Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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Glasgow(2010) BURROWES, JOHNThe role of the Glasgow detective made Mark McManus one of Scotland's first international TV stars, and Mark's own life story makes equally compelling reading. Before Billy Connolly, Glasgow's greatest-ever comedian was Lex McLean.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Command of the Ocean(2006) RODGER, N A MDescribes the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. This work describes not just battles, voyages and cruises but how the Navy was manned, how it was supplied witVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Hiding The Elephant(2005) STEINMEYER, JIMPresents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things materialize, levitate and disappear. This book is the masterwork of a manVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
On The Map(2013) GARFIELD, SIMONFrom the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, this title examines how maps both relate and realign our history. It explores the legendary, impassable mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting choleVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750–1820(2010) HAMILTON, DOUGLASThis is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century. -- .Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
Fair World(2024) GREENHALGH, PAULThe great World's Fairs and Expositions staged around the world since the mid-nineteenth century were among the largest and most dramatic cultural events ever staged. Fair World tells the story of these extraordinary exhibitions from the Victorian periodVezava: Trda56,87 € -
Real Gorbals Story(2007) MACFARLANE, COLINColin MacFarlane was born in Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of "No Mean City", the novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's deprived district. The author witnessed the last days of old Gorbals as street boy as a regeneratiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
After Such Knowledge(2005) HOFFMAN, EVAAs she guides us through the poignant juncture at which living memory must be relinquished, she asks what insights can be carried from the past, and urges the need to transform potent family stories into a fully-informed understanding of a forbidding histVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Bankside(2013) BRANDON, DAVID,BROOKE, ALANThe story of historic district on the south bank of the Thames and beyond - the original playground of Londoners, complete with inns, bear pits, brothels and theatres.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Witch Craze(2006) ROPER, LYNDALIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thousands of women confessed to being witches and were put to death. This book presents an account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches, particularly in Germany, as well as a deeper expVezava: Mehka41,82 € -
Grinling Gibbons and the English Woodcarving Tradition(1998) OUGHTON, FREDERICKVezava: Mehka42,06 € -
Trader, The Owner, The Slave(2008) WALVIN, PROFESSOR JAMESJames Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807. John Newton (1725-1807), author of 'Amazing Grace', was a slave captain who marshalled his human cargoesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
1950s Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTIllustrates an extraordinary period of British history covering everything from rationing to rock and roll.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
1970s Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTFull of pop, punk and personalities, The 1970s Scrapbook sways through this energetic era on platform shoes to the beat of glamrock and disco mania.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
Six Records of a Life Adrift(2011) SHEN FUA memoir of a life in the Qing dynasty. It reveals a sensitive and artistic man, who failed at the civil service examinations that were the gateway to official employment and had to settle for becoming an itinerant private secretary, dabbling unsuccessfulVezava: Mehka26,60 € -
And God Created Cricket(2010) HUGHES, SIMONCricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. This title presents the story of the mad characters who inhabit the game, the extraordinary lengths people go to watch and play it, and the tale of a national obsession.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Keeping Christmas Well(2011) D'ECCA, ARTEMESIA"...a very attractive seasonable title..." --Books Ireland. A lavishly illustrated book with everything you need to know about Christmas: over 700 illustrations--25 in colour--from the first century to the twenty-first century.Vezava: Trda26,62 €
