Basic Books
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Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
The fizzy, “marvelously entertaining” (Los Angeles Times) story of the world’s favorite beverageFor God, Country & Coca-Cola is the definitive history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it. From its origins…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first centuryAfter two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due…924 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
"A lightning bolt of a book" makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn (Lenore Skenazy) In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams,…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
Until recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this groundbreaking book, master storyteller and respected archaeologist Brian Fagan explains how cutting-edge science can now take us beyond…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeA metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
In The Grand Chessboard , renowned geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a brutally honest and provocative vision for American preeminence in the twenty-first century. The task facing the United States, he argues, is to become the…528 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in…627 Kč KoupitArt, Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
A "radiantly accomplished" (Wall Street Journal) music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to…528 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
A new approach to going vegan "as a joyful celebration of life on this planet" (Bryant Terry) that is a gateway into a better life for us all“Start here, start now. Here’s a book worth…825 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
A "beautifully written" (David Fideler) spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his personal philosophy — "a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the…825 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter?…627 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
On a fateful day in May 1941, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, seventeen-year- old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. This was the beginning of his journey through the horrors of a concentration camp.For nearly forty…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that…726 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race…825 Kč Koupit
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