Oxford history of the twentieth century
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Battle of Tsushima
The Battle of Tsushima is one of the forgotten actions of the twentieth century but it has a significance that is immense in world history.
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End of Days
A story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman: an intoxicating masterpiece of a novel that kneads Time and History like
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Peter Blume
Russian American artist Peter Blume was one of the earliest practitioners of surrealist painting in the United States, and his elaborately detailed and dreamlike compositions helped define American Modernist art. Blume worked out the themes of his ambitious large-scale paintings through dozens of drafts in different media, slowly developing layers of allegory and imagery ...
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Blood on the Snow
The great historian of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia returns with an enthralling revisionist history of the Russian Revolution.
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Minority and the State
This is the only general history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century and covers state and legal developments affecting Travel
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When the Facts Change
The author's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. In this book, his widow and fell
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Foundations of Anti-Apartheid
Anti-apartheid was one of the most significant international causes of the late twentieth century. The book provides the first detailed history of the
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War Of Nerves
I cannot imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men.'A War of Nerves is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century
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Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush
The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by Bu
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Algerian War, The Algerian Revolution
This book provides a new analysis of the contested history of one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century – the Algerian
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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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Nomads in the Middle East
A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East from the rise of Islam to the decline of nomads in the twentieth century. This offers a vivid
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The Myth of Sisyphus, 1. vydání - Albert Camus
<p>Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and vision...
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Cypria. A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - Alex Christofi
<p>An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires; a place marked by the struggle between fascism and communism and where the capital city is divided in half as a result of bloody ...
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The 7th Function of Language, 1. vydání - Laurent Binet
<p>Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures, is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, who is locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident. But what if it were an assassination? What if Bar...
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The 7th Function of Language, 1. vydání - Laurent Binet
<p>Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures, is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, who is locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident. But what if it were an assassination? What if Bar...
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Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman - Schattenberg Susanne
Anotace: "Schattenberg has done a service in rescuing the Brezhnev period from obscurity." The Morning Star"[Offers an] unparalleled examination of the Brezhnev papers." Literary Review Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union for eighteen years, a term of leadership second only in length to that of Stalin. He presided over the Brezhnev Doctrine, which accelerated ...
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US Naval Aviation 1898-1945: The Pioneering Years to the Second World War
Graphic, detailed history of US naval aviation from the early twentieth century to the end of the Second World War.
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State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia : Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Krakovsky Roman
Anotace: Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a socialist future. Although many aspects of this utopian project are well known - such as fast-paced industrialisation, collectivisation and urbanisation - the regimes...
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State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia : Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Roman Krakovský
<p>Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a socialist future. Although many aspects of this utopian project are well known - such as fast-paced industrialisation, collectivisation and urbanisation - the regimes ...
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space - Adam Higginbotham
<p>From the New York Times-bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger space shuttle disaster based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research - riveting history that reads like a thriller'Gripping' ED CAESAR * 'Masterly' GEOFF DYER * 'Incredible' TIM HARFORDOn the morning of 2...
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MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian" has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the im...
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Harry White and the American Creed
The life of a major figure in twentieth-century economic history whose impact has long been clouded by dubious allegations
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Moments of Reprieve
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the trag...
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The Great Transformation
‘One of the most powerful books in social sciences ever written. ... A must-read’ Thomas Piketty'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' ProspectKarl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is one of the earliest and most powerful critiques of unregulated markets.Tracing the history of capitalism from the great transformation of the industrial revolution onwards...
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Psychology and the Soul
In his last years, Otto Rank turned his lifetime of thought and learning toward two of the most difficult topics in human history: religion and the soul. The result was this now-classic work, available in this new, very accessible English translation. Unlike many other intellectuals of the twentieth century, Rank maintains a place for the soul rather than dismissing it as...
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The Sovereign Individual
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.Fe...
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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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The Sound and the Fury (0099475014)
Kniha - autor William Faulkner, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A towering, intense novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith an introduction by Richard HughesEver since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disinte...
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Moments of Reprieve - Levi Primo
Anotace: Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness.Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against...
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On Her Own Ground:The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker - A'Lelia Perry Bundles
<p>The book behind the new Netflix series, starring Octavia Spencer 'One of the most fabulous African-American figures of the twentieth century' Ishmael Reed Madam Walker was the first free-born child in her family, growing up in abject poverty in post-Civil War America. From humble beginnings, she overcame societal prejudice, family betrayals and epic business ri...
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Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift
The beginning of the twentieth century was an important time in African-American history. Segregation and discrimination were on the rise. Two seminal
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The Tenth Muse - Chung Catherine
Anotace: The first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent - and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with as much disapproval as admiration. Still, I never tried to hide or suppress my mind as some girls do, and thank god, because that would have been the beginning of the end. From childhood, Katherine know...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel José García Márquez
<p>One of the twentieth century's most beloved and acclaimed novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women--brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that str...
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The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the 20th Century until today. As an engaging and thoroughly detailed account of the influence of exile upon American psychoanalysis, this book will be of as much interest to scholars of history and twentieth-century culture as to p...
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The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the 20th Century until today. As an engaging and thoroughly detailed account of the influence of exile upon American psychoanalysis, this book will be of as much interest to scholars of history and twentieth-century culture as to p...
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A Reunion of Ghosts - Judith Claire Mitchell
Anotace: `What if the man who invented chemical weapons was also a grandfather, and what if his great-grandchildren grew up to be three hilarious, introverted, deeply-haunted sisters? And what if those sisters co-wrote a fascinating, funny, and deeply sad 350-page suicide note? Then you´d have A REUNION OF GHOSTS.´Anthony DoerrMeet the Alter sisters: Lady, Ve...
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Wassily Kandinsky
<p>A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most famous abstract painters of all time, urges the reader to free themselves from art's traditional bonds to material reality. In this radical theoretical work, he calls for a spiritual revol...
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An Echo in the Bone - Diana Gabaldon
<p>THE TRIUMPHANT SEVENTH NOVEL IN THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES.The year is 1777. The place, North Carolina. And as the American rebellion grows in intensity, Highlander Jamie Fraser and his wife Claire need to decide which side their family is going to be on.The choice should be an easy one, given that Claire was born in the twentieth century and ...
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Different Times
A history of the great British comedy tradition of the twentieth century to the present day.
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The Poppy War - Rebecca F. Kuang
<p>A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju - the test to find the most talented students in the Empire - it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating;...
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Korean Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization - Xu Stella
Anotace: Korea`s myths and folklore are rooted in the ancient history of a land inhabited since Neolithic times. The earliest years are subject to myth with some references to the Gojoseon Kingdom being found in the northern region of Korea and Southern province of China in the 2300s BCE. Records become more reliable from the middle of the first millennium BCE before a 7...
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Korean Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization - Stella Xu
<p>Korea's myths and folklore are rooted in the ancient history of a land inhabited since Neolithic times. The earliest years are subject to myth with some references to the Gojoseon Kingdom being found in the northern region of Korea and Southern province of China in the 2300s BCE. Records become more reliable from the middle of the first millennium BCE before a 70...
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British Lorries 1900-1945
A concise history of more than forty lorry manufacturers and their products from the first half of the twentieth century.
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Women in Intelligence
A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century
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A Room of One´s Own, 1. vydání - Virginia Woolf
<p>A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Carlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted...
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Red List
A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century.
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Terribly Serious Adventure
An absorbing group biography of the Oxford thinkers who transformed philosophical thought in twentieth-century Britain
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Slouching Towards Utopia
From one of the world's leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - a century that left us vastly richer, yet still profound
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Slouching Towards Utopia
From one of the world's leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - a century that left us vastly richer, yet still profound
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Necessary Evil
Superhumans and dark magic collide in secret supernatural history of Twentieth Century events - the final book in this landmark series
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Painted Face
Charts the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century. This boo
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Foundations
An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain to
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Foundations
An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain to
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American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism
The figure of the American theatrical scenic designer first emerged in the early twentieth century. This book tells the history of the field through t
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It's a London Thing
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who
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Shaping Sexual Knowledge
Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution to the history of sex educ
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Nile Delta
The first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. This was and remains
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To Make Negro Literature
Elizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in the history of Black literature at the turn of the twentieth century, revising concepts of Black authors
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Looking to Sea
An alternative history of Britain in the twentieth century, told through the prism of ten iconic artworks of the sea, one for each decade.
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