Jeremy Clarkson: Round the bend
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
But in order to make that state economically viable, the Maronites appealed to France to include in it not only their traditional Mt. Lebanon...
Wallace-Wells, David: The Uninhabitable Earth
The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a wiping of the fossil record...
Yong, Ed: An Immense World
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...
Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind
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...
Harari, Yuval Noah: Homo Deus
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...
Barrett, Lisa Feldman: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
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...
Francis Fukuyama: Konec dějin a poslední člověk
Současná liberální revoluce „představuje ... další důkaz toho, že se zde uplatňuje jakýsi fundamentální proces ... něco jako světové dějiny lidstva směřující k liberální...
Deutscher, Guy: The Unfolding of Language
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...
Chalíl Džibrán: Prorok
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...
Al Aswany, Alaa: The Yacoubian Building
Then he would bring his speech to an end by cursing Abd el Nasser, who had introduced free education, or quote as authority the...
Tim Butcher: Blood River
For me the Congo stands as a totem
for the failed continent of Africa. It has more potential than any other
African nation, more diamonds, more...
Jan Lukeš: Můj život v hudbě
Jan Lukeš, *1912, +1977, 1946 zbaven svéprávnosti pro propagaci paxismu, autor 38 oper, 13 symfonií (první byla rovnou Devátá), mnoha písní (např. Písně mrtvých...
Milan Kundera: Nesmrtelnost
Když se ukáže, že Paul léta tajil žaludeční vředy
"I když byl Paul pravděpodobně nadprůměrně ješitný, přece, říkala si Agnes, jeho postoj odhaluje rozdíl mezi...
Chris Stringer: Lone Survivors
The origin of modern Homo sapiens must have been a relatively recent and restricted one in Africa, based on marked similarities between recent humans...
Clarkson, Jeremy: Driven to Distraction
Whee, it’s a tax-dodging style guru’s dream ride (Nissan Navara)
“In theory what you try to do in PR is raise awareness and shape public...