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Canberra in the Falklands War(2022) VINE, ANDREWThis is the extraordinary story untold until now, of how unlikely combatants like waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners who never in their dreams imagined they could be caught up in a war, found themselves on the front line at the very end of the world.Vezava: Mehka16,07 € -
Animal, Vegetable, Junk(2022) BITTMAN, MARKFrom hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultra-processed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species and points the way to a better future. The history of Homo sapiens is usually told as a story of technology or economicVezava: Mehka27,08 € -
Boy Who Drew Auschwitz(2022) GEVE, THOMAS‘We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis’ evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our struggle to survivVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Euripides' Medea(2022) EWANS, MICHAELThis book offers a new, accurate and actable translation of one of Euripides’ most popular plays, together with a commentary which provides insight into the challenges it sets for production and suggestions for how to solve them.Vezava: Mehka30,40 € -
Classical Art(2018) VOUT, CAROLINEHow did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, riVezava: Trda62,48 € -
Gentlemen Revolutionaries(2017) CUTTERHAM, TOMIn the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite--worked hard to maintain their positions of power. GentlemVezava: Trda74,37 € -
Cnut(2011) LAWSON, M KThe must-have biography of one of the most important kings of EnglandVezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Hitler's First Hundred Days(2021) FRITZSCHE, PETER (W. D. & SARAH E. TROWBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, W. D. & SARAH E. TROWBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN)The chilling story of the hundred days in the spring of 1933 in which the Nazis laid the foundations for their Third Reich.Vezava: Trda45,54 € -
Battle of the Bulge(2014) VANSANT, WAYNEIn TheBattle of the Bulge, author and graphic artist Wayne Vansant brings readers into the frozen foxholes, haunting forests, and devastated villages of the Ardennes during the freezing cold winter of 1944– 1945.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Stalin and the Scientists(2017) INGS, SIMONLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Sandstorm(2013) HILSUM, LINDSEYThe overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has been one of the twenty-first century's defining moments: the Arab world's most bizarre dictator brought down by his own people with the aid of NATO aircraft.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I(2020) O'LEARY, BRENDAN (LAUDER PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, LAUDER PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)The first volume of the definitive political history of Northern Ireland.Vezava: Mehka79,00 € -
Delphi(2015) SCOTT, MICHAELThe oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings came from all over the Mediterranean and beyond to consulVezava: Mehka27,45 € -
King's Two Bodies(2016) KANTOROWICZ, ERNSTOriginally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the post mortem continuity of monarch and monarchy,Vezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Son Also Rises(2015) CLARK, GREGORYHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The SoVezava: Mehka30,69 € -
Interpretations of the Two Germanies, 1945-1990(2000) FULBROOK, PROFESSOR MARY (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK)The two Germanies, arising from the unpromising ashes of defeated Nazi Germany, came to represent opposing models of state and society.Vezava: Mehka53,45 € -
Civil Rights Movement(2021) DIERENFIELD, BRUCE J.Now in its second edition, The Civil Rights Movement recounts the story of how thousands of African Americans overcame segregation, exercised their right to vote, and improved their economic standing, and how millions more continue to fight for racial jusVezava: Mehka68,61 €











