Renata Kamenická Libri

Wars have often determined the character of society. Society in exchange has determined the character of wars. This is the theme of Michael Howard's stimulating book. It is written with all his usual skill and in its small compass is perhaps the most original book he has written. Though he surveys a thousand years of history, he does so without sinking in a slough of facts and draws a broad outline of developments which will delight the general reader.' A. J. P. Taylor, Observer

Irsko je zemí hrdinů. Někteří z nich jsou slavní a vypráví se o nich v mýtech a legendách, jiní téměř upadli v zapomnění. Začněme ale příběhem o narození prvního ze slavných irských hrdinů. Byl synem jednoho z božských Tuatha de Danann a sám se časem také stal bohem. Prý byl i otcem Cuchulainovým. Jmenoval se Lugh a byl vnukem strašného démona Balora... (z přebalu knihy)

Una goccia che si spande nell'acqua, le fluttuazioni delle popolazioni animali, i ritmi della fibrillazione cardiaca, la Grande Macchia Rossa di Giove, le oscillazioni dei prezzi, gli errori del computer. Sono fenomeni apparentemente assai diversi, con un solo tratto in comune: per la scienza tradizionale appartengono al mondo dell'imprevedibile, al "caos". Ma da due decenni gli scienziati stanno scoprendo che dietro il "caos" c'è un ordine nascosto, cha da origine a fenomeni complessi a partire da regole semplici. Gleick racconta la nascita e l'evoluzione della "scienza del caos" seguendone le tappe attraverso i ritratti dei suoi protagonisti. Ed in questo percorso appassionante riesce a suggerire un diverso modo di osservare il mondo.ou will never look at the world in quite the same way again.

First published in 1996, this is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays on the relationship between creative writing, the teaching of the same and the task of dramatizing literary works for television and the stage.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own, painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.