wyszukanych pozycji: 35
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 (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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77,74 zł |
1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
ISBN: 9780062570895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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87,53 zł |
The Idea of Decline in Western History
ISBN: 9781416576334 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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144,27 zł |
To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: 9780060534257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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87,53 zł |
The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
ISBN: 9781328595904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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131,36 zł |
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. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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119,27 zł |
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. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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87,57 zł |
The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
ISBN: 9780358699200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,53 zł |
Red Remembers
ISBN: 9781515178316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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45,93 zł |
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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242,91 zł |
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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537,95 zł |
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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188,70 zł |
A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1835-1855
ISBN: 9781512820201 / Angielski / Twarda / 1935 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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415,29 zł |
A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift
ISBN: 9781512807653 / Angielski / Twarda / 1963 / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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478,37 zł |
Typee; A Romance of the South Seas: in large print
ISBN: 9783387014730 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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413,31 zł |
Typee; A Romance of the South Seas: in large print
ISBN: 9783387014723 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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321,36 zł |
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. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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85,05 zł |
Sherlock Holmes - Folge 56, 1 Audio-CD
ISBN: 9783785785317 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Während einer Zugfahrt kommt Philip Hardy in den Besitz eines geheimnisvollen Codes, den er nicht zu deuten weiß. Seither wird er von vier undurchsichtigen Männern verfolgt und schließlich sogar niedergeschlagen. Aus Angst um sein Leben vertraut sich Hardy dem Meisterdetektiv an ...
Während einer Zugfahrt kommt Philip Hardy in den Besitz eines geheimnisvollen Codes, den er nicht zu deuten weiß. Seither wird er von vier undurchsi...
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46,05 zł |
Sherlock Holmes - Folge 52, 1 Audio-CD
ISBN: 9783785784501 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Sir Hubert Ardingley bittet den Meisterdetektiv um Hilfe, nachdem er von den plötzlichen Heiratsabsichten seines Onkels William erfahren hat, einem bis dato überzeugten Junggesellen. Sir Hubert kommt die zukünftige Mrs. Ardingley verdächtig vor, und er lädt Holmes und Watson nach Petersdown Towers ein, um die Braut in Augenschein zu nehmen ...
Sir Hubert Ardingley bittet den Meisterdetektiv um Hilfe, nachdem er von den plötzlichen Heiratsabsichten seines Onkels William erfahren hat, einem b...
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46,05 zł |