Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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Flickerbook(2021) BERG, LEILAFlickerbook is the classic autobiography of the writer Leila Berg (1917-2012), who grew up in a Jewish immigrant neighbourhood in Salford, Greater Manchester. It recreates childhood pleasures and fears, relationships with family and lovers, and growing poVezava: Mehka14,02 € -
Tithe Barns(2021) ROGERS, JOSEPHA fascinating look at an interesting and important part of Britain's heritage and its landscape with Tithe Barns.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Roman Gardens(2019) BEESON, ANTHONYA fascinating look at the history and legacy of Roman gardens, focusing on Great Britain. The author is a board member of the Association for Roman Archaeology and a prolific writer of papers on Roman art and architecture and has lectured on the subject oVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Suburban Gardens(2020) WAY, TWIGSThe suburban garden has introduced millions to the hobby of gardening, and here, for the first time, is the story of Britain’s most numerous, and most beloved, type of garden.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Abandoned Villages(2018) FISK, STEPHENA lonely ruined church, mysterious bumps in a field, stone walls visible on the shoreline of a reservoir in high summer. All these are signs of settlements abandoned over the years, and this book is the perfect guide to these intriguing sites.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Real Lolita(2021) WEINMAN, SARAHThe gripping, previously untold true story of the child abduction that inspired Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA'Nuanced and compassionate true-crime reportage and revelatory cultural and literary history' Megan AbbottVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Barbizon(2022) BREN, PAULINAA glamorous social history of the women-only New York hotel that changed the world and its famous guests from Joan Crawford and Grace Kelly to Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
King and the Christmas Tree(2021) WILSON, A.N.The King and the Christmas Tree is a poignant Christmas treat.' Lucy Worsley, historian, broadcaster and authorEvery December, a huge Christmas tree arrives in Trafalgar Square.Vezava: Trda14,01 € -
Conflict, Domination, and Violence(2019) ILLADES, CARLOSThis wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades guides the reader through key episodes in Mexican social history, from rebellions under Porfirio Diaz to the recent emergence of neo-anarchist movements.Vezava: Mehka48,15 € -
Interflug(2020) SCHMITZ, SEBASTIANInterflug was the airline of communist East Germany, flying exotic Soviet-built airliners to some of the most obscure corners of the planet, under the constant surveillance of an ever-present police state. This is the story of its mission, its fleet, andVezava: Trda38,61 € -
Blitz Spirit(2020) BROWN, BECKYBecky Brown mines the Mass Observation Archive for wartime experiences of 1939-45 to show how the lives of people now generations away have relevance to our twenty-first century experience - living amidst a global pandemic.Vezava: Trda23,82 € -
Avian Illuminations(2021) SAX, BORIAA superbly illustrated overview of our long relationship with our feathered friends.Vezava: Trda42,06 € -
Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Ireland(2022)The environmental humanities are one of the most exciting and rapidly expanding areas of interdisciplinary study, and this collection of essays is a pioneering attempt to apply these approaches to the study of nineteenth-century Ireland. By bringing togetVezava: Mehka60,57 € -
The Billionaire Raj(2018) CRABTREE, JAMESA timely account of the emerging superpower that is India and the rise and rise of the BollygarchsVezava: Trda26,62 € -
Searching for Literacy(2022) GRAFF, HARVEY J.It is a revisionist study which argues that literacy and literacy studies are historical developments and must be understood in those terms to comprehend their profound impact on our traditions of thinking about and understanding literacy, and how we studVezava: Trda94,49 €
