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1920s Scrapbook(2008) OPIE, ROBERTCaptures the mood of a radical decade in Great Britain in over 1000 colour images - illustrating why this decade became know as the 'roaring twenties'.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
1930s Scrapbook(1998) OPIE, ROBERTA scrapbook of images from the 1930s that overflows with nostalgia for those who remember that extraordinary era.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
Wartime Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTIllustrates a unique period in history with over 1000 image, drawn from Robert Opie's collection.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
1910s Scrapbook: the Decade of the Great War(2014)A nostalgic glimpse of a bygone age, bringing a new focus to this pivotal moment of the twentieth century, a time more often seen through the media of black and white film footage or sepia photographs.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
Unlocking the Church(2020) WHYTE, WILLIAM (PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY AND VICE PRESIDENT OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD.)Unlocking the Church is the story of a revolution. The Victorians transformed how churches were understood, experienced, and built. Initially controversial, this revolution was so successful that it has now been forgotten. Yet it still shapes our experienVezava: Mehka26,60 € -
Escape Artist(2020) MCALEER, JOSEPH (INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN)The life of Harry Perry Robinson--a born adventurer, a master of reinvention, and the ultimate witness to history. From a stint in the gold mines and helping to elect a US president, to the First World War and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.Vezava: Trda23,76 € -
Story of Be(2017) CRYSTAL, DAVIDIt's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other English word. As he reveals be's multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the heart of our flexibleVezava: Trda21,71 € -
White Fury(2018) PETLEY, CHRISTER (SENIOR LECTURER IN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON)The story of the struggle over slavery in the British empire -- as told through the rich, expressive, and frequently shocking letters of one of the wealthiest British slaveholders ever to have lived.Vezava: Trda38,54 € -
Making of Our Urban Landscape(2022) TYACK, GEOFFREY (EMERITUS FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)The Making of the English Urban Landscape tells the story of our towns and cities and how they came into being over the last two millennia.Vezava: Trda45,54 € -
Cartoon History of the Universe III(2002) GONICK, LARRYAn irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.Vezava: Mehka33,25 € -
Reinventing the Bazaar(2003) MCMILLAN, JOHNClear, insightful, and nondogmatic, this book gives us a new appreciation for one of our most ubiquitous institutions.Vezava: Mehka23,27 € -
Korea's Place in the Sun(2005) CUMINGS, BRUCE, PH.D. (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)"Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book ReviewVezava: Mehka33,25 € -
Mad at the World(2020) SOUDER, WILLIAMA biography of one of America’s most popular and misunderstood authors, John Steinbeck.Vezava: Trda41,58 € -
Tacitus and the Principate(2011) BURNAND, CHRISAs a successful senator, Tacitus was ideally placed to comment on the Roman political system. This selection of extracts from his histories sheds light on the rise and fall of emperors such as Domitian and Nero.Vezava: Mehka38,23 € -
Last Days Of The Incas(2008) MACQUARRIE, KIMThe haunting story of the destruction of a magnificent civilisationVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Fourth Ordeal(2021) WILLI, VICTOR J. (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Based on first-person interviews with Brotherhood rank-and-file members, this is a history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the late 1960s to 2018 providing a unique insight into the group's internal politics and key players with unprecedented acceVezava: Mehka72,23 € -
Souls of Black Folk(2000) BOIS, W. E. B. DUThis landmark in the literature of black protest eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind.Vezava: Mehka8,40 € -
Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs(2000) THOMSON, JOHNClassic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer Thomson, accompanied by texts offering sharply drawn vignettes of laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and more.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Central Bank Independence and the Legacy of the German Past(2019) MEE, SIMONThis is a study of how German monetary history – in the form of the lessons learned from Germany's experience of inflation in 1922–3 and 1936–45 - became politicised in the post-war era and transformed into a political weapon in debates surrounding the esVezava: Trda143,59 €
