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Lime Kilns(2018) JOHNSON, DR DAVIDExplores a lavishly illustrated look at an important part of our industrial history with Lime Kilns.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Scotsman Returns(2021) LYNN, PAUL A.A fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish engineer Thomas Telford (1757–1834), and a modern travelogue that revisits the places in the Highlands and Islands where he worked over a period of 20 years.Vezava: Mehka29,33 € -
Eve of Destruction(2022) HUGHES-WILSON, JOHNLeading military historian, John Hughes-Wilson exposes just how close we have come to genuine nuclear disaster, military and civilian, on many occasions.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Scheming(2020) DAMER, SEAN (HONORARY FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)Seán Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow’s council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city.Vezava: Mehka35,51 € -
Nearly the New World(2019) NEWMAN, JOANNAIn the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as the West Indies in search of refuge. Nearly the New World tells the remarkable story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecutionVezava: Trda189,49 € -
Belonging and Betrayal – How Jews Made the Art World Modern(2021) DELLHEIM, CHARLESVezava: Trda57,03 € -
Man with the Poison Gun(2017) PLOKHY, SERHIIThe true story that inspired The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian FlemingVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Hollow City(2018) SOLNIT, REBECCAAcclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg survey San Francisco's transformation through gentrification in the early milleniumVezava: Mehka38,57 € -
Imperial Mud(2021) BOYCE, JAMESA post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Diamond Queen(2022) MARR, ANDREWPolitical journalist Andrew Marr's vivid account of the Queen and her reign over Great Britain and the Commonwealth.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Easter 1916(2015) TOWNSHEND, CHARLESBefore Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. The devastating events of that Easter changed everything. This book focuses on these events.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800(2009) EL-ROUAYHEB, KHALEDAttitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a timeless, self-evident fact to which aVezava: Mehka45,62 € -
Raj(1998) JAMES, LAWRENCE* A book that is narrative-driven, but full of outstanding scholarship and insight. * Subtitled 'The Making and Unmaking of British India' - how the British Raj shaped the Indian sub-continent as it is today.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Granite Men(2019) FIDDES, JIMA comprehensive history of the industries of the Granite City of AberdeenVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
No Escape(2022) TURKEL, NURY'Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it' Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy**Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Literature**A devastating account of China's genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activis21,02 € -
Chosen Few(2014) BOTTICINI, MARISTELLA,ECKSTEIN, ZVIIn 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds oVezava: Mehka32,31 €
