In this easy-to-understand introduction, Stephen Mumford explores one of the four main branches of philosophy: metaphysics. Using practical examples to explore the main issues, he presents the ideas in a clear and simple way, helping to clarify and... Zobraziť viac
Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect of our existence. In the future, we're told, it will even make public life - from how we're governed to how we record c Zobraziť viac
Studie, které se týkají zážitků mystického světla, androgynství, kosmické a eschatologické obnovy člověka a světa v různých kulturách s orientací na náboženský symbolismus, jeho strukturu a význam... Zobraziť viac
Jedním z nejtemnějších termínů archaické filosofie je bezesporu to apeiron, "bezmezno"... Zobraziť viac
Celý svět se nachází uprostřed překotných změn, společnost se přesouvá od racionalistického modernismu k iracionalistickému postmodernismu... Zobraziť viac
Přístupný výklad základů moderní logiky a sémantiky v kontextu filosofické tradice... Zobraziť viac
Vstupní modlitbě mešní liturgie nebývá věnována velká pozornost, tato průkopnická publikace však dokazuje, že je opomíjena neprávem. Je studnicí tradice a historie církve, v níž se obvykle skrývá hluboká teologická a duchovní... Zobraziť viac
The Freakonomics books have come to stand for challenging conventional wisdom; using data rather than emotion to answer questions. Now Levitt and Dubner have turned what they've learned into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking smarter, ... Zobraziť viac
Junichiro Tanizaki was one of Japan's greatest twentienth century novelists. Born in 1886 in Tokyo, his first published work - a one-act play - appeared in 1910 in a literary magazine he helped to found... Zobraziť viac
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on... Zobraziť viac
Hutný soubor aforismů, který původně vznikal jako přípis k jednomu z předchozích děl, shrnuje v podstatě všechny Nietzschovy základní myšlenky v podobě poetické prózy. Zobraziť viac
Describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor... Zobraziť viac
Solve for Happy is the equation for happiness. This is a startlingly original book about creating and maintaining happiness, written by a top Google executive with an engineer's training and fondness for thoroughly analyzing a problem... Zobraziť viac
Nietzsche intended Twilight of the Idols to serve as a short introduction to his philosophy, and as a result it is the most synoptic of all his books. Continuing in the spirit of its immediate predecessors On The Genealogy of Morals and The Wagner Case... Zobraziť viac
In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests—including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor Socrates—each deliver a short speech in praise of love... Zobraziť viac
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut on the north-west shore of Walden Pond... Zobraziť viac
The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, ... Zobraziť viac
The Diviners are back in this thrilling and eerie third installment by #1 New York Timesbestselling author Libba Bray.New York City.1927.Lights are bright.Jazz is king.Parties are wild.And the dead are coming...After battling a supernatural sleeping... Zobraziť viac
From the acclaimed philosopher and author of One-Dimensional Woman, a bold, playful and open-minded exploration of the role of men in the twenty-first century... Zobraziť viac
In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully... Zobraziť viac
