Alain Finkielkraut byl zvolen do Francouzské akademie do křesla číslo 21, které se uvolnilo smrtí Féliciena Marceaua, a stal se tak 727. akademikem od jejího vzniku. Jak kážou nepsané zvyklosti, přednesl na slavnostním zasedání 28. ledna 20 Zobraziť viac
Pollution Diaries je kolektivně psaný text, založený na malém korpusu autentických záznamů ze stejnojmenné WhatsApp skupiny, určené pro sdílení každodenních zkušeností ze života v jednom z nejvíce znečištěných měst světa... Zobraziť viac
Kým je dnes umělec? Jaká je role umělce či intelektuála ve společnosti? Jaký je vztah mezi teorií a praxí? Takové otázky si klade kniha umělkyně Barbory Kleinhamplové a kritičky umění Terezy Stejskalové. Jedná se o soubor rozhovorů se společensky... Zobraziť viac
The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century, ... Zobraziť viac
Vintage Classics: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class... Zobraziť viac
In Made in Scotland, legendary comic and national treasure Billy Connolly returns to his roots, reflecting on his life, his homeland and what it means - then and now - to be Scottish. Full of Billy's distinctive humour, Made in Scotland is a hilarious... Zobraziť viac
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains... Zobraziť viac
On the field or off, Eric 'The King' Cantona has always been known as an artist. Passionate about painting and photography from a very young age, he more recently took to writing, drawing and sketching out his thoughts in small Moleskine diaries... Zobraziť viac
Catch the Jew! recounts the adventures of gonzo journalist Tuvia Tenenbom, who wanders around Israel and the Palestinian Authority for seven months in search of the untold truths in today's Holy Land. With holy chutzpah, Tenenbom boldly goes where no... Zobraziť viac
A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green... Zobraziť viac
V úvodní studii se Hilský věnuje vzniku a výkladu této slavné tragédie. Následují anglický originál hry a jeho český překlad, které jsou uspořádány na stránkách proti sobě a opatřeny poznámkami pod čarou... Zobraziť viac
In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, Very Good Lives offers J.K. Rowling’s words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life, ... Zobraziť viac
Kým je dnes umělec? Jaká je role umělce či intelektuála ve společnosti? Jaký je vztah mezi teorií a praxí? Takové otázky si klade kniha umělkyně Barbory Kleinhamplové a kritičky umění Terezy Stejskalové. Jedná se o soubor rozhovorů se společensky... Zobraziť viac
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains... Zobraziť viac
As Tony Judt argues persuasively in Reappraisals, we have entered an "age of forgetting.” Today's world is so utterly... Zobraziť viac
The most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime, The Years is a savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, edited with an introduction and notes by Jeri Johnson in Penguin Modern Classics... Zobraziť viac
This is a Jewish story, told the way Jewish stories are told: with biting humor. On the face of it, this book is a travelogue, a journal by a Jew from New York traveling in today's Germany. A very funny story indeed.... Zobraziť viac
The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, ... Zobraziť viac
The USA is the world's empire and its actions will influence us all for generations to come. But who are the Americans, the people who make up America? Tuvia Tenenbom travels through America to find out. His wanderings take him across... Zobraziť viac