvisiacou literatúrou a s náležitým výberom judikatúry. Komentár je určený najmä pre zamestnancov správnych orgánov, súdov, advokátov, študentov práva či iných vysokých škôl, no obohatí aj odbornú verejnosť so záujmom o verejnú správu. Z recenzného posudku doc. JUDr. PhDr. Zdeněk Fiala, Ph.D.: „Předkládaný komentář jako celek považuji po stránce právní, jazykové a praktické (využitelnost a aktuálnost) jako velmi zdařilý počin, který na ploše cca 500 stran rozebíra náročnou problematiku, kterou přestupkové právo rozhodne představuje.“ Z recenzného posudku doc. JUDr. Radomír Jakab, PhD.: „Jeho autormi sú totiž vysokoškolskí učitelia pôsobiaci na Právnickej fakulte Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave prevažne vo funkcii profesora správneho práva. Vo svojej predchádzajúcej pedagogickej a výskumnej činnosti sa zaoberali jednotlivými aspektmi správneho trestania, pričom niektorí z nich majú aj praktické skúsenosti s touto oblasťou z dôvodu pôsobenia ako sudcovia správneho súdu či Najvyššieho správneho súdu SR. Táto skutočnosť dáva konkurenčnú výhodu vo vzťahu k ostatným komentárom dostupným na trhu.“
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Turínske plátno - svedok prítomnosti


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Exclusion and the New Politics of Hatred


Colin Crouch argues that at the base of all political conflicts are struggles over which types of people should be included in and which excluded from various rights, including the right to exist at all within a particular society. This is more fundamental than any conflict between left and right or between classes, and it gives rise to tropes of inclusionary and exclusionary rhetoric that can be transferred across issues – from ethnicity to gender and sexual orientation, and including demands for nations to isolate themselves as much as possible from contacts with others. Today the forces seeking exclusions of many kinds are gaining ground in the strategies of many governments, parties and movements. Drives to exclude lead rapidly to the incitement of hatred, which leads in turn to acts of performative cruelty and physical violence. Deeply opposed as he is to the politics of exclusion, Crouch seeks to understand and explain its rationality. He passionately advocates a politics of inclusion but, at the same time, he recognises the real obstacles that a commitment to inclusion must confront. While not optimistic about how these struggles will play out in the coming years, he seeks a path through which campaigns for openness and welcome could still triumph in dark times.
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26,99 €

Pharma Monopoly


It is no secret that billions of people across the world lack the freedom and right to access life-saving medicines. For decades, people have fought to put this, though, as the Covid-19 pandemic made sickeningly clear, vast swaths of humanity are still left without. The reason: people are actively denied access to affordable medicines by outdated patent rules and economic policies dominated by neoliberalism. It is no accident, and it is not due to the pharmaceutical industry alone. Tahir Amin and Rohit Malpani, two leading figures in the access to medicines movement, examine the origins of this system of rules that champions monopolies and the false god of innovation over the public interest and human well-being. They tell the story of how, move by move, governments have ceded control to and then empowered pharmaceutical companies, making it increasingly hard to undo the damage wreaked along the way. From their unique vantage points and experiences, the authors critique global health initiatives and philanthropists for maintaining the status quo and warn of a future dominated by financial markets and artificial intelligence that will reinforce the worst practices of yesterday and portends new injustices for everyone. Ultimately, Pharma Monopoly questions the foundations of international efforts to improve access to medicines and calls for a new way forward that can rekindle a movement for justice.
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In 2024, Donald Trump made a political comeback on a scale that stunned the world. How did the first US president to become a convicted felon regain control of the White House? And at what cost? Here, three award-winning reporters bring us the definitive and explosive account of how Trump and his advisers overcame a dozen primary challengers, four indictments, two assassination attempts, and his own past mistakes to defeat the Democrats. It is a damning and revelatory inside account of an election that tested American democracy - and which has already transformed the future of the free world.
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Jakými dvěma způsoby se dá najít smysl života? Proč byste měli začít trochu srát svoje okolí, pokud chcete být šťastní? Z jakých dvou důvodů se nejčastěji odpojujeme od svých partnerů a partnerek? Jak vás Temu tajně špehuje? Jsou Češi řízci v knedlíku? A můžeme opravdu milovat víc lidí najednou? Pokud toužíte najít odvahu dát světu i sobě to nejlepší, co ve vás je, tohle je kniha pro vás! Najdete v ní nefiltrované náhledy do nejpozoruhodnějších českých hlav a příběhů v nich ukrytých. Honza Vojtko, Pavel Moric, Dana Drábová, Jiří Langmajer, Tomáš Sedláček, Jiří Horáček, Marek Orko Vácha, Kateřina Cajthamlová a další se s vámi podělí o svou životní cestu a moudrost, kterou na ní nasbírali. Pomůžou vám tak objevit, kým můžete být vy. Buďme víc.
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K najznámejším autorom odbornej literatúry patria Stephen Hawking, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Kahneman či zo slovenských autorov Roman Králik, či Vojtech Zamarovský.