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Bear Tree and Other Stories from Cazenovia's History(2021) BARNES, ERICA,EMERSON, JASONThe historic lakeside village of Cazenovia in the scenic Finger Lakes region is one of the jewels of Central New York, and yet very few books have told its story. The Bear Tree and Other Stories from Cazenovia's History explores the unheralded, inaccuratVezava: Mehka26,72 € -
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 € -
Revolution of the Mind(2011) ISRAEL, JONATHANDemocracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 UN DVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
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VISITING PROFESSOR AT KING'S COLLEGE LONDON)A unique new account of New Labour in power-drawing on a mass of previously unpublished contributions from most of the main players in the Blair government, including Tony Blair himself.Vezava: Mehka21,71 € -
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: Mehka21,71 € -
Imperial Boredom(2020) AUERBACH, JEFFREY A. (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE)Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that that the Empire was about adventure and excitement, Auerbach draws on personal accounts to arguVezava: Mehka55,11 € -
Plutarch: Volume 47(2021) ROSKAM, GEERT (KU LEUVEN, BELGIUM)This volume introduces the life and works of Plutarch of Chaeronea, one of classical antiquity's most influential writers. It examines Plutarch's views on philosophy, history and religion, and his method of intellectual enquiry. The book also considers thVezava: Mehka36,12 € -
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 € -
Outwitting the Gestapo(1994) AUBRAC, LUCIELucie Aubrac, of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the ResistancVezava: Mehka33,25 € -
Blue Tattoo(2011) MIFFLIN, MARGOTIn 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroiVezava: Mehka28,26 € -
Making of Modern Britain(2010) MARR, ANDREWPublished alongside a landmark BBC2 series, this is the story of Britain from 1900 to the end of the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Palaces of Revolution(2022) THURLEY, SIMONThe story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Palaces of Revolution(2021) THURLEY, SIMONThe story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.Vezava: Trda41,58 € -
Schools of Our Own(2019) HAYES, WORTH KAMILIRecounts how a diverse contingent of educators, nuns, and political activists embraced institution building as the most effective means to attain quality education. This book makes a fascinating addition to scholarly debates about education, segregation,Vezava: Mehka40,86 € -
Loos 1915(2008) LLOYD, NICKThe battle of Loos was one of the most hard-fought battles that the British Expeditionary Force waged during the First World War. This work presents an interpretation of Loos, placing it not only within its political and strategic context, but also discusVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Prince Eddy(2008) COOK, ANDREWA radically new interpretation of a much maligned prince.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Brigid(2009) WRIGHT, BRIANBrigid of Kildare, Ireland, is uniquely venerated as both a goddess and a saint throughout Ireland, Europe and the USA.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Cosmetics and Perfumes in the Roman World(2007) STEWART, SUSANPresents a survey of the perception and reality of the use of cosmetics and perfumes under the Roman Empire. This work, a companion to "Roman Clothing and Fashion" draws on literary, non-literary, visual and archaeological evidence to show, among other thVezava: Mehka23,82 €
