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Beneath Dark Waters


On May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,057 passengers and a crew of 420. In the early hours of May 29, fog descended on the St. Lawrence River, and the ocean liner was rammed by the Storstad, a Norwegian coal ship. In the fourteen minutes it took for the Empress of Ireland to sink, there was time to launch only four of the forty lifeboats, and rather than women and children first, it was everyone for themselves. Over a thousand people died that night, claiming the lives of more passengers than either the Titanic or the Lusitania, and the tragedy stands as the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history. Investigative journalist and author Eve Lazarus draws on a trove of historical documents, including small-town newspaper reports, the Wreck Commissioner''s Inquiry, and first-hand accounts passed down through personal letters and family lore, to tell the story of the wreck and its aftermath through the eyes of the Canadian survivors. Through these records, as well as interviews with experts and descendants of the passengers, Lazarus recounts the story from both a Canadian and a Norwegian perspective and investigates why many of the stories regurgitated in newspapers and books for over a hundred years are wrong. The result is an absorbing and utterly stirring narrative that uncovers stories of heroism and sacrifice, human endurance, and modern-day shipwreck hunters. Beneath Dark Waters is an epic narrative that restores the Empress of Ireland - largely forgotten in the shadow of the Titanic disaster - as well as its survivors and victims to their rightful place in maritime history.
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29,49 €

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky


THE ''MASTERPIECE'' COMPLETE ORAL HISTORY OF THE ATOMIC BOMB - BY A PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST''Magisterial...A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga''s surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror.'' -Publishers Weekly (starred review)''If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have to read The Devil Reached Toward the Sky...This period in history has never been more relevant and frightening than it is today.'' -James Patterson ''Comprehensive and engrossing...Excellent oral history.'' -Kirkus ReviewsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of When the Sea Came Alive and The Only Plane in the Sky, a sweeping and comprehensive oral history of the atomic bomb''s creation and deployment, marking the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.April 12, 1945. Less than three months into his vice presidency, Harry Truman is catapulted into the Oval Office following the sudden death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. As he recites the oath, he learns a chilling secret known only to a select few: the United States is on the verge of deploying a weapon of unimaginable power. This weapon could end the war but also herald a new age of global fear and uncertainty.Drawing from over twenty-five oral history archives across the US, Japan, and Europe, Graff has masterfully blended the memories and perspectives from key figures like Harry Truman and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the crews of the B-29 bombers, Enola Gay and Bock''s Car, the rescuers who bravely faced the destruction, and the haunting stories of those at ground zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including the experiences of the hibakusha - the ''bomb-affected people''.Enriched by memoirs, diaries, letters, official documents, and news reports, this is an immersive and deeply human account of the Manhattan Project through the end of World War II and the dawning of the Cold War, offering a vivid, multi-dimensional view of events that reshaped the world forever.
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39,49 €

Önbizalom. 8 lépés, hogy tudd, mennyit érsz


Az önbizalom nem adottság, hanem KÉPESSÉG, amely fejleszthető!Az önbizalom mindennek az alapja, amit csinálunk. Ez teszi lehetővé, hogy nagy dolgokat álmodjunk, kockázatot vállaljunk, és olyan életet teremtsünk, amelyet igazán szeretünk. Sokunk számára mégis elérhetetlennek tűnhet - olyasvalaminek, ami csak azok számára van fenntartva, akiknek látszólag mindenük megvan. Roxie Nafousi a több mint 1 millió példányban eladott Manifesztáció című könyv sikerszerzője, a személyes fejlődés egyik leginspirálóbb alakja, ebben a könyvében végigvezet minket az önbizalom 8 lépéses útján: ahol nem a külsőségek számítanak, hanem a belső erő, a tudatosság és a szeretet. Önbizalom? Mindenkinek jár, neked is! Ismerd meg a láthatatlan erőt, amely formálja a döntéseinket, irányítja a tetteinket, és meghatározza, hogyan éljük jól az életünket! Tudd meg, miként állj ki magadért, hallgasd meg a belső hangod, és építsd fel önmagad - belülről kifelé. Válj azzá, aki mindig is lenni akartál! Felejtsd el az állandó önkritikát, a kishitűséget és a megfelelési kényszert! Becsüld meg Önmagad! Ismerd fel, hogy Te irányítod a saját történetedet. Magabiztosan lépj előre! VÁLTOZTASD MEG AZ ÉLETED!
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18,28 €

Zákon o krajích - Praktický Komentář


Praktický komentář k zákonu o krajích se zaměřuje na klíčové aspekty zákona č. 129/2000 Sb., který upravuje činnost vyšších územních samosprávných celků – krajů. Autorka zúročila své dlouholeté zkušenosti z oblasti územní samosprávy a v komentáři přináší praktické příklady a vzory, které reflektují nejen právní požadavky, ale i aktuální trendy v oblasti samostatného hospodaření a rozhodování krajů. Tento praktický komentář je nepostradatelným zdrojem pro všechny, kdo se zabývají krajskou samosprávou a hledají spolehlivé podklady pro aplikaci komplexních právních norem. Právní stav komentáře je k 1. 7. 2025.
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39,55 €

Zákon o sociálně-právní ochraně dětí. Komentář, 2. vydání


Sociálně-právní ochrana dětí představuje veřejnoprávní zásah do nejsoukromější oblasti života občanů. Zákon o sociálně-právní ochraně dětí upravuje nejen nástroje, které orgány sociálně-právní ochrany dětí mohou při své činnosti využívat, aby předcházely vzniku ohrožení dětí a aby již ohroženým dětem poskytly potřebnou pomoc a ochranu. Mimo to zákon o sociálně-právní ochraně dětí upravuje činnost orgánů sociálně-právní ochrany dětí, zprostředkování osvojení a náhradní rodinné péče, sociální kuratelu, sociálně-právní ochranu v mezinárodním kontextu, dávky pěstounské péče a zaopatřovací příspěvek a činnost pověřených osob při poskytování sociálně-právní ochrany. Druhé vydání komentáře k zákonu o sociálně-právní ochraně dětí reflektuje zásadní novely přijaté v letech 2022 a 2024. Komentář se zaměřuje na výklad především praktických otázek, s nimiž se v praxi mohou setkávat orgány sociálně-právní ochrany dětí, rodiče i další pečující osoby, jejich právní zástupci i širší odborná veřejnost.
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104,93 €

Time to Declare


In Time to Declare: My Life in Church Music, Martin Neary offers us an extraordinary journey through his life in music – a journey rich in artistry and rich in personal and historical significance. From his own early days as chorister at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II to his role directing the music in Westminster Abbey at the funeral of Princess Diana, Martin’s career has unfolded alongside some of the most profound moments in modern British history. This book is a testament to the power of music to elevate and move, to unite and ennoble. It is a reminder that great traditions such as choral music do not look after themselves. For future generations to enjoy and enrich this tradition, each generation must labour after excellence, and that labour will require leaders of the stature of Martin Neary.
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33,49 €

Nightwalking


In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: the fetid, treacherous streets known to Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations; the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate rub shoulders.
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21,45 €

Analytical Psychology in Exile


Two giants of twentieth-century psychology in dialogueC. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally acclaimed for his own brand of psychotherapy. Neumann, twenty-eight, had just finished his studies in medicine. The two men struck up a correspondence that would continue until Neumann's death in 1960. A lifelong Zionist, Neumann fled Nazi Germany with his family and settled in Palestine in 1934, where he would become the founding father of analytical psychology in the future state of Israel. Presented here in English for the first time are letters that provide a rare look at the development of Jung’s psychological theories from the 1930s onward as well as the emerging self-confidence of another towering twentieth-century intellectual who was often described as Jung’s most talented student. Neumann was one of the few correspondence partners of Jung’s who was able to challenge him intellectually and personally. These letters shed light on not only Jung’s political attitude toward Nazi Germany, his alleged anti-Semitism, and his psychological theory of fascism, but also his understanding of Jewish psychology and mysticism. They affirm Neumann’s importance as a leading psychologist of his time and paint a fascinating picture of the psychological impact of immigration on the German Jewish intellectuals who settled in Palestine and helped to create the state of Israel. Featuring Martin Liebscher’s authoritative introduction and annotations, this volume documents one of the most important intellectual relationships in the history of analytical psychology.
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29,49 €

Unfuck Your Brain Deck


Draw on the whip-smart affirmation and healing wisdom in this 60-card deck from Dr. Faith G. Harper, bestselling author of Unfuck Your Brain, Unfuck Your Boundaries, and many other books about getting your act together and being your best self. Full of pithy observations and reminders to help you maintain perspective, heal from trauma, and improve your mental health and relationships-all written in Dr. Faith''s kind, no-nonsense style-this deck distills the core lessons of her work. Two types of cards are inside: healing cards prompt you to notice and reflect, while encouragement cards offer nontoxic messages to replace your brain''s unhelpful narratives. Use as a daily practice, in therapy or group, or carry the deck in your pocket and draw a card whenever you need a reminder that unfuckening is totally possible.
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22,99 €

On Psychological and Visionary Art


The first English translation of Jung’s landmark lecture on Nerval’s hallucinatory memoirIn 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zürich on the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurélia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from madness. Published here for the first time, Jung’s lecture is both a cautionary psychological tale and a validation of Nerval’s visionary experience as a genuine encounter. Nerval explored the irrational with lucidity and exquisite craft. He privileged the subjective imagination as a way of fathoming the divine to reconnect with what the Romantics called the life principle. During the years of his greatest creativity, he suffered from madness and was institutionalized eight times. Contrasting an orthodox psychoanalytic interpretation with his own synthetic approach to the unconscious, Jung explains why Nerval was unable to make use of his visionary experiences in his own life. At the same time, Jung emphasizes the validity of Nerval’s visions, differentiating the psychology of a work of art from the psychology of the artist. The lecture suggests how Jung’s own experiments with active imagination influenced his reading of Nerval’s Aurélia as a parallel text to his own Red Book. With Craig Stephenson’s authoritative introduction, Richard Sieburth’s award-winning translation of Aurélia, and Alfred Kubin’s haunting illustrations to the text, and featuring Jung’s reading marginalia, preliminary notes, and revisions to a 1942 lecture, On Psychological and Visionary Art documents the stages of Jung’s creative process as he responds to an essential Romantic text.
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25,49 €

Hegel’s World Revolutions


A new account of the relevance of Hegel’s ideas for today’s world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel "insurgency"G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, aesthetics and metaphysics. His most lasting contribution was his vision of history and politics. In Hegel’s World Revolutions, Richard Bourke returns to Hegel’s original arguments, clarifying their true import and illuminating their relevance to contemporary society. Bourke shows that central to Hegel’s thought was his anatomy of the modern world. On the one hand he claimed that modernity was a deliverance from subjection, but on the other he saw it as having unleashed the spirit of critical reflection. Bourke explores this predicament in terms of a series of world revolutions that Hegel believed had ushered in the rise of civil society and the emergence of the constitutional state. Bourke interprets Hegel’s thought, with particular reference to his philosophy of history, placing it in the context of his own time. He then recounts the reception of Hegel’s political ideas, largely over the course of the twentieth century. Countering the postwar revolt against Hegel, Bourke argues that his disparagement by major philosophers has impoverished our approach to history and politics alike. Challenging the condescension of leading thinkers—from Heidegger and Popper to Lévi-Strauss and Foucault—the book revises prevailing views of the relationship between historical ideas and present circumstances.
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25,49 €

Nehru's India


An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru’s India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two decades, Taylor Sherman reevaluates the role of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, in shaping the nation. She argues that the notion of Nehru as the architect of independent India, as well as the ideas, policies, and institutions most strongly associated with his premiership—nonalignment, secularism, socialism, democracy, the strong state, and high modernism—have lost their explanatory power. They have become myths. Sherman examines seminal projects from the time and also introduces readers to little-known personalities and fresh case studies, including India’s continued engagement with overseas Indians, the importance of Buddhism in secular India, the transformations in industry and social life brought about by bicycles, a riotous and ultimately doomed attempt to prohibit the consumption of alcohol in Bombay, the early history of election campaign finance, and the first state-sponsored art exhibitions. The author also shines a light on underappreciated individuals, such as Apa Pant, the charismatic diplomat who influenced foreign policy from Kenya to Tibet, and Urmila Eulie Chowdhury, the rebellious architect who helped oversee the building of Chandigarh. Tracing and critiquing developments in this formative period in Indian history, Nehru’s India offers a fresh and definitive exploration of the nation’s early postcolonial era.
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25,49 €

Bad Bitches of Antiquity


Move over, Zeus. The most powerful goddesses, mortals, and sorceresses of the ancient world have something to say. Bad Bitches of Antiquity is the modern compendium of badass mythological women who used their powers, prowess, mischief, and cleverness to make moves, exact revenge, bestow miracles, and cleverly control the comings and goings of mortals and gods alike. This timely -- and timeless -- book takes a fresh look at the unforgettable women of mythology, answering questions such as: Was Demeter a forlorn mother who lost her child or the reason for the seasons?; Is Ariadne merely the wife of Dionysus or a keeper of labyrinths worthy of a constellation?; Was Ixchel a simple fertility goddess or a fierce protector of women? From Medusa to the Morrigan, Atalanta to Athena, and Persephone to Pele, readers will discover the empowering and relatable truth behind the immortal curtain of their favourite tales. Each captivating story embraces the multitudes within these mythical women to present them with the grace, humor, and hint of irreverence they truly deserve.
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26,99 €

The Regime Question


Ongoing struggles over core principles of democratic governanceThe regime question—often boiled down to “democracy or autocracy?”—has been central to democratic politics from the start. This has entailed not only fights over the extent of the franchise but also, crucially, ongoing struggles over core principles of democracy, the “rules of the game.” In this timely study, Amel Ahmed examines the origins and development of the regime question in Western democracies and considers the implications for regime contention today. She argues that battles over the regime question were so foundational and so enduring that they constitute a dimension of politics that polarized political opponents across the regime divide. Ahmed investigates four historical cases in the study of democratic development: the United Kingdom between the Reform Act of 1832 and World War II (1832–1939), Imperial and Weimar–era Germany (1876–1933), the French Third Republic (1870–1939), and the United States before World War II (1789–1939). Focusing on legislative politics as an essential site of democratic governance and key to understanding long-term democratic endurance, she shows that when the regime question became salient, it hindered the formation of viable legislative coalitions along the left-right policy spectrum. This failure opened the door to executive encroachment, destabilizing the regime. Ahmed shows that the resurgence of the regime question today is not, as is often assumed, a break with prior trajectories of political development but a new instantiation of battles fought in previous eras.
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33,49 €

Your To-Die-For Life


Because nothing will motivate you to seize the day... more than realising your days are numbered. Karen Salmansohn, bestselling author of How to Be Happy, Dammit and a leading behavioral change expert went on her own ''I''m-going-to-die'' journey. And it made her life better. Way better. So she began sharing these tools with her clients, and their lives also began to bloom in amazing ways. Science backs up the perks of mortality awareness. Studies show that when you embrace the fact that your time is limited, you stop wasting energy on nonsense -- and start making choices that align with your deepest values. In Your To-Die-For Life, Salmansohn shares a wide range of practical, research-based tools -- to help you to dismantle your fears -- and step into the life you were meant to live. You''ll discover how to: Write your own eulogy: Sounds a little dark, right? But it''s actually a genius way to reverse-engineer the life you want; Create a ''to-die-for'' list: Think of this as a ''what matters most'' list. You''ll learn how to better focus on what truly makes you come alive -- and build simple micro-habits to bring more of that into your everyday life; Do a life audit: Let go of the clutter that''s draining your time, energy and attention. Your To-Die-For Life is packed with a range of eye-opening studies, inspiring philosophical truths, and Salmansohn''s signature cheeky humor. She''ll make you laugh, she''ll make you think, and she''ll make you want to stop wasting time on things that don''t light you up.
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24,49 €

Attention and Alienation


The worldwide spread of the internet has revolutionized communication at a harrowing cost: the relentless commodification of attention. Algorithm-driven capitalism extracts profit from not only physical bodies but also the emotional and creative labor of internet users. This economic system alienates us from our inmost selves and gives us only a gnawing longing that cannot be satiated—a spiraling collective mental health crisis. The exchange is deeply unequal: we pay attention and receive alienation. Aarushi Bhandari offers a new way to understand the political economy of attention, combining quantitative analysis and personal narrative to critique the role of information and communications technologies in global society. Ranging across levels, from international development policy to online social movements through individual internet users, she examines how these technologies have fostered a host of unequal exchanges. Pervasive inequalities—between richer and poorer countries, between progressive social movements and the reactions against them, and between technological elites and the online population—now reinforce one another, with far-reaching consequences. Along the way, Bhandari shares her own journey as a chronically online millennial woman growing up among the Kathmandu elite in a dominant-caste Hindu family during the Nepali Civil War. A bold and incisive critical analysis, Attention and Alienation also considers how to reclaim the potential of the internet and design new systems that prioritize collective well-being.
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33,49 €

Citizens of the Whole World


Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed a massive American Jewish uprising in support of Palestinian liberation. Through sit-ins in Congress or Grand Central Terminal, through petitions and marches, thousands of Jews have made it known the Israeli state is not acting in their name. This resistance did not come out of nowhere. Citizens of the Whole World returns us to its roots in the "red decade" of the 1930s and, from there, traces the history of American Jewish radicals and revolutionaries to the present day. Benjamin Balthaser delves into radical Jewish novels and memoirs, as well as interviews with Jewish revolutionaries, to unearth a buried if nonetheless unbroken continuity between leftist Jewish Americans and the diasporic internation­alism of today. Covering more than just the politics of anti-Zionism, Citizens of the Whole World explores the Jewish revolutionary traditions of Marxist internationalism, Jewish solidarity with Third World struggles, and relations between Jewish and Black radicals during the Civil Rights era. Balthaser's book stages an intervention into current anti-Zionist politics, suggesting activists can learn from past struggles to help form a future politics in a world after Zionism.
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30,95 €

Industrial Islamism


A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Industrial Islamism analyzes the relationship, since the end of the Cold War, between the rise of political Islamism in Muslim-majority countries and the rise of a new global "middle class" of industrial entrepreneurs. Challenging common assumptions, Utku Balaban questions the idea that political Islamism represents the antithesis of Western modernity and industrialization. On the contrary: the more enthusiastically a Muslim-majority country industrializes, the more "Islamized" its politics becomes. The book focuses on Turkey, historically the most industrialized Muslim-majority country in the world, with the most successful Islamist movement and a relatively competitive electoral system. It provides a fine-grained historical and ethnographic analysis at the local level of urban-industrial control over workers in sweatshops and working-class neighborhoods by this new global middle class, whom Balaban calls the faubourgeoisie. As the central actor behind Turkey's post–Cold War industrialization, the faubourgeoisie allies with the Islamist movement to control its workers and significantly influence national politics.
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39,49 €
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Peniaze


Či sa nám to páči alebo nie, náš svet sa točí okolo peňazí, no málokedy sa nad tým pozastavíme. Čo sú vlastne peniaze? Odkiaľ pochádzajú? Môžu sa niekedy úplne minúť? Čo je to za prostriedok, ktorý poháňa svetový obchod, revolúcie a objavy, inšpiruje vedu, filozofiu, ale aj umenie? K fascinujúcim častiam tejto knihy patria súvislosti peňazí s významnými historickými udalosťami, ktoré by vám možno nikdy ani len nenapadli. Možno viete, že rímski cisári financovali svoj životný štýl znehodnocovaním vlastnej meny, no zrejme ste si neuvedomili, ako úzko táto devalvácia súvisí s pádom Rímskej ríše. A kto vedel, že Charles Darwin prišiel o majetok špekuláciami s akciami železníc a že jeho evolučná teória čiastočne pramenila z jeho záujmu o ekonómiu? Írsky ekonóm David McWilliams pozýva čitateľov na poučnú a často prekvapivú cestu históriou peňazí. V knihe Peniaze – Príbeh ľudstva mapuje vzťah ľudí a peňazí – počnúc prvými počítadlami v starovekej Afrike, mincí v republikánskom Grécku až po vznik amerického dolára a dnešných kryptomien. Na tejto prechádzke dejinami sa stretnete s množstvom osobností, ktoré inovovali používanie peňazí, narúšali chod niekdajšej spoločnosti a zmenili náš spôsob života. David McWilliams odhaľuje tajomstvá a silu peňazí, vysvetľuje, prečo na nich záleží a ako formujú náš svet.
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20,90 €

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