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Zobrazeno: 1-30 z celkem 3645 záznamů Začátek | Předchozí | Následující | Konec The Arab Conquests
The Spread of Islam and the First Caliphates
Anotace: The story of the seventh- and eighth-century Muslim conquests, when armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to build the Islamic Empire. Filip J. Scherf
Ztracená země
Příběh moderního Ruska
Anotace: Proč se Rusko odpoutalo od západního světa? Jiří Kouřil
Aristeia promachón
Proměny ideálu hrdinství mezi jezdeckou aristokracií a hoplíty
Anotace: Publikace se zaměřuje na vojenské hodnoty nejlepších řeckých válečníků, jejich hrdinské skutky na bojišti i na kulturní a filosofické ideály, které byly s pojmem aristeia spjaty. Aristeia je řecký výraz označující mimořádně statečné chování v bitvě, doklad odvahy a válečné hodnoty muže – patřila k určujícím principům řeckého světa. Úzce s ní souvisely i další klíčové hodnoty, jako aristeion (odměna za hrdinství), timé (čest), kleos (sláva), areté (zdatnost, dokonalost), kalokagathia (harmonie těla a duše), andreia a andragathia (statečnost). Kniha popisuje vývoj a proměny ideálu aristeia jak v rovině horizontální (časové), tak v rovině vertikální (sociální). Zvláštní pozornost věnuje rozdílnému pojetí tohoto principu u hippeis, jezdecké aristokracie, a u hoplíta, těžkooděnců, kteří na scénu vstoupili po tzv. hoplítské revoluci. Eric Brown
Ancient Greece
Anotace: Explore the History and Mythology of the Ancient Greeks! There are few things as fascinating and exciting as the world of Ancient Greece, and in the following book, you are going to learn everything you'll ever need to know about the history and socio-political makeup of the world of Ancient Greece. Where did Greek culture come from? When did it begin to taste shape? Where there any precursors to the Ancient Greeks? How did Ancient Greece fit in with the rest of the known world during the Ancient era? What conflicts would arise out of the power struggles of the major political powers of the time? What great historical figures stepped up to lead and command their people to greatness? What innovations were advanced and implemented during this time? How did the Greek world change and develop over the course of the several centuries that compose the Ancient era of history? How did their neighbors pressure them and push them to change and adapt? What lessons can the history of Ancient Greece teach us about the Ancient world and about our world today? Jean Bony
French Gothic Achitecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries
Anotace: Gothic architecture is the most visible and striking product of medieval European civilization. Jean Bony, whose reputation as a medievalist is worldwide, presents its development as an adventure of the imagination allied with radical technical advances―the result of a continuining quest for new ways of handling space and light as well as experimenting with the mechanics of stone construction. He shows how the new architecture came unexpectedly to be invented in the Paris region around 1140 and follows its history―in the great cathedrals of northern France and dozens of other key buildings―to the end of the thirteenth century, when profound changes occurred in the whole fabric of medieval civilization. Rich illustrations, including comprehensive maps, enhance the text and themselves constitute an exceptionally valuable documenation. A History of Ancient Britain
Anotace: In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival. A Thousand Golden Cities
2 500 Years of Writing from Afghanistan and its People
Anotace: In the Western mind, Afghanistan has come to mean many things in recent decades, most of them bad. Partly thanks to the relentless media coverage of the “War on Terror”, it has become synonymous above all with war and terrorism – from the Taliban to Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State – crushing levels of poverty and immiseration. In ways which would have been familiar to both Herodotus in the fourth century BC and Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth AD, it has also come to represent the latest testing ground for imperial hubris and overexpansion, another tomb in the “graveyard of empires”.This is an extraordinarily reductive and one-dimensional portrait of a nation. Afghanistan is, and always has been, vastly more interesting than that. Its long and tumultuous history at the centre of the world, at the heart of cultural exchanges between East and West, encompasses high culture, low politics, domestic dynasties, international adventures, Great Power rivalry and a completely compelling vein of skulduggery.This anthology will celebrate this rich, engrossing heritage with a captivating blend of history and geography, religion and culture, politics and poetry, drama and memoir, home-grown fiction and the self-serving literature of invaders. It will celebrate Afghan voices as much as those of foreigners who, for better or worse, have been bewitched by this staggeringly beautiful mountain kingdom. S. T. Joshi
The Downfall of God
Volume 1: From Prehistory to 1600
Anotace: Uncover the deep roots of atheism in Western thought, from prehistory to the Renaissance. Delve into the evolution of disbelief with S. T. Joshi's The Downfall of God, Volume 1. Explore the natural origins of religious belief, the rise of secularism in the Greco-Roman world, and the seismic shifts during Christianity's emergence. Joshi expertly charts the intellectual currents that shaped the West's complex relationship with faith. Discover the philosophical, social, and political forces that paved the way for a worldview free of religion. Perfect for students, scholars, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of atheism's rich history.
Luca Cesari
A Brief History of Pasta
The Italian Food that Shaped the World
Anotace: Exemplifying the fact that Italy was once a patchwork of city-states, each with distinct ways of preparing and presenting what is now regarded as the nation's most famous foodstuff, Luca Cesari frames his detailed history of pasta around ten classic recipes – from fettuccine Alfredo and tortellini alla Bolognese to lasagne and spaghetti pomodoro – interspersed with anecdotes, myths and recipes through time. Cross and Crescent in the Balkans
The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe
Anotace: This is NOT just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is the history of a quite extraordinary century, one which began when a tiny of force of Ottoman Turkish warriors was invited by the Christian Byzantine Emperor to cross the Dardanelles from Asia into Europe to assist him in one of the civil wars which were tearing the fast-declining Byzantine Empire apart.One hundred and eight years later the Byzantine capital of Constantinople fell to what was by then a hugely powerful and expanding empire of the Islamic Ottoman Turks, whose rulers came to see themselves as the natural and legitimate heirs of their Byzantine and indeed Roman predecessors. The book sets the scene, explains the background and tells the story, both military, political, cultural and personal, of the winners and the losers, plus those 'outsiders' who were increasingly being drawn into the dramatic story of the rise of the Ottoman Empire. Captives and Companions
A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World
Anotace: The definitive history of the slave trade in the Islamic world—a story that has been overshadowed by its notorious, but shorter-lived, Atlantic counterpart. Piers Morgan
Woke is Dead
How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness
Anotace: Piers Morgan welcomes the return of a common-sense world They claimed it was a movement that would change society forever. Instead, it's been buried six feet under by common sense. For a decade, “woke” infected every corner of our lives. Cancel culture ran riot. Men became toxic. Virtue signalling was everywhere. And if you dared disagree? You'd be terminated on the spot. But then something extraordinary happened. All over the world, people woke up. In this explosive and uproarious takedown, Piers Morgan charts the spectacular collapse of the most ridiculous ideology in human history. With his trademark wit and fearless honesty, he exposes the hypocrites, destroys the myths, and celebrates the heroes who refused to surrender to the woke brigade. But this isn't just about pointing and laughing at the wreckage. With his unique blend of savage humour and surprising wisdom, Morgan offers a roadmap for navigating our post-woke world and a less divided, more sensible society. Woke is Dead is the provocative, hilarious and essential read for anyone who wants to understand how an entire civilisation briefly lost its mind. Piers Morgan's book 'Woke Is Dead' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-10-27. W. B. Bartlett
Richard the Lionheart
The Crusader King of England
Anotace: While Richard I is one of medieval England’s most famous kings he is also the most controversial. This reassessment looks at his deeds and achievements in a new light. The result is a compelling new portrait of "the Lionheart" which shows that the king is every bit as remarkable as his medieval contemporaries found him to be. It shows him to be a man badly let down by some of those around him, especially his brother John and the duplicitous French king Philip. The foibles of his character are also exposed to the full, including his complicated relationships with the key women in his life, especially the imposing contemporary figure of his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his wife, Berengaria, with whom he failed to produce an heir, leading to later suggestions of homosexuality. Ralph V. Turner, Richard R. Heiser
The Reign of Richard Lionheart
Ruler of The Angevin Empire, 1189-1199
Anotace: This ground-breaking and substantive new history considers Richard's reign from a perspective that is as much French as English. Viewing the king himself as a great military commander, it also shows him as a more competent administrator than previously acknowledged. Modern revisionist work allows the authors to correct many misconceptions about Richard's French possessions, and recent scholarship on his rival, Philip Augustus, permits examination of the formidable threat that the resurgent Capetian monarchy represented. Stephen P. Kershaw
Barbarians
Rebellion and Resistance to the Roman Empire
Anotace: History is written by the victors, and Rome had some very eloquent historians. Those the Romans regarded as barbarians left few records of their own, but they had a tremendous impact on the Roman imagination. Resisting from outside Rome's borders or rebelling from within, they emerge vividly in Rome's historical tradition, and left a significant footprint in archaeology. Ernst Bloch
The Heritage of Our Times
Anotace: Heritage of Our Times is a brilliant examination of modern culture and its legacy by one of the most important and deeply influential thinkers of the 20th century. Bloch argues that the key elements of a genuine cultural tradition are not just to be found in the conveniently closed and neatly labeled ages of the past, but also in the open and experimental cultural process of our time. One of the most compelling aspects of this work is a contemporary analysis of the rise of Nazism. It probes its bogus roots in German history and mythology at the very moment when the ideologies of Blood and Soil and the Blond Beast were actually taking hold of the German people. The breadth and depth of Bloch's vision, together with the rich diversity of his interest, ensure this work a place as one of the key books of the 20th century. Jon R. Lindsay
Age of Deception
Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft
Anotace: At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While such acts of secret statecraft have long been part of global politics, digital systems have dramatically expanded their scope and scale. Yet success in secret statecraft hinges less on sophisticated technology than on political context. To make sense of this, Lindsay offers a general theory of intelligence performance―the analogue to military performance in battle―that explains why spies and hackers alike depend on clandestine organizations and vulnerable institutions. Through cases spanning codebreaking at Bletchley Park during WWII to the weaponization of pagers by Israel in 2024, he traces both continuity and change in secret statecraft. Along the way, he explains why popular assumptions about cyber warfare are profoundly misleading. Offense does not simply dominate defense, for example, because the same digital complexity that expands opportunities for deception also creates potential for self-deception and counterdeception. Provocative and persuasive, Age of Deception offers crucial insights into the future of secret statecraft in cyberspace and beyond. Serhii Plokhy
The Nuclear Age
An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival
Anotace: The nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the bomb’s principal creator, J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Since then, the era of the atom has become the age of the bomb?or two bombs: atomic and hydrogen. In The Nuclear Age, Serhii Plokhy, one of our preeminent Cold War historians, explores why governments have acquired and stockpiled nuclear weapons and reveals the global failure to reach meaningful nuclear arms treaties. Plokhy shows how, since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the risk of nuclear war has never been so high: Russia threatens nuclear aggression in its war on Ukraine; China is constructing hundreds of new missile silos; and India and Pakistan are locked in ongoing nuclear competition. Plokhy also examines how more countries than ever have come within perilous reach of acquiring nuclear arms, while new technologies, such as hypersonic missiles and artificial intelligence, make the nuclear landscape increasingly unpredictable. From Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Castle Bravo test of 1954, to the rapidly developing nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, The Nuclear Age reveals the fear that governs the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Plokhy profiles the global players who have diagnosed, stoked, and influenced this fear, from H. G. Wells to Nikita Khrushchev and Vladimir Putin, and he outlines what we might learn from our past to control today’s arms race. As the danger of nuclear war remains imminent, The Nuclear Age diagnoses our era of rearmament. Alex Kershaw
Patton's Prayer
A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
Anotace: General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of clouds had grounded American warplanes, allowing the Germans to reinforce. The sprint to Berlin had become a muddy, bloody stalemate, costing thousands of American lives. The Battle for Kharkov 1941-1943
Images of War
Anotace: The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, yet they were critical stages in the struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for control of the southern Soviet Union. Roger Moorhouse
Wolfpack
Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War
Anotace: From a top scholar of World War II, the “fascinating” (John C. McManus) definitive history of Germany’s U-boat campaign that challenged British naval supremacy and brought international trade to its knees Historical Atlas of the Third Reich
Anotace: Formally inaugurated in Potsdam in 1933, the Third Reich was regarded by Hitler as the greatest in a line of might German empires. His mystical belief that this empire would last a thousand years proved unfounded, but not before a world war which resulted in the loss of at least 70 million lives. Eduard Petiška
Báje a pověsti starého Egypta a Mezopotámie
Anotace: Vypravte se s námi na cestu do fascinujícího světa starověkého Egypta a Mezopotámie, plného božských dramat, mytologických příběhů a dávných moudrostí. Eduard Petiška oživuje tradice této slavné civilizace a propojuje historii, báje a lidské touhy po spravedlnosti a vědění, a tak nabízí poutavou výpravu do minulosti i k lidským hodnotám. Komentář: Příjemně se čtoucí mytické příběhy Egypta a Mezopotámie. Jen - jako u všech ostatních mýtů - nesmí čtenář na vyprávění aplikovat přísnou logiku či snad kritické myšlení nebo podobné malichernosti :-). "Člověk nemá nikdy zoufat, nikdy se nemá nad něčím rmoutit, neboť smutkem a nářkem nezastaví běh událostí. Kdo má moudré srdce, kráčí kupředu a doufá." "Nejdříve se víno ztrácí v člověku, pak se ztrácí člověk ve víně". Zaklínač - Rozcestí krkavců
Román o Geraltovi
Anotace: Zaklínači se nerodí. Zaklínači jsou vytvářeni. Než se stal Bílým vlkem a Řezníkem z Blavikenu, byl Geralt z Rivie pouhým čerstvým absolventem Kaer Morhen, který vstoupil do světa, jenž jeho druhu nerozumí ani ho nevítá. A když se naivní hrdinský čin ošklivě zvrtne, Geralta zachrání před oprátkou jen Preston Holt, zkušený zaklínač s pohřbenou minulostí a vlastními plány. Pod Holtovým vedením začíná Geralt poznávat, co to skutečně znamená kráčet po Stezce - chránit svět, který se ho bojí, a přežít v něm. Když se však hranice mezi dobrem a zlem začíná stírat, Geralt se musí rozhodnout, zda se stane monstrem, které v něm všichni vidí, nebo někým úplně jiným. Toto je příběh o tom, jak vznikají legendy – a jaká je cena za jejich stvoření. Ivan Kazimour
Člověk Emil Hácha
Anotace: Emil Hácha je dodnes veřejností i mnoha politiky často vnímán jako symbol zla, jako člověk, který se klaněl fašistické nadvládě, který podlehl strachu. Často byl kritizován svými současníky, kteří ovšem válku strávili v bezpečí londýnského či moskevského exilu. Exilu, který jim naše země musela dodatečně zaplatit, ať již zlatem – jako těm v Londýně, nebo čtyřicetiletou podřízeností těm moskevským. Dějiny obchodu ve středověku 500-1000
Anotace: Dálkový obchod ve středověku, nejen na českém území a v Evropě, ale i na Blízkém východě a v globálních souvislostech. Michael Sheridan
The Red Emperor
Xi Jinping And His New China
Anotace: 'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong Ian Gentles
Oliver Cromwell
God's Warrior and the English Revolution
Anotace: The first new biography of Oliver Cromwell in several years, this rounded account does equal justice to his public and private life, to his political career, his military abilities and his passionate religiosity. John Tyler Bonner
Why Size Matters
From Bacteria to Blue Whales
Anotace: John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Gulliver's Travels, he shows that humans have always been fascinated by things big and small. Why then does size always reside on the fringes of science and never on the center stage? Why do biologists and others ponder size only when studying something else―running speed, life span, or metabolism? Gary Marcus, Jeremy Freeman
The Future of the Brain
Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists
Anotace: Including a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser An unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science. Original essays by leading researchers such as Christof Koch, George Church, Olaf Sporns, and May-Britt and Edvard Moser describe the spectacular technological advances that will enable us to map the more than eighty-five billion neurons in the brain, as well as the challenges that lie ahead in understanding the anticipated deluge of data and the prospects for building working simulations of the human brain. A must-read for anyone trying to understand ambitious new research programs such as the Obama administration's BRAIN Initiative and the European Union's Human Brain Project, The Future of the Brain sheds light on the breathtaking implications of brain science for medicine, psychiatry, and even human consciousness itself. Contributors include: Misha Ahrens, Ned Block, Matteo Carandini, George Church, John Donoghue, Chris Eliasmith, Simon Fisher, Mike Hawrylycz, Sean Hill, Christof Koch, Leah Krubitzer, Michel Maharbiz, Kevin Mitchell, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser, David Poeppel, Krishna Shenoy, Olaf Sporns, Anthony Zador. Zobrazeno: 1-30 z celkem 3645 záznamů Začátek | Předchozí | Následující | Konec
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