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Georgij Zsukov a XX. század hadtörténetének egyik legismertebb és legkiemelkedőbb alakja. Parasztcsaládból származott, a második világháborúban szovjet győzelmek fényes sorozata fűződik a nevéhez. Katonai pályafutása az első világháborúban kezdődött, ahol kitüntetéssel szolgált a cári hadseregben. Később, az orosz polgárháború alatt belépett a Vörös Hadseregbe, és hozzáértő, bátor parancsnokként szilárdította meg tekintélyét. A hajthatatlanságáról, kiváló vezetői, taktikai képességeiről és harctéri határozottságáról ismert Zsukov döntő szerepet játszott a keleti front legtöbb fontos csatájában, a többi között Moszkva védelmében, a sztálingrádi csatában vagy a Bagratyion hadműveletben is. Hatalmas szerepe volt a nácizmus legyőzésében, ezért ma is sokan csodálják és tanulmányozzák pályáját.

Rooted in wisdom and composure, Stoic teachings offer a way to live a more balanced life, guided not by what happens but by how we choose to face it. In the final years of his life, the Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca penned more than a hundred letters containing his deepest reflections on cultivating inner strength and resilience. Addressed to his friend Lucilius, these writings explore a range of human experiences from overcoming desire and fear to remaining steadfast amid turmoil.Comprehensive yet profoundly intimate, the letters collected in this volume carry timeless lessons that have endured for millennia and continue to shape lives, making it the essential volume for any aspiring stoic.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classics series brings together high-quality paperback editions of classics works, presented with contemporary graphic cover designs. Together they make a wonderful collection which is perfect for any home library.

Often misconceived as a dark ''between-time'' between the ancient and modern eras, the Middle Ages was in fact a period of radical transformation. Professor of Medieval History Phyllis G. Jestice gives a fascinating overview of this incredible period across the world, bringing to life the personalities, the technologies, the politics and the culture that defined this period in the development of the world we know today.Includes:• The rise of Christianity• The astounding advances in the sciences and the arts in the Islamic world• How economic powerhouses developed in Africa and powerful states arose in the Americas• How trade flourished throughout central Asia and China in the form of the Silk Roads• The terrifying depredations of the Mongol invasions• The crusades and other conflicts of Europe that marked a so-called era of ''chivalry''.

This book tells the surprising history of our most intimate gesture: the kiss. Richly illustrated, it explores a millennium of kisses, asking how and why the kiss has retained its power over the centuries, and what it might mean today. From the furtive kisses of fated lovers Heloise and Abelard to The Godfather’s ‘kiss of death’, Katie Barclay shows how the kiss can be romantic, peaceful, transgressive, intimate, erotic and more. There are kisses that are bad ideas, dangerous kisses and funny ones. New kisses are invented and old ones fall out of favour. While the kiss continues to change, Barclay shows that we kiss fewer people, and less often, than we used to.The Kiss reveals a cultural inheritance transmitted in story and song, art and literature, and through the everyday kisses that we receive from our parents, or reserve for our lovers; when we kiss, we kiss with the weight of history.

Manipulujú Vás doma, v práci, cez telefón, filmy aj správy. Ovládajú Vašu myseľ tak, že o tom ani neviete. Robíte rozhodnutia podľa nich a nie podľa seba. Ste ako slepec, ktorý verí svojej bielej paličke celý život. Ale v okamihu, keby sa mu vrátil zrak, odhodil by ju. Táto kniha vám otvorí oči. Budete sa cítiť ako slepec, ktorý získal svoj zrak späť. Pomôže Vám odhodiť tú paličku, ktorej veríte celý život, lebo ona je iba zhmotnená manipulácia a klamstvo. Nebude sa vám páčiť, čo uvidíte. Zistíte, že polovica toho, čomu ste verili, bolo klamstvo. Lenže vidieť je vždy lepšie ako zostať slepý. Naučte sa osem základných princípov manipulácie, ktoré fungujú od počiatku ľudstva. Potom uvidíte konkrétne príklady, ako sa používajú v praxi. A nakoniec dostanete arzenál zbraní na obranu. Získate späť kormidlo od Vášho života a Vašich rozhodnutí.

Panoptikum starej Nitry prináša autentické kriminálne prípady z obdobia prvej Československej republiky. Na základe dobových novín, archívnych dokumentov a súdnych spisov ožíva temná stránka medzivojnovej Nitry – plná zločinov, ľudských osudov a zabudnutých príbehov, ktoré sa skutočne odohrali.

The combat superiority of the jet fighter as demonstrated towards the end of World War II presented the U.S. Navy with a significant problem. Carrier-based aircraft have additional and burdensome design requirements compared to those that do not have to fly on and off carriers. Through experience and innovative design by their aircraft suppliers, the Navy were flying propeller driven fighters that were in no way operationally inferior to their land-based adversaries. Now they had to do it again with a higher degree of difficulty - the innate limitations of jet propulsion could not have been more incompatible with safe and routine carrier-based operation.This is a new and expanded edition of a book which examines the US Navy''s internal struggle to adapt the jet engine to its style of warfare, as well as the development and evolution of carrier-borne fighters, their airframes and engines, from the closing days of World War II through to the 1990s. The book profiles the turbulent design and development stage of the Navy''s carrier-based jet fighter programme. From the successful designs - such as the Fury, Banshee, Crusader, and Phantom II, to the also-rans, like the Fireball, Demon, Pirate, and Cutlass - the Navy''s needs are measured against contractor and political demands and the limits of the evolving engine and aerodynamic technologies of the day. The successful transition to high-performance, carrier-based jet fighters wasn''t just accomplished by the airplane and engine manufacturers. Timely and thoughtful innovations in aircraft carrier design, operational procedures, training and equipment were also necessary.The previous edition had taken the story up to 1962. Substantial additions to this edition include new chapters on the F6D/F-111B, F-14A/B/C/D and F-18A/B/C/D. Significant events post 1993 are also covered including the retirement of the F-14 and "legacy" F-18, the introduction of the F-18E/F, F-35C and unmanned aerial refuelling programmes.This book includes many photos and illustrations including engine cut-aways, aircraft comparison diagrams and details of the safety improvements made to aircraft carriers to enable higher speed and high-gross-weight jet operations.

Když došlo 3. října 1990 ke znovusjednocení Německa, zdálo se, že Němci chtějí posledních jednačtyřicet let rozdělení a vyhrocených vzájemných vztahů konečně hodit za hlavu. Komunistický režim padl a již nebylo nutné se dále zaobírat socialistickým experimentem, který v roce 1949 vznikl na pozadí počínající horké fáze studené války. Jejich země se konečně mohla po desetiletích politických otřesů vyvíjet jednotně a vstříc světlé budoucnosti. Transformační devadesátá léta ale východním Němcům přinesla především život v nejistotě, úpadek životní úrovně, nezaměstnanost a ekonomické problémy. Hospodářsky se západ a východ Německa po další tři dekády vyvíjely jinak. Místo fyzické zdi, která rozdělovala Západní a Východní Německo, vznikla zeď ekonomická. Dějiny NDR byly brány jako jakási anomálie, či tabu, o kterém se raději moc nemluvilo. Podle historičky Katji Hoyer je na čase, aby se Němci seznámili s dějinami Východního Německa a přivlastnili si je coby součást společné historie, protože jsou bytostně spojené s vývojem Německa ve 20. století. Její kniha se čte jako strhující thriller. Britsko-německá historička vychází z pramenného výzkumu, ale její kniha stojí také na rozhovorech s lidmi různých sociálních skupin, povolání či genderu, kteří prožili velkou část svého života v NDR. Místo strohého akademického popisu tak nechává promlouvat individuální životní příběhy lidí, kteří prožili svůj život v mimořádně nestabilním období německých dějin. Kniha Za zdí patří ke světovým bestsellerům. Katja Hoyer se stala jednou z vyhledávaných osobností na témata spojená s Německem. Píše pro The Guardian, The Financial Times, Die Welt, nebo vystupovala v televizních pořadech pro Sky History, nebo Channel 4. #německo #dějiny #komunismus #NDR

Europe has often been the target of criticism: Europe has lost touch with its core values, its leaders are indecisive and its citizens are confused, unsure whether they should be proud of their past or embarrassed by it – the litany of accusations is long, and the writers of obituaries have never been at a loss for words to describe the death of the Old Continent. Many of these criticisms are exaggerated and misguided but, nevertheless, the time has come to rethink post-imperial Europe, assigning proper place to the burdens of its mixed history, including its colonial past, but also recalling its civilization-defining advances such as its singular culture of learning and inventiveness, its permanent revolution of the critical spirit, its management of pluralism, its ever-evolving organization of general welfare, its dissolution of hierarchies of social origin, and its promotion of dignified living conditions for all. In this extraordinarily wide-ranging and erudite work, Sloterdijk opens up a few bookmarks in the Book of Europe. If Europe too often is a book rarely read by those whom it concerns, Sloterdijk's bookmarks help orient readers – teaching Europeans from the script that they themselves have written about where they stand with themselves and about their role within the whole. In Sloterdijk's view, the true Europe can be found wherever creative passions have overtaken those of resentment, and it will survive as long as creativity keeps resentment in check.

Knihu tvorí zbierka úvah biblistu Alberta Maggiho nad úryvkami z Markovho evanjelia, ktoré sa čítajú pri nedeľných bohoslužbách v liturgickom roku B. Markovo posolstvo je univerzálne, ohlasuje dobrú správu bez toho, aby ju zakladalo na Starom zákone (zámerne provokatívnym spôsobom sa v jeho evanjeliu nikdy neobjavuje termín Zákon, grécky: nomos). Pre Jána Marka je Ježišovo posolstvo nové víno, ktoré potrebuje nové mechy, inak sa premárni a stratí. Keď pochopil, že nemôže vykonávať svoju službu evanjelistu v skupine, ktorú teraz viedol Pavol, nesúhlasil. „Odišiel od nich a vrátil sa do Jeruzalema“ (Sk 13, 13), vrátil sa do svojho domovského spoločenstva. Začal písať a vytvoril prvú literárnu typológiu „evanjelia“ bez toho, aby sa spoliehal na akýkoľvek predchádzajúci model. Neskôr nasledovali ďalší evanjelisti, ako napríklad Matúš, ktorý použil asi deväťdesiat percent Markovho materiálu, a Lukáš s päťdesiatimi percentami. Marek sa zaujíma o skutočného, ľudského Ježiša, z mäsa a kostí, a ešte nie idealizovaného, slávneho a premeneného ako zjavenie Boha. Marek hľadá všetky možné informácie, aby pochopil človeka Ježiša, jediné zjavenie Boha. Preto vo chvíli Ježišovho krstu Marek píše, že „z neba zaznel hlas: Ty si môj milovaný Syn, v tebe mám zaľúbenie“ (Mk 1, 11). Boh potvrdzuje, že Ježiš, milovaný syn, sa mu vo všetkom podobá a reprezentuje ho. A čitateľ je pozvaný, aby venoval pozornosť tomuto úplne novému, originálnemu spôsobu, akým sa Boh prejavuje a dáva sa poznať. Zatiaľ čo Pavol nás pozýva, aby sme uprene hľadeli na nebo a stavali do kontrastu nebeského človeka s pozemským, Marek nás žiada, aby sme pevne stáli nohami na zemi. Preto sa jeho Ježiš zaujíma o zdravie, jedlo a konkrétne šťastie ľudí na tejto zemi. Kým pre Pavla sa človek musí stále usilovať o druhý život, ten nebeský, duchovný, Marek ukazuje Ježiša ako zjavenie Otcovej nežnej bezpodmienečnej lásky.

Monografia poskytuje komplexnú analýzu princípu kontradiktórnosti v trestnom konaní s osobitným dôrazom na jeho uplatnenie v prípravnom konaní. Autor sa venuje teoretickým východiskám kontradiktórnosti, jej historickému vývoju, komparácii kontinentálneho a angloamerického modelu trestného procesu, ako aj reflexii princípu kontradiktórnosti v judikatúre Európskeho súdu pre ľudské práva a vnútroštátnej rozhodovacej praxi. Ťažiskom publikácie je systematická analýza jednotlivých inštitútov prípravného konania z pohľadu uplatnenia kontradiktórnych prvkov, ich významu pre efektívny výkon práva na obhajobu a zabezpečenie spravodlivého procesu. Monografia analyzuje súčasnú právnu úpravu, identifikuje aplikačné problémy a na základe ich posúdenia prináša vlastné odborné závery a návrhy de lege ferenda smerujúce k ďalšiemu rozvoju slovenského trestného práva procesného. Publikácia je určená odbornej verejnosti, najmä advokátom, sudcom, prokurátorom, príslušníkom orgánov činných v trestnom konaní, akademickým pracovníkom, študentom práva a ďalším záujemcom o problematiku trestného práva procesného a ochrany práva na spravodlivý proces.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A revolutionary playbook for achieving financial freedom, wherever you start from Wealth. Stability. Freedom. Hard work is often not enough to achieve these universal goals. Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings know the systemic barriers that keep those who are hustling from achieving their dreams and it's now their mission to level the playing field. For the first time since having built a multimillion following for their Earn Your Leisure platform, including legendary entrepreneurs from Tyler Perry to Patricia Bright, they reveal their game plan for financial freedom. Laying out financial, investment and entrepreneurial lessons alongside tools for harnessing your ambition, this book breaks down the strategies for creating wealth and building a lasting legacy. From overcoming financial trauma and navigating familial expectations to earning enough to be in control, this is a first-of-its-kind guide to mastering the money game, whether you grew up knowing the rules or not.

'One of our finest thinkers on technology' - Jamie Bartlett, author of How to Talk to AI Discover the key to clear thinking in the age of AI In a world of alt facts, imperfect algorithms and information overload, thinking clearly has never been more crucial. But it's not easy. It asks us to slow down and reflect; to question assumptions; to be aware of blind spots. It takes practice - and the will to resist a whole host of distractions. How to Think Clearly is a practical primer that will help you: - develop the core habits that underpin critical thinking - master techniques like powerful pauses and killer questions - be data smart and tech savvy - turn these skills into daily practice, making you think twice - and think better

A story of recovery, love, and loss—a memoir of healing ourselves and the natural world. Cara Benson did not come to love easy. As a low bottom addict, she crawled through subway tunnels and partnered with an abusive man. When she came face to face with her own death, she chose life. Her journey of survival led her into recovery, to climbing mountains, and ultimately to Jon, the man with whom she cultivated a relationship that began as “second chance lovers” and slowly developed into one as lifetime partners. Years later, Benson unexpectedly found herself in devastation as she came to terms with losing Jon to suicide. As she retreated into her grief, she also retreated into the woods of upstate New York, exploring the forests not as the avid hiker she’d become in recovery, but as a meanderer who had lost her way. Here she found more grief in her observation of the effects of climate change. In confronting her loss, Benson came to realize that the lessons she learned from loving Jon in sickness, health, and death could be applied to her relationship with the non-human world. From squirreling away oak acorns for reforestation of a logged property to maintaining feeders for the birds Jon adored, Benson’s daily life became a sort of field guide for how to live with a deep and abiding commitment to the future of the planet despite challenging odds. Moving through the intensely personal and kindred terrain of love, recovery, and loss, An Armsfull of Birds is a climate memoir that tells the story of developing deeply held commitments to ourselves, to those we love, and ultimately to the ailing natural world.

Last Resting Place looks at the loss of each of the ten capital ships of the Royal Navy that were sunk during the Second World War. The stories of some of the sinkings are well known and have become deemed simply part of the fortunes of war. Naval war involves battles, and in sea battles, sooner or later, protagonists are sunk.But for some of the capital ship losses the stories of how disaster struck are not quite as straightforward. The sinking of HMS Hood, for instance, has led to questioning the verdict of the official enquiry over many years, even up to the present day. It was concluded at the time that Hood was lost to a lucky hit from Bismarck that drove through the ship and caused a magazine at the stern to catch fire. The inquiry did go through various possibilities in detail but this was the best fit of three alternatives considered and has been left to stand. Yet Hood’s record of numerous dockings for repairs before her last sortie – some of which were heavy – was never even brought up, a surprising omission and the more so since close to the outbreak of war the First Sea Lord had commented: ‘she [Hood] needs a complete and total change of machinery as hers is twenty years old,’ and ‘the likelihood of her being able to steam at speed for any distance must be considered remote.’ Why was mechanical breakdown overlooked? The author’s detective work has brought to light some radical new conclusions.Some other ships such as Ark Royal and Hermes had their wrecks located on the seabed miles away from the official recorded position of their sinking and the loss of Royal Oak in Scapa Flow was an avoidable debacle. Even more contentious was the loss of Glorious, sent to Norway to recover some hopelessly antiquated Gloster Gladiator aircraft and lost on her return when she ran into the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The results of the inquiry into her sinking were later locked away for 100 years, a decision that has led to much speculation about the actual purpose of her mission and what is it about it that is being hidden from public view.In ten chapters the author dissects what happened to these fine ships, how their losses came about and where their wrecks are located; and he looks in detail at theories, causes and conclusions surrounding the sinkings. It is a fascinating compilation for anyone interested in the history of the Royal Navy’s great capital ships and sheds genuine new light on the calamitous destruction of nearly half of them during the War.

WW2 Codebreaking People and Places is the first volume of a series on a glossary of codebreaking, ‘People and Places’, brings to the reader an easily understandable account and listing, of those involved in collecting and analysing military intelligence, principally during the second world war. Whilst some will be well known, such as Alan Turing, many others have made significant contributions to codebreaking but fail to attract the attention of the media for the most part. From an individual named ‘Wren’ who worked at a codebreaking outstation supporting Bletchley Park, to a mathematician who modified a codebreaking machine just prior to D-Day, to a ladies foundationwear factory in Hertfordshire that helped make machine components, these people and places now can be appreciated as to where they fitted-in within the overall picture of gathering, and processing enemy intelligence in wartime.The entries are cross-referenced to enable the reader to research as much or as little as they want, to dip-in to the glossary, to use it as a basis for further study, or just to learn a little more about the people that helped us win the war with our allied friends. .

When Hitler came to power in 1933 he promised the German people a technocratic state where science, technology and education would grow and flourish. Unfortunately, any attempts to achieve such a goal were dependent on his educational background which was fundamentally flawed and severely distorted.Hitler’s schooling was a troubled time where he struggled with many subjects. In particular he found conflicting views between science and religion so difficult to understand it caused him to “run his head against the wall”. He was also heavily educated in subjects like myths, magic, pseudo-sciences and the occult which would become his versions of alternative science and alternative facts. These alternatives remained with him into adulthood where, as Fuhrer, his mentality and mindset towards science was highlighted when he announced: "A new age of magic interpretation of the world is coming, of interpretation in terms of the will and not the intelligence."Hitler’s ideology and rise to power also came at an interesting time for physics which was hinting at that will not intelligence interpretation. The early decades of the twentieth century had seen a revolution in two apparently connected key areas of the subject known as quantum mechanics and relativity; these would have a dramatic influence on Hitler and the physics of the Third Reich. During the 1920s quantum mechanics was suggesting that just by observing an experiment a scientist could alter the outcome and reality. However, at the same time Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity was also developing and whereas the two areas were believed to be linked, to the Nazis there was a serious problem. Whereas German physicist Max Planck’s quantum physics was a non-Jewish science hinting at that promised magical underlying foundation to physics and reality, Einstein was Jewish and so was his theory. Moreover, relativity was difficult to understand and accept, especially amongst certain right-wing experimental physicists. Therefore, relativity was easy to reject with the magical quantum world eagerly accepted by the Nazis.However, with Hitler’s ability to understand science clearly strained and steadfast from childhood together with his seething anti-Semitism, this decision set the Nazis on a research road very different from the Allies. As the decade progressed so did the ridicules towards Jewish science through Einstein and his theory. This set in motion extreme anti-Semitic attacks on him by those extreme right-wing experimental physicists many of whom would later find key roles in Hitler’s government. As such, the theoretical physics dominated by Jewish scientists was rejected en mass with key Jewish scientists dismissed from their academic posts. Instead, the Third Reich favoured experimental, or applied, physics which shaped much of Hitler’s war machine with the so-called magical interpretation of quantum mechanics and its apparent will over intelligence providing the basis for unconventional pseudo-scientific research, research like free energy, anti-gravity and hidden occultist physics through ancient texts.Through Hitler’s key reforms in science and education and Heinrich Himmler’s SS, science became politicised with an added danger that certain areas were replaced with Nazi alternatives like pseudo-science, magic and the occult. The result was certain areas of true sciences became pseudo-sciences while the Third Reich’s pseudo-sciences became the true sciences. Disciplines then became Aryan physics, Aryan chemistry, Aryan biology, Aryan mathematics, and so on, with all expected to prove their place within National Socialism or perish. From there science experienced an era of division and decline with loss of freedom and diversity, misapplication of innovation and the inevitable decline in some areas of the natural sciences, especially physics and mathematics.By the war’s end Himmler’s SS had taken control of much of Nazi Germany’s scientific research and with the unthinkable d

An illustrated look at Ancient Egypt and one of the earliest recorded battles that put a stop to Ramesses II''s drive into Syria.In c. 1286 BC, Ramesses II was pharaoh and commander of the Egyptian army. He led an expedition northwards from the eastern delta, through Palestine, and aimed for the city of Kadesh, which was currently in the hands of the Hittites. What Ramesses did not expect was that the Hittites'' leader, King Muwatallis, was in the city, which made his plans much harder. Meeting in battle at the Orontes River in southern Syria, it was the largest clash of chariots ever seen. The Hittites proved to be formidable opponents, managing to slice through the second division of the Egyptian army with a targeted chariot attack. In the end, the Hittites were forced to retreat but the Egyptians also failed to capture Kadesh and had to withdraw out of Syria.In this detailed volume, Egyptologist Anthony Spalinger explores the history of the Egyptians and Hittites, looking at how they fought and how Kadesh came to be considered one of the most decisive battles of the ancient world. With stunning artwork, maps, diagrams and images of carvings from multiple temples, Ancient Egypt is brought to life, showcasing one of the earliest recorded set-piece battles.

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