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História, vojnová literatúra 
Náboženstvo 
Motivačná literatúra 
Psychológia, etika, logika 
Medicína 
Encyklopédie populárno-náučné 
Ekonómia, manažment, marketing 
Politológia 
Prírodné vedy 
Filozofia 
Právo 
Literárna veda, jazykoveda, slovníky 
Počítačová literatúra 
Sociológia, etnológia 
Pedagogika 
Veda, technika, elektrotechnika 
Odborná a náučná literatúra - ostatné
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Beyond Life and Death
Martial arts legend and international movie star Jet Li distils 10 powerful insights from his iconic career, his personal life and philosophies, and his 30-year Buddhist practice. Jet Li’s story defies legend. Born into extreme hardship, he fought his way to become the youngest national martial arts champion in Chinese history at 12 years old, dominating opponents twice his size. He then became one of the first internationally renowned movie stars from China with films including Once Upon a Time in China, Hero and Fearless. These films redefined martial arts for the modern world, making him a household name. But behind the glory lay a deeper battle: a search for meaning beyond fame, fortune and physical skill. After a near-death encounter in the 2004 tsunami, Li turned inwards, deepening his study of Tibetan Buddhism and dedicating his life to philanthropy, though he was at the height of his Hollywood career. For the very first time, Li shares the ten insights that have guided his life, in which anyone can find wisdom, guidance, and power, including:· Life is movement· The secret to self-defence· Separate the suffering from the pain· Be a grandson to the world· Learn from everyone. Li invites readers to share his interior life, to hear untold stories from his martial arts and film career, and to meditate with him on the nature of spiritual awakening. If you look deeply, you can see Li’s life philosophy in many of his movies, and in Beyond Life and Death he fully links his own story and spiritual journey with 10 actionable insights that anyone can apply to live a healthy and happy life.
True Crime Detective Magazines
At the height of the Jazz Age, when Prohibition was turning ordinary citizens into criminals and ordinary criminals into celebrities, America’s true crime detective magazines were born. True Detective came first in 1924, and by 1934, when the Great Depression had produced colorful outlaws like Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, and John Dillinger, the magazines were so popular cops and robbers alike vied to see themselves on the pages. Even FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover wrote regularly for what came to be called the “Dickbooks,” referring to a popular slang term for a detective. As the decades rolled on, the magazines went through a curious metamorphosis, however. When liquor was once more legal, the Depression over and all the flashy criminals dead or imprisoned, the “detectives” turned to sin to make sales. Sexy bad girls in tight sweaters, slit skirts, and stiletto heels adorned every cover. True Crime Detective Magazines follows the evolution and devolution of this distinctly American genre from 1924 to 1969. Hundreds of covers and interior images from dozens of magazine titles tell the story, not just of the “detectives,” but also of America’s attitudes towards sex, sin, crime, and punishment over five decades. With texts by magazine collector Eric Godtland, George Hagenauer, and True Detective editor Marc Gerald, True Crime Detective Magazines is an informative and entertaining look at one of the strangest publishing niches of all time.
Dialogues of Confucius
The first complete English translation of the Dialogues, a rediscovered companion to the AnalectsLabeled a forgery and ignored for centuries, the Dialogues of Confucius was nevertheless preserved and passed down through the generations, purportedly a companion to the Analects. Recent archaeological finds and renewed analysis now suggest that the Dialogues can be accepted as authentic and that it accurately represents the thinking of Confucius on a wide array of topics. In this book, Brian Bruya and Wenwen Li offer the first complete translation of the text into English as well as a detailed introduction discussing Confucian philosophy, the history of the text, and the debates around its authenticity. This new translation shows that the Dialogues deserves a rightful place next to the Analects. In the Dialogues, as in the Analects, Confucius converses with his students and local potentates. The topics range from education to social norms to cosmology, and from cultivating individual virtues to instituting a meritocratic government.As Bruya and Li argue, the main value of the Dialogues lies in its many philosophical clarifications and elaborations. At its core, it offers a valuable resource for understanding Confucius, his interactions with his students, and his philosophy. Each chapter includes both the original Chinese text and the English translation. The introduction includes a philosophical lexicon, and a 600-entry glossary at the end of the book provides context from the time of Confucius, enabling readers to understand how Confucius viewed his place in the world.
Small Steps
A collection of blessings, poetry, and micro essays to serve as a companion for readers as they navigate the journey of life by putting one foot in front of the other. From the co-author of The Beauty of Motherhood comes a powerful book of blessings meant to meet us in our daily lives, in all of the challenges and joys, struggles and triumphs. Encouraging words can be offered and received to get us through life's journey—whether that’s a personal or professional predicament, or the overwhelm of being connected twenty-four/seven. Sometimes we might need encouragement to endure a long commute, or to face the load of dishes in the sink. Or maybe we need words of wisdom when we feel like our faith is waning, or we are facing an existential crisis. We might also appreciate blessings when life is good and we want to express our gratitude and joy. In all of life’s circumstances, large and small, sacred and silly, blessings are meaningful words that meet real people in their messy day-to-day lives, and Kimberly Knowle-Zeller offers readers grit and grace to face the challenges and embrace the journey ahead.
The End of Empires and a World Remade
A capacious history of decolonization from the decline of empires to the era of globalizationEmpires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. Decolonization unfolded across territories as well as within them. Its struggles became internationalized and transnational, as much global campaigns of moral disarmament against colonial injustice as local contests of arms. In this expansive history, Martin Thomas tells the story of decolonization and its intrinsic link to globalization. He traces the connections between these two transformative processes: the end of formal empire and the acceleration of global integration, market reorganization, cultural exchange, and migration. The End of Empires and a World Remade shows how profoundly decolonization shaped the process of globalization in the wake of empire collapse. In the second half of the twentieth century, decolonization catalyzed new international coalitions; it triggered partitions and wars; and it reshaped North-South dynamics. Globalization promised the decolonized greater access to essential resources, to wider networks of influence, and to worldwide audiences, but its neoliberal variant has reinforced economic inequalities and imperial forms of political and cultural influences. In surveying these two codependent histories across the world, from Latin America to Asia, Thomas explains why the deck was so heavily stacked against newly independent nations. Decolonization stands alongside the great world wars as the most transformative event of twentieth-century history. In The End of Empires and a World Remade, Thomas offers a masterful analysis of the greatest process of state-making (and empire-unmaking) in modern history.
How to Travel
A transporting anthology of ancient Greek and Roman travel writings that capture the thrill of exploration and discovery—from Europe to the Holy Land and Egypt to IndiaAt long last, a travel guide to the ancient world for the modern tourist—written by the ancients themselves. How to Travel gathers classic texts from Greek and Roman writers to explore what today’s readers can learn from ancient encounters with unfamiliar peoples, places, and customs. The Greek historian Herodotus (ca. 484–425 BCE) is one of the most famous travelers of antiquity. His Histories, which chronicle his and others’ encounters with foreign peoples and places, have fascinated readers for millennia, and have much to teach about the secrets of good travel. In How to Travel, Herodotus and Tacitus take us on tours of Central Asia, Egypt, and Germania, while pilgrims like Pausanias and the Christian nun Egeria guide us through Greece and the Holy Land. Readers are whisked away to India to experience the ways of forest-dwelling sages and to the far reaches of Africa. And as if Earth weren’t enough, the satirist Lucian takes us to the Moon. But this whirlwind tour of antiquity is more than a pleasure cruise. Seneca cautions travelers that, go as far as we may, we can never escape ourselves. Gratitude, Egeria says, is the traveler’s proper response for the privilege. And Homer reminds us that, ultimately, there’s no place like home. Featuring vivid new translations, an inviting introduction, and the original Greek and Latin texts on facing pages, How to Travel captures the thrill of exploration and discovery—and how new experiences, fresh vistas, and foreign cultures can change the traveler.
Sonic Relations
Sonic Relations explores how sound shapes religious life and community among Twelver Shi'i Muslims in eastern Turkey and beyond, examining the powerful role of devotional recitation in cultivating relationships not only among people, but also with the unseen. These sonic practices are central to Muslim devotional life, and through media and public ritual performance, they also shape how identity is expressed in broader social and political spheres. Attending to a range of sonic forms and events, such as public processions, ritual lamentations, and the circulation of audiovisual recordings, Stefan Williamson Fa offers a new relational perspective on Islam, foregrounding affiliations with more-than-human figures and civic life. Whether communal, devotional, or transnational, Twelvers' relationships with their communities and with the unseen enable them to cultivate the self through sounding and listening. Grounded in detailed ethnographic material collected in Turkey's eastern borderlands and via transnational networks in Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Germany, Williamson Fa tells a compelling story about the human and more-than-human relations Twelver Shias seek to cultivate amid the Republic of Turkey's changing society and politics. Through vivid ethnographic vignettes, analysis, and audiovisual examples, Sonic Relations offers an intimate look at how Twelver Shii Muslims forge bonds of love, faith, and community within Turkey and across borders. It invites readers to rethink religion, not as belief alone, but as a sensory, relational, and deeply embodied experience.
Detox firmy
Možná máte výsledky. Možná máte strategie i procesy. Ale přesto cítíte, že něco nefunguje?
Lidé neříkají, co si opravdu myslí.
Inovace se ztrácejí v byrokracii.
Talentovaní lidé odcházejí – často ti nejlepší.
Firma jede dál… ale bez energie.
Tato kniha vám pomůže pojmenovat problémy, které ve firmách vznikají tiše: strach, rigiditu, demotivaci a ztrátu důvěry. A hlavně: ukáže, jak je změnit.
Najdete v ní příběhy z praxe, psychologické vhledy i konkrétní, okamžitě použitelné kroky, které dokážou rozhýbat atmosféru ve vašem týmu i celé organizaci.
Pokud chcete pouze vylepšovat procesy, tahle kniha pro vás není.
Ale pokud hledáte způsob, jak vytvořit prostředí, kde lidé přemýšlejí samostatně, sdílejí nápady bez strachu a pracují s opravdovým zápalem, pak právě tady najdete odpovědi.
Skutečný výkon totiž nevzniká z excelů a procesních schémat. Vzniká z kultury.
Když roste lídr, roste i firma.
Our Dollar, Your Problem
“The central argument of Our Dollar, Your Problem—that the greenback’s pre-eminence was never guaranteed and might plausibly be overturned—could hardly be more timely.”—The Economist
A leading economist explores the global rise of the U.S. dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured
Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck. Drawing in part on his own experiences, including with policymakers and world leaders, Kenneth Rogoff animates the remarkable postwar run of the dollar—how it beat out the Japanese yen, the Soviet ruble, and the euro—and the challenges it faces today from crypto and the Chinese yuan, the end of reliably low inflation and interest rates, political instability, and the fracturing of the dollar bloc. Americans cannot take for granted that the Pax Dollar era will last indefinitely, not only because many countries are deeply frustrated with the system, but also because overconfidence and arrogance can lead to unforced errors. Rogoff shows how America’s outsized power and exorbitant privilege can spur financial instability—not just abroad but also at home.
The Guide to the Perplexed
A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought. Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the Guide to the Perplexed is among the most powerful and influential living texts in Jewish philosophy, a masterwork navigating the straits between religion and science, logic and revelation. The author, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides or as Rambam, was a Sephardi Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician. He wrote his Guide in the form of a letter to a disciple. But the perplexity it aimed to cure might strike anyone who sought to square logic, mathematics, and the sciences with biblical and rabbinic traditions. In this new translation by philosopher Lenn E. Goodman and historian Phillip I. Lieberman, Maimonides' warm, conversational voice and clear explanatory language come through as never before in English. Maimonides knew well the challenges facing serious inquirers at the confluence of the two great streams of thought and learning that Arabic writers labeled 'aql and naql, reason and tradition. The aim of the Guide, he wrote, is to probe the mysteries of physics and metaphysics. But mysteries, to Maimonides, were not conundrums to be celebrated for their obscurity. They were problems to be solved. Maimonides' methods and insights resonate throughout the work of later Jewish thinkers, rationalists, and mystics, and in the work of philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Newton. The Guide continues to inspire inquiry, discovery, and vigorous debate among philosophers, theologians, and lay readers today. Goodman and Lieberman's extensive and detailed commentary provides readers with historical context and philosophical enlightenment, giving generous access to the nuances, complexities, and profundities of what is widely agreed to be the most significant textual monument of medieval Jewish thought, a work that still offers a key to those who hope to harmonize religious commitments and scientific understanding.
Abolitionists of the Northeast
Abolitionists of the Northeastprofiles the little-known yet historically prolific Black figures who actively participated in the abolitionist movement in America. The movement, which began in the 1820s in Northeastern America, was about ending slavery in the United States. History books have long emphasized the lives and work of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Thomas Garrett, but it’s no secret that the most influential Black advocates are missing from the pages of our textbooks. This book offers intimate profiles of 29 Black abolitionists in the Northeast along with historical black and white photographs that give readers a full picture of who these people were, the work they did to combat the nation’s greatest sin, and how their legacy has lived on. From the underrated to the overlooked, Abolitionists of the Northeast educates readers on the most influential advocates in the earliest beginnings of the United States’ anti-slavery movement.
Mad Tom's Rising
A story of faith, fanaticism, and the uncanny power of the imagination. The dawn of the Victorian era: the world is changing rapidly. Poverty and the workhouse cast long shadows across rural England, and a traditional way of life is coming to an end. In the villages and fields of Kent, the discontented find an unlikely champion in John Nicholls Tom. Calling himself 'Sir William Courtenay', he appears to the local magistrates and gentry as a madman, a charlatan, or a dangerous radical. But for the labouring people he is the New Messiah, come to lead them in a revolt against the forces of oppression, and to herald the end of the world. In May 1838 Tom's crusade ignites into bloody violence. The confrontation that follows will shock the country, and become known as the last battle ever fought on English soil. Mad Tom's Rising presents an alternative vision of early Victorian England, as a place of mystical religious faith, riot and disturbance, surveillance and insecurity, arson and uproar. Drawing on original sources, it reconstructs the strange and astonishing events of that time, and the lives and experiences of those forever marked by them.
Bankrupting Democracy
A deeply researched investigation that shows how the long-held ideas protecting unlimited campaign spending as free speech that once served the needs of political candidates and voters are now shaped to serve the desires of interest groups, threatening the future of American democracy.In the 2010 Citizens United decision, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy stated that the precedent they were overturning "interferes with the ''open marketplace'' of ideas protected by the First Amendment." For the majority who ruled in this case, money was in some sense the equivalent of speech, meaning that spending should be allowed under the guise of a marketplace of ideas. But what does this actually mean? And what are the consequences?Both critics and advocates of this marketplace of ideas often treat it as an abstract principle; one that focuses on competition among different voices that allows for the most popular, and therefore best, ideas to gain prominence. But the marketplace of ideas is not a single tool. There are multiple mechanisms at play, all of which influence the rules and regulations behind this competition. Therefore, the marketplace of ideas should be understood not as a single idea but as a collection of smaller norms that build a regulatory, market-like system.Bankrupting Democracy traces the development of this system, which Nathan Katz calls the "money-speech paradigm." Through a historical analysis of campaign finance reform discourses that have occurred within the legislative record and the Supreme Court, Katz demonstrates how these ideologies have caused radical changes to political speech. He pairs these data with an analysis of the changing patterns of political advertisers--the PACs, Super PACs, interest groups, candidates, and parties that all spend a large portion, often the majority, of their money on television advertisements. By combining these components, Katz shows how changes to the money-speech paradigm have shifted from a focus on political candidates and their right to public exposure to a system that focuses on supporting interest groups'' pursuit of social and economic dominance.At each stage in the development of the current system, proponents of the reforms assumed the security of democratic institutions, leaving them unprotected against the consolidation of corporate power. Bankrupting Democracy illuminates this market system that threatens to unravel the very fabric of American society.
The Ordinary Magic of Meditation
Discover practical tools and insight for integrating spiritual practice into your daily routine, with guidance from 35 well-known authors and artists. This inspiring book, edited by John Welwood, reveals how the simple practice of mindfulness can be a magical and transformative part of anyone’s daily life. Meditation and spiritual practice are often perceived as separate from everyday life, demanding time and effort beyond our usual routines. Ordinary Magic of Meditation demonstrates the opposite of this misconception. Featuring thirty-five wide-ranging essays written by well-known spiritual teachers, therapists, and creative artists, this extensive collection shows:How learning to focus awareness can bring a new richness to ordinary activities;How mindfulness can heighten creative pursuits such as painting, journal writing, or playing music;How contemplative awareness enhances both physical and psychological well-being;And how meditation can contribute to better relationships with family, community, and the world at large.Learn to see the world with new eyes, as leading figures like Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Jack Kornfield share their secrets for embracing the magic of the mundane.
Toxickí ľudia
Oceňovaná psychologička vo svojej knihe ponúka nový pohľad na
temné povahy. Prepája osobné príbehy s prelomovým výskumom
a odhaľuje alarmujúci fakt, že malá skupina ľudí s psychopatickými
tendenciami dokáže spôsobiť neúmerne veľké utrpenie a miliardové
ekonomické škody. Veda však našťastie ponúka riešenie. Doktorka
ten Brinke vás naučí toxických ľudí včas identifikovať a poskytne
vám nástroje, ako sa pred nimi brániť v súkromí, v práci aj v politike.
V knihe sa dozviete, aké veľké škody dokáže napáchať relatívne
malé percento populácie s psychopatickými črtami, ako naše telo
dokáže vnímať „temnú osobnosť“ skôr než racionálna myseľ, prečo
na toxické osobnosti nefungujú tradičné tresty, aké dôsledky má
to, že sa negativita a deštruktívne správanie dokážu šíriť ako vírusy,
čo je kľúčom k ochrane pred toxickými ľuďmi, ako sa zbaviť toxického
vplyvu alebo ako ho minimalizovať, ak sa mu nedá vyhnúť.
Morálna revolúcia
Renomovaný holandský historik a autor bestsellerov Ľudskosť a Utópia pre realistov Rutger Bregman sa vracia s naliehavou a provokatívnou analýzou súčasného sveta. Kniha Morálna revolúcia, vychádzajúca z prestížneho prednáškového cyklu The BBC Reith Lectures, je ostrou kritikou dnešných elít a zároveň vášnivým manifestom za návrat k integrite a odvahe.
Bregman nás vezme na cestu od pádu Rímskej ríše cez tichý rozklad Benátok až po nablýskané kancelárie Silicon Valley a elitné univerzity, aby ukázal, kde sme stratili morálny kompas. Morálna revolúcia však nie je len diagnózou úpadku. Je to praktický a inšpiratívny sprievodca pre každého, kto odmieta apatiu a verí, že najdôležitejšia transformácia našich čias nie je technologická, ale hlboko ľudská a etická.
dostupné aj ako:
Zabudli sme, ako žiť?
Vo svete, ktorý je posadnutý pútaním pozornosti a zároveň plný
vecí na jej odvádzanie, si táto tichá, ale pritom radikálna kniha
kladie najzásadnejšiu otázku zo všetkých: Zabudli sme, ako žiť?
Táto kolekcia dvadsiatich šiestich Oshových krátkych textov, ktorá
čerpá z jeho osobných rozhovorov s hľadajúcimi, je zrkadlom
a zároveň pozvaním pre čitateľa, aby sa nad nimi zamyslel
a znovuobjavil umenie vedomého prežívania a užívania si každej
chvíle života. Osho rozvracia naše zdedené presvedčenia a ponúka
cestu späť k sebe, návrat k jednoduchosti, prítomnosti a vnútornej
jasnosti. Každý text je tichou provokáciou a súcitným postrčením
k prebudeniu. Prihovára sa nám hlasom, ktorý sa neprihovára
intelektu, ale srdcu a duši, a pozýva nás, aby sme sa stretli so
sebou. Aby sme začali žiť.
Faidón
Poslední den svého života rozmlouval Sókrates v žaláři se svými přáteli o nesmrtelnosti duše. Při západu slunce vypil podaný jed, poslušen jsa soudu své obce, a zemřel.
V předkládaném dialogu přetvořil Platón tuto dějinnou událost ve filosofickou báseň o smrti člověka, do kterého se vtělil Logos. Když se Platón po letech zmiňuje o tomto dialogu, nazývá jej "hovorem o duši"; tehdy, když jej psal, byl mu snad především hovorem o Sókratovi, hovorem o filosofu.
Ve službách dynastie
Kniha předkládá poutavý příběh několika generací rodu Dietrichsteinů, zasazený do víru evropské politiky 16. a 17. století. Mikulovští Dietrichsteinové po století a půl reprezentovali spojující článek mezi španělskou a rakouskou monarchií Habsburků a prostřednictvím různých kariérních modelů se snažili hájit zájmy této dynastické unie v Evropě začínajícího novověku. Ať už v dvorských kruzích plných intrik, na válečném poli nebo v řadách církve, osudy jednotlivých členů rodu tvoří pestrou mozaiku příběhu této publikace. Rozsáhlý výzkum však jednotlivé osoby představuje rovněž i ve světle ryze lidském – prožívající radosti i bolesti života, milující i trpící, tváří v tvář nelehkým výzvám své doby. Aktéři knihy tak čtenáře provedou různými zákoutími Evropy doby náboženských a dynastických konfliktů: ze své původní domoviny v podhůří Alp, přes rušná města renesanční Itálie, pompu madridského, vídeňského či bruselského dvoru, do tureckých válek, na vlny moří a oceánů, za zdi kostelů a klášterů až k nejvzdálenějším stopám dietrichsteinského rodu ve vzdálené Americe.
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.
