wyszukanych pozycji: 35
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Becoming Home: A Memoir of Birth in Bali
ISBN: 9781502342331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Though born in a small town in Iowa, Melinda never felt quite at home there. As an adult, her search for herself leads away from America to the exotic, intoxicating island of Bali. There she finds herself living a life she hasn't anticipated, becoming a housewife and mother. This memoir of her experience with pregnancy and birth offers a window on life for a western woman living in an intricate Asian culture that respects the mysterious forces of darkness as well as the light. Confronted with the vulnerability and transformation of pregnancy and birth, intensified by separation from all that...
Though born in a small town in Iowa, Melinda never felt quite at home there. As an adult, her search for herself leads away from America to the exotic...
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51,82 zł |
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A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945
ISBN: 9780521834322 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Presenting the results of a fifth, and final, conference on the history of total war, this volume is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war. In considering the validity of this proposition, the contributors address a broad range of analytical problems that this vast conflict posed in its European and Asian theaters. They analyze modes of combat, mobilization of economies and societies, occupation regimes, noncombatant vulnerability, and the legal and moral issues raised by mid-twentieth century industrialized warfare.
Presenting the results of a fifth, and final, conference on the history of total war, this volume is devoted to the Second World War, which many schol...
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661,24 zł |
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Saying Yes to Life
ISBN: 9781456532628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A book of poems accompanied by black and white pictures, describing a life well lived.
A book of poems accompanied by black and white pictures, describing a life well lived.
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69,15 zł |
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War in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1815
ISBN: 9780521899963 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume investigates a critical moment in the history of warfare. It assembles historians of the early modern and modern eras to speak to one another across the great historiographical divide that has traditionally separated them. The central questions in the volume have to do with the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides of the Atlantic the degree to which they extended practices common in the eighteenth century or introduced fundamentally new forms of warfare. Among the topics covered in the volume are the global dimensions of warfare, logistics, universal military...
This volume investigates a critical moment in the history of warfare. It assembles historians of the early modern and modern eras to speak to one anot...
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426,08 zł |
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The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9780521109772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Roger Chickering offers the most comprehensive history ever written of a German city at war.
Roger Chickering offers the most comprehensive history ever written of a German city at war.
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313,43 zł |
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We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914
ISBN: 9780367230371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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603,29 zł |
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Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914
ISBN: 9780691644653 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book provides the first thorough examination of the peace movement in pre-World War I Germany, concentrating on the factors in German politics and society that account for the movement's weakness. The author draws on a wide range of documents to survey the history, organization, and ideologies of the peace groups, placing them in their social and political context. Working through schools, churches, the press, political parties, and other opinion-forming groups, the German peace movement attempted systematically to promote the idea that the world's nations composed a harmonious... This book provides the first thorough examination of the peace movement in pre-World War I Germany, concentrating on the factors in German politics... |
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1171,50 zł |
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Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9781107691520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book explores the impact of the First World War on Imperial Germany and examines military aspects of the conflict, as well as the diplomacy, politics, and industrial mobilization of wartime Germany. Including maps, tables, and illustrations, it also offers a rich portrait of life on the home front - the war's pervasive effects on rich and poor, men and women, young and old, farmers and city-dwellers, Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. It analyzes the growing burdens of war and the translation of hardship into political opposition. The new edition incorporates the latest scholarship and...
This book explores the impact of the First World War on Imperial Germany and examines military aspects of the conflict, as well as the diplomacy, poli...
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210,57 zł |
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The Shadows of Total War
ISBN: 9780521812368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The essays in this compelling collection examine the period between the two world wars of the twentieth century; one of the most exciting in the history of war. They explore the lingering consequences of World War I; the intellectual efforts to analyze this conflict's military significance; the attempts to plan for another general war; and several episodes in the 1930s that portended the war that erupted in 1939.
The essays in this compelling collection examine the period between the two world wars of the twentieth century; one of the most exciting in the histo...
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435,88 zł |
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Letter Addressed to the President of the United States on Slavery: Considered in Relation to the Constitutional Principles of Government in Great Britain and in the United States.
ISBN: 9781275700154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,18 zł |
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Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9780521026376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume analyzes the First World War in light of the concept of "total war," particularly the systematic erosion of the distinction between the military and civilian spheres. Leading scholars from Europe and North America explore the efforts of soldiers and statesmen, industrialists and financiers, professionals and civilian activists to adjust to the titanic, pervasive pressures that the military stalemate on the western front imposed on belligerent and neutral societies.
This volume analyzes the First World War in light of the concept of "total war," particularly the systematic erosion of the distinction between the mi...
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288,94 zł |
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Leadership Flow: The Unstoppable Power of Connection
ISBN: 9781647421519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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66,45 zł |
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The Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World
ISBN: 9780521875776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 668 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A comprehensive and authoritative new account of every aspect of warfare in the most destructive period in human history.
A comprehensive and authoritative new account of every aspect of warfare in the most destructive period in human history.
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896,34 zł |
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The Great War and Urban Life in Germany
ISBN: 9780521852562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 646 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In deference to the principle that total war requires total history, Roger Chickering traces the all-embracing impact of the First World War on life in the German city of Freiburg. His book shows how the war took over every facet of life in the city, from industrial production to the supply of basic material resources, above all food and fuel. It documents the breakdown of distinctions between the home front and the fighting front, as the city fell victim to strategic bombing. It analyzes the war as a sensory experience, which could be seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted as it exhausted...
In deference to the principle that total war requires total history, Roger Chickering traces the all-embracing impact of the First World War on life i...
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538,79 zł |
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Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914
ISBN: 9780691617534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book provides the first thorough examination of the peace movement in pre-World War I Germany, concentrating on the factors in German politics and society that account for the movement's weakness. The author draws on a wide range of documents to survey the history, organization, and ideologies of the peace groups, placing them in their social and political context. Working through schools, churches, the press, political parties, and other opinion-forming groups, the German peace movement attempted systematically to promote the idea that the world's nations composed a harmonious... This book provides the first thorough examination of the peace movement in pre-World War I Germany, concentrating on the factors in German politics... |
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465,32 zł |
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A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945
ISBN: 9780521155137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Presenting the results of a fifth, and final, conference on the history of total war, this volume is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war. In considering the validity of this proposition, the contributors address a broad range of analytical problems that this vast conflict posed in its European and Asian theaters. They analyze modes of combat, mobilization of economies and societies, occupation regimes, noncombatant vulnerability, and the legal and moral issues raised by mid-twentieth century industrialized warfare.
Presenting the results of a fifth, and final, conference on the history of total war, this volume is devoted to the Second World War, which many schol...
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254,65 zł |
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Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
ISBN: 9781400096220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.
Leading Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr. s, fresh and lively translation, featuring the Old English on facing pages, allows the reader to encounter Beowulf as poetry. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and provides historical and literary context for the modern reader. It... The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great batt...
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69,97 zł |
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A Sermon, Preached in Boston, Before the American Society for Educating Pious Youth for the Gospel Ministry: At Their Second Anniversary, Oct. 15, 1817.
ISBN: 9781275640221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,83 zł |
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Imperial Germany: A Historiographical Companion
ISBN: 9780313276415 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The German Empire has been the focus of enormous historical interest, particularly during the last thirty years, when its relationship to the Third Reich became an acute historical and civic problem. This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the rich historical literature on the subject. In topical chapters, a group of leading scholars from six different countries, who have themselves participated in crafting the historiography of Imperial Germany, address the principal interpretive issues that have informed this literature. The volume provides a central reference for students... The German Empire has been the focus of enormous historical interest, particularly during the last thirty years, when its relationship to the Third... |
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484,58 zł |
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We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914
ISBN: 9780367230531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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170,88 zł |