Socialist Planning
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Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 435
Velikost: 2,2 MB
Knižní žánr: ekonomie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-107-42732-7 Cena: 32.38 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 13:09
| Anotace: First published as a second edition in 1989, Socialist Planning presented a fully revised and updated edition of a book that had established itself as the standard introductory text on the economics of socialist planning. It was intended to provide the reader with a grasp of the theoretical ideas and empirical knowledge that explain the historical experience of socialist planning, problems in the state socialist countries of the late eighties, and the comparative efficiency of socialist planning and market capitalism. While the structure of the second edition remained basically unchanged each chapter incorporated empirical evidence of the changes that took place since the mid-seventies, along with the ideological developments related to these changes. The book will remain valuable, primarily for its historical interest, but also for its combination of theory and practice, the analytical perspective and careful selection of material, and in the attention paid to analyses by politicians and economists from the socialist countries themselves.
Capital Ideas Evolving
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Formát: PDF
Počet stran: 318
Velikost: 1,77 MB
Knižní žánr: ekonomie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-471-73173-3 Cena: 12.10 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 13:07
| Anotace: "A lot has happened in the financial markets since 1992, when Peter Bernstein wrote his seminal Capital Ideas. Happily, Peter has taken up his facile pen again to describe these changes, a virtual revolution in the practice of investing that relies heavily on complex mathematics, derivatives, hedging, and hyperactive trading. This fine and eminently readable book is unlikely to be surpassed as the definitive chronicle of a truly historic era."
—John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and author, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
"Just as Dante could not have understood or survived the perils of the Inferno without Virgil to guide him, investors today need Peter Bernstein to help find their way across dark and shifting ground. No one alive understands Wall Street's intellectual history better, and that makes Bernstein our best and wisest guide to the future. He is the only person who could have written this book; thank goodness he did."
—Jason Zweig, Investing Columnist, Money magazine
"Another must-read from Peter Bernstein! This well-written and thought-provoking book provides valuable insights on how key finance theories have evolved from their ivory tower formulation to profitable application by portfolio managers. This book will certainly be read with keen interest by, and undoubtedly influence, a wide range of participants in international finance."
—Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian, President and CEO of Harvard Management Company, Deputy Treasurer of Harvard University, and member of the faculty of the Harvard Business School
"Reading Capital Ideas Evolving is an experience not to be missed. Peter Bernstein's knowledge of the principal characters-the giants in the development of investment theory and practice-brings this subject to life."
—Linda B. Strumpf, Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, The Ford Foundation
"With great clarity, Peter Bernstein introduces us to the insights of investment giants, and explains how they transformed financial theory into portfolio practice. This is not just a tale of money and models; it is a fascinating and contemporary story about people and the power of their ideas."
—Elroy Dimson, BGI Professor of Investment Management, London Business School
"Capital Ideas Evolving provides us with a unique appreciation for the pervasive impact that the theory of modern finance has had on the development of our capital markets. Peter Bernstein once again has produced a masterpiece that is must reading for practitioners, educators and students of finance."
—André F. Perold, Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School
Political Order and Political Decay
From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy     |
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Počet stran: 657
Velikost: 2,52 MB
Knižní žánr: politologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-4299-4432-8 Cena: 14.29 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 13:01
| Anotace: Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order“magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition.” In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as “a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time.” And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed “this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two.”
Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West.
A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic.
The Nature of Fascism
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 347
Velikost: 2,15 MB
Knižní žánr: politologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 0-415-09661-8 Cena: 34.39 GPB Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 12:59
| Anotace: The Nature of Fascism draws on the history of ideas as well as on political, social and psychological theory to produce a synthesis of ideas and approaches that will be invaluable for students.
Roger Griffin locates the driving force of fascism in a distinctive form of utopian myth, that of the regenerated national community, destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent society. He lays bare the structural affinity that relates fascism not only to Nazism, but to the many failed fascist movements that surfaced in inter-war Europe and elsewhere, and traces the unabated proliferation of virulent (but thus far successfully marginalized) fascist activism since 1945.
Intelligence, Race, and Genetics
Conversations with Arthur R. Jensen     |
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Počet stran: 199
Velikost: 1,34 MB
Knižní žánr: přírodní vědy
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 9780786747610 Cena: 43.42 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 12:56
| Anotace: In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine senior editor Frank Miele, renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence, tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond. Miele cross-examines Jensen’s views on general intelligence (the g factor), racial differences in IQ, cultural bias in IQ tests, and whether differences in IQ are due primarily to heredity or to remediable factors such as poverty and discrimination. With characteristic frankness, Jensen also presents his view of the proper role of scientific facts in establishing public policy, such as Affirmative Action. “Jensenism,” the assertion that heredity plays an undeniably greater role than environmental factors in racial (and other) IQ differences, has entered the dictionary and also made Jensen a bitterly controversial figure. Nevertheless, Intelligence, Race, and Genetics carefully underscores the dedicated lifetime of scrupulously scientific research that supports Jensen’s conclusions.
Totalitarianism and Political Religion
An Intellectual History     |
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Počet stran: 355
Velikost: 476 kB
Knižní žánr: politologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-8047-8368-2 Cena: 61.60 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 12:53
| Anotace: The totalitarian systems that arose in the twentieth century presented themselves as secular. Yet, as A. James Gregor argues in this book, they themselves functioned as religions. He presents an intellectual history of the rise of these political religions, tracing a set of ideas that include belief that a certain text contains impeccable truths; notions of infallible, charismatic leadership; and the promise of human redemption through strict obedience, selfless sacrifice, total dedication, and unremitting labor.
Gregor provides unique insight into the variants of Marxism, Fascism, and National Socialism that dominated our immediate past. He explores the seeds of totalitarianism as secular faith in the nineteenth-century ideologies of Ludwig Feuerbach, Moses Hess, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Richard Wagner. He follows the growth of those seeds as the twentieth century became host to Leninism and Stalinism, Italian Fascism, and German National Socialism—each a totalitarian institution and a political religion.
Marxism, Fascism & Totalitarianism
Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism     |
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Počet stran: 422
Velikost: 724 kB
Knižní žánr: politologie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-8047-6034-8 Cena: 18.15 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 12:50
| Anotace: This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders. It outlines the variants that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century—one of which was to be of influence among the followers of Adolf Hitler, another of which was to shape the ideology of Benito Mussolini, and still another of which provided the doctrinal rationale for V. I. Lenin's Bolshevism and Joseph Stalin's communism. This account differs from many others by rejecting a traditional left/right distinction—a distinction that makes it difficult to understand how totalitarian political institutions could arise out of presumably diametrically opposed political ideologies. Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism thus helps to explain the common features of "left-wing" and "right-wing" regimes in the twentieth century.
A History of PI
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 181
Velikost: 8,67 MB
Knižní žánr: logika a matematika
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 9781466887169 Cena: 10.13 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 12:35
| Anotace: The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress -- and also when it did not, because science was being stifled by militarism or religious fanaticism.
The Philosophy of Kant
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Počet stran: 53
Velikost: 175 kB
Knižní žánr: filozofie
Jazyk: angličtina
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| Anotace: Born in Scotland, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay was a teacher of philosophy at a number of universities in England in the early 1900s. This brief commentary on Kant's philosophy is a work that focuses solely on some of the main ideas Kant put forth in the three Critiques. Although not comprehensive, the narrative style of this volume makes it a pleasant read and will be a valuable "break-in" point (or introduction to) the complex philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Whatever
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 85
Velikost: 383 kB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: angličtina
Cena: 5.49 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 12:28
| Anotace: Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time.
A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.
The Possibility of an Island
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 373
Velikost: 386 kB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-307-26532-6 Cena: 8.58 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 12:26
| Anotace: A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished.
Surprisingly poignant, philosophically compelling, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, The Possibility of an Island is at once an indictment, an elegy, and a celebration of everything we have and are at risk of losing. It is a masterpiece from one of the world’s most innovative writers.
The Elementary Particles
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Počet stran: 276
Velikost: 386 kB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-375-41264-6 Cena: 7.51 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 12:12
| Anotace: An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.
Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale.
Platform
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 262
Velikost: 297 kB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: angličtina
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| Anotace: In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.
In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human contact as possible. But following his father’s death he takes a group holiday to Thailand where he meets a travel agent—the shyly compelling Valérie—who begins to bring this half-dead man to life with sex of escalating intensity and audacity. Arcing with dreamlike swiftness from Paris to Pattaya Beach and from sex clubs to a terrorist massacre,Platform is a brilliant, apocalyptic masterpiece by a man who is widely regarded as one of the world’s most original and daring writers.
A Horse's Tale
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Knižní žánr: beletrie
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| Anotace: I am Buffalo Bill's horse. I have spent my life under his saddle - with him in it, too, and he is good for two hundred pounds, without his clothes; and there is no telling how much he does weigh when he is out on the war-path and has his batteries belted on. He is over six feet, is young, hasn't an ounce of waste flesh, is straight, graceful, springy in his motions, quick as a cat, and has a handsome face, and black hair dangling down on his shoulders, and is beautiful to look at; and nobody is braver than he is, and nobody is stronger, except myself. Yes, a person that doubts that he is fine to see should see him in his beaded buck-skins, on my back and his rifle peeping above his shoulder, chasing a hostile trail, with me going like the wind and his hair streaming out behind from the shelter of his broad slouch. Yes, he is a sight to look at then - and I'm part of it myself. I am his favorite horse, out of dozens. Big as he is, I have carried him eighty-one miles between nightfall and sunrise on the scout; and I am good for fifty, day in and day out, and all the time. I am not large, but I am built on a business basis. I have carried him thousands and thousands of miles on scout duty for the army, and there's not a gorge, nor a pass, nor a valley, nor a fort, nor a trading post, nor a buffalo-range in the whole sweep of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains that we don't know as well as we know the bugle-calls. He is Chief of Scouts to the Army of the Frontier, and it makes us very important. In such a position as I hold in the military service one needs to be of good family and possess an education much above the common to be worthy of the place. I am the best-educated horseoutside of the hippodrome, every-body says, and the best-mannered. It may be so, it is not for me to say; modesty is the best policy, I think. Buffalo Bill taught me the most of what I know, my mother taught me much, and I taught myself the rest. Lay a row of moccasins before me - Pawnee, Sioux, Shoshone, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, and as many other tribes as you please - and I can name the tribe every moccasin belongs to by the make of it. Name it in horse-talk, and could do it in American if I had speech.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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Počet stran: 223
Velikost: 419 kB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-14-191391-9 Cena: 2.19 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 11:18
| Anotace: London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth-eaten already," a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen "flatter than any pancake," Gordon has given up a "good" job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary. Always broke, but too proud to accept charity, he rarely sees his few friends and cannot get the virginal Rosemary to bed because (or so he believes), "If you have no money ... women won't love you." On the windowsill of Gordon's shabby rooming-house room is a sickly but unkillable aspidistra--a plant he abhors as the banner of the sort of "mingy, lower-middle-class decency" he is fleeing in his downward flight.
In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell has created a darkly compassionate satire to which anyone who has ever been oppressed by the lack of brass, or by the need to make it, will all too easily relate. He etches the ugly insanity of what Gordon calls "the money-world" in unflinching detail, but the satire has a second edge, too, and Gordon himself is scarcely heroic. In the course of his misadventures, we become grindingly aware that his radical solution to the problem of the money-world is no solution at all--that in his desperate reaction against a monstrous system, he has become something of a monster himself.
Orwell keeps both of his edges sharp to the very end--a "happy" ending that poses tough questions about just how happy it really is. That the book itself is not sour, but constantly fresh and frequently funny, is the result of Orwell's steady, unsentimental attention to the telling detail; his dry, quiet humor; his fascination with both the follies and the excellences of his characters; and his courageous refusal to embrace the comforts of any easy answer.
Burmese Days
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Počet stran: 277
Velikost: 628 kB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-14-196504-8 Cena: 1.09 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 15.01.2015, 11:16
| Anotace: Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and imperial bigotry. Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for the Empire, whose downfall can only be prevented by membership at an all-white club.
Spanish Arms and Armour
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Počet stran: 128
Velikost: 14,34 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
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| Anotace: The present work is based on the admirable catalogue prepared in 1898 at the instigation of Queen Maria Cristina by the Conde de Valencia de San Juan.
The Burning Wheel
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Počet stran: 17
Velikost: 243 kB
Knižní žánr: poezie
Jazyk: angličtina
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| Anotace: Though Aldous Huxley is primarily remembered for his novels, and to a lesser extent his essays, he began his writing career as a poet. While a student at Balliol College at Oxford, having been exempted from military service due to extremely poor eyesight, he was involved in several student poetry magazines. In September 1916 his first book of poetry, "The Burning Wheel", appeared.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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Počet stran: 343
Velikost: 342 kB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: angličtina
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| Anotace: No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me. No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of public entertainment in the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry.
Sunday Under Three Heads
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Počet stran: 28
Velikost: 30 kB
Knižní žánr: beletrie
Jazyk: angličtina
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| Anotace: Charles Dickens is considered one of the greatest English authors of all time. Dickens often used the pen name Boz. Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form. Unlike many writers of his time Dickens wrote the entire novel before serializing it. He made frequent use of the cliffhanger to keep the public interested. Dickens talks of the joys of a quiet a Sunday afternoon and the pleasure derived from a day off for the working classes. The pampered aristocrat, whose life is one continued round of licentious pleasures and sensual gratifications; or the gloomy enthusiast, who detests the cheerful amusements he can never enjoy, and envies the healthy feelings he can never know, and who would put down the one and suppress the other, until he made the minds of his fellow-beings as besotted and distorted as his own; --neither of these men can by possibility form an adequate notion of what Sunday really is to those whose lives are spent in sedentary or laborious occupations, and who are accustomed to look forward to it through their whole existence, as their only day of rest from toil, and innocent enjoyment.
Vyzvědačky století
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Počet stran: 121
Velikost: 998 kB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: čeština
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| Anotace: Na případech nejslavnějších světových špiónek a vyzvědaček V. P. Borovička přesvědčivě dokumentuje, že tyto ženy sehrály často rozhodující roli v mnoha bitvách na neviditelných a hluboce utajených frontách zpravodajské činnosti. Dramatické osudy těchto žen, které byly nejen krásné, ale také odvážné a inteligentní, rozhodně stojí za to, aby neupadly v zapomnění. Autor stejně jako ve svých předchozích dílech snáší množství zajímavého a neotřelého materiálu a osvědčuje svůj smysl pro vykreslení atmosféry doby.
Procesy, které vzrušily svět
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Počet stran: 142
Velikost: 1,32 MB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: čeština
Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.12.2014, 15:31
| Anotace: Autor několika desítek knížek investigativní literatury pátrá po pravdě i v díle věnovaném slavným či naopak velmi neslavným soudním procesům. Vybral si zajímavé a napínavé případy, které ovlivnily svou dobu: Ježíše Nazaretského, nevinného kapitána Dreyfuse či D.H. Lawrence, autora skandálního "Milence lady Chatterlyové", a další. V.P. Borovička snáší stejně jako ve svých předchozích dílech množství zajímavého materiálu, kterému vdechuje život, zejména svým uměním živého dialogu. Osvědčuje svůj smysl pro vykreslení atmosféry a pro detail.
Záhadné policejní případy
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Velikost: 723 kB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: čeština
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| Anotace: Do této knihy autor shromáždil skutečné kriminální příběhy, odehrávající se na různých místech a v různých dobách, které však spojuje fakt, že zůstaly tak či onak nedořešené. Policejní vyšetřování bylo sice uzavřeno a soud vynesl odsuzující, či naopak osvobozující rozsudek, ale pochyby zůstaly nerozptýleny. A nejednalo se o žádné vesnické banality, ale o skandály či ututlané skandály první velikosti. Ať už se jedná o záhadné vraždy z prostředí papežské stolce, velkého businessu či vrcholné politiky, každý z příběhů je díky autorovým celoživotním zkušenostem a jeho unikátnímu archivu dokonale zpracovanou detektivkou.
Bruce F. Pauley
Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini
Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century     |
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Počet stran: 408
Velikost: 3,88 MB
Knižní žánr: biografie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-118-76592-0 Cena: 28.00 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.12.2014, 15:25
| Anotace: Rising to a great challenge in this remarkable study, Bruce Pauley compares the origins, development, and demise of all three forms of European totalitarianism, explaining why the old regimes that preceded the dictatorships failed, how the totalitarian movements arose, and how they captured, consolidated, and eventually plummeted from power.
Although its vivid portraits of the dictators' youths, early careers, relationships with women, management styles, and cults of personality–that they and their propaganda machines crafted–are certain to fascinate all readers, Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini is much more than a triple biography; it is a unique, interpretive comparison of the economics, culture, education, and health-care systems of all three dictatorships. While more conventional subjects such as diplomacy and war are by no means neglected, Professor Pauley goes further to explore the regimes' treatment of women, young people, and their terroristic oppression of religious institutions and minorities.
The Body Soviet
Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State     |
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Počet stran: 336
Velikost: 14,26 MB
Knižní žánr: historie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-299-22964-1 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.12.2014, 15:22
| Anotace: In 1918 the People’s Commissariat of Public Health began a quest to protect the health of all Soviet citizens, but health became more than a political platform or a tactical decision. The Soviets defined and categorized the world by interpreting political orthodoxy and citizenship in terms of hygiene. The assumed political, social, and cultural benefits of a regulated, healthy lifestyle informed the construction of Soviet institutions and identity. Cleanliness developed into a political statement that extended from domestic maintenance to leisure choices and revealed gender, ethnic, and class prejudices. Dirt denoted the past and poor politics; health and cleanliness signified mental acuity, political orthodoxy, and modernity.
Health, though essential to the revolutionary vision and crucial to Soviet plans for utopia, has been neglected by traditional histories caught up in Cold War debates. The Body Soviet recovers this significant aspect of Soviet thought by providing a cross-disciplinary, comparative history of Soviet health programs that draws upon rich sources of health care propaganda, including posters, plays, museum displays, films, and mock trials. The analysis of propaganda makes The Body Soviet more than an institutional history; it is also an insightful critique of the ideologies of the body fabricated by health organizations.
Všechno je jinak
aneb Co nám neřekli o důchodech, euru a budoucnosti     |
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Počet stran: 234
Velikost: 4,78 MB
Knižní žánr: ekonomie
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-247-7551-7 Cena: 229.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.12.2014, 15:17
| Anotace: Co když je všechno jinak, než se na první pohled zdá? Ve společnosti roste pnutí. Nepokoje se šíří Evropou. Jedna krize střídá druhou. Možná se blíží kolaps eurozóny. Jak to skončí? Vstupujeme do nové éry? Dá se snad v takové chvíli spolehnout na to, že se o nás stát postará? Myslíte na stáří, ale nevíte, jak v tak zvláštní době investovat bezpečně?
Známí ekonomové Vladimír Pikora a Markéta Šichtařová na tyto otázky odpovídají srozumitelně pro každého laika. Odkrývají jeden mýtus po druhém. Jako rebelové odmaskovávají nekompetentní politiky. Odhalují, co nás čeká. Nabízejí řešení, jak se o sebe a svůj důchod postarat a jak investovat bezpečně. Ale pokud čekáte nudu a nesrozumitelný odborný text, nedočkáte se. Taková kniha tu ještě nebyla: Nerozčílí vás - spíš vám zvedne náladu před nedělním obědem.
Saský vpád do Čech (1631-1632)
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 119
Velikost: 1,92 MB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-87856-80-2 Cena: 89.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.12.2014, 15:15
| Anotace: Na začátku třicetileté války měly Čechy přibližně tři milióny obyvatel, po jejím skončení jich zbylo 800 tisíc. A tito lidé byli většinou na mizině De facto byl zničen obchod, řemesla, domy i statky a velká část obyvatelstva ,,morálně zdivočela''. Trvalo velmi dlouho než se Čechy zase ,,postavily'' na vlastní nohy.
Špioni proti Armagedonu
Tajné války Mosadu     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 565
Velikost: 665 kB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: čeština
ISBN: 978-80-249-4538-6 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.12.2014, 15:13
| Anotace: SPIES AGAINST ARMAGEDDON je živě napsaná historie izraelských tajných služeb – v čele s proslulým a obávaným Mosadem – od získání nezávislost v roce 1948 až po současné krize. Autoři popisují změny v prioritách izraelských tajných služeb, které se od míru s Palestinci přesouvají k Íránu. Kniha také odhaluje některé události, za něž se izraelští vyzvědači stydí, skandály, které by raději ututlali. Nicméně ve věku internetu a vyzvědačských satelitů je Izrael zemí, která nejkreativněji využívá špionáž jako alternativu k válce.
Alexander the Great
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Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 353
Velikost: 5,28 MB
Knižní žánr: biografie
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-1-4391-9328-0 Cena: 21.97 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.12.2014, 15:11
| Anotace: In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history. He was a general of such skill and renown that for two thousand years other great leaders studied his strategy and tactics, from Hannibal to Napoleon, with countless more in between. He flashed across the sky of history like a comet, glowing brightly and burning out quickly: crowned at age nineteen, dead by thirty-two. He established the greatest empire of the ancient world; Greek coins and statues are found as far east as Afghanistan. Our interest in him has never faded.
Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind that would serve him well when he faced formidable obstacles during his military campaigns. Shortly after taking command of the army, he launched an invasion of the Persian empire, and continued his conquests as far south as the deserts of Egypt and as far east as the mountains of present-day Pakistan and the plains of India. Alexander spent nearly all his adult life away from his homeland, and he and his men helped spread the Greek language throughout western Asia, where it would become the lingua franca of the ancient world. Within a short time after Alexander’s death in Baghdad, his empire began to fracture. Best known among his successors are the Ptolemies of Egypt, whose empire lasted until Cleopatra.
In his lively and authoritative biography of Alexander, classical scholar and historian Philip Freeman describes Alexander’s astonishing achievements and provides insight into the mercurial character of the great conqueror. Alexander could be petty and magnanimous, cruel and merciful, impulsive and farsighted. Above all, he was ferociously, intensely competitive and could not tolerate losing—which he rarely did. As Freeman explains, without Alexander, the influence of Greece on the ancient world would surely not have been as great as it was, even if his motivation was not to spread Greek culture for beneficial purposes but instead to unify his empire. Only a handful of people have influenced history as Alexander did, which is why he continues to fascinate us.
Mossad
The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service     |
Formát: EPUB
Počet stran: 358
Velikost: 5,45 MB
Knižní žánr: literatura faktu
Jazyk: angličtina
ISBN: 978-0-06-212340-4 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.12.2014, 15:09
| Anotace: "This book tells what should have been known and isn't—that Israel's hidden force is as formidable as its recognized physical strength."
— Israeli President Shimon Peres
For decades, Israel's renowned security arm, the Mossad, has been widely recognized as the best intelligence service in the world. In Mossad, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions in the agency's 60-year history. These are real Mission: Impossibletrue stories brimming with high-octane action—from the breathtaking capture of Nazi executioner Adolph Eichmann to the recent elimination of key Iranian nuclear scientists. Anyone who is fascinated by the world of international espionage, intelligence, and covert "Black-Ops" warfare will find Mossadelectrifying reading.

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