E-knihy

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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.

Formát: PDF Původní název: The Vital Question. Why Is Life the Way It Is? Počet stran: 301 Velikost: 6,81 MB Knižní žánr: biologie Jazyk: čeština ISBN: 978-80-7675-238-2 Cena: 349.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.05.2025, 10:43

Veškerý komplexní pozemský život má společného předka: buňku, která během 4 miliard let vznikla pouze jednou, a to z jednoduchých bakteriálních předchůdců. Byla to mimořádná náhoda, anebo ostatní "experimenty" v evoluci komplexity selhaly? V samém srdci biologie tak zeje černá díra. Řečeno bez obalu: netušíme, proč se život vyvíjel tak podivně, jak se vyvíjel, a proč jsou buňky poháněné tak zvláštním způsobem. Na obě otázky se snaží odpovědět kniha Nicka Lanea, která načrtne přesvědčivý scénář proměny jednoduchých buněk v buňky komplexní s jejich charakteristickými vlastnostmi, doprovozený nezbytným vysvětlením biochemických základů fungování živých buněk a miliardy let vzdáleného zrodu života v těsné blízkosti hydrotermálních průduchů.

Formát: PDF Původní název: How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom Počet stran: 270 Velikost: 3,47 MB Knižní žánr: ekonomie Jazyk: čeština ISBN: 978-80-7675-239-9 Cena: 349.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.05.2025, 10:41

Kniha známého britského zoologa a popularizátora vědy navazuje na bestsellery Racionální optimista a Evoluce všeho, v nichž líčí cestu lidstva od doby kamenné k současné prosperitě. Základním faktorem na této cestě jsou inovace, záhadný a nedoceňovaný proces, který vskrytu formuje historii lidské civilizace a je obdobou biologické evoluce. Inovace se zásadně liší od vynálezů, protože při nich nevzniká něco zcela nového, ale již existující vynálezy a myšlenky se přetvářejí ve spolehlivé, prakticky upotřebitelné a masově dostupné věci. Jde o postupný, nepředvídatelný, zdola poháněný proces, který často provází šťastná náhoda. Inovace také nejsou dílem jednotlivců, ale plodem spolupráce a výměny myšlenek mnoha lidí. V řadě příběhů se seznámíme s inovacemi od vzniku zemědělství přes parní stroj a očkování až po sociální média a sdílenou ekonomiku. Vůbec první a nejdůležitější inovací je však z hlediska planety Země vznik života samotného.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 272 Velikost: 13,66 MB Knižní žánr: logika a matematika Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-0-300-28359-4 Cena: 24.70 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.05.2025, 10:38

A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe
 
Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economics—all aspects of modern life rely on some kind of maths. But how did our ancestors think about numbers? How did they use mathematics to explain and understand the world around them? Where do numbers even come from?
 
In this Little History, Snezana Lawrence traces the fascinating history of mathematics, from the Egyptians and Babylonians to Renaissance masters and enigma codebreakers. Like literature, music, or philosophy, mathematics has a rich history of breakthroughs, creativity and experimentation. And its story is a global one. We see Chinese Mathematical Art from 200 BCE, the invention of algebra in Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, and sangaku geometrical theorems at Japanese shrines. Lawrence goes beyond the familiar names of Newton and Pascal, exploring the prominent role women have played in the history of maths, including Emmy Noether and Maryam Mirzakhani.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 256 Velikost: 20,67 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-68481-325-4 Cena: 11.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.05.2025, 10:34

“A captivating journey” through 15,000 years of fascinating yet often-forgotten ancient civilizations and cultures—includes maps and illustrations (Natasha Billson, host, The Great British Dig).
 
From the world's first peace treaty to daring expeditions across the Pacific, this book explores twenty ancient and historic cultures that have had monumental impacts on our modern world—but that few people know about.

Archaeologist Raven Todd DaSilva, creator of the popular platform Dig It With Raven, looks beyond the familiar names and places and delves into astounding finds unearthed at archaeological sites around the globe. Discover the archaeology that sheds light on the secret stories of the Nubians, Olmec, Xiongnu, Minoans, Akkadians, and many more. Rather than focusing only on great rulers and monumental buildings, the book highlights the everyday lives of peoples of the past, who they interacted with, and what we can learn from them.

Packed with summaries of current archaeological evidence, detailed maps, and striking images of artefacts and sites, The Other Ancient Civilizations reveals how archaeologists decode ancient cultures from what they left behind—and is an indispensable collection of fascinating stories and facts that illustrate both the differences and similarities between us and our long-distant ancestors.

“A succinct journey through some of the world’s less well-known complex societies … excellent, thoroughly researched, and admirably illustrated.” —Brian Fagan, author of People of the Earth

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 282 Velikost: 6,92 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-0-465-09618-3 Cena: 11.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.05.2025, 10:30

In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed societies, launched empires, and expanded frontiers. It made China an eleventh-century superpower, inspired the Communist Manifesto, and helped the North win the American Civil War. Yet coal's transformative power has come at tremendous cost, from the blackening of our lungs and skies, to the perils of mining, to global warming. Now updated with a new chapter describing the high-stakes conflict between coal's defenders and those working to preserve a livable climate, Coal offers a captivating history of the mineral that helped build the modern world but now endangers our future.

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Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 353 Velikost: 476 kB Knižní žánr: filozofie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-80429-213-6 Cena: 14.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.05.2025, 10:24

How a supposedly apolitical form of philosophy owes its continuing power to social and political forces. 

Analytic philosophy is the leading form of philosophy in the English-speaking world. What explains its continued success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can only be understood by examining its social history. Analytic philosophy tends to think of itself as concerned with eternal questions, transcending the changing scenes of history. It thinks of itself as apolitical. This book, however, convincingly shows that the opposite is true.

The origins of analytic philosophy are in a set of distinct movements, shaped by high-ly specific sets of political and social forces. Only after the Second World War were these disparate, often dynamic movements joined together to make ‘analytic philosophy’ as we know it. In the climate of McCarthyism, analytic philosophy was robbed of political force.

To this day, analytic philosophy is the ideology of the status quo. It may seem arcane and largely removed from the real world, but it is a crucial component in upholding liberalism, through its central role in elite educational institutions. As Schuringa concludes, the apparently increasing friendliness of analytic philosophers to rival approaches in philosophy should be understood as a form of colonization; thanks to its hegemonic status, it reformats all it touches in service of its own imperatives, going so far as to colonize decolonial efforts in the discipline.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 154 Velikost: 4,04 MB Knižní žánr: biografie Jazyk: čeština ISBN: 978-80-7335-909-6 Cena: 259.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 17.05.2025, 10:15

Dříve či později bude Oliver Cromwell uznán nejen za jednoho z největších Angličanů vůbec, ale za daleko nejlepšího anglického panovníka; za muže, který se v dobách, kdy byly lidské duše vystaveny zkouškám, potýkal s těžkými otázkami a řešil obrovské problémy; za muže, jenž se dopouštěl chyb a je vinen mnoha selháními, ale který usilovně směřoval ke světlu v té podobě, v níž mu bylo dáno jej vidět; za muže, jemuž leželo na srdci blaho jeho krajanů a velikost jeho země a který se pokoušel učinit z velkých zákonů spravedlnosti živoucí síly při správě světa.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 186 Velikost: 15,2 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978 1 03611 642 2 Cena: 16.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 08.05.2025, 14:35

Sotirios Drokalos explores the epic and often overlooked conflicts between the Greeks and Carthaginians in the Western Mediterranean.

Before the rise of Rome, the Greeks and Carthaginians were, for centuries, the two most powerful nations of the Western Mediterranean. From the Pillars of Hercules to Sicily and Cyrenaica, the Greeks and the Carthaginians founded cities, created trade routes, interacted with each other as competitors and collaborators, and often went to war. However, the long conflict between the Western Greeks and the Carthaginians has been neglected by modern historians, even though the wars between them are definitely among the greatest, longest, and most dramatic clashes of great powers in history when it comes to the historical breadth and the forces involved. Sotirios Drokalos gives these epic events the attention they deserve.

The competition and conflicts between Greeks and Phoenicians in the West began by the time of the first colonizations during the eighth century BCE and the development of the cultural and economic activity of the two cultures. They intensified after the Greek colonies' consolidation and Carthage's rise as the most significant Phoenician city and a commercial empire during the sixth century BCE. Especially from the beginning of the fifth century BCE and for the next roughly 200 years, the Western Mediterranean was the field of a ruthless bipolar confrontation between the Greeks of the West and the Carthaginians, marked by the actions of remarkable personalities of the ancient world. This historical clash, apart from the vast and bloody battles, the invasions of one side by the other, the sieges and the mass slaughters, also included elements of cultural interaction and exchange, consisting essentially of a practical test of constitutions, social systems, and political views. Under this prism, studying that tumultuous era could be necessary today to better understand Mediterranean and European historical evolution.

Formát: PDF Počet stran: 855 Velikost: 34,6 MB Knižní žánr: ekonomie Jazyk: čeština ISBN: 978-80-246-3002-1 Cena: 340.00 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 08.05.2025, 14:31

Spolu s nastupujícími trendy v oblastech IT, digitalizace a cloud bankingu prochází globální bankovnictví v posledních letech dynamickým vývojem. Předkládaná publikace se snaží zájemce uvést do široké problematiky bankovnictví v teoretické i praktické rovině, a to s důrazem na Českou republiku a Evropskou unii. Jedná se o unikátní bilingvní česko-anglické dílo vycházející z několikaletého výzkumu autorů v oblasti finančních trhů a risk managementu. Publikace je psána srozumitelným jazykem, a tudíž je vhodná jak pro odbornou, tak i pro širší veřejnost.

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Formát: PDF Počet stran: 98 Velikost: 1,19 MB Knižní žánr: ekonomie Jazyk: čeština Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 08.05.2025, 14:25

Pro posluchače 4 semestru bakalářského studia v prezenční a kombinované formě a pro všechny, kteří mají zájem se seznámit se základní problematikou bankovnictví.