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Letters from Mexico(2001) CORTES, HERNANWritten over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, Hernan Cortes's letters provide a narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525. The two introductions set tVezava: Mehka46,33 € -
Augustine(2001) CHADWICK, HENRY (FORMERLY REGIUS PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF DIVINITY, FORMERLY REGIUS PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF DIVINITY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but also the West since his time. This Very Short Introduction traces the development of Augustine's thought, diVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Paul(2001) SANDERS, E. P. (ARTS AND SCIENCES PROFESSOR OF RELIGION, ARTS AND SCIENCES PROFESSOR OF RELIGION, DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA)Paul is the most powerful human personality in the history of the Church. A missionary, theologian, and religious genius, in his epistles he laid the foundations on which later Christian theology was built.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Life In Secrets(2006) HELM, SARAHThe definitive account of an absorbing double mystery: the fates of the missing female SOE agents and the truth about the woman who searched for themVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Darwin(2001) HOWARD, JONATHAN (PROFESSOR OF CELL GENETICS, INSTITUTE OF GENETICS, PROFESSOR OF CELL GENETICS, INSTITUTE OF GENETICS, UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, GERMANY)Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Analysing Darwin's major insights and arguments, this work reasserts the importance of his work for the dVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Emperor Of Scent(2004) BURR, CHANDLERIn the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for perfume, his brilliant, quixotic theory of how we smell, aVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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White Rabbit(2000) MARSHALL, BRUCEThe harrowing, and inspiring, story of the capture of one of Britain's top SOE agents in World War Two, his refusal to crack under the most horrific torture, and his final imprisonment in a concentration camp.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €