Zbirka: Povojna zgodovina: od 1945 do 2000
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I Want to Believe(2020) GITTLITZ, A.M.Aliens, nuclear war and talking dolphins; this book is a study of the weird and wonderful world of the PosadistsVezava: Mehka35,51 € -
Vices of the Mind(2021) CASSAM, QUASSIM (PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)Quassim Cassam introduces the idea of epistemic vices, character traits that get in the way of knowledge, such as closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. Using examples from politics to illustrate the vices at work, heVezava: Mehka61,76 € -
Wages for Housework(2018) TOUPIN, LOUISEA history of the feminist movement that changed how we see women's work foreverVezava: Mehka40,97 € -
Crisis of the Meritocracy(2020) MANDLER, PETER (PROFESSOR OF MODERN CULTURAL HISTORY AND BAILEY LECTURER IN HISTORY, GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)The story of the revolutionary transformation of the British educational system in the second half of the 20th century from a rigid hierarchy for a minority, to a fundamental right of all citizens, one of the most valued and enduring features of the welfaVezava: Trda45,54 € -
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: Trda45,54 € -
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: Mehka21,71 € -
German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal(2017) FORNER, SEAN A. (MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY)This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War and the Holocaust. The book focuses on a diverse network of intellectuals in post-war Germany and a distinctive vision of renewal that spanneVezava: Mehka72,23 € -
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: Mehka21,02 € -
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: Mehka15,41 € -
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: Trda146,43 € -
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Crichel Boys(2022) FENWICK, SIMONAn elegant biography of Long Crichel, a house in a secluded village in rural Dorset which, during the second half of the twentieth century, became a hub of creativity and social activity for its denizens and their guests.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Hungarian Uprising(2018) ARCHARD, LOUISThe most serious threat to Soviet rule in Eastern Europe before the collapse of communism in 1989.Vezava: Mehka21,02 €
