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Why Food Matters(2021) FREEDMAN, PAULAn award-winning historian makes the case for food's cultural importance, stressing its crucial role throughout human historyVezava: Trda41,82 € -
Pocket(2020) BURMAN, BARBARA,FENNETAUX, ARIANEA New York Times Best Art Book of 2019Vezava: Mehka38,00 € -
Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology(2022) HARD, ROBINNow in its 8th edition, this magisterial work offers a comprehensive survey of the stories of Greek myth, from the Olympian gods, through the lesser gods and deities, to the heroes, adventures, and foundation myths of the ancient Greek world.Vezava: Mehka89,24 € -
Man of Good Hope(2016) STEINBERG, JONNYSerially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a sceptical remove from the adult world, living in a bewildering number of places, from the cosmopolitan streets of inner-city Nairobi to towns deep in the EthiopianVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Thinking the Twentieth Century(2013) SNYDER, TIMOTHY,JUDT, TONYTwo explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Thinking the Twentieth Century is about the lifeVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Waterloo(2015) O'KEEFFE, PAULAfter midnight, 19 June 1815... On the battlefield more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lie dead and wounded; Drawing on a multiplicity of contemporary voices and viewpoints, Paul O’Keeffe brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds and smellsVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
From the Ruins of Empire(2013) MISHRA, PANKAJTells the history of the past two centuries, showing how a disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radicals and charismatics emerged from the ruins of empire to create an unstoppable Asian renaissance, one whose ideas lie behind everything from the ChinVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Vivid Faces(2015) FOSTER, PROFESSOR R FSurveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Revolution: linked together by youth, radicalism, subversive activities, enthusiasm and love. This title deals with argumentative, exciting, subversive and original lives of people who made aVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Moment of War(2014) LEE, LAURIEThe author was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a Nationalist spy. ThiVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Short History of Byzantium(2013) NORWICH, JOHN JULIUSConstantine the Great moved the seat of Roman power to Constantinople in AD 330 and for eleven brutal, bloody centuries, the Byzantine Empire became a beacon of grand magnificence and depraved decadence. In this book, the author provides the definitive inVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Roses of No Man's Land(2013) MACDONALD, LYNWalking straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War, the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents they fought another war, a war against agony and death. This book captures a panoraVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Somme(2013) MACDONALD, LYNThe year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever beVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
How the Word Is Passed(2022) SMITH, CLINT'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish)Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
All the Nations Under Heaven(2019) SNYDER, ROBERTAll the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience up to the present witVezava: Trda106,70 € -
Restating Orientalism(2018) HALLAQ, WAEL (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)Wael B. Hallaq takes critique of Orientalism as a point of departure for rethinking the modern project. A remarkably ambitious attempt to overturn the foundations of a wide range of academic disciplines, Restating Orientalism exposes the depth of academiaVezava: Trda56,55 € -
American Resistance(2021) FISHER, DANA R.Who are the millions of people marching against the Trump administration? American Resistance traces activists from the streets back to the communities and congressional districts around the country where they live, work, and vote. Using innovative data,Vezava: Mehka21,38 € -
Return of Great Power Rivalry(2020) KROENIG, MATTHEW (PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT, PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY)Vezava: Trda53,21 €
