Smith, Will: Will

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Are you paying attention to the wall? Or are you paying attention to the brick? Whether it was acing the tests to get accepted...

Brandreth, Gyles D.: Elizabeth

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The Prince once asked me, ‘How on earth did Shakespeare manage it? I am Prince of Wales. Shakespeare wasn’t, but he knew exactly what...
Radeji zesilet v divocine

Palán, Aleš: Raději zešílet v divočině

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Z ptačího pohledu je to pragmatické, ale když je člověk při zpěvu pozoruje, vidí, že do toho dávají všechno. Pozoroval jsem pěnici černohlavou, jak se rozechvěje,...
The Moral Animal Cover

Robert Wright: The Moral Animal

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But it has taken only around 5,000 generations to turn a wolf into a chihuahua — and, at the same time, along a separate...
Humans who awent exctinct

Clive Finlayson: The Humans Who Went Extinct

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We know now that Neanderthals were pale skinned, had a range of hair colours comparable to Caucasians, and had a gene that we share and which...

Fritjof Capra: Tkáň života

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O bakteriích „Jak píše Margulisová: „Není pravda, že jsme nechali bakterie daleko za sebou na evolučním žebříčku. Jsme jimi obklopeni a skládáme se z nich.“...
The Full Cupboard of Life

McCall Smith, Alexander: The Full Cupboard of Life

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‘You are right,’ she said. ‘I am a very engaged lady. I have been waiting for a long time. But you cannot push men around. They...

Ivan Wernisch: Doupě latinářů

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Stmívání v Uhrách „Pomalu přestávám rozeznávat obrázky ve svém Baedekru. V Šeredi, nebo jak se to město jmenuje, se totiž stmívá. Teprve stmívá, ale z...

Richard Dawkins: Příběh předka

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"V době před 5 až 7 miliony let kdesi v Africe my, lidští poutníci, zažíváme mimořádné setkání. Je to Setkání 1, naše první seznámení...
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...
Deer Hunting with Jeasus

Bageant, Joe: Deer Hunting with Jesus

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When the middle-class citizens of Winchester or of the new suburbs of America—the 20 percent or so of Americans whose lives most closely resemble...

Mounk, Yascha: The People vs. Democracy

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But once a country was both affluent and democratic, it proved incredibly stable. Argentina had experienced a military coup in 1975, when its gross...
Uspořádání světa

Kissinger, Henry: Uspořádání světa

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Britský státník lord Palmerston vyjádřil v 19. století tento základní princip následovně: „Nemáme žádné věčné spojence a nemáme žádné věčné nepřátele. Věčné a trvalé jsou naše...

Al Aswany, Alaa: The Yacoubian Building

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Then he would bring his speech to an end by cursing Abd el Nasser, who had introduced free education, or quote as authority the...
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...
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...