wyszukanych pozycji: 11
It: A History of Human Beauty
ISBN: 9781852854485 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. It: A History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history. Beauty in men and women opened opportunities to its possessors not available to the ordinary looking or ugly. While in the past women have had to use the lure of sex to achieve power or wealth, epitomised by royal mistresses or the Grandes Horizontales of the... If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. It: A History of Human Beauty ... |
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359,68 zł |
The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, C.1958-C.1974
ISBN: 9781448205738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 812 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, providing the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of that tumultuous decade.
Now one of the world's foremost historians provides the definitive look at this momentous time. Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues that this long decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution--one that raged most... If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, providing the pivot on which modern times have...
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138,34 zł |
A History of the Modern British Isles, 1914-1999: Circumstances, Events and Outcomes
ISBN: 9780631195221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book presents a "total history" of the British Isles from the outbreak of the First World War through to the late 1990s. Written by one of the pioneers of twentieth-century history, the volume offers readers a multi-layered narrative combining social, economic, cultural and political perspectives on this era of significant and rapid change.
The author describes the "big events" that dominated British politics through the twentieth-century. He gives due weight to developments outside England in Scotland and Wales, and provides substantial coverage of the Irish question,... This book presents a "total history" of the British Isles from the outbreak of the First World War through to the late 1990s. Written by one of the pi...
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226,60 zł |
The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, Language
ISBN: 9780333922620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This new title is a totally rewritten version of The Nature of History, first published in 1970, with revised editions in 1981, and again in 1989. Addressing the key questions of what history is, and why and how one studies it, this is a positive affirmation of the vital importance to society of the study of the past, and of the many crucial learning outcomes which accrue from historical study. There is a great deal of new material, engaging with and rebutting postmodernist criticisms of the history of the historians, and explicating more fully the author's pioneering work on how...
This new title is a totally rewritten version of The Nature of History, first published in 1970, with revised editions in 1981, and again in ...
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178,68 zł |
Total War and Social Change
ISBN: 9780333455913 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. A collection of essays supported by statistics on the social consequences of the two world wars. It covers the main European countries and a range of major issues including the levels of economic activity, women's employment and the extent of executions of collaborators.
A collection of essays supported by statistics on the social consequences of the two world wars. It covers the main European countries and a range of ...
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215,46 zł |
The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, Language
ISBN: 9780190615765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) questions essential to the student of history-What is history?; Why do History?; and How does one do history? Marwick has totally recast and rewritten the first version of the book, published in 1970, and given it a new coherence and a new dynamic thrust derived from the three words of the subtitle, "knowledge, evidence, language." Using these categories, he presents the first clear and comprehensive expression of the case against postmodernism in an undergraduate textbook. Arguing that the substance of history is evidence, not speculation, Marwick explicates the production of history as a...
questions essential to the student of history-What is history?; Why do History?; and How does one do history? Marwick has totally recast and rewritten...
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662,14 zł |
The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, Language
ISBN: 9780333964477 / Twarda / 2001 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This new title is a totally rewritten version of The Nature of History, first published in 1970, with revised editions in 1981, and again in 1989. Addressing the key questions of what history is, and why and how one studies it, this is a positive affirmation of the vital importance to society of the study of the past, and of the many crucial learning outcomes which accrue from historical study. There is a great deal of new material, engaging with and rebutting postmodernist criticisms of the history of the historians, and explicating more fully the author's pioneering work on how...
This new title is a totally rewritten version of The Nature of History, first published in 1970, with revised editions in 1981, and again in ...
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578,26 zł |
A History of the Modern British Isles, 1914-1999: Circumstances, Events and Outcomes
ISBN: 9780631195214 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book presents a "total history" of the British Isles from the outbreak of the First World War through to the late 1990s. Written by one of the pioneers of twentieth-century history, the volume offers readers a multi-layered narrative combining social, economic, cultural and political perspectives on this era of significant and rapid change.
The author describes the "big events" that dominated British politics through the twentieth-century. He gives due weight to developments outside England in Scotland and Wales, and provides substantial coverage of the Irish question,... This book presents a "total history" of the British Isles from the outbreak of the First World War through to the late 1990s. Written by one of the pi...
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608,41 zł |
The Deluge: British Society and the First World War
ISBN: 9780230002456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Almost continuously in print for 40 years, this classic title describes life on the home front, analyzing the social changes that made Britain of the 1920s a vastly different place from the Britain that went to war in 1914. This reissued second edition features a new Preface by leading historian Joanna Bourke.
Almost continuously in print for 40 years, this classic title describes life on the home front, analyzing the social changes that made Britain of the ...
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194,45 zł |
A History of Human Beauty
ISBN: 9781847250506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. It: A History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history. Beauty in men and women opened opportunities to its possessors not available to the ordinary looking or ugly. While in the past women have had to use the lure of sex to achieve power or wealth, epitomised by royal mistresses or the Grandes Horizontales of the nineteenth...
If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. It: A History of Human Beauty tre...
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154,89 zł |
Windows on the Sixties: Exploring Key Texts of Media and Culture
ISBN: 9781860643835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Key media reference points of the 1960s, including The Avengers, This Sporting Life, Panorama, The Apartment and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, are the focus of this book. Each chapter addresses common issues of contexts of production and reception, of genre, style and aesthetics and the book as a whole draws together the impressions of the era given by these windows on the sixties.
Key media reference points of the 1960s, including The Avengers, This Sporting Life, Panorama, The Apartment and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts...
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138,29 zł |