Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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1950s Childhood: Spangles, Tiddlywinks and The Clitheroe Kid(2013) TAIT, DEREKA book recalling what it was like to be a child in the 1950s, including home life, school days, music and fashions.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Brief Lives(2011) JOHNSON, PAULPresents author's experience of a complex variety of people who have contributed to our political, spiritual and cultural life.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
London(2012) ACKROYD, PETERAn abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London. Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Intimate History of Humanity(1995) ZELDIN, THEODOREa constant companion' Bill Bailey'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily TelegraphThis extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and showsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Thin Paths(2012) BLACKBURN, JULIAShortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Glasgow(2010) BURROWES, JOHNThe role of the Glasgow detective made Mark McManus one of Scotland's first international TV stars, and Mark's own life story makes equally compelling reading. Before Billy Connolly, Glasgow's greatest-ever comedian was Lex McLean.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Real Gorbals Story(2007) MACFARLANE, COLINColin MacFarlane was born in Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of "No Mean City", the novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's deprived district. The author witnessed the last days of old Gorbals as street boy as a regeneratiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
After Such Knowledge(2005) HOFFMAN, EVAAs she guides us through the poignant juncture at which living memory must be relinquished, she asks what insights can be carried from the past, and urges the need to transform potent family stories into a fully-informed understanding of a forbidding histVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Bankside(2013) BRANDON, DAVID,BROOKE, ALANThe story of historic district on the south bank of the Thames and beyond - the original playground of Londoners, complete with inns, bear pits, brothels and theatres.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Witch Craze(2006) ROPER, LYNDALIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thousands of women confessed to being witches and were put to death. This book presents an account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches, particularly in Germany, as well as a deeper expVezava: Mehka41,82 € -
1950s Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTIllustrates an extraordinary period of British history covering everything from rationing to rock and roll.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
1970s Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTFull of pop, punk and personalities, The 1970s Scrapbook sways through this energetic era on platform shoes to the beat of glamrock and disco mania.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
Six Records of a Life Adrift(2011) SHEN FUA memoir of a life in the Qing dynasty. It reveals a sensitive and artistic man, who failed at the civil service examinations that were the gateway to official employment and had to settle for becoming an itinerant private secretary, dabbling unsuccessfulVezava: Mehka26,60 € -
Keeping Christmas Well(2011) D'ECCA, ARTEMESIA"...a very attractive seasonable title..." --Books Ireland. A lavishly illustrated book with everything you need to know about Christmas: over 700 illustrations--25 in colour--from the first century to the twenty-first century.Vezava: Trda26,62 € -
Salt(2003) KURLANSKY, MARKWars have been fought over salt and, while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia, they have also inspired revolution - Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
First Bohemians(2014) GATRELL, VICIn the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteenth century. It was the world's first creative 'Bohemia'. The nation's most significant artists, actors, poetVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
At Her Majesty's Pleasure(2008) DOUGLAS, ROBERTThe third volume in Robert Douglas's remarkable life story picks up from the bestselling SOMEWHERE TO LAY MY HEAD and brings us up to the present day.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
