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Shadowy Third(2022) PARRY, JULIACritically acclaimed, this unique and compelling personal biography uncovers the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author’s grandparents.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Scheisse! We're Going Up!(2022) HOLDEN, KITScheisse! recounts the extraordinary story of Union Berlin, the German Bundesliga’s most spirited football club, interwoven with a witty history of contemporary Berlin.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Women Are Up to Something(2021) LIPSCOMB, BENJAMIN J.B. (PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND DIRECTOR OF THE HONORS PROGRAM, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND DIRECTOR OF THE HONORS PROGRAM, HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY)Vezava: Trda49,41 € -
Freedom from Fear(2001) KENNEDY, DAVID M. (DONALD J. MCLACHLAN PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, DONALD J. MCLACHLAN PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY)Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.Vezava: Mehka30,83 € -
Vices of the Mind(2021) CASSAM, QUASSIM (PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)Quassim Cassam introduces the idea of epistemic vices, character traits that get in the way of knowledge, such as closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. Using examples from politics to illustrate the vices at work, heVezava: Mehka61,76 € -
Paths out of the Apocalypse(2022) KONRAD, OTA (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE),KUCERA, RUDOLF (DIRECTOR OF THE MASARYK INSTITUTE AND ARCHIVES, DIRECTOR OF THE MASARYK INSTITUTE AND ARCHIVES, CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES)Paths out of the Apocalypse fundamentally rethinks some key debates in the scholarship on early 20th-century Central Europe, the First World War, violence, nationalism and modern European comparative social and cultural history, considering the populationVezava: Trda196,09 € -
Hitler's First Hundred Days(2021) FRITZSCHE, PETER (W. D. & SARAH E. TROWBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, W. D. & SARAH E. TROWBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN)The chilling story of the hundred days in the spring of 1933 in which the Nazis laid the foundations for their Third Reich.Vezava: Trda45,54 € -
Nostalgic Imagination(2020) COLLINI, STEFAN (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)In the book born from his Oxford Ford Lectures, Stefan Collini challenges the historical assumptions at work in twentieth-century English literary criticism, showing how the work of critics was bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historVezava: Mehka45,95 € -
Question of Standing(2022) JEFFREYS-JONES, RHODRI (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND HONORARY FELLOW, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND HONORARY FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences, it values the agency's intelligence and analysis work to offer balancedVezava: Trda38,54 € -
Cricket Country(2022) KIDAMBI, PRASHANT (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN COLONIAL URBAN HISTORY SCHOOL OF HISTORY, POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took shape on the cricket pitch.Vezava: Mehka38,94 € -
Reckonings(2020) FULBROOK, MARY (DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SCIENCES, DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)Reckonings documents how Holocaust victims have sought justice over the decades and the haunting disparity between crime and punishment.Vezava: Mehka24,52 € -
International Relations Since 1945(2020) W. YOUNG, JOHN (PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, UK),KENT, JOHN (EMERITUS PROFESSOR, EMERITUS PROFESSOR, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & POLITICAL SCIENCE)International Relations since 1945 is a comprehensive introduction to the global history of International Relations. The text has been fully updated for the third edition and features three new chapters covering Brexit, Trump, the rise of major powers inVezava: Mehka80,49 € -
Enoch Powell(2022) CORTHORN, PAUL (READER IN MODERN BRITISH HISTORY, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST)Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the second half of the twentieth century and a formative influenVezava: Mehka24,52 € -
Born in the GDR(2016) VAIZEY, HESTER (UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORY AND FELLOW OF CLARE COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and what they feel about life after the Wall.Vezava: Mehka21,71 € -
Historicizing Roma in Central Europe(2022) SHMIDT, VICTORIA,JAWORSKY, BERNADETTE NADYAIn Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizing the impact of ideas on everyday racism. This book attempts to interpret such a gap as a case of episteVezava: Mehka75,24 € -
Bold and Dangerous Family(2018) MOOREHEAD, CAROLINEHis opponents – including editors, union representatives, lawyers and judges – were beaten into submission. Caroline Moorehead draws readers into the lives of this remarkable family – their loves, their loyalties, their laughter and their ultimate sacrifiVezava: Mehka14,01 €
