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Abandoned Islands(2022) MARTIN, CLAUDIAExploring some of the world’s eeriest places, Abandoned Islands features American civil war forts, Europe’s last leper colony and South Atlantic whaling stations, along with once grand mansions and colonial settlements and churches, and much more. ArrangeVezava: Trda28,03 € -
Ephemeral City(2016) SALZBERG, ROSAExplores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance -- .Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
Haunting of Alma Fielding(2021) SUMMERSCALE, KATEThe extraordinary story of a 1930s ghost hunt, and the woman who confounded the world, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr WhicherVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways(2015) DEARY, TERRYThe terrible truth behind the history of our railways by Terry Deary, creater of Horrible Histories. Strictly for grown-ups!Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Hidden History of the Smock Frock(2021) TOPLIS, ALISON (UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON, UK)Vezava: Mehka43,23 € -
Gender and Punishment in Ireland(2022) BLACK, LYNSEYIn the decades after Irish independence, 292 women were prosecuted for murder, facing the threat of conviction and death sentencing. Within a rising atmosphere of hostility to women, moral rigidity, sexual repression and Catholic Church control, this bookVezava: Trda111,97 € -
Occult Paris(2016) CHURTON, TOBIASHow fin-de-siècle Paris became the locus for the most intense revival of magical practices and doctrines since the RenaissanceVezava: Trda38,61 € -
Hippie Trail(2017) GEMIE, SHARIF (PROFESSOR OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY),IRELAND, BRIANTracing the history of the Hippie Trail and those who followed it, this book explores the motivations and experiences of these young travellers, mapping their everyday interactions with locals and the joys and hardships of independent budget travel. -- .Vezava: Trda44,55 € -
Coconut(2021) OLAJIDE, FLORENCEA generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain in the fifties and sixties, privately fostered by white families, then taken to Nigeria by their parents. Coconut is the story of one of those children.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Lives of Tudor Women(2017) NORTON, ELIZABETHA lively and insightful study of the many roles played by women in the Tudor era, from queens to wet-nurses and countesses to serving maids.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Memories After My Death(2012) LAPID, YAIRJoseph 'Tommy' Lapid (1931-2008) survived the horrors of the Holocaust to become Israel's notorious yet beloved 'big mouth': a journalist, playwright, TV star, and finally deputy prime minister and leader of the anti-Orthodox movement. His is a very persoVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Representing the Male(2021) JENKINS, JOHN PERROTTThis book argues that industrial patriarchy in South Wales established an exclusive though damaging form of structural masculine conformity expressed through a limited –and limiting – set of gendered practices.Vezava: Mehka41,57 € -
Place For Everything(2020) FLANDERS, JUDITHA celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.Vezava: Trda23,82 € -
Illicit and Unnatural Practices(2020) DAVIDSON, ROGER (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinating insight into the relationship between the law, sex, and society in modern Scotland.Vezava: Mehka35,51 € -
History of the London Underground Map(2022) ROOPE, CAROLINEProvides a new insight into the history of London Underground, from the viewpoint of its visual and cartographic heritage and against a backdrop of socio-political issues.Vezava: Trda28,04 €











