Petr Drda, Alena Rybová
Keltové a Čechy
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Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 213
Velikost: 17,52 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 80-200-0658-3 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 20.07.2014, 14:17
| Anotace: Keltové a Čechy, téma, které patří v současné archeologii k nejatraktivnějším, prezentují autoři oba specialisté-keltologové, jako moderní a komplexní přehled na jednu z nejzajímavějších a nejvyspělejších civilizací na území Čech. Především interpretacemi archeologických nálezů dokládají, že Čechy nebyly tehdy jen okrajovým územím keltského světa, ale jedním z jeho významných center. Mezi evropskými odborníky dosud ojedinělý přístup k látce spolu s bohatými zkušenostmi autorů z vlastní archeologické práce v terénu, to vše posouvá názory na osídlení Čech Kelty a na jejich kulturu výrazně kupředu. Čtenáře - odborníky i laiky - jistě zaujme jak vzrušující historie objevování keltských pokladů či odkrývání hrobů nebo svatyní, tak i objevené myšlenky o budování keltských oppid v Čechách a o životě v nich.
Catherine Bernard
Celtic Mythology
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Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 105
Velikost: 4,9 MB
Knižní žánr: mytologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 0-7660-2204-8 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 20.07.2014, 14:12
| Anotace: The Celts were one of the great founding cultures of European civilization. Their origins can be traced back to the second millennium BC. The Celts' original homeland was near the Rhine, Rhone, and Danube Rivers, in what is now Germany. By the first millennium BC, however, the Celts began a massive expansion across Europe...and their traditional stories reflect their movements. In CELTIC MYTHOLOGY, author Catherine Bernard has collected some of the most important myths of the Celtic world and presents them with an authentic appreciation for their unique characters, landscapes, and philosophies. Illustrations and expert commentary are included to promote further understanding of this distinctive group.
The Crisis of Islam
Holy War and Unholy Terror     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 126
Velikost: 314 kB
Knižní žánr: religionistika
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-58836-075-5 Cena: 14.54 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 20.07.2014, 14:08
| Anotace: In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, examining the impact of radical Wahhabi proselytizing, and Saudi oil money, on the rest of the Islamic world.
The Crisis of Islam ranges widely through thirteen centuries of history, but in particular it charts the key events of the twentieth century leading up to the violent confrontations of today: the creation of the state of Israel, the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, the Gulf War, and the September 11th attacks on the United States.
While hostility toward the West has a long and varied history in the lands of Islam, its current concentration on America is new. So too is the cult of the suicide bomber. Brilliantly disentangling the crosscurrents of Middle Eastern history from the rhetoric of its manipulators, Bernard Lewis helps us understand the reasons for the increasingly dogmatic rejection of modernity by many in the Muslim world in favor of a return to a sacred past. Based on his George Polk Award–winning article for The New Yorker, The Crisis of Islam is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what Usama bin Ladin represents and why his murderous message resonates so widely in the Islamic world.
Islamic Mysticism
A Short History     |
Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 372
Velikost: 4,93 MB
Knižní žánr: religionistika
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978 90 04 19462 5 Cena: 157.30 EUR Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 20.07.2014, 14:01
| Anotace: The book provides a general survey of the history of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) since its inception up to the present. It combines chronological and personality-based approaches to the subject with a thematic discussion of major Sufi notions and institutions. Sufism is examined from a variety of different perspectives: as a vibrant social institution, a specific form of artistic expression (mainly poetic), an ascetic and contemplative practice, and a distinct intellectual tradition that derived its vitality from a continual dialogue with other strands of Islamic thought. The book emphasizes the broad variety of Sufism's interactions with the society and its institutions from an ascetic withdrawal from the world to an active involvement in its affairs by individual Sufi masters and organizations. This second paperback edition contains a number of corrections and additions. Islamic Mysticism by Alexander Knysh is a comprehensive survey of the fascinating world of Islamic Mysticism that continues to play an important role in Muslim communities world-wide.
Piracy
The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 612
Velikost: 3,65 MB
Knižní žánr: ostatní
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-226-40118-8 Cena: 23.51 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 20.07.2014, 13:57
| Anotace: Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood.
Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.
Community
Seeking Safety in an Insecure World     |
Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 161
Velikost: 4,21 MB
Knižní žánr: sociologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 0-7456-2635-1 Cena: 24.82 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 18.07.2014, 00:22
| Anotace: 'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but seem to mis
A History of the Modern Chinese Army
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 769
Velikost: 2,21 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
Cena: 29.21 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 18.07.2014, 00:21
| Anotace: Since the establishment of the Red Army in 1927, China's military has responded to profound changes in Chinese society, particularly its domestic politics, shifting economy, and evolving threat perceptions. Recently tensions between China and Taiwan and other east Asian nations have aroused great interest in the extraordinary transformation and new capabilities of the Chinese army. In A History of the Modern Chinese Army, Xiaobing Li, a former member of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), provides a comprehensive examination of the PLA from the Cold War to the beginning of the twenty-first century that highlights the military's central function in modern Chinese society. In the 1940s, the Chinese army was in its infancy, and many soldiers were rural conscripts and volunteers who had received little formal schooling. The Chinese military rapidly increased its mobility and weapon strength, and the Korean War and Cold War offered intense combat experience that not only allowed soldiers to hone their fighting techniques but also helped China to develop military tactics tailored to the surrounding countries whose armies posed the most immediate threats. Yet even in the 1970s, the completion of a middle school education (nine years) was considered above-average, and only 4 percent of the 224 top Chinese generals had any college credit hours. However, in 1995 the high command began to institute massive reforms to transform the PLA from a labor-intensive force into a technology-intensive army. Continually seeking more urban conscripts and emphasizing higher education, the PLA Reserve Officer Training and Selection program recruited students from across the nation. These reservists would become commissioned officers upon graduation, and they majored in atomic physics, computer science, and electrical engineering. Grounding the text in previously unreleased official Chinese government and military records as well as the personal testimonies of more than two hundred PLA soldiers, Li charts the development of China's armed forces against the backdrop of Chinese society, cultural traditions, political history, and recent technological advancements. A History of the Modern Chinese Army links China's military modernization to the country's growing international and economic power and provides a unique perspective on China's esttablishment and maintenance of one of the world's most advanced military forces.
Samuel E. Wood, Ellen Green Wood, Denise Boyd
Mastering the World of Psychology
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Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 624
Velikost: 21,32 MB
Knižní žánr: psychologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-205-97197-8 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 18.07.2014, 00:17
| Anotace: Mastering the World of Psychology is a brief, paperback text focused on supplying the most support for student learning and student success. It makes the connection between scientific principles and the everyday lives of today's diverse student population.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 2053
Velikost: 1,98 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 9780795316999 Cena: 15.94 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 18.07.2014, 00:12
| Anotace: The fiftieth anniversary edition of the National Book Award-winning bestseller that is the definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II. This special edition now features a new introduction by Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and How the End Begins.
Defending Your Castle
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Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 178
Velikost: 30,89 MB
Knižní žánr: ostatní
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-61374-682-0 Cena: 12.09 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 18.07.2014, 00:07
| Anotace: A man’s home is his castle, or so the saying goes, but could it withstand an attack by Attila and the Huns, Ragnar and the Vikings, Alexander and the Greeks, Genghis Khan and the Mongols, or Tamerlane and the Tartars? Backyard Ballistics author William Gurstelle poses this fascinating question to modern-day garage warriors and shows them how to build an arsenal of ancient artillery and fortifications aimed at withstanding these invading hordes. Each chapter introduces a new bad actor in the history of warfare, details his conquests, and features weapons and fortifications to defend against him and his minions. Clear step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build a dozen projects, including “Da Vinci’s Catapult,” “Carpini’s Crossbow,” a “Crusader-Proof Moat,” “Alexander’s Tortoise,” and the “Cheval-de-frise.” With a strong emphasis on safety, the book also gives tips on troubleshooting, explains the physics behind many of the projects, and shows where to buy the materials. By the time they’ve reached the last page, at-home defenders everywhere will have succeeded in creating a fully fortified home.
William Gibson
A Brief History of Britain, 1660-1851
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 362
Velikost: 445 kB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978–1–84901–815–9 Cena: 8.99 GPB Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 18.07.2014, 00:04
| Anotace: How Great Britain was born - from the restoration to the Great Exhibition. In 1660 England emerged from the devastations of the Civil Wars and restored the king, Charles II, to the throne. Over the next 190 years Britain would establish itself as the leading nation in the world - the centre of burgeoning Empire, at the forefront of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. However, radical change also brought with it anxiety and violence. America is lost in the War of Independence and calls for revolution at home are never far from the surface of everyday life. In this scintillating overview of the era in which Britain changed the world, and how that nation was transformed as a result. William Gibson also looks at the impact of this transformation had upon the ordinary men and women. This the is the third book in the four volume Brief History of Britain which brings together some of the leading historians to tell our nation's story from the Norman Conquest of 1066 to the present-day. Combining the latest research with accessible and entertaining story telling, it is the ideal introduction for students and general readers.
Nietzsche
Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist     |
Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 553
Velikost: 4,53 MB
Knižní žánr: biografie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 0-691-01983-5 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 18.07.2014, 00:01
| Anotace: This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy.
Responding to the powerful myths and countermyths that had sprung up around Nietzsche, Kaufmann offered a patient, evenhanded account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas. Without ignoring or downplaying the ugliness of many of Nietzsche's proclamations, he set them in the context of his work as a whole and of the counterexamples yielded by a responsible reading of his books. More positively, he presented Nietzsche's ideas about power as one of the great accomplishments of modern philosophy, arguing that his conception of the "will to power" was not a crude apology for ruthless self-assertion but must be linked to Nietzsche's equally profound ideas about sublimation. He also presented Nietzsche as a pioneer of modern psychology and argued that a key to understanding his overall philosophy is to see it as a reaction against Christianity.
Many scholars in the past half century have taken issue with some of Kaufmann's interpretations, but the book ranks as one of the most influential accounts ever written of any major Western thinker.
The End of Sparta
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 484
Velikost: 796 kB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-60819-368-4 Cena: 10.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.07.2014, 23:59
| Anotace: In this sweeping and deeply imagined historical novel, acclaimed classicist Victor Davis Hanson re-creates the battles of one of the greatest generals of ancient Greece, Epaminondas. At the Battle of Leuktra, his Thebans crushed the fearsome army of Sparta that had enslaved its neighbors for two centuries.
We follow these epic historical events through the eyes of Mêlon, a farmer who has left his fields to serve with Epaminondas-swept up, against his better judgment, in the fever to spread democracy even as he yearns to return to his pastoral hillside.
With a scholar's depth of knowledge and a novelist's vivid imagination, Hanson re-creates the ancient world down to its intimate details-from the weight of a spear in a soldier's hand to the peculiar camaraderie of a slave and master who go into battle side by side. The End of Sparta is a stirring drama and a rich, absorbing reading experience.
The Name of the Rose
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 413
Velikost: 577 kB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: angličtina
Cena: 13.19 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.07.2014, 23:56
| Anotace: The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon—all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where “the most interesting things happen at night."
After the Last Man
Excurses to the Limits of the Technological System     |
Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 141
Velikost: 1,04 MB
Knižní žánr: sociologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-7391-3017-9 Cena: 45.83 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.07.2014, 23:50
| Anotace: In this unique, enlightening monograph, Toivo Koivukoski explores the circumstances that have led modern society to use the concept of progress as a surrogate cosmology that gives individuals a sense of place and purpose. By linking various historical paradigms from German Idealist philosophy to contemporary philosophies of technology, this work of political theory describes an alternative, immanent pattern of development that is, in a sense, driven by its own unintended consequences. The meditations outlined within this book map out the hypertext pathways of our global system, making its constitutive relations and underlying thought processes transparent.
Koivukoski mirrors the new hyper-realities of electronic communications technologies by structuring the text in compact subchapters that are linked through an index of subjects that allows readers to "find their own philosophy" by jumping to areas of interest. If, as he argues, history understood in a linear, lockstep fashion is over, then the ways of developing concepts should change respectively so that the sorts of retrievals, anticipations, loops, and leaps that characterize nonlinear, networked thinking are consciously realized in an identity of form and substance.
Robert B. Strassler
The Landmark Thucydides
A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 844
Velikost: 6,55 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-439-10659-4 Cena: 28.47 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.07.2014, 23:45
| Anotace: Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, The Peloponnesian War is a mine of military, moral, political, and philosophical wisdom.
However, this classic book has long presented obstacles to the uninitiated reader. Robert Strassler's new edition removes these obstacles by providing a new coherence to the narrative overall, and by effectively reconstructing the lost cultural context that Thucydides shared with his original audience. Based on the venerable Richard Crawley translation, updated and revised for modern readers. The Landmark Thucydides includes a vast array of superbly designed and presented maps, brief informative appendices by outstanding classical scholars on subjects of special relevance to the text, explanatory marginal notes on each page, an index of unprecedented subtlety, and numerous other useful features.
In any list of the Great Books of Western Civilization, The Peloponnesian War stands near the top. This authoritative new edition will ensure that its greatness is appreciated by future generations.
Thomas Stanley
Pythagoras, His Life and Teachings
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 446
Velikost: 2,42 MB
Knižní žánr: biografie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-89254-160-7 Cena: 16.19 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.07.2014, 23:41
| Anotace: The timeless brilliance of this exhaustive survey of the best classical writers of antiquity on Pythagoras was first published in 1687 in Thomas Stanley's massive tome, The History of Philosophy. It remains as contemporary today as it was over three hundred years ago. The text of the 1687 book has been reset and modernized to make it more accessible to the modern reader. Spelling has been regularized, obsolete words not found in a modern dictionary have been replaced, and contemporary conventions of punctuation have been used. Biographical sketches of Thomas Stanley and Pythagoras by Manly Palmer Hall, founder of the Philosophical Research Society, have been included, along with a profound overview of Pythagorean philosophy by Platonic scholar Dr. Henry L. Drake. The extensive Greek language references throughout the text have been corrected and contextualized, and reset in a modern Greek font. Each quotation has been verified with the source document in Greek. An extensive annotated appendix of these classical sources is included. A complete bibliography details all the reference works utilized, and a small Glossary defines a number of terms, especially those from musical theory, which may be unfamiliar to the non-technical reader.
Imperalism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 131
Velikost: 2,11 MB
Knižní žánr: politologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-14-194640-5 Cena: 1.31 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.07.2014, 23:35
| Anotace: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), by Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperial colonialism, as the final stage of capitalist development to ensure greater profits. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin’s modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in Das Kapital (1867).
Locke
Stáhnout e-knihu     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 151
Velikost: 279 kB
Knižní žánr: biografie
Jazyk: angličtina
Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.07.2014, 23:26
| Anotace: This biography of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1880. Its author, Thomas Fowler (1832-1904) held the posts of Wykeham Professor of Logic, President of Corpus Christi College, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University; the editor of the series, John Morley, had been his pupil. The influence of Locke is pervasive in many fields - theology, education, psychology, economics and political theory as well as philosophy - and Fowler analyses the effect of his writings in five chapters (one dedicated to the Essay Concerning Human Understanding) as well as giving a chronological account of Locke's life from his obscure beginnings through his time at Oxford, his role in the household of the earl of Shaftesbury, and his two periods of travel in Europe, to a position at the heart of political and intellectual life in Restoration England.
Afghanistan
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 390
Velikost: 1,01 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-691-14568-6 Cena: 13.97 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.07.2014, 23:05
| Anotace: Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He shows how governing these peoples was relatively easy when power was concentrated in a small dynastic elite, but how this delicate political order broke down in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when Afghanistan's rulers mobilized rural militias to expel first the British and later the Soviets. Armed insurgency proved remarkably successful against the foreign occupiers, but it also undermined the Afghan government's authority and rendered the country ever more difficult to govern as time passed. Barfield vividly describes how Afghanistan's armed factions plunged the country into a civil war, giving rise to clerical rule by the Taliban and Afghanistan's isolation from the world. He examines why the American invasion in the wake of September 11 toppled the Taliban so quickly, and how this easy victory lulled the United States into falsely believing that a viable state could be built just as easily.
Afghanistan is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how a land conquered and ruled by foreign dynasties for more than a thousand years became the "graveyard of empires" for the British and Soviets, and what the United States must do to avoid a similar fate.
Thomas Barfield is professor of anthropology at Boston University. His books include The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757; The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan; and Afghanistan: An Atlas of Indigenous Domestic Architecture.
The Crusades
The Authoritative History of the War fo the Holy Land     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 698
Velikost: 1,32 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
Cena: 15.66 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.07.2014, 00:17
| Anotace: The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge’s book is a magnificent epic of Holy War between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeur.
The Culture Industry
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Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 219
Velikost: 1,09 MB
Knižní žánr: filozofie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 0–415–25380–2 Cena: 19.14 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.07.2014, 00:01
| Anotace: The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardized all art. In turn this suffocated individuality and destroyed critical thinking. At the time, Adorno was accused of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria by his many detractors. In today's world, where even the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media, Adorno's work takes on a more immediate significance. The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture.
The Beginnings of Rome
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 641
Velikost: 8,32 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978–0–415–01596–7 Cena: 32.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 16.07.2014, 23:59
| Anotace: Using the results of archaeological techniques, and examining methodological debates, Tim Cornell provides a lucid and authoritative account of the rise of Rome.
The Beginnings of Rome offers insight on major issues such as:
Rome’s relations with the Etruscans
the conflict between patricians and plebeians
the causes of Roman imperialism
the growth of slave-based economy.
Answering the need for raising acute questions and providing an analysis of the many different kinds of archaeological evidence with literary sources, this is the most comprehensive study of the subject available, and is essential reading for students of Roman history.
Steven Rosen
Essential Hinduism
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Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 293
Velikost: 3,01 MB
Knižní žánr: religionistika
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 0–275–99006–0 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 16.07.2014, 23:53
| Anotace: With its complex nature and many forms and practices, Hinduism is one of the world's most elusive religions for outsiders to understand. In Essential Hinduism, expert Steven Rosen aims to make the facets of this faith clear. Essential Hinduism explores this rich tradition through its history, literature, arts, and people.This straightforward overview focuses primarily on monotheistic Vaishnavism, the most common form of Hinduism. Beginning with chapters about the foundations of Hinduism, Steven Rosen clearly lays out the religion's otherwise complicated history. Providing Hindu terms alongside English translations, he illuminates the basics of the faith for readers unacquainted with its varieties and tenets and examines commonly held misconceptions. Chapters about practices, including festivals, teachings, chanting, eating habits, and more, bring Hinduism to life in vivid detail.
The Origins of the British
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 490
Velikost: 3,74 MB
Knižní žánr: antropologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 1 84119 894 3 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 16.07.2014, 23:50
| Anotace: Stephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool. Two thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans arriving long before the first farmers. The bulk of the remaining third arrived between 7,000 and 3,000 years ago as part of long-term north-west European trade and immigration, especially from Scandinavia - and may have brought with them the earliest forms of English language. As for the Celts - the Irish, Scots and Welsh - history has traditionally placed their origins in Iron Age Central Europe. Oppenheimer's genetic synthesis shows them to have arrived via the Atlantic coastal route from Ice Age refuges including the Basque country; with the modern languages we call Celtic arriving later. There is indeed a deep divide between the English and the rest of the British. But as this book reveals the division is many thousands of years older than previously thought.
D-Day
June 6, 1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 715
Velikost: 8,62 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-4391-2630-1 Cena: 6.99 GPB Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 16.07.2014, 23:44
| Anotace: Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history.
D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy”—that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be.
The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant.
Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account of one of our history’s most important days.
1000 Years of Annoying the French
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 505
Velikost: 4,63 MB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: angličtina
Cena: 12.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 16.07.2014, 23:39
| Anotace: Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? Non! It was invented in Yorkshire. Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066 ...
Ginny Crisonino, Steven Slavin
Math Basics Made Easy
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 121
Velikost: 5,01 MB
Knižní žánr: logika a matematika
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-9846381-0-9 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 16.07.2014, 00:17
| Anotace: There’s an unspoken weak spot in our society … most adults can’t do basic math. A recent U.S. Department of Education study found that American adults are largely unable to calculate tips, understand their mortgage payments, or even figure out their weekly salary when told their hourly wage. Though we live in a world where numbers, percentages and statistics are tossed at us daily — a world that expects us to make sense of these figures — 87% of American adults are deemed “non-proficient” at math, according to a recent Education Department study. But there is hope. As the scope of this problem has become more publicized, community colleges have moved in to help, offering courses to help adults gain math proficiency. And programs and books have been created to address the issue, too. Still, most adults need to start their math journey is back at the beginning, and few resources have been developed to address the earliest math skills.
Singing Turtle Press, publisher of the award-winning Algebra Survival Guide, is coming to the rescue, though, with a new book that helps adults master foundational math concepts. Math Basics Made Easy, a new offering in eBook format, teaches adults the four fundamental math operations: adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.
“These four skill areas are the foundation stones of mathematics,” says co-author Steve Slavin. “Because most Americans have never mastered these skills, they haven’t gotten very far in math. And that has closed the door to many high-paying careers.”
Slavin should know about these problems. He has devoted his life to teaching math, and to writing books to help people grasp math. Slavin believes that no matter how far behind a person may be in math, “it’s never too late to learn math, even if one must go back to the very first grade.”
Math Basics Made Easy presents early math concepts in a format that works for adults. The book offers brief, easily understood lessons with worked-out sample problems, followed by a collection of practice problems for the reader. Answers are provided to all practice problems, so readers get instant feedback on how well they are progressing.
Within each of the four content areas — adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing — concepts are taught sequentially, easiest concepts first, most challenging topics last. The book is heavy on practice because Slavin believes that we “learn math by doing math.”
The benefit, though, is that anyone who works his way through this book will learn the basics of math and thereby put himself in a position to move on to more challenging topics. In today’s challenging economic times, Math Basics Made Easy offers a gateway to better opportunities for today’s job-seeker. Slavin’s co-author, Ginny Crisonino, also teaches math daily, serving as Mathematics Chair at Union County College, Cranford, NJ.
The book also gives anyone who never fully understood math’s basics a chance to master them, for the book’s message is that it’s never too late to learn. A solid self-teaching guide, Math Basics Made Easy offers solid encouragement and competent instruction to anyone with the desire to master math’s basic skills.
Ancient Rome
The Rise and Fall of an Empire     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 341
Velikost: 665 kB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 9781409073888 Cena: 12.09 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 16.07.2014, 00:03
| Anotace: This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid.
At the heart of this gripping popular history are the dynamic, complex but flawed characters of Rome's most powerful rulers: men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine.
The superb narrative, full of energy and imagination, is a brilliant distillation of the latest scholarship and a wonderfully evocative account of Ancient Rome.
Michel Foucault
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 144
Velikost: 175 kB
Knižní žánr: biografie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 0-203-38043-6 Cena: 16.19 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 16.07.2014, 00:00
| Anotace: It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon disciplinary fields from literary studies to anthropology. Aimed at students approaching Foucault's texts for the first time, this volume offers:
* an examination of Foucault's contexts
* a guide to his key ideas
* an overview of responses to his work
* practical hints on 'using Foucault'
* an annotated guide to his most influential works
* suggestions for further reading.
Challenging not just what we think but how we think, Foucault's work remains the subject of heated debate. Sara Mills' Michel Foucault offers an introduction to both the ideas and the debate, fully equipping student readers for an encounter with this most influential of thinkers.
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