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What Is a Classic in History?
Why do some historical works, such as those of Herodotus or Gibbon, capture the imaginations of readers across generations? This study explores the po
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What is Environmental History?
What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationshi
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What is Social Work?
It is essential that social work students have a clear grasp of the history and the evolution of social work practice and this classic text explores t
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Lost Prince: Classic Histories Series
The story of the Princes in the Tower is one of history's most enduring, poignant and romanticised tales. Dead princes were a potential embarrassment,
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War: What is it good for?
A bold and controversial rethinking of the role of war in human history and how it will shape our future, sure to provoke debate, from the bestselling
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Now That's What I Call a History of the 1980s
Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a to
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Heroines of SOE
BritainÂ’s war in the shadows of male spies and subterfuge in the heart of occupied France is a story well known, but what of the women who also riske
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Folklore of the Scottish Highlands
The folklore of the Scottish Highlands is unique and very much alive. In this substantially revised edition of a classic work first published 30 years
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What a Carve Up!
Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every
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Secret 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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On What Matters
This is the first volume of a major work in moral philosophy, the long-awaited follow-up to Parfit's classic Reasons and Persons, a landmark of 20th-c
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On What Matters
This is a major work in moral philosophy, the long-awaited follow-up to Parfit's 1984 classic Reasons and Persons, a landmark of twentieth-century phi
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Pursuit of History
This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions – what is the
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Pursuit of History
This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions – what is the
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Other Side of History
The Other Side of History is a fascinating mix of fact and fiction, of what happened and might have happened in 28 of the most significant world event
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A History of the World in 100 Objects (0241951771)
Kniha - autor Neil MacGregor, 614 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A paperback reader's edition of this original and very successful history of humanity. The book's range is enormous, with each chapter immersing the reader in a past civilisation, not just describing the objects and how they were made, but what their significance is. 'Magnificent...brings hom...
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Practice of History
A book on the study of history by G R Elton, it makes a major contribution to the question 'What is history?'. It sets out Elton's experience in the s
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History of Food
The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this classic hist
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History of Russian Literature
This book, first published in 1949, is an abridged version of MirskyÂ’s classic two texts on Russian literature, updated with a postscript by the edit
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History of Kansas City
Excerpt from The History of Kansas City: Together With a Sketch of the Commercial Resources of the Country With Which It Is SurroundedWith much diffidence on the part of the writer the following pages are submitted to the public. They are the result of much patient research, yet none can be better aware of the imperfections in details than the writer. It has been rather t...
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A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch´s Dune. An Oral History. - Max Evry
<p>LIMITED FIRST EDITION contains red foil gilded page edges and a black satin ribbon marker."I see many things. I see plans within plans."Following his underground hit Eraserhead and critically acclaimed The Elephant Man, visionary filmmaker David Lynch set his sights on bringing Frank Herbert's beloved sci-fi novel Dune to the screen. The project had alr...
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A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch´s Dune. An Oral History. - Evry Max
Anotace: LIMITED FIRST EDITION contains red foil gilded page edges and a black satin ribbon marker."I see many things. I see plans within plans."Following his underground hit Eraserhead and critically acclaimed The Elephant Man, visionary filmmaker David Lynch set his sights on bringing Frank Herbert`s beloved sci-fi novel Dune to the screen. The project had already vexe...
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Winner of Best Game at the 2018 BAFTA Game Awards, as well as Best Narrative awards at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards, 2018 SXSW Gaming Awards, and The Game Awards 2017, What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her fa...
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What If? 2 - Munroe Randall
Anotace: WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to askThe millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions ar...
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What If? 2 - Randall Munroe
<p>WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions ...
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (0099590085)
Kniha - autor Yuval Noah Harari, 498 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, SAPIENS challenges everything...
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The Secret History - Tartt Donna
Anotace: FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly 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;...
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The 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...
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A Short History of Drunkenness (0241359244)
Kniha - autor Mark Forsyth, 256 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A comic history of humankind's love affair with booze, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon 'Haha! . . . Highly suitable for Xmas!' - Margaret Atwood Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every...
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Courage Is Calling
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'An urgent call to arms for each and all of us.' Matthew McConaughey'A clear and inspiring guide for how to develop this highest of human virtues.' - Robert Greene'You have got to get into Ryan Holiday, it's as simple as that.' Chris EvansAn inspiring anthem to the power, promise, and challenges of courage, the first in a series examining ...
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History Keeps Me Awake at Night
Flickering between virtual Mexico and actual London, this smart, funny novel follows a woman who is losing herself in the search for what is missing
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History Keeps Me Awake at Night
Flickering between virtual Mexico and actual London, this smart, funny novel follows a woman who is losing herself in the search for what is missing
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What Do People Do All Day?
Now available in this beautiful hardback gift edition. Packed with things to spot on every page, this picture book classic is beautiful, fun and a fav
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History and Description, With Reminiscences, of the Fox Terrier (A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic - Terriers)
A History and Description, With Reminiscences, of the Fox Terrier A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic - TerriersBy Rawdon Lee This superb book of the Fox Terrier was first published in London 1889 and even today remains a classic book of the breed. First editions are very rare, expensive, and much sought after. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS have now republished it, using the original t...
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Lotharingia : A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In-Between - Winder Simon
Anotace: In AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited what became France, another Germany and the third Lotharingia: the ...
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Little Man, What Now? - Hans Fallada
Anotace: From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany 'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks' A young couple fall in love, get married and start a family, like countless young couples before them. But Lämmchen and 'Boy' ...
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Little Man, What Now? - Hans Fallada
<p>From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany 'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks' A young couple fall in love, get married and start a family, like countless young couples before them. But Lammchen and 'Boy' live in Berlin in 19...
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True History of the Kelly Gang
of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...'To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber an
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Jodi Taylor
<p>The sixth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. What if the course of history was on your shoulders? 'To do what I do - go where I go - see what I see - it's a won...
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What Remains of Edith Finch (PC)
Winner of Best Game at the 2018 BAFTA Game Awards, as well as Best Narrative awards at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards, 2018 SXSW Gaming Awards, and The Game Awards 2017, What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state.As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she expl...
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The Sun is Also a Star (0552574244)
Kniha - autor Nicola Yoon, 348 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá This book is inspired by the Big History theory (to learn about one thing, you have to learn about everything). In THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR, to understand the characters and their love story, listeners must know about everything around them and everything that came before them, to know how it has...
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How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (1783782307)
Kniha - autor Julian Baggini, 432 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or le...
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Harari Noah Yuval
Anotace: The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bol...
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
<p> The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bol...
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PEN International: An Illustrated History - Carles Torner
‘I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.’ Harold Pinter, English PEN President and Literature Nobel 2005 PEN – ‘Poets, Essayists, Novelists’ – was found...
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D-DAY The Oral History
Eighty years on, D-Day The Oral History is a fresh and significant new history of arguably the most important day of the 20th Century.On 6th June 1944, the Allied invasion began. For hours, wave after wave of soldiers, sailors, and airmen crossed the channel and stormed the Normandy coast, fighting to gain a foothold in Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. It was the largest c...
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Oxford History of the Twentieth Century
Victoria still ruled over the British Empire, the imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, with radio and television still to be developed. The earliest cars were on the road, but air travel was yet to come. Before antibiotics and effective vaccines against many common diseases, death rates were high. Over the c...
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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, 1. vydání - Sehrii Plokhy
<p>*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018* 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those livi...
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Making History: The First World War
Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new. This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully reali...
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Making History: The First World War (PC)
Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new.This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully re...
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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Timothy Garton Ash
<p>**A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and this deeply felt book is full of vivid e...
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Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia - George Makari
An illuminating work revealing the long history of xenophobia and what it means for today's divided world <p>Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalisation on the defensive, and a 'New Xe...
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The World: A Family History - Montefiore Simon Sebag
Anotace: THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST`S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Mont...
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The World: A Family History - Simon Sebag Montefiore
<p>THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Monte...
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Native American Loanwords in Contemporary American English : History and Development - Reese Katharina
Anotace: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (John-F. Kennedy-Institut fur Nordamerikastudien), course: Language Change II: Language Contact Phenomena and Change in English, language: English, abstract: The number of indigenous people that inhabited the American continent before the Europea...
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Everything Is F*cked
From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a counterintuitive guide to the problems of hopeWe live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the plane...
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What´s the Point of Science? - kolektiv autorů
Anotace: Wonderful storytelling and hand-drawn illustrations reveal the wonder of scientific discovery through history, ages 9-12Bored of biology? Crushed by chemistry? Perplexed by physics? DOES SCIENCE REALLY MATTER ANYWAY? Oh, only for... JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING!From how to stop a virus to defy gravity, and from how to predict the future to how to see the past, this boo...
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What´s the Point of Science? - autorů kolektiv
<p>Wonderful storytelling and hand-drawn illustrations reveal the wonder of scientific discovery through history, ages 9-12 Bored of biology? Crushed by chemistry? Perplexed by physics? DOES SCIENCE REALLY MATTER ANYWAY? Oh, only for... JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING! From how to stop a virus to defy gravity, and from how to predict the future to how to see the past, this...
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Difficult Conversations : How to Discuss What Matters Most - Patton Bruce
Anotace: We`ve all been there: We know we must talk to a colleague, our boss or even a friend about something we know will be at least uncomfortable and at worst explosive. So we repeatedly mull it over until we can no longer put it off, and then finally stumble through a confrontation when we could have had a conversation.Difficult Conversations is the definitive work o...
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This Book Is Feminist: An intersectional primer for feminists in training (071125639X)
Kniha - 160 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Jamia Wilson, 160 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A vibrantly illustrated introduction to intersectional feminism for next-generation changemakers, this book is a must-read guide for young people seeking to understand the world around them. "Wilson’s optimistic view of feminism is based on t...
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