Blue Shoes and Happiness

McCall Smith, Alexander: Blue Shoes and Happiness

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‘ Ever since women allowed men to think that they did not need to get married, everything has gone wrong. That is what...

Kolbert, Elizabeth: The Sixth Extinction

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If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment...

Milan Kundera: Nesmrtelnost

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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...
In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies

McCall Smith, Alexander: In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies

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‘We are all human,’ she would say. ‘Men particularly. You must not be ashamed.’

Robin Dunbar: Příběh rodu Homo

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„Závěrem tedy můžeme říci, že bipedie, velký mozek a nástroje (to, co jsme tak dlouho považovali za znaky definující lidství), pravděpodobně pocházejí ze zcela...
Masters of the Planet

Tattersall, Ian: Masters of the Planet

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Because of the peculiar construction resulting from their complex history, our brains are far from directly comparable to a feat of human engineering. Indeed, they are...
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...

Best Remembered Poems

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Francis William Bourdillon The Night Has a Thousand Eyes The night has a thousand eyes,And the day but one;Yet the light of the bright world diesWith...

Clarkson, Jeremy: Driven to Distraction

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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...

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...
12 pravidel

Peterson, Jordan B.: 12 pravidel pro život

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V Mapách významu jsem přišel s myšlenkou, že dávné mýty a náboženské příběhy, zejména ty, které vzešly z rané orální tradice, jsou morální ve smyslu preskriptivním,...

Luciano de Crescenzo: Příběhy řecké filozofie

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"Boty!," vzdychá rytíř. "Dneska už nikdo neví, co tohle slovo znamená. Kdysi to ale bývala vizitka sociálního postavení! Když do otcovy dílny v ulici...
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...

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...