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Too Much to Know(2011) BLAIR, ANN M.Examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, focusing on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe.Vezava: Mehka41,82 € -
Coin Finds in Britain(2013) CUDDEFORD, MICHAELProvides a catalogue of commonly encountered coins, dating from ancient times until the modern day, explaining their historical context, how they might have come to be lost and where they may be found today.Vezava: Mehka13,89 € -
Cambodia's Curse(2012) BRINKLEY, JOELA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist "cuts a clear narrative path through the bewildering, cynical politics and violent social life of one of the world's most brutalized and hard-up countries." (Foreign Affairs)Vezava: Mehka27,08 € -
Island in Time(2010) MAK, GEERTIn this book Geert Mak returns to the small Frisian village of his childhood, Jorwert (pop. Jowert has more in common with an English village than with Amsterdam, and it's moving story of neighbours and their efforts to preserve their long established wayVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Ace Cafe Then and Now(2022)During the 1960s swarms of motorcyclists roamed along London's North Circular Road in nightly "burn ups". Their pit stop was the Ace Cafe at Stonebridge Park. This is their story as told by the boys who raced and the policemen who chased, woven against aVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland(2011)This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600.Vezava: Mehka49,42 € -
Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain(2008) PATERSON, MICHAELFrom the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of paradoxes.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady(2006) KING, FLORENCE* A side-splitting story of growing up different in the Old South.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
1940s Childhood(2014) MARSH, JAMESA nostalgic look at life growing up in the 1940sVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
History of Contemporary Italy(1990) GINSBORG, PAULContemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. This book presents an account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past decades. IVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Scandalous Life(1996) LOVELL, MARY S.The biography of Jane Digby, an ‘enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart – and hormones – ruled her head.’ Harpers and QueenVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
On Royalty(2007) PAXMAN, JEREMYWhat is the point of Kings and Queens? What do they do all day? And what does it mean to be one of them? This title looks at our present incumbents to find out just what makes them tick.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Yiddish Civilisation(2006) KRIWACZEK, PAULA portrait of a civilisation which flourished within living memory and left an indelible mark on historyVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All(2009) THOMPSON, CHRISTINAA book that perfectly balances memoir and history, interweaving a cross-cultural love story with the larger history of the colonial encounterVezava: Mehka18,21 €









