Veronika Horáčková Books

Een jonge kinderverzorgster en haar collega's weten tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog uit de Joodse Crèche bij de Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam 600 Joodse kinderen te redden van deportatie.

It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good. The instinct to cooperate rather than compete, trust rather than distrust, has an evolutionary basis going right back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. By thinking the worst of others, we bring out the worst in our politics and economics too. In this major book, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman takes some of the world's most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the Blitz, a Siberian fox farm to an infamous New York murder, Stanley Milgram's Yale shock machine to the Stanford prison experiment, Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think - and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society. It is time for a new view of human nature

Nick Grevers and his climbing buddy Augustin are drawn to the Maudit, a remote mountain peak in the Swiss Alps. Documentation on the mountain is scarce, its slopes are eerily quiet, and when they enter its valley, they get the ominous sense that they are not alone. Something is waiting for them… Not long after, Nick wakes from a coma to find Augustin dead. Nick’s own face is maimed and wrapped in bandages. A long rehabilitation awaits, but Nick soon realizes that it isn’t just the trauma of the accident that haunts him. Something has awakened inside of him…

Fáma o tom, že po letech opět vystoupí zpěvačka Esmeralda, se rychle rozšíří a promění životy obyčejných lidí v jednom maloměstě. Veselý bohatě ilustrovaný příběh. V ospalém městečku Slunohrad vyvolá zvěst o příjezdu světoznámé divy hotové pozdvižení. Domněnky, výmysly a vzpomínky se kupí jedna na druhou a šeptanda přivádí všechny do varu. Jaký dopad má lidská fantazie? Spekulace a smyšlenky se mísí s obavami, sny a očekáváními. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.