Hľadanie: How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
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How to Save a Life
In Eva Carter's How to Save a Life, saving a life is only the start of the story . . .
'I couldn't put it down until I reached the final page' - Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare
'A sweeping, brave, epic love story. I was hooked from the very first page' - Josie Silver, author of One Day
Eighteen-year-old Kerry has had a crush on Joel for years, but knows he's out of her league. Then something extraordinary happens: minutes before midnight on the eve of the millennium, Joel collapses and Kerry saves his life.
As Kerry supports Joel through his recovery, they discover a connection neither of them anticipated - until, haunted by what might have been, he abruptly ends their relationship.
Over the course of the next two decades, the two are bound by that moment of life and death; each time they believe they've found love, discovered their vocation, or simply moved on, their lives collide again. But Joel got a second chance at life; will Kerry get a second chance at love?
How to Save a Life
Ever since her dad died, Jill has drifted away from those she loves. Now her mom wants to adopt a baby, replacing their lost family member with a new one. And what's worse...the teenage mother, Mandy, is moving in with them before the birth. A remarkable story of what it means to be a family, and the many roads we can take to become one.
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How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self rule. In the United States, the election of Donald Trump marked a decisive turning point for many.
What kind of president calls the news media the "enemy of the American people," or sees a moral equivalence between violent neo-Nazi protesters in paramilitary formation and residents of a college town defending the racial and ethnic diversity of their homes? Yet, whatever our concerns about the current president, we can be assured that the Constitution offers safeguards to protect against lasting damage-or can we?How to Save a Constitutional Democracy mounts an urgent argument that we can no longer afford to be complacent. Drawing on a rich array of other countries' experiences with democratic backsliding, Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq show how constitutional rules can either hinder or hasten the decline of democratic institutions.
The checks and balances of the federal government, a robust civil society and media, and individual rights-such as those enshrined in the First Amendment-do not necessarily succeed as bulwarks against democratic decline. Rather, Ginsburg and Huq contend, the sobering reality for the United States is that, to a much greater extent than is commonly realized, the Constitution's design makes democratic erosion more, not less, likely. Its structural rigidity has had the unforeseen consequence of empowering the Supreme Court to fill in some details-often with doctrines that ultimately facilitate rather than inhibit the infringement of rights.
Even the bright spots in the Constitution-the First Amendment, for example-may have perverse consequences in the hands of a deft communicator, who can degrade the public sphere by wielding hateful language that would be banned in many other democracies. But we-and the rest of the world-can do better. The authors conclude by laying out practical steps for how laws and constitutional design can play a more positive role in managing the risk of democratic decline.
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How to Save a Life
From the best-selling author, Sara Zarr, comes the remarkable story of what it means to be a family, and the many roads we can take to become one. Jill MacSweeney just wishes everything could go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she's been
isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends - everyone who wants to support her. And when her mom decides to adopt a baby, it feels like she's trying to replace a lost family member with a new one. Mandy Kalinowski understands what it's l
ike to grow up unwanted - to be raised by a mother who never intended to have a child. So when Mandy falls pregnant, one thing she's sure of is that she wants a better life for her baby. But will she ever find someone to care for her too? As their wo
rlds change around them, Jill and Mandy must learn to both let go and hold on, and that nothing is as easy - or as difficult - as it seems.
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.
Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal.
He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions-suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise.
As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
Maluj Maľuj vodou zas a znova Co to děláš? Čo to robíš?
Vaše dítě rádo maluje? Zapomeňte na klasické omalovánky! Ottovo nakladatelství přináší na trh sérii patera omalovánek MALUJ VODOU. Dítě obrázek jednoduše přetře vodou a on se mu krásně vybarví. Malovat vodou může zas a znova, do nekonečna. Jednotlivé obrázky jsou tematicky zaměřeny. Můžete si vybrat Svět zvířátek, Mám vodu rád, Co to děláš?, Říkanky se zvířátky nebo Bavíme se. Na druhé straně každé omalovánky najdete motiv pro klasické vybarvování pastelkami, říkanku k obrázku a hádanku. Tyto kouzelné omalovánky si vaše dítě určitě zamiluje. Uvítají je i rodiče, protože malý malíř nebo malířka nepotřebuje žádné vodové barvy, kterými by vše zašpinilo. Postačí jen obyčejná voda a štětec.
Vaše dieťa rado maľuje? Zabudnite na klasické omaľovánky! Ottovo nakladateľstvo prináša na trh sériu piatich jedinečných omaľovánok MAĽUJ VODOU. Dieťa jednoducho obrázok pretrie vodou a krásne sa mu vyfarbí. Maľovať vodou môže zas a znovu, do nekonečna. Jednotlivé omaľovánky sú tematicky zamerané - Svet zvieratiek, Mám vodu rád, Čo to robíš?, Riekanky so zvieratkami a Zabávame sa. Na druhej strane omaľovánok nájdete motív na klasické maľovanie pastelkou, riekanky k obrázkom a rozličné hádanky. Čarovné omaľovánky si vaše dieťa určite zamiluje. Je to vítané aj pre rodičov, pretože dieťa nepotrebuje žiadne vodové farbičky, ktorými by všetko zašpinilo. Stačí len obyčajná voda a vyfarbí sa mu krásny obrázok.
How to F*ck Up Your Startup
Every business owner dreams of success, but the majority of businesses are doomed to fail.
This book offers a journey through the pitfalls that cause 90% of companies to crash-and the crucial remedies entrepreneurs can use to avoid (or fix) them.
Kim Hvidkjaer was 29 years old when he became a millionaire. Two years later, after a cluster of disasters, he found himself basically broke. Now, having rebuilt his fortune as the founder of several successful enterprises and studied thousands of failed startups, Hvidkjaer has become an expert in failure: what it means, what it looks like, and the strategies that business owners can use to prevent it.
In How to F*ck Up Your Startup, he takes us on an entertaining and enlightening journey through the complex patterns of failure in the life cycle of a business, covering:
Attitude mistakes
Business model missteps
Market research snafus
Funding and financial blunders
Product development errors
Organization oversights
Sales slip-ups
Growing pains
Most important, he tackles what to do when your business has gone wrong.
Hvidkjaer fleshes out a tangible, usable blueprint for entrepreneurs looking to learn (the easy way) from the mistakes of businesses gone before. Chock-full of easy-to-follow business lessons that will keep you from f*cking up your startup, this down-to-earth guide offers crucial, actionable advice for seasoned business owners and startup founders alike.
A masterclass in failure, How to F*ck Up Your Startup is required reading for reaching success.
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Common Mistakes at CAE ... and how to avoid them
This invaluable little book highlights the real mistakes that students make in the exam - and shows how to avoid them. Based on analysis of thousands of exam scripts, each unit targets a key problem area. Clear explanations and exercises help students to use the language accurately. Regular tests offer students a further opportunity to check and consolidate what they have learnt. * Highlights common mistakes that learners really make * Based on analysis of thousands of exam scripts * Short, snappy explanations focus on key problem areas * Includes exam-style exercises
Lacná kniha How to Grow a Baby Journal (-25%)
It may not feel like it now, but those 40-odd weeks of being pregnant and the early months with your precious newborn will go past so quickly. With this keepsake journal from bestselling author and midwife Clemmie Hooper, you can capture the highs, lows and everything in-between so you'll never forget a moment. Whether it's recording where and when you first found out, how you and your partner felt seeing your baby at the first hospital scan, what happened the first night you spent with your newborn or noting down the many amazing firsts with your new baby, this beautifully illustrated journal will give you the space you need to record all the special memories.
With Clemmie's reassuring advice and prompts to help you delve into your feelings and experiences, let this be your most treasured souvenir to look back on in years to come.
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How to be Well Read
Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very personal guide to the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written.
He brilliantly captures the flavour of each work and assesses its relative merits and demerits. He shows how it fits into a broader context and he offers endless snippets of intriguing information: did you know, for example, that the Nazis banned Bambi or that William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying on an upturned wheelbarrow; that Voltaire completed Candide in three days, or that Anna Sewell was paid GBP20 for Black Beauty? It is also effectively a history of the novel in 500 or so wittily informative, bite-sized pieces.
Encyclopaedic and entertaining by turns, this is a wonderful dip-in book, whose opinions will inform and on occasion, no doubt, infuriate.
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Sigrid - How To Let Go CD
Tracklist:
1 It Gets Dark
2 Burning Bridges
3 Risk Of Getting Hurt
4 Thank Me Later
5 Mirror
6 Last To Know
7 Dancer
8 A Driver Saved My Night
9 Mistake Like You
10 Bad life
11 Grow
12 High Note
Common Mistakes at FC ... and how to avoid them
This useful little book highlights typical mistakes that learners make at First Certificate level and shows how to avoid them. Based on the analysis of thousands of actual exam scripts in the Cambridge Learner Corpus, each unit focuses on a key problem area. Clear explanations and varied FCE-style exercises help learners to use the language accurately. Regular tests offer learners a further opportunity to check and consolidate what they have learnt.
Common Mistakes at PET ... and how to avoid them
This invaluable little book highlights the real mistakes that students make in the exam - and shows how to avoid them. Based on analysis of thousands of exam scripts, each unit targets a key problem area. Clear explanations and exercises help students to use the language accurately. Regular tests offer students a further opportunity to check and consolidate what they have learnt. * Highlights common mistakes that learners really make * Based on analysis of thousands of exam scripts * Short, snappy explanations focus on key problem areas * Includes exam-style exercises
Lacná kniha How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood (-50%)
'I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife'. So said Elizabeth Taylor, and therein lay her secret. From her days as a youthful minx at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to her post-studio reign as America's lustiest middle-aged movie queen, Taylor has defined the very essence of Hollywood stardom. Marching through the decades swathed in mink, discarding husbands nearly as frequently as she changed her diamond necklaces, Taylor dominated the headlines as no other star before or since. From America's sweetheart to America's homewrecker and then back again, she uncannily reflected (and at times predicted) the always shifting cultural zeitgeist. "How to Be a Movie Star" is a different kind of book about Elizabeth Taylor: an intimate look at a girl who grew up with fame, who learned early - and well - how to be famous.
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Je niečo silnejšie ako sesterská láska?
Lívia je tá staršia. Tá úspešnejšia. Tá populárnejšia. Baška je tá, čo ostala na druhej koľaji... a to nielen v babských kruhoch na škole, ale aj doma a v srdciach rodičov. Keď sa Lívii rúca budúcnosť pred očami, rieši všetko po svojom a ničí všetkých naokolo. Nanešťastie je rodičovská láska niekedy slepá a pravda nemá šancu na prežitie. No ktorá sestra je v skutočnosti tá silnejšia a rozhodnejšia? Ktorá dokáže obetovať všetko, aby zabránila ďalšiemu súženiu?
Všetky šťastné rodiny sú si podobné, každá nešťastná rodina je nešťastná svojím spôsobom. Vo svojej štrnástej knihe sa Mirka Varáčková ponorila do navonok šťastnej rodiny, aby odhalila ich nešťastie.
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Co to žere a kde to spí
Obrovské vesmírné překladiště Terango (neboli Terminál Sycango) je kromě přistávacích a odletových ramp kompletně vybudováno pod povrchem planety a personál tvoří jedenáct tisíc lidí a přes dva tisíce androidů. V podstatě jde o město s kompletním vybavením a servisem.
Všechno funguje tak, jak má, až do chvíle, než se začnou ztrácet lidi. Na Zemi se o tom nic neví, dokud se neztratí dcera náměstka baltimorské FBI. Náměstek na Terango pošle vyšetřovatelku Moiru Glaceovou. Jednak mu byla protivná a potřeboval se jí zbavit, jednak mu bylo jasné, že pokud má na Terangu někdo šanci něco vyšetřit, tak jedině drzá neřízená střela, což Moira je. Agentka hned po příletu pochopí, že je vetřelcem v dokonale funkčním, ale zároveň dokonale uzavřeném systému, který za všech okolností drží při sobě, a to včetně umělé inteligence, řídící veškerý provoz Teranga. Ostatně jinak by to ani nešlo, protože černý obchod (zbraně a drogy) tvoří třicet procent provozu překladiště. Systém si velmi rychle zanalyzuje, že Moira ten svůj vyšetřovací čumák strčila příliš hluboko do jeho struktury, a tudíž už se na Zemi vrátit nemůže. Moira má však na věc úplně jiný názor.
Samostatný román.
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TEA A čo keď to nedokážem?
Maminka chce prihlásiť Teu na plávanie, aby sa mohla kúpať v mori bez rukávnikov. To je, ale hanba... ! Jej kamaráti to už všetci vedia, ale čo keď sa to ona nenaučí?
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Tvary a veľkosti - Skús to znova!
Ako vyzerá trojuholník? A ako švorec? Pracovný zošit Skús to znova! – Tvary a veľkosti naučí malých zvedavcov kresliť a rozpoznávať základné geometrické tvary (nápovedu im poskytnú prerušované čiary) aj rozdiel medzi slovami malý – stredný – veľký. Deti sa postupne pripravia na prvé písanie a zároveň si rozvíjajú grafomotorické zručnosti. Súčasťou každého pracovného zošita je špeciálna fixka s hubkou na zmazávanie, vďaka ktorej je možné každú úlohu riešiť znova a znova. Edícia pozostáva z trojice zošitov – Skús to znova – Tvary a veľkosti, Písanie, Čísla a farby.
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