Africka zima

Šebek, Tomáš: Africká zima

Jo, a přestal jsem ke kritickým pacientům běhat. Pacient, který má umřít, umře tak jako tak. Lékař s tím nic neudělá. Na...
Teorie spolehlivosti

Diviš, Ivan: Teorie spolehlivosti

Jen nestoudnost, nestoudnost nezměrná a bezmírná je příčinou i důvodem, že si po čtyřicítce ještě dovolujeme chodit po zemi. Dávno jsme se měli odpařit...
Uspořádání světa

Kissinger, Henry: Uspořádání světa

V ostatních velkých regionech se na epochy znesvářených panovníků následně pohlíželo jako na „období zmatků“, občanskou válku nebo „epochu válečníků“, tedy jako na žalostné...
Sedma funkce jazyka

Binet, Laurent: Sedmá funkce jazyka

Užití slova „systém“ policistovi potvrdí to, čeho se obával: ocitl se v doupěti levičáků. Ze zkušenosti ví, že nedokážou mluvit o ničem jiném než...
Prisoners of Geography

Marshall, Tim: Prisoners of Geography

Take, for example, China and India: two massive countries with huge populations that share a very long border but are not politically or culturally...
Testosterone Rex

Cordelia Fine: Testosterone Rex

When a baby’s born, their sex is usually the first thing we want to know about them, and the last demographic information you’re ever...
Blue Shoes and Happiness

McCall Smith, Alexander: Blue Shoes and Happiness

‘ Ever since women allowed men to think that they did not need to get married, everything has gone wrong. That...
The Full Cupboard of Life

McCall Smith, Alexander: The Full Cupboard of Life

‘You are right,’ she said. ‘I am a very engaged lady. I have been waiting for a long time. But you cannot push...
In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies

McCall Smith, Alexander: In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies

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

McCall Smith, Alexander: Morality for Beautiful Girls

She had realised that the best test of a prospective husband involves no more than the asking of a very simple question, which every...
The Kalahari Typing School for Men

McCall Smith, Alexander: The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Unfairness seemed to be an inescapable feature of life, at least if you were Mma Makutsi from Bobonong in Northern Botswana, daughter of a...
Tears of the Giraffe

Alexander McCall Smith: Tears of the Giraffe

‘ God will provide,’ said Mma Potokwane calmly. ‘He will send us a new engine one day.’ ‘Maybe,’ said Mr J....
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

I said to him that Zululand sounded fine, but that every man has a map in his heart of his own country and...
Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver: Poisonwood Bible

Father feels makeup and nail polish are warning signals of prostitution, the same as pierced ears.
Blood River

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...
Humans who awent exctinct

Clive Finlayson: The Humans Who Went Extinct

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

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