E-knihy

Formát: PDF Počet stran: 510 Velikost: 15,97 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-4443-5104-0 Cena: 47.00 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 09.08.2025, 20:25

A Companion to Ancient Thrace presents a series of essays that reveal the newly recognized complexity of the social and cultural phenomena of the peoples inhabiting the Balkan periphery of the Classical world.

• Features a rich and detailed overview of Thracian history from the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity

• Includes contributions from leading scholars in the archaeology, art history, and general history of Thrace

• Balances consideration of material evidence relating to Ancient Thrace with more traditional literary sources

• Integrates a study of Thrace within a broad context that includes the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, southwest Asia, and southeast Europe/Eurasia

• Reflects the impact of new theoretical approaches to economy, ethnicity, and cross-cultural interaction and hybridity in Ancient Thrace

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 552 Velikost: 2,94 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-4443-3601-6 Cena: 185.00 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 09.08.2025, 20:21

A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic offers a comparative approach to examining ancient Greek and Roman participatory communities.

Explores various aspects of participatory communities through pairs of chapters—one Greek, one Roman—to highlight comparisons between cultures
Examines the types of relationships that sustained participatory communities, the challenges they faced, and how they responded
Sheds new light on participatory contexts using diverse methodological approaches
Brings an international array of scholars into dialogue with each other

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 700 Velikost: 1,96 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-118-30128-9 Cena: 176.00 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 09.08.2025, 20:14

A Companion to Livy features a collection of essays representing the most up-to-date international scholarship on the life and works of the Roman historian Livy.

Features contributions from top Livian scholars from around the world
Presents for the first time a new interpretation of Livy's historical philosophy, which represents a key to an overall interpretation of Livy's body of work
Includes studies of Livy's work from an Indo-European comparative aspect
Provides the most modern studies on literary archetypes for Livy's narrative of the history of early Rome

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 242 Velikost: 284 kB Knižní žánr: politologie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-4299-3173-1 Cena: 11.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 09.08.2025, 20:08

They Must Be Stopped is New York Times bestselling author Brigitte Gabriel's warning to the world: We can no longer ignore the growth of radical Islam--we must act soon, and powerfully. Gabriel challenges our western and politically-correct notions about Islam, demonstrating why radical Islam is so deadly and how we can halt its progress.

*Fundamentalist Islam is a religion rooted in 7th century teachings that are fundamentally opposed to democracy and equality.

*Radical Islamists are utterly contemptuous of all "infidels" (non-Muslims) and regard them as enemies worthy of death.

*Madrassas in America are increasing in number, and they are just one part of a growing radical Islamic army on US soil.

*Radical Islam exploits the US legal system and America's protection of religion to spread its hatred for western values.

*America must organize a unified voice that says "enough" to political correctness, and demands that government officials and elected representatives do whatever is necessary to protect us.

Brigitte Gabriel has fearlessly faced down critics, death threats, and political correctness, and is one of the most sought after terrorism experts in the world. They Must Be Stopped is her clarion call to action. Gabriel thoroughly addresses the historical and religious basis of radical Islam, its frightening encroachment into societies around the world, and its abuses of democracy in the name of religion.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 1899 Velikost: 4,25 MB Knižní žánr: ekonomie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-931089-32-6 Cena: 9.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 09.08.2025, 19:41

Aimed at both the intelligent layman and the professional economist, this book is the most comprehensive and intellectually powerful explanation of the nature and value of laissez-faire capitalism that has ever been written. It represents a twofold major integration of truths previously discovered by other writers, combined with numerous original contributions made by the author himself. Within economic theory, it integrates leading ideas of the Austrian school with needlessly abandoned doctrines of the British classical school. It further integrates such reconstituted economic theory with essential elements of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism.

On the foundation of these integrations, Dr. Reisman is able to develop the numerous major original contributions that the book presents on the subjects of profits, wages, saving, capital accumulation, aggregate economic accounting, monopoly, and natural resources, among other vital subjects. Based on the same foundation, the book presents the most powerful critiques of Marx, Keynes, the pure-and-perfect competition doctrine, and environmentalism to be found anywhere.

A leading part of its trenchant economic analysis is a consistent demonstration of the natural harmony of the rational self-interests of all men under capitalism—of businessmen and wage earners, of consumers and producers, of men of all races and nationalities, including immigrants and the native born, and of competitors of all levels of ability—consonances most will find astonishing, given the prevailing misunderstandings of capitalism.

The book's importance and appeal to a general audience are evident in its description of prevailing attitudes toward capitalism and its challenge to learn why they are all completely wrong and the cause of self-destructive political behavior on a massive scale. For those with the intellectual courage to accept a challenge of having many of their firmest and most cherished beliefs reduced by unanswerable logic to the status of Dark-Age superstitions, here are some of the beliefs that Reisman's book demolishes: The profit motive is the cause of starvation wages, exhausting hours, sweatshops, and child labor; of monopolies, inflation, depressions, wars, imperialism, and racism. Saving is hoarding. Competition is the law of the jungle. Economic inequality is unjust and the legitimate basis for class warfare. Economic progress is a ravaging of the planet and, in the form of improvements in efficiency, a cause of unemployment and depressions. War and destruction or additional peacetime government spending are necessary to prevent unemployment under capitalism. Economic activity other than manual labor is parasitical. Businessmen and capitalists are recipients of "unearned income" and are "exploiters." The stock and commodity markets are "gambling casinos"; retailers and wholesalers are "middlemen," having no function but that of adding "markups" to the prices charged by farmers and manufacturers; advertisers are inherently guilty of fraud—the fraud of attempting to induce people to desire the goods that capitalism showers on them, but that they allegedly have no natural or legitimate basis for desiring.

Reisman's book flies in the face of all anticapitalistic ideas and demands. Its thesis is that never have so many people been so ignorant and confused about a subject so important, as most people now are about economics and capitalism. It argues that in its logically consistent form of laissez-faire capitalism—that is, with the powers of government limited to those of national defense and the administration of justice—capitalism is a system of economic progress and prosperity for all, and is a precondition of world peace. Following an exhaustive economic analysis of virtually every aspect of capitalism, the book's concluding chapter is devoted to the presentation of a long-range political-economic program for the achievement of a fully capitalist society.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 15 Velikost: 100 kB Knižní žánr: politologie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-931089-37-1 Cena: 0.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 09.08.2025, 19:08

This essay explains why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one. And why Socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, requires either fraud or armed robbery in order to achieve power, and then the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship in order to remain in power. Social Democrats do not have the stomach for armed robbery and the mass murder it entails, and thus do not establish socialism but merely a more hampered market economy. It takes the Communists to openly establish socialism.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 178 Velikost: 271 kB Knižní žánr: sociologie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 0-300-10199-6 Cena: 14.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 09.08.2025, 18:59

In this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in the United States and in other countries where it has been in effect. Evaluating his empirical data, Thomas Sowell concludes that race preference programs worldwide have not met expectations and have often produced the opposite of what was originally intended.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 38 Velikost: 343 kB Knižní žánr: sociologie Jazyk: angličtina Cena: 0.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 09.08.2025, 18:56

In 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeni, ruler of Islamic Iran issued a fatwa calling on all Muslims worldwide to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie for insulting the Prophet Muhammad and Islam. Rushdie’s crime? Blasphemy or “Islamophobia,” as it has come to be known. Since then we have seen worldwide violent Muslim protests over cartoons, blasphemy laws in Europe, prosecutions of notable opponents of Islamic terror like Oriana Fallaci and Geert Wilders, and the demonization of courageous opponents of Islamic imperialism and terror in the West. David Horowitz and Robert Spencer describe the origins of the word “Islamophobia” as a coinage of the Muslim Brotherhood and show how the Brotherhood launched a campaign, by ginning up “Islamophobia” as a hate crime, to stigmatize mention of such issues as radical Islam’s violence against women and murder of homosexuals, and the constant incitement of many imams to terrorism. The authors make the case that “Islamophobia” is a dagger aimed at the heart of free speech and also at the heart of our national security.

Formát: PDF Původní název: The Greatest Show on Earth. The Evidence for Evolution Počet stran: 439 Velikost: 26,72 MB Knižní žánr: biologie Jazyk: čeština ISBN: 978-80-7675-271-9 Cena: 399.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 05.08.2025, 02:33

Biologická evoluce není "pouhou teorií", ale skutečností. Probíhá po miliardy let a vedla ke vzniku tolika podivuhodných životních forem, že si zaslouží označení za největší show na Zemi; a toto velkolepé představení přitom nepotřebovalo žádného režiséra. Současně se ale evoluce odehrává i přímo před našima očima, můžeme ji zaznamenat na sloních klech i ve vrtění psího ocasu. Kniha známého britského biologa a popularizátora vědy nám ukáže fungování evoluce z mnoha pohledů, od paleontologického záznamu přes molekulární genetiku a vývoj embrya až po domestikaci zvířat či to, jak se historie života promítla do geografického rozšíření současných druhů.

Formát: PDF Původní název: The Collapse of Complex Societies Počet stran: 318 Velikost: 8,27 MB Knižní žánr: sociologie Jazyk: čeština ISBN: 978-80-7675-240-5 Cena: 349.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 05.08.2025, 02:31

Americký archeolog, antropolog a historik Joseph A. Tainter se ve své nejznámější publikaci Kolapsy složitých společností zabývá otázkou, proč se v minulosti zhroutily mnohé říše, státní útvary či jiné složité organizační formy lidské společnosti. Nejprve uvádí téměř dvě desítky případů kolapsu a podává přehled teorií, jejichž prostřednictvím se během uplynulých dvou tisíc let kolapsy vysvětlovaly. Poté vytváří vlastní, široce aplikovatelnou teorii kolapsů (kolapsy jsou v ní vysvětleny poklesem mezních výnosů investic do složitosti). Prostřednictvím detailních studií kolapsu římské a mayské říše a americké kultury Chaco pak ověřuje platnost svého modelu a objasňuje fungování dezintegračních procesů. V závěrečné kapitole se zamýšlí nad tím, zdali kolaps nehrozí také současné společnosti, což je jedna z otázek, které člověka jedenadvacátého století znepokojují.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 269 Velikost: 1,32 MB Knižní žánr: literatura faktu Jazyk: angličtina Cena: 0.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 05.08.2025, 02:28

The purpose of this text is to provide the Army with a factual account of the organization and operations of the Soviet resistance movement behind the German forces on the Eastern Front during World War II. This movement offers a particularly valuable case study, for it can be viewed both in relation to the German occupation in the Soviet Union and to the offensive and defensive operations of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army.

The scope of the study includes an over-all picture of a quasi-military organization in relation to a larger conflict between two regular armies. It is not a study in partisan tactics, nor is it intended to be. German measures taken to combat the partisan movement are sketched in, but the story in large part remains that of an organization and how it operated. The German planning for the invasion of Russia is treated at some length because many of the circumstances which favored the rise and development of the movement had their bases in errors the Germans made in their initial planning. The operations of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army are likewise described in considerable detail as the backdrop against which the operations of the partisan units are projected.

Because of the lack of reliable Soviet sources, the story has been told much as the Germans recorded it. German documents written during the course of World War II constitute the principal sources, but many survivors who had experience in Russia have made important contributions based upon their personal experience.

Formát: EPUB Původní název: The Fountainhead Počet stran: 961 Velikost: 2,04 MB Knižní žánr: beletrie Jazyk: čeština ISBN: 978-80-7675-204-7 Cena: 499.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 05.08.2025, 02:24

Ayn Randová v románu Zdroj (1943) poprvé naplno uplatnila svou originální literární vizi a nastínila vlastní filozofický směr, který později nazvala objektivismus. Kniha se po vydání dočkala okamžitého komerčního úspěchu a je dnes považována za klasiku. V roce 1949 byl román zfilmován s Garym Cooperem v hlavní roli. Děj sleduje kariéru i milostný život mladého geniálního architekta, který si stojí pevně za svými zásadami a neúnavně čelí tlaku veřejnosti, jež se ho snaží zlomit a přimět ke konformitě. Randová v románu otevírá řadu zásadních témat, která později rozpracovala esejisticky v knize Ctnost sobectví (1964) nebo beletristicky ve svém nejznámějším díle Atlasova vzpoura (1957). Jejím cílem je ukázat, že morálním a správným smyslem života jednotlivce není stádnost a sebeobětování ve prospěch ostatních a společnosti, nýbrž dosahování vlastního štěstí na základě nezávislého myšlení a sledování svých racionálních zájmů.

Formát: EPUB Původní název: The Virtue Of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism Počet stran: 184 Velikost: 1,22 MB Knižní žánr: sociologie Jazyk: čeština ISBN: 978-80-7675-255-9 Cena: 299.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 05.08.2025, 02:19

Za nejvyšší morální hodnotu zpravidla považujeme nezištnou pomoc. Debata se pak soustředí na otázky, komu bychom měli pomáhat či jak velkou oběť je potřeba přinést. Morálka sebeobětování však vůbec neřeší, jaké hodnoty má člověk sledovat a co je v jeho vlastním zájmu. Zajímá ji pouze to, že prospěch z toho, co člověk vytváří, mají mít ostatní, nikoli on sám. Ayn Randová ve svém eseji „Objektivistická etika“ tento přístup zásadně zpochybňuje a předkládá nám morálku orientovanou na život, ne jeho obětování. Ukazuje, co znamená jednat ve vlastním zájmu. Není to jednání na úkor ostatních naopak jde o jediný způsob, jak mohou být v souladu racionální zájmy jednotlivců ve společnosti. Sobectví pro ni není vrtošivým, instinktivním chováním, ale důsledným, usilovným a trvalým promýšlením, jak promítat morální principy do každodenních situací a podle toho se chovat. Randová naplňuje pojem sobectví zcela novým obsahem: racionálně pojímané sobectví je jedinou morálkou, která je v souladu s lidským životem.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 324 Velikost: 1,27 MB Knižní žánr: beletrie Jazyk: čeština ISBN: 978-80-87939-15-4 Cena: 109.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 05.08.2025, 02:10

V roce 1984 Josef Škvorecký o svém románu napsal: „Pokrývá asi třicet pět let života, příběhy se odehrávají v různých a velice sobě nepodobných místech na zeměkouli, v Čechách, v Německu, ve Spojených státech, v Kanadě. Zdálo se mi, že chronologické zachycení osudů na pozadí naší doby, kde šílenství války a místní despotové se zmocňují celých zemí a kontinentů, je neadekvátní. ... Hlavou se mi honily stovky historek, tucty bezdějových dějů; odmítaly srovnat se do přehledných vzorů. Nahodil jsem epizody, konverzace, images na kousíčky papíru, pak jsem se usadil na podlaze, a jako kdybych dával dohromady gigantickou skládačku, začal jsem těmi útržky minulosti šoupat.“

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 295 Velikost: 1,25 MB Knižní žánr: beletrie Jazyk: čeština ISBN: 978-80-87939-14-7 Cena: 109.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 05.08.2025, 02:06

V roce 1984 Josef Škvorecký o svém románu napsal: „Pokrývá asi třicet pět let života, příběhy se odehrávají v různých a velice sobě nepodobných místech na zeměkouli, v Čechách, v Německu, ve Spojených státech, v Kanadě. Zdálo se mi, že chronologické zachycení osudů na pozadí naší doby, kde šílenství války a místní despotové se zmocňují celých zemí a kontinentů, je neadekvátní. ... Hlavou se mi honily stovky historek, tucty bezdějových dějů; odmítaly srovnat se do přehledných vzorů. Nahodil jsem epizody, konverzace, images na kousíčky papíru, pak jsem se usadil na podlaze, a jako kdybych dával dohromady gigantickou skládačku, začal jsem těmi útržky minulosti šoupat.“

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 457 Velikost: 2,7 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-003-13408-4 Cena: 54.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 05.08.2025, 01:27

Roman Emperors in Context: Theodosius to Justinian brings together ten articles by renowned historian Brian Croke.

Written separately and over a period of fifteen years, the revised and updated chapters in this volume provide a coherent and substantial story of the change and development in imperial government at the eastern capital of Constantinople between the reigns of Theodosius I (379-95) and Justinian (527-65). Bookended by chapters on the city itself, this book is based on a conviction that the legal and administrative decisions of emperors have an impact on the whole of the political realm. The fifth century, which forms the core of this book, is shown to be essentially Roman in that the significance of aristocracy and dynasty still formed the basic framework for political advancement and the conduct/conflict of political power around a Roman imperial court from one generation to the next. Also highlighted is how power at court was mediated through military generals, including major regional commanders in the Balkans and the East, bishops and bureaucrats. Finally, the book demonstrates how the prolonged absence of male heirs during this period allowed the sisters, daughters, mothers and wives of Roman emperors to become more important and more central to imperial government.

This book is essential reading for scholars and students of Roman and Byzantine history, as well as those interested in political and legal history.

Formát: PDF Počet stran: 278 Velikost: 1,2 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-0-691-13790-2 Cena: 16.17 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 05.08.2025, 01:03

n this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of Ancient Strategy demonstrates that the military thinking and policies of the ancient Greeks and Romans remain surprisingly relevant for understanding conflict in the modern world.

The book reveals that much of the organized violence witnessed today—such as counterterrorism, urban fighting, insurgencies, preemptive war, and ethnic cleansing—has ample precedent in the classical era. The book examines the preemption and unilateralism used to instill democracy during Epaminondas's great invasion of the Peloponnesus in 369 BC, as well as the counterinsurgency and terrorism that characterized Rome's battles with insurgents such as Spartacus, Mithridates, and the Cilician pirates. The collection looks at the urban warfare that became increasingly common as more battles were fought within city walls, and follows the careful tactical strategies of statesmen as diverse as Pericles, Demosthenes, Alexander, Pyrrhus, Caesar, and Augustus. Makers of Ancient Strategy shows how Greco-Roman history sheds light on wars of every age. In addition to the editor, the contributors are David L. Berkey, Adrian Goldsworthy, Peter J. Heather, Tom Holland, Donald Kagan, John W. I. Lee, Susan Mattern, Barry Strauss, and Ian Worthington.

Formát: PDF Počet stran: 567 Velikost: 17,12 MB Knižní žánr: politologie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-0-241-31712-9 Cena: 2.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 05.08.2025, 00:54

"This ambitious and provocative work . . . delves into white anxiety about the demographic decline of white populations in Western nations" (Publishers Weekly).

"Whiteshift" is defined as the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities. In this dada-driven study, political scientist Eric Kaufmann explores how these demographic changes across Western societies are transforming their politics.

The early stages of this transformation have led to a populist disruption, tearing a path through the usual politics of left and right. If we want to avoid more radical political divisions, Kaufmann argues, we have to enable white conservatives as well as cosmopolitans to view whiteshift as a positive development.

Kaufmann examines the evidence to explore ethnic change in North American and Western Europe. Tracing four ways of dealing with this transformation—fight, repress, flight, and join—he makes a persuasive call to move beyond empty talk about national identity.

Deeply thought provoking, enriched with illustrative stories, and drawing on detailed and extraordinary survey, demographic, and electoral data, Whiteshift will redefine the way we discuss race in the twenty-first century.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 380 Velikost: 5,85 MB Knižní žánr: filozofie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978 1 80170 222 5 Cena: 1.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 05.08.2025, 00:48

François de La Rochefoucauld was a seventeenth century moralist, who became the leading exponent of the ‘maxime’, a French literary form of epigram that expresses a harsh or paradoxical truth with brevity. He muses on honour, fate, friendship, love and the human tendency for self-delusion. His experience with the royal court during the Fronde influenced his thinking immensely. An exemplar of the older noblesse, La Rochefoucauld influenced numerous philosophers and men of letters, including Nietzsche, who sought to imitate his aphoristic style. This eBook presents La Rochefoucauld’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to La Rochefoucauld’s life and works
* Concise introduction to the moralist
* Both the Maxims and Memoirs of La Rochefoucauld, with individual contents tables
* Rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Features four biographies – discover La Rochefoucauld’s intriguing life

CONTENTS:

The Novels
Maxims (translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell, 1871)
The Memoirs of the Duke de La Rochefoucauld (Anonymous translation, 1683)

The Biographies
Rochefoucauld (1838) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
La Rochefoucauld (1909) by William Cleaver Wilkinson
François de La Rochefoucauld (1911) by George Saintsbury
La Rochefoucauld (1918) by Edmund Gosse

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 523 Velikost: 5,41 MB Knižní žánr: sociologie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 9780593734247 Cena: 15.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.07.2025, 15:50

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?

Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.

Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 246 Velikost: 7,35 MB Knižní žánr: přírodní vědy Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 9780593834527 Cena: 15.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.07.2025, 15:48

An indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planet

We have never had to feed as many people as we do today. And yet, we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary requirements shape us, and why this impacts our planet in drastic ways. As a result, in our economic, political, and everyday choices, we take for granted and fail to prioritize the thing that makes all our lives possible: food.

In this ambitious, myth-busting book, Smil investigates many of the burning questions facing the world today: why are some of the world’s biggest food producers also the countries with the most undernourished populations? Why do we waste so much food and how can we solve that? Could the whole planet go vegan and be healthy? Should it? He explores the global history of food production to understand why we farm some animals and not others, why most of the world’s calories come from just a few foodstuffs, and how this might change in the future.

How to Feed the World is the data-based, rigorously researched guide that offers solutions to our broken global food system.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 391 Velikost: 3,63 MB Knižní žánr: humor Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-6680-5140-5 Cena: 14.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.07.2025, 15:43

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever—a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of American life, politics, and culture.

Some of the smartest commentary about what’s happening in America is coming from a comedian—this comedian being Bill Maher. If you want to understand what’s wrong with this country, it turns out that one of the best informed and most thought-provoking analysts is this very funny pothead.

The book was inspired by the “editorial” Bill delivers at the end of each episode of Real Time. These editorials are direct-to-camera sermons about culture, politics, and what’s happening in the world. To put this book together, Maher reviewed more than a decade of his editorials, rewriting, reimagining, and updating them. Free speech, cops, drugs, race, religion, the generations, cancel culture, the parties, the media, show biz, romance, health—Maher covers it all. The result is a hugely entertaining work of commentary about American culture in the tradition of Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and H. L. Mencken.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 401 Velikost: 17,03 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-0-582-04047-2 Cena: 48.63 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.07.2025, 14:02

This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Alfred emerges from the pages of this biography as a great warlord, an effective and inventive ruler, and a passionate scholar whose piety and intellectual curiosity led him to sponsor a cultural and spiritual renaissance. Alfred's victories on the battlefield and his sweeping administrative innovations not only preserved his native Wessex from viking conquest, but began the process of political consolidation that would culminate in the creation of the kingdom of England.

Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England strips away the varnish of later interpretations to recover the historical Alfredpragmatic, generous, brutal, pious, scholarly within the context of his own age.

Formát: PDF Počet stran: 49 Velikost: 16,21 MB Knižní žánr: literatura faktu Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 9781472866165 Cena: 16.00 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.07.2025, 13:33

A world-renowned expert offers a focused, illustrated account of how Russian and Ukrainian armour fought during the crucial year of 2022, prior to the arrival of Western tanks.

The invasion of Ukraine has seen full-scale mechanized warfare return to Europe. While Western armour and training has been a major part of Ukraine's army since 2023, in the first year of the war both the Russian invaders and the Ukrainians fought using their existing mechanized armies, in the most devastating and high-stakes war in decades. That year, Moscow's latest tanks (bar the still undeployable T-14 Armata) found themselves engaging Ukraine's modernized and customized Soviet-era tank fleet.

World-renowned Russia specialist Mark Galeotti draws on rare Russian and Ukrainian sources to present a definitive account of the Russian and Ukrainian tanks that fought that year, before the first Western tanks arrived. He explores the rival tank armies, how they were used, and the ways they were modified in response to the emerging challenges of the war, and presents the reader with ORBATs and data on deployments new to the English-speaking world.

As the war in Ukraine revolutionizes our understanding of modern warfare, this book offers an expert assessment of how Ukrainian tanks fought the Russians to a standstill in 2022, and how the lessons learned affected the course of the war.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 146 Velikost: 9,24 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 9781488076107 Cena: 19.99 USD Přečteno: ANO (01.08.2025) Vloženo: 02.07.2025, 10:38

"Terrific - and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book." -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roads

Russia’s epic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's fascinating history to help us understand its actions today and what the future might hold

A country with no natural borders, no single ethnic group, no true central identity, Russia has mythologized its past to unite its people, to justify its military decisions, and to signal strength to outsiders. Mark Galeotti takes us behind the myths to the heart of the Russian story, covering key moments such as:

the formation of a nation through its early legends, including Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great
the rise and fall of the Romanovs, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, Chernobyl and the Soviet Union
the arrival of an obscure politician named Vladimir Putin and his ambitions for Russia

A Short History of Russia explores the history of this fascinating, extraordinary, desperate and exasperating country through two intertwined issues: the way successive influences from beyond its borders have shaped Russia, and the way Russians came to terms with this influence, writing and rewriting their past to understand their present and try to shape their future. In turn, this self-invented history has come to affect not just their constant nation-building project but also their relations with the world.

Formát: EPUB Původní název: Nexus. A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Počet stran: 530 Velikost: 2,07 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: čeština ISBN: 978-80-7555-264-8 Cena: 399.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.05.2025, 10:36

Knihy šířily skvělé myšlenky, ale i mýty. Algoritmy nám usnadnily práci, a pak nás poštvaly proti sobě. Co nyní způsobí umělá inteligence? <<
Nejčtenější historik současnosti zkoumá, jak informační toky utvářely svět: od doby kamenné přes kanonizaci Bible, hony na čarodějnice, stalinismus a nacismus až po aktuální vzestup populismu a AI.
Harari ukazuje, že lidstvo získalo obrovskou moc prostřednictvím budování rozsáhlých informačních sítí. Vysvětluje, jak je různé společnosti a politické systémy využívaly k dosažení svých cílů i upevnění pořádku.
A proč je dnešní informační revoluce radikálně odlišná – a mnohem nebezpečnější – než všechny předešlé. Jaké volby staví před lidstvo existenciální riziko v podobě neúnavné, ale chybující AI?

V knize se mimo jiné dozvíte:
• Víra, že svobodný tok informací automaticky vede k pravdě, neodpovídá skutečnosti.
• Náš sklon vytvářet bez rozmyslu mocné entity nezačal s AI, ale s vynálezem náboženství.
• Právě vzniká nový druh moci, kterou nelze snadno volat k odpovědnosti: algoritmus za rozhodnutí nenese následky.
• Průmyslová impéria své kolonie vykořisťovala a utlačovala a bylo by bláhové očekávat, že se nové digitální říše zachovají lépe.
• Díky sebeopravným mechanismům budou demokracie vůči rizikům AI odolnější než diktátorské režimy.

„Právě prožíváme největší informační revoluci v lidské historii. Abychom ji zvládli, musíme pochopit, co jí předcházelo.“

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 362 Velikost: 11,72 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 9781472862495 Cena: 14.46 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.05.2025, 10:33

A masterful history of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russia's destiny for centuries, including the disastrous invasion of Ukraine.

Putin retains his stranglehold on his position in Russia despite an almost ruinous invasion of Ukraine. The answer as to how and why can be found in Russian history. With no naturally defensible borders, and environmental factors constraining its economy, Russia has been pitched against the pre-eminent military powers of the age across the centuries, and often at a technological disadvantage. To respond to these challenges, it has had to sit heavily on the backs of its people, and so war – and the need to be able to fight it – has shaped its evolution, from tsars to commissars and presidents.

The national identity has been forged in the furnace of war. From the medieval kingdom of Rus battling against a Scandinavian princes and Mongol emperors, to its own empire-building conflicts in 19th-century Asia, to the formative wars of the 20th century which saw Russia pitch from Tsarist empire to communist state and defender against Nazism, all these conflicts stained the lands of Russia red with blood. A weak post-Cold War Russia then turned to Putin, who created a new mood for martial triumphalism which led directly to the Ukrainian war.

Packed with contemporary accounts, Forged in War strips away the myth to give an insider's view on Russia's past and present.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 188 Velikost: 4,79 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-78929-584-9 Cena: 9.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.05.2025, 10:29

Spend 24 hours immersed in the rich and fascinating everyday lives of the Vikings.

Between the infamous Lindisfarne raid in 793 CE and the Norman conquest of 1066, the peoples we know now as the Vikings became one of the most far-ranging and influential civilizations in history. The Vikings are frequently portrayed as raiders, marauding across medieval Europe and Britain, but the culture and society of the medieval Nordic peoples was so much more diverse, multifaceted and influential than it is often depicted.

In 24 Hours in the Viking World, author and Viking expert Kirsten Wolf chronicles an hour in the life of 24 individuals from every corner of Viking society over the course of a single day. From the warrior to the thrall, the shipbuilder to the farmer, the poet to the oracle, each chapter offers a snapshot of the world as it was in medieval Scandinavia, and an insight into how these people lived, loved, worked, fought and died.

The latest entry in the bestselling 24 Hours series, 24 Hours in the Viking World presents an absorbing, grounded and tangible look at what it was really like to be alive during this pivotal era in history.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 213 Velikost: 3,17 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-78243-977-6 Cena: 9.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.05.2025, 10:26

During the course of a day we meet 24 Athenians from all strata of society—from the slave to the politician, the fishmonger to the philosopher, the soldier to the vase painter—and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their company. We encounter a different one of these characters—all from different walks of life—every chapter, with each chapter forming an hour in a day in the life of the ancient city. We also get to spy on the daily doings of notable Athenians through the eyes of regular people as the city hovers on the brink of the fateful war that will destroy its golden age.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 227 Velikost: 8,97 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-78929-123-0 Cena: 9.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 31.05.2025, 10:22

Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contradictions. But as different as the Han culture might have been to other great ancient civilizations, the inhabitants of ancient China faced the same problems as people have for time immemorial: earning enough money, coping with workplace dramas and keeping your home in order . . . although the equivalent in this era was more about bribing inspectors, avoiding bullying from abusive watchmen and trying to keep your house from being looted by Huns. In each chapter we meet one of 24 citizens of this ancient culture, from the midwife to the soldier, the priest to the performer and the blacksmith to the tomb looter, and see what an average day in ancient China was really like.