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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...
Více informacíSecret History
Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt's novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humd...
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Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the bro
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Anotace: In 1850, China was the `sick man of Asia`. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war and famine. This makes its current position as arguably the most important global superpower all the more extraordinary. J...
Více informacíHistory of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
<p>'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom Holland The long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the ancient Greek world into decades of war. Thucydides was an Athenian and achieved the rank of gene...
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Looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. This book supersedes all other accounts of modern Irish hi
Více informacíThe Penguin History of Modern China : The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition - Jonathan Fenby
<p>In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war and famine. This makes its current position as arguably the most important global superpower all the more extraordinary. Jo...
Více informacíThe Secret History - Donna Tartt
<p>FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCHTruly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.______________________________________'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were bad, exactly; chalk it up...
Více informacíAuschwitz: A History - Sybille Steinbacher
<p>At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to a...
Více informacíThe Secret History of the Mongols - Christopher P. Atwood
<p>A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan'Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed shoulders'Born poor into a world of dangers and hardships, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan would grow up to unify Mongolia and conquer a vast empire stretching from modern-day ...
Více informacíMedieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia Taylor & Francis Ltd
Research on the East Slavs in the medieval period has considerably changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The emergence of new states forced a rethinking of many aspects of the history and culture of the early East Slavs as the subject became increasingly disentangled from the umbrella of Byzantine studies and fruitful collaboration was fostered between scholars ...
Více informacíA Pipeline Runs Through It
'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry' The Economist 'The book I have long been waiting for... Essential reading' Michael KlarePetroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extracti...
Více informacíEurope : A History - Jean Baptiste Duroselle
<p>The first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts, to Greek wisdom and Roman grandeur, all of the way to the European phenomenon - the Industrial Revolution. This is the definitive way to discover the real, modern Europe progressively unfolding, because looking back to the past reveals more about ou...
Více informacíThe Dream of Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Philosophy - Anthony Gottlieb
<p>The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of mode...
Více informacíThe Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Alexievich Svetlana
Anotace: A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia-from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post o The Guardian o NPR o The Economist o Milwaukee Journal Sentinel o Kirkus ReviewsFor more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has...
Více informacíEurope : A History - Duroselle Jean Baptiste
Anotace: The first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts, to Greek wisdom and Roman grandeur, all of the way to the European phenomenon - the Industrial Revolution.This is the definitive way to discover the real, modern Europe progressively unfolding, because looking back to the past reveals more about our...
Více informacíThe West: A New History of an Old Idea - Mac Sweeney Naoise
Anotace: *A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*`A fantastic achievement` Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads`Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent` Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb_________________A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our hist...
Více informacíBismarck´s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe - Rachel Chrastil
<p>'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily TelegraphLess than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order. Other countries l...
Více informacíThe Penguin Book of Dragons - Bruce Scott G.
Anotace: The definitive global anthology of writings about dragons, from Ancient Egypt to the modern daySince the earliest moments of human history, dragons have occupied a place in our imaginations. Bringer of night in Ancient Egypt; mortal enemy of the elephant in South Asia; slain by a god in Sanskrit hymn. In the Book of Revelation, there is the Leviathan; in Loch Ne...
Více informacíThe 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...
Více informacíThe Last Days of the Ottoman Empire - Ryan Gingeras
<p>'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political ...
Více informacíThe Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl - Serhii Plokhy
<p>An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since t...
Více informacíThe 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...
Více informacíA 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...
Více informacíThe God Equation : The Quest for a Theory of Everything, 1. vydání - Michio Kaku
<p>From the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future This is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equation' which would tie all the forces in the universe together, yet never found it. Some of the greatest mind...
Více informacíThe Last Tycoon - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson.The studio lot looks like 'thirty acres of fairyland' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monro...
Více informacíTender Is the Night - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern Classics.Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife N...
Více informacíThe Last Days of the Ottoman Empire - Gingeras Ryan
Anotace: `A tour de force of accessible scholarship` The Guardian`Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority` New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political...
Více informacíNatasha's Dance
A history of Russia's mighty culture. It covers the lives of those who have shaped its culture, and the enduring spirit of a people.
Více informacíCrimea
The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia's history, killing nearly a million men and completely redrawing the map of Europe. Bringing to
Více informacíThe Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World - Gaskill Malcolm
Anotace: *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 HistoryIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer f...
Více informacíEarthly Necessities
Defines the economic history of early modern Britain. This book describes about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing the
Více informacíHabsburgs
The Habsburgs have been described as demons - responsible for a 'history of atrocities'; and, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern
Více informacíLost 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...
Více informacíThe Habsburgs : Embodying Empire
<p>The Habsburgs have been described as demons - responsible for a 'history of atrocities'; and, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. This book features figures as mad Queen Juana, progressing through Spain with her husband's decaying body; the 'heroically fertile' Maria Theresa; and, the Maximilian, 'Emperor' of Mexico.</p>
Více informacíThe Habsburgs : Embodying Empire
<p>The Habsburgs have been described as demons - responsible for a 'history of atrocities'; and, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. This book features figures as mad Queen Juana, progressing through Spain with her husband's decaying body; the 'heroically fertile' Maria Theresa; and, the Maximilian, 'Emperor' of Mexico.</p>
Více informacíClaudius the God - Robert Graves
<p>Continuing the saga begun in I, Claudius, Robert Graves's Claudius the God is a compelling fictional autobiography of the Roman emperor, published with an introduction by Barry Unsworth in Penguin Modern Classics.Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful ...
Více informacíCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (0241532531)
Kniha - autor Silvia Federici, 304 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalis...
Více informacíMosquito
A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its...
Více informacíConcerning 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...
Více informacíEnemies and Neighbours : Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 - Ian Black
<p>ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The Times A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised...
Více informacíHit Makers
NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off ." -- Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS and GIVE AND TAKENothing "goes viral." If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today's crowded media environment, you're missing the real story. Each block...
Více informacíLost 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...
Více informacíConcerning the Spiritual in Art - Kandinsky Wassily
Anotace: 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 revo...
Více informacíClaudius the God - Graves Robert
Anotace: Continuing the saga begun in I, Claudius, Robert Graves`s Claudius the God is a compelling fictional autobiography of the Roman emperor, published with an introduction by Barry Unsworth in Penguin Modern Classics.Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful...
Více informacíThe War in the West: A New History : Th - James Holland
<p>In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War, James Holland examines the momentous turning points of 1941-1943: Hitler's invasion of Russia; America's entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts of North Africa; and the defeat of the U-boats in the crucial Battle of the...
Více informacíAenigma / One Hundred Years of Anthroposophical Art
It seems that the specialized literature dedicated to 20th-century art history has described and chronologically categorized all the major European art movements and groups. Almost no one had foreseen that the theosophist and anthroposophist Hilma af Klint would shake the codified history of abstract art in recent years. But Hilma af Klint was part of larger art movement ...
Více informacíAenigma - One Hundred Years of Anthroposophical Art - Reinhold J. Fäth
<p>It seems that the specialized literature dedicated to 20th-century art history has described and chronologically categorized all the major European art movements and groups. Almost no one had foreseen that the theosophist and anthroposophist Hilma af Klint would shake the codified history of abstract art in recent years. But Hilma af Klint was part of larger art ...
Více informacíAenigma / One Hundred Years of Anthroposophical Art - Reinhold J. Fäth,David Voda
Anotace: It seems that the specialized literature dedicated to 20th-century art history has described and chronologically categorized all the major European art movements and groups. Almost no one had foreseen that the theosophist and anthroposophist Hilma af Klint would shake the codified history of abstract art in recent years. But Hilma af Klint was part of larger art...
Více informacíDreams of a Great Small Nation : The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe - McNamara Kevin J.
Anotace: The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." ,Winston S. ChurchillIn 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hun...
Více informacíThe Fountainhead - Randová Ayn
Anotace: Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand`s The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a visionary artist struggling against the dull, conformist dogma of his peers; a book of ambition, power, gold and love, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Architect Howard Roark is as unyielding as the granite he blasts to build with. Def...
Více informacíFlashpoints - The Emerging Crisis in Europe - George Friedman
<p>New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman delivers a fascinating portrait of modern-day Europe, with special focus on significant political, cultural, and geographical flashpoints where the conflicts of the past are smoldering once again. For the past five hundred years, Europe has been the nexus of global culture and power. Bu...
Více informacíRuská ruleta 21. století - Jost Obcr
Anotace: Brožura "Ruská ruleta 21. století" - informace o obsahové náplni a zaměření. vydáno v r. 2024 <br> Základem obsahové náplně tříjazyčné brožury "Ruská ruleta 21. století", členěné na části v češtině, angličtině a ruštině, je identifikace reálné charakteristiky Ruska, v současnosti zřejmě nedostatečně všeobecně známé, která je logicky...
Více informacíRuská ruleta 21. století - Jost Obcr
<p>Brožura "Ruská ruleta 21. století" - informace o obsahové náplni a zaměření. vydáno v r. 2024 <br /> Základem obsahové náplně tříjazyčné brožury "Ruská ruleta 21. století", členěné na části v češtině, angličtině a ruštině, je identifikace reálné charakteristiky Ruska, v současnosti zřejmě nedostatečně všeobecně známé, která je logick...
Více informacíEuropa Universalis IV: Domination
Revisit some of the most powerful and popular nations in Domination, an expansion pack for Europa Universalis IV. Centered on the great empires of the Early Modern world, Domination offers new mission trees, new government reforms, new estate management and new events for several of the major powers in the game. These popular starting nations are now given new life and ne...
Více informacíEuropa Universalis IV: Domination (PC)
Revisit some of the most powerful and popular nations in Domination, an expansion pack for Europa Universalis IV. Centered on the great empires of the Early Modern world, Domination offers new mission trees, new government reforms, new estate management and new events for several of the major powers in the game. These popular starting nations are now given new life and ne...
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