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Chernobyl
On 26 April 1986, the unthinkable happened - the worst nuclear accident in history. Chernobyl provides a photographic exploration of the catastrophe a
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Tragedy of the Congo-Ocean Railroad
The gruesome history of the Congo–Océan Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa
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Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies
The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own London
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Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies
The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own London
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World´s Greatest Nuclear Disaster - Adam Higginbotham
<p>THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels spring-loaded with tension... extraordinary.' The New York TimesThe story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster ...
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A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe - Milan Kundera
<p>The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders.In a moment of historic peril and uncertainty in mainland Europe, Milan Kundera makes the case for Central Europe as the nucleus of European values and as a lightning rod for it...
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Silent Village
The definitive history of Oradour-sur-Glane, a village ripped apart by tragedy in Nazi-occupied France
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Silent Village
The definitive history of Oradour-sur-Glane, a village ripped apart by tragedy in Nazi-occupied France
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Silent Village
The definitive history of Oradour-sur-Glane, a village ripped apart by tragedy in Nazi-occupied France
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Disney's British Gentleman
The first ever biography of iconic British actor David Tomlinson - a journey through war, tragedy, fame and Hollywood
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Disney's British Gentleman
The first ever biography of iconic British actor David Tomlinson - a journey through war, tragedy, fame and Hollywood
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Tales from Great Passenger Ships
A collection of stories from many of the best-known passenger ships and liners, that vividly showcase the romance and tragedy of life at sea
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A Short History of Russia - Galeotti Mark
Anotace: Can anyone truly understand Russia?Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone`s `other`. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master game-player on the global stage with a rich history of war and peace, poets and revolutionaries.In this essenti...
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A Short History of Russia - Mark Galeotti
<p>Can anyone truly understand Russia? Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone's 'other'. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master game-player on the global stage with a rich history of war and peace, poets and revolutionaries. In this esse...
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Kai Bird
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, published to exceptional reviews in both the US and the UK, American Prometheus is as compelling a work of biography as it is a significant work of history. <p>'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - d...
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Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization (1787333760)
Kniha - autor Yuval Noah Harari, 256 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá The second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and harder. But why didn't they get a better life in ret...
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The History of Middle-Earth 03: Lays of Beleriand - Tolkien J. R. R.
Anotace: The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien`s epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. This, the third volume of The History of Middle-earth, gives us a priviledged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth, through the alliterative verse tales of two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien`s world --...
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The History of Middle-Earth 03: Lays of Beleriand - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
<p>The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. This, the third volume of The History of Middle-earth, gives us a priviledged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth, through the alliterative verse tales of two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien's world -- ...
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Sapiens: A Graphic History / The Pillars of Civilisation (Volume 2) - Yuval Noah Harari
<p>Discover the second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon.When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and harder. But why didn't they get a better life in return?In The Pillars of Civilization, Yuval Noah Harari and his...
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Ship of Dreams
When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russell recasts a tragedy we think we kn
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Book of the Dead
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them Afric...
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Limits of Safety
Environmental tragedies such as Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez remind us that catastrophic accidents are always possible in a world full of hazardous technologies. Yet, the apparent excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that nuclear arsenals can serve as a secure deterrent for the foreseeable future. ...
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City of Secrets (0143108948)
Kniha - autor Stewart O'Nan, 194 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Brand, a Jewish refugee in 1945, sets out for Palestine and tries to regain himself in the underground movement fighting for an independent Israel. He commits himself to the revolution, accepting secret missions as he begins to suspect he's being used by their cell's leader, Asher. By the time...
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Persepolis I and II: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return (009952399X)
Kniha - autor Marjane Satrapi, 344 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war...
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Hold Still : A Portrait of our Nation in 2020 - neuveden
Anotace: A unique collective portrait of the United Kingdom during the national lockdown of 2020.Introductory text by The Duchess of Cambridge.Focused on three key themes - Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness, this book presents a unique portrait of the UK during the 2020 lockdown, through 100 community photographs.The net proceeds from the sale of t...
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The Pity of War - Niall Fergusson
<p>The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why did men keep on fighting when conditions were so wretched? Was th...
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Perils of Man (PC/MAC) DIGITAL
Imagine getting a glimpse into the secret clockwork of the universe. Imagine a machine that can crack the code of destiny and give you the power to tinker with fate. Imagine discovering that for generations your family has concealed this power from the outside world. Ana Eberling may only be a teenager, but she is about to confront the biggest questions of life as she tri...
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The Dream of Europe : Travels in a Troubled Continent - Mak Geert
Anotace: How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.The great European project was built out of a common desire for peace, prosperity and freedom; a wish for a united E...
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The Dream of Europe : Travels in a Troubled Continent - Geert Mak
<p>How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here? From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium. The great European project was built out of a common desire for peace, prosperity and freedom; a wish for a unite...
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Perils of Man (PC/MAC) DIGITAL (PC)
Imagine getting a glimpse into the secret clockwork of the universe. Imagine a machine that can crack the code of destiny and give you the power to tinker with fate. Imagine discovering that for generations your family has concealed this power from the outside world.Ana Eberling may only be a teenager, but she is about to confront the biggest questions of life as she trie...
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Lessons: the new novel from the author of Atonement - McEwan Ian
Anotace: Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines`s life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a...
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Lessons: the new novel from the author of Atonement - Ian McEwan
<p>Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a ...
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World - Malcolm Gaskill
<p>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE* *A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times 'Simply one of the best history books I have ever read' BBC History In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People su...
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One Long Night
A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps
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Shipwrecks in 100 Objects
A fascinating insight into the history of shipwrecks, this book is packed full of stories of survival and tragedy, innovation and courage.
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Antigone, Interrupted
Antigone, Interrupted explores the intertwined history of law, politics, gender and humanism through a new reading of Sophocles' classical tragedy. St
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House With Crooked Walls
Bookseller and amateur sleuth Theodore Terhune uncovers the strange history of a local house for its mysterious new owner, when a tragedy occurs. Is
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Colonel and the Eunuch
A literary coming-of-age story set in twentieth-century China. The Colonel is an almost mythic figure shrouded in the tragedy of war and history – bu
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Dollmaker
'A terrifying lesson in US history – and a haunting tragedy' GuardianGertie is the young mother of five children – uneducated, determined, s
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Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country´s First Century - Julian Sayarer
<p>"The complex story of modern Turkiye, is a deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . We need writers who will go all the way for a story, and tell it with...
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How to End a Love Story: The brilliant new romantic comedy from the acclaimed screenwriter and director - Yulin Kuang
<p>A swoony, angsty and addictive romance about two people linked by a shared tragedy who are thrown together years later, only to discover a spark between them that complicates everything. For fans of: second chance romance, books that make you sob and star-crossed lovers with lots of spice. </p> <p> </p> <p>Helen Zhang is the bestselling au...
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Lost Kingdom - Serhii Plokhy
<p>'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the Year From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage...
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Lost Kingdom - Plokhy Serhii
Anotace: `Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely` Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the YearFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialismIn 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, t...
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The Scum Villain´s Self-Saving System 4: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong - Tong Xiu Mo Xiang
Anotace: What happens after an epic tale ends? This collection of eleven bonus stories picks up days after the end of Volume 3, and follows adventures and relationships into the future...and back into the past. Readers also get a glimpse into another world, where Luo Binghe was never saved by his beloved teacher - unless he can claim this world`s Shen Qingqiu for himself...
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The Scum Villain´s Self-Saving System 4: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong - Xiu Mo Xiang Tong
<p>What happens after an epic tale ends? This collection of eleven bonus stories picks up days after the end of Volume 3, and follows adventures and relationships into the future...and back into the past. Readers also get a glimpse into another world, where Luo Binghe was never saved by his beloved teacher - unless he can claim this world's Shen Qingqiu for himself....
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Dionysos
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence of Dionysos. In this work, the noted mythologist and historian of religion ...
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The Richest Man Who Ever Lived - Greg Steinmetz
Anotace: In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger became the richest man in history. Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly two percent of European GDP. In an era when kings had unlimited power, F...
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Arabian Nights (Collins Classics) - Richard Burton
<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '"For," said he, "there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth."' A collection of Persian, Arabian and Indian tales dating from the 9th century, Sir Richard Burton's most well-known translation of Arabian Nights brings...
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Arabian Nights (Collins Classics) - Burton Richard
Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `"For," said he, "there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth."` A collection of Persian, Arabian and Indian tales dating from the 9th century, Sir Richard Burton`s most well-known translation of Arabian Nights brings together ancient fol...
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Arabian Nights (Collins Classics) - Richard Burton
<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>‘“For,” said he, “there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth.”’</p> <p>A collection of Persian, Arabian and Indian tales dating from the 9th century, Sir Richard Burton’s most well-known translation of Arabian Nights brings t...
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The Leaning Church
The subtitle of the book is a succinct summary of the fate of this former pastoral village that became a boomtown thanks to coal mining, only to be wiped off the map a century later, also in the interests of coal mining.Today, nothing remains of the striking buildings and the soaring cathedral. Only the leaning church remains, jutting up from the barren landscape like a w...
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (0316462918)
Kniha - autor Malcolm Gladwell, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Through a...
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When The Curtain Falls - Carrie Hope Fletcher
Anotace: Theatres have a certain kind of magic. When the curtain rises, we are all enraptured by the glare of the lights and the smell of the greasepaint but it's when the curtain falls that the real drama begins . . . In 1952 two young lovers meet, in secret, at the beautiful Southern Cross theatre in the very heart of London's West End. Their relationship is made up ...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia. Volume I
Anotace: 'A rare and astonishing book, a glimpse of a deeply secretive world that has taken the author a lifetime to penetrate. It reveals more graphically than any Gulag history the unreformed horror of Russia: the lack of law, the rule of violence, the brutality, anti-Semitism and xenophobia. And yet it is filled with a poignance and a sense of personal tragedy th...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia I - Fuel
<p>'A rare and astonishing book, a glimpse of a deeply secretive world that has taken the author a lifetime to penetrate. It reveals more graphically than any Gulag history the unreformed horror of Russia: the lack of law, the rule of violence, the brutality, anti-Semitism and xenophobia. And yet it is filled with a poignance and a sense of personal tragedy that bro...
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Shakespeare Book - neuveden
Anotace: This is the perfect study guide to the complete works of Shakespeare, covering everything from the romantic comedy of Romeo and Juliet to the tragedy Macbeth, alongside his Elizabethan history plays, sonnets, and other poems With detailed plot summaries and an in-depth analysis of the major characters and themes, this is a brilliant, innovative exploration of th...
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Sword Beach
'Stephen Fisher is one of the best kept secrets in military history. With his wealth of knowledge and exacting eye for detail, his book on D-Day is sure to impress a vast audience' Dan Snow'Stephen Fisher... is a very rare beast - a man who can bring stunning research and scholarship hand-in-glove with the gifts of a fine storyteller' James Holland'Written with verve and ...
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Notes on an Execution - Kukafka Danya
Anotace: Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours.He knows what he`s done, and now awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago. Ansel doesn`t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood.But this is not his story.As the clock ticks down, three women uncover the history of a tragedy and the long shadow it casts. Lavender, Ansel`s mother, is a se...
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Notes on an Execution
Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours.He knows what he's done, and now awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago. Ansel doesn't want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. But this is not his story.As the clock ticks down, three women uncover the history of a tragedy and the long shadow it casts.Lavender, Ansel's mother, is a seventeen-ye...
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If We Were Villains, 1. vydání - M. L. Rio
<p>A vivid and immersive story of obsession perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History</p> <p>Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends – a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he’s released, he’s greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is reti...
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