wyszukanych pozycji: 64
Kennedy or Nixon: What's the Difference?
ISBN: 9781501199387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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56,70 zł |
Ehud Olmert
ISBN: 9780791097618 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. At the age of 28, Ehud Olmert became the youngest member of Israel's parliament, the Knesset. Slowly, he climbed the Israeli political ladder, adjusting his views and positions as the times and public opinion changed, until he achieved the ultimate prize - prime minister of Israel. But less than four months after achieving his life's dream, Olmert, the aspiring peacemaker, found himself leading Israel in a war against Lebanon. When hostilities ended without a victory by Israel, Olmert's popularity plummeted, and he found himself fighting for his political life. In this new biography, read how...
At the age of 28, Ehud Olmert became the youngest member of Israel's parliament, the Knesset. Slowly, he climbed the Israeli political ladder, adjusti...
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162,58 zł |
Xerxes
ISBN: 9780791096024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the year 486 BCE, upon the death of his father, Darius I, Xerxes I became king of the Persian Empire. His kingdom, extending from present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east to Egypt and Libya in the west, was the largest empire of the classical age. However, all was not well within the Persian Empire, with the provinces of Egypt and Babylon in a state of rebellion and the tiny city-states of Greece refusing Xerxes' rule. Set nearly 2,500 years ago, this story of the Greco-Persian Wars pits the mighty Persian Army, one of the largest the world had ever seen, in a war of conquest...
In the year 486 BCE, upon the death of his father, Darius I, Xerxes I became king of the Persian Empire. His kingdom, extending from present-day Afgha...
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162,58 zł |
Hannibal
ISBN: 9780791095805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hannibal Barca was an extraordinary military leader and political reformer in the ancient world. His Carthaginian army's march with elephants over the Alps to attack rival Rome in 218 BCE is one of the most daring exploits in world history. Hannibal sacrificed his life to leadership and war, and became such a force in the world's imagination that centuries after his death, Roman mothers would scare their children by threatening, 'Hannibal is at the gates'. His sacrifice of self to a larger cause is still an inspiration today, and his battle plans are studied by modern students of conflict and...
Hannibal Barca was an extraordinary military leader and political reformer in the ancient world. His Carthaginian army's march with elephants over the...
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162,58 zł |
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
ISBN: 9780618219278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 1120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy administration. Schlesinger's close relationship with JFK, as a politician and as a friend, has resulted in this authoritative yet intimate account in which the president walks through the pages, from first to last, alert, alive, amused and amusing (John Kenneth Galbraith). A THOUSAND DAYS is at once a masterly literary achievement and a work of major historical significance (New York Times).
As special assistant to the president, Arthur Schlesinger witnessed firsthand the politics and personalities that influenced the now legendary Kennedy...
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105,34 zł |
A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
ISBN: 9780618219254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This nationally bestselling memoir of America's most renowned historian tells Schlesinger's personal story--from his childhood in the Midwest through his student days at Harvard to the post-World War II years -- which parallels the history of America coming into its own as a world power. of photos.
This nationally bestselling memoir of America's most renowned historian tells Schlesinger's personal story--from his childhood in the Midwest through ...
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117,50 zł |
The Age of Jackson
ISBN: 9780316773430 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 577 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The outgrowth of a series of lectures entitled 'A reinterpretation of Jacksonian democracy' delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in the fall of 1941."--Acknowledgements.
"The outgrowth of a series of lectures entitled 'A reinterpretation of Jacksonian democracy' delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in the fall o...
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105,34 zł |
Nothing Stands Still
ISBN: 9780674422100 / Angielski / Twarda / 1969 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965) was one of America's most distinguished and influential historians. The basis of his conception of history, as he put it in a note found among his papers, is that "nothing stands still," The moral he drew from this was the need for "a liberal, flexible attitude" on the part of both the historian and the citizen. This volume, with an introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., brings together eleven of Professor Schlesinger's essays not previously collected in book form. Written between 1929 and 1965, they fall into two sections--"The Scholar," which... Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965) was one of America's most distinguished and influential historians. The basis of his conception of history, as h... |
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263,45 zł |
The Politics of Hope and the Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s
ISBN: 9780691134758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage brings together two important books that bracket the tempestuous politics of 1960s America. In The Politics of Hope, which historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., published in 1963 while serving as a special assistant to President Kennedy, Schlesinger defines the liberalism that characterized the Kennedy administration and the optimistic early Sixties. In lively and incisive essays, most of them written between 1956 and 1960, on topics such as the basic differences underlying liberal and conservative politics, the writing of... The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage brings together two important books that bracket the tempestuous politics of 1960s Ameri... |
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244,28 zł |
Robert Kennedy and His Times: 40th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9781328567567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,97 zł |
Amer Pres: Monroe
ISBN: 9780805069600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The former senator offers a provocative new assessment of the first "national security president"--James Monroe--remembered for being the last of the Virginia dynasty and for issuing the Monroe Doctrine.
The former senator offers a provocative new assessment of the first "national security president"--James Monroe--remembered for being the last of the ...
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133,75 zł |
Thabo Mbeki
ISBN: 9780791094433 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Thabo Mbeki has devoted his life to the people of South Africa, first as a courageous fighter against apartheid and currently as president of his beloved nation, helping to heal the wounds caused by decades of oppression. His success is even more astounding considering the seemingly insurmountable obstacles he encountered early in life.
Thabo Mbeki has devoted his life to the people of South Africa, first as a courageous fighter against apartheid and currently as president of his belo...
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146,30 zł |
Angela Merkel
ISBN: 9780791094969 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Born in West Germany but raised in East Germany, Angela Merkel has known both repression and freedom. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Merkel started her meteoric rise to become Germany's first female chancellor and one of the world's most powerful women.
Born in West Germany but raised in East Germany, Angela Merkel has known both repression and freedom. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Merkel...
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162,58 zł |
Pervez Musharraf
ISBN: 9780791092644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf has had to contend with political groups who have not supported his government.
As president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf has had to contend with political groups who have not supported his government.
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146,30 zł |
George H. W. Bush
ISBN: 9780805069662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The judicious statesman who won victories abroad but suffered defeat at home, whose wisdom and demeanor served America well at a critical time George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for eloquence, Bush dismissed ideology as "the vision thing." Yet, as Timothy Naftali argues, no one of his generation was better prepared for the challenges facing the United States as the Cold War ended. Bush wisely encouraged the liberalization of the Soviet system and skillfully orchestrated the reunification of Germany. And following Iraq's invasion of... The judicious statesman who won victories abroad but suffered defeat at home, whose wisdom and demeanor served America well at a critical time |
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141,86 zł |
Dwight D. Eisenhower: The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961
ISBN: 9780805069075 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An American icon and hero faces a nation-and a world-in transition A bona-fide American hero at the close of World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower rode an enormous wave of popularity into the Oval Office seven years later. Though we may view the Eisenhower years through a hazy lens of 1950s nostalgia, historians consider his presidency one of the least successful. At home there was civil rights unrest, McCarthyism, and a deteriorating economy; internationally, the Cold War was deepening. But despite his tendency toward -brinksmanship, - Ike would later be revered for -keeping the... An American icon and hero faces a nation-and a world-in transition A bona-fide American hero at the close of World War II, General Dwight Eis... |
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141,86 zł |
Jacques Chirac
ISBN: 9780791092651 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 111 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jacques Chirac has served in every major office of the French state, but has also been beset by corruption and crises.
Jacques Chirac has served in every major office of the French state, but has also been beset by corruption and crises.
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162,58 zł |
Darius the Great
ISBN: 9780791096338 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 125 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In ancient history, Darius I stands alone as an administrator with unparalleled insight into the workings of an empire. Under his leadership, the Persian Empire grew to be the largest and most powerful diplomatic and economic force in the world. After he cleverly seized the throne and quelled a series of revolts, Darius undertook a radical reorganization of the different peoples who inhabited the Iranian Plateau, instituting the practices of religious tolerance, widespread economic reform, and a fair system of law that would later be adopted by the generations that followed him in the Near...
In ancient history, Darius I stands alone as an administrator with unparalleled insight into the workings of an empire. Under his leadership, the Pers...
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162,58 zł |
Theodore Roosevelt: The American Presidents Series: The 26th President, 1901-1909
ISBN: 9780805069068 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century The American century opened with the election of that quintessentially American adventurer, Theodore Roosevelt. Louis Auchincloss's warm and knowing biography introduces us to the man behind the many myths of Theodore Roosevelt. From his early involvement in the politics of New York City and then New York State, we trace his celebrated military career and finally his ascent to the national political stage. Caricatured through history as the "bull moose," Roosevelt was in fact a man of extraordinary discipline whose... An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century The American century opened with the election of that quintessentially Americ... |
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137,80 zł |
Tony Blair
ISBN: 9780791092163 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A former rock music promoter and a student of socialist thought at Oxford University, Tony Blair became a member of Parliament, and then prime minister of Great Britain, in only 14 years. Finding inspiration in President Bill Clinton's political strategy, the youthful Blair made his quick rise through the Labour Party's ranks largely by advocating modernization.
A former rock music promoter and a student of socialist thought at Oxford University, Tony Blair became a member of Parliament, and then prime ministe...
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162,58 zł |