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Foreign Bodies: The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science
ISBN: 9781471169922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) ‘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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Tvář Británie
ISBN: 9788020034427 / Czeski / 2023 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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151,80 |
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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
ISBN: 9781471169892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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174,93 |
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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
ISBN: 9781471169908 / Angielski / Inna / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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85,30 |
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The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits
ISBN: 9780190621872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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174,80 |
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
ISBN: 9780679781240 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings and beached whales, of the cult of hygiene and the plague of tobacco, of thrifty housewives and profligate tulip-speculators. He tells us how the Dutch celebrated themselves and how they were slandered by their enemies....
Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluenc...
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110,23 |
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Art: Vintage Minis
ISBN: 9781784875671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Great art has dreadful manners…
…The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.’ In inimitable style, our greatest historian and master storyteller Simon Schama makes an irresistible case for the power of art and its necessary place in our lives, examining art through the prism of the troubling life and works of Italian master painter, and murderer,... Great art has dreadful manners…
…The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, ch... |
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The American Future: A History
ISBN: 9780061669071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "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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113,99 |
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Landscape and Memory
ISBN: 9780006863489 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained... 'One of the most intelligent, original, stimulating, self-indulgent, perverse and irresistibly enjoyable books I have ever read. ' Philip ZieglerLandscape and Memory is a history book unlike any other. In a series of journeys through space and time, it examines our relationship with the landscape around us -- rivers, mountains, forests -- the impact each of them has had on our culture and imaginations, and the way in which we, in turn, have shaped them to answer our needs. This is...
The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained... 'One of the most intelligent, origina...
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175,71 |
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Hang-Ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly)
ISBN: 9780563522898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Asks the art lover to look at familiar works of art and their artists - and embrace a new way of seeing. This volume contains pieces on artists as diverse as David Hockney, Rembrandt and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and on such subjects as the 'unforgettable peculiarity' of Stanley Spencer. It is of interest to lovers of both art and social history.
Asks the art lover to look at familiar works of art and their artists - and embrace a new way of seeing. This volume contains pieces on artists as div...
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100,37 |
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The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
ISBN: 9780060539207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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95,03 |
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Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
ISBN: 9780679736134 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The author of the bestselling Citizens reconstructs--and at times reinvents--the death of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759 and the 1849 murder of the Boston brahmin George Parkman, whose nephew would become Wolfe's biographer. What Schama achieves is a mind-teasing delight.--The New York Times Book Review. Photographs.
The author of the bestselling Citizens reconstructs--and at times reinvents--the death of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759 and the ...
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98,83 |
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Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution
ISBN: 9780141017273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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100,41 |
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Patriots and Liberators
ISBN: 9780006861560 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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95,35 |
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
ISBN: 9780060539177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE – 1492)
ISBN: 9780099546689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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76,49 |
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Landscape and Memory
ISBN: 9780679735120 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year.In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author SimonSchama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art, as encyclopedic as The Golden Bough and as irresistibly readable...
A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year.In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author SimonSchama ranges over continents and centuries to...
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133,04 |
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The Face of Britain: The Stories Behind the Nation’s Portraits
ISBN: 9780670922307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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85,30 |
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The American Future: A History
ISBN: 9780060539245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "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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76,02 |
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The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900
ISBN: 9780062998729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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94,98 |
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