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Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
ISBN: 9780520355644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
ISBN: 9781509810604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The remarkable story of the American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War.
The remarkable story of the American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War.
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Duch króla Leopolda
ISBN: 9788382894110 / Polski / twarda / 2021 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Prawdziwa historia, która stała się kanwą Jądra ciemności Josepha Conrada. Wstrząsająca relacja z piekła, w którym zginęło blisko osiem milionów ludzi. Opowieść o ludobójstwie, jakiego w swej kolonii w Kongu dopuścił się król Belgów Leopold II, człowiek, którego niespecjalnie obchodziła jego ojczyzna. Poszukiwał kolonii, w obawie, że inne europejskie potęgi zgarną wszystko dla siebie. Znalazł Kongo i zaprowadził tam rządy niewyobrażalnego terroru. Niezwykły reportaż historyczny o ludzkiej chciwości i okrucieństwie i o tym jak jeden człowiek - Edmund Dene...
Prawdziwa historia, która stała się kanwą Jądra ciemności Josepha Conrada. Wstrząsająca relacja z piekła, w którym zginęło blisko osiem mi...
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Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son
ISBN: 9780618439201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining corporation. The author lyrically evokes his privileged childhood on an Adirondack estate, a colorful uncle who was a pioneer aviator and fighter ace, and his first explorations of the larger world he encountered as he came of age in the tumultuous 1960s. But above all this is a story of a father and his only son and of the unexpected peace finally made between them.
From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship wi...
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Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery
ISBN: 9781447211365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. From the award-winning author of King Leopold's Ghost, the dramatic story of the men who ignited the first great human rights movement
From the award-winning author of King Leopold's Ghost, the dramatic story of the men who ignited the first great human rights movement
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85,50 |
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Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
ISBN: 9780520297241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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116,82 |
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy\'s Forgotten Crisis
ISBN: 9780063278523 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threatened by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to...
National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Ch...
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The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin
ISBN: 9780618257478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Until glasnost, nobody in the USSR could speak or write about the genocide which occured under Stalin's regime. In this book the author speaks to many people coming to terms with repressed memories as a result of the mass abuse of human rights.
Until glasnost, nobody in the USSR could speak or write about the genocide which occured under Stalin's regime. In this book the author speaks to many...
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The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey
ISBN: 9780618758258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world -- and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later. This incisive book offers an unusual window onto a society that remains divided. In his epilogue, Hochschild extends his view to the...
History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends ...
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To End All Wars : How the First World War Divided Britain
ISBN: 9780330447447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A brilliant new history of the First World War by the bestselling and prizewinning author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains
A brilliant new history of the First World War by the bestselling and prizewinning author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
ISBN: 9780358212508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
ISBN: 9780618619078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the story of a handful of men, led by Thomas Clarkson, who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human rights movement. Beginning in 1788, a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of anti-slavery from the floor of Parliament to the homes of 300,000 people boycotting Caribbean sugar, and gave a platform to freed slaves.
This is the story of a handful of men, led by Thomas Clarkson, who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human rights movement. Beginning...
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9780547750316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it's challenged." Maureen Corrigan, NPR s Fresh Air "This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultura... |
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
ISBN: 9780544947238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Bestseller
"With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant Homage to Catalonia as the best introduction to the conflict written in English. A humane and moving book." -- ew Republic "Excellent and involving . . . What makes Hochschild's] book so intimate and moving is its human scale." --Dwight Garner, New York Times For three years in the 1930s, the world watched, riveted, as the Spanish Civil War became the battleground in a fight between freedom and fascism that would... A New York Times Bestseller
"With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant Homage to Catal... |
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
ISBN: 9781035038817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels
ISBN: 9780815604471 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of articles by American journalist Adam Hochschild. He revisits his time as a civil rights worker in Mississippi and as teenager seeing the apartheid firsthand in South Africa. Also included are profiles of figures such as Ernest Hemingway and John F. Kennedy.
A collection of articles by American journalist Adam Hochschild. He revisits his time as a civil rights worker in Mississippi and as teenager seeing t...
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Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag
ISBN: 9780520221529 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. FROM THE BOOK "The pit I was ordered to dig had the precise dimensions of a casket. The NKVD officer carefully designed it. He measured my size with a stick, made lines on the forest floor, and told me to dig. He wanted to make sure I'd fit well inside." In 1941 Janusz Bardach's death sentence was commuted to ten years' hard labor and he was sent to Kolyma--the harshest, coldest, and most deadly prison in Joseph Stalin's labor camp system--the Siberia of Siberias. The only English-language memoir since the fall of communism to chronicle the atrocities committed during the Stalinist...
FROM THE BOOK "The pit I was ordered to dig had the precise dimensions of a casket. The NKVD officer carefully designed it. He measured my size...
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Orwell on Truth
ISBN: 9780358065050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Metaphysics Through Semantics: The Philosophical Recovery of the Medieval Mind: Essays in Honor of Gyula Klima
ISBN: 9783031150258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Joshua P. Hochschild studied at Yale (B.A. 1994) and the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D. 2001), and his primary research is in medieval logic, semantics, and metaphysics. He has published articles and reviews inInternational Philosophical Quarterly,Journal of the History of Philosophy,Medieval Philosophy and Theology, andThe Thomistamong other journals. He is the author ofThe Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’sDe Nominum Analogia (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), and translator of Claude Panaccio’sMental Language: From Plato to Ockham(Fordham University Press, 2017). He...
Joshua P. Hochschild studied at Yale (B.A. 1994) and the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D. 2001), and his primary research is in medieval logic, semant...
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