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Welfare and Social Policy in Britain Since 1870(2019)This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy and on the thinkers who have inspired and also contested the welfare statVezava: Trda159,60 € -
Routledge History of Medieval Magic(2021) PAGE, SOPHIE,RIDER, CATHERINEThe Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic between c.1100 and c.1500.Vezava: Mehka87,49 € -
Where China Meets India(2012) MYINT-U, THANTIn Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two rising giant powers - China and India - appear to be vying for supremacy.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Courtiers(2011) WORSLEY, LUCYAn eye-opening portrait of an enthralling group of royal servants, Courtiers throws new light on the dramatic life of George II and Queen Caroline and their court at Kensington Palace. In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room wVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Molotov's Magic Lantern(2011) POLONSKY, RACHELMolotov - ruthless apparatchik, participant in the collectivizations and the Great Purge - was also an ardent bibliophile. Molotov's library and his magic lantern became the prisms through which Rachel Polonsky renewed her vision of Russia.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Beware of Small States(2011) HIRST, DAVIDTo understand Lebanon's history is to understand the history of the entire region - and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has come to assume a disproportionate, dangerous power of its own.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
When God Made Hell(2011) TOWNSHEND, PROFESSOR CHARLESA cautious strategic invasion by British forces led - within seven years - to imperial expansion on a dizzying scale, with fateful consequences for the Middle East and the world.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
1606(2016) SHAPIRO, JAMESFollowing the biographical style of 1599, this book traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, KinVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Alaric the Goth(2020) BOIN, DOUGLAS (SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY)The first biography of Alaric to appear in English tells the history of the fourth-and fifth-century Roman Empire through the life of the Goth who attacked it.Vezava: Trda33,75 € -
West End Front(2012) SWEET, MATTHEWMeet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the keeper of Winston Churchill's private bottle of whisky; the East End Communist who marched with his comrades into the air-raid shelterVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Catherine of Aragon(2011) TREMLETT, GILESCatherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the heir - providing Jane Seymour or the eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty with a passion she had inherited from her parents, IsabellaVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Operation Pedestal(2022) HASTINGS, MAXThe Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAILVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Operation Pedestal(2021) HASTINGS, MAXThe Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAILVezava: Trda35,05 € -
Modern Spain, 1875-1980(2001) CARR, RAYMOND (FORMERLY WARDEN, FORMERLY WARDEN, ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE, OXFORD)Starting at the `September Revolution' of 1868 and going up to 1980, Raymond Carr explains much of modern Spanish history - often a strange mixture of advanced liberal politics imposed upon a conservative society.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
History of the Vikings(2001) JONES, GWYN (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CARDIFF)Illustrated throughout, this classic study traces the development of the northern peoples and kingdoms from their origins and legendary pre-history to the triumphs of Canute and the defeat of Harald Hardradi at Stamford Bridge in 1066.Vezava: Mehka30,83 € -
Codebreakers(2001)With anecdotes and descriptions, this is an account of daily life at Government Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most successful intelligence agency in history.Vezava: Mehka25,22 €
