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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
McCall Smith, Alexander: In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies
‘We are all human,’ she would say. ‘Men particularly. You must not be ashamed.’
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...
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...
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....
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...
Barbara Kingsolver: Poisonwood Bible
Father feels makeup and nail polish
are warning signals of prostitution, the same as pierced ears.
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...
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...
