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Zobrazeno: 1221-1250 z celkem 3515 záznamů Začátek | Předchozí | Následující | Konec Mohammed
Anotace: A definitive and fascinating introduction to the life, ideas, and impact of the founder of Islam. Maxime Robinson's Muhammad has long been regarded as one of the touchstones of scholarship on the founder of Islam. Thirty years after first being published in English, it remains the definitive introduction to the Prophet's life. Drawing on wide-ranging scholarship and imaginative insight into the Prophet's personality, family, background, and wider society, Rodinson's Muhammad offers a vivid account of how he spread the word of Islam, created a sect and state, and defeated his enemies, establishing the first great Muslim military power—a power which was soon to control territory stretching all the way from the Pyrenees to the borders of China. For anyone who wants to understand the historical roots of one of the world's great religions, Rodinson'sMuhammad provides the ideal guide to a fascinating and timely subject. Zygmunt Bauman, Carlo Bordoni
State of Crisis
Anotace: Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward. In our increasingly globalized world, states have been stripped of much of their power to shape the course of events. Many of our problems are globally produced but the volume of power at the disposal of individual nation-states is simply not sufficient to cope with the problems they face. This divorce between power and politics produces a new kind of paralysis. It undermines the political agency that is needed to tackle the crisis and it saps citizens’ belief that governments can deliver on their promises. The impotence of governments goes hand in hand with the growing cynicism and distrust of citizens. Hence the current crisis is at once a crisis of agency, a crisis of representative democracy and a crisis of the sovereignty of the state. Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Anotace: One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times. The Teutonic Knights
A Military History
Anotace: The Teutonic knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across central Europe for 300 years. This book surveys the gripping history of the knights and relates their rise to power; their struggles against Prussian pagans; the series of wars against Poland and Lithuania; the clash with Alexander Nevsky's Russia; and the gradual stagnation of the Order in the fourteenth century. The book is replete with dramatic episodes - such as the battle on frozen Lake Peipus in 1242, or the disaster of Tannenberg - but focuses primarily on the year-after-year struggle to maintain power, fend off incursions and raiding bands, and to launch crusades against unbelieving foes. And it was the crusade, with knights demonstrating their valor, which chiefly characterized and breathed life into this militant, conquering Holy Order. The narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order, and, in an accessible and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have long been misunderstood. The Black Death
Anotace: A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century caused the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. One third of the people in Europe were killed over a period of just three years, and there was social and economic upheaval on an unparalleled scale. Philip Ziegler’s acclaimed overview of this critical event synthesises the records of contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historians in a masterly volume. His accessible and readable style is complemented with contemporary illustrations to present the full horror and destruction wreaked by this disease and its contribution to the disintegration of an age. The Irish Revolution
1916-1923
Anotace: This concise study of Ireland’s revolutionary years charts the demise of the home rule movement and the rise of militant nationalism that led eventually to the partition of Ireland and independence for southern Ireland. The book provides a clear chronology of events but also adopts a thematic approach to ensure that the role of women and labour are examined, in addition to the principal political and military developments during the period. Incorporating the most recent literature on the period, it provides a good introduction to some of the most controversial debates on the subject, including the extent of sectarianism, the nature of violence and the motivation of guerrilla fighters. The supplementary documents have been chosen carefully to provide a wide-ranging perspective of political views, including those of constitutional nationalists, republicans, unionists, the British government and the labour movement. The Irish Revolution 1916-1923 is ideal for students and interested readers at all levels, providing a diverse range of primary sources and the tools to unlock them. Julius Caesar
Anotace: More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for "emperor" -- not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and doubled the size of Rome's territories. But, as Philip Freeman describes in this fascinating new biography, Caesar was also a brilliant orator, an accomplished writer, a skilled politician, and much more. The Assassination of Heydrich
Hitler's Hangman and the Czech Resistance
Anotace: "Jan Wiener's fascinating, well-documented book tells of the heroic exploits of various Czech men and women, most of whom paid for their resistance with their lives. Above all it gives a detailed , documented account of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the most gruesome of the Nazi murderers, by Czech resisters parachuted from London but aided in their task by the Czech underground." William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich If you only read one book about what it felt like to be present during the worst time in modern human history, a time when your life could be snuffed out for having the mere thought of opposition against the Nazi regime, this should be the book because it is told by survivors and by one of the greatest survivors of them all, Jan Wiener. The Battle of Midway
Anotace: There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever. F. W. Burleigh
It's All About Muhammad
A Biography of the World's Most Notorious Prophet
Anotace: Why all the car bombs, beheadings, and mass murders in the Middle East? Why the relentless killing of non-Muslims throughout the world by the followers of Muhammad's religion? People blame verses of the Koran, but it's not about the Koran. It's about the man who composed the Koran. Author F. W. Burleigh draws on an academic, investigative, and literary background to bring forth this penetrating look at the man behind it all. Burleigh’s interest in Islam was sparked by the events of 9/11. The questions guiding his studies were, “Why do Muslims do what they do? Why is there so much violence connected with this religion?” After a line-by-line scrutiny of 20,000 pages of the original literature of Islam, the author gives his blunt assessment in the title: It’s All About Muhammad The book contains 25 stunning illustrations and is divided into three parts: The Cave, The Twilight Zone, and Darkness at Noon. The first 12 chapters explore the epileptic fits that convinced Muhammad that he was in communion with God, explain the Koran and why he composed it the way he did, and show the humble origin of the Kabah, which only attained its cubic shape in the year A.D. 605 with Muhammad as a member of the construction crew. The book shows the magma chamber of hatred that formed in him due to traumatic early-life experience and tracks the emergence of his psychopathic nature. It exposes how he modified ideas he took from Judaism and Christianity to suit his grandiose idea of himself as the "last and final prophet," his intolerance of Meccan polytheistic beliefs, and finally his declaration of war against "all and sundry" who refused to accept him and his religion. In the second part, Muhammad's magma chamber of hatred erupts on the world. The book shows the creation of his al-qaeda--his base of operations in Yathrib (Medina) where he fled after the Meccans decided they had to kill him to preserve their way of life, his conflict with the Jewish tribes of Yathrib after they refused to accept him as their prophet; his genocide of the Jews including the beheading of the men of an entire tribe; the assassination of his critics; the battles and raids and orgies of rape, plunder, and slaughter; and finally his conquest of Mecca. Like a dramatic arc, these 18 chapters form Act II of a script that is still being played out today. In the final part, Muhammad's ruthless conquest of all of Arabia is presented. This section also gives an account of his numerous wives and the expansion of his wars beyond the confines of the Arabian peninsula. One of the final chapters explores his claim that he will be the first to be resurrected on the day of resurrection and that he will assist Allah in determining who goes to heaven and who stays in hell--part of the "breathtaking nonsense" of what Muhammad claimed about himself, as the author phrases it. What Muhammad created continues to wreak havoc on the world. It follows the script he wrote fourteen centuries ago. It is not sufficient any longer merely to raise the alarm about Islam--an ideology of submission to the will of a psychologically deformed and spiritually grotesque man. What needs to accompany the alarm is a solution, and this book offers a solution: It is a matter of an aggressive, relentless, and unapologetic exposure of the truth about Muhammad in every graphic form possible, from illustrated books to docudramas to full-length feature films. With its 25 illustrations, It's All About Muhammad offers itself as an example of the approach. The truth about Muhammad is a powerful weapon of self-defense that people must take up to oppose and ultimately push back what he created. The truth about him can bring an end to what he created, and it is a weapon within the reach of everyone. A History of Ancient Egypt
From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid
Anotace: The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of the pyramids. Famed archaeologist John Romer draws on a lifetime of research to tell one history's greatest stories; how, over more than a thousand years, a society of farmers created a rich, vivid world where one of the most astounding of all human-made landmarks, the Great Pyramid, was built. Immersing the reader in the Egypt of the past, Romer examines and challenges the long-held theories about what archaeological finds mean and what stories they tell about how the Egyptians lived. More than just an account of one of the most fascinating periods of history, this engrossing book asks readers to take a step back and question what they've learned about Egypt in the past. Fans of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra and history buffs will be captivated by this re-telling of Egyptian history, written by one of the top Egyptologists in the world. History of the Byzantine Empire
Volume 1
Anotace: This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early Christianity, both western and eastern, with all of its remains of the wonderful productions of art, architecture, and learning. Southwestern Journal of Theology Síra
Život Mohameda
Anotace: Mohamedův život je impozantní příběh. Byl sirotkem, který vyrostl v chudobě, aby se nakonec stal vládcem celé Arábie. Vytvořil nové náboženství, přišel s novým způsobem vedení války a ustavil nový politický systém včetně jeho zákonů – šaríe. Mohamed se stal největším světovým válečníkem. V dnešní době nikdo nevede válku ve jménu Caesara, Alexandra Velikého, Napoleona ani jiného vojevůdce. Každý rok však zemře mnoho lidí právě kvůli Mohamedovi. Islám je po 1 400 letech své existence silnější, než kdy předtím. Sám Mohamed tvrdil, že jednoho dne se bude jeho zákony řídit celý svět. K tomu, abyste porozuměli islámu, musíte znát život Mohameda. Podstatou islámu není samotné uctívání Alláha, ale uctívání Alláha přesně tím způsobem, jakým to dělal Mohamed. Tato kniha je jedinečná v tom, že je stručná, ale přitom směrodatná a důvěryhodná. Obsahuje systém odkazů na původní zdroje, který vám umožňuje si všechna uvedená tvrzení nezávisle ověřit. Půlnoční slunce
Krev na sněhu II
Anotace: Opět sedmdesátá léta minulého století, tentokrát však na dalekém severu Norska. Opuštěná vesnice Kasund kdesi ve Finnmarce, jejíž obyvatelé jsou příslušníky laestadiánského hnutí, které jejich životy svazuje přísnými pravidly. Desetiletý Knut a jeho krásná, čerstvě ovdovělá matka Lea, zastávající funkci kostelníka a zvoníka, nedostudovaný teolog Mattis a šamanka Anita. Záhadný cizinec Ulf, který tvrdí, že sem přijel z Osla na lov bělokurů, ale na lovce vůbec nevypadá, dokonce ani nemá pořádnou pušku. Nechce se mu ovšem nikomu prozrazovat, že jedinou kořistí, na kterou se tu bude pořádat hon, je on sám. Těžko totiž odhadnout, na čí straně budou místní stát a zda mu pomohou lovce setřást. Speer
Hitler's Architect
Anotace: In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler’s Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer’s lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well. Právo šaría pro nemuslimy
Anotace: Islám je politický systém s vlastní sbírkou zákonů, která se nazývá šaría. Právo šaría stojí na úplně jiných principech než náš právní systém. Mnoho jejích nařízení se týká nemuslimů. kolektiv
Jean Jacques Rousseau
230 let od úmrtí
Anotace: Publikace obsahuje texty ze semináře Centra pro ekonomiku a politiku z 23. června 2008 a další důležité doplňkové texty. Jsou zde také přetištěny úryvky ze slavných děl Jeana-Jacquese Rousseaua. kolektiv
Rozvojové země
Potřebují pomoc, nebo volné trhy?
Poznámky: autoři: Nomsa Duba, Hynek Fajmon, Jan Kohout, Mojmír Hampl, Václav Klaus, Dušan Tříska, Walter Williams, Martin Slaný, Marek Loužek, Tomáš Munzi, Lukáš Kovanda Anotace: Publikace obsahuje texty ze semináře Centra pro ekonomiku a politiku ze 4. prosince 2008 a další zajímavé doplňkové texty. Podvolení
Anotace: Známý provokatér Michel Houellebecq napsal román o tom, jak se z Francie stane islámský stát. Příběh se odehrává roku 2022, kdy politické strany ve volbách raději podpoří fiktivního kandidáta strany zvané Muslimské bratrství, aby se prezidentkou nestala šéfka extrémně pravicové Národní fronty Marine Le Penová. Autor uvedl, že „urychluje historii“. Jeho kontroverzní románová fikce vzbudila nebývalou pozornost a kniha se v mnoha zemích stala absolutním bestsellerem. Submission
Anotace: A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure It's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century Decadent author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, rereads Huysmans, queues up YouPorn. Meanwhile, it's election season. And although Francois feels "about as political as a bath towel," things are getting pretty interesting. In an alliance with the Socialists, France's new Islamic party sweeps to power. Islamic law comes into force. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancement--on the condition that he convert to Islam. Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker has said of Submission that "Houellebecq is not merely a satirist but--more unusually--a sincere satirist, genuinely saddened by the absurdities of history and the madnesses of mankind." Michel Houellebecq's new book may be satirical and melancholic, but it is also hilarious, a comic masterpiece by one of France's great novelists. Platforma
Anotace: Protagonistou této knihy o hledání štěstí a lásky v citově vyprahlém současném světě je opět autorův generační druh, zde už čtyřicátník, úředník na ministerstvu kultury. Sarkasticky glosuje život, dokud nepotká dívku, která se vymyká jeho dosavadním zkušenostem se ženami. V líčení jejich vztahu možná Houellebecqova čtenáře překvapí méně cynický tón, avšak o to kousavější soudy o pokrytectví západní civilizace i o možných alternativách, vedoucích do slepé uličky terorismu. Skandální autor se nezapře v otevřeném líčení erotických scén i ve velmi kritických připomínkách na adresu různých náboženství. Mapa a území
Anotace: Čtenáři, kteří mají v souvislosti s Houellebecqovou tvorbou jistá očekávání, budou překvapeni – v knize není jediná sexuální scéna. Autor se evidentně rozhodl znovu šokovat, ale tím nejméně očekávaným způsobem: je „vyklidněný“ a úspěšně se snaží o poctu realistům devatenáctého století. Houellebecq vypráví příběh malíře a fotografa Jeda Martina. Jeho matka spáchala sebevraždu, s otcem se vídá jen sporadicky. Kariéru umělce začal na akademii Beaux-Arts fotografováním neživých objektů, když ale zjistil, jak fascinující záležitostí je mapa, a začal se zabývat zejména relací mapy a zobrazeného území. Objevil zcela originální tvůrčí postup spočívající ve fotografování michelinovských map z různých úhlů – vzniklé umělecké fotky při náležitém zvětšení a patřičné instalaci dostávají rozměr neobyčejného uměleckého díla… Možnosti ostrova
Anotace: Román se odehrává ve dvou liniích. V současnosti je to příběh humoristy a komika Daniela 1, a v budoucnosti pak líčí svět po globálních katastrofách, v němž žijí divoši z doby kamenné a klonovaní novolidé. Daniel 24 a 25 jsou reinkarnacemi, v 24. a 25. generaci, svého genetického předchůdce Daniela 1. Vyjadřují se k autobiografii, kterou po sobě zanechal, a většinou mají vážné potíže jí porozumět. Povaha změny
Bezpečnost, rizika a stav dnešní civilizace
Anotace: Tento sborník zprostředkovává pohled mnoha různých odborníků (např. Václava Cílka, Petra Pokorného, Jiřího Padevěta, Luboše Kropáčka, Dany Drábové, armádních specialistů Jiřího Balouna a Karla Řehka ad.) na vybrané problémy dneška. Jednotlivé texty jsou věnovány klimatické změně, bezpečnostní situaci, nastupující vlně mezikontinentálních migrací, dlouhodobým krizovým faktorům ve vývoji společností a mnohým dalším tématům. Jejich smyslem není šířit neklid, ale naopak upozornit na mnohé souvislosti a důležitost těchto procesů, kterým při řešení každodenních problémů společnosti nevěnujeme dostatečnou pozornost. Protože pouze pokud těmto jevům včas porozumíme, můžeme je začít úspěšně řešit. A to je hlavní cíl této publikace, která volně navazuje na bestsellery týkající se této problematiky reprezentované na českém trhu právě osobami editorů Miroslava Bárty a Martina Kováře. A Theory of Justice
Revised Edition
Anotace: Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition—justice as fairness—and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. “Each person,” writes Rawls, “possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.” Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls’s theory is as powerful today as it was when first published. Antiochus the Great
Anotace: A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial secessions. He proved himself a true heir of Alexander: he defeated rebel armies and embarked on a campaign of conquest and reunification. Although repulsed by Ptolemy IV at the Battle of Raphia, his eastern campaigns reaffirmed Seleucid hegemony as far as modern Afghanistan and Pakistan. Returning westward, he defeated Ptolemy V at Panion (200 BC) and succeeded in adding Koile Syria to the Seleucid realm. The Persian Invasions of Greece
Anotace: In 490 BC Darius I, Great King of Persia and the most powerful man in the world, led a massive invasion army to punish the interference of some minor states on the western borders of his huge empire. The main enemy was Athens. The resultant Battle of Marathon was a disaster for Darius and one of the most famous victories for the underdog in all military history. The Persians were forced to withdraw and plot an even bigger expedition to conquer Athens and the whole of Greece once and for all.The second invasion came ten years later, under Darius' successor, Xerxes. This led to the legendary last stand of theSpartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, the sacking of Athens and the famous naval clash at Salamis, which saved Greece. The following year, 479 BC saw the remaining Persian forces driven from mainland Greece at the epic, yet strangelyless- famous Battle of Plataea, one of the largest pitched battles of the Classical Greek world. Dr Arthur Keaveney, an expert on Achaemenid Persia, re examines these momentous, epoch-defining events from both Greek and Persian perspective to give a full and balanced account based on the most recent research. Tábor svatých
Anotace: Tábor svatých (francouzsky Le Camp des saints) je román francouzského spisovatele Jeana Raspaila vydaný poprvé v roce 1973. Jeho tématem je masové přistěhovalectví z třetího světa, především z Indie, do Francie a obecně „západního světa“, které vede k zániku západní kultury, protože přistěhovalci se nechtějí začlenit a nemají zájem o místní kulturu, jejich zájem je čistě konzumní. Název je odkazem na Zjevení Janovo (Zj 20, 9 (Kral, ČEP)) a v knize je i celá řada dalších kulturních a historických odkazů. V době svého vydání román způsobil pozdvižení a část komentátorů jej odsoudila jako rasistický. Zájem o něj se znovu zvedl na počátku druhého desetiletí jednadvacátého století: v roce 2011 se dostal do žebříčku nejprodávanějších knih. Česky vydal „Tábor svatých“ poprvé Radomír Fiksa v roce 2009 na základě překladu Marie Klečacké – Beyly, toto vydání je kritizováno pro nízkou kvalitu překladu i celkově velmi nízkou jazykovou a typografickou úroveň. Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929
Anotace: A new and provocative reassessment of the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as year zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict that persists today. The murderous violence inflicted on Jews caused a fractious—and now traumatized—community of Zionists, non-Zionists, Ashkenazim, and Mizrachim to coalesce around a unified national consciousness arrayed against an implacable Arab enemy. While the Jews unified, Arabs came to grasp the national essence of the conflict, realizing that Jews of all stripes viewed the land as belonging to the Jewish people. Through memory and historiography, in a manner both associative and highly calculated, Cohen traces the horrific events of August 23 to September 1 in painstaking detail. He extends his geographic and chronological reach and uses a non-linear reconstruction of events to call for a thorough reconsideration of cause and effect. Sifting through Arab and Hebrew sources—many rarely, if ever, examined before—Cohen reflects on the attitudes and perceptions of Jews and Arabs who experienced the events and, most significantly, on the memories they bequeathed to later generations. The result is a multifaceted and revealing examination of a formative series of episodes that will intrigue historians, political scientists, and others interested in understanding the essence—and the very beginning—of what has been an intractable conflict. Ian Hughes
Aetius
Attila's Nemesis
Anotace: In AD 453 Attila, with a huge force composed of Huns, allies and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire, was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France), then still nominally part of the Western Roman Empire. Laying siege to Orleans, he was only a few days march from extending his empire from the Eurasian steppe to the Atlantic. He was brought to battle on the Cataluanian Plain and defeated by a coalition hastily assembled and led by Aetius. Who was this man that saved Western Europe from the Hunnic yoke? While Attila is a household name, his nemesis remains relatively obscure. Zobrazeno: 1221-1250 z celkem 3515 záznamů Začátek | Předchozí | Následující | Konec
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