Zbirka: Ameriška zgodovina
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Simon Bolivar (Simon Bolivar)(2007) LYNCH, JOHNSimon Bolivar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial war. This book illuminates the inner world of Bolivar, the dynamics of his leadership,Vezava: Mehka47,52 € -
’Tis(2005) MCCOURT, FRANKFrank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling ‘Angela’s Ashes’.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Great Depression and the Americas 1929-39(2012) CLEMENTS, PETEREnsure your students have access to the authoritative, in-depth and accessible content of this series for the IB History Diploma.Vezava: Mehka64,15 € -
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition(1995) BURG, B. R.Investigates the social and sexual world of these sea roversVezava: Mehka44,89 € -
Now It Can Be Told(1983) GROVES, LESLIE"General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military"Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Access to History Context: An Introduction to American History, 1860-1990(2002) FARMER, ALAN,SANDERS, VIVIENNEThis title introduces the major political and social themes of this period of American history in an accessible and progressive way. The Context series is designed to ease students' transition from GCSE to AS and A level, concentrating on key skills for tVezava: Mehka68,43 € -
True Tales of American Life(2002) AUSTER, PAULChosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Boy of Battle Ford and the Man(2012) BLACKMAN, W.Covers the author’s years growing up in early post-settlement Illinois, where he gave in to temptations such as drinking, gambling, and the lure of prostitutes before joining the army, finding God and becoming a preacher. Blackman peppers his story with tVezava: Mehka23,27 € -
Bolivar(2014) ARANA, MARIEThe dramatic life of the revolutionary hero Bolivar, who liberated South America - a sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Gentrification of the Mind(2013) SCHULMAN, SARAHRecalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism.Vezava: Mehka30,69 € -
Age of Fracture(2012) RODGERS, DANIEL T.Shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. This title offers a reinterpretation of the ways in which the decades surrounding the 1980s changed America. It explains how structures of power caVezava: Mehka33,35 € -
American Diplomacy – Sixtieth–Anniversary Expanded Edition(2012) KENNAN, GEORGE F.,MEARSHEIMER, JOHN J.Offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an emerging great power whose claims to rightness often spill over into self-righteousness, whose ambitions conflict with power realities, whose judgmentalism precludes the interests of other statesVezava: Mehka39,92 € -
Challenge(2013) LAMBERT, ANDREWIn that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the lifeblood of British defence. War polarised America.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Team of Rivals(2009) GOODWIN, DORIS KEARNSOffers a study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history. This title offers Barack Obama the model for his presidency, showing how Abraham Lincoln saved America by appointing his fiercest rival to key cabinet positions.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Big Oyster(2007) KURLANSKY, MARKWhen Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. In 1842, when the novelist Charles Dickens arrived in New York, he could not conceal hVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Blue Tattoo(2011) MIFFLIN, MARGOTIn 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroiVezava: Mehka28,26 € -
Phoenix Squadron(2010) WHITE, ROWLANDJanuary 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
