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Me, Me, Me(2019) LAWRENCE, JON (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)In today's world, many believe that everyday life has become selfish and atomised--that individuals live only to consume. Jon Lawrence argues that they are wrong, and that whilst community has changed, it is far from dead. It is time to embrace new communVezava: Trda47,65 € -
Born in the GDR(2016) VAIZEY, HESTER (UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORY AND FELLOW OF CLARE COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and what they feel about life after the Wall.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Mitterrand(2014) SHORT, PHILIPAesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into thVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes(2016) NICHOLSON, VIRGINIATells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. This book reconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of those who lived it. It takes you back in time to when our graVezava: Mehka29,43 € -
Tombstone(2013) JISHENG, YANGMore people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in China, this title draws on the author's privileged access to official and unofficial sources to uncover the fVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Charlie Brown's America(2021) BALL, BLAKE SCOTT (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, HUNTINGDON COLLEGE)Charlie Brown's America tells the story of how and why the lovable kids and an adventurous beagle of Peanuts became the unlikely spokespeople for American life in the last half of the twentieth century.Vezava: Trda55,11 € -
Long and Winding Road(2017) JOHNSON, ALANWinner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary jourVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Virtual Walls?(2017)A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished journey.Vezava: Trda120,59 € -
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Amx 13 Light Tank(2018) ROBINSON, M. P.,LAU, PETER,GIBEAU, GUYDocuments the most successful French/non-superpower light armoured fighting vehicle.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Operation Mayhem(2015) HEANEY, MC, STEVE,LEWIS, DAMIENSergeant Steve Heaney tells the explosive true story of the epic operation that helped to bring to an end the Sierra Leone Civil War and earned him the Military Cross. 'Captures the confusion, black humour, raw courage and sheer exhilaration of combat bVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Mao's Great Famine(2017) DIKOTTER, FRANKAn unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great FamineWinner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Maggie & Me(2014) BARR, DAMIANA unique, tender and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Margaret Thatcher yearsVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi(2019) WALDOFF, LEONThrough the story of his Russian-Jewish parents' arrival and in the Mississippi region, the author of this book reveals the experience of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, as it goes through times of prosperity but alsoVezava: Mehka49,01 € -
Miami(2019) DIDION, JOANA surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War from one of the most significant writers of the modern era.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Love and Resistance(2019)These indelible images are among the hundreds housed in the New York Public Library’s archive of photographs of LGBT history from photojournalists Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies.Vezava: Trda33,25 €












