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In Praise of Failure - Bradatan, Costica [EN] (2024, Brožovaná, Harvard University…
- Rok vydání 2024
\nSuccess is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of…
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![Literární biografie In Praise of Failure - Bradatan, Costica [EN] (2024, Brožovaná, Harvard University Press)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
\nSuccess is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of…
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Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical…
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\nAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely…
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\nThe Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism’s and Christianity’s sacred books. Why these…
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Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of Athens' Golden Age. A friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich,…
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Acclaimed historian and museum curator Richard Rabinowitz tells the story of his immigrant Jewish family through the…
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\nRaymond Geuss is a critic of liberalism, a politics so pervasive in the West that it goes unnoticed. His attention…
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\nToday John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic…
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\nSuccess is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of…
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\nGeorge Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered…
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\nZhou Enlai, China’s first premier, is overshadowed by Mao, but Zhou’s influence in his own time and since has been vast.…
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The letters of Pliny the Younger (c. 61 c. 112 CE), a polished social document of his times, include descriptions of the…
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Fronto (c. 100 176 CE), a much admired orator and rhetorician, was befriended by the emperor Antoninus Pius and teacher of…
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\nPaolo Giovio\'s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to…
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After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last…
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\nLeon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical…
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\nLu Xun was China\'s greatest literary modernist and a key thinker of the early twentieth century. This new translation…
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\nFrancis Cogliano revisits the relationship between Washington and Jefferson, arguing that their vaunted differences mask…
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\nAlexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the…
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