ilość książek w kategorii: 335350
Security in Roman Times: Rome, Italy and the Emperors
ISBN: 9781472460158 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Using literary, epigraphic, numismatic and iconographic sources this book investigates the safety devices that were in place for the protection of the emperor and the city of Rome in the imperial age. In the aftermath of the civil wars Augustus continued to provide for his physical safety in the same way as in the old Republic while, at the same time, overturning the taboo of armed men in the city. During the Augustan age, the division of the city into 14 regions and 265 vici was designed to establish control over the urban space. Augustus' successors consolidated his policy but the specific...
Using literary, epigraphic, numismatic and iconographic sources this book investigates the safety devices that were in place for the protection of the...
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760,10 zł |
The Royal Flying Corps, the Western Front and the Control of the Air, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9781472459725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. By the middle of 1918 the British Army had successfully mastered the concept of 'all arms' warfare on the Western Front. This doctrine, integrating infantry, artillery, armoured vehicles and - crucially - air power, was to prove highly effective and formed the basis of major military operations for the next hundred years. Yet, whilst much has been written on the utilisation of ground forces, the air element still tends to be studied in isolation from the army as a whole. In order to move beyond the usual 'aircraft and aces' approach, this book explores the conceptual origins of the control of...
By the middle of 1918 the British Army had successfully mastered the concept of 'all arms' warfare on the Western Front. This doctrine, integrating in...
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658,75 zł |
Godfrey of Bouillon: Duke of Lower Lotharingia, Ruler of Latin Jerusalem, C.1060-1100
ISBN: 9781472458964 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book investigates the life and posthumous cultural reputation of Godfrey of Bouillon (d.1100). Godfrey is a hugely significant figure in whom a number of crucial themes in medieval history intersect. As duke of Lower Lotharingia, he occupied a position of considerable political importance in the German Empire in the latter part of the eleventh century, the age of the 'Investiture Controversy'. He was a leader of the First Crusade, a seminal event in medieval history. At the conclusion of the expedition in July 1099, he was appointed as the first ruler of the kingdom of Jerusalem, the...
This book investigates the life and posthumous cultural reputation of Godfrey of Bouillon (d.1100). Godfrey is a hugely significant figure in whom a n...
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684,09 zł |
Medicine and Justice: Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700-1914
ISBN: 9781472454126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the past ten years medical and legal historians have clearly acknowledged the fertile links that have long existed between medicine and the law in Britain. However, this far-reaching subject has been comparatively unexplored in the English and Welsh context. This monograph, drawing on the details of c. 3000 cases of serious violence against the person which occurred in northern and central England, Wales and London, offers a comparative long-term perspective on medico-legal practice, and argues that it is only by exploring local practices that we can begin to understand how and why...
In the past ten years medical and legal historians have clearly acknowledged the fertile links that have long existed between medicine and the law in ...
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658,75 zł |
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy: From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire
ISBN: 9781472433961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Recent scholarship on gardens in Roman Italy has focused largely on the aesthetic or symbolic significance of gardens. This is far removed from the tradition of the hortus - the garden as a productive irrigated space used to grow herbs, fruit and vegetables. The uses of garden produce for both alimentary and medicinal purposes is explicitly discussed in the agricultural treatises of Cato, Varro and Columella, and in works on natural history, such as that of Pliny the Elder. An individual's diet and state of health were known to be connected, and the distinction between what was a foodstuff...
Recent scholarship on gardens in Roman Italy has focused largely on the aesthetic or symbolic significance of gardens. This is far removed from the tr...
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684,09 zł |
Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
ISBN: 9781469634302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Eve E. Buckley's study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation's hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertao, plagued by chronic poverty, recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by...
Eve E. Buckley's study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation's hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of ...
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175,86 zł |
Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
ISBN: 9781469634296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Eve E. Buckley's study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation's hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertao, plagued by chronic poverty, recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by...
Eve E. Buckley's study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation's hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of ...
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601,51 zł |
History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s
ISBN: 9781469633862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical miniseries like Roots, visited museums with new exhibits that immersed them in the past, propelled works of historical fiction onto the bestseller list, and participated in living history events across the nation. While many of these activities were sparked by the Bicentennial, M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska shows that, in fact, they were symptomatic of a fundamental shift in Americans' relationship to history during the 1960s and 1970s.
For the... During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical miniseries...
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175,86 zł |
History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s
ISBN: 9781469633855 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical miniseries like Roots, visited museums with new exhibits that immersed them in the past, propelled works of historical fiction onto the bestseller list, and participated in living history events across the nation. While many of these activities were sparked by the Bicentennial, M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska shows that, in fact, they were symptomatic of a fundamental shift in Americans' relationship to history during the 1960s and 1970s.
For the... During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical miniseries...
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601,51 zł |
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
ISBN: 9781455540013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.
Since the days of conquistador Hern?n Cort?s, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred... The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning me...
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85,85 zł |
Conflict and Compromise: Pre-Confederation Canada
ISBN: 9781442635548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Driven by its strong narrative, Conflict and Compromise presents Canadian history chronologically, allowing a better understanding of the interrelationships between events. Its main objective is to demonstrate that although Canadian history has been marked by cleavages and conflicts, there has been a continual process of negotiation and a need for compromise which has enabled Canada to develop into arguably one of the most successful and pluralistic countries in the world. The authors have drawn from all genres characterizing the present state of Canadian historiography, including... Driven by its strong narrative, Conflict and Compromise presents Canadian history chronologically, allowing a better understanding of the ... |
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415,52 zł |
In Dialogue: Tradition and Interaction in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition
ISBN: 9781407314785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book developed from discussions following the 2012 In Dialogue: Tradition and Interaction in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition conference held in Manchester, UK. This conference provided a forum to compare not only the processes through which material innovations were adopted and elaborated during the Early Neolithic, but also the ways in which these processes have been understood and represented within the respective archaeological research traditions. The book examines the developments that followed the introduction of farming into Britain and Southern Scandinavia (Denmark and... This book developed from discussions following the 2012 In Dialogue: Tradition and Interaction in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition conference he... |
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193,36 zł |
House of Lies
ISBN: 9781365787881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Political lies have not only an ethical nature, but it also damages the democratic health of both the people and the politician that represents them. In order for politics to be able to represent the people, it must have the ability to instill confidence in the people. We see that just the opposite is occurring. We call such inner workings a formula to the political salesman or the House of Lies. It is honesty, loyalty, integrity, maintaining excellent behavior, austerity, and the ability to provide service as the basic virtues needed when running for public office. For without it, politics...
Political lies have not only an ethical nature, but it also damages the democratic health of both the people and the politician that represents them. ...
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139,53 zł |
Vikings
ISBN: 9781365778735 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mythology is interesting as well as complicated. It becomes even more intricate when the narrators and their opinions are many and do not seem to converge at some point. This is however, one side of the picture. Mythology can be worth considering if one follows it with concentration and an evaluative approach. This book unveils all those significant features of Viking mythology, which can be interesting as well as elaborative for your knowledge about the Vikings and their ancient tales. The major theme of the book is to break all those incorrect views, which have traveled across the various...
Mythology is interesting as well as complicated. It becomes even more intricate when the narrators and their opinions are many and do not seem to conv...
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153,68 zł |
Greek Mythology
ISBN: 9781365778643 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The human race has been curious about all the surrounding phenomenon of nature, since its beginning. Based on the level of the information and intellect possess by the people of era, there have been a number of stories and descriptive, which account for the historical events and their explanation. The historical and ancient narration of these tales constitutes the body of mythology. Among all the texts and manuscripts of mythology, the Greek mythology is believed to be the most ancient one. Just all other mythic beliefs, Greek mythology also holds specific beliefs about the origin of this...
The human race has been curious about all the surrounding phenomenon of nature, since its beginning. Based on the level of the information and intelle...
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123,23 zł |
The Birth of the Fourth United States(Book 2 of 2)
ISBN: 9781365776502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book expounds the birth of the Fourth United States. Every country has a fundamental change every seventy or eighty years. There have been three stages during the past 240 years since the founding of the United States in 1776; and they can be called "three United States." The first United States was Washington's independence. The second one was Lincoln's reunification. The third was Roosevelt's superpower. Now the fourth United States has been born. All the Ancient mythologies, medieval philosophies, and modern science believe that new things would be born of chaos and whirlpool....
This book expounds the birth of the Fourth United States. Every country has a fundamental change every seventy or eighty years. There have been three ...
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115,53 zł |
Delaware & Hudson Railway Beware of Sharks
ISBN: 9781365774973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Delaware and Hudson Railway's brief love affair with a pair of old Baldwin "Sharknose" Diesels reads like a Fairy Tale. Purchased new by the New York Central in 1951, traded in to GE and left for dead in 1966, resurrected by the Monongahela Railway in 1967, sent once again to a scrapper in 1972, yet again saved from a scrapper in 1974, elevated to celebrity status by the Delaware & Hudson as the "Cinderella's in Silver & Blue" only to fall from grace in 1978, be sold off, used and abused finally to once again return to obscurity by the early 1980's. The remarkable longevity of these two...
The Delaware and Hudson Railway's brief love affair with a pair of old Baldwin "Sharknose" Diesels reads like a Fairy Tale. Purchased new by the New Y...
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47,81 zł |
Thoughts & Ideas from Truckman
ISBN: 9781365716058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A collection of original articles first posted on my blog of the same title...Military and war history are discussed, as well as book reviews...Politics is a recurring theme...A sense of humor along with a grain of salt will make easier reading...
A collection of original articles first posted on my blog of the same title...Military and war history are discussed, as well as book reviews...Politi...
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215,67 zł |
Transnational Encounters Between Germany and Korea: Affinity in Culture and Politics Since the 1880s
ISBN: 9781349952236 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book examines the history of the German-Korean relationship from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century, focusing on the nations' varied encounters with each other during the last years of the Yi dynasty, the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War era. With essays from a range of internationally respected scholars, this collection moves between history, diplomacy, politics, education, migration, literature, cinema, and architecture to uncover historical and cultural intersections between Germany and Korea. Each nation has navigated the challenges of...
This book examines the history of the German-Korean relationship from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century, focusing on the nations' varied...
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506,99 zł |
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
ISBN: 9781328745514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... An American story, one that belongs to all of us." -- Boston Globe
"A richly textured guide to the history of our immigrant nation's pinnacle immigrant city has managed to enter the stage during an election season that has resurrected this historically fraught topic in all its fierceness." -- New York Times Book Review New York has been America's city of immigrants for nearly four centuries. Growing from Peter Minuit's tiny settlement of 1626 to a clamorous metropolis with more than three million... "Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... An American story, one that belongs to all of us." -- Boston Globe
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85,85 zł |