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Battling the Gods(2017) WHITMARSH, TIMHow new is atheism?Long before the Enlightenment sowed seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
American Civilization(2021) MAUK, DAVID,TØNNESSEN, ALF TOMAS,OAKLAND, JOHNThe eighth edition of the hugely successful American Civilization offers students the perfect background and introductory information on contemporary American life, examining the central dimensions of American society from geography and the environment, gVezava: Mehka82,24 € -
Hundred Years War Vol 4(2016) SUMPTION, JONATHANIn the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest and most populous nation state of medieval Europe to suffering a complete internal collapse and a partial conquest by a foreign power. This book tells the story of the destruction ofVezava: Mehka42,06 € -
Lost Archive(2020) RUSTOW, MARINAA compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentationThe lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited tVezava: Trda71,40 € -
Heroes or Villains?(2021) DAVIS, JON (DIRECTOR OF THE STRAND GROUP AND LECTURER, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON),RENTOUL, JOHN (CHIEF POLITICAL COMMENTATOR FOR ^ITHE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY^R AND VISITING PROFESSOR AT KING'S COLLEGE LONDON)A unique new account of New Labour in power-drawing on a mass of previously unpublished contributions from most of the main players in the Blair government, including Tony Blair himself.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Supernatural War(2021) DAVIES, OWEN (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE)The story of how widespread belief in fortune-telling, prophecies, spirits, magic, and protective talismans gripped the battlefields and home fronts of Europe during the First World War.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Athenian Empire(2020) KALLET, LISA (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD),KROLL, JOHN H. (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)This extensively illustrated book addresses the significance of coins as historical documents in the larger narrative of the empire and those who came into conflict with it. While written principally for an undergraduate audience, much of the coin evidencVezava: Mehka41,82 € -
Gerald of Wales(2006) BARTLETT, ROBERTThis study of Gerald discusses the political path he had to tread and portrays him as an example of the medieval world.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Anne Neville(2007) HICKS, PROF MICHAELAnne Neville was queen to England’s most notorious king, Richard III. This fascinating new biography seeks to tell the story of Anne’s life in her own right, and uncovers the real wife of Richard III by charting the remarkable twists and turns of her frauVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
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Nostalgic Imagination(2020) COLLINI, STEFAN (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)In the book born from his Oxford Ford Lectures, Stefan Collini challenges the historical assumptions at work in twentieth-century English literary criticism, showing how the work of critics was bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historVezava: Mehka46,44 € -
Neighbours, Distrust, and the State(2022) BRODIE, MARC (FORMER FELLOW, FORMER FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Neighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people 'wanted something done' by government in their communities, examining how they thought about such things as the role of the police, compulsory schooling, housing eVezava: Trda80,26 € -
In These Times(2015) UGLOW, JENNYShortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeAs the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? Award-winning social historian Jenny Uglow reveals the colourful and turbulent everyday life of Georgian Britain through the diaries, lettVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Fall of the Roman Empire(2006) HEATHER, PETERA major new narrative account of one of history's greatest and most epic mysteries: the strange death of the Roman Empire.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Opium War(2012) LOVELL, JULIALively, erudite and meticulously researched' Literary ReviewVezava: Mehka21,61 € -
Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England(2022) ULLYOT, MICHAEL (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY)This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that exemplarity is driven by both reader and author, and that positive moral examples were presented as aspiratioVezava: Trda153,22 € -
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming(2020) BANHAM, DEBBY (AFFILIATED LECTURER, AFFILIATED LECTURER, DEPT OF ANGLO-SAXON, NORSE AND CELTIC, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE),FAITH, ROSAMOND (VISITING FELLOW, VISITING FELLOW, KELLOGG COLLEGE, OXFORD)A study of farming in England before the Norman Conquest, in a period before trade was an important way of making a living, exploring what tools and methods were used in Anglo-Saxon farming, what kind of livestock was kept, and what crops were grown.Vezava: Mehka85,52 € -
Mad at the World(2021) SOUDER, WILLIAMA biography of one of America’s most popular and misunderstood authors, John Steinbeck.Vezava: Mehka29,93 €












