Zbirka: Ameriška zgodovina
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1776(2006) MCCULLOUGH, DAVIDPresents the story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. This book tells two stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. It features a cast of amazingVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Port Royal(2003) MARX, ROBERT F.The true story behind the pirates of the caribbean. The city of Port Royal in Jamaica was struck by an earthquake in 1692 and the tidal wave caused the city to sink beneath the sea. This book describes the fulfillment of Robert Marx's childhood dream: aVezava: Trda22,42 € -
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: Mehka15,41 € -
Lost City of the Incas(2011) BINGHAM, HIRAMFirst published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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: Mehka23,82 € -
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 € -
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 €
