The second selection of interviews with scientists and personalities from the program Hyde Park Civilization. A book for those who know they want to know. The guests of Hyde Park Civilization are people who change the world. People who have saved thousands or even millions of lives. People who stood up to oppression and did not give in to suffering. People who will move you forward. The best possible guest is always invited to the topic. The Hyde Park Civilization team follows the motto of Apollo 13 flight commander Gene Kranz: "Failure is NOT an option." QR codes for each chapter navigate to the video versions of the interviews located on the Czech Television website. Daniel Stach talks to the following personalities in the book: Andrew and Indira Feustel American astronaut and his wife Erik De Clercq biologist Antonín Holé's collaborator, pioneer of anti-virus research His Holiness the Dalai Lama spiritual leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kip Thorne Nobel Prize winner for physics Dita Krausová Holocaust survivor, Auschwitz librarian Josef Koutecký oncologist, founder of pediatric oncology in Czechoslovakia Zdeněk Svěrák humorist, playwright, screenwriter, actor, lyricist, writer, cimrmanologist, one of the "fathers" of Jára Cimrman Vladimír Dzuro former investigator of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague Cédric Villani mathematician, holder of the Fields Medal Miroslav Zikmund traveler, writer, columnist, photographer Jane Goodall primatologist Eliyahu Rips in 1969 in Riga tried to repeat the act of Jan Palach, professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem Milan Šamánek pediatric cardiologist Jamie Andrew mountaineer James Kakalios physicist , comicologist