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Zobrazeno: 1311-1340 z celkem 3508 záznamů Začátek | Předchozí | Následující | Konec Etika, život, instituce
Pokus o praktickou filosofii
Anotace: Výsledky moderní evoluční biologie naznačují, že mravnost v lidských společnostech není jen nějakou konvenční „nadstavbou“, nýbrž navazuje na podstatné rysy všeho živého a rozvíjí je specificky lidskou kulturou. Jednající člověk tak není jen svébytná osoba, odpovídající pouze za své vlastní činy, nýbrž nese faktickou odpovědnost i za to, co ve své kultuře a společnosti přebírá. Tato nesmírně široká odpovědnost se musí v současných společnostech rozdělit, podobně jako se dělí a specializují i naše činnosti. Není to však jen břemeno, které by náš život omezovalo, nýbrž může mu také dávat obsah a smysl, který v současné společnosti citelně chybí. A právě tento chybějící smysl, stejně jako společná naděje, jsou možná jednou z hlavních příčin často připomínané „krize“ současných společností. Společný náboženský základ starších společností nemůže filosofie sice nahradit, může však připomenout, bez čeho se ani moderní pluralitní společnosti patrně neobejdou. Knížka, v řadě bodů přepracovávající předchozí autorovu knihu Etika a život, vznikla z přednášek na Karlově univerzitě a je určena studentům, učitelům etické výchovy a všem, kdo si o budoucnost nejen české společnosti dělají starosti. Feudal Society
Anotace: Feudal Society is the masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the century. Marc Bloch's supreme achievement was to recreate the vivid and complex world of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. For Bloch history was a living organism, and to write of it was an endless process of creative evolution and of growing understanding. The author treats feudalism as a vitalising force in European society. He surveys the social and economic conditions in which feudalism developed; he sees the structures of kinship which underlay the formal relationships of vassal and overlord. For Bloch these relationships are mutual as much as coercive, the product of a dangerous and uncertain world. His insights into the lives of the nobility and the clergy and his deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe, are profound and memorable. Postwar
A History of Europe since 1945
Anotace: Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Victor L. Marchetti, John D. Marks
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
Anotace: What is the CIA really up to? What does it do and why? No other element of the U.S. government is so lapped in mystery, no other is quite so plainly self-willed and independently powerful. And in the end, no other represents quite such a threat to our long-treasured democratic principles. Never before had there been a book about the CIA that laid bare the facts so explicitly and with such absolute anthority. Victor Marchetti spent 14 years in the CIA, much of the time as a high-ranking officer. Co-author John Marks learned about the agency and intelligence procedures while working in the State Department. Their experience and knowledge give this book its authenticity and make incontestable its basic thesis: that an obsession with clandestine operations - illegal, even immoral interference in the internal affairs of other countries (and in some cases our own) - has largely supplanted the agency's original and proper mission of supervising, coordinating, and processing of intelligence. Many of the details reported for the first time in this book will surprise and probably shock. What surprises remain hidden in the sections censored out? Nevertheless, the real significance of The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence lies not in these startling revelations, but in the wholly convincing picture it gives of a giant, costly organization running wild, altogether free from supervision and accountability. Soberly, comprehensively, the authors anatomize the Agency - its structure, its huge budgets, its functions and personnel - and show how it has, shielded by self-serving (and frequently self-invented) rules of secrecy, built for itself a covert empire capable of stifling, with depressing efficiency, every serious attempt at outside control: by Congress, by various Presidents (who admittedly found the agency useful as a kind of private army, and still do), and by the press. There can be only one reason why the CIA tried to censor this book: it tells the truth about the CIA. Empires of the Atlantic World
Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
Anotace: Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 by Choice Magazine Selected as a 2007 "Outstanding" book by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries Shortlisted for the 2006 Hessel-Tiltman History Prize, awarded by the English PEN Club. Winner of the 2007 Francis Parkman Prize awarded by the Society of American Historians for the best book in American history.
This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America.
J. H. Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Oxford. His previous books include The Count-Duke of Olivares, A Palace for a King (with Jonathan Brown), and Spain and Its World, 1500—1700, all published by Yale University Press. Among the many honors he has received are the Wolfson Prize for History, the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Social Sciences, and the Balzan Prize for History. Ray Harvick
Agile Architecture for Service Oriented Component Driven Enterprises
Encouraging Rapid Application Development
Anotace: Agile Architecture for Service Oriented Component Based Enterprises is a book detailing the construction of frameworks for that will increase productivity for software development at the same time support Agile Development. Nelson MacPherson
American Intelligence in War-Time London
The Story of the OSS
Anotace: Based on OSS records only recently released to US National Archives, and on evidence from British archival sources, this is a thoroughly researched study of the Office of Strategic Services in London. The OSS was a critical liaison and operational outpost for American intelligence during World War II. Dr MacPherson puts the activities of the OSS into the larger context of the Anglo-American relationship and the various aspects of intelligence theory, while examining how a modern American intelligence capability evolved. On Gaia
A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth
Anotace: One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that life itself has intervened in the regulation of the planetary environment in order to keep it stable and favorable for life. First proposed in the 1970s, Lovelock's hypothesis remains highly controversial and continues to provoke fierce debate. On Gaia undertakes the first in-depth investigation of the arguments put forward by Lovelock and others--and concludes that the evidence doesn't stack up in support of Gaia. Toby Tyrrell draws on the latest findings in fields as diverse as climate science, oceanography, atmospheric science, geology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. He takes readers to obscure corners of the natural world, from southern Africa where ancient rocks reveal that icebergs were once present near the equator, to mimics of cleaner fish on Indonesian reefs, to blind fish deep in Mexican caves. Tyrrell weaves these and many other intriguing observations into a comprehensive analysis of the major assertions and lines of argument underpinning Gaia, and finds that it is not a credible picture of how life and Earth interact. On Gaia reflects on the scientific evidence indicating that life and environment mutually affect each other, and proposes that feedbacks on Earth do not provide robust protection against the environment becoming uninhabitable--or against poor stewardship by us. Toby Tyrrell is professor of Earth system science at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (University of Southampton). The Age of the Crusades
The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517
Anotace: The kaleidoscopic political changes during the years covered by this volume include the rise and fall of the Crusader states, the expansion of the Mongol empire, the rise of the Mamluk sultanate and of its ultimate conquerors, the Ottomans. To all of these Professor Holt is a clear and skilful guide. He principally utilises, and to some extent reinterprets, the medieval Arabic sources, to present a picture which differs in important respects from the conventional western-orientated view. Conor Kostick
The Social Structure of the First Crusade
Anotace: The First Crusade (1096 – 1099) was an extraordinary undertaking. Because the repercussions of that expedition have rippled on down the centuries, there has been an enormous literature on the subject. Yet, unlike so many other areas of medieval history, until now the First Crusade has failed to attract the attention of historians interested in social dynamics. This book is the first to examine the sociology of the sources in order to provide a detailed analysis of the various social classes which participated in the expedition and the tensions between them. In doing so, it offers a fresh approach to the many debates surrounding the subject of the First Crusade. John Ma
Polis
A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity
Anotace: A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-state The History of Mr. Polly
Anotace: The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells. Ann Veronica
A Modern Love Sotry
Anotace: Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H.G. Wells published in 1909. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of theNew Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament. H. L. Mencken
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Anotace: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche is a book by H. L. Mencken, the first edition in 1907. The book covers both wider and lesser known areas of Friedrich Nietzsche's life and philosophy, notable both for its suggestion of Mencken's still-developing literary talents at the age of 27 and for its impressive detail as the first book on Nietzsche written in English (on only the seventh year of Nietzsche's death) considering the lack of reliable interpretations of Nietzsche in the Western sphere of letters at the time; Mencken prepared for writing this book by reading all of Nietzsche's published philosophy, including several works in the original German. The Complete Memories
White House Years, Years of Upheaval, Years of Renewal
Anotace: This ebook boxed set includes 3 complete memoirs of Henry Kissinger, detailing his life and work. Robert Gerwarth
Heydrich
Hitlerův kat
Anotace: Ačkoli byl Reinhard Heydrich jednou z nejobávanějších vůdčích postav Třetí říše – šéf Hlavního úřadu říšské bezpečnosti, zastupující protektor v Protektorátu Čechy a Morava, jeden z hlavních strůjců tzv. konečného řešení židovské otázky –, komplexní monografie o něm jsou vzácné. Kniha líčí Heydrichův vzestup z prostředí privilegované střední vrstvy až k vrcholné kariéře masového vraha, vrhá nové světlo na jeho charakter, odkrývá nenápadné kroky, jimiž se mění osobnost v monstrum, a mapuje souvislosti konkrétního zla s ideologickou představou nacistů o novém evropském pořádku. Lisa Pine
Nazi Family Policy
Anotace: Although the Third Reich has been extensively researched, there has been no thorough examination of Nazi policy towards the family. In tackling this important subject this book provides profound insights into German society under Hitler and represents a significant contribution to the existing literature on the Third Reich. The book first explores the nature of Nazi family ideology and gives an overview of various aspects of Nazi family policy, including the impact of eugenics upon population policy and issues such as marriage, divorce, contraception, abortion and welfare measures. This is followed by a consideration of the dissemination of Nazi family ideals by means of education and socialization. The book examines families at different ends of the spectrum in Nazi Germany - model families which served to define the Nazi ideal of the kinderreich family, as well as undesirable families that did not fit into the national community. In particular, asocial and Jewish families are vigorously examined -- the former representing the socially unfit and the latter, the racially inferior or alien. The book also presents an overview of the regime's ultimate legacy for the family in post-1945 Germany, not least the effects of World War II, and gives an overall assessment of the regime's family policy and a discussion of how the Nazi period fits into the framework of the history of the German family. Democracy in America
And Two Essays on America
Anotace: A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist A Short History of the World
Anotace: Of the more than one hundred books that H. G. Wells published in his lifetime, this is one of the most ambitious. Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of World War I, A Short History of the World is an engrossing account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Wells brings his monumental learning and penetrating historical insight to bear on the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, the discovery of America, the Industrial Revolution, and a host of other subjects. Breathtaking in scope, this thought-provoking masterwork remains one of the most readable and rewarding of its kind. Decay - Humanity
Anotace: The undead have risen, spreading death across a once thriving and beautiful world. Now the world is blackening, and the undead are no longer the only threat to what little life is left. Humanity has decayed, and some survivors will go to any lengths to stay alive. The most innocent of families have turned to cannibalism while violent criminals manipulate their way to leadership. Tma 2.0
Komentář: První polovina knihy je pozoruhodná, ač se člověk neubrání pocitu, že popis změn po výpadku elektrické energie je příliš úzký... ovšem druhá (oproti první Tmě kompletně přepsaná) polovina je tragická. Připadalo mi, jako by ji autor psal v jakémsi nihilistickém afektu, kupř. poté, co ve volbách prohraje jeho oblíbená politická strana :-). A ostatně, nesdílím názor autora na lidi jako celek; anebo alespoň jejich převážnou většinu. The End of Science
Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age
Anotace: In The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it is over. Interviewing scientific luminaries such as Stephen Hawking, Francis Crick, and Richard Dawkins, he demonstrates that all the big questions that can be answered have been answered, as science bumps up against fundamental limits. The world cannot give us a “theory of everything,” and modern endeavors such as string theory are “ironic” and “theological” in nature, not scientific, because they are impossible to confirm. Horgan’s argument was controversial in 1996, and it remains so today, still firing up debates in labs and on the internet, not least because—as Horgan details in a lengthy new introduction—ironic science is more prevalent than ever. Still, while Horgan offers his critique, grounded in the thinking of the world’s leading researchers, he offers homage, too. If science is ending, he maintains, it is only because it has done its work so well. A History of God
The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Anotace: "An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers."
Myslíme objektově v jazyku Java
Anotace: Tato kniha provede čtenáře krok za krokem světem objektového programování a naučí jej doopravdy programovat. Autor řeší dvě základní nectnosti většiny současných učebnic, kterými jsou výklad objektových technologií začínající někde ve středu učebnice a demonstrace látky na triviálních příkladech. Souběžně s objektovými technologiemi se v knize čtenář naučí pracovat v jazyku Java, především v jeho verzi 5.0. Cockroaches
Anotace: When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. Blood on Snow
A Novel
Anotace: From the bestselling author of the Harry Hole series, comes a short, sharp shock of a thriller. Blood on Snow: Drugs. Death. Murder. Revenge - and a hitman with two big problems The Snowman, Phantom, The Leopard
Anotace: With more than seven million copies sold worldwide, and translated into over forty languages, Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series is an international phenomenon. Detective Harry Hole is a genuine anti-hero: a handsome loner, an alcoholic and workaholic who is tormented in his personal life even as he is revered by his colleagues for his unwavering sense of justice and proven police instincts. Harry’s self-governing, anti-authoritarian style has driven his superior officer at the crime squad in Oslo to call him “the best investigator in the department and the worst public servant.” First-class thrillers with high voltage suspense and complex plotting, The Snowman, The Leopard and Phantom are fascinating journeys into the world of this singular character and the dark criminal minds he pursues to the very limits of his sanity, in Oslo and beyond. David Schranck
Thunder at Prokhorovka
A Combat History of Operation Citadel, Kursk, July 1943
Anotace: After the defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler had lost his momentum and was looking for a way to regain it. Operation Citadel was the intended means to fulfil that objective. If successful a number of Soviet armies would be destroyed and the front line shortened, allowing for a better disposition of troops and a chance to rebuild Germany's exhausted reserves. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the operational events on both salients. It also includes critical analysis of both sides that points out errors of judgment or application that collectively had an important impact on campaign results. The book is highly annotated to give the reader additional sources to study and to provide additional perspectives to gain as complete an understanding of this critical campaign as possible. Besides an extensive text, the book's key strength is its mapping - 32 full-page colour maps are accompanied by 7 large fold-out sheets of maps, also in colour. Together these specially-commissioned maps provide a remarkably detailed guide to the combat operations. Thunder at Prokhorovka is destined to become an important reference to the Battle of Kursk. 32pp colour maps, 7 fold-out colour maps, 9 tables. Nick Potts, Andrew Kliman
Is Marx's Theory of Profit Right
Anotace: This collection focuses on a long-running debate over the logical validity of Karl Marx’s theory that exploitation is the exclusive source of capitalists’ profits. The “Fundamental Marxian Theorem” was long thought to have shown that orthodox Marxian economics succeeds in replicating Marx’s conclusion. The debate begins with Andrew Kliman’s disproof of that claim. Decay
Civilization
Anotace: For years, medical researchers have worked to perfect the human body. Humans are living longer then ever. They have given the blind the ability to see, the deaf the ability to hear. Growing organs for transplants is no longer science fiction, but they go too far when they try to bring a person back from the dead. Zobrazeno: 1311-1340 z celkem 3508 záznamů Začátek | Předchozí | Následující | Konec
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