Zbirka: Zgodovina: Od prazgodovine do danes
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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: Mehka79,68 € -
Germany: A Nation in Its Time(2020) SMITH, HELMUT WALSER (VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY)The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past.Vezava: Trda53,21 € -
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: Mehka14,01 € -
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: Mehka22,42 € -
Enoch Powell(2022) CORTHORN, PAUL (READER IN MODERN BRITISH HISTORY, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST)Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the second half of the twentieth century and a formative influenVezava: Mehka24,52 € -
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: Trda84,85 € -
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: Mehka38,02 € -
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: Trda198,11 € -
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: Trda33,63 € -
Imposteress Rabbit Breeder(2020) HARVEY, KAREN (PROFESSOR OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM)In September 1726, Mary Toft was found to have given birth to seventeen rabbits in Godalming, Surrey. The case caused a sensation and was reported widely in newspapers, popular pamphlets, poems and caricatures.Vezava: Trda30,83 € -
Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon(2015) DALLEY, STEPHANIE (HONORARY SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, HONORARY SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, SOMERVILLE COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Where was the Hanging Garden of Babylon and what did it look like? Why did the ancient Greeks and Romans consider it to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World? Renowned Babylonian expert Stephanie Dalley delves into the legends filled with myth and mystVezava: Mehka24,52 €
