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Umenie 
Geografia, mapy, sprievodcovia 
Biografie - Životopisy 
Kuchárske knihy 
Zdravie, životný štýl 
Ezoterika 
Poézia 
Partnerstvo a rodičovstvo 
Časopisy
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Life Is Hard
Pain, Loneliness, Grief, Injustice ... Hope?
Life is hard - as the past few years have made painfully clear. From personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world, sometimes simply going on can feel too much.
But could there be solace - and even hope - in acknowledging the hardships of the human condition? Might doing so free us from the tyranny of striving for our "best lives" and help us find warmth, humanity, and humour in the lives we actually have? Could it inspire in us the desire for a better world?
In this profound and personal book, Kieran Setiya shows how philosophy can help us find our way. He shares his own experience with chronic pain and the consolation that comes from making sense of it. He asks what we can learn from loneliness and loss about the value of human life. And he explores how we can fail with grace, confront injustice, and search for meaning in the face of despair. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy, as well as fiction, comedy, social science and personal essay, Life is Hard is a book for this moment - a work of solace and compassion. It draws us towards justice, for ourselves and others, by acknowledging what it means to be alive.
Žijte podle své DNA
Naučte se, jak získat návod k použití sebe sama! Dozvíte se, jak vám znalost vašeho genomu může pomoci učinit zásadní rozhodnutí, která povedou k jednoznačně šťastnějšímu a zdravějšímu životu.
Předmluva – Dave Asprey, autor bestsellerů Game Changers a Hacknuté tělo
Přichází vlna personalizované medicíny!
Podnikatel v oblasti biotechnologií a generální ředitel společnosti DNA Company Kashif Khan představuje ve své knize Žijte podle své DNA (The DNA Way) akční plán, který vám pomůže dosáhnout co nejlepšího života. Vše začíná tím, že pochopíte svoji genetickou výbavu.
Nejrůznější zdravotní problémy mohou mít a mají souvislost se specifickou DNA každého z nás. Autor se proto v jednotlivých kapitolách zaměřil na náladu a chování, energii, stravu a výživu, regulaci hmotnosti, spánek, stárnutí a další témata, která nás všechny provází životem. A hledá odpovědi na otázky, které si všichni s přibývajícím věkem klademe. Proč, když cvičím stejně jako můj kolega, se mi nedaří dosáhnout tak vyrýsovaných svalů? Jde zastavit šedivění vlasů? Jak spánek ovlivňuje mou náchylnost k nemocem? Opravdu nemůžu se svými predispozicemi nic udělat a budu trpět stejnými nemocemi jako moji rodiče? Mohou moje dětí žít zdravější a delší život než já? A co pro zlepšení svého života vlastně můžu udělat?
Kashif Khan staví na osobní cestě k překonání vlastního genetického dědictví, na příkladu jeho výsledků DNA. Otevřeně popisuje své zdravotní problémy i nemoci, kterými trpěli jeho předkové, i svou cestu za uzdravením.
V knize Žijte podle své DNA najdete mnohá užitečná doporučení, která vám budou vodítkem na cestě za zdravějším životem – jaké potraviny jíst, jak cvičit a kde a jak pracovat. Pomohou vám předcházet nemocem nebo se bránit jejich relapsu, zpomalit proces stárnutí a optimalizovat výkonnost.
O autorovi
Kashif Khan je autor, řečník, vizionářský podnikatel a investor z Toronta, který vybudoval, vedl a podpořil řadu podniků v různých odvětvích. Je zakladatelem a generálním ředitelem digitální zdravotní společnosti DNA Company, která pomocí genetických poznatků vyvíjí genomové aplikace nabízející pacientům zdravotní péči přizpůsobenou jejich jedinečné biologii. Kashif je také badatelem v oboru biomedicíny, pro něhož je zdraví životním koníčkem. Neustále tak vyhledává a přináší inovace v oblasti dlouhověkosti a zdravého životního stylu, které by se daly zahrnout pod zdravotní péči.
Edible Economics
Economic thinking - about climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form
For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives.
In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside anecdotes about food from around the world. Beginning each chapter with a menu, Chang uses the stories behind key ingredients - where they come from, how they are cooked and consumed, what they mean to different cultures - to explore economic theory. For Chang, strawberries are delicious with cream, but they also prophesise a jobless future; chocolate is a wonderful pudding, but more exciting are the insights it offers into post-industrial knowledge economies. Explaining everything from the hidden cost of care work to the misleading language of the free market as he cooks dishes like anchovy and egg toast, Gambas al Ajillo and Korean dotori mook, Ha-Joon Chang serves up an easy-to-digest feast of bold ideas.
Myth-busting, witty and thought-provoking, Edible Economics shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: if we understand it, we can change it - and, with it, the world.
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
Miss Lydia Bennet may be the youngest, but what she lacks in maturity and responsibility, she more than makes up for in energy, fun - and magic.
In this exuberant reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Lydia Bennet puts pen to paper to relate the real events and aftermath of the classic story from her own perspective. Some facts are well known: Mrs. Bennet suffers from her nerves; Mr. Bennet suffers from Mrs. Bennet, and all five daughters suffer from an estate that is entailed only to male heirs.
But Lydia also suffers from entirely different concerns: her best-loved sister Kitty is really a barn cat, and Wickham is every bit as wicked as the world believes him to be, but what else would you expect from a demon? And if you think Mr. Darcy was uptight about dancing etiquette, wait till you see how he reacts to witchcraft. Most of all, Lydia has yet to learn that when you're a witch, promises have power...
Full of enchantment, intrigue, danger, and boundless magic, The Shocking Confessions of Miss Lydia Bennet, Witch, has all the irreverent wit, strength, and romance of Pride and Prejudice - while offering a highly unexpected redemption for the wildest Bennet sister.
Stoner
A beautiful hardback edition of the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years.
William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely.
Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life.
Věci, které září
Nejnovější kniha esejů Václava Cílka vznikala neplánovaně během covidových let. Hlavním impulsem byla Cílkova spolupráce se současným slovenským undergroundovým fotografem a sběratelem umění Ivanem Zubaľem, jenž ho seznámil s okruhem slovenských výtvarníků v čele s Erikem Binderem. Podobně smýšlející lidé a věci se přitahují, a tak se na tyto výpravy do uměleckého prostředí začaly přirozeně nabalovat další osobnosti a současné i dávné příběhy – Petr Nikl a jeho spiritismus, výstřední František Skála, magický František Bílek či vizionář Alfons Mucha. Nejedná se však o kunsthistorické výklady, Cílek vnímá umění jako další, na logiku navazující cestu k porozumění světu.
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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
From Number 1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson - creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy - comes this gripping story set in the Cosmere universe told by Hoid, where two people from incredibly different cultures must work together to save their worlds from certain disaster.
Yumi has spent her entire life in strict obedience, granting her the power to summon the spirits that bestow vital aid upon her society - but she longs for even a single day as a normal person. Painter patrols the dark streets dreaming of being a hero - a goal that has led to nothing but heartache and isolation, leaving him always on the outside looking in. In their own ways, both of them face the world alone.
Suddenly flung together, Yumi and Painter must strive to right the wrongs in both their lives, reconciling their past and present while maintaining the precarious balance of each of their worlds. If they cannot unravel the mystery of what brought them together before it's too late, they risk forever losing not only the bond growing between them, but the very worlds they've always struggled to protect.
Epocha
Epocha, druhý díl smyslné trilogie s duchovním naladěním, dějově přímo navazuje na první svazek Transcendence.
Po strašlivé události Swayze uvízne mezi dvěma životy. Chce se lépe vyznat ve vzpomínkách na tragickou smrt osudové lásky profesora Hunta a zároveň začíná plánovat budoucnost s Griffinem, se kterým ji také možná spojuje více než jen náhoda. Děravé vzpomínky, které stále více zasahují do přítomnosti, a obavy o vlastní bezpečnost vyšlou Swayze na bolestnou cestu za odhalením pravdy. Obětuje vlastní sny, aby se pomstila a nalezla chybějící střípky událostí z jiného života?
Nebo objeví jedinou pravdu, na které záleží?
Epocha posouvá hranice toho, čemu věříme a co víme. Mění definici osudu a dokazuje, že tím jediným, co odděluje srdce a duši, je nekonečno.
„Myslím, že část tebe budu milovat v každém životě.“
Beloved
A beautiful hardback edition of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, from the great Toni Morrison.
Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, 'Beloved'.
A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece and best-known work.
Trainspotting
A beautiful hardback edition of the seminal novel that changed the face of British fiction.
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced.
Choose life.
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous.
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
A Therapeutic Journey
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life.
A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments.
Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of forms of mental pain and illness, from the mild to the severe. It considers how and why we might become ill; how we can explain things to friends, family and colleagues; how we can find our ways towards recovery; and how we can build resilience, so as to live wisely alongside our difficulties.
At heart this is a book about redemption - about regaining the thread of our lives, rediscovering meaning, and finding our way back to connection, warmth and joy.
The Fragile Threads of Power
Launching a new trilogy in the Shades of Magic universe, an enchanting and thrilling epic fantasy from the international sensation, V. E. Schwab, perfect for fans of Samantha Shannon, Kerri Maniscalco, Leigh Bardugo and R. F. Kuang.
Seven years have passed since the doors between the worlds were sealed. Seven years since Kell, Lila and Holland stood against Osaron, a desperate battle that saved the worlds of Red, Grey and White London. Seven years since Kell’s magic was shattered, and Holland lost his life. Now Rhy Maresh rules Red London with his new family – his queen, Nadiya, their daughter Ren, and his consort, Alucard.
But his city boils with conspiracy and rebellion, fuelled by rumours he is causing magic to fade from the word. Now Kosika, a child Antari, sits on the throne of White London. The new queen leads her people in new rituals of sacrifice and blood in devotion to the altar of Holland Vosijk, summoning vast power she may not be able to control. Now Lila and Kell, living free on the waves, are charged by the captain of the Floating Market to retrieve an immensely powerful artefact, stolen by secretive forces. Now Tes, a young woman with a knack for fixing broken things, is thrust into the affairs of Antari and kings, traitors and thieves. And only her unique powers can weave the threads of power together.
A triumphant return to the worlds of The Shades of Magic, The Fragile Threads of Power continues the stories of fan-favourite characters Kell, Lila, Rhy and Alucard, and introduces a new generation of magic, shadows and embers in the dark.
The Story of Pasta and How to Cook It!
As featured in The Washington Post, and Real Simple
A playful, fact-filled exploration of the fascinating history of 35 famous pasta shapes with a delicious, child-friendly recipe perfectly suited to each shape
In this ultimate book of pasta for children ages 7-11, 35 pasta shapes are brought to life through clever illustrations and fascinating facts to feed children's imaginations - and their bellies! From farfalle, which means 'butterflies' in Italian, to linguine, meaning 'little tongues,' different types of pasta have wonderfully playful shapes, names, and origin stories!
Each pasta is accompanied by a simple recipe specially suited to its shape. The result is an entertaining, engaging, fact-filled, scrumptious offering for every child interested in cooking and eating - a fresh and joyful introduction to pasta, that is a fun-filled cookery book … and more!
For ages 7-11
Černobyl: Pád Atomgradu - grafický román
Od sovětského šlendriánu až k nemoci z ozáření, radioaktivnímu mraku putujícímu nad celou Evropou a opuštěné zóně nikoho. Z knihy Černobyl, pád Atomgradu pochopíte i fungování atomového reaktoru, ač jsou tu technická fakta na posledním místě. Komiks sleduje jadernou tragédii od zárodků příčin až po desítky lidských příběhů, do nichž krutě zasáhla. Nebyl to jen personál elektrárny či hasiči, kteří přispěchali na pomoc bezprostředně po výbuchu, ale i jejich rodiny, obyvatelé okolí i dobrovolníci, kterým nezbývalo než uposlechnout rozkaz a přijet likvidovat následky katastrofy. „
Mírový atom“, jak jaderným elektrárnám přezdívali, měl být chloubou Sovětského svazu. Místo toho sledem špatných rozhodnutí za jedinou noc odhalil nesmyslnost jeho řízení a nelidskost systému, k jehož pádu nakonec nepřímo přispěl. Ovšem za cenu tisíců zmařených životů a nedozírných následků pro krajinu, kterou ale ti, kteří se sem vrátili, nepřestali milovat.
Underworlds
From the burrows and secret bunkers beneath our feet to imagined hellscapes and surrealist dreamscapes, the disquieting, alarming,and wonderful visuals span natural and constructed subterranea and imagined and subconscious worlds. The works of art featured range from the scientific and photographic to the surreal and visionary. A personal introduction by Ellcock together with contextual chapter introductions establish key themes while panel texts elucidate essential concepts, historical events, and figures. Thought-provoking literary, philosophical, and spiritual quotations punctuate the intriguing images.Together, the arresting images and authoritative text highlight the interplay between the real and the imagined, revealing how the real has informed our imagination, and conversely how our imagination has depicted the esoteric, the abject, and the unknown.
Habitats
Explore the world's natural habitats and the plants and animals that live there. From the depths of the ocean to soaring mountain peaks - via coral reefs, deserts, rainforests, and even cityscapes - discover how unexpected and unique wildlife partnerships make up the habitats plants animals call home.
Each habitat section starts with a fascinating illustration to explain how it works, exploring the unique combination of conditions, plants, and animals that make it up. It then delves deeper, telling stories about how the inhabitants interact and find their place in each habitat. Survival strategies can be extreme, including frogs that can survive frozen through winter to emerge unharmed in spring. Vying for resources, plants and animals can work together in intimate partnerships, engage in direct competition - fighting tooth and nail over resources - or adapt in unique ways to find their own special niche that only they can exploit. These intricately balanced systems create a startling and fascinating variety of life on our planet.
Earth's pristine wildernesses are dwindling, so the book includes national parks, wildlife reserves, and other protected areas, and the conservation efforts needed to preserve our precious biological diversity.
Iconic New York
- Updated new edition with new images and in a larger format
- A touching tribute to the beloved metropolis, photographed by a true New Yorker
- A must for all those who can't get enough of New York
The new edition of the classic Iconic New York surprises with an even larger format, and previously unpublished photographs of the world-famous metropolis on the Hudson River. Christopher Bliss, is a true New Yorker, and who else could depict this great city in a more authentic way? Because there is so much more to the probably most famous city on the U.S. East Coast than the Empire State Building, Times Square and the Statue of Liberty. It is the hidden squares and buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn or Queens that reflect the city's culture, everyday life and attitude to life. Bliss knows them all and has photographed them all. The photo artist's work, compiled over many years, is exhibited in several galleries and is installed as a permanent exhibition at the Museum of New York City. For all USA lovers and fans of New York, this coffee-table book is a must-have in the bookcase. Discover the city's landmarks, get to know the people who live there, and get an idea of the turbulent life in the megacity. Text in English and German.
Soutěžní rétorika
Renesance tradičně argumentačního pojetí rétoriky, kterou ve 20. století v podobě neorétoriky nabídli mj. Ch. Perelman a S. Toulmin, znovuotevřela cestu k jejímu funkčnímu uplatnění ve vzdělávání. V podobě soutěžního debatování dostala agonální rétorika sofistů moderní háv, uchovala si však své tradiční poslání: rozvoj dovedností a znalostí v oblastech kritického myšlení a argumentace, vyhledávání a hodnocení informací a komunikačních kompetencí. Dnešní soutěže v debatování přidaly nutnost prohlubování znalostí o světě okolo nás a týmovou spolupráci.
