Kultura

Naše sdílená přesvědčení, zvyky a technologie formují každý aspekt lidského života, od starověkých tradic po moderní digitální kulturu. Tyto podnětné knihy zkoumají, jak společnosti fungují, vyvíjejí se a ovlivňují naše každodenní zkušenosti, a nabízejí nové pohledy na vše od médií a vzdělávání po sociální dynamiku a kulturní identitu.

Kultura Shrnutí knih

The Lion Women of Tehran

od Marjan Kamali

A childhood bond in 1950s Tehran must weather revolution, betrayal, and decades of separation.

4.47

200 000+

Historická fikce

Women

Literární fikce

Imerzivní

The Lion Women of Tehran

A childhood bond in 1950s Tehran must weather revolution, betrayal, and decades of separation.

od Marjan Kamali 2024 327 stran

4.47

200 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Women

Literární fikce

Crazy Like Us

od Ethan Watters • 2009

Exporting American psychiatric definitions changes mental illness from the inside, not just what doctors call it.

4.10

4 000+

Psychologie

Duševní zdraví

Sociologie

Imerzivní

Crazy Like Us

Exporting American psychiatric definitions changes mental illness from the inside, not just what doctors call it.

od Ethan Watters 2009 320 stran

4.10

4 000+ hodnocení

Psychologie

Duševní zdraví

Sociologie

Inverting the Pyramid

od Jonathan Wilson • 2008

How offside rules, coffee houses, and fascism invented modern football formations.

4.14

13 000+

Historie

Sport

Fotbal

Imerzivní

Inverting the Pyramid

How offside rules, coffee houses, and fascism invented modern football formations.

od Jonathan Wilson 2008 374 stran

4.14

13 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Sport

Fotbal

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1

od Michel Foucault • 1976

The West didn't silence sex. It turned it into a science, then demanded everyone talk.

4.02

25 000+

Filozofie

Sociologie

Historie

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1

The West didn't silence sex. It turned it into a science, then demanded everyone talk.

od Michel Foucault 1976 176 stran

4.02

25 000+ hodnocení

Filozofie

Sociologie

Historie

The Secret of Our Success

od Joseph Henrich • 2015

Cumulative culture, not brainpower, explains why we rule the planet and lost explorers starve.

4.39

2 000+

Věda

Antropologie

Evoluce

The Secret of Our Success

Cumulative culture, not brainpower, explains why we rule the planet and lost explorers starve.

od Joseph Henrich 2015 456 stran

4.39

2 000+ hodnocení

Věda

Antropologie

Evoluce

The Small and the Mighty

od Sharon McMahon • 2024

The Preamble's author is forgotten. So are eleven other Americans who bent history.

4.37

42 000+

Historie

Biografie

Politika

The Small and the Mighty

The Preamble's author is forgotten. So are eleven other Americans who bent history.

od Sharon McMahon 2024 307 stran

4.37

42 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Biografie

Politika

The Making of Asian America

od Erika Lee • 2015

Asian American history begins with Spanish galleons in Mexico, a century before the Gold Rush.

4.32

2 000+

Historie

Rasa

Sociologie

The Making of Asian America

Asian American history begins with Spanish galleons in Mexico, a century before the Gold Rush.

od Erika Lee 2015 528 stran

4.32

2 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Rasa

Sociologie

The Player of Games

od Iain M. Banks • 1988

A jaded utopian game prodigy travels to a cutthroat empire where a tournament crowns the ruler.

4.28

81 000+

Science fiction

Space opera

Spekulativní fikce

The Player of Games

A jaded utopian game prodigy travels to a cutthroat empire where a tournament crowns the ruler.

od Iain M. Banks 1988 293 stran

4.28

81 000+ hodnocení

Science fiction

Space opera

Spekulativní fikce

The Corrosion of Character

od Richard Sennett • 1996

Flexible work promised freedom. It delivered the slow erosion of loyalty, trust, and a stable self.

3.94

2 000+

Sociologie

Ekonomie

Psychologie

The Corrosion of Character

Flexible work promised freedom. It delivered the slow erosion of loyalty, trust, and a stable self.

od Richard Sennett 1996 176 stran

3.94

2 000+ hodnocení

Sociologie

Ekonomie

Psychologie

Civilization and Its Discontents

od Sigmund Freud • 1930

Civilization shields you from nature but punishes you from within: order's price is guilt.

3.80

45 000+

Psychologie

Filozofie

Klasika

Civilization and Its Discontents

Civilization shields you from nature but punishes you from within: order's price is guilt.

od Sigmund Freud 1930 127 stran

3.80

45 000+ hodnocení

Psychologie

Filozofie

Klasika

Gejša

od Arthur Golden • 1997

Sold to a Kyoto geisha house, a fisherman's daughter is sustained by one stranger's kindness.

4.16

2 000 000+

Historická fikce

Klasika

Japonsko

Gejša

Sold to a Kyoto geisha house, a fisherman's daughter is sustained by one stranger's kindness.

od Arthur Golden 1997 503 stran

4.16

2 000 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Klasika

Japonsko

What You Do Is Who You Are

od Ben Horowitz • 2019

Your culture is what happens when the boss leaves the room. Here's how to design it.

4.00

8 000+

Podnikání

Leadership

Management

What You Do Is Who You Are

Your culture is what happens when the boss leaves the room. Here's how to design it.

od Ben Horowitz 2019 288 stran

4.00

8 000+ hodnocení

Podnikání

Leadership

Management

An Everyone Culture

od Robert Kegan • 2016

What if your company's real product was more capable adults, and profit was the side effect?

3.95

1 000+

Podnikání

Psychologie

Leadership

An Everyone Culture

What if your company's real product was more capable adults, and profit was the side effect?

od Robert Kegan 2016 336 stran

3.95

1 000+ hodnocení

Podnikání

Psychologie

Leadership

Excession

od Iain M. Banks • 1996

From beyond reality, a sphere appears. The Culture's greatest Minds are, for once, outclassed.

4.20

34 000+

Science fiction

Space opera

Excession

From beyond reality, a sphere appears. The Culture's greatest Minds are, for once, outclassed.

od Iain M. Banks 1996 500 stran

4.20

34 000+ hodnocení

Science fiction

Space opera

Greek Lessons

od Han Kang • 2011

A woman silenced by trauma joins a Greek class taught by a man losing his sight.

3.60

49 000+

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Romantika

Greek Lessons

A woman silenced by trauma joins a Greek class taught by a man losing his sight.

od Han Kang 2011 192 stran

3.60

49 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Romantika

The Smart Money Woman

od Arese Ugwu • 2016

A high-earning Lagos professional is secretly broke. An eviction notice forces her to master money.

4.19

1 000+

Finance

Peníze

Afrika

The Smart Money Woman

A high-earning Lagos professional is secretly broke. An eviction notice forces her to master money.

od Arese Ugwu 2016 224 stran

4.19

1 000+ hodnocení

Finance

Peníze

Afrika

Ostrov mořských žen

od Lisa See • 2019

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

4.32

100 000+

Historická fikce

Historické

Asie

Ostrov mořských žen

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

od Lisa See 2019 374 stran

4.32

100 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Historické

Asie

The Vision of the Anointed

od Thomas Sowell • 1995

Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.

4.40

3 000+

Politika

Sociologie

Filozofie

Imerzivní

The Vision of the Anointed

Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.

od Thomas Sowell 1995 320 stran

4.40

3 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Sociologie

Filozofie

Superbloom

od Nicholas Carr • 2025

Communication's speed and abundance were supposed to unite us. Instead, they fragment and enrage.

4.04

1 000+

Technologie

Psychologie

Sociologie

Imerzivní

Superbloom

Communication's speed and abundance were supposed to unite us. Instead, they fragment and enrage.

od Nicholas Carr 2025 272 stran

4.04

1 000+ hodnocení

Technologie

Psychologie

Sociologie

A House Without Windows

od Nadia Hashimi

Her husband is dead, blood covers her hands, but this Afghan mother stays silent.

4.00

16 000+

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Women

Imerzivní

A House Without Windows

Her husband is dead, blood covers her hands, but this Afghan mother stays silent.

od Nadia Hashimi 2016 415 stran

4.00

16 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Women

Samarkand

od Amin Maalouf • 1988

A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.

4.24

31 000+

Historická fikce

Blízký východ

Literatura

Samarkand

A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.

od Amin Maalouf 1988 304 stran

4.24

31 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Blízký východ

Literatura

The Geography of Thought

od Richard E. Nisbett • 2003

Westerners lock on objects; East Asians read the field: a divide rooted in ancient Greece and China.

3.82

3 000+

Psychologie

Sociologie

Antropologie

The Geography of Thought

Westerners lock on objects; East Asians read the field: a divide rooted in ancient Greece and China.

od Richard E. Nisbett 2003 292 stran

3.82

3 000+ hodnocení

Psychologie

Sociologie

Antropologie

Not Without My Daughter

od Betty Mahmoody • 1987

Two weeks in Iran became forever. Her husband held the law. She held their daughter.

4.19

39 000+

Biografie

Memoáry

Autobiografie

Not Without My Daughter

Two weeks in Iran became forever. Her husband held the law. She held their daughter.

od Betty Mahmoody 1987 528 stran

4.19

39 000+ hodnocení

Biografie

Memoáry

Autobiografie

China Rich Girlfriend

od Kevin Kwan • 2015

Rachel Chu's engagement comes with a hidden father and a world of luxury that can kill.

3.84

200 000+

Současná literatura

Humor

Satira

China Rich Girlfriend

Rachel Chu's engagement comes with a hidden father and a world of luxury that can kill.

od Kevin Kwan 2015 378 stran

3.84

200 000+ hodnocení

Současná literatura

Humor

Satira

Red Scarf Girl

od Ji-li Jiang • 1997

A Shanghai schoolgirl's life shatters when she discovers her family is branded a class enemy.

3.80

17 000+

Memoáry

Historie

Biografie

Red Scarf Girl

A Shanghai schoolgirl's life shatters when she discovers her family is branded a class enemy.

od Ji-li Jiang 1997 285 stran

3.80

17 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Historie

Biografie

Emily Post's Etiquette, The Centennial Edition

od Lizzie Post • 2022

Forget the forks. The updated guide to navigating funerals, group chats, and your father-in-law.

4.26

187

Referenční

Osobní rozvoj

Sociologie

Emily Post's Etiquette, The Centennial Edition

Forget the forks. The updated guide to navigating funerals, group chats, and your father-in-law.

od Lizzie Post 2022 716 stran

4.26

187 hodnocení

Referenční

Osobní rozvoj

Sociologie

Why Bharat Matters

od S. Jaishankar • 2024

India abandoned diplomatic idealism for raw power realism. Its foreign minister explains why.

3.87

491

Politika

Indian

Historie

Why Bharat Matters

India abandoned diplomatic idealism for raw power realism. Its foreign minister explains why.

od S. Jaishankar 2024 237 stran

3.87

491 hodnocení

Politika

Indian

Historie

The Smartest Kids in the World

od Amanda Ripley • 2013

Not bake sales or gadgets: three American teens saw what makes the world's smartest students.

4.06

15 000+

Vzdělávání

Výuka

Rodičovství

The Smartest Kids in the World

Not bake sales or gadgets: three American teens saw what makes the world's smartest students.

od Amanda Ripley 2013 306 stran

4.06

15 000+ hodnocení

Vzdělávání

Výuka

Rodičovství

Indaba My Children

od Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa • 1964

Before Africa wrote, it remembered: the Bantu sacred history from creation to a future messiah.

4.41

450

Mytologie

Afrika

Historie

Indaba My Children

Before Africa wrote, it remembered: the Bantu sacred history from creation to a future messiah.

od Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa 1964 696 stran

4.41

450 hodnocení

Mytologie

Afrika

Historie

Desert Flower

od Waris Dirie • 1998

At thirteen she fled a forced marriage into the desert. Ahead: London, runways, and the UN.

4.25

42 000+

Biografie

Memoáry

Afrika

Desert Flower

At thirteen she fled a forced marriage into the desert. Ahead: London, runways, and the UN.

od Waris Dirie 1998 240 stran

4.25

42 000+ hodnocení

Biografie

Memoáry

Afrika

The Anarchy

od William Dalrymple • 2019

A company raised an army, conquered India, and its hunger for profit starved a nation.

4.20

19 000+

Historie

Indie

Ekonomie

The Anarchy

A company raised an army, conquered India, and its hunger for profit starved a nation.

od William Dalrymple 2019 544 stran

4.20

19 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Indie

Ekonomie

We Real Cool

od bell hooks • 2003

Slave-era patriarchy, street culture, and the wound of black masculinity: why only love heals.

4.27

1 000+

Rasa

Gender

Sociologie

We Real Cool

Slave-era patriarchy, street culture, and the wound of black masculinity: why only love heals.

od bell hooks 2003 184 stran

4.27

1 000+ hodnocení

Rasa

Gender

Sociologie

Five Little Indians

od Michelle Good • 2020

Five Indigenous teens survive a residential school, then step into a city built to erase them.

4.46

47 000+

Historická fikce

Kanada

First Nations

Five Little Indians

Five Indigenous teens survive a residential school, then step into a city built to erase them.

od Michelle Good 2020 304 stran

4.46

47 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Kanada

First Nations

India Wins Freedom

od Abul Kalam Azad • 1978

How the Congress leadership lost the fight for a united India: an insider's account.

4.21

1 000+

Historie

Indie

Politika

India Wins Freedom

How the Congress leadership lost the fight for a united India: an insider's account.

od Abul Kalam Azad 1978 297 stran

4.21

1 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Indie

Politika

Keeper'n Me

od Richard Wagamese

Taken from the trapline at three, he returns at twenty-five in platforms and borrowed skin.

4.00

2 000+

Domorodé

Kanada

Literární fikce

Imerzivní

Keeper'n Me

Taken from the trapline at three, he returns at twenty-five in platforms and borrowed skin.

od Richard Wagamese 1994 224 stran

4.00

2 000+ hodnocení

Domorodé

Kanada

Literární fikce

Suicidal Empathy

od Gad Saad • 2026

Too much empathy, aimed wrong, can destroy the civilization extending it. An evolutionary diagnosis.

4.16

1 000+

Politika

Psychologie

Filozofie

Imerzivní

Suicidal Empathy

Too much empathy, aimed wrong, can destroy the civilization extending it. An evolutionary diagnosis.

od Gad Saad 2026

4.16

1 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Psychologie

Filozofie

Born a Crime

od Trevor Noah • 2016

His birth was a felony. His mother's parenting philosophy was even more illegal.

4.49

800 000+

Memoáry

Autobiografie

Humor

Born a Crime

His birth was a felony. His mother's parenting philosophy was even more illegal.

od Trevor Noah 2016 288 stran

4.49

800 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Autobiografie

Humor

The Red Pencil

od Andrea Davis Pinkney • 2014

When war steals her home and voice, a Darfur girl draws her way back to hope.

3.9

7 000+

Pro starší děti

Historická fikce

Poezie

The Red Pencil

When war steals her home and voice, a Darfur girl draws her way back to hope.

od Andrea Davis Pinkney 2014 336 stran

3.9

7 000+ hodnocení

Pro starší děti

Historická fikce

Poezie

Glitch Feminism

od Legacy Russell • 2020

The glitch is not a mistake to fix; it’s a weapon against the binary body.

3.76

2 000+

Feminismus

Queer

Technologie

Glitch Feminism

The glitch is not a mistake to fix; it’s a weapon against the binary body.

od Legacy Russell 2020 176 stran

3.76

2 000+ hodnocení

Feminismus

Queer

Technologie

When Cultures Collide

od Richard D. Lewis • 2005

Why Germans schedule and Italians improvise: a cultural map for anyone who works across borders.

3.95

500+

Podnikání

Kultura

Leadership

When Cultures Collide

Why Germans schedule and Italians improvise: a cultural map for anyone who works across borders.

od Richard D. Lewis 2005 599 stran

3.95

500+ hodnocení

Podnikání

Kultura

Leadership

Inglorious Empire

od Shashi Tharoor • 2016

India's economy shrank from 23% of the world to 3% under British rule.

4.17

12 000+

Historie

Indie

Politika

Inglorious Empire

India's economy shrank from 23% of the world to 3% under British rule.

od Shashi Tharoor 2016 288 stran

4.17

12 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Indie

Politika

Status and Culture

od W. David Marx • 2022

All culture is a status game. Fashion cycles, taste boundaries, and why nothing cool stays cool.

3.89

1 000+

Sociologie

Kultura

Móda

Status and Culture

All culture is a status game. Fashion cycles, taste boundaries, and why nothing cool stays cool.

od W. David Marx 2022 368 stran

3.89

1 000+ hodnocení

Sociologie

Kultura

Móda

For the Culture

od Marcus Collins • 2023

Demographics tell you who someone is. Culture tells who they want to be. Only one sells.

3.99

500+

Podnikání

Sociologie

Psychologie

For the Culture

Demographics tell you who someone is. Culture tells who they want to be. Only one sells.

od Marcus Collins 2023 304 stran

3.99

500+ hodnocení

Podnikání

Sociologie

Psychologie

Six Questions of Socrates

od Christopher Phillips • 2004

Socrates' six questions, asked around the world, reveal the good life has no single answer.

3.70

389

Filozofie

Sociologie

Antropologie

Six Questions of Socrates

Socrates' six questions, asked around the world, reveal the good life has no single answer.

od Christopher Phillips 2004 320 stran

3.70

389 hodnocení

Filozofie

Sociologie

Antropologie

Bůh maličkostí

od Arundhati Royová • 1997

A forbidden love leads to a drowning, trapping twins in a decades-long secret in 1969 Kerala.

3.96

300 000+

Indie

Historická fikce

Klasika

Bůh maličkostí

A forbidden love leads to a drowning, trapping twins in a decades-long secret in 1969 Kerala.

od Arundhati Royová 1997 321 stran

3.96

300 000+ hodnocení

Indie

Historická fikce

Klasika

The Shortest History of China

od Linda Jaivin • 2021

Twelve chapters, four millennia: the recurring patterns that explain China's rise to superpower.

3.94

3 000+

Historie

Čína

Asie

The Shortest History of China

Twelve chapters, four millennia: the recurring patterns that explain China's rise to superpower.

od Linda Jaivin 2021 263 stran

3.94

3 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Čína

Asie

The Words

od Jean-Paul Sartre • 1963

Philosopher's childhood: every gesture staged for adults, every written word a bid for freedom.

3.73

10 000+

Filozofie

Memoáry

Autobiografie

The Words

Philosopher's childhood: every gesture staged for adults, every written word a bid for freedom.

od Jean-Paul Sartre 1963 256 stran

3.73

10 000+ hodnocení

Filozofie

Memoáry

Autobiografie

The Refugees

od Viet Thanh Nguyen • 2017

Eight Vietnamese refugees find the past crossed the ocean with them and demands its due.

3.86

22 000+

Povídky

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

The Refugees

Eight Vietnamese refugees find the past crossed the ocean with them and demands its due.

od Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 209 stran

3.86

22 000+ hodnocení

Povídky

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Empire of the Summer Moon

od S.C. Gwynne • 2010

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

4.25

70 000+

Historie

Americké

Indiánské

Empire of the Summer Moon

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

od S.C. Gwynne 2010 371 stran

4.25

70 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Americké

Indiánské

Identity

od Francis Fukuyama • 2018

Economics doesn't explain our political chaos. A deeper human need, the demand for dignity, does.

3.84

6 000+

Politika

Filozofie

Historie

Identity

Economics doesn't explain our political chaos. A deeper human need, the demand for dignity, does.

od Francis Fukuyama 2018 240 stran

3.84

6 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Filozofie

Historie

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