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No Women Jump Out!
This book provides a history of twentieth-century labour in the British colony of Antigua and Barbuda. It contains documented evidence of class strugg
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Rest is Noise
Alex RossÂ’s sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolu
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Pregnancy, Delivery, Childbirth
This book reconstructs the history of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the Twentieth century, focusing on its most sig
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Balenciaga
The enigmatic Spanish couturier Cristobal Balenciaga has become a legendary figure in the history of twentieth-century fashion. Balenciaga: Shaping Fa
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DUPPY CONQUEROR
A history of the twentieth century seen through Afro-Caribbean spectacles in which the personal and political seamlessly collide. An important novel
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Pregnancy, Delivery, Childbirth
This book reconstructs the history of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the Twentieth century, focusing on its most sig
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Airborne Landing to Air Assault
Detailed, graphic account of the history of military parachuting. Describes how parachute landings became a standard tactic in twentieth-century warfa
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Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
This book explores how twentieth-century writers shaped the ways we listen in our multimedia present. A mix of American literary history, sound studie
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Coldest War
Superhumans and magic collide in this a secret supernatural history of Twentieth Century events - the second book in this landmark series
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Present Pasts
This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confron
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My Father's Notebook
A father-son tale set amid the tumultous history of twentieth-century Iran, written by a masterful Iranian novelist in exile
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Irish Fairy Tales - Ashliman D. L.
Anotace: Ireland has a rich history of storytelling, with its many tales of heroes, giants, sea-folk, fairies and witchcraft. Here, Arthur Rackham`s distinctive artwork, along with illustrations by other artists from the turn of the twentieth century, accompany powerful tales of the early Celts and the later stories of an Ireland of mighty hearths, dreaming of battlefiel...
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Irish Fairy Tales - D. L. Ashliman
<p>Ireland has a rich history of storytelling, with its many tales of heroes, giants, sea-folk, fairies and witchcraft. Here, Arthur Rackham's distinctive artwork, along with illustrations by other artists from the turn of the twentieth century, accompany powerful tales of the early Celts and the later stories of an Ireland of mighty hearths, dreaming of battlefield...
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Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution Taylor & Francis Ltd
Situated within an emerging academic interest in documentary film in the Middle East and North Africa, this book studies the development of diverse documentary forms in relation to revolutionary and emancipatory movements that took place across the twentieth-century Arab World. The book is much-needed reading for students and academics interested in film and media studies...
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Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution Taylor & Francis Ltd
Situated within an emerging academic interest in documentary film in the Middle East and North Africa, this book studies the development of diverse documentary forms in relation to revolutionary and emancipatory movements that took place across the twentieth-century Arab World. The book is much-needed reading for students and academics interested in film and media studies...
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On Tyranny - Timothy Snyder
Anotace: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br><br> 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer<br> History does not repeat, but it does instruct.<br> In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fas...
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Mornings in Jenin (1408813556)
Kniha - autor Susan Abulhawa, 338 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Set against one of the twentieth century's most intractable political conflicts, MORNINGS IN JENIN is a deeply human novel - a novel of history, identity, friendship, love, terrorism, surrender, courage, and hope. Its power forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining conflicts of o...
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Labyrinths - Borges Jorge Luis
Anotace: Jorge Luis Borges`s Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America`s most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an introduction by James E. Irby and a preface by Andre Maurois.Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of...
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Animal farm/Farma zvířat
Jazyková úroveň A2-B1. Podle příběhu George Orwella. All animals are equal – but some are more equal than others. “It is the history of a revolution that went wrong.” This renowned fable is a timeless satire of idealism and corrupting in?uence of power. After its publication in August 1945 it has strengthened Orwell’s position among the greatest writers of the twentieth c...
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Animal farm/Farma zvířat
All animals are equal – but some are more equal than others. “It is the history of a revolution that went wrong.” This renowned fable is a timeless satire of idealism and corrupting in?uence of power. After its publication in August 1945 it has strengthened Orwell’s position among the greatest writers of the twentieth century. ***************** Všechna zvířata jsou si...
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Things in Poems - Josef Hrdlička,Mariana Machová
Anotace: In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry, then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects in the Chinese poetic traditi...
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Things in Poems - Josef Hrdlička
<p>In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry, then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects in the Chinese poetic traditio...
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Things in Poems
In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry, then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects in the Chinese poetic tradition. From t...
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Animal Farm & 1984 - Orwell George
Anotace: Two modern classics in one volume.George Orwell is one of the finest and most influential writers of the twentieth century. Here in one volume, are two of his best-known works of electrifying political fiction, 1984 and Animal Farm.Winston Smith rewrites history. It`s his job. Hidden away in the Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party and the omnipresent Big Broth...
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Animal Farm & 1984 - George Orwell
<p>Two modern classics in one volume. George Orwell is one of the finest and most influential writers of the twentieth century. Here in one volume, are two of his best-known works of electrifying political fiction, 1984 and Animal Farm. Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party and the omnipresent Big ...
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Self Made
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 rivalries t...
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WG's Birthday Party
On a hot morning in July 1898, the sporting world gathered at Lord's to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of WG Grace, the greatest cricketer the game has ever seen. Grace was cheered onto the field by a packed crowd as he captained the Gentlemen, the privileged old guard of the Establishment. Their opponents in this annual match were the Players, cricketers for whom the sp...
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My Family and Other Animals (1909621986)
Kniha - 376 stran, anglicky, Pevná bez přebalu lesklá - 376 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, ...
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IRON HEEL - neuveden
Anotace: Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London`s The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it anticipated many features of the past century, including the rise of fascism, the emergence of domestic terrorism, and t...
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Homelands
Homelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, reportage and memoir by our greatest writer about European affairs.Drawing on half a century of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the story of Europe in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - how, having emerged from its wartime hell in 1945, it slowly recovered and rebuilt, liberated and unit...
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Fascism : A Warning, 1. vydání - Madeleine Albright
<p>A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. "There is priceless wisdom on every page." Kirkus Starred review A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, `is someone who claims...
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PRINCE (CLASSICS DELUXE ED) - neuveden
Anotace: A new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. For this treatise on statecraft, Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office u...
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Fascism - neuveden
Anotace: A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes todays world, written by one of Americas most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state.There is priceless wisdom on every page. Kirkus Starred reviewA Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, is someone who claims to speak for a whole ...
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Essays in Zen Buddhism - Suzuki Daisecu Teitaró
Anotace: `Suzuki`s works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism` Carl JungEssays in Zen Buddhism was the first book to fully introduce Zen in the West. In it, Dr D.T. Suzuki outlines the origins of Zen as a unique Chinese interpretation of the Doctrine of Enlightenment with the aim of attaining Satori (`Sudden Enlightenment`...
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Essays in Zen Buddhism - Daisecu Teitaró Suzuki
<p>'Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism' Carl Jung Essays in Zen Buddhism was the first book to fully introduce Zen in the West. In it, Dr D.T. Suzuki outlines the origins of Zen as a unique Chinese interpretation of the Doctrine of Enlightenment with the aim of attaining Satori ('Sudden Enlightenment...
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Animal farm/Farma zvířat: zrcadlový text mírně pokročilí (978-80-7547-800-9)
Kniha - 128 stran, česky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Jazyková úroveň A2-B1. Podle příběhu George Orwella. All animals are equal – but some are more equal than others. “It is the history of a revolution that went wrong.” This renowned fable is a timeless satire of idealism and corrupting in?uence of power. After its publication in August 1945 it has strengthened ...
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Farma zvířat / Animal farm - Zrcadlová četba (A2-B1) - George Orwell
<p></p><p> Jazyková úroveň A2-B1.</p> <p> Podle příběhu George Orwella.</p> <p> All animals are equal – but some are more equal than others. “It is the history of a revolution that went wrong.” This renowned fable is a timeless satire of idealism and corrupting in?uence of power. After its publication in August 1945 it has stre...
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We, 1. vydání - Jevgenij Ivanovič Zamjatin
<p>We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets....
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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters - Klaas Brian
Anotace: A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything.In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas deep-dives into the phenomenon of randomness, unpicking our neat and tidy storybook version of events to reveal a reality far wilder and more fascinating than we have dared to consider. The bewildering truth is that...
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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters - Brian Klaas
<p>A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything.In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas deep-dives into the phenomenon of randomness, unpicking our neat and tidy storybook version of events to reveal a reality far wilder and more fascinating than we have dared to consider. The bewildering truth is that ...
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Red Famine : Stalin´s War on Ukraine - Applebaum Anne
Anotace: In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet publish...
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American Pastoral - Philip Roth
Anotace: In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - co...
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Playing with Reality
A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress.We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to practice making predictions about the future. Games are thought to be older than written language, and have now become the dominant cultural media?bigger than movies, TV, music, and literature combi...
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Tenth Muse
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 knows she is...
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American & British Studies 5
Our aim is to create a platform for scholarly exchange not only within the Czech Republic but internationally. We seek original articles that explore a wide range of issues concerning American and British literature, visual arts, music and other cultural phenomena as well as cultural history. The editors encourage submissions from scholars working in various disciplines w...
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Film: A Very Short Introduction
Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there ar...
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Poppy War - neuveden
Anotace: 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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Antipolitics in Central European Art
Art historians have tended to frame late socialist central European art as either 'totalitarian' or 'transitional'. This bold new book challenges this established viewpoint, contending that the artists of this era cannot be simply caricatured as dissident heroes, or easily subsumed into the formalist Western canon. Klara Kemp-Welch offers a compelling account of the ways ...
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American & British Studies 5 - kol.
Anotace: Our aim is to create a platform for scholarly exchange not only within the Czech Republic but internationally. We seek original articles that explore a wide range of issues concerning American and British literature, visual arts, music and other cultural phenomena as well as cultural history. The editors encourage submissions from scholars working in various dis...
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Helmut Newton - Helmut Newton
<p>Helmut Newton’s lens captured the essence of elegance and glamorous sexuality, showcasing the allure of women as never before. His images tell stories of desire, seduction, intrigue, and powerplay, leaving an indelible mark in our cultural history. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Eternal fashion icons and legendary celebrity portrait...
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