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There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to our robot overlords. But Junaid Mubeen isn't ready to throw in the towel just yet...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  329 Kč

  Předobjednávka,
  vychází 6. 6. 2024

Who were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of historical imagination? They flit as ghosts through Europe's ancient past, purported ancestors of the Irish...

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  260 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

The story of the Earth is written into our landscape: it's there in the curves of hills, the colours of stone, surprising eruptions of vegetation. Wanting a fresh perspective on her own life, the writer Helen Gordon set out to read that epic...

• Knihapevná vazba
  408 Kč

  Do 15 – 20 dnů

This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their displays of arts and artifacts, their dioramas, their special exhibitions...

• Knihapevná vazba
  683 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo...

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  923 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

As our civilization careens towards a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings...

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  362 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

A complete guide for ordinary people who are called to careWhether due to old age, illness or disability, more and more of us are becoming carers to loved ones...

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  306 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what's theirs. In fact, there are four. A veteran regulatory economist and market analyst, Dan Davies has years of experience picking the bones out...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  271 Kč

  Do 3 – 6 dnů

The most important part of a leader's job is to set in motion the actions today that will build a better future tomorrow - in other words, strategy. But how do leaders become strategists...

• Knihapevná vazba
  468 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Geography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical separation at the end of the Ice Age to the first flickers of a United Kingdom, struggles for the Atlantic...

• Knihapevná vazba
  684 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Billionaire investors. If we think of them, it's with a mixture of awe and suspicion...

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  334 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

In this magisterial work, Professor Paul Stephenson charts the centuries surrounding this epic shift of power. He traces the cultural, social and political forces that led to the empire being ruled from a city straddling Europe and Asia...

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  837 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

The ten years leading up to the First World War were the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art. They were the crucible of Modernism, when Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and Abstract Art all burst forth...

• Knihapevná vazba
  775 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War...

• Knihapevná vazba
  683 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

What if you could peer into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with rumours that only they saw? In 2016, an obscure British military contractor turned the world...

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  268 Kč

  Skladem 2 ks

For decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet there is no difference in information content between a living cell and one that died a moment ago...

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  396 Kč

  Skladem 2 ks

I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are...

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  255 Kč

  Do 3 – 6 dnů

The strange and thrilling world of Japanese track racing - a cycling and betting culture unlike anything else on earth...

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  278 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Increasingly, we think and act as if the divides between us are unbridgeable: rather than reaching out and finding paths to reconciliation, we bunker down, create filter bubbles, build walls and gentrify neighbourhoods...

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  394 Kč

  Připravujeme,
  vychází 11. 1. 2025