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Philip Matyszak
Ancient Magic
A Practitioner's Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 147
Velikost: 46,82 MB
Knižní žánr: mytologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-500-77460-1
Cena: 11.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 26.11.2024, 15:41

Anotace:

An accessible historical exploration of the methods and motivations behind using magic in ancient Greece and Rome.

In the ancient world, magic was everywhere. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies. In a time before scientists studied weather patterns and figured out what caused the Earth’s most mysterious phenomena, it was magic that packed a cloud full of energy until it exploded with thunderbolts. It was everyday magic, but it was still magical.

In Ancient Magic, author Philip Matyszak ushers readers into that world, showing how ancient Greeks and Romans concocted love potions and cast curses, how they talked to the dead and protected themselves from evil spirits. He takes readers to a world where gods interacted with humans and where people could not only talk to spirits and deities, but could themselves become divine.

Ancient Magic presents us with a new understanding of the role of magic, combining a classical historiography with a practical how-to guide. Using a wide array of sources and lavish illustrations, this book offers an engaging and accessible way into the supernatural for all.





Diana Preston
The Evolution of Charles Darwin
The Epic Voyage of the Beagle that Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 522
Velikost: 31,52 MB
Knižní žánr: biografie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-8021-6019-5
Cena: 14.15 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 26.11.2024, 15:18

Anotace:

From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin’s journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man

When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles—invited by ship’s captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship’s naturalist—he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often hard and hazardous conditions, Darwin would make observations and gather samples that would form the basis of his revolutionary theories about the origin of species and natural selection.

Drawing on a rich range of revealing letters, diary entries, recollections of those who encountered him, and Darwin’s and FitzRoy’s own accounts of what transpired, Diana Preston chronicles the epic voyage as it unfolded, tracing Darwin’s growth from untested young man to accomplished adventurer and natural scientist in his own right. Darwin often left the ship to climb mountains, navigate rivers, or ride hundreds of miles, accompanied by local guides whose languages he barely understood, across pampas and through rainforests in search of further unique specimens. From the wilds of Patagonia to the Galápagos and other Atlantic and Pacific islands, as Preston vibrantly relates, Darwin collected and contrasted volcanic rocks and fossils large and small, witnessed an earthquake, and encountered the Argentinian rhea, Falklands fox, and Galápagos finch, through which he began to discern connections between deep past and present.

Darwin never left Britain again after his return in 1836, though his mind journeyed far and wide to develop the theories that were first revealed, after great delay and with trepidation about their reception, in 1859 with the publication of his epochal book On the Origin of Species. Offering a unique portrait of one of history’s most consequential figures, The Evolution of Charles Darwin is a vital contribution to our understanding of life on Earth.





Sophie Jackson
British Interrogation Techniques in the Second World War

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 180
Velikost: 643 kB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978 0 7524 7827 2
Cena: 11.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 26.11.2024, 14:50

Anotace:

The British system of interrogation has always been distinctly different from other countries. Subtler, quieter and far more devious than its contemporaries, it has been admired by those who have inadvertently succumbed to it. So much so that the Nazis adopted some of the British methods in their own intelligence operations. During World War II, the system became highly developed and vast numbers of people were employed in the collating and recovery of information. Vital data about military advances such as the Enigma machine and the Tiger Tank were wrung from prisoners not by force but by trickery and deceit. The eccentric, quirky, but also very successful, wartime interrogation methods of the British are revealed in this book, including their triumphant discoveries and also their occasional disastrous mistakes.





Lydia Evelyn, Bruce Hopkins
Beginning ChatGPT for Python
Build Intelligent Applications with OpenAI API

    Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 202
Velikost: 8,33 MB
Knižní žánr: počítačová literatura
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 979-8-8688-0929-3
Cena: 59.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 26.11.2024, 14:22

Anotace:

Unlock the future of software development and empower yourself to elevate your Python applications by harnessing the power of AI as this field continues to grow and evolve. Perfect for beginner to intermediate Python programmers, this book breaks down the essentials of using ChatGPT and OpenAI APIs.

You'll start with the basics, learning to authenticate, send prompts, generate responses, test in the Playground, and handle errors with ease. Each chapter includes hands-on exercises that bring concepts to life, demonstrating different API functionalities and practical applications. You'll master models like GPT-4o, GPT-4, GPT-3.5, Whisper, and DALL-E, enabling you to enhance your applications with cutting-edge AI.

Discover how generative AI tools like ChatGPT can automate tedious tasks rather than replace jobs. Leverage ChatGPT’s powerful Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to handle various formats of unstructured text within your Python apps. Quickly see how easy it is to use ChatGPT as your AI-pair programmer, boosting your productivity and speed.

This step-by-step guide will have you creating intelligent chatbots that can automatically process messages from Slack or Discord. With Beginning ChatGPT for Python, you'll master the ChatGPT and OpenAI APIs, building intelligent applications that offer a personalized and engaging user experience.

What You’ll Learn

  • Connect with the ChatGPT and OpenAI APIs and send effective prompts.
  • Harness parameters like temperature and top_p to create unique and engaging responses from ChatGPT.
  • Create an intelligent assistant bot for Slack that automates tasks and enhances productivity.
  • Develop a bot that can moderate conversations and manage communities on Discord.
  • Add context to your prompts to get more accurate and relevant responses.




Robert Johnson
Python for AI
Applying Machine Learning in Everyday Projects

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 410
Velikost: 1,5 MB
Knižní žánr: technická literatura
Jazyk: angličtina
Cena: 9.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 26.11.2024, 01:51

Anotace:

"Python for AI: Applying Machine Learning in Everyday Projects" is a comprehensive guide designed for anyone keen to delve into the transformative world of artificial intelligence using the potent yet accessible Python programming language. This book meticulously covers essential AI concepts, offering readers a structured path from understanding basic Python syntax to implementing sophisticated machine learning models. With a blend of foundational theories and practical applications, each chapter deftly guides readers through relevant techniques and tools, such as TensorFlow, Keras, and scikit-learn, that are crucial for modern AI development.

Whether you are a beginner taking your first steps into AI or someone with programming experience seeking to expand your skill set, this book ensures you are equipped with the knowledge needed to tackle real-world challenges. It goes beyond mere theory, providing insights into deploying and integrating AI models, handling large datasets, and effectively developing solutions applicable across various industries. By the end of this journey, readers will not only grasp the intricacies of AI projects but also gain the confidence to innovate and contribute significantly to the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence.





Roger W. Shuy
Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception

    Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 217
Velikost: 19,1 MB
Knižní žánr: forenzní disciplíny
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 0-7619-1346-7
Cena: 104.00 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 26.11.2024, 01:38

Anotace:

From a linguistic perspective, this book is a practical explanation of how confessions work. Roger Shuy, author of the 1993 benchmark work, Language Crimes, examines criminal confessions, the interrogations that elicit confessions, and the deceptive language that plays a role in the actual confession. He presents transcripts from numerous interrogations and analyzes how language is used, how constitutional rights are not protected, and discusses consistency, truthfulness, suggestibility, and written and unvalidated confessions. He also provides specific advice about how to conduct interrogations that will yield credible evidence.





Český snář

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 508
Velikost: 5,09 MB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-7108-323-8
Cena: 297.00 CZK
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 20.11.2024, 02:12

Anotace:

Román-deník Český snář zachytil autorovy osudy občana–disidenta od ledna roku 1979 do února 1980. Poprvé vyšel v Edici Petlice roku 1981. V roce 2002 napsal Ludvík Vaculík na záložku pátého vydání (v Atlantisu třetího): „Od doby, kdy tato kniha vyšla v Atlantisu, jsem ji poprvé přečetl: teď při korektuře. (...) V tomto vydání jsem nezměnil nic, jenom ve shodě se skutečností jedno D proměnil v B a jméno Ella nahradil jménem Daňa, protože ona žena byla tehdy dotčena, že jsem ji z ohledů přejmenoval. (...) A aby tu i starý čtenář našel něco nového, vyměnil jsem některé fotografie.“





Malcom Barber
The Crusader States

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 631
Velikost: 2,37 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-300-11312-9
Cena: 9.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 20.11.2024, 02:09

Anotace:

When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's plan: to reestablish Christian control of Syria and Palestine. This book is devoted to the resulting settlements, the crusader states, that developed around the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and survived until Richard the Lionheart's departure in 1192. Focusing on Jerusalem, Antioch, Tripoli, and Edessa, Malcolm Barber vividly reconstructs the crusaders' arduous process of establishing and protecting their settlements, and the simultaneous struggle of vanquished inhabitants to adapt to life alongside their conquerors.

Rich with colorful accounts of major military campaigns, the book goes much deeper, exploring in detail the culture of the crusader states—the complex indigenous inheritance; the architecture; the political, legal, and economic institutions; the ecclesiastical framework through which the crusaders perceived the world; the origins of the Knights Templar and the Hospitallers; and more. With the zest of a scholar pursuing a lifelong interest, Barber presents a complete narrative and cultural history of the crusader states while setting a new standard for the term "total history."





The 1929 Sino-Soviet War
The War Nobody Knew

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 648
Velikost: 2,45 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 9780700623761
Cena: 30.87 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 20.11.2024, 02:02

Anotace:

The New York Military Affairs Symposium winner of the 2017 Arthur Goodzeit Award For seven weeks in 1929, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union battled in Manchuria over control of the Chinese Eastern Railroad. It was the largest military clash between China and a Western power ever fought on Chinese soil, involving more that a quarter million combatants. Michael M. Walker's The 1929 Sino-Soviet War is the first full account of what UPI's Moscow correspondent called "the war nobody knew"--a "limited modern war" that destabilized the region's balance of power, altered East Asian history, and sent grim reverberations through a global community giving lip service to demilitarizing in the wake of World War I.

Walker locates the roots of the conflict in miscalculations by Chiang Kai-shek and Chang Hsueh-liang about the Soviets' political and military power--flawed assessments that prompted China's attempt to reassert full authority over the CER. The Soviets, on the other hand, were dominated by a Stalin eager to flex some military muscle and thoroughly convinced that war would win much more than petty negotiations. This was in fact, Walker shows, a watershed moment for Stalin, his regime, and his still young and untested military, disproving the assumption that the Red Army was incapable of fighting a modern war. By contrast, the outcome revealed how unprepared the Chinese military forces were to fight either the Red Army or the Imperial Japanese Army, their other primary regional competitor. And yet, while the Chinese commanders proved weak, Walker sees in the toughness of the overmatched infantry a hint of the rising nationalism that would transform China's troops from a mercenary army into a formidable professional force, with powerful implications for an overconfident Japanese Imperial Army in 1937.

Using Russian, Chinese, and Japanese sources, as well as declassified US military reports, Walker deftly details the war from its onset through major military operations to its aftermath, giving the first clear and complete account of a little known but profoundly consequential clash of great powers between the World Wars.





Rupert Colley
The Afghan Wars

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 69
Velikost: 4,24 MB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-00-745120-3
Cena: 1.49 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 20.11.2024, 01:59

Anotace:

Britain has invaded Afghanistan twice before in the nineteenth century. Both times tenacious Afghan fighters defended their country to humiliating British defeats. The Soviet Union also discovered what a tough enemy the Afghans are after nearly a decade of conflict from 1979 to 1989. When not fighting foreign invaders, Afghanistan was torn apart by Civil War from 1990 to 1996, resulting in victory for the Taliban.

The Afghan Wars in an Hour is an excellent way to learn all about the complex wars that have been fought in Afghanistan for almost four decades. It explains who the Taliban and the Mujahedeen are, how their politics work, why Osama Bin Laden was so significant, and why it is so hard to achieve peace Afghanistan, all in just one hour.





Homer and His Iliad

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 521
Velikost: 30,82 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 9781541600454
Cena: 19.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 20.11.2024, 01:53

Anotace:

The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem—heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? 

Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition—subjects of ongoing controversy—combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader’s sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem; its values, implicit and explicit; its characters; its women; its gods; and even its horses. 

Thousands of readers turn to the Iliad every year. Drawing on fifty years of reading and research, Lane Fox offers us a breathtaking tour of this magnificent text, revealing why the poem has endured for ages. 





kolektiv
Rome at War

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 103
Velikost: 73,83 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-4728-3145-3
Cena: 10.50 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 20.11.2024, 01:46

Anotace:

The Roman Empire was the greatest the world has ever seen, and its legendary military might was the foundation of this success.

This compact volume tells the fascinating story of the major conflicts that shaped the empire, from Julius Caesar's bloody Gallic Wars and the Civil War against Pompey that left the victorious Caesar the Dictator of Rome, through the wars of expansion to its decline and fragmentation. Beautiful full-color artwork of the soldiers and battles bring the Roman world to life, along with images and color maps.





Faisal Islam
Kotlin from Scratch
A Project-Based Introduction for the Intrepid Programmer

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 359
Velikost: 12,15 MB
Knižní žánr: počítačová literatura
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-7185-0353-3
Cena: 41.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 20.11.2024, 01:44

Anotace:

Kotlin isn’t just for building Android apps. As you’ll learn in Kotlin from Scratch, it’s also a general programming language for crafting both elegant and efficient code.

With the aid of 37 hands-on projects, you’ll move quickly through the language basics while building your problem-solving skills, even tackling advanced concepts like fractals, dynamic systems, and nature-inspired algorithms. You’ll explore the way Kotlin handles variables, control structures, functions, classes, and data structures, and you’ll learn to create visualizations using Kotlin and the JavaFX graphics library. Then you’ll build increasingly sophisticated apps to practice what you’ve learned while tackling challenges from math and science to algorithms and optimization.

As you progress through the book, you will:

Simulate physical systems, like the intricate dance of binary stars
Implement the classic Hill cipher for encryption and decryption 
Generate beautiful fractals with recursive algorithms 
Program classic computer science algorithms for sorting and searching
Solve the infamous Berlin52 traveling salesman problem 

Expand your language repertoire and improve your computational thinking with Kotlin from Scratch.





David Procházka
PHP 6
začínáme programovat

    Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 193
Velikost: 5,78 MB
Knižní žánr: počítačová literatura
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-247-7578-4
Cena: 176.00 CZK
Přečteno: ANO (04.12.2024)
Vloženo: 20.11.2024, 01:36

Anotace:

Chcete-li se naučit vytvářet profesionální dynamické webové stránky, pak držíte v ruce tu správnou knihu – upravené vydání úspěšné učebnice programovacího jazyka PHP, rozšířené o novinky verze 6. U čtenáře se samozřejmě nepředpokládá žádná předchozí znalost PHP, vhodná je ovšem orientace v hypertextovém prostředí a znalost jazyka HTML. V první části knihy se velmi podrobně seznámíte se základy PHP, naučíte se pracovat s proměnnými, výrazy, datovými typy, funkcemi a dalšími prvky jazyka. Samostatná kapitola je věnována práci s třídami a objekty, jež byla v PHP 6 podstatně rozšířena. Poté vás čeká vytváření vlastních funkcí, jejich používání a řízení programu pomocí podmínek, cyklů a dalších konstrukcí. Na těchto základech staví další kapitoly, zabývající se konkrétními problémy a aplikacemi, které jsou v PHP nejčastěji řešeny. Velmi podrobně je zpracována obsluha formulářů a interakce s databázemi.





John B. Freed
Frederick Barbarossa
The Prince and the Myth

    Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 727
Velikost: 34,12 MB
Knižní žánr: biografie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 9780300122763
Cena: 33.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 15.11.2024, 10:15

Anotace:

A rich portrait of Frederick Barbarossa, the medieval monarch who ruled Germany in cooperation with the princes and whose legend inspired Hitler to label his invasion of the Soviet Union “Operation Barbarossa”

“Freed has done so much to illuminate the ins and out of German politics in the late tweflth century, ensuring that his book will be a constant point of reference for scholars.”—David Abulafia, History Today

Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany’s most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d’état in 1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he legalized the dualism between the crown and the princes that endured until the end of the Holy Roman Empire.
 
This new biography, the first in English in four decades, paints a rich picture of a consummate diplomat and effective warrior. John Freed mines Barbarossa’s recently published charters and other sources to illuminate the monarch’s remarkable ability to rule an empire that stretched from the Baltic to Rome, and from France to Poland. Offering a fresh assessment of the role of Barbarossa’s extensive familial network in his success, the author also considers the impact of Frederick’s death in the Third Crusade as the key to his lasting heroic reputation. In an intriguing epilogue, Freed explains how Hitler’s audacious attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 came to be called “Operation Barbarossa.”





Frederick the Great
King of Prussia

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 810
Velikost: 2,66 MB
Knižní žánr: biografie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 9780812988734
Cena: 11.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 15.11.2024, 10:01

Anotace:

The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of Europe and changed the course of history

Few figures loom as large in European history as Frederick the Great. When he inherited the Prussian crown in 1740, he ruled over a kingdom of scattered territories, a minor Germanic backwater. By the end of his reign, the much larger and consolidated Prussia ranked among the continent’s great powers. In this magisterial biography, award-winning historian Tim Blanning gives us an intimate, in-depth portrait of a king who dominated the political, military, and cultural life of Europe half a century before Napoleon.

A brilliant, ambitious, sometimes ruthless monarch, Frederick was a man of immense contradictions. This consummate conqueror was also an ardent patron of the arts who attracted painters, architects, musicians, playwrights, and intellectuals to his court. Like his fellow autocrat Catherine the Great of Russia, Frederick was captivated by the ideals of the Enlightenment—for many years he kept up lively correspondence with Voltaire and other leading thinkers of the age. Yet, like Catherine, Frederick drew the line when it came to implementing Enlightenment principles that might curtail his royal authority.

Frederick’s terrifying father instilled in him a stern military discipline that would make the future king one of the most fearsome battlefield commanders of his day, while deriding as effeminate his son’s passion for modern ideas and fine art. Frederick, driven to surpass his father’s legacy, challenged the dominant German-speaking powers, including Saxony, Bavaria, and the Habsburg Monarchy. It was an audacious foreign policy gambit, one at which Frederick, against the expectations of his rivals, succeeded.

In examining Frederick’s private life, Blanning also carefully considers the long-debated question of Frederick’s sexuality, finding evidence that Frederick lavished gifts on his male friends and maintained homosexual relationships throughout his life, while limiting contact with his estranged, unloved queen to visits that were few and far between.

The story of one man’s life and the complete political and cultural transformation of a nation, Tim Blanning’s sweeping biography takes readers inside the mind of the monarch, giving us a fresh understanding of Frederick the Great’s remarkable reign.





Nietzsche

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 115
Velikost: 990 kB
Knižní žánr: biografie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978–1–78227–637–1
Cena: 13.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 15.11.2024, 09:31

Anotace:

A scintillating biographical study of the one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth.

In this vivid biography, Zweig eschews traditional academic discussion and focuses on Nietzsche's habits, passions and obsessions. This work, concentrating on the man rather than the work, on the tragedy of his existence and his apartness from the world in which he moved in enforced isolation, is a tour de force, drawing the reader inexorably into Nietzsche's tragic trajectory.

Illustrated with numerous photographs relating to Nietzsche and his European locations, this superb translation by Will Stone is essential reading for anyone interested in Nietzsche, Zweig, first-class biographies and philosophy.





Jaroslav Šedivý
Tajemství a hříchy rytířů templářského řádu

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 191
Velikost: 4,13 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-7511-683-3
Cena: 199.00 CZK
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 09.11.2024, 18:14

Anotace:

Druhé, rozšířené vydání oblíbené knihy. Vojenské síly Křižáckých států nestačily ani k ochraně poutníků, ani k dalším výbojům. Myšlenka zřízení stálé milice, stálého vojska nedala na sebe čekat. A protože se křižácké státy zrodily z vojenské akce římskokatolické církve, protože si nové kraje podrobovali evropští rytíři na výzvu a s božím požehnáním papeže a ve znamení kříže, i tato nová milice, nejprve v Jeruzalémském království a pak v dalších třech křižáckých státech, dostala podobu, jež tomu odpovídala – zrodil se duchovní vojenský rytířský řád: řád templářů.





Netvoři a kritikové
a jiné eseje

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 317
Velikost: 1,79 MB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-257-4543-4
Cena: 298.00 CZK
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 09.11.2024, 18:05

Anotace:

Soubor Tolkienových esejů Netvoři a kritikové nabízí jedinečnou příležitost poznat autora Hobita a Pána prstenů z méně známé stránky: jako učence zabývajícího se starou anglickou literaturou a jazykem; a pochopit, jak ho jeho bádání dovedlo k sepsání úchvatné ságy o Středozemi. Většina těchto textů byla původně přednáškami, nejde tedy o suché vědecké rozklady, ale pojednání přístupné všem pozorným čtenářům. Hned dva texty v knize se zabývají staroanglickým Béowulfem, další pak rytířskou básní Pan Gawain a Zelený rytíř. Nejrozsáhlejším a nejznámějším textem knihy je esej O pohádkách, z nějž se čtenář dozví mnohé o Tolkienových názorech na povahu fantastického žánru. K Tolkienově beletristické tvorbě se váže i esej Skrytá neřest, pojednávající o zálibě ve vytváření fiktivních jazyků.





Plato of Athens
A Life In Philosophy

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 271
Velikost: 9,38 MB
Knižní žánr: biografie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 9780197564776
Cena: 14.12 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 09.11.2024, 17:55

Anotace:

The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy

Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. In his teens, he honed his intellect by attending lectures from the many thinkers who passed through Athens and toyed with the idea of writing poetry. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. Instead, Plato turned to writing and teaching. He began teaching in his twenties and later founded the Academy, the world's first higher-educational research and teaching establishment. Eventually, he returned to practical politics and spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to create a constitution for Syracuse in Sicily that would reflect and perpetuate some of his political ideals. The attempts failed, and Plato's disappointment can be traced in some of his later political works.

In his lifetime and after, Plato was considered almost divine. Though a measure of his importance, this led to the invention of many tall tales about him-both by those who adored him and his detractors. In this first ever full-length portrait of Plato, Robin Waterfield steers a judicious course among these stories, debunking some while accepting the kernels of truth in others. He explains why Plato chose to write dialogues rather than treatises and gives an overview of the subject matter of all of Plato's books. Clearly and engagingly written throughout, Plato of Athens is the perfect introduction to the man and his work.





Vivek Singh
The History of Trade
From Barter to Blockchain

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 44
Velikost: 1,53 MB
Knižní žánr: ekonomie
Jazyk: angličtina
Cena: 6.00 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 09.11.2024, 17:50

Anotace:

This book is essential for understanding the complex interplay between historical trade practices and modern economic systems.





The Medieval Knight

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 100
Velikost: 67,58 MB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-4728-4358-6
Cena: 8.40 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 09.11.2024, 17:35

Anotace:

This attractively packaged gift book offers a comprehensive overview of the development of the fearsome medieval English knight from the 12th to the 15th century.

The “knight in shining armor” has become a staple figure in popular culture and the images of bloody battlefields, bustling feasting halls, and courtly tournaments have been creatively interpreted many times in film and fiction. But what was the medieval knight truly like?

In this fascinating title, former Senior Curator at the Royal Armories Christopher Gravett describes how knights evolved over three centuries of English and European history, the wars they fought, their lives both in peacetime and on campaign, the weapons they fought with, the armor and clothing they wore, and their fascinating code and mythology of chivalry. The text is richly illustrated with images ranging from manuscript illustrations to modern artwork reconstructions and many photographs of historic artifacts and sites.





Philip Matyszak
Invasion!
Rome Against the Cimbri 113-101 BC

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 164
Velikost: 955 kB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978 1 39909 732 1
Cena: 2.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 09.11.2024, 17:21

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Partly as a result of poor commanders and partly because the Romans had an innate and misguided belief in the invincibility of their legions, the first battles against the Cimbri were a series of disasters. These culminated in the Battle of Arausio in 105 BC when two Roman armies were utterly destroyed.

Rome finally realized that their republic faced an existential threat, and made the necessary painful political and military changes that were needed to face that threat. Rome also found a commander who could take on the Cimbri. Caius Marius was a deeply flawed man – scheming, cautious to the point of cowardice, and quick to claim credit for the achievements of others. Nevertheless, he was a massive improvement on the leaders who had preceded him.

The reshaped Roman army eventually worked out how to weather the savage onrush of the initial barbarian assault. Thereafter, the grim discipline of the legions was enough to wear down the opposition. It helped that Marius never fought unless the situation favored him, and as a result his army gradually became accustomed to victory.

Had the Cimbri overwhelmed Rome, as at one time it seemed inevitable that they would, then European history would have been very different.





Ian Baxter
The Crushing of Poland
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 66
Velikost: 33,3 MB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 9781783038916
Cena: 17.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 09.11.2024, 17:04

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Hitler’s decision to invade Poland in August 1939 triggered the start of the Second World War. It was also the first demonstration of Blitzkrieg tactics – the ruthless use of armor, mobile infantry and air support.

The brave Polish army, inadequately equipped and inferior in numbers, was overwhelmed by this awesome display of military power as well as being taken by surprise. Official German photographers accompanied the triumphant Nazi forces on their victorious advance which first seized the key part of Danzig and then Warsaw, all within one month. The Crushing of Poland captures the drama and raw aggression of the Campaign in photographs and full captions.





Michael Frassetto
The Early Medieval World
From the Fall of Rome to the Time of Charlemagne (Two Volumes)

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 815
Velikost: 5,28 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-59884-996-7
Cena: 126.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 09.11.2024, 16:50

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The Early Medieval World: From the Fall of Rome to the Time of Charlemagne addresses the social and material culture of this critical period in the evolution of Western society, covering the social, political, cultural, and religious history of the Mediterranean world and northern Europe.

The two-volume set explains how invading and migrating barbarian tribes―spurred by raiding Huns from the steppes of Central Asia―contributed to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and documents how the blending of Greco-Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultures birthed a new civilization in Western Europe, creating the Christian Church and the modern nation-state. A-Z entries discuss political transformation, changing religious practices in daily life, sculpture and the arts, material culture, and social structure, and provide biographies of important men and women in the transitional period of late antiquity. The work will be extremely helpful to students learning about the factors that contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire―an important and common topic in world history curricula.





Zrození státu
Prvotní civilizace Starého světa

    Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 333
Velikost: 7,84 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-246-2373-3
Cena: 168.00 CZK
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 21.10.2024, 00:17

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Kniha obsahuje přehled nejnovějších poznatků o vzniku a vývoji rané státnosti ve čtyřech ohniscích zrodu prvotního státu Starého světa – v Egyptě, Mezopotámii, Číně a Indii. Autor analyzuje historické procesy, které vedou k ustavení rovnováhy mezi odstředivými tendencemi jednotlivých specializovaných společenských skupin a integrující rolí společenského ústředí. Trvalost této s námahou udržované rovnováhy určuje prostupování a vzájemné působení celé řady hospodářských, politických, mocenských, společenských, etických i duchovních faktorů. Knihu doplňují citace ze starověkých textů a jiné ilustrační materiály.





Michal Reiman, kolektiv
Zrod velmoci
Dějiny Sovětského svazu 1917-1945

    Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 583
Velikost: 3,56 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-246-2304-7
Cena: 224.00 CZK
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 21.10.2024, 00:14

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Kolektiv historiků z Institutu mezinárodních studií Fakulty sociálních věd Univerzity Karlovy v Praze sleduje politické dějiny SSSR v kontextu porevolučních ekonomických a sociálních změn. Odlišně od tradiční historiografie pojímá příčiny a povahu ruské revoluce a sociálního vrstvení, které z ní vzešlo. Klade důraz na nesoulad vývoje průmyslu a zemědělství a na vliv mezinárodní izolace SSSR. Nově hodnotí role Lenina, Trockého, Rykova i Stalina. Věnuje se podrobně motivům a povaze Stalinova teroru a sleduje příčiny nezdarů SSSR v prvním období války i složitost jeho vztahů se spojenci. Vítězství ve válce podle autorů etablovalo SSSR jako velmoc, nedovršená průmyslová a civilizační revoluce a enormní válečné ztráty ji však proměnily v militarizovanou soustavu, neschopnou překonat své deficity.





David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
Conflict
The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

    Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 516
Velikost: 43,36 MB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-06-329315-1
Cena: 12.99 USD
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 21.10.2024, 00:02

Anotace:

Aspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.  

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past—and anticipate in the future—in order to navigate an increasingly perilous world.

In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan and former CIA director, and the prize-winning historian Andrew Roberts, explore over 70 years of conflict, drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past.Drawing on their different perspectives and areas of expertise, Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have been repeated time and again, and the challenge, for statesmen and generals alike, of learning to adapt to various new weapon systems, theories and strategies. Among the conflicts examined are the Arab-Israeli wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the two Gulf Wars, the Balkan wars in the former Yugoslavia, and both the Soviet and Coalition wars in Afghanistan, as well as guerilla conflicts in Africa and South America. Conflict culminates with a bracing look at Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine, yet another case study in the tragic results when leaders refuse to learn from history, and an assessment of the nature of future warfare. Filled with sharp insight and the wisdom of experience, Conflict is not only a critical assessment of our recent past, but also an essential primer of modern warfare that provides crucial knowledge for waging battle today as well as for understanding what the decades ahead will bring.





Utopie

    Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 157
Velikost: 1 MB
Knižní žánr: filozofie
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-246-5379-2
Cena: 128.00 CZK
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 20.10.2024, 23:57

Anotace:

Utopie anglického humanisty Thomase Mora, vydaná poprvé latinsky roku 1516, dala jméno celému žánru zamyšlení nad ideálním uspořádáním lidské společnosti. More navazuje na základní komunitární principy starokřesťanského učení, inspiruje se antickou literaturou, zprávami o zámořských objevech i texty svého přítele Erasma Rotterdamského. Nevyhýbá se ironii a vyprávění o zvycích obyvatel ostrova Utopie (z řeckého ú-topos, ne-místo) spolu s úvahami o možnostech regulace lidské pýchy či o reformě trestního práva vkládá do úst nepříliš důvěryhodného námořníka Rafaela Hythlodaia. Zvolený žánr platónského dialogu mu přitom umožňuje prezentovat společenské problémy z různých hledisek, aniž by přitom oslabil jejich palčivost.





Miroslav Hroch
Národy nejsou dílem náhody
Příčiny a předpoklady utváření moderních evropských národů

    Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 312
Velikost: 2,78 MB
Knižní žánr: politologie
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-246-5685-4
Cena: 200.00 CZK
Přečteno: NE
Vloženo: 20.10.2024, 23:54

Anotace:

Kniha je syntetickým výkladem národotvorných procesů v Evropě 19. století. Snaží se zachovat rovnováhu mezi využíváním empirických poznatků a výsledky teoretických analýz moderních společenských věd. Odmítá jednostranné spekulace o národu jako výsledku manipulace mas a zdůrazňuje, že utváření moderních národů je možno pochopit a vysvětlit pouze kombinací poznatků o vývoji etnických, politických i ekonomických vztahů od středověku s poznatky o národních aktivitách a snahách o národní mobilizaci obyvatelstva.
V prvé části podává autor kritický přehled dosavadního vývoje názorů a teoretických koncepcí národa a nacionalismu. Ve druhé se zabývá objektivními faktory, o které se národní identita opírala – jazykovou a kulturní tradicí, odkazem minulosti, občanskou a ekonomickou modernizací společnosti. Třetí část je věnována aktivitám ve jménu národa, jazykovým požadavkům, budování kultury, zpracování a instrumentalizaci dějin, zápasům o politickou moc a hospodářské pozice, kulturní a na emoce orientované agitaci.






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