Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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Messenger(2021) HANCOX, JOYJoy Hancox reveals the culmination of an amazing journey she began 35 years ago when she received the Byrom Collection of geometric drawings in two brown paper bags.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
Diary of Lady Murasaki(1996) SHIKIBU, MURASAKIThis is the diary of Lady Murasaki, the Japanese prose writer. It describes the Heian court at its apogee and offers an intimate picture of the author's life as tutor and companion to the timid Empress Shoshi. It reveals the underside of imperial splendouVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
How The Irish Saved Civilization(2003) CAHILL, THOMASThe untold story of Ireland's role, from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
From Red Earth(2019) UWIMANA, DENISEIdeal book for the 25th anniversary of the genocide: it moves beyond the gore and recasts Rwanda as a place of rebirth that the world can learn from.An exceptional personal account of a strong woman who survived against all odds and used her gifts to helpVezava: Mehka20,07 € -
Horace Kallen Confronts America(2019) KAUFMAN, MATTHEW J.During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen incorporated a deep focus on science into his pragmatic philosophy of life. In this intellectual biography, Kaufman explores Kallen's life and illumines how AmericanVezava: Mehka51,31 € -
Erased(2019) LASSO, MARIXACutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central America—but at considerable cost to Panamanians. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal’s American builders displaced 40,000Vezava: Trda53,38 € -
In the Wake(2016) SHARPE, CHRISTINAUsing the multiple meanings of "wake" to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery's afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what suVezava: Mehka33,25 € -
Country House Society(2015) HORN, PAMELAForget glossy period dramas, here is the real story of Britain's super-rich from the First World War to the end of the 'roaring' twenties.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Margaret de Flahaut (1788-1867)(2019) SCARISBRICK, DIANAThe political and social worlds of France, England and Vienna during the period which began with the French Revolution and ended with the Second Empire are engagingly seen through the eyes of a highly intelligent Scotswoman, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, wVezava: Trda46,33 € -
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Creation of Garfield(2021) MCCANCE, RODNEYExploring Garfields small town origins and the inspiration behind the character.Vezava: Trda28,03 € -
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Behind the Throne(2018) TINNISWOOD, ADRIANBehind the Throne uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads: tVezava: Trda35,05 € -
Putting the Tea in Britain(2021) WILSON, LESThe story of tea is extraordinary - it caused wars, boosted the trade in slaves and hard drugs, and it’s no exaggeration to say it was one of the great engines that drove the globalisation of the world economy. In this book Les Wilson tells the dramatic aVezava: Trda21,37 € -
Hunter Killers(2014) BALLANTYNE, IAINHUNTER KILLER: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
What We Have Lost(2019) HAMILTON-PATERSON, JAMESJames Hamilton-Paterson turns his literary and analytical skills to the wider picture of Britain's lost industrial and technological civilisation.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
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Insolent Proceedings(2022)This interdisciplinary collection explores new ways of assessing the impact of the English Revolution, focusing on its ‘public politics’. Contributors examine the debates and practices that transformed relations between elite culture and everyday life, asVezava: Trda136,80 €
