Jeremy Clarkson: Round the bend

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Très bien – a plumber in a tux – Citroën Berlingo Multispace „It’s also true, of course, that Parisian women are very elegant, but I...
Sapiens Harari

Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind

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In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s...

Yong, Ed: An Immense World

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Philosophers have long pitied the goldfish in its bowl, unaware of what lies beyond, but our senses create a bowl around us too—one that...

Friedman, Thomas L.: From Beirut to Jerusalem

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But in order to make that state economically viable, the Maronites appealed to France to include in it not only their traditional Mt. Lebanon...
Humans: from the beginning

Seddon, Christopher: Humans

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At the present time, we are living in a warm interglacial period: MIS 1. This was preceded by the glacial MIS 2, which lasted from 24,000...

Greer, Germaine: The Female Eunuch

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Five years ago it seemed clear that emancipation had failed: the number of women in Parliament had settled at a low level; the number...
Homo Deus

Harari, Yuval Noah: Homo Deus

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In 1974 the first World Food Conference was convened in Rome, and delegates were treated to apocalyptic scenarios. They were told that there was no...

Conover, Ted: Cheap Land Colorado

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The local expert on cold-calling is Matt Little, charged by the social service group La Puente with “rural outreach.” Matt has let me ride...

Barrett, Lisa Feldman: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

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Why did a brain like yours evolve? That question is not answerable because evolution does not act with purpose—​there is no “why.” But we...
The Unfolding of Language

Deutscher, Guy: The Unfolding of Language

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Some linguists believe that Homo erectus, some 1½ million years ago, already had a language that was rather similar to what I have called the...

Weidensaul, Scott: A World on the Wing

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Researchers have found that in advance of their flights, migrant birds can bulk up with new muscle mass without really exercising, something humans would...

Perry, Imani: South to America

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Or Dolly Parton, an honest-to-God multimillionaire who grew up a poor mountain woman. She says, “It takes a lot of money to look this...

Wallace-Wells, David: The Uninhabitable Earth

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The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a wiping of the fossil record...
Chalíl Džibrán Prorok

Chalíl Džibrán: Prorok

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O manželství „Buďte spolu, dokud bílé perutě smrti nerozpráší vaše dny. Buďte spolu i v mlčenlivé paměti boží. Ale ať jsou ve vaší pospolitosti prostory a nebeské vánky tančí...

Dorff, PhD, Rabbi Elliot N.: The Jewish Approach to Repairing the World

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Tikkun olam—repairing the world. Quite a task! Yet this is precisely the goal that the Jewish tradition sets for our lives. This gives us...

Václav Machek: Etymologický slovník jazyka českého

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hurá ... z tureckého 3. sg. urá (bij) od urmak (bíti) máma... elementární reduplikační projev mluvidel, ale bez významu, ten mu dali teprve velcí medvěd ......