wyszukanych pozycji: 9
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The Knights Templars: God's Warriors, the Devil's Bankers
ISBN: 9780878333028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Officially they were The Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and their mission was to create a safe passage for pilgrims visiting war-torn Jerusalem in the early 12th century. This work covers the reality of this mystic-warrior society, and the medieval religious campaigns that shaped them.
Officially they were The Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and their mission was to create a safe passage for pilgrims visiting war-torn Jerusalem i...
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131,91 |
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Reel V. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction
ISBN: 9780878332687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book profiles sixty movies that portray actual moments in history, and compares the mythologized account of each event to what really happened.
This book profiles sixty movies that portray actual moments in history, and compares the mythologized account of each event to what really happened.
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101,41 |
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The Knights Templars: God's Warriors, the Devil's Bankers
ISBN: 9781589792593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Gives a vivid description about how the Templars were formed as a strict religious-military order, how they got the political and financial power beyond the military power, and their passed down legends.
Gives a vivid description about how the Templars were formed as a strict religious-military order, how they got the political and financial power beyo...
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91,25 |
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Invisible People: History's Homosexuals Unhidden
ISBN: 9781463781958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Famous homosexuals of the past and why historians ignore or hide them
Famous homosexuals of the past and why historians ignore or hide them
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80,06 |
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Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology
ISBN: 9780878331482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Based on more than a half dozen interviews with the director himself, this unauthorized biography recounts Spielberg's childhood, education, career, philanthropic and charitable endeavors, and his extremely private personal life. 37 photos.
Based on more than a half dozen interviews with the director himself, this unauthorized biography recounts Spielberg's childhood, education, career, p...
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91,25 |
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To Kill a King: A History of Royal Murders and Assassinations from Ancient Egypt to the Present
ISBN: 9781449982737 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "To Kill a King" is a nonfiction compilation about the gallons of blue blood that have been spilled throughout history. The author reports little-known details about famous and obscure royal victims and offers theories about the murderers' motivations despite royalty's semi-divine status as God's anointed representatives on earth. Just one of many compelling examples to be found in "To Kill a King" Gen. MacArthur's advisors urged him not to prosecute or execute Emperor Hirohito for war crimes because the Japanese ruler was considered a living god by his subjects. It was feared that the...
"To Kill a King" is a nonfiction compilation about the gallons of blue blood that have been spilled throughout history. The author reports little-know...
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88,25 |
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Victims and Victimizers: Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich
ISBN: 9781466213272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In "Victims and Victimizer: Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich," historian and novelist Frank Sanello ("The Opium Wars," "The Knights Templars, "Invisible People: History's Homosexuals Unhidden") explores the life and times of gays and lesbians in Weimar and Nazi Germany. From the Anything Goes Roaring Twenties of tres gay Berlin, where a gay think tank stood across the street from the Reichskanzlerei, the German White House, to the pink triangles of detention camps turned death camps, Sanello investigates a terrifying time in history to be gay and German. Homosexuals thrived in pre-Nazi...
In "Victims and Victimizer: Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich," historian and novelist Frank Sanello ("The Opium Wars," "The Knights Templars, "Inv...
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80,06 |
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Fractured History Tales: or Why (Almost) Everything You Thought You Knew About the Past Never Happened
ISBN: 9781461193982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Fractured History Tales or Why (Almost) Everything You Thought You Knew About the Past Never Happened
Fractured History Tales or Why (Almost) Everything You Thought You Knew About the Past Never Happened
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88,25 |
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The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
ISBN: 9781402201493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 18391842 and 18561860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts.
Britain was also a nation addicted-to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made... In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 18391842 and 18561860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the ...
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76,40 |