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Life of Christina of Markyate(2009) TALBOT, C.H.The remarkable story of twelfth-century recluse Christina of Markyate, her trials and temptations, who eventually founded a priory. The anonymous Life is a vivid social portrait of a medieval religious woman, a dramatic record of spiritual conviction agaiVezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Things of Darkness(1995) HALL, KIM F.The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view...Vezava: Mehka57,03 €
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German Trauma(2001) SERENY, GITTAGitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together her writing on Germany. It amounts to a portrait of the country and its people, how they have come to terms with their Nazi past, both collectively anVezava: Mehka21,02 €
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Last Man in Russia(2014) BULLOUGH, OLIVERThe author travels across Russia, from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept villages, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man, the dissident Orthodox priest Father Dmitry. In this book, he tells the story of a nation: famine, war, the frozeVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Histories(2003) HERODOTUSDescribes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. Frequently giving rise to colorful digressions, this book blends fact and legend to offer a compelling Greek view of the world of the fifth ceVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Nella Last's War(2006) LAST, NELLAIn September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son joineVezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett(2010) WARHOL, ANDYAndy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. With appearances from and references to everyone who was anyone, from Jim Morrison, Martina Navratilova and Calvin Klein to Muhammad Ali, these diarVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization(2013) SPIVAK, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTYThe world’s most renowned critical theorist—who defined the field of postcolonial studies—has radically reoriented her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient, she argues that aesthVezava: Mehka34,95 €
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Diaries of Nella Last(2012) MALCOLMSON, PATRICIA,MALCOLMSON, ROBERT'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. This is a collected edition of bestselling author Nella Last's diaries, including substantial materialVezava: Mehka21,02 €
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Selected Letters(2009) KEATS, JOHN,MEE, JON (, MARGARET CANFIELD FELLOW IN ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD)Keats's letters are 'the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet' (T. S. Eliot). This new edition revises and updates Robert Gittings's selection and includes 170 letters, a new introduction and notes, list of correspondents and fVezava: Mehka46,95 €
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Letters To My Grandchildren(2010) BENN, TONYAs a diarist, I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it. The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could hVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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