Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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Victorian Tragedy: The Extraordinary Case of Banks v Goodfellow(2018) FROST, MARTYN'A Victorian Tragedy', for the first time, describes how the landmark court case of Banks v Goodfellow (1870) came about, what happened to the protagonists and how an enlightened judgment provided a practical definition of testamentary capacity that has sVezava: Trda37,43 € -
Tyneside Heritage(2021) CHAPMAN, PETER S.A comprehensive socio-economic history of Tyneside, told through the lives of three generations of the same familyVezava: Trda26,73 € -
Five Giants(2001) TIMMINS, NICHOLASAn accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State – now fully revised to cover Blair’s first term. Lively writing in the style of Peter Hennessy.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Sailor Song(2021) SMYTH, GERRYPassed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presentVezava: Trda23,82 € -
Rhodes(2016) DUDLEY, JILLAbout Helios (The Sun) and the Colossus - why it was put up and what happened to it. About the Temple of Apollo Pythios at Rhodes, and the Temple of Athena at Lindos. One of the six 'Put it in your pocket' series on Greek Islands.Vezava: Mehka5,60 € -
Magic Box(2022) YOUNG, ROBA riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Taming Babel(2016) LEOW, RACHEL (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)Taming Babel examines the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, it explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles toVezava: Trda176,72 € -
Last Man Off(2015) LEWIS, MATTIn the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses. Only the actions of Matt Lewis, a 23-year-old British marine biologist and one of the most inexperienced men aboard, wiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Six Months in 1945(2013) DOBBS, MICHAELWhen FDR, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1945, they had Hitler's armies on the run, and victory was just a matter of time. Their mission was to forge the decisions that would shape the postwar worVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
At Day's Close(2022) ROGER EKIRCH, PROFESSOR A.A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. 'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATORVezava: Mehka19,62 €
