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História, vojnová literatúra 
Náboženstvo 
Motivačná literatúra 
Psychológia, etika, logika 
Medicína 
Ekonómia, manažment, marketing 
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Prírodné vedy 
Politológia 
Filozofia 
Právo 
Literárna veda, jazykoveda, slovníky 
Počítačová literatúra 
Sociológia, etnológia 
Pedagogika 
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The Last Embassy
From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily dismissed by the Qing court, Macartney failed in nearly all of his objectives, perhaps setting the stage for the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and the mistrust that still marks the relationship today. But not all European encounters with China were disastrous. The Last Embassy tells the story of the Dutch mission of 1795, bringing to light a dramatic but little-known episode that transforms our understanding of the history of China and the West. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Tonio Andrade paints a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of an age marked by intrigues and war. China was on the brink of rebellion. In Europe, French armies were invading Holland. Enduring a harrowing voyage, the Dutch mission was to be the last European diplomatic delegation ever received in the traditional Chinese court. Andrade shows how, in contrast to the British emissaries, the Dutch were men with deep knowledge of Asia who respected regional diplomatic norms and were committed to understanding China on its own terms. Beautifully illustrated with sketches and paintings by Chinese and European artists, The Last Embassy suggests that the Qing court, often mischaracterized as arrogant and narrow-minded, was in fact open, flexible, curious, and cosmopolitan.
Opravdová komunita
Společenství mezi věřícími znamená mnohem víc než jen rozhovory u kávy po bohoslužbě. Biblické společenství – neboli takzvaná koinonia – mělo v novozákonní době bohatý a rozsáhlý význam, který zahrnoval smluvní vztah, partnerství v evangeliu, společenství s Bohem a s druhými, a včetně sdílení pozemského majetku.
Oblíbený autor Jerry Bridges vás ve své knize Opravdová komunita provede významy slova koinonia a jejich smyslem pro dnešní církev. Tato kniha vám, i díky své diskuzní příručce, která se zaměřuje na její jednotlivé kapitoly, pomůže hlouběji pochopit, jak by měla vypadat křesťanská komunita v jednadvacátém století. Ze čtení této knihy si odnesete nové pochopení společenství, církve a Božího záměru toho, čím má Kristovo tělo být.
Cold War Civil Rights
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearHow the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold WarIn 1958, an African American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing less than two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Soon after World War II, American racism became a major concern of US allies, a chief Soviet propaganda theme, and an obstacle to American Cold War goals throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Racial segregation undermined the American image, harming foreign relations in every administration from Truman to Johnson. Mary Dudziak shows how the Cold War helped to facilitate desegregation and other key social reforms at home as the United States sought to polish its image abroad, yet how a focus on appearances over substance limited the nature and extent of progress. Cold War Civil Rights situates the Cold War in civil rights history while giving an international perspective to the fight for racial justice in America.
Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 2 (LOA #387)
W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified ''the problem of the color-line'' as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the colour line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality. Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle, Part Two brings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony and appeals, judicial opinions, and poems and song lyrics - more than ninety essential texts in all - from the end of the bloody ''Red Summer'' of 1919 to the Boston busing crisis of 1974-76. This volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals, including: - B. C. Franklin on the Tulsa Massacre - Robert Russa Moton''s suppressed address on the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial - Alain Locke''s tribute to ''the New Negro'' - Ned Cobb''s recounting of the harsh realities of sharecropping - Thurgood Marshall on police brutality in wartime Detroit - Rosa Parks''s appeal for justice for Recy Taylor - Earl Warren''s landmark opinion in Brown - Paul Robeson''s defiant response to congressional inquisitors - Fannie Lou Hamer''s eloquent challenge to disenfranchisement in Mississippi and James Baldwin on the myths and meaning of the American Dream. Also presented are white supremacist writings from the 1920s Klan and the Dixiecrats of 1948; examples of Southern voter literacy tests; blues lyrics sung by Bessie Smith and Big Bill Broonzy; Robert F. Williams''s controversial call for armed Black self-defense; speeches by Marcus Garvey and Stokeley Carmichael; letters in the Black press about Confederate monuments; Ann Moody on her childhood in segregated Mississippi; and Mary McLeod Bethune''s advocacy for reproductive rights as an essential element of democratic freedom. As the teaching of our nation''s history, especially the history of race in America, becomes increasingly contested, this book will serve as a vital resource, a crucial reminder of where we''ve been, how far we''ve come, and how long the road ahead remains.
Morálna ambícia
Morálna ambícia sa začína jednoduchým uvedomením: máme iba jeden život. Čas, ktorý prežijeme na tomto svete, je naším najcennejším majetkom. Práca na plný úväzok predstavuje 80 000 hodín, respektíve 10 000 pracovných dní, respektíve 2 000 pracovných týždňov. Ako tento čas prežijeme, je jednou z najdôležitejších morálnych otázok v našom živote.
Autor svetoznámych bestsellerov Rutger Bregman v knihe Morálna ambícia odhaľuje, ako svojimi konvenčnými definíciami úspechu poškodzujeme nielen sami seba, ale aj planétu. Zároveň však ponúka riešenie v podobe presmerovania našich osobných ambícií na činnosti so spoločenským prospechom. Morálna ambícia je podľa Bregmana vôľa drasticky zlepšovať svet a zamerať svoju kariéru na veľké problémy našich čias – či už ide o klimatickú zmenu, detskú úmrtnosť, daňové úniky, alebo o ďalšiu pandémiu. Je to túžba zmeniť svet a zanechať po sebe niečo, na čom skutočne záleží.
Kniha Morálna ambícia je príručka k hľadaniu vlastnej cesty, ktorá nám pripomína, že skutočná miera úspechu nespočíva v tom, čo nahromadíme, ale v tom, čím prispejeme k blahu druhých, a ukazuje, ako sa dá vybudovať naozaj zmysluplné dedičstvo.
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Zo starého viniča
V publikácii Z každého rožka troška, ktorú Televízia LUX vydala v roku 2024, čitateľ našiel výber z viac než tridsiatich mojich kníh. V tejto publikácii nájde výťah z mojich prednášok, článkov a besied pre mládež, lekárov, učiteľov a kňazov, ako aj z časopiseckých, televíznych, rozhlasových a knižných rozhovorov za uplynulé roky.
Často sa mi vyčíta, že hovorím a píšem viac o negatívach než o pozitívach v osobnom a spoločenskom živote. Je to tak preto, lebo na lekárskych fakultách ma učili, že lekár musí v kontakte s chorým pacientom hovoriť oveľa viac o jeho chorobách a prevencii, než o tom, čo je v jeho tele absolútne zdravé. A dnešný človek a spoločnosť sú z morálneho a ľudského hľadiska veľmi choré.
Čitateľ sa v tejto knihe stretne s mnohými otázkami. Ak v nej nájde odpoveď aj na niektorú zo svojich vlastných otázok, nepísal som ju zbytočne.
Odyssey
WHEN GODS TURN VENGEFUL, ONLY THE BRAVE CAN DEFY FATE AND FIND THEIR WAY HOME
Discover the stunning conclusion to Stephen Fry's internationally bestselling Greek myths series
After the fall of Troy, wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, sails for home and his steadfast queen Penelope.
However, the angry gods curse him to wander the seas for ten long years. Tormented by giants and monsters, tempted by witches and goddesses, Odysseus battles to draw ever closer to home.
Awaiting him is Penelope, defying reports of his death. But this queen endures her own tormentors - an army of young suitors eager to claim her hand and the throne . . .
Choose Your Self
?A liberating guide for every woman ready to embrace her own worth, heal deeply, and find fulfillment from within.? ?Wendy Valentine, host of The Midlife Makeover Show and author of Women Waking UpIf you?ve been waiting for your life to start once your relationship status changes, it?s time to rethink things and learn to choose your self first. We often relate to singlehood as a phase that should be rushed and remedied by finding a partner, rather than relating to it as our most potent opportunity for growth. But if the priority is on being chosen over being the one to choose, you?re more likely to keep ending up with the wrong partner. It?s time to break these old patterns and embrace single life with compassion. ?One of the great advantages of spending time intentionally single,? shares expert coach and therapist Megan Sherer, ?is having time to self-reflect, to learn from your past, and to experiment with new ways of being. Key word: intentionally.?Sherer teaches how to fall in love with your own life and be unwilling to waver in the pursuit of a relationship as strong as the one you build within your self. Using personal story as well as potent reflection prompts, somatic exercises, and self-care practices, she shepherds you through the process of moving beyond attachment wounds to new levels of self-awareness to build a rock-solid foundation for your relationship with self. If you have an interest in partnering in the future, you?ll also discover how to do so in a way that allows you to remain true to your self. Here you?ll uncover:? Clarity in defining your desires? How your attachment style has impacted your relationships? Why you keep choosing emotionally unavailable people? What your patterns are and how to clean up old habits? How to manage your nervous system and heal your inner child? The magic of doing the things you thought you needed a partner forIt?s time to move from the disempowered experience of loneliness to an empowered version of singlehood? one filled with joy, adventure, play, passion, and all the other things that you thought you had to wait for the perfect person to experience. You are that person, and that time is now.
The Buddha in You
Explore core Buddhist teachings, as well as practice through reflections and meditations, in this concise and inviting introduction.Ideal for anyone who is Buddhism-curious, The Buddha in You offers an accessible introduction to the key teachings of Buddhism. But Buddhism is so much more than its teachings? it?s also a lived experience. Through simple reflections, practices, or meditations in every short chapter, The Buddha in You invites you to begin to try the teachings in your own life, whether you want to be Buddhist or not. These teachings can help cultivate more calm, joy, and gratitude even amid life?s challenges.Authors Lama Lhanang Rinpoche, born and raised in Tibet and now teaching in the United States and internationally, and meditation teacher Mordy Levine have introduced countless people to Buddhism and meditation. This book answers the key questions people ask them, including:? What really is karma?? How do I meditate?? Is reincarnation real?? Do I have to believe everything the Buddha taught?? What are the differences among the various schools of Buddhism?? Do Buddhists have to be vegetarian?? And many moreThe Buddha in You invites you to explore both Buddhist teachings and your own inner landscape. As Lama Lhanang writes, ?Enjoy this moment with wisdom, compassion, and kindness? We all have the chance to be a Buddha one day.?
Stress Wisely
It?s time to make stress your ally, not your enemy.Stress is inherent to the human condition. When not properly understood, stress can wreak havoc on our mental and physical health, relationships, and lives. But it doesn?t have to be that way. In Stress Wisely, award-winning psychology scholar and resiliency expert Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe explains how we can be strategic in stressful times by challenging everything we?ve been told about stress?and wielding its power in our favour.With her signature honesty, humour, and relateability, Dr. Robyne draws on her vast research and real-world experiences in wellness, stress, and resiliency to help you navigate the chaos in the wisest way possible. Through smart strategies and awareness-raising exercises grounded in science and the Eight Realms of Wellness?physical, emotional, intellectual, social, environmental, occupational, financial, and spiritual?Dr. Robyne teaches you how to make stress your ally in every stage of your life.
The Genius Myth
The tortured poet. The rebellious scientist. The monstrous artist. The tech disruptor.
You can tell what a society values by who it labels as a genius. You can also tell who it excludes, who it enables, and what it is prepared to tolerate.
Taking us from the Renaissance Florence of Leonardo da Vinci to the Floridian rocket launches of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Helen Lewis unravels a word that we all use - without really questioning what it means.
Along the way, she uncovers the secret of the Beatles' success, asks how biographers should solve the Austen Problem, and reveals why Stephen Hawking thought IQ tests were for losers (before taking one herself). And she asks if the modern idea of genius - a class of special people - is distorting our view of the world.
Playing with Reality
A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress.
We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to practice making predictions about the future. Games are thought to be older than written language, and have now become the dominant cultural media?bigger than movies, TV, music, and literature combined. They are also fun. But as neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy argues, it’s time we started taking them more seriously.
In Playing With Reality, she chronicles the riveting and hidden history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, biology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and the future of democracy. Games, Clancy shows us, have been deeply intertwined with the arc of history. War games shaped the outcomes of real wars in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Game theory warped our understanding of human behaviour and brought us to the brink of annihilation?yet still underlies basic assumptions in economics, politics, and technology. We used games to teach computers how to learn for themselves, and now we are designing games that will determine the shape of society and future of democracy. Games also inform the basic systems that govern our daily lives: the social media and technology that can warp our preferences, polarise us, and manufacture our desires.
Lucid, thought-provoking, and masterfully told, Playing With Reality makes the bold argument that the human fascination with games is the key to understanding our nature.
Why War
Why has warfare always been part of the human story?
From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent conflict?
What light can this shed on humanity’s past – and its future?
There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human propensity for conflict. Our history is inextricably tangled in wave after wave of inter-human fighting from as far back as we have records.
Repeatedly humans have foresworn war, have understood its appalling risks and have wished to create more pacific, productive societies. And yet almost inevitably circumstances emerge under which war once more seems inevitable or even desirable
How can we make sense of what Einstein called 'the dark places of human will and feeling'? Richard Overy draws on a lifetime's study of conflict to write this challenging account of how we can understand the causes of war. Looking at every facet of war from biology to belief, psychology to security, Overy allows readers to understand the many contradictory or self-reinforcing ways in which warfare can suddenly appear a legitimate option, and why it is likely to be part of our future as well as our past.
Against Identity
A philosopher explains why the search for identity is meaningless, and how we should escape the self.
Modern life encourages us to pursue the perfect identity. Whether we aspire to become the best lawyer or charity worker, life partner or celebrity influencer, we emulate exemplars that exist in the world – hoping it will bring us happiness. But this often leads to a complex game of envy and pride. We achieve these identities but want others to imitate us. We disagree with those whose identities contradict ours – leading to polarisation and even violence. And yet when they thump against us, we are ashamed to ring hollow.
In Against Identity, philosopher Alexander Douglas seeks an alternative wisdom. Searching the work of three thinkers – ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, Dutch Enlightenment thinker Benedict de Spinoza, and 20th Century French theorist René Girard – he explores how identity can be a spiritual violence that leads us away from truth.
Through their worlds and radically different cultures, we discover how, at moments of historical rupture, our hunger for being grows: and yet, it is exactly these times when we should make peace with our indeterminacy and discover the freedom of escaping our selves.
Zrůda Aileen Wuornosová a další kruté vražedkyně
Jak a proč? Jak se ženy stávají sériovými vražedkyněmi a proč zabíjejí? Proč je jednoduché: mohou zabíjet ze stejných důvodů jako muži sérioví vrazi: kvůli moci, ovládání, sexuálnímu chtíči, zisku, vzrušení, sebeúctě, pomstě a šílenství.
Existují však některé pozoruhodné rozdíly. Mužští sérioví vrazi se často dopouštějí únosů, věznění, znásilňování a mrzačení, aby vyjádřili svůj vztek a touhu po kontrole; ženské sériové vražedkyně se obvykle vrhají rovnou do zabíjení – nezastavují se, aby se cestou nechaly zmrzačit nebo kousnout. Žádné polaroidy, masturbace na místě činu nebo sex s mrtvolou. Sériové vražedkyně se věnují pouze svému byznysu... a to je vražda. V tomto smyslu jsou neskonale smrtelnější než mužští predátoři, kteří se řídí fantazií...
Queer & Christian
Celebrate queer faith and take your rightful place at God?s table with Brandan Robertson, the ?TikTok Pastor,? Biblical scholar, and social activist For too long, the Bible has been weaponized to exclude LGBTQ+ individuals, despite Jesus? radical message of inclusion. In Queer & Christian, Brandan Robertson envisions a faith where all are unequivocally embraced.Ostracized at school, Brandan thought he had finally found his community when he joined the local church. But he soon realized that they were as intolerant as his peers at school had been?if not more so. After agonizing years of repressing his true identity, he discovered that God?s table had always had a place for him. Jesus? love knows no bounds, embracing everyone unconditionally. Queer & Christian is a joyful celebration of queer faith and an unyielding reclamation of the Bible. Dive into pages that offer: -Compelling, evidence-based counterarguments to the ?clobber verses? often used to condemn queerness-Celebrations of queer saints within the Bible?more numerous than you might believe!-Responses to commonly asked questions by queer folks and allies who?re feeling lost within the Christian faith Brandan Robertson stands as a beacon of love, hope, and unwavering support for anyone ready to reclaim their faith from the clutches of intolerance.
From Cassackia to Kazakhstan
From Cassackia to Kazakhstan is a collection of fascinating historical maps. The uniqueness of the collection lies in the fact that all the geographical maps presented are original and authentic historical documents from the 16th to the 20th centuries, starting with a 1540 map ornamented with sea creatures. It is particularly noteworthy that in addition to maps from Europe, Russia, and the United States, maps published in China and Japan are also included. The maps which have undergone expert verification for authenticity present the development of Kazakh statehood and demonstrate the changing boundaries of the historical territory leading to modern Kazakhstan. This enables the reader to clearly appreciate the historical process of the evolution of Kazakh statehood. The maps and illustrations are compiled in chronological order and each map is accompanied by a bibliographic description with additional information, including the origin of the map. This collection of 51 antique historical maps was donated to the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan to provide public access for anyone interested in the history of Kazakhstan.
American Bloods
"American Bloods is an unflinching history of our nation . . . This is a breakout book for John Kaag?the natural extension of his genre-defining writing.? ?Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize?winning author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times"Kaag has a knack of stumbling upon treasures . . . The result is a thrilling and illuminating tale." ?John Banville, The New StatesmanA history of a family spanning centuries and continents?one that unfolds into a new portrait of America.The Bloods were one of America?s first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers?geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual?that would become the very core of the United States. John Kaag?s American Bloods is the account of a remarkable American family, of its participation in the making of a nation, and of how its members embodied the elusive ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Inspired by the discovery of a mysterious manuscript in an old Massachusetts farmhouse, Kaag follows eight members of this family from the British Civil Wars in the seventeenth century through the founding of the colonies, the American Revolution, transcendentalism, the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, and the rise of first-wave feminism, all the way to the beginning of the twentieth century.The Bloods were active participants in virtually every pivotal moment in American history, coming into contact with everyone from Emerson and Thoreau to John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Victoria Woodhull, and William James. The genealogy of the family tracks the ebb and flow of what Thoreau called ?wildness,? an original untamed spirit that would recede in the making of America but would never be extinguished entirely. American Bloods is an enduring reminder of the risks and rewards that were taken in laying claim to the lands that would become the United States, and a composite portrait of America like no other.
Love Triangle
Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi.
Why can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? Why does the wake behind a duck always form an angle of exactly 39 degrees? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle.
In Love Triangle, stand-up comedian, ex-maths teacher and Sunday Times number one bestselling author Matt Parker is on a mission to prove why we should all show a lot more love for triangles, along with the useful trigonometry and geometry they enable. To make his point, he uses triangles to create his own digital avatar, survive a harrowing motorcycle ride, cut a sandwich into three equal parts, and measure tall buildings while wearing silly shoes. But soon these hare-brained experiments begin to reveal a genuinely important truth: triangles are the hidden pattern beneath the surface of the contemporary world, used in everything from GPS to CGI via Spotify streaming, the play button and your best mate’s triangle tattoo.
Join Matt Parker as he demonstrates why there’s more to triangles than Pythagoras and SOHCAHTOA. Triangles are everything and everything is triangles.
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.
