Jan Prokeš Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

A fascinating narrative biography of the Russian avant-garde art movement that transformed the modern world, tracing the lives and activities of the key protagonists as they set about a revolution in art.

Ak chcete pochopiť, čo sa deje vo svete, pozrite sa na mapu. Svetový bestseller Tima Marshalla V zajatí geografie ukázal, ako sú možnosti každého národa obmedzené horami, riekami, moriami a betónom. Odvtedy sa geografia nezmenila, ale svet áno. V tejto novej objavnej knihe nás Marshall zavedie do desiatich regiónov, ktoré budú formovať globálnu politiku a moc. Zistíte, prečo je zemská atmosféra ďalším bojiskom sveta, prečo sa boj o Tichomorie práve začína a prečo je ďalšia utečenecká kríza v Európe bližšie, než si myslíte. Desať kapitol venovaných Austrálii, Sahelu, Grécku, Turecku, Spojenému kráľovstvu, Iránu, Etiópii, Saudskej Arábii, Španielsku a vesmíru, je podaných s Marshallovým charakteristickým vtipom a nadhľadom. Je to zrozumiteľné a pútavé skúmanie sily geografie, ktorá formuje minulosť, prítomnosť, ale aj budúcnosť ľudstva.

_______________ 'A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what work means' - Yuval Noah Harari 'There is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages ... Fascinating' - The Times 'One of those few books that will turn your customary ways of thinking upside down' - Susan Cain 'Illuminating' - New Statesman _______________ A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present The work we do brings us meaning, moulds our values, determines our social status and dictates how we spend most of our time. But this wasn't always the case: for 95% of our species' history, work held a radically different importance. How, then, did work become the central organisational principle of our societies? How did it transform our bodies, our environments, our views on equality and our sense of time? And why, in a time of material abundance, are we working more than ever before?

Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains 'what's next', mapping out the advances and quandaries that will emerge in the next ten years.

"For more than forty years, the United States has reached out to China, helping it develop a booming economy and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that there is little to fear--and everything to gain--from China's rise. But what if the Chinese have had a different plan all along? The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Michael Pillsbury, who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on Chinese documents, speeches, and books (many of them never translated into English) to reveal the roots of this strategy in traditional Chinese statecraft and track how the Chinese are putting it into practice today. Pillsbury shows how American policymakers have been willfully blind to these developments for decades--and he includes himself in that critique, as he was once a leading voice in favor of aiding China. He also calls for the United States to design a new, more competitive strategy toward China as it really is, and not as we might wish it to be. The Hundred-Year Marathon is a wakeup call for all Americans concerned about how we have misread the greatest national security challenge of the twenty-first century"--

Desať máp, ktoré vám povedia všetko, čo chcete vedieť o globálnej politike. Geografické pomery ovplyvnili vývoj celého ľudstva a dodnes ovplyvňujú správanie politikov. Ich rozhodnutia sú limitované pohoriami, riekami, púšťami aj oceánmi. Ak sa ste sa pýtali, prečo je Putin posadnutý Krymom, prečo boli Spojené štáty predurčené stať sa svetovou veľmocou, alebo čo stojí za čínskou expanziou, máte v rukách tú správnu knihu. V desiatich kapitolách (venovaných Rusku, Číne, Spojeným štátom, Európe, Afrike, Blízkemu východu, Indii a Pakistanu, Japonsku a Kórei, Latinskej Amerike a Arktíde) sa autor pozerá na minulosť, súčasnosť a budúcnosť s použitím máp, úvah a príležitostne aj osobných skúseností. Ponúka pohľad na najdôležitejšie okolnosti, ktoré ovplyvňujú svetové dejiny.

Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015

During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the US into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. In this book, the story of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles is the story of America. It illuminates and helps explain the modern history of the US and the world.