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Russia's Food Policy and Globalization(2004) WEGREN, STEPHEN K.Stephen K. Wegren analyzes policies, strategies, and actors involved in all aspects of food production.Vezava: Trda17,92 € -
F6F Hellcat(2019) DOYLE, DAVIDThe Grumman F6F Hellcat formed the backbone of America’s carrier-based fighter force as the Allies pressed the war toward Japan.Vezava: Trda26,62 € -
Secular Cycles(2009) TURCHIN, PETER,NEFEDOV, SERGEY A.Incorporating theoretical and quantitative history, this book examines a specific model of historical change and, more generally, investigates the utility of the dynamical systems approach in historical applications. It is of interest to practitioners ofVezava: Trda81,81 € -
Cannibal Island(2007) WERTH, NICOLASDuring the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. This work weaves this episode into a broader story about the Soviet fVezava: Trda40,39 € -
William Wilberforce(2007) BELMONTE, KEVINHere is the true story of how British statesman and reformer William Wilberforce overcame great obstacles to help end the slave trade in England two centuries ago. The movie Amazing Grace brings this story to life, and this book is the inspiring, definitiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Birkbeck(2022) BOURKE, JOANNA (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a time when social elites deplored the notion of educated working people to the present day. Joanna Bourke writes a lively history of the institution, and how it cVezava: Trda72,60 € -
Straddling Worlds(2019) HARPER, STEVEN J.Steven Harper pays tribute to a respected teacher with this biography of a distinguished William Smith Mason Professor of History at Northwestern University, Richard W. Leopold. When Leopold invited him to review his biographical materials to prepare a NeVezava: Mehka22,54 € -
Emergency Writing(2018) TEEKELL, ANNATaking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II, ""the Emergency"", Anna Teekell's Emergency Writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for writing to be a response to an emergency.Vezava: Trda138,25 € -
Politics of Transnational Actors in Latin America(2021) SHEPHERD, FREDERICK M.The Politics of Transnational Actors in Latin America: Power from Afar explores the important issues of transnational actors and their influence on institutions and people in Latin America, raising profound questions of accountability, social justice, andVezava: Mehka40,62 € -
Essential Mozi(2020) MO ZIAn abridged translation of the influential classical Chinese text Mòzi covering the ethical and political writings and the dialectical texts.Vezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Poets of Rapallo(2021) ARRINGTON, LAUREN (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY)Explores W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's relationship as played out against the backdrop of Mussolini's Italy in the 1920s and 1930s and shows how Yeats, Pound, and others in their Italian network developed a late modernist style aimed at effecting world chanVezava: Trda61,76 € -
Short History of Police and Policing(2021) EMSLEY, CLIVE (EMERITUS PROFESSOR, EMERITUS PROFESSOR, OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK)A Short History of Police and Policing traces the evolution of the multiple forms of 'policing' that existed in the past and the historical development of the various bodies, individuals and officials who carried these out in different societies.Vezava: Trda76,02 € -
British General Elections Since 1964(2021) DENVER, DAVID (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF POLITICS, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF POLITICS, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY),GARNETT, MARK (SENIOR LECTURER IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, SENIOR LECTURER IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY)The first book to look at a succession of British general elections in significant detail. By starting the survey in 1964 rather than the traditional date of 1945, it can also focus more rigorously on the changes which began in the 1960s and still affectVezava: Mehka62,59 € -
Qing Empire and the Opium War(2018) MAO, HAIJIANThe Opium War of 1839–42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists, offering a comprehensive explanation as to why the Qing Empire was so badly defVezava: Mehka89,25 €
