Tereza Mbire is a Ugandan woman, ahead of her time. Born in 1934, as an orphan, she was a head teacher by the age of nineteen, a district councillor and commissioner. She became an entrepreneur, setting up the first modern bakery in the country in the post-Idi Amin period. Her life is characterised by an indomitable spirit that pervades the pages of her autobiography.

Introduction. Theorizing Opera as Hypermedium -- Allegory and Excess : Reading Hypermedial Opera -- Theatricality and Absorption : Listening for a Point of Experience -- Liveness and Mediatization : (De)constructing Dichotomies -- Synaesthesia or Anaesthesia? Towards a Politics of Hypermedial Opera.

In every life, they are drawn to each other like moths to a flame. Twin flames, destined to find one another no matter the circumstances, but cursed by the obstacles of fate that keep them apart. They have loved and lost in countless lifetimes, always searching for one another, always feeling incomplete without their other half. They have been torn apart by war, by distance, by social conventions, and even by death itself. But their connection remains unbreakable, their desire for each other burning brighter with every soulful encounter. Will they ever overcome the obstacles and find true happiness, or will their love remain forever unfulfilled, a tragic tale of twin flames lost in the journey of life?

The world has been bombarded in recent years with images of the luxurious lives and wealth of corrupt oligarchs and kleptocrats, amassed at the expense of ordinary people. Such images exploit our feelings of injustice, are taken as indicative of moral decay, and inspire a desire to purge our economies of dirty money, objects, and people. But why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What kind of world are they creating? Looking at luxury art, antiquities, superyachts, and populist politics, this book explores the connection between luxury and corruption, and offers an alternative to the received wisdom of how we tackle corruption.

This book analyses the impact of web design parameters on user experience and the behaviour of website users. Website design is considered one of the key parameters of a company's Internet presentation, affecting consumer attitudes and buying behaviour. The authors examine the concept of website quality based on the identification of patterns of user behaviour in the online environment, particularly focusing on the functional and aesthetic parameters of web design and causal relationships between them. Using website traffic analysis and best practices from professionals, they describe a methodical procedure for measuring the quality of web pages and developing optimised websites.

Učebnice lékařské češtiny je volným pokračováním publikace Talking Medicine. Je primárně určena zahraničním posluchačům lékařských fakult a je založena na reálných kazuistikách poskytujících rozšiřující slovní zásobu a frazeologii používanou ve standardní lékařské dokumentaci. Cílem je naučit studenty porozumět odborným písemným záznamům tak, aby s nimi mohli samostatně pracovat, a zároveň poskytnout prostor pro nácvik nejpotřebnější dovednosti, tj. kladení otázek a porozumění odpovědím pacienta při odebírání anamnézy. Kniha je psána anglicky a je vhodná pro použití při praktikách i pro samostudium. Je doplněna audionahrávkami všech dialogů umožňujícími studentům korigovat správnou výslovnost při samostudiu. Součástí knihy je i klíč ke cvičením a česko-anglický slovník. Audio přílohy najdete i online na našem kanálu Soundcloud.

This monograph aims to introduce the theme of informal learning. It consists of the theoretical part and the results of research conducted at the Faculty of Education, Palacký University in Olomouc among its master's students – future English teachers and the students of other 3 universities. It attempts to find out how often and how the students use online platforms, applications, websites and social networks in their informal learning and formal education. It describes the differences and similarities between the students' use of online technology for their own supervised and unguided learning and for the purposes of their formal studies. Comparisons in the use of online technology are made with regards to the students' gender and form of studies. The third part consists of the qualitative part of research focused on how future teachers of English have been approaching online technologies throughout their lives, primarily for the sake of informal education. In semi-structured interviews, teacher candidates who study primary and lower-secondary education at the Faculty of Education of Palacký University in Olomouc shared their history of using online applications and web pages from their young school age up to the present time. Differences and similarities between the two groups of students are explored, as well as the potential influence of their specific histories with online technologies on how they plan to utilize these in their future careers.

By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The authors include outstanding scholars and relevant practitioners from across disciplines and various academic institutions around Europe and North America, but also from outside of the transatlantic basin. While presenting a thorough examination of the process of TTIP negotiations, the volume is divided into four parts with each part examining a broader theme and offering three or four shorter exploratory chapters that are accessible to academics, students, policy-makers and a wider audience. The volume explores historical and theoretical aspects of TTIP (with chapters by Gamble, Keohane and Morse, Telò), the beginnings of the TTIP talks and the role of individual actors (Mayer, Novotná, Dür and Lechner, Strange), TTIP’s possible knock-on effects and consequences for third parties (Aggarwal and Evenett, Duchesne and Ouellet, Zhang, Ponjaert) as well as impact on multilateral institutions and regimes complexes (Mavroidis, Mortensen, Meunier and Morin, Pauwelyn). The authors highlight dynamics which underline the relationship between the United States and the European Union and argue that TTIP promises to have vast implications not just for economics but global governance and international system.

This book asks a critical question for our times: why do an increasing number of people support, admire and aspire to be outlaws? Outlaw motorcycle clubs have grown, spread and matured. Popular culture glamorizes them; law enforcement agencies fight them and the media vilify them. Meanwhile, the outlaw bikers exploit the current cultural and economic climate to attract new members. How Outlaws Win Friends and Influence People argues that the growth of these anti-establishment groups under neoliberalism is not coincidental, but inevitable. The book asks a critical question for our times: why do people today, in increasing numbers, support, admire and aspire to be outlaws? What needs and desires do the clubs satisfy? How do they win support and influence? Answering this is crucial if we are to successfully fight the social harms caused by these groups, as well as the harms that underlie their proliferation. Unless we understand the cultural dynamic at play here, our fight against these organizations will always take the form of a battle against the mythological Hydra: when one head is cut off, two more grow. “Tereza Kuldova is a rebel with a cause - her new book is a razor-sharp critique of stereotypical conceptions of the ‘outlaw biker’ and provides refreshing insights into their subjective life-worlds”​ - Daniel Briggs, author of the award-winning Dead-End Lives.