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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...
Armstrong, Karen: A History Of God
Like art, religion has been an
attempt to find meaning and value in life, despite the suffering that flesh is
heir to. Like any other human...
Ramadan, Tariq: Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity
“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...
Seddon, Christopher: Humans
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...
Pivo v Ománu
Před pár měsíci jsem byl na skok v indickém Dillí. Seděl jsem v restauraci a četl si místní noviny Times of India. Já se...
Barbara Kingsolver: Poisonwood Bible
Father feels makeup and nail polish
are warning signals of prostitution, the same as pierced ears.
Father surveyed our despair as if
he’d expected it all along,...
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...
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...
Alois Musil: Ze světa islámu
Český badatel a cestovatel, který prcestoval region cca před 100 lety.
O hadíthech (existuje 6 zdravých sbírek, al kutub as-sitta)
„Rostoucí potřeba církevního práva přiměla...
Mariusz Szczygieł: Udělej si ráj
Poláci mají zdá se nějakou potřebu psát o jiných národech v regionu. Viz velmi podobné povídání Krzysztofa Vargy o Maďarech...
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