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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)(2018) DUGATKIN, LEE ALAN,TRUT, LYUDMILAThe crazy story of how Soviet scientists in Siberia in the 1950s embarked on a project to turn foxes into dogs through selective breeding—and managed it within mere generations.Vezava: Mehka32,08 € -
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Miss Dior(2022) PICARDIE, JUSTINEMiss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal, roses and repression, and how the polished surface of fashion conceals hidden depths.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Finest Years(2010) HASTINGS, MAX'I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill's time as wartime leader; and it is incredibly moving as a result' James HVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
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Runes(2014) FINDELL, MARTINRunes employ many techniques from informal scratchings to sophisticated inlaid designs on weapons, or the exquisite relief carvings of the Franks Casket. This book tells the story of runes from their mysterious origins, their development as a script, to tVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Standard of Ur(2015) COLLINS, SARAHThe Standard of Ur is one of the most famous objects to be discovered from ancient Mesopotamia. It was un earthed in a tomb in 1927 by Leonard Woolley during his archaeological excavations of the ‘Royal Cemetery’ of Ur located in present - day Iraq. ThisVezava: Mehka8,41 € -
Meroe Head of Augustus(2015) OPPER, THORSTENMade from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the 'Meroe Head' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar's great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14).Vezava: Mehka8,41 € -
Lewis Chessmen(2004) ROBINSON, JAMESThis lively book considers the various fascinating stories which have evolved to explain the ownership, concealment and discovery of the pieces whilst also placing them in the wider context of the ancient game of chess and secular art of the middle Ages.Vezava: Mehka8,41 € -
Rosetta Stone(2005) PARKINSON, RICHARDThis book tells the fascinating story of one of archaeology's icons, from its creation in the second century BC, to its discovery in 1799 during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, to the subsequent race to decipher its hieroglyphic text.Vezava: Mehka8,41 € -
Katherine Howard(2019) BYRNE, CONORThis revelatory biography disputes the popular belief that Katherine Howard committed adultery or that she was promiscuousVezava: Trda26,62 € -
Vikings in Britain and Ireland(2014) CARROLL, JAYNE,HARRISON, STEPHEN H.,WILLIAMS, GARETHWritten by three authors specializing in a range of disciplines, and drawing on the superb collection of the British Museum, together with finds, sites and monuments, The Vikings in Britain and Ireland is a well-illustrated introduction to the culture, daVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Templemore Miracles(2019) REYNOLDS, JOHNThe 16-year-old boy who caused a ceasefire in the Civil WarVezava: Mehka13,89 € -
Granite Men(2019) FIDDES, JIMA comprehensive history of the industries of the Granite City of AberdeenVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Napoleonic Prison of Norman Cross(2019) CHAMBERLAIN, PAULThe human story of Cambridgeshire’s Napoleonic War prisonVezava: Mehka25,22 €
