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...

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...

Jaroslav Seifert: Nejkrásnější bývá šílená

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Počitadlo „Tvůj prs je jako jablko z Austrálie Tvé prsy jsou jako dvě jablka z Austrálie Jak mám rád toto počitadlo lásky!“ (20) Píseň o malých dívkách „Co je krásnějšího na...

Lamott, Anne: Bird by Bird

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In seventh and eighth grades I still weighed about forty pounds. I was twelve years old and had been getting teased about my strange...
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...
A History of God

Armstrong, Karen: A History Of God

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Like art, religion has been an attempt to find meaning and value in life, despite the suffering that flesh is heir to. Like any other human...
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...

John Updike: Milenci a manželé

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„Já ti nevím,“ vzdychal před svou ženou. „Tohle prostě není společnost pro mě.“ „Ty jim vůbec nedáváš šanci,“ řekla, když ho vezla domů klikatými uličkami...
Prisoners of Geography

Marshall, Tim: Prisoners of Geography

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Take, for example, China and India: two massive countries with huge populations that share a very long border but are not politically or culturally aligned. It...
Islam the West

Ramadan, Tariq: Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity

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“Our problem is one of spirituality. If a man comes to speak to me about the reforms to be undertaken in the Muslim world, about political...
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...
The Kalahari Typing School for Men

McCall Smith, Alexander: The Kalahari Typing School for Men

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Unfairness seemed to be an inescapable feature of life, at least if you were Mma Makutsi from Bobonong in Northern Botswana, daughter of a man whose...
Man's Search For Meaning

Frankl, Viktor E: Man’s Search For Meaning

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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater...

Mariusz Szczygieł: Udělej si ráj

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Poláci mají zdá se nějakou potřebu psát o jiných národech v regionu. Viz velmi podobné povídání Krzysztofa Vargy o Maďarech... O Bondym„Jeho texty z padesátých...

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 Gene

Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Gene

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Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene. The simple answer is that matter,...