Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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World History(2001) PONTING, CLIVEConventional accounts of world history tend to focus on the rise of Western civilisation and concentrate on the story of ancient Greece, the Roman empire and the expansion of Europe. Only towards the end of the story does Europe come slowly to dominate thVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Writing Local History(2007) BECKETT, JOHNThis book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first century. It looks also at how local history is related to archaeology, landscape, and family history. -- .Vezava: Mehka24,70 € -
Bicycle: The History(2006) HERLIHY, DAVID V.Presents the history of the bicycle, an invention that precipitated nothing short of a social revolution. This book recounts a story replete with disputed patents, brilliant inventions, and missed opportunities. It shows us why the bicycle captured the puVezava: Mehka52,28 € -
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 € -
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: Mehka18,21 € -
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: Mehka16,81 € -
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 € -
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: Mehka28,04 € -
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 € -
1960s Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTThe 1960s Scrapbook presents a visual record of a turbulent decade, with over 1000 images in colour.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 € -
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 € -
Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood(2006) DOUGLAS, ROBERTIf my father had been killed in North Africa or Italy during the Second World War, I know that for the rest of my life I would have looked at the few photographs of him and mourned our lost relationship. Unfortunately, he survived and came home.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
