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Beletria 
Odborná a populárno-náučná literatúra 
Pre deti a mládež 
Cudzojazyčná literatúra 
Učebnice, slovníky 
Umenie 
Hobby, voľný čas 
Geografia, mapy, sprievodcovia 
Biografie - Životopisy 
Kuchárske knihy 
Zdravie, životný štýl 
Ezoterika 
Poézia 
Partnerstvo a rodičovstvo 
Časopisy
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Předměstí nebe
Předměstí nebe je sbírka poezie zakořeněná v krajině, těle a paměti. Básně Marty Kocvrlichové vyrůstají z konkrétních situací, ticha všedního dne i z hlubších vrstev prožívání, v nichž se osobní zkušenost přirozeně prolíná s mýtem, přírodou a duchovními motivy.
Autorka pracuje s úsporným jazykem, krátkými básněmi, mikrobásněmi a fragmenty, z nichž se z drobných detailů skládají výrazné, často meditativní obrazy. Krajina, rodinný život, ženská zkušenost, rituál i stínové stránky bytí zde nejsou tématy k výkladu, ale prostory k prožití.
Sbírka nabízí soustředěné čtení pro ty, kdo hledají poezii jako způsob vnímání světa.
Milkshake the Disappearing Milk Snake: A Graphic Novel
The pet snake from the class next door is missing!Carter and his ghost detective sidekick, Mr. Pebbles, are back, and there’s a new mystery to solve at Creek Elementary. Carter’s older brother, JJ, reveals that his class pet, a skittish milk snake named Milkshake, is missing! Can Carter and Mr. Pebbles find her before they have another dead class pet on their hands?!Don’t miss more class pet capers in this graphic novel series coming soon.
Writing Timbuktu
The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West AfricaPrinted books did not reach West Africa until the early twentieth century. And yet, between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, literate and curious readers throughout the region found books to read—books that were written and copied by hand. In Writing Timbuktu, Shamil Jeppie offers a history of the book as a handwritten, handmade object in West Africa. Centering his account in the historic city of Timbuktu, Jeppie explores the culture of the “manuscript-book”—unbound pages, often held together by carefully crafted leather covers. He describes the most important and most prolific scholars and their works, the subjects they covered, and ways these books were circulated, collected, and preserved. The authors of the manuscript-books wrote to demonstrate their knowledge to their peers, expound theological and legal opinions, and engage in scholarly disputation. After beginning his account in Timbuktu, Jeppie traces the literary connections among places as distant as Marrakesh in the north and Sokoto in the south, and smaller settlements in between. He chronicles the work of Ahmad Baba in late sixteenth-century Timbuktu and his students in early seventeenth-century Marrakesh; the emergence of writers in the eighteenth century in what today is Mauritania; the writings of the scholar-rulers of Sokoto, northern Nigeria, in the nineteenth century; and the eventual discovery of the manuscript-book world of West Africa by European travelers and French colonial officials. Finally, Jeppie finds that the handwritten text persisted even after the advent of the printed book, and even among writers whose books were in print, including the famous Malian novelist Amadou Hampâté Bâ.
The Kings of Algiers
A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe and AmericaAt the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the Bacri brothers and their nephew, Naphtali Busnach, were perhaps the most notorious Jews in the Mediterranean. Based in the strategic port of Algiers, their interconnected families traded in raw goods and luxury items, brokered diplomatic relations with the Ottomans, and lent vital capital to warring nations. For the French, British, and Americans, who competed fiercely for access to trade and influence in the region, there was no getting around the Bacris and the Busnachs. The Kings of Algiers traces the rise and fall of these two trading families over four tumultuous decades in the nineteenth century. In this panoramic book, Julie Kalman restores their story—and Jewish history more broadly—to the histories of trade, corsairing, and high-stakes diplomacy in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath. Jacob Bacri dined with Napoleon himself. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Horatio Nelson considered strategies to circumvent the Bacris’ influence. As the families’ ambitions grew, so did the perils, from imprisonment and assassination to fraud and family collapse. The Kings of Algiers brings vividly to life an age of competitive imperialism and nascent nationalism and demonstrates how people and events on the periphery shaped perceptions and decisions in the distant metropoles of the world’s great nations.
Rubínový spolek: Všechna naše tajemství
Louise se podařilo získat stipendium na vyhlášené Akademii Highclare a doufá, že tahle příležitost jí konečně zajistí nový začátek. Stává se zároveň členkou elitního Rubínového spolku, který by jí mohl poskytnout útočiště před lžemi a opovržením, jimž musí v poslední době čelit. Veškerá sláva spolku je však jen pozlátko, které doopravdy ukrývá nejedno tajemství a udržuje za zdmi akademie pořádné napětí. Louisa brzy zjistí, že nemůže věřit jen tak někomu. Theo si ji však – i přes svou nepřístupnost a věčně protivnou náladu – získává svým neobyčejným citem pro práci s koňmi. Navíc se zdá, že jako jeden z mála si od tajuplného spolku drží odstup. Louisa sice cítí, že by bylo moudřejší se od něj držet dál, oběma to ale ztěžuje vzájemná přitažlivost. Co když však i Theo skrývá tajemství?
Dirty Red
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Never Never! The twisty, unconventional second-chance love story you didn't see coming continues in the Love Me with Lies trilogy! ……………. Manipulation. Lies. Backstabbing. Just your typical obsessively toxic love triangle. Dear Opportunist, You thought you could take him from me, but you lost. Now that he's mine, I'll do anything to keep him. Do you doubt me? I have everything that was supposed to be yours. In case you were wondering – he doesn't even think about you anymore. I won't let him go…ever. Dirty Red Leah Smith finally has everything she’s ever wanted. Except she doesn't. Her marriage feels more like a loan than a lifelong commitment, and the image she has worked so hard to build is fraying before her eyes. With a new role and a past full of secrets, Leah must decide how far she is willing to go to keep what she has stolen. You know Olivia’s side of the story, but now it’s Leah’s turn. Readers love Dirty Red! ' I would read anything that this author writes. She is truly talented' ? 'Tarryn Fisher is now one of my auto-buy authors'? 'Tarryn has created a series that keeps you thinking with twists, turns, and a unique approach to an already crazy story line' ? ‘This series is my favourite of all time! Tarryn Fisher is the most intelligent writer in romance (can I call it that?) and her beautiful words send shivers down my back' ? ‘Where you start is quite far from where you expect to end up. That is the joy of a Tarryn Fisher novel’ ? 'Love Me With Lies' began in The Opportunist and concludes in Thief.
King of Kings
A spellbinding narrative history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and its devastating consequences by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia.
Before the revolution, the Shah of Iran seemed invincible. The world watched in awe as he commanded a huge army and oversaw an economy awash with billions of dollars of oil revenues. The regime's secret police had crushed communist opposition and the Shah appeared to have bought off the conservative Muslim clergy inside the country. On the international stage, Iran had become an invaluable ally to the West during the Cold War.
But village streets spoke of a different country - people derided the Shah as an American lackey and blamed him for economic inequality, for spending recklessly on lavish parties and for ignoring the Muslim majority. When a volcanic religious revolution erupted, led by a fiery cleric named Ayatollah Khomeini, the Shah was forced off the throne and into exile. How did it all go so wrong?
Brilliantly brought to life by the Sunday Times bestselling author Scott Anderson, this gripping behind-the-scenes narrative reveals how the Iranian Revolution was as world-shattering an event as the French and Russian revolutions, and how its repercussions are still felt around the world today. In the Middle East, in India, in Southeast Asia, and now in Europe and the United States, the hatred of economically-marginalized, religiously-fervent masses for a wealthy secular elite has led to violence and upheaval - and Iran was the template.
Lazy Dungeon Master (Manga) Vol. 12
After pulling out all the tricks he has up his sleeve, Keima has finally discovered Aidi’s weakness! Not about to let this chance for victory slip by, he and Rokuko deploy the full might of their offensive forces against her. Yet Aidi’s overwhelming power stops them all dead in their tracks, and she advances on Rokuko’s core. In the face of overwhelming defeat, Rei steps up to defend the dungeon as this thrilling three-way battle reaches its climax!
The Drowned Siren
She was driven by success. Now, she’s driven by obsession. After years of being viewed as plain and boring, university student Eleanor is thrilled when the beautiful Cheyenne notices her and starts showering her with attention. Soon, the lines between friendship and love become blurred, at least for Eleanor. Until she realises that Cheyenne’s love isn’t unconditional …Years later, Eleanor’s life has changed completely. After moving to LA to pursue her dreams, she now lives mostly in isolation. Her days are spent locked up in her hotel suite, dreaming up revenge fantasies. As her past and present collide, Eleanor is forced to ask the question she dreads most: what happens when your darkest fantasies become reality?
Neuroveda a inteligentné systémy v marketingu, manažmente a podnikaní
Publikácia sa venuje oblasti synergii neurovedy a inteligentných systémov, ktorá otvára nové perspektívy pre manažment, marketing a podnikanie. Pútavým spôsobom preniká do poznania mechanizmov ľudského myslenia a emócií, ktoré umožňuje navrhovať efektívnejšie stratégie riadenia, cielenejšie marketingové kampane a inovatívne podnikateľské modely. Inteligentné systémy zároveň poskytujú nástroje na spracovanie komplexných údajov, identifikáciu vzorcov správania a podporu rozhodovania v reálnom čase. Je koncipovaná ako odborný sprievodca problematikou využitia neurovied a inteligentných systémov v prostredí manažmentu, marketingu a podnikania. Obsahuje teoretické východiská, postupy a praktické odporúčania, ktoré môžu slúžiť ako podpora pre akademické štúdium aj pre aplikáciu v praxi.
Zmatky
Román o vztahu matek a dcer napříč třemi generacemi, o úskalí rodičovství včetně dobrých předsevzetí, která se často míjejí s realitou a jsou spíš zdrojem nedorozumění. Vypravěčkou je nejmladší Bětka, která navzdory uměleckému povolání a zdání bohémského života střídmě odhaduje svoje možnosti a chová se převážně pragmaticky. Když neplánovaně otěhotní s výrazně starším partnerem, který navíc čeká dítě s další ženou, nabere její život nečekané obrátky a pečlivě budované bezpečí se hroutí. Šance na usmíření s matkou překazí její smrt a přinutí Bětku k bolestné bilanci. Stěhuje se do domu po babičce a v rámci jeho oprav přehodnotí nejen svůj vztah k matce, ale i k obdivované babičce i svůj rezervovaný vztah k lidem vůbec. Rekonstrukce domu tak představuje především rekonstrukci jejího vlastního života.
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The Power of Real Optimism
Optimism isn't about pretending everything is fine. It's about staying open and flexible-especially when it's not. In this fresh, science-backed debut, professional psychologist and media expert Dr. Deepika Chopra shows us how to build the kind of optimism that can actually withstand real life.
We've been sold the idea that optimism is a mood, a mindset, or worse-just an inherent trait. But what if real optimism is something else entirely?
In The Power of Real Optimism, Dr. Deepika Chopra-known as The Optimism Doctor®-offers a radically different definition: optimism as a science, a skill, and a psychological muscle we can strengthen. Drawing from over a decade immersed in the science of resilience, emotional well-being, and cognitive psychology-as well as her work with clients, innovative workshops, and hallmark practices (think: evidence-based visualization, narrative reframing, her signature "self-worth work," and even color)-Dr. Chopra offers a toolkit for navigating the chaos, uncertainty, and nuance of being human-without losing yourself to it.
Grounded, practical, and poetic in all the right ways, this book will challenge your relationship with hope, rewire how you recover from hard things, and invite you to stay soft without falling apart. With her blend of intimate storytelling, psychological insight, and tangible tools-including a 33-day Real Optimism Challenge-Dr. Chopra offers something far more enduring than a quick fix or fleeting affirmation. She invites us into a deeper, more resilient way of living-one where we can stay curious in the face of fear, open in the face of grief, and grounded even as the world wobbles beneath us.
Because real optimism doesn't deny the dark-it teaches us how to see in it.
Existence a hodnota
V knize vzpomínek Čtrnáctero zastavení poznamenal Bedřich Fučík o Janu Čepovi a jeho psaní: „Přicházel i později s několika popsanými listy, v nichž nebylo takřka jediného škrtu nebo opravy, a s rozpaky říkával: ‚To jsem psal pro tebe,‘ jako například svou tragickou ocelorytinu Člověk na silnici.“ Čepův přítel, literární kritik, redaktor autorových textů a ve třicátých letech ředitel nakladatelství Melantrich, které tato díla vydávalo, bezpochyby znal zblízka způsoby jeho tvorby; přesto jsme si pokládali otázku, zda jsou jeho tvrzení o tvorbě takřka čistopisů zcela v souladu s podobou dochovaných rukopisů, dnes uložených v Literárním archivu Památníku národního písemnictví v Praze.
Mnohé autografy spisovatele vskutku postrádají razanci škrtů a úprav, jež nacházíme u jiných literátů (Josefa Hory, Františka Halase, Ivana Olbrachta a dalších), přesto se v jeho pozůstalosti dochovala celá série raných fází produkce, autorových konceptů, prvopisů, zápisníků a deníkových zápisů, které dávají tušit, že genetická zkoumání mohou vnést nečekané světlo do poznání autorovy poetiky, do vývoje díla i samotné Čepovy osobnosti. V naší knize se skrze rukopisná zkoumání chceme zamyslet nad vztahem existence a hodnoty, situace a víry, jež formovaly autorův svébytný myšlenkový svět, a mimo jiné se ptáme na autorovy postoje v myšlenkových proudech jeho doby, ať už je řeč o novotomismu, existencialismu a dialogickém personalismu.
Tvořivý učitel, tvořivý žák
Tato kniha nabízí hluboký a zároveň praktický pohled na tvořivost jako klíčovou kompetenci pro život v rychle se měnícím světě. Ukazuje, že tvořivost není o umění či výjimečném nadání, ale o postoji k učení, chybám, nejistotě a novým výzvám.
Autorka čtenáře provází otázkami, co tvořivost skutečně je, jak ji rozpoznat, podporovat a rozvíjet – a především jak ji ve vzdělávání nevědomky nepotlačovat. Kniha boří rozšířené mýty o tvořivosti, představuje její teoretická východiska a nabízí konkrétní doporučení pro učitele, studenty i rodiče.
Zvláštní důraz je kladen na školní prostředí jako bezpečný prostor pro experiment, objevování a svobodné myšlení, kde je chyba přirozenou součástí učení. Publikace inspiruje k odvaze vystoupit z komfortní zóny a přijmout nejistotu jako neoddělitelnou součást tvořivého procesu.
Tvořivost není výsadou talentovaných. Je schopností, kterou lze rozvíjet u každého.
The Layered Home
'I often think about the Albert Hadley pointer that "a room should feel collected, not decorated", writes Benjamin Raynaert in his new book, before taking us on a tour of British, European and American homes that embody this idea.... Benjamin has insightful conversations with the creative individuals behind these spaces - who also offer tips on how to master the seemingly effortless layered look.' House & Garden'If you choose one playbook rule, let this be your guide: Layers plus personalization is the combination that creates absolute spatial magic. Nothing else comes close.' Benjamin RaynaertTo magazine editor and stylist Benjamin Reynaert, more is more when it comes to the home. The more patterns and colours combined, the more preloved pieces scooped up at the right time, the more surfaces to display treasured objects, the more a house will feel like home. Layers are key to achieving this maximalist alchemy. It's not a look that can be bought all at once, but one developed over time, leisurely and with intention, as you stay mindful of your space's personality. Most of all, layering a home requires listening to and respecting your own instincts and taste. To help train your eye, Benjamin takes you on a journey through exquisitely decorated homes lived in by creative and curious people. From the UK and France to the USA, these homes artfully integrate patterns, colours, textures, art, furniture, and objects to create interiors that are as unique as the people who live in them. More than 200 photographs capture home tours of stunning maximalist homes, and Benjamin's interviews with his favourite tastemakers reveal tips and tricks on collecting, arranging objects, and modifying rooms over time. Brimming with beauty and smart advice, The Layered Home shares how to curate interiors filled with warmth and endless visual interest by embracing abundance, imperfection, and craft. The end result: a gorgeous home that tells your unique story.
El Iluminado
In this entertaining, thought-provoking detective graphic novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a fictional Ilan Stavans seeks to solve a murder and locate a lost manuscript by a prominent 16th-century Crypto-Jew burned at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. When young Rolando Perez falls to his death from a cliff outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, the mysteries immediately begin to accumulate. Was he pushed or did he jump? What might Rolando have been so desperate to protect that he would sacrifice himself? And what does a colorful concha pastry have to do with any of thi? n the midst of the investigation, Professor Ilan Stavans arrives in Santa Fe to give a lecture about the area’s long-buried Jewish history. He’s looking forward to relaxing afterward with an evening at the opera, but his presentation on “crypto-Jews” attracts unexpected attention, and soon Ilan is drawn into a desperate race to find the long-lost documents that might hold the key to Rolando’s death. His amateur sleuthing leads him to taco joints, desert ranches, soaring cathedrals, and, finally, deep into the region’s past, where he encounters Luis de Carvajal, also called “El Iluminado.” In a sixteenth-century tale of martyrdom that eerily echoes Rolando’s, Carvajal fled Spain for colonial Mexico at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, searching for his religious heritage—a hunt for which he, like Rolando, would pay the ultimate price. In El Iluminado, esteemed literary critic Ilan Stavans and author and illustrator Steve Sheinkin present a secret history of religion in the Americas, showing how thousands of European refugees have left a trail of ghostly footprints—and troves of mysteries—across the American Southwest. This paperback edition includes a new afterword recounting the amazing events that occurred after the original publication, including the real-life discovery of the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal and its restoration to Mexico.
Fungi and Human Life
The incredible, hidden role of fungi in our livesFrom beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic molds that cause disease, we are constantly navigating a world filled with fungi. Fungi and Human Life explores the amazing ways fungi interact with our bodies, showing how our health and well-being depend on an immense ecosystem of yeasts and molds inside and all around us. Nicholas Money takes readers on a guided tour of a marvelous unseen realm, describing how our immune systems are engaged in continuous conversation with the teeming mycobiome inside the body, and how we can fall prey to serious and even life-threatening infections when this peaceful coexistence is disturbed. He also sheds light on our complicated relationship with fungi outside the body, from wild mushrooms and cultivated molds that have been staples of the human diet for millennia to the controversial experimentation with magic mushrooms in the treatment of depression. Drawing on the latest advances in mycology, Fungi and Human Life reveals what scientists are learning about the importance of fungi to our lives, from their vital role in supporting the ecosystems on which we depend to their emerging uses in lifesaving medicine.
Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him
A haunting reimagining of Billy the Kid—myth, violence, and regret collide in a lyrical coming-of-age story woven with history, legend, and the omnipresence of birds. Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him: The Lives of Billy the Kid by Pamela Ryder is a coming-of-age saga like no other. It reaches beyond the myth of the reckless and romantic rebel, the murdering gunslinger, and the scrappy outlaw. His story is one of survival, mayhem, and regret. Billy is portrayed as a complex and authentic figure. At times he is ruthless, often sympathetic, always clever and engaging. Yet he remains haunted by loneliness as he rides ever closer to the end of his short and violent life. The child of Irish immigrants, Billy came of age amid hardship and lawlessness, forced to navigate a world that offered him little mercy. From his grim childhood in the tenements of New York to the unforgiving deserts of New Mexico, his journey is marked by loss, chaos, and fleeting moments of grace. He was a boy who became an outlaw, forever running from his past toward an inevitable fate. Told through shifting perspectives and enriched by Billy's keen observations of birds, landscapes, and the lives he has taken, the novel unfolds in lyrical, unflinching prose. His fascination with birds, whose freedom stands in stark contrast to his own doomed flight, threads through the narrative. A meditation on myth, mortality, and the stories we tell about ourselves, Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him is a singular reimagining of the American West. It does not flinch from the blood or the beauty of a life lived on the edge of history.
A Mood, A Thought, A Feeling
The first book from designer Huh is designed in three parts. Part one is an exploration of the seven moods that Huh deems essential to design: conviviality, peacefulness, joyful, cozy, verve, romantic, meaning. For example, convivial spaces are ones that feel buzzy, excited, and alive, like an artist s salon. Use lighting to draw people together and seating arrangements to connect. Peaceful interiors are refuges to be by yourself, with yourself, reading with a cup of tea on a rainy day, in a chair with a view of a forest, surrounded by warm, natural textures and quiet colors. Joyful rooms are effervescent and whimsical, with bright happy colors and wallpaper that makes you smile. Coziness is about creating safety and warmth, spaces that hold you tight and together, that encourage intimacy and depth and demarcate a transition from public to private. Rooms with verve are stylist and confident. They should feature daring, exciting choices to make people talk with a bold curation of objects and odd juxtapositions. Romantic is moody, nostalgic, filled with faded chintz, pretty vignettes, weathered and worn. Meaning is about incorporating the personal, the familial. Objects that carry stories are important here the heirlooms that tell us where we came from and who we are. Lovely curated bookcases and ephemera. Part two, A Thought, explores three full projects: two recently completed townhouses on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and in Brooklyn, as well as an elegant Park Avenue apartment. And part three of the book, A Feeling, features an immersive dive into Huh s recently completed country house upstate, from the pattern-filled rooms to the gardens and grounds, with seasonal entertaining stories.
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