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Sport and Ireland(2017) ROUSE, PAUL (LECTURER, SCHOOL OF HISTORY, LECTURER, SCHOOL OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN)The first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. It studies the relationship between sport and national identity, how sport influences policyVezava: Mehka64,61 € -
Me, Me, Me(2019) LAWRENCE, JON (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)In today's world, many believe that everyday life has become selfish and atomised--that individuals live only to consume. Jon Lawrence argues that they are wrong, and that whilst community has changed, it is far from dead. It is time to embrace new communVezava: Trda47,65 € -
Long Shadow(2014) REYNOLDS, DAVIDA controversial and sweeping re-examination of the First World War and its enduring consequences.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
New History of the Humanities(2015) BOD, RENS (PROFESSOR AT THE INSTITUTE FOR LOGIC, LANGUAGE, AND COMPUTATION,, PROFESSOR AT THE INSTITUTE FOR LOGIC, LANGUAGE, AND COMPUTATION,, UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.Vezava: Mehka80,77 € -
Modern Greece: A Short History(1999) WOODHOUSE D.S.O., THE HON. C.M.Acclaimed for its penetration, balance and insight, Modern Greece tells the story of Greece and the Greek people from the founding of Constantinople to the late twentieth century. 'Very readable, very informative.' Sunday TimesVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Crack(2022) FARBER, DAVID (UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS)Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocVezava: Mehka23,83 € -
Enlightenment that Failed(2019) ISRAEL, JONATHAN I. (PROFESSOR EMERITUS, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON)Radical and conservative Enlightenment ideologies began to break apart as the desire for a fair society clashed with questions of religion and secularization. The Enlightenment that Failed shows how ideas promoting the interest of society as a whole cameVezava: Trda91,00 € -
End of Outrage(2017) MAC SUIBHNE, BREANDAN (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, CENTENARY COLLEGE, NEW JERSEY)Tells the absorbing story of post-famine Donegal, the Molly Maguires -- a secret society who had set themselves up against the exploitation of the rural poor -- and Patrick McGlynn -- an avaricious schoolmaster who turned informer on them, availing of hunVezava: Trda64,61 € -
Babur(2018) DALE, STEPHEN F. (OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY)This book is a concise biography of Babur, who founded the Timurid-Mughal Empire of South Asia. It is based primarily on his autobiography and existential verse. It offers a revealing portrait of Babur's Perso-Islamic culture, Timurid imperial ambition anVezava: Mehka39,92 € -
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X(2020)A hybrid between traditional commentary and monograph exploring the final, most arresting book of Aristotle's Ethics in a philosophically rigorous yet interpretatively open way. The new translation makes each argument clear, while the commentary exploresVezava: Trda208,44 € -
Rock Me on the Water(2022) BROWNSTEIN, RONALD"An electric story filled with gripping personalities, compelling backstage histories, and a clear message for the divided America of today: the forces that fear change can win for a time, but in America the future always gets the last word.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Astronomer and the Witch(2015) RUBLACK, ULINKA (PROFESSOR OF EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.Vezava: Trda35,04 €












