Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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Bicycle: The History(2006) HERLIHY, DAVID V.Presents the history of the bicycle, an invention that precipitated nothing short of a social revolution. This book recounts a story replete with disputed patents, brilliant inventions, and missed opportunities. It shows us why the bicycle captured the puVezava: Mehka52,28 € -
Mapmakers(2002) WILFORD, JOHN NOBLEIt traces the adventures, discoveries, and feats of technical ingenuity by which mapmakers, over the centuries, have succeeded in charting first the surface of the globe, then the earth's interior and the ocean floors, and finally the moon and the planetsVezava: Mehka33,65 € -
Comrades(2008) SERVICE, ROBERTRobert Service's critically acclaimed and compellingly readable history of communism.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonization(1964) NKRUMAH, KWAMEVezava: Mehka18,52 € -
Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre(2001)This is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the history of theatre, ranging from Ancient Egyptian festivals to contemporary performance arts. Lavishly illustrated in black and white and colour throughout, this is the perfect book for theatre goerVezava: Mehka41,34 € -
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1950s Childhood: Spangles, Tiddlywinks and The Clitheroe Kid(2013) TAIT, DEREKA book recalling what it was like to be a child in the 1950s, including home life, school days, music and fashions.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Brief Lives(2011) JOHNSON, PAULPresents author's experience of a complex variety of people who have contributed to our political, spiritual and cultural life.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Infinite City(2010) SOLNIT, REBECCAWhat makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technolVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
London(2012) ACKROYD, PETERAn abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London. Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
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Intimate History of Humanity(1995) ZELDIN, THEODOREa constant companion' Bill Bailey'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily TelegraphThis extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and showsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Thin Paths(2012) BLACKBURN, JULIAShortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Potty, Fartwell and Knob(2008) ASH, RUSSELLPainstakingly researched, utterly true, hilariously entertaining book documenting the unusual, hilarious, silly and downright ridiculous names that have existed in Britain in the last millenniumVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Saltwater Slavery(2008) SMALLWOOD, STEPHANIE E.This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage andVezava: Mehka42,68 €
