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Last Train to Hilversum(2020) CONNELLY, CHARLIEA beautifully written celebration of the ever-present soundtrack to our livesVezava: Mehka19,59 € -
Typewriter Century(2021) LYONS, MARTYNAs a vehicle for outstanding creativity, the typewriter has been taken for granted and was, until now, a blind spot in the history of writing practices.Vezava: Mehka44,54 € -
Spoils of War(2020) JOLL, CHRISTOPHERThe United Kingdom is a treasure-trove of military acquisitions - ranging from the bizarre to the priceless. In 'The Spoils of War' historian Christopher Joll unveils the remarkable, and often strange, stories of how and where many of them were procured.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
Joe Gould's Secret(2019) MITCHELL, JOSEPH‘It's a masterpiece, of course, but more than that it shows that there is some such thing as being a simple observer’ Nicci French, IndependentIt was 1932 when Joseph Mitchell first came across Joe Gould, a Harvard-educated vagrant of Greenwich Village.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Frankly, We Did Win This Election(2022) BENDER, MICHAELMichael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how Donald J. Trump became the first incumbent in three decades to lose reelection-and the only oVezava: Mehka21,37 € -
Building Reputations(2021) LUCEY, CONORThis book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and architectural taste, it rehabilitates the reputation of the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and pVezava: Mehka53,46 € -
Running's Strangest Tales(2016) SPRAGG, IAINRunning’s Strangest Tales is a fascinating collection of weird and wonderful stories from the world of running, from the earliest marathon to today’s high-tech, apped-up approach.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Art After Empire(2018)Explores the relationship between art and visual culture in Europe and the ‘wider world’ from the early twentieth century to the contemporary era of globalisation. -- .Vezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Missions to the Moon(2018) PYLE, RODAn interactive history of mankind's ongoing journey into the final frontier.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
Bike Boom(2017) REID, CARLTONAn optimistic book about the history and future of cycling in Europe and the US.Vezava: Mehka48,23 € -
Rhodes Must Fall(2018)A decisive book written by the Rhodes Must Fall movement, offering unparalleled insight into the institutional racism at the heart of empire.Vezava: Mehka20,07 € -
1939: The Last Season(2022) DE COURCY, ANNEA wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Blood Legacy(2022) RENTON, ALEXOne man's personal discovery of his family's involvement in transatlantic slavery leads to his call for a wider reckoning among the descendants of slave ownersVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
All the Knowledge in the World(2022) GARFIELD, SIMONA gloriously illuminating history of the encyclopaedia (and how and why we have captured knowledge over the years) by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE and ON THE MAPVezava: Trda31,59 € -
Revolutionary for Our Time(2022) ZEILIG, LEORodney’s immensely creative and original use of Marxism was both a challenge to radical understandings of development and colonialisation but also faithful to a certain framework of analysis in the period he lived.Vezava: Mehka26,24 € -
Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul(2021) MACARAIG, NINA (VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, KOC UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL)This original study, taking a biographical approach to tell the story of a Turkish bathhouse, contributes to the fields of Islamic, Ottoman and modern Turkish cultural, architectural, social and economic history.Vezava: Mehka47,88 € -
Devil's Wheels(2019) DISKO, SASHADuring the unprecedented modernization of Germany's Weimar Republic, motorcycle culture instantiated the new link between consumption and identity. Motorcycles became symbols of masculinity and freedom that exposed the problems and allures of mass-consumpVezava: Mehka41,26 € -
Hillyard(2021) GRAY, NICHOLASDavid Hillyard built affordable wooden yachts for the masses, from 1906 to the 1960s—about 800 of them, many of which survive. The company he founded survived for more than a century. This is the story of a unique and significant chapter in the story of BVezava: Trda30,89 € -
Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759(2021) NICHOLAS, TRACY,Analysis of a crucial battle in British naval historyRe-examines a neglected moment in naval warfareGripping account of this daring attack on the French FleetPlaces the battle in the wider context of the Seven Years war, particularly upon the war in NorthVezava: Mehka21,02 €
