Kevin Jackson Knihy

Chufuova Velká pyramida je nejstarším ze Sedmi divů světa a jediným, jenž dosud stojí. Za použití nejmodernější počítačové grafiky oživuje kniha svět Egypta z doby 4. dynastie a ukazuje, jak a proč byla postavena tato nejneobyčejnější památka. Původ Velké pyramidy vedl k nesčetným spekulacím. Jak byli staří Egypťané, vybavení jen nejzákladnějšími nástroji, schopni stavět tak přesně? Jak se dopravovaly kamenné bloky, vážící některé až 40 tun? Jak dlouho stavba trvala? Jak žili odvedení dělníci, kteří ji stavěli? Teprve na počátku 21. století nacházíme odpovědi… Autoři sledují dějiny zkoumání gízského pohřebiště, od nejstarších řeckých a římských cestovatelů až po dílo A. Kirchera a J. Greavese o 800 let později. Zkoumají počátky a vývoj egyptologie, zajímá je spojení se svobodným zednářstvím i důsledky hromadné turistiky. Kniha se nevyhýbá i uvedení méně pravověrných teorií pyramidologů a všímá si, jak se Velká pyramida stala magnetem pro všelijaké šarlatány, kacíře a ztřeštěnce. Vydáno jako doprovodná publikace televizního seriálu Pyramida, poprvé vysílaného na BBC v roce 2002. Váz., 192 stran, 18,9 x 24,6 cm, celobarevná publikace. Přeložil doc. PhDr. Ladislav Bareš

A RIVETING ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE OF THE MAYFLOWER that looks at the reality behind the mythical status and the journey that created the New World. Most of the voyagers of that famed 1620 crossing of the Atlantic were not in fact religious pilgrims but people intent on forging a better life for themselves in the virgin territory of America's east coast. 130 hardy souls were confined in a space no bigger than a tennis court, braving the "Northern Crossing' without any firm idea of what awaited them in the New World. Published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the fabled crossing of the “Pilgrim Fathers” from Plymouth, England. The pilgrims, who held Puritan Calvinist religious beliefs, sighted land at Cape Cod and first anchored in Provincetown Harbour on November 11/12 1620. And from there went on to found the Plymouth Colony.

Since the dawn of humanity, there have been individuals who want to mess around with Hidden Powers - with the Occult. Some were Mystics, some were Scientists, some were Charlatans. Some were Powerful, some were Wretched. All were pretty bonkers. From Dr. Dee to Kenneth Anger, from Mother Shipton to Madam Blavatsky, from Isaac Newton to David Bowie - centuries of eccentric, bizarre lives. Kevin Jackson and Hunt Emerson have made over 100 pages of comics dealing with the Lives of the Great Occultists. Over 40 Occultists in all, including Faust, Giordano Bruno, Strindberg, Isobel Gowdie, Kircher, William Blake, PL Travers, WB Yeats, Jack Parsons, and - repeatedly - Aleister Crowley. The comics are factual, and very funny.

The young CHARLES DARWIN was like a young Indiana Jones.For five years in his mid-twenties, he sailed on the BEAGLE around the world, exploring jungles, climbing mountains, trekking across deserts. With every new landfall, he had new adventures: he rode through bandit country, was thrown into jail by revolutionaries, took part in an armed raid with marines, survived two earthquakes, hunted and fished.He suffered the terrible cold and rain of Tierra del Fuego, the merciless heat of the Australian outback and the inner pangs of heartbreak.He also made the discoveries that finally led him to formulate his theory of Natural Selection as the driving force of evolution. The five-year voyage of the BEAGLE was the basis for all Darwin's later work; but it also turned him from a friendly idler into the greatest scientist of his century.

Komentovaný průřez nejslavnějším dílem rané italské renesance. Moderní, čtivý překlad Vladimíra Mikeše odhaluje za náboženskou symbolikou básníkovo poznání lidského údělu, těžce zrozené v čase, kdy se Florencie zmítala v bezohledných mocenských zápasech.

Over 110 effective recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation. Explore new features of OpenStack's Juno and Kilo releases, and learn to install, configure, and administer core projects with Object Storage, Block Storage, and Neutron Networking services. Benefit from the expertise of experienced OpenStack administrators to successfully run your private cloud. The book provides practical, real-world examples and a Vagrant environment for quick learning. OpenStack is a widely used open-source cloud infrastructure supporting software development and big data analysis, developed by a global community and backed by leading cloud players. Its simplicity, scalability, and strong ecosystem enable efficient cloud storage provisioning while reducing business costs. You'll discover cloud services like identity, image, and compute services, dive into Neutron for networking, and configure ML2, networks, routers, and Distributed Virtual Routers. Gain expert knowledge on managing cloud security and migration, and learn about OpenStack Object Storage, including server management and storage functionalities. Explore Block Storage, LBaaS, and FWaaS installation and configuration. Finally, familiarize yourself with the OpenStack Dashboard, Ansible, Foreman, Keystone, and more, enhancing your understanding and management capabilities of OpenStack cloud environments.

Kevin Jackson recounts that experience in addition to giving a full account of the film's production. But chiefly he analyses the mood and magic of the film, its aesthetics and sensibility, seeking to show, without ever detracting from the film's comic brilliance, just how much more there is to Withnail & I than drunkenness and swearing.

Lawrence of Arabia is widely considered one of the ten greatest films ever made - though more often by film-goers and film-makers than by critics. This monograph argues that popular wisdom is correct, and that Lean's film is a unique blend of visionary image-making, narrative power, mythopoetic charm and psychological acuteness.

The moose is a fascinating but elusive animal of the north. This book focuses on its little-known natural history. It explains the animal's behaviour, evolution and diet, and describes its natural environments around the world, including in the USA, Canada and Scandinavia, where the moose is the national animal of Sweden and of Norway.

1922. The spectacular year that F. Scott Fitzgerald chose as a backdrop for his most famous novel The Great Gatsby. It was also the year where James Joyce's Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land were published, Alfred Hitchcock directed his first feature, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Louis Armstrong took the train from New Orleans to Chicago and made Jazz the defining music of the age, and Hollywood transformed the nature of fame. Constellation of Genius is the gloriously entertaining journey through the diaries of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, film-makers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians and scientists whose lives and works collided over twelve months, creating a frenzy of innovation and the beginning of a new era.