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Religious Pluralism in India Taylor & Francis Ltd
This volume explores the inherent pluralism of Hinduism through ethnographic and philosophical evidence as presented in theJournal of Anthropological Society of Bombay. The essays dated 1886andash,1936, represent a period that marked the emergence of a European-educated native intelligentsia with a rationalist outlook.This book will be of interest to students and research...
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Conquerors
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. This title tells an epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance, courage and terrifying brutality.
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Marx and Marxism (0141983485)
Kniha - autor Gregory Claeys, 544 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialism. Why was Marx so successful as a thinker? Did he have a system and if so, what does it consist of? How did Marxism develop in the twentieth century and what does it mean today? Karl Marx...
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Lancaster And York
The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton, - some of the bloodiest and most dramatic battles on England's soil. Between 1455 and 1487 the royal coffers were bankrupted and the conflict resulted in the downfall of the houses of Lancaster and York and the emerge...
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Conquests and Cultures
This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations, today and over centuries of history, in shapin...
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New Feminist Research Ethics Taylor & Francis Ltd
New Feminist Research Ethics re-examines the place of the ethical in feminist research and identifies new ethical priorities for feminist researchers. As urgent social, political and environmental challenges demand new ethical sensibilities, contributors revisit the relationship between feminism and research to ask what it means to be an ethical feminist researcher now. T...
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Where We Go From Here - neuveden
Anotace: During his campaign for President in 2016, Senator Bernie Sanders stated over and over again that the future of America was dependent upon its willingness to start a political revolution. Real change never occurs from the top down - it always happens from the bottom up. That`s what he said when he ran for President, and that`s what he believes now more than ever...
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Changing World Order : Why Nations Succeed or Fail - Ray Dalio
<p>From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the international bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced...
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Second Chance
Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations' foreign policy. Though they cover less than two decades, these three administrations span a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the United States, having emerged from the Cold War with an unpreced...
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Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices Taylor & Francis Ltd
Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived. The book is based on extensive archival research in Canada, the USA and Europe, and will be of interest to architects, artists, researchers and student...
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Changing World Order : Why Nations Succeed or Fail - Dalio Ray
Anotace: From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history`s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we`ve experienced in our lifetimes.A few years ago, re...
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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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Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
On November 5, 1688, William of Orange, Protestant ruler of the Dutch Republic, landed at Torbay in Devon with a force of twenty thousand men. Five months later, William and his wife, Mary, were jointly crowned king and queen after forcing James II to abdicate. Yet why has history recorded this bloodless coup as an internal Glorious Revolution rather than what it truly wa...
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Mucha (German edition) - Tomoko Sato
With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) defined the look of the fin-de-si?cle. In evocative shades of peach, gold, ochre, and olive, his seductive compositions of patterns, flowers, and beautiful women became paradigms of the Belle Époque years. Mucha’s work permeated illustration, posters, postcards...
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Mucha (Italian edition) - Tomoko Sato
With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) defined the look of the fin-de-si?cle. In evocative shades of peach, gold, ochre, and olive, his seductive compositions of patterns, flowers, and beautiful women became paradigms of the Belle Époque years. Mucha’s work permeated illustration, posters, postcards...
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Mucha (Dutch edition) - Tomoko Sato
With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) defined the look of the fin-de-si?cle. In evocative shades of peach, gold, ochre, and olive, his seductive compositions of patterns, flowers, and beautiful women became paradigms of the Belle Époque years. Mucha’s work permeated illustration, posters, postcards...
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Mucha (Spanish edition) - Tomoko Sato
With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) defined the look of the fin-de-si?cle. In evocative shades of peach, gold, ochre, and olive, his seductive compositions of patterns, flowers, and beautiful women became paradigms of the Belle Époque years. Mucha’s work permeated illustration, posters, postcards...
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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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Dark Money
NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWho are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of America today? From the bestselling author of The Dark Side , an electrifying work of investigative journalism that uncovers the agenda of this powerful group.In her new preface, Jane Mayer discusses the results of the most recent e...
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One Vote, Two Votes, I Vote, You Vote - Worth Bonnie
Anotace: In simple rhyme, the Cat in the Hat introduces early readers to the concept and practice of voting--with a focus on the American presidency! Learn the basic principles of democracy, how political parties are formed, why Election Day is held in early November, and much, much more! An ideal choice for reading and talking about elections (whether for a classroom pe...
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One Vote, Two Votes, I Vote, You Vote - Bonnie Worth
<p>In simple rhyme, the Cat in the Hat introduces early readers to the concept and practice of voting--with a focus on the American presidency! Learn the basic principles of democracy, how political parties are formed, why Election Day is held in early November, and much, much more! An ideal choice for reading and talking about elections (whether for a classroom pet...
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Language Wars
The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS examines the present state of the conflict, its history and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the pr...
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Securitas Imperii 37 (2/2020)
<p>The 100th anniversary in 2017 of the establishment of the Soviet Cheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage) provided the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes an opportunity to organize an international conference on the history of Soviet-type security services, political police, and intelligence in Commun...
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UPROAR!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London - Loxton Alice
Anotace: **A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK`s most exciting young historians**`Alice Loxton is the star of her generation ... the next big thing in history` DAN SNOW`Vivid, pacey and endlessly engaging, this brilliant debut brings the late Georgian period dazzlingly to life. Irresistible stu...
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A Promised Land - Barack Obama
Anotace: A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly p...
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A Promised Land - Barack Obama
Anotace: ABOUT A PROMISED LANDA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, descri...
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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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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1. vydání - George Orwell
<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania. Winston knows what a good citizen of Oceania must do: show his devot...
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Třebel 1647
Kniha „Třebel 1647. A Battlefield of the Thirty Years’ War from the Perspective of History, Archeology, Art-history, Geoinformatics, and Ethnology” pojednává o střetnutí švédské a habsburské armády, která se odehrála pod hradem Třebelí v západních Čechách mezi 18. srpnem a 5. zářím, v roce 1647. Krajina bojiště se od poloviny 17. století dodnes téměř nezměnila. Na bojišti...
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So Near, So Far. Czech art 1947-1960 in international socio-cultural contexts - Marie Klimešová,Hana Rousová
Anotace: Czech visual art between 1947 and 1960 has never before been considered in a broader European context that avoids the stereotype of the "Iron Curtain." At the same time, when looking at this period, certain clichés and stereotypes are repeatedly perpetuated, hindering the understanding of the true nature and position of Czech art during this period within t...
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So Near, So Far. Czech art 1947-1960 in international socio-cultural contexts - Hana Rousová
<p>Czech visual art between 1947 and 1960 has never before been considered in a broader European context that avoids the stereotype of the "Iron Curtain.” At the same time, when looking at this period, certain clichés and stereotypes are repeatedly perpetuated, hindering the understanding of the true nature and position of Czech art during this period within th...
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Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments - Paul Roberts
A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to make their mark on one of the great capitals of the classical world. ‘What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero’s Baths?’ – so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have on public consciousness. In ancient Rome, wh...
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Dread Talk
In Dread Talk Velma Pollard describes the language of Rastafari, tracing its development as an expansion of Jamaican Creole while showing how it is distinct both from Creole and Standard English. She demonstrates that dread talk must be understood in terms of Jamaican social history, emphasizing its religious origins, its evolution as a language of social protest, and its...
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Discourse on International Law and International Relations - Max Hilaire
Max Hilaire is distinguished professor of International Law and International Relations, with expertise in Human Rights & International Humanitarian Law, United Nations Law, and United States Foreign Relations Law. Professor has published a number of books and scholarly articles on a wide range of topical International Law issues. Professor Hilaire is a two time Fulbright...
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Discourse on International Law and International Relations
Max Hilaire is distinguished professor of International Law and International Relations, with expertise in Human Rights & International Humanitarian Law, United Nations Law, and United States Foreign Relations Law. Professor has published a number of books and scholarly articles on a wide range of topical International Law issues. Professor Hilaire is a two time Fulbright...
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Road To Unfreedom - neuveden
Anotace: From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America.<br> With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as...
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Bohemian Stories - Renáta Fučíková
Anotace: Czech immigrants traveled to the unknown beyond the Atlantic in several waves. Some came to America in search of religious and political freedom, while others simply sought a better life in a country of great opportunities. Today we know that without their involvement, independent Czechoslovakia would hardly have come to exist, and without the assistance of the ...
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Rangikura - Tayi Tibble
<p>Maori mythology and endless summers: the sparkling second collection from a daring new poetic voiceI am made in the image of my mother ...I am made in the image of / my mountain / my river / my whenuaIn Rangikura, plastic tiaras melt into boiling rivers, and family memories blur with ancestral mythologies. Satanic stepbrothers play jenga while the deity Mahuika b...
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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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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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Tribalism
Unearthing the most primal motivations behind the fear politics movements sweeping across the USA and Europe, Stevan E. Hobfoll examines how the establishment of the political and cultural "other" or "outsider" engenders an evolutionary "defend and aggress" response. This mentality in turn elicits "tribalism," allowing for the rise of propaganda, extremist politics, and u...
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien
Anotace: ONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen...
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Doing Research, Making Science
This is a book about researching and discovering in the social science field in the areas of remembering, Roma identity and the working classness. The findings and recommendations that we present here have arisen from the intensive cooperation of the interdisciplinary team of the Memory of Roma Workers Project. It is a collaborative project of scholars from diverse discip...
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Writing Audio Drama Taylor & Francis Ltd
Writing Audio Drama offers a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online. This book uses original research on the history of writing radio plays in the UK and USA to explore how this has informed and developed the art form for more than 100 years. This textbook will be an important resource for advanced undergraduate and postgrad...
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Writing Audio Drama Taylor & Francis Ltd
Writing Audio Drama offers a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online. This book uses original research on the history of writing radio plays in the UK and USA to explore how this has informed and developed the art form for more than 100 years. This textbook will be an important resource for advanced undergraduate and postgrad...
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A 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...
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Češi v Americe a česko-americké vztahy v průběhu pěti staletí (978-80-755-7165-6)
Elektronická kniha - autor Ivan Dubovický, 200 stran Publikace přináší základní přehled česko-amerických vztahů od počátků v 16. století až po dnešek. Zvláštní pozornost je věnována historii českého masového přistěhovalectví do USA, rozvoji české komunity na půdě Spojených států a významu, jaký američtí Češi sehráli ve vztazích obou zemí, a to zejména v kritických období...
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Češi v Americe: A česko-americké vztahy v průběhu staletí (978-80-7557-165-6)
Kniha - autor Ivan Dubovický, 200 stran, česky, polotuhá flexo Publikace přináší základní přehled česko-amerických vztahů od počátků v 16. století až po dnešek. Zvláštní pozornost je věnována historii českého masového přistěhovalectví do USA, rozvoji české komunity na půdě Spojených států a významu, jaký američtí Češi sehráli ve vztazích obou zemí, a to zejména v kritic...
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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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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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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER'As fast paced as a thriller' Fred Burton, Stratfor Talks' Pen and Sword Podcast'Jacobsen here presents a tour de force exploring the CIA's paramilitary activities...this excellent work feels like uncovering the tip of the iceberg ...Highly recommended for those seeking a better understanding of American foreign policy in action' Jacob Sherman, Lib...
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A Promised Land, 1. vydání - Barack Hussein Obama
<p>A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracyIn the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly pers...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell George
Anotace: WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTHWinston Smith is a good worker. He supports the Party. He is good at his job rewriting history to Government specification. Big Brother watches him, but there is nothing to see.Winston`s struggle against the totalitarian world he inhabits is a closely guarded secret. It exists only in his mind until he begins a ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1. vydání - George Orwell
<p>WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Winston Smith is a good worker. He supports the Party. He is good at his job rewriting history to Government specification. Big Brother watches him, but there is nothing to see. Winston's struggle against the totalitarian world he inhabits is a closely guarded secret. It exists only in his mind until he begi...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Winston Smith is a good worker. He supports the Party. He is good at his job rewriting history to Government specification. Big Brother watches him, but there is nothing to see. Winston's struggle against the totalitarian world he inhabits is a closely guarded secret. It exists only in his mind until he begins a secr...
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962. Cuban Missile Crisis offers an alternative interpretation of the events that followed the infamous nuclear stand off between the United States and Cuba. As th...
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Cuban Missile Crisis (PC)
Cuban Missile Crisis is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962.Cuban Missile Crisis offers an alternative interpretation of the events that followed the infamous nuclear stand off between the United States and Cuba. As...
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Crossroads - Franzen Jonathan
Anotace: Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigate the political and social crosscurrents of the past fifty yearsIt`s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church,...
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Toygiants (Silver Edition)
Anotace: Not just another book about toys, Toygiants is simply stunning photographic exploration of toy figures, vintage and modern. Toygiants shows in exquisite detail the elements of design that imbue toys and figures with life and contribute to their timeless appeal, as well as their eerie realism, by photographing them up- close as large- scale portraits and together...
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Toygiants (Silver Edition) - Daniel Fuchs
<p>Not just another book about toys, Toygiants is simply stunning photographic exploration of toy figures, vintage and modern. Toygiants shows in exquisite detail the elements of design that imbue toys and figures with life and contribute to their timeless appeal, as well as their eerie realism, by photographing them up- close as large- scale portraits and together ...
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