wyszukanych pozycji: 42
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
ISBN: 9780062570895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson's entry into World War One and Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution.
This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson's entry into World War O...
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Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
ISBN: 9780099493440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Both became living icons, idolized and admired around the world. They remain enduring models of leadership in a democratic society. This book reveals how their rivalry shaped the 20th century and beyond.
Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Both became living icons, idolized and admire...
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
ISBN: 9780812985108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim--from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill
Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of America's most divisive figures, a man whose entire career was... A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopoli...
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83,10 |
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
ISBN: 9780609809990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics--contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and...
An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy an...
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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
ISBN: 9780812982046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the CEO would oblige, no questions asked, because it was his patriotic duty. In Freedom's Forge, bestselling author Arthur Herman takes us back to that time, revealing how two extraordinary American businessmen--automobile magnate... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Remarkable as it may seem today, t... |
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The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots’ Invention of the Modern World
ISBN: 9781841152769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This work presents the history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the 18th century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it.
This work presents the history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful c...
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: 9780060534257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great battles at sea, heroic sailors, violent conflict, and personal tragedy -- of the way one mighty institution forged a nation, an empire, and a new world. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading,...To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented... |
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The Idea of Decline in Western History
ISBN: 9781416576334 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism. From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western history and sets out to explain how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become a fixed part of the modern Western imagination. Through a series of biographical portraits spanning the...
Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coheren...
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
ISBN: 9780062747365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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114,93 |
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The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
ISBN: 9780358699200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
ISBN: 9780553385663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book which sold half a million copies worldwide back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. The Cave and the Light is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture and how their rivalry shaped the essential features of our culture down to the present day.
Plato came from a wealthy,... Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and...
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Red Remembers
ISBN: 9781515178316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Red Riding Hood, no longer a little girl, journeys along the forested path to grandma's house, retracing her steps and reliving the memories of her childhood. Along the way she encounters the traditional characters familiar to us all, and yet, nothing is quite as it appears to be.
Red Riding Hood, no longer a little girl, journeys along the forested path to grandma's house, retracing her steps and reliving the memories of her ch...
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40,20 |
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Summer of Rage; An Oral History of the 1967 Newark and Detroit Riots
ISBN: 9781433122743 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival materials, Summer of Rage examines the causes and consequences of urban unrest that occurred in Newark and Detroit during the summer of 1967. It seeks to give voice to those who experienced these events firsthand and places personal narratives in a broader theoretical framework involving issues of collective memory, trauma, race relations, and urban development. Further, the volume explores the multiple truths present in these contentious events and thereby sheds light on the past, present, and future of these cities.
Drawing on oral history interviews and archival materials, Summer of Rage examines the causes and consequences of urban unrest that occurred in...
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Fighting in the Streets: Ethnic Succession and Urban Unrest in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9780820474557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Fighting in the Streets provides a comparative analysis of some of the most severe episodes of urban unrest that took place in twentieth-century America, including the 1919 Chicago Riot, the Detroit Riot of 1943, the Newark and Detroit Riots of 1967, the Miami Riot of 1980, and the 1992 Los Angeles Riot. Examining the patterns of death and destruction of property that occurred during these events, as well as historical evidence regarding struggles for housing, jobs, and political power among members of different racial/ethnic groups, this book makes the case for a general explanatory...
Fighting in the Streets provides a comparative analysis of some of the most severe episodes of urban unrest that took place in twentieth-centur...
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Summer of Rage: An Oral History of the 1967 Newark and Detroit Riots
ISBN: 9781433148972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival materials, Summer of Rage examines the causes and consequences of urban unrest that occurred in Newark and Detroit during the summer of 1967. It seeks to give voice to those who experienced these events firsthand and places personal narratives in a broader theoretical framework involving issues of collective memory, trauma, race relations, and urban development. Further, the volume explores the multiple truths present in these contentious events and thereby sheds light on the past, present, and future of these cities.
Drawing on oral history interviews and archival materials, Summer of Rage examines the causes and consequences of urban unrest that occurred in...
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A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1835-1855
ISBN: 9781512820201 / Angielski / Twarda / 1935 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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386,14 |
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The Thing That Hath Been: Or, a Young Man's Mistakes. [A Story.]
ISBN: 9781241395964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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129,35 |
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A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift
ISBN: 9781512807653 / Angielski / Twarda / 1963 / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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444,79 |
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Sherlock Holmes - Folge 58, 1 Audio-CD
ISBN: 9783785785928 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Vor etwa 40 Jahren wurde im Musikzimmer eines alten Herrenhauses, das jetzt von der Familie Crawsham bewohnt wird, ein schlimm zugerichteter Toter entdeckt. Seltsamerweise verschwand der Täter seinerzeit wie von Geisterhand, ohne ein Fenster oder eine Tür zu benutzen. Während Holmes spaßeshalber nach einer Lösung des lange verjährten Falles sucht, kommt ein weiterer Mann ums Leben, und zwar auf erschreckend ähnliche Weise ...
Vor etwa 40 Jahren wurde im Musikzimmer eines alten Herrenhauses, das jetzt von der Familie Crawsham bewohnt wird, ein schlimm zugerichteter Toter ent...
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Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
ISBN: 9781722234379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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