Lukáš Novák Knihy

Česká učebnice logiky se snaží buď seznámit studenta systematicky se současným pojetím logiky, nebo vyložit historickým způsobem její dějiny, případně oba přístupy kombinují. Tato kniha se tomuto standardu vymyká: nepojednává o aristotelské logice ani historicky, ani ze systematického hlediska moderního chápání logiky, nýbrž snaží se vyložit ji sice důsledně systematicky, nicméně tak, jak aristotelská logika reflektovala sama sebe. Cílem autorů je představit aristotelskou logiku "zevnitř": nikoliv jako překonanou historickou fázi vývoje, nýbrž jako svébytný propracovaný systém, který je vybudovaný na vlastních filozofických předpokladech a který nelze dobře pochopit, bude-li interpretován z hlediska předpokladů logiky moderní.

Tato kniha není slovník, ačkoli se z ní dozvíte informace o všem od autenticity až po zipy. Není to ani autobiografie, třebaže předkládá zevrubný a vysoce osobní odborný názor na současnou kulturu. Je to nepostradatelný nástroj, který čtenáři pomůže lépe porozumět modernímu světu. V této knize se píše o tom, co z díla Andyho Warhola dělá pravý padělek, o vzniku národních identit nebo o sběratelské mánii. Pojednává o světě, tak jak je vidět ze zpětného zrcátka ve videohře Grand Theft Auto V, o digitálních ornamentech a o naší lásce k nedokonalostem. Je o popíjení suchého martini ve vídeňském podniku Adolfa Loose American Bar a o architektuře ve filmech Alfreda Hitchcocka, o módě a technologii, politice a umění.

Yejide dúfa, že sa stane zázrak a jej sa narodí dieťa. Túži po ňom aj jej manžel a svokra. Yejide vyskúšala všetko. Radikálne rozhodnutie svojich príbuzných však nedokáže uniesť. Román Zostaň so mnou sa odohráva na pozadí spoločenských a politických nepokojov v Nigérii v osemdesiatych rokoch a je príbehom o krehkosti manželstva, rozpade rodiny, sile smútku a všetko pohlcujúcej túžbe po dieťati. Ayobami Adebayo napísala román o tom, ako sa zúfalo a niekedy ničivo snažíme uchrániť seba a svojich blízkych pred žiaľom. Ayóbámi Adébáyò je nigérijská autorka. Vyštudovala angličtinu a literatúru, píše poviedky a poéziu. Román Zostaň so mnou nominovaný na Women’s Prize for Fiction je jej debut.

Bohatý český priemyselník židovského pôvodu Viktor Landauer a jeho manželka Liesel sa počas svadobnej cesty zoznámia s rakúskym architektom Reinerom von Abtom. Jeho modernistický prístup k architektúre ich nadchne natoľko, že si ho najmú ako projektanta svojho nového domu. Von Abt pre nich vytvorí neprehliadnuteľnú majestátnu vilu s veľkými oknami, unikátnou ónyxovou stenou, bielymi stropmi aj podlahami – dom, v ktorom sa snúbia čisté línie, vzdušnosť, racionalita a harmónia. Landauerovci v ňom vedú pestrý život, bohatý na intímne chvíle aj búrlivé večierky, na ktorých sa zúčastňujú významné osobnosti prvej republiky, ale iba dovtedy, kým ich bezprostredná hrozba nacistickej okupácie neprinúti opustiť mesto aj krajinu. Román, ktorý bol v roku 2009 nominovaný na prestížnu Bookerovu cenu a podľa knihy nakrútili aj rovnomenný film, je inšpirovaný príbehom brnianskej vily Tugendhat.

The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from Sussex to London and imagines a new life in the big city... George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Foot, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough. They lived, loved, felt joy and fear, and ultimately died. But who were they? And what indissoluble thread binds them together? Simon Mawer's compelling and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. He has created stories that are gripping and heart-breaking, from the squalor and vitality of Dickensian London to the excitement of seafaring in the last days of sail and the horror of the trenches of the Crimea. There is birth and death; there is love, both open and legal but also hidden and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures is something that they cannot have known - the unbreakable bond of family.

Als een dertiger, in de ban van een kunstenares een relatie met haar wil beginnen, worden de kunstenares en zijn huisgenoot verliefd op elkaar.

New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story that mixes sex, politics, and betrayal. In the summer of 1968-a year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter-Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship that could be something more. Having reached southern Germany, they decide on a whim to visit Czechoslovakia, where Alexander Dubček's "socialism with a human face" is smiling on the world.Meanwhile, Sam Wareham, First Secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with both a diplomat's cynicism and a young man's passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Konečkova, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. For the first time, nothing seems off limits behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubček, and the Red Army is amassed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?With this shrewd, engrossing, and sensual novel, Simon Mawer cements his status as one of the most talented writers of historical spy fiction today.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL READER'S CHOICE AWARD Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are - ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.

Like his great, great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he is afflicted with achondroplasia—he's a dwarf. He's also a man desperate for love. And when he finds it in the form of Jean—simple and shy—he stumbles upon an opportunity to correct the injustice of his own capricious genes. As intelligent as it is entertaining, this witty and surprisingly erotic novel reveals the beauty and drama of scientific inquiry as it informs us of the simple passions against which even the most brilliant mind is rendered powerless.

Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status, and fluent French, will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause.