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Heavy Metal(2022) FABEY, MICHAELAn extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the John F.Vezava: Trda32,16 € -
Bitter Freedom(2016) WALSH, MAURICEThe Irish Revolution - the war between the British authorities and the newly-formed IRA - was the first successful revolt anywhere against the British Empire.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Sydney(2010) MORRIS, JANRenowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created ... Few writers - a handful of novelists apart - have got so far under the city's skin as Morris .Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Portraiture(2004) WEST, SHEARER (PROFESSOR OF ART HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM)This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been intVezava: Mehka35,04 € -
European Architecture 1750-1890(2000) BERGDOLL, BARRY (PROFESSOR OF ART HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF ART HISTORY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK)This comprehensive examination of 18th and 19th-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of social, economic and political upheaval. It offers an analysis of the ways issues of style functioned to make architecture one of theVezava: Mehka35,04 € -
Modern Art 1851-1929(1999) BRETTELL, RICHARDThe period 1851 to 1929 witnessed the rise of the major European avant-garde groups. This volume explores the aims and achievements of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso and Dali, in relation to urban capitalism and expansion, colonialism, nationalisVezava: Mehka34,33 € -
Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia(2008) KAEPPLER, ADRIENNE L. (, CURATOR OF OCEANIC ETHNOLOGY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON D.C.)Including both traditional and contemporary arts, this book introduces the rich artistic traditions of the Pacific island chains of Polynesia and Micronesia, traditions that have had a considerable impact on western art in the twentieth century through thVezava: Mehka35,04 € -
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy(1988) BAXANDALL, MICHAEL (PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE CLASSICAL TRADITION, PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE CLASSICAL TRADITION, WARBURG INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time helped fashion distinctive elements in the painter's style.Vezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Manhattan '45(2011) MORRIS, JANIn 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. From its beguilingly idiosyncratic architectural style to its unmistakable slang, post-War New York springs to life through Morris's brisk, affectionate prose.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Keeping Up With the Germans(2013) OLTERMANN, PHILIPIn 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. Inspired by his own experience of both countVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Hundred Years War Vol 3(2012) SUMPTION, JONATHANContemporaries in both countries believed that they were living through memorable times: times of great wickedness and great achievement, of collective mediocrity but intense personal heroism, of extremes of wealth and poverty, fortune and failure.Vezava: Mehka42,06 € -
Beyond(2022) WALKER, STEPHEN‘Thrilling … High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘This book is a triumph’ DAN SNOWVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Society, Resistance and Civil Nuclear Policy in India(2022) CHANDRA, VARIGONDA KESAVAThis book explores how anti-nuclear social movements impact the state’s civil nuclear policy and its implementation by presenting a historical-comparative case study of anti-nuclear movements in India.Vezava: Mehka63,97 € -
Cricket Country(2022) KIDAMBI, PRASHANT (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN COLONIAL URBAN HISTORY SCHOOL OF HISTORY, POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took shape on the cricket pitch.Vezava: Mehka38,94 € -
Oxford History of Britain(2021)A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
