Nakladatelství Profile Books - strana 8 z 16

'I don't know why I behaved the way I did, and I kept doing it; he kept doing it. And though I might once have easily brushed it away, suddenly I could not. Nor could I confront him. The conversation moved too quickly.'...

• Knihapevná vazba
  285 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had stumbled on one of the most extreme sports in existence: a quest to extend the frontiers of human experience...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  358 Kč

  Do 22 – 26 dnů

In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Out of Your Mind brings readers, for the first time, six of this legendary thinker's most engaging teachings on how to...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  276 Kč

  Do 22 – 26 dnů

In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  234 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ...

• Knihapevná vazba
  436 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the ...

• Knihapevná vazba
  611 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

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

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars is the ultimate thought experiment but it is also a call to arms: these are all things we could do, if we put our minds to it - and our money...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  291 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  327 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  530 Kč

  Skladem 2 ks

Whatever society we live in, and however open-minded we like to think we are, when it comes to our sex lives we all like to keep a few secrets. But this makes the jobs of sexologists - professionals who study sexual behaviour - pretty difficult...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  411 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

It's Summer, 1991, the dawning of the New World Order; a post-MTV, pre-AOL generation. Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green, two former New Yorkers who can no longer afford an East Village apartment, set off on a journey across the entire ...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  251 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. And no wonder: its embrace of self-mastery, virtue and indifference to that which we cannot control...

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  240 Kč

  Skladem
• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  324 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Oscar Wilde said, 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Cult of Progress, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  409 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  305 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

After being diagnosed with AIDS, Herve Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life. In the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  325 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Over the last 22 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human whether that be getting what you want, understanding others' motivations, mastering your impulses, and recognizing strengths and...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  430 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Kids aren't all the same. You can't follow instructions and expect success every time. So what if parents approached their children as questions to be answered and not problems to be solved...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  279 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

They have just started their first term at a performing arts school, where the rules are made by their magnetic drama instructor Mr Kingsley, who initiates them into a dangerous game. Two decades on we learn that the real story of these teenagers...

• Knihapevná vazba
  568 Kč

  Do 22 – 26 dnů