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Writing a War of Words(2021) MUGGLESTONE, LYNDA (PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH, PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Writing a War of Words is the first investigation of a valuable archive of war-time notebooks documenting changes to the English language on the Home Front. Using unconventional sources, it explores the effect of war on the language of ordinary people, anVezava: Trda61,76 € -
Norse America(2021) CAMPBELL, GORDON (EMERITUS PROFESSOR AND FELLOW IN RENAISSANCE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in receVezava: Trda38,54 € -
Oh Capitano!(2018) VECOLI, RUDOLPH J.,DURANTE, FRANCESCOThe story of Celso Cesare Moreno who traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to expand western trade and imperialism in Asia, traffick migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, influence the fate of Hawaii,Vezava: Trda183,92 € -
End of the Road(2022) COOKE, JACKA wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous –Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
End of the Road(2021) COOKE, JACKA wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous –Vezava: Trda24,94 € -
Sweet Taste of Liberty(2019) MCDANIEL, W. CALEB (MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, RICE UNIVERSITY)The extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood--a formerly enslaved woman sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage, and won.Vezava: Trda36,44 € -
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Hood Feminism - Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot(2021) MIKKI KENDALLVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
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Women and the Cuban Insurrection(2018) BAYARD DE VOLO, LORRAINE (UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER)By documenting the centrality of women rebels and Castro's hearts and minds campaign, this book shatters the Cuban War story's mythology of an insurrection waged and won by bearded guerrillas alone. Rebels used gender as a tactic to protect themselves, atVezava: Mehka45,62 € -
Ice Ages(2022) MAZUR, ALLAN (SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK)Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages, and how the waning of the last Ice Age paved the way for agrarian civilization and, ultimately, our present social structures. An engrossing combination of natural sVezava: Trda39,92 €
