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Checkmate
Part of the "Lymond Chronicles", Dorothy Dunnett's series of six novels, this text explores the intricacies of 16th-century history through the exploi
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Portable Frederick Douglass
The life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to reconstruction. His influence was felt
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God's Fury, England's Fire
The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was one of the most devastating conflicts in its history. This book il
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Later Roman Empire
A fourth-century army officer recounts the history of Rome during the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian and Valens.
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Eyrbyggja Saga
An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the
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Sontag : Her Life - Benjamin Moser
<p>The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the twentieth-century world. Her writin...
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Winter of the World
Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth centuryBerlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother’s formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith...
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What Is Existentialism? (0241475236)
Kniha - autor Simone de Beauvoir, 128 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we m...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1. vydání - George Orwell
<p>George Orwell's masterwork, now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World' 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rew...
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Mrs Dalloway, 1. vydání - Virginia Woolf
<p>'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friend...
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Girl, Woman, Other (0241984998)
Kniha - autor Bernardine Evaristo, 464 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country a...
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Closely Watched Trains - Bohumil Hrabal
<p></p><p> A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers.</p> <p> For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the pretty conductor Masha, the scandalous goings-on...
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Seven Brief Lessons On Physics - Carlo Rovelli
<p>THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF HELGOLAND AND THE ORDER OF TIME'The perfect antidote to the fluff and nonsense around right now. Learn how the world is and how you might just fit in' Simon Mayo'By God, it's beguiling' New StatesmanThese seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in ...
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My Friend Maigret: Inspector Maigret #31 - Georges Simenon
<p>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island...
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Culture: A new world history - Martin Puchner
<p>Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing.It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin Puchner...
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Lolita (0141182539)
Kniha - autor Vladimir Nabokov, 332 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná With one of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a strange, troubling love story told by the one of the most unreliable narrators in literature. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by Craig Raine. Poet and pervert, Humbe...
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Vineland
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times -- sexual and political -- which have refused to die. Among them is Zoyd Wheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity (for which he receives a government stipend) when an unwelcome face appear...
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Diaries by Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka
<p>An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers'The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world' - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka's Diaries contains a broad array of writing, inclu...
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Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
<p>Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword ...
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to dise
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Prince Harry: Spare, 1. vydání - Princ Harry
<p>It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is th...
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Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
<p>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean isla...
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Breakfast at Tiffany´s, 1. vydání - Truman Capote
<p>Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, `Breakfast at Tiffany's` is Truman Capote's timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in `Penguin Modern Classics`. It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except...
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Lubetkin Legacy - Marina Lewycka
<p>'Lively ...a joy to read' - The Times From the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might h...
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Hit 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...
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Barry Island
By the mid-twentieth century, Barry Island had become one of Britain's most popular seaside resorts. Its history carries important lessons for histori
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Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings, 1. vydání - Jane Austenová
<p>Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. But it is also a product of the eighteenth ...
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I Loved You in Another Life - Arnold David
Anotace: New York Times bestseller David Arnold returns with a poignant love story about two teens whose souls come together time and again through the ages-for fans of Nina LaCour and Matt Haig.Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father`s departure. But afte...
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I Loved You in Another Life - David Arnold
<p>New York Times bestseller David Arnold returns with a poignant love story about two teens whose souls come together time and again through the ages—for fans of Nina LaCour and Matt Haig. Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father's departure. But aft...
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Analysis of Hanna Batatu's The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq
First published in 1978, BatatuÂ’s extraordinarily detailed text is considered the definitive social history of twentieth century Iraq. It uses both u
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Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Israeli struggle from the early twentieth century t
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol - Warhol Andy
Anotace: The autobiography of an American icon, Andy Warhol`s The Philosophy of Andy Warhol is published in Penguin Modern Classics.`I never think that people die. They just go to department stores`Andy Warhol - American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor and major figure in the Pop Art movement - was in many ways a reluctant celebrity. Here, in his autobiography, he s...
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The Secret Lives of Numbers - Kate Kitagawa
<p>A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa...
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Coat of Many Colors
For the major poets of Osip Mandelstam's generation, poetry represented a calling in the most tangible sense. To respond to it meant to fashion from the available cultural and personal material a mythic self, one that could serve both as the organizing subject for poetry and as an object of worshipful adoration. A successful poet like Mandelstam thus became the focal poin...
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Revolution 1989 : The Fall of the Soviet Empire - Sebestyen Victor
Anotace: For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power ...
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Revolution 1989 : The Fall of the Soviet Empire - Victor Sebestyen
<p>For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power b...
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Feast of the Goat - Llosa Mario Vargas
Anotace: `The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America`s twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.` Times Literary Supplement Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that h...
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Winter of the World - Ken Follett
Anotace: Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth century Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother’s formidable friend and former British M...
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Age of Interconnection
A monumental and accessible global history of the second half of the twentieth century, from the end of World War Two to the terrorist attack on the T
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Invention of Marxism
The Invention of Marxism shows how a theory of the capitalist system grew into a political philosophy that shaped the 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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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - Lovecraft Howard Phillips
This is a definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie. Frequently imitated and widely inf
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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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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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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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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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