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How It Explains the World
Anotace: From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness “No one writes about the great issues of our time with more rigor or erudition than Vaclav Smil.” — Elizabeth Kolbert To answer the most important questions of our age, we must understand size. Neither bacteria nor empires are immune to its laws. Measuring it is challenging, especially where complex systems like economies are concerned, yet mastering it offers rich rewards: the rise of the West, for example, was a direct result of ever more accurate and standardized measurements. Using the interdisciplinary approach that has won him a wide readership, Smil draws upon history, earth science, psychology, art, and more to offer fresh insight into some of our biggest challenges, including income inequality, the spread of infectious disease, and the uneven impacts of climate change. Size explains the regularities—and peculiarities—of the key processes shaping life (from microbes to whales), the Earth (from asteroids to volcanic eruptions), technical advances (from architecture to transportation), and societies and economies (from cities to wages). This book about the big and the small, and the relationship between them, answers the big and small questions of human existence: What makes a human society too big? What about a human being? The latest masterwork of “an ambitious and astonishing polymath who swings for fences” (Wired) Size is a mind-bending journey that turns the modern world on its head. Hledání ztraceného času I
Swann
Anotace: V prvním dílu románového cyklu, postihujícího vývoj francouzské společnosti od Dreyfusovy aféry až po první světovou válku a stojícího u základů psychologického románu 20. století, představuje autor hrdinu, zámožného Pařížana, člověka ušlechtilého, ale zároveň neúprosně logického a pravdivého. Na jeho příběhu podává studii milostného citu, žárlivosti, společenských vztahů a mravů. The Decameron
Anotace: 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and farce. Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Boccaccio makes the incredible believable, with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago. His Decameron hovers between the fading glories of an aristocratic past - the Crusades, the Angevins, the courts of France, the legendary East - and the colourful squalor of contemporary life, where wives deceive husbands, friars and monks pursue fleshly ends, and natural instincts fight for satisfaction. Here are love and jealousy, passion and pride - and a shrewd calculation of profit and loss which heralds the rise of a dynamic merchant class. These stories show us early capitalism during a moment of crisis and revelation. The Clouds
Anotace: “The Clouds“ (Gr: “Nephelai“) is a comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, originally produced at the Athens City Dionysia of 423 BCE. It is perhaps the world’s first extant “comedy of ideas” and lampoons intellectual fashions in classical Athens. In the play, Strepsiades, an elderly Athenian mired in debt, enrolls his son Pheidippides in Socrates’ philosophy school so that he might learn the rhetorical skills necessary to defeat their creditors in court, although all he really learns is cynical disrespect for social mores and contempt for authority, which leads to Strepsiades burning the school down in disgust. Kissinger 1923-1968
The Idealist
Anotace: From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, the definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers. The Birds and Other Plays
The Knights, Peace, The Birds, The Assembly Women, Wealth
Anotace: Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. The plays in this volume all contain Aristophanes' trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility. In The Birds, two cunning Athenians persuade the birds to build the utopian city of 'Much Cuckoo in the Clouds' in the sky, blockading the Olympian gods and installing themselves as new deities. The Knights is a venomous satire on Cleon, a prominent Athenian demagogue, who vies with a humble sausage-seller for the approval of the people; while The Assembly-Women deals with the battle of the sexes as the women of Athens infiltrate the all-male Assembly in disguise. The lengthy conflict with Sparta is the subject of Peace, inspired by the hope of a settlement in 421 BC, and Wealth reflects on the economic catastrophe that hit Athens after the war. The Acharnians
Anotace: The Acharnians or is the third play — and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays — by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was produced in 425 BC on behalf of the young dramatist by an associate, Callistratus, and it won first place at the Lenaia festival. The Acharnians is about an Athenian citizen, Dikaiopolis, who miraculously obtains a private peace treaty with the Spartans and enjoys the benefits of peace in spite of opposition from some of his fellow Athenians. The play is notable for its absurd humour, its imaginative appeal for an end to the Peloponnesian War, and for the author's spirited response to condemnations of his previous play, The Babylonians, by politicians such as Cleon, who had reviled it as a slander against the Athenian polis. In The Acharnians, Aristophanes reveals his resolve not to yield to attempts at political intimidation. Along with the other surviving plays of Aristophanes, The Acharnians is one of the few – and oldest – surviving examples of a highly satirical genre of drama known as Old Comedy. Aischylos
The Oresteian Trilogy
Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides
Anotace: Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies' law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past. Summa Theologica
Part I (Prima Pars)
Anotace: The Summa Theologica is a compendium of theology written by Thomas Aquinas between 1265 and 1273. In Roman Catholicism it is the sum of all known learning and doctrine, of all that can be known about God and humanity's relations with God -- a landmark in the history of theology that famously offers five proofs of God's existence, the first three of which are cosmological arguments; the fourth, a moral argument; and the fifth, a teleological argument. The third quarter of the thirteenth century marked the first decisive philosophical encounter between Hellenism and Christianity. The rediscovery of Aristotle's works after the Dark Ages ushered in a new era of intellectual fervor in Europe, and the work of Thomas Aquinas is a commentary on Aristotle, whose writings were lost to the non-Arabic world until the beginning of the Thirteenth Century. To many, Aristotle's worldview was a pagan threat to Christianity. To Aquinas, it provided an exciting cosmological framework on which to build an all-encompassing Christian worldview. This dazzling synthesis of Catholic doctrine has had a profound impact on Christian thinking since the thirteenth century and has become the de facto official teaching of the Catholic Church -- the intellectual underpinning of the Church to this day. kolektiv
Justinian the Great
The Life and Legacy of the Byzantine Emperor
Anotace: The zenith of the Byzantine Empire was reached in the middle of the 6th century during the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-565). The internal stabilization of the Byzantine state was completed, and Justinian then embarked on a wide range of external re-conquests. Justinian's prime directive was to restore the Roman Empire to its former glory in the west. He sought to strengthen the immutable law that Byzantium, the successor of Rome, maintained not only in the east but also the west, and by doing so, he hoped to revive the unity of the Roman world. In addition to attempting to conquer Italy and restore all the old dominions of the Roman Empire, Justinian also had to quell inner unrest by fighting barbarian usurpers, securing the borders, re-establishing religious orthodoxy, reorganizing the law, and reviving prosperity. Four Comedies
Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, Ladies' Day
Anotace: Greek Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, Ladies Day Includes 4 pg. of General Notes and a 17 pg. Index of Popular Names. 344 pg. La Fiemmetta
Anotace: Giovanni Boccaccio is best known for the Decameron begun in 1530. The Decameron is a series of 100 Italian novellas in two volumes. These medieval stories are best known for their lively romances. There are stories with practical jokes, stories of wit, and stories of worldly clergy and their lack of morals. Many writers have used The Decameron as a source for their works. While writing the Decameron, Boccaccio was in love with the Lady Maria. She was in Naples and he missed her greatly. La Fiammetta was the affectionate nickname he gave Maria. There is no evidence that Boccaccio was ever more than a friend for Maria, but his passion for her was written about in several of his works. Archimédes
Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics
Anotace: Archimedes's Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics is a collection of works attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician and scientist Archimedes. In this treatise, he explores various geometric problems using principles derived from mechanics. The document contains ingenious methods and novel approaches to solving problems related to areas, volumes, and centers of gravity, among others. Archimedes's innovative insights in this treatise have had a profound impact on the development of mathematics and its application to various disciplines throughout history. His pioneering work continues to inspire and influence mathematicians, physicists, and engineers to this day. George Berkeley
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
Anotace: In An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (1709), he examined visual distance, magnitude, position, and problems of sight and touch and concluded that “the proper (or real) objects of sight” are not without the mind, though “the contrary be supposed true of tangible objects.” Ezop
The Fables
Anotace: Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. Selected Essays
Volume I
Anotace: Compilation of essays written by the renowned Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, Plutarch. Hledání ztraceného času V
Uvězněná
Anotace: Pátá část rozsáhlého románového cyklu, který je jedním ze základních děl světové literatury. Hledání ztraceného času VI
Zmizelá Albertina
Anotace: Děj šestého dílu plynule navazuje na díl předchozí poté, co vypravěče opustila jeho milenka Albertina. Vypravěč činí marné pokusy získat dívku zpět a katarze přichází tragicky až s jejím náhlým skonem následkem pádu z koně. Následně autor podrobně analyzuje drásavý proces postupného odpoutávání se od vzpomínek na milovanou bytost. Hledání ztraceného času VII
Anotace: Závěrečný díl románové řady zastihuje zestárlého vypravěče, který pozoruje a konstatuje proměny, kterých společnost za jeho života doznala - pád staré aristokracie, vzestup dříve opovrhované zbohatlické kasty a také pohled na 1. světovou válku, tuto definitivní tečku za starými časy. Druhým těžištěm závěrečné části jsou úvahy nad literární poetikou i smyslem a důležitostí umělecké tvorby, která jediná může znovu nalézt čas, ztracený v malicherných peripetiích skutečného života. The Essays
Studies in Pessimism
Anotace: A disciple of Kant and a significant factor in shaping Nietzsche's thinking, Arthur Schopenhauer worked from the foundation that reality is but an extension of our own will, and that human life is characterized chiefly by misery. In this essay, translated by THOMAS BAILEY SAUNDERS (1860-1928) and first published in English in the 1890s, Schopenhauer offers his thoughts: - on "the sufferings of the world," and why evil is positive Students of philosophy and of the 19th-century intellectualism will find this a fascinating read. R.U.R
Anotace: ROSSUM´S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS. Čapkovo utopistické drama, v němž se světu poprvé představilo slovo robot. Vypráví o továrně, v níž vznikají roboti, kteří pracují za lidi a umožňují tak vzniku jakéhosi "ráje". Jenomže nic netrvá věčně a i roboti můžou začít myslet na sebe. Religion
A Dialogue, etc.
Anotace: Arthur Schopenhauer's work "Religion" is a philosophical exploration of the nature and significance of religious beliefs and experiences. In this collection of essays, Schopenhauer delves into various aspects of religion, including its relationship to metaphysics, ethics, and human psychology. He critiques traditional religious institutions, arguing that true spirituality is found in individual introspection and the recognition of the underlying unity of all existence. Schopenhauer's writing reflects his unique blend of Western philosophy and Eastern thought, particularly his emphasis on the concept of "will" and his view of suffering as an essential aspect of human existence. Hledání ztraceného času IV
Sodoma a Gomora
Anotace: V Sodomě a Gomoře Proust odkrývá skryté stránky povahy a života jedné ze svých nejpřízračnějších postav – barona Charluse. Znovu sledujeme vypravěčův život v přímořském Balbecu, jeho rozporuplnou lásku k Albertině a jeho úspěchy v salónech okolních záměčků. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
Anotace: If the transference of the erogenous excitability from the clitoris to the vagina has succeeded, the woman has thus changed her leading zone for the future sexual activity; the man on the other hand retains his from childhood. The main determinants for the woman's preference for the neuroses, especially for hysteria, lie in this change of the leading zone as well as in the repression of puberty. These determinants are therefore most intimately connected with the nature of femininity. -from "The Transformations of Puberty" He was a pioneer in the study of human sexuality and the impact of sexual desire on human behavior, and this 1905 work is considered among his most important contributions to the field. This is the source of such concepts as penis envy, castration anxiety, and the Oedipus complex that we take for granted as fundamental to understanding human psychology. In the three essays here-"The Sexual Aberrations," "Infantile Sexuality," and "The Transformations of Puberty"-Freud sets out a theory of human sexuality that continues to influence us today. Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Anotace: "I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power or possessions." Plutarch "To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days." Plutarch "Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." Plutarch "To make no mistakes is not in the power of man "It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything." Plutarch Plutarch's Lives is a brilliant collection of biographies by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. By comparing a famous Roman with a famous Greek, Plutarch intended to provide model patterns of behaviour and to encourage mutual respect between Greeks and Romans. There are fifty biographies of famous soldiers, legislators, orators, and statesmen, and an additional eighteen comparisons. The form of Plutarch's Lives was new Hledání ztraceného času III
Ke Guermantům
Anotace: Ve Světě Guermantových, který vyšel 1920–1921, přechází Proust od buržoazního prostředí k šlechtickému a pokračuje v neúprosné analýze malicherností a směšností, ale tu a tam i k velikosti svých postav takovým způsobem, jako by nabalzamoval živé, existující tvory. Jeho realistický pohled na nejrůznější životní situace a chování lidí nepostrádá ironie a jemného humoru. George Gordon Byron
Don Juan
Anotace: Rozsáhlý komický epos o romantických dobrodružstvích slavného hrdiny. Byron ho ale ve své básni-poémě zbavil démoničnosti a výrazným způsobem klade důraz na básnickou formu vyprávění. Na čtenáře v díle, ve kterém je Don Juan netradičně tím, koho svádí ženy (a nikoli naopak), čeká takřka vše, co si umí ve svých představách zobrazit. I proto byl epos v době svého vzniku přijat jako skandální, i když oblíbený. Byron dokončil jen 16 zpěvů, sedmnáctý zůstal nedokončen, ačkoli jich mohlo vzniknout mnohem víc, zvlášť když autor nevěděl, co se v následujících částech stane a děj vymýšlel takřka ad hoc během psaní. Knihu si můžete stáhnout v anglickém originálu. Dream Psychology
Psychoanalysis for Beginners
Anotace: Dreams, in Freud's view, are all forms of "wish fulfillment" — attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort, whether something recent or something from the recesses of the past (later in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud would discuss dreams which do not appear to be wish-fulfillment). Because the information in the unconscious is in an unruly and often disturbing form, a "censor" in the preconscious will not allow it to pass unaltered into the conscious. During dreams, the preconscious is more lax in this duty than in waking hours, but is still attentive: as such, the unconscious must distort and warp the meaning of its information to make it through the censorship. As such, images in dreams are often not what they appear to be, according to Freud, and need deeper interpretation if they are to inform on the structures of the unconscious. George Gordon Byron
Childe Haroldova pouť
Anotace: Romantická básnická sbírkakterá se skládá ze čtyř zpěvů. Děj knihy je zasazen do velké části Evropy, kterou putuje osamělý poutník. Objevují se zde úvahy nad historií a budoucností jednotlivých států. Citelný je zde také básníkův protest proti nesvobodě podrobených národů (viz zmiňované Řecko, které bylo utlačováno Turky). Báseň obsahuje základní romantické prvky jako například postava osamělého poutníka, který utíká do přírody. Popisy krajiny se zde střídají s vtipnými komentáři týkající se jak historie, tak aktuálního dění jednotlivých oblastí. The Foundation Trilogy
Anotace: It is the story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store: a dark age of ignorance, barbarism and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering together a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and wisdom against all who would destroy them. Zobrazeno: 3031-3060 z celkem 3434 záznamů Začátek | Předchozí | Následující | Konec
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