ilość książek w kategorii: 63212
Dublin: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780195182026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Europe's most westerly capital city was established by invaders and was for most of its history the locus of colonial administration, the engine room of foreign power, and a major site of indigenous resistance. From The Act of Union through nineteenth-century decline and into the early years of Irish independence it was a city identified with poverty, dirt, and decaying splendor. The Celtic Tiger produced sweeping changes, including massive new building projects, and the surprising revelation that Dublin has become fashionable. Siobhan Kilfeather finds the legacy of the past undergoing a...
Europe's most westerly capital city was established by invaders and was for most of its history the locus of colonial administration, the engine room ...
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229,53 zł |
Seville, Córdoba, and Granada: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780195182033 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Spain's southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to its sybaritic spirit. For all their fame as passionate performers, the poet Unamuno called Sevillanos "finos y frios"-refined and cool. Once Europe's most cosmopolitan metropolis, bridging cultures of East and West and hub of a sea-borne empire, Seville was defined by Spain's great seventeenth-century playwright Lope de Vega as "port and gateway to the Indies." The city retains both the swagger of its seafaring heyday, and the sensual flavor of...
Spain's southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to...
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1033,39 zł |
Concise Historical Atlas of World War Two: The Geography of Conflict
ISBN: 9780195182200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. World War Two was a war of rapid and far-reaching conquest and movement, and a good sense of world geography is essential to grasping its magnitude and sweep. The Concise Historical Atlas of World War Two: The Geography of Conflict consists of 50 full-color maps that vividly convey not only the key military battles and campaigns but also the cultural and political geography of the war. Each map covers a significant phase of World War Two and is accompanied by an adjacent page of explanatory text that clarifies the shifting frontiers and populations of the region represented. These...
World War Two was a war of rapid and far-reaching conquest and movement, and a good sense of world geography is essential to grasping its magnitude an...
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278,11 zł |
The Road to Oxiana
ISBN: 9780195325607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Throughout, he kept a thoroughly captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures. His story would become a best-selling travel book throughout the English-speaking world, until the acclaim died down and it was gradually forgotten. When Paul Fussell published his own book Abroad, in 1982, he wrote that The Road to Oxiana is to the...
In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran...
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74,12 zł |
Catalonia
ISBN: 9780195327977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is tormented, too. Michael Eaude traces this history and it monuments: roman Tarragona, celebrated by the poet Martial; Greek Empuries, lost for centuries beneath the sands; medieval Romanesque architecture in the Vall de Bo: i churches (a World Heritage Series) and Poblet and Santes Creus monasteries. He tells the stories of several of...
Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens...
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243,80 zł |
Zagreb: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780195327991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For most of its history, Zagreb was a small town to which big things happened. It has been ruled by Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, threatened by the Ottomans, and absorbed into Yugoslavia. Today it is the capital city of the newly independent Croatia.
In Zagreb: A Cultural History, Celia Hawkesworth guides us through a modern city that reflects all the important trends in Central European culture, architecture, and fashion. We visit the city's center, a beautiful "green horseshoe," graced with trees and public gardens, and lined with imposing buildings. Hawkesworth explores... For most of its history, Zagreb was a small town to which big things happened. It has been ruled by Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, threatened by t...
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137,70 zł |
Last Voyages: Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh
ISBN: 9780198128946 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The narratives of the voyages of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean era have delighted readers over the centuries as stirring accounts of the daring of empire-builders. In the belief that in our post-imperial era these writings can be seen as a powerful and special kind of literature, having kinship with the great fictional tragedies of the period, Philip Edwards here collects the contemporary accounts of three famous "last voyages." Written by the participants themselves--leaders, mutineers, young gentlemen, and a poet and mathematician--the narratives recount moving stories of endeavor and...
The narratives of the voyages of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean era have delighted readers over the centuries as stirring accounts of the daring o...
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253,54 zł |
The Spartan Tradition in European Thought
ISBN: 9780198147336 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political and educational thought of Renaissance Italy, the France of the Philosophes, Whig England, and Nazi Germany. This book outlines the little we know of ancient Sparta, describes Greek reaction to the ambiguous institutions of the great rival to democratic Athens, makes a first attempt to follow the subsequent fortunes of the debate, and indicates Sparta's role--over twenty-five centuries--in the intellectual history of Europe.
Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political and educational thought of Ren...
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452,30 zł |
Anatolica: Studies in Strabo
ISBN: 9780198149439 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sir Ronald Syme (1903-89) is internationally known as one of the greatest Roman historians of this century. After his death, the massive manuscript for a practically complete, major work on ancient Turkey was discovered among his papers. Written during the war, while the author was himself in Turkey, it offers a fascinating insight into the development of a great historian, and is itself a masterly, original, and splendidly written study of the peoples and places of Asia Minor under Persian, Greek, and Roman rule.
Sir Ronald Syme (1903-89) is internationally known as one of the greatest Roman historians of this century. After his death, the massive manuscript fo...
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1036,47 zł |
Frauen, Fische, Fjorde : Deutsche Einwanderinnen in Island. Vorwort von Kristín Steinsdóttir
ISBN: 9783492406093 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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82,78 zł |
Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape
ISBN: 9780226101408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Chicago whose motto is City in a Garden is currently at the forefront of a global movement to end the division between town and country. In" Chicago s Urban Nature," Sally A. Kitt Chappell provides a beautifully illustrated guide to the city s stunning blend of nature and architecture.
At the heart of this new urban concept is the idea of connection, bringing buildings and landscapes, culture and nature, commerce and leisure into an energetic harmony. With "Chicago s Urban Nature" in hand, you ll see those connections woven through the fabric of the city. Chappell provides new insights... Chicago whose motto is City in a Garden is currently at the forefront of a global movement to end the division between town and country. In" Chicago s...
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86,18 zł |
They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today
ISBN: 9780226104256 / Angielski / Miękka / 1956 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Edward Chiera was that most remarkable of men, a competent and respected scholar possessed of an ardent desire to make his research readily and entertainingly available to laymen. More remarkable, Chiera had extraordinary gifts to equal to his desire. "They Wrote on Clay" combines fascinatingly the fruits of sound and painstaking archeology with the natural-born storyteller's art. As transmitted by Chiera, the message of the recently discovered Babylonian clay tablets becomes an absorbing exrusion into the common life of a vanished civilization. Few will read "They Wrote on Clay" without...
Edward Chiera was that most remarkable of men, a competent and respected scholar possessed of an ardent desire to make his research readily and entert...
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161,60 zł |
Mammals of South America, Volume 1: Marsupials, Xenarthrans, Shrews, and Bats
ISBN: 9780226282404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 690 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The vast terrain between Panama and Tierra del Fuego contains some of the world's richest mammalian fauna, but until now it has lacked a comprehensive systematic reference to the identification, distribution, and taxonomy of its mammals. The first such book of its kind and the inaugural volume in a three-part series, Mammals of South America both summarizes existing information and encourages further research of the mammals indigenous to the region. Containing identification keys and brief descriptions of each order, family, and genus, the first volume of Mammals of South America...
The vast terrain between Panama and Tierra del Fuego contains some of the world's richest mammalian fauna, but until now it has lacked a comprehensive...
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511,72 zł |
Armenia: A Historical Atlas
ISBN: 9780226332284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. From its conversion to Christianity to the Genocide during World War I, from the Soviet occupation to its recent independence, Armenia has seen a long and often turbulent history. In the magnificent Armenia: A Historical Atlas, Robert H. Hewsen traces Armenia's rich past from ancient times to the present day through more than two hundred full-color maps packed with information about physical geography, demography, and sociopolitical, religious, cultural, and linguistic history.
Hewsen has divided the maps into five sections, each of which begins with a chronology of important... From its conversion to Christianity to the Genocide during World War I, from the Soviet occupation to its recent independence, Armenia has seen a long...
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1292,76 zł |
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
ISBN: 9780226452388 / Angielski / Miękka / 1971 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them.
Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy... The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was prob...
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129,28 zł |
Reading National Geographic
ISBN: 9780226497242 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating account of an American institution, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins explore the possibility that the magazine, in purporting to teach us about distant cultures, actually tells us much more about our own. Lutz and Collins take us inside the National Geographic Society to investigate how its photographers, editors, and designers select images and text to produce representations of Third World cultures. Through interviews with the editors,...
For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating acco...
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140,05 zł |
White Waters and Black
ISBN: 9780226500188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. With a wicked eye for absurdities, Gordon MacCreagh recounts his adventures with eight "Eminent Scientificos" as they set out to explore the Amazon in 1923 without any idea of what lies ahead of them: rapids, malaria, monkey stew, and "dangerous savages." A combination of Twain's The Innocents Abroad and a cautionary tale for explorers, this is one of the most honest accounts ever written of a scientific expedition.
With a wicked eye for absurdities, Gordon MacCreagh recounts his adventures with eight "Eminent Scientificos" as they set out to explore the Amazon in...
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113,12 zł |
Memoirs
ISBN: 9780226502793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The memoirs of Hortense (1646-1699) and of Marie (1639-1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their lifetimes. Both unhappily married-Marie had also fled the aftermath of her failed affair with the king-the sisters chose to leave their husbands for life on the road, a life quite rare for women of their day.
Through their writings, the Mancinis sought to rehabilitate their reputations and reclaim the right to define their public images... The memoirs of Hortense (1646-1699) and of Marie (1639-1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, r...
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150,82 zł |
Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780226534169 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Writers know only too well how long it can take and how awkward it can be to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively.
In his acclaimed "How to Lie with Maps, " Mark Monmonier showed how maps can distort facts. In "Mapping it Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences, " he shows authors and scholars how they can use expository cartography the visual, two-dimensional organization of information... Writers know only too well how long it can take and how awkward it can be to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might no...
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409,37 zł |
Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780226534176 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Writers know only too well how long it can take-and how awkward it can be-to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively. In his acclaimed How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier showed how maps can distort facts. In Mapping it Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences, he shows authors and scholars how they can use expository cartography-the visual, two-dimensional organization of...
Writers know only too well how long it can take-and how awkward it can be-to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might no...
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78,11 zł |