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Grey Eminence(2005) HUXLEY, ALDOUSA gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldThe life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composiVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War(2003) ARTHUR, MAXOffers accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. This book features personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics from both sides tell us what it was really like to live through what was supposed to be the war to end allVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe(2022)Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting.Vezava: Mehka79,94 € -
Christians and Jews in Angevin England(2016)The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies and victims.Vezava: Mehka66,63 € -
Oilfields and Airpower in African Conflict(2020) IGNATUS, ONIANWA OLUCHUKWUNoted Nigerian historian Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus investigates the air war component of the Nigerian-Biafran War, a crucial postcolonial conflict in Africa. The book focuses on the Biafra's air operations against oil installations and facilities owned byVezava: Trda150,48 € -
Berlin Then and Now (R)(2016) GAY, NICK,GAY, NICKBerlin Then and Now features the dramatic changes wrought by the Nazi building programme, Allied bombing, Cold War division and the post-reunification building boom.Vezava: Trda28,04 € -
Co-Op's Got Bananas(2017) DAVIES, HUNTERPoignant, and very personal childhood memoir of growing up in Cumbria during the Second World War and into the 1950s.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
New Man of the House(2022) GIBSON, BRIANThe modern-day suburb began in 19th century Britain. As suburbia spread, the ‘New Woman’ arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew, suburban men felt increasingly besieged. This study traces themes of suburban masculinity in popular genres - speculative fictiVezava: Mehka124,25 € -
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Post-Communist Mafia State(2016) MAGYAR, BALINTIntroducing the concept of the post-communist mafia state, Balint Magyar has established a new interpretative framework and vocabulary to describe the Orban regime, which has become equally central to the main lines of argument in both scientific debate aVezava: Mehka110,17 € -
The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found(2019) BART VAN ES , BART VAN ESVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration(2022) PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, GIANFRANCESCO,PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, GIOVANNIThe Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico, hVezava: Trda47,68 € -
Man Who Drew London(2003) TINDALL, GILLIANYet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington live on for us in his etchings. Drawing on numerous sources, Gillian Tindall creates a monVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Hitler's Pope(2000) CORNWELL, JOHNDiscusses the World War II career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was Pope Pius XII. This book shows how in 1933 Hitler became his negotiating partner, an agreement was arranged that granted religious and financial payments to the Catholic Church in exchaVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Boom Cities(2020) SAUMAREZ SMITH, OTTO (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)In this volume, Otto Saumarez Smith recounts the fraught history of the urban development of British city centres in the 1960s, uncovering the planning philosophy, and the political, cultural, and legislative background that created the conditions for theVezava: Mehka69,47 €










