wyszukanych pozycji: 33
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
ISBN: 9781471169892 / Twarda / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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152,73 zł |
Dead Certainties : (Unwarranted Speculations)
ISBN: 9781847087324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Simon Schama, the author of Landscape and Memory and Citizens, sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths. In discussing the "speculations" surrounding them, he finds himself involved in a history he cannot classify - the unpredictable history of stories.
Simon Schama, the author of Landscape and Memory and Citizens, sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths. In discussing the "spec...
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92,77 zł |
Tvář Británie
ISBN: 9788020034427 / Czeski / 2023 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Simon Schama, známý popularizátor umění, nás zve na procházku po Národní portrétní galerii v Londýně a zároveň po dějinách Velké Británie. Pohlédneme do tváře řady významných osobností - monarchů, šlechticů, umělců a dalších, kteří ve tváři ostrovního impéria zanechali výrazný otisk. Schama jako skvělý vypravěč podniká výpravy do hloubi dějin, koření je barvitými příběhy, každá kapitola je dobrodružnou cestou do vzdálenější i nedávné historie; najdeme v nich odpovědi na otázky, proč se portréty malují a jaký byl jejich...
Simon Schama, známý popularizátor umění, nás zve na procházku po Národní portrétní galerii v Londýně a zároveň po dějinách Velké Bri...
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149,29 zł |
Foreign Bodies: The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science
ISBN: 9781471169922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. ‘This splendid and often moving work of history… Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides’ Daily Telegraph ‘Superb’ Observer ‘Extraordinary… A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period… Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past’ Guardian ‘This is history of the best sort – humanly engaged but never sentimental’ Mail on Sunday Cities and countries... ‘This splendid and often moving work of history… Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analy... |
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66,14 zł |
Krajina a paměť
ISBN: 9788072038039 / Czeski / 2007 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Krajina a paměť je jedinečná historická kniha, která se naprosto liší od všech ostatních. Skrze řadu svěžích barevných výletů prostorem a časem zkoumá a přepisuje náš vztah ke krajině kolem nás, způsob, jakým ovlivnila naši kulturu a představivost, a to, jak jsme ji naopak my přetvářeli, aby splňovala naše potřeby. Autor neústupně sleduje cestu přírodního mýtu časem a předkládá ji čtenářovu oku s originální imaginací, humorem, drzostí, vášní a hlubokou erudicí.
Schama nestaví svou argumentaci na žádné konvenční historické... Krajina a paměť je jedinečná historická kniha, která se naprosto liší od všech ostatních. Skrze řadu svěžích barevných výletů prostor...
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167,82 zł |
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
ISBN: 9781471169908 / Angielski / Inna / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
A History of Britain - Volume 1: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603
ISBN: 9781847920126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The first volume in this history of Britain tells the story of Britain from the time of the earliest settlements discovered in the Orkneys to the death of Queen Elizabeth the first.
The first volume in this history of Britain tells the story of Britain from the time of the earliest settlements discovered in the Orkneys to the deat...
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152,73 zł |
Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution
ISBN: 9780141017273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This award-winning, worldwide bestseller is an authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution.
This award-winning, worldwide bestseller is an authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution.
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101,83 zł |
Cuerpos Extra?os / Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
ISBN: 9788499929576 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,72 zł |
A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000
ISBN: 9781847920140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victoria era, and the burgeoning of the British Empire.
This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technol...
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152,73 zł |
The American Future: A History
ISBN: 9780060539245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny....A book of beautiful writing, peppered with wisecracks, slashed with rapier thrusts." --Philadelphia Inquirer A De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon Schama, NBCC Award winning author of Rough Crossings offers an essential, historical, long view analysis of the American character in The American Future. Shama examines four themes--war, race and faith, immigration, and custodianship of the land--through the prism...
"With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny....A book of beauti...
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87,15 zł |
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
ISBN: 9780060539177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities to try to reach the British camp. A military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in U.S. history. With powerfully vivid storytelling, Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of... If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virg... |
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74,04 zł |
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
ISBN: 9781328974839 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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143,76 zł |
Wordy
ISBN: 9781471180125 / Miękka / 2020 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.
A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.
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50,87 zł |
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE – 1492)
ISBN: 9780099546689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A history of the Jews is possibly the greatest story that can be told. It is the story of mankind - at its most noble and at its most barbaric. From the invention of a single deity and the killing of his embodied Son through to the production of urban modernity, so much of supreme importance for humanity bears the imprint of Jewish thinking and culture.
A history of the Jews is possibly the greatest story that can be told. It is the story of mankind - at its most noble and at its most barbaric. From t...
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66,14 zł |
Patriots and Liberators
ISBN: 9780006861560 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A timely reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch Republic -- a country once rich enough to be called the cash till of Europe and powerful enough to make war with England -- was stripped of its colonies, invaded by its enemies, driven to the edge of bankruptcy, and, finally, reduced to becoming an appendage of the French empire -- an appendage not even the French seemed to value overmuch. Out of...
A timely reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to ...
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96,69 zł |
The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits
ISBN: 9780190621872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs, lithographs, etchings, sketches-found in London's National Portrait Gallery, The Face of Britain weaves together an account of their composition, framed by their particular moment of creation, and in the process unveils a collective portrait of nation and its...
Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolutio...
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196,05 zł |
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776
ISBN: 9781847920133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This text provides a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and strata of British life, faith and thought from 1603 to 1776. It explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change.
This text provides a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and strata of British life, faith and thought from 1603 to 1776...
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152,73 zł |
The American Future: A History
ISBN: 9780061669071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny....A book of beautiful writing, peppered with wisecracks, slashed with rapier thrusts." --Philadelphia Inquirer A De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon Schama, NBCC Award winning author of Rough Crossings offers an essential, historical, long view analysis of the American character in The American Future. Shama examines four themes--war, race and faith, immigration, and custodianship of the land--through the prism...
"With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny....A book of beauti...
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130,68 zł |
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
ISBN: 9780063308510 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,11 zł |