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Geografia, mapy, sprievodcovia 
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Captive State
For decades, Louisiana has had the highest incarceration rate in the United States. If it were a country, it would have the second-highest incarceration rate in the world. Far from a modern phenomenon, this distinction is rooted in more than three centuries of historyroots that extend out from the principal city of New Orleans, once the epicenter of the American slave trade, to the agricultural fields of the Louisiana State Prison, commonly known as Angola. In its examination of the states long march toward confining more of its citizens than almost anywhere on earth, Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration arrives at an irrefutable truth: that the institutions of slavery and mass incarceration are historically linked. Adapted from the groundbreaking exhibition of the same name, Captive State traces the evolution of laws and customs that created this carceral system and that, by design, have disproportionately harmed Black Louisianians. Captive State accentuates this narrative with profiles of people impacted by these systems, spotlights on key historical objects, and insightful data visualizations. As the human and financial costs continue to mount, this book details the choices that led us here--and asks whether Louisiana is fated to remain captive to its history.Captive State is supported by a grant from Borealis Philanthropys Spark Justice Fund. Distributed for the Historic New Orleans Collection
Givenchy in the Great War
The village of Givenchy-ls-la-Basse sits on a small rise in the Pas de Calais Department in northern France. One hundred years ago it was overtaken by the First World War. The fighting there was intense eleven Victoria Crosses were won in this tiny locality between 1914 and 1918. Phil Tomasellis in-depth account shows what happened at Givenchy when it became a battlefield, and the story here was repeated in the other villages and towns on the Western Front. Givenchys key position made it the target for crushing bombardments, infantry assaults and subterranean warfare. The landscape was pulverized by shellfire, the ground beneath was honeycombed with tunnels. Mining operations, shelling, sniping and trench raids took place around the remains of the village even when this stretch of the front line was relatively quiet. The gruelling struggle of attrition that characterized the fighting on the Western Front continued here throughout the war. Phil Tomasellis gripping narrative makes extensive use of war diary extracts, personal stories, official and unofficial histories.
Zásahy do práv v záujme ochrany prírody a krajiny
Aktuálna a jedinečná publikácia je venovaná vybraným právnym aspektom ochrany prírody a krajiny v podmienkach Slovenskej republiky so zameraním na možné zásahy do práv fyzických osôb a právnických osôb, ku ktorým v záujme ochrany prírody a krajiny môže dôjsť. Ponúka právnu analýzu špecifických právnych inštitútov, s ktorými sa stretávame v zákone č. 543/2002 Z. z. o ochrane prírody a krajiny, a v dôsledku ktorých dochádza k zásahom do práv a právom chránených záujmov dotknutých osôb.
Publikácia je určená nielen širokej odbornej verejnosti, ale aj dotknutým osobám, orgánom verejnej správy a všetkým, ktorí sa zaujímajú o tematiku ochrany životného prostredia alebo sa venujú oblasti správneho práva.
Bleach 45: The Burnout Inferno
Ičigo se vrací do lidského světa a přidává se ke kapitánům dvorní stráže a Vizardům! Jenže Aizenovy schopnosti překonávají veškerá očekávání a jeho krutost zrovna tak. Při pohledu na chladnokrevně skolené přátele se nenávist mění v hrůzu... Přiblížil se okamžik totální destrukce?!
Squirrel
Squirrels are a common sight, seemingly everywhere in wild and urban nature. Their chattering antics in city parks delight us while their raids on our backyard gardens and bird feedersnever failto exasperate. But squirrels are more than amusing backyard entertainers, and few of usknow much about them or fullyappreciate their role in keeping the environment healthy. As stress on the natural world intensifies,should we be paying more attention to the plight of squirrels? In Squirrel, Nancy Castaldo shines new light on thisfamiliar backyard mammal, exploring their staggering diversity(they're found on all continents but Antarctica) and the many surprising ways they shape our world, our communities, and our cultures. Each chapter explores anaspect ofsquirrels and their close and sometimes fraught association with humans: their importance to myriad ecosystems through sophisticated food-caching strategies; their introduction tonineteenth-century urban parks as adorable ambassadors for nature; their complicated global status as both invasive and endangered; their role as celebrated cultural icons and social media memes; andultimately, why we must preventpopulation declines and protecttheir well-beingwhile we can. Like other wildlife species, squirrels areincreasinglystressed by climate change, and their speculative fate may foreshadow our own. Thebook includes a detailed bibliography, an exhaustive list ofsquirrel species and their status, and tips for coexisting peaceably with squirrels in ouryards and neighborhoods. Chapters are introduced by exquisitely drawnhistorical illustrations.
Avro Vulcan
The Avro Vulcan, arguably the best known of the British ?V-Bombers?, was an integral part of Britain?s nuclear deterrent. During the Cold War, several RAF squadrons were equipped with Vulcans, including some assigned to Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) sorties to counter immediately any threat launched by the Soviet Union. The Vulcan was also suited to conventional bombing missions. In 1982, in Operation Black Buck during the Falklands War, Vulcan B.2s carried out the longest-ranged bombing raids in history up to that time, targeting the Argentine occupation of Port Stanley airport.
Recept na dlhovekosť
Aké je tajomstvo dlhého a zdravého života? Je skutočne veľmi jednoduché...
Giulia Crouch odjakživa vedela, že život jej sardínskeho starého otca je niečím nezvyčajný. Preto ju neprekvapilo, keď Sardíniu zaradili medzi jednu z piatich „modrých zón“ na svete – miest, kde ľudia vedú zdravé a šťastné životy oveľa dlhšie, než je svetový priemer.
Existuje množstvo dôvodov, prečo sa ľudia z modrých zón dožívajú vysokého veku. Vedci sa zhodujú, že najviac zo všetkého záleží na strave. Jedia pre chuť a potešenie a zvyčajne si doprajú jedlo, ktoré je výživné, a pritom nevyžaduje veľkú námahu pri príprave.
Autorka vás zavedie do kulinárskeho srdca týchto dlhovekých komunít s fascinujúcimi pohľadmi na pôst, cukor a víno či na jedenie mäsa, zdravie čriev a prekvapujúci význam fazule.
Z anglického originálu The Happiest Diet in the World (Giulia Crouch, 2024) preložila Patrícia Murinová.
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Ousmane Dembélé: Křídla ze skla
Strhující portrét jednoho z největších talentů současného fotbalu. Příběh muže, který se po letech zranění a ztracených sezon dokázal zvednout a vystoupat až na vrchol – ke Zlatému míči. Kniha čtenáře zavede do uliček Vernonu a Évreux, na hřiště v Rennes, kde se rodila jeho rychlost i osobnost, do Dortmundu, kde explodoval jeho talent, i do Barcelony, kde zápasil s vlastním tělem a tlakem očekávání. Nakonec se vrátil domů do Paříže, kde se z „křehkého génia“ stal symbolem síly, pokory a víry.
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Role Model
Based on the series by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry is now streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S. Discover all 6 books in the series!
A grumpy professional hockey player meets his match in an out-and-proud social media manager in this hockey romance from Rachel Reid.
The hits just keep coming for Troy Barrett. Traded to the worst team in the league would be bad enough, but coming on the heels of a messy breakup and a recent scandal… Troy just wants to play hockey and be left alone. He definitely doesn’t want to “work on his online presence" with the team’s peppy social media manager.
Harris Drover can tell standoffish Troy isn’t happy about the trade, but Harris doesn’t give up on people easily. Even when he’s developing a crush he’s sure is one-sided. And when he sees Troy’s smile finally crack through his grumpy exterior… That’s a man Harris couldn’t turn his back on if he wanted to.
Suddenly, Troy’s move to the new team feels like an opportunity—for Troy to embrace his true self, and for both men to explore their growing attraction. But being together behind closed doors is one thing, and for Troy, being in a public relationship with Harris will mean facing off with his fears, once and for all.
Game Changers
• Book 1: Game Changer
• Book 2: Heated Rivalry
• Book 3: Tough Guy
• Book 4: Common Goal
• Book 5: Role Model
• Book 6: The Long Game
Need more Rachel Reid?! Check out these other standalones from your favorite MM hockey romance writer:
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Záhada siedmich ciferníkov, 2. vydanie
V Záhade Siedmich ciferníkov Agatha Christie rozohrala dokonale premyslenú zápletku so špionážnymi prvkami, ktorej rozlúštenie zaskočí aj toho najostrieľanejšieho čitateľa detektívok.
TERAZ AKO SERIÁL SEDEM CIFERNÍKOV NA NETFLIXE
Bohatí manželia Cooteovci, ktorí si na dva roky prenajali sídlo Chimneys, sa radi obklopujú mladými ľuďmi, a tak si doň na pár dní pozvú skupinku priateľov. Jeden z mládencov, Gerry Wade, má veľké problémy s ranným vstávaním, a tak sa ostatní rozhodnú, že si z neho poriadne vystrelia: v noci mu do izby dajú osem budíkov a nastavia ich tak, aby prvý zazvonil o pol siedmej. Na druhý deň ráno však budíky napriek ohlušujúcemu rinčaniu Gerryho z postele nevytiahnu, v tom čase je už totiž mŕtvy. A jeden budík chýba.
Vyšetrovania podozrivého úmrtia zdravého mladého muža sa ujíma polícia, no ani Gerryho kamaráti nezaháľajú. Pátranie ich privedie na stopu záhadných Siedmich ciferníkov a zdá sa, že práve toto tajomné pomenovanie bude kľúčom k objasneniu prípadu. Amatérski pátrači sa však musia mať na pozore, najmä keď dôjde k ďalšej vražde...
Z anglického originálu Agatha Christie: The Seven Dials Mystery preložila Alexandra Ruppeldtová.
Tento preklad vznikol s podporou Literárneho fondu.
Zaujímavosti o Agathe Christie a jej knihách nájdete na www.agathachristie.com.
Nightfaring
Every year night skies get 10% brighter. Light pollution is erasing the stars.
In Nightfaring, travel writer and ‘dark sky’ advocate Megan Eaves travels the world to better understand our deep connection with the night sky. Finding solace in the stars at a time of difficulty in her own life, she embarks on a journey that takes her from New Zealand to Uzbekistan, Italy to Japan, Germany to the Himalaya, exploring the many ways that we have depended on, feared and mythologised darkness culturally and historically. The constellations have guided humankind in navigation and husbandry since the very earliest cultures, yet as nocturnal cities bleach our skies and that deep knowledge is lost, are we also losing our connection with the wild, with stillness, with the possibility that self-knowledge and healing can come from darkness, too?
Blending travel and nature writing with history and self-discovery, Nightfaring is a profound and often startling journey through darkness and the endangered night.
Mezi závazkem a zradou - Hardy Billionaire Brothers 1
Můj otec stanovil jasné podmínky: jestli chci dědit, musím si vzít jeho obchodního partnera. Declan Hardy – bývalý hráč Národní fotbalové ligy, miliardář a muž, který je můj naprostý opak. Je hlasitý a spontánní, já zase tichá a opatrná. Jediné, co nás spojuje? Oba jsme součástí otcovy poslední vůle. Čeká nás rok předstíraného manželství. Rok společného života. Rok hry na dokonalý pár. Jenže čím víc času spolu trávíme, tím nejasnější je, co je lež a co pravda – a jestli naše polibky předstírá on… nebo já.
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Karpatské lesostepní louky
Kniha se zaměřuje na významný přírodní fenomén střední Evropy: druhově mimořádně rozmanité louky na periferii Karpat. Na základě výsledků vlastního rozsáhlého výzkumu a rešerše dostupné literatury je autoři představují z různých hledisek, s důrazem na proměnlivost druhového složení vegetace, extrémní druhovou bohatost a jejich vývoj od konce doby ledové. Velký prostor věnují i historii výzkumu jejich flóry a vegetace. Docházejí přitom k závěru, že tyto louky jsou součástí starobylého ekosystému perikarpatské lesostepi, jehož bezlesí je udržováno prostřednictvím pravidelných disturbancí. Zásadní roli v této dynamice hrál po tisíciletí člověk spolu s pastvou velkých býložravců a požáry. Publikace poskytuje komplexní pohled na lesostepní louky a jejich ekologický význam.
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The King in Yellow
I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon...
The weird tales in this book are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow.
These four macabre, uncanny and unsettling stories are some of the most thrilling ever written in the field of weird fiction and since their first publication have become a cult classic, inspiring works ranging from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos to True Detective.
Exit Stalin
An extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history of the world's largest state and its decline and fall.
With Stalin's death, the Soviet Union remained a repressive, harsh and belligerent place, but one which became more predictable for its citizens and one which made a genuine attempt to create the egalitarian, progressive country that the Russian Revolution had once promised. That this attempt would fail was not clear until the 1980s.
Mark B. Smith's remarkable book recreates the day-to-day life of this vast state, the largest ever to exist. What was life like in a country which made such absolute claims for the future, which claimed to be on its way to creating a people's utopia and which, like the USA, owned enough atomic weapons to end human life on Earth?
Exit Stalin is filled with extraordinary stories about those who lived in the USSR and the distinctive and functioning civilization that they built. Many of them embraced its values, understood its goals and could not imagine life outside such a vastly ambitious and progressive project. The shortages, coercion and incompetence that underlay the USSR - and which by the late 1980s would doom it - has to be understood alongside the acceptance it always had from many of its citizens. And this in turn is a crucial issue for understanding Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union in the 21st century.
Human Capital
Does the education system make better people? Why are so many - teachers and students alike - stressed and dissatisfied? Do we need to revive real education?
Ideally, education is about the pursuit of truth, beauty and morality. But in the last few decades, a perilous fixation with human capital - skills, knowledge and aptitudes required for the labour market - has trampled over curricula, schools and universities. Rather than learning how to think critically about the world, from cradle to grave students are trained to be more effective workers, to make more money, and to serve an hegemonic ideology. Teachers and researchers are pressed to serve those goals.
In this concluding book in his series on the commons, Guy Standing shows us how education - intrinsically a common public good - has been enclosed, privatised, financialised and corrupted, turned into an instrument of societal control, not human emancipation, weakening democracy, not strengthening it. Human Capital charts how the education industry largely serves commercial interests, not its teachers and students, and considers how to revive its lost values, to save society for the common good.
Peppa Pig: Peppas Magical Story
Join Peppa and her family on an exciting day out with this magic wheel format. Turn the wheel to reveal enchanting surprises, all bringing Peppa's amazing imagination to life! You'll find a colourful unicorn, a shimmering mermaid and more!
Three Days in June
*The Sunday Times bestseller*
Weddings aren't just about the happy couple… A funny, touching, hopeful story of love, marriage and second chances
It's the day before her daughter's wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines.
First thing, she loses her job (or quits, depending who you ask). Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door looking for somewhere to stay. He doesn't even have a suit. Instead, he's brought memories - and a cat looking for a new home.
Just as Gail is wondering what's next, their daughter Debbie discovers her groom has been keeping a secret which could throw the whole wedding into question…
Najpredávanejší autori v tejto kategórii: Dominik Dán, Joanne K. Rowling, Elle Kennedy, Freida McFadden, Sarah J. Maasová.
