Zbirka: Ameriška zgodovina
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Infinite City(2010) SOLNIT, REBECCAWhat makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technolVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Island at the Center of the World(2014) SHORTO, RUSSELLA richly nuanced portrait of the unknown history of New York City.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
America, Empire of Liberty(2010) REYNOLDS, DR DAVIDIt was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' This title takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Cochineal Red(2007) THOMSON, HUGHImagine that all the great discoveries of Ancient Egypt had happened in the last few years...and you will have some conception of the great excitement over recent finds in PeruVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig(2004) GIMLETTE, JOHNParaguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. But Paraguay, as revealed in this outstanding new travel book, is among the most beautiful and captivating countries in the world. Discover more about the unique traditioVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Souls of Black Folk(2000) BOIS, W. E. B. DUThis landmark in the literature of black protest eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind.Vezava: Mehka8,40 € -
Last Days of Detroit(2014) BINELLI, MARKOnce America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Founding Gardeners(2012) WULF, ANDREAA story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Last Days Of The Incas(2008) MACQUARRIE, KIMThe haunting story of the destruction of a magnificent civilisationVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Making of Modern Colombia(1993) BUSHNELL, DAVIDThis historical study traces the process of state-building in Colombia from the struggle for independence, territorial consolidation and reform in the 19th century, to economic development and social and political democratization in the 20th century.Vezava: Mehka43,62 € -
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 of the city of Port Royal in Jamaica. In 1692 an earthquake and tidal wave caused the city to sink beneath the sea. Robert F. Marx was one of the men caught up in the legends of buried treasure and this book describes the fulfillment of hisVezava: Trda19,62 € -
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: Mehka62,70 € -
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition(1995) BURG, B. R.Investigates the social and sexual world of these sea roversVezava: Mehka46,56 €
