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Cyrus the Great
ISBN: 9781508518112 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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25,69 |
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Wilson, Volume III: The Struggle for Neutrality, 1914-1915
ISBN: 9780691652276 / Angielski / Twarda / 760 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critics have called the two prior volumes in this life of Woodrow Wilson "a model of political biography" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.), and "a capital piece of work, critical and judicious" (Henry Steele Commager). In this third volume Arthur Link covers the period between the immediate background of World War I and the not, to Great Britain of October 21, 1915, marking the end of Wilson's fight to lay solid foundations for American neutrality. Volume 3 also adds new material on American involvement in Mexico, the Caribbean and the Far East. A less stern picture of Wilson emerges-the... Critics have called the two prior volumes in this life of Woodrow Wilson "a model of political biography" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.), and "a capi... |
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1410,55 |
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Wilson, Volume I: The Road to the White House
ISBN: 9780691649481 / Angielski / Twarda / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first volume of a biography that covers the years 1902-1912, which include Wilson's presidency of Princeton, his governorship of New Jersey, and his election to the Presidency. It seeks to get at the reasons behind his actions in this critical period. Originally published in 1947. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable... This first volume of a biography that covers the years 1902-1912, which include Wilson's presidency of Princeton, his governorship of New Jersey, a... |
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1126,48 |
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The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity After World War II
ISBN: 9781784531799 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turned to the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means of articulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middle of that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbed within a broader-and considerably more conservative-mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage, and cultural performance. Taking strength from the Coronation of a new young Queen, named Elizabeth, the New Elizabethanism of the 1950s heralded a nation that would now see its "modern," televised monarch...
In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turned to the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means of articula...
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670,22 |
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Marie Antoinette - Her Life And Why The French Despised Her: Her Childhood In Austria, Marriage To Louis XVI, Her Children, The Diamond Necklace Scand
ISBN: 9781511991735 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marie Antoinette - Her Life And Why The French Despised Her The famed and some might say notorious Queen Marie Antoinette of France was a fascinating and much maligned character in European and French history. In this book you'll learn about: Her childhood in Austria as a member of the Hapsburg dynasty Betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI of France Her beloved children Her reputation and why she was despised by the French people The diamond necklace scandal Imprisonment, Madame Guillotine and Marie Antoinette's execution The French Revolution and what happened to her children The facts, the...
Marie Antoinette - Her Life And Why The French Despised Her The famed and some might say notorious Queen Marie Antoinette of France was a fascinating ...
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41,07 |
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The First Emperor of China
ISBN: 9781909771116 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The First Emperor In 1974, Chinese peasants made the discovery of the century... Thousands of terracotta soldiers guarding the tomb of a tyrant. Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child. He was the product of a heartless, brutal regime devoted to domination, groomed from an early age to become the First Emperor of China after a century of scheming by his ancestors. He faked a foreign threat to justify an invasion. He ruled a nation under 24-hour surveillance. He ordered his interrogators to torture suspects. He boiled his critics...
The First Emperor In 1974, Chinese peasants made the discovery of the century... Thousands of terracotta soldiers guarding the tomb of a tyrant. Ying ...
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40,43 |
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Princes at War
ISBN: 9781610396349 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1936, the British monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era--the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons:
-a stammering King George VI, terrified that the world might discover he was unfit to rule -a dull-witted Prince Henry, who wanted only a quiet life in the army -the too-glamorous Prince George, the Duke of Kent--a reformed hedonist who found new purpose in the RAF and would become the first royal to die in a mysterious plane crash -the Duke of... In 1936, the British monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era--the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. ...
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69,32 |
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The Royal Race of 1818: How The Death of Princess Charlotte of Wales In 1817 Led To A Race To Provide An Heir For The British Throne
ISBN: 9781515308300 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George III and Queen Charlotte of Great Britain had fifteen children between 1762 and 1783, the throne was safe, or so they would have thought, until disaster struck the royal family. In 1817 Princess Charlotte of Wales, the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick's daughter, died in childbirth and the Hanoverian dynasty was thrown into a period of panic and insecurity. They were left without an heir - an unthinkable situation. Queen Charlotte ordered her profligate sons to leave their mistresses and to bear an heir with haste: Frederick, William, Edward, Ernest, Augustus and Adolphus began...
George III and Queen Charlotte of Great Britain had fifteen children between 1762 and 1783, the throne was safe, or so they would have thought, until ...
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43,46 |
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An American Princess: The Remarkable Life of Marguerite Chapin Caetani
ISBN: 9780773548183 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In An American Princess, Laurie Dennett relates the remarkable story of a New England woman whose wealth, intelligence, and charm took her to the heart of aristocratic and intellectual Europe. Marguerite Chapin (18801963) was the product of two cultures: her father s enterprising American one and her mother s French heritage, which enabled her to move to Paris when she inherited a fortune at age twenty-one. There, she studied singing with the greatest tenor of the age, commissioned paintings from artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, and Andre Derain, and drew upon her many...
In An American Princess, Laurie Dennett relates the remarkable story of a New England woman whose wealth, intelligence, and charm took her to the hear...
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161,63 |
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King James and the History of Homosexuality
ISBN: 9781781555439 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favorites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual?
Michael B. Young merges political history with recent scholarship in the history of sexuality to answer that question. More broadly, he shows that James s favorites had a negative impact within the royal family, at court, in Parliament, and in the nation at large. Contemporaries raised the specter of a sodomitical court and an effeminized nation; some urged James to engage in a more virile foreign... James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favorites. No one denies that these relationships we...
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125,80 |
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Darkwater: Voices From Within The Veil
ISBN: 9781530504336 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Several of its essays are personal in nature, with obvious emotional rhetoric. The style maintains a religious tone and his spirituality is a common thread in many of the individual essays. Described in varying tones of black and brown, a Christ-like figure of racial hope is prevalent, signifying the coming moment of racial confrontation and eventual salvation. This figure is one which Du Bois characterizes as the bearer of eternal freedom from discrimination, poverty, and from the color line itself
Several of its essays are personal in nature, with obvious emotional rhetoric. The style maintains a religious tone and his spirituality is a common t...
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46,49 |
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The Palace Law of Ayutthaya and the Thammasat: Law and Kingship in Siam
ISBN: 9780877277699 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains the first academic translations of key legal texts from the Ayutthaya era (1351 1767), along with an essay on the role of law in Thai history. The legal history of Southeast Asia has languished because few texts are accessible in translation. The Three Seals Code is a collection of Thai legal manuscripts surviving from the Ayutthaya era. The Palace Law, probably dating to the late fifteenth century, was the principal law on kingship and government. The Thammasat, a descendant of India's dharmasastra, stood at the head of the Code and gave it authority. Here these two key... This book contains the first academic translations of key legal texts from the Ayutthaya era (1351 1767), along with an essay on the role of law in... |
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132,18 |
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Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth
ISBN: 9781349380930 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Papers that grew out of a conference held at Chawton House Library in 2007.
Papers that grew out of a conference held at Chawton House Library in 2007.
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543,91 |
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The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age
ISBN: 9780201608175 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hibbert's masterful biography introduces a new generation of readers to perhaps the greatest monarch in history. A genius, beauty, manipulator, and leader, Elizabeth I has fascinated history buffs, anglophiles, and feminists for centuries. Black-and-white and color inserts.
Hibbert's masterful biography introduces a new generation of readers to perhaps the greatest monarch in history. A genius, beauty, manipulator, and le...
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84,74 |
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Travels in North America, 1832-1834: A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied
ISBN: 9780806155791 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. Published in their entirety as an annotated three-volume set, the journals present a complete narrative of Maximilian's expedition across the United States, from Boston almost to the headwaters of the Missouri in the Rocky Mountains, and back. This new concise edition, the only modern condensed version of Maximilian's full account, highlights the expedition's most significant encounters and dramatic events.
The German prince and his... The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. Publ...
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141,98 |
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Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance
ISBN: 9781445654935 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the tall, athletic Edward of York seized the English throne in 1461, he could have chosen any bride he wanted. With his dazzling good looks, few were able to resist his charm and promises. For three years he had a succession of mistresses, while foreign princesses were lined up to be considered for his queen. Then he fell in love. Enter Elizabeth Woodville, a widow five years his elder. While her contemporaries and later historians have been divided over her character, none have denied her beauty. When she petitioned the king to help restore her son's inheritance, the young Edward was...
When the tall, athletic Edward of York seized the English throne in 1461, he could have chosen any bride he wanted. With his dazzling good looks, few ...
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65,37 |
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Remembering Diana: A Life in Photographs
ISBN: 9781426218538 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty years after her death, this dazzling photography collection with a foreword by bestselling author Tina Brown celebrates Princess Diana's poignant life in more than 100 iconic images.
For the millions who adored the People's Princess, this lavish book presents Diana Spencer's life in glorious color. Page after page of inside photos document the royal's most memorable moments in the spotlight; a luminous, personal remembrance by friend and biographer Tina Brown adds context and nuance to a poignant life twenty years after her tragic death. Float down memory lane through... Twenty years after her death, this dazzling photography collection with a foreword by bestselling author Tina Brown celebrates Princess Diana's poi...
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115,61 |
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The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens
ISBN: 9788494593796 / Angielski / Miękka / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ten remarkable women. In the Tudor period, 1485-1603, a host of fascinating women sat on the English throne. The dramatic events of their lives are told in The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens of England. The Turbulent Crown begins with the story of Elizabeth of York, who survived conspiracy, murder, and dishonour to become the first Tudor Queen, bringing peace and order to England after years of civil war. From there, the reader is taken through the parade of Henry VIII's six wives - two of whom, Anne... Ten remarkable women. In the Tudor period, 1485-1603, a host of fascinating women sat on the English throne. The d... |
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88,59 |
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In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor’s companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII’s iconic queens
ISBN: 9781445671147 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles and houses associated with Henry VIII's six wives
The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles and houses associated with Henry VIII's six wives
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100,64 |
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Richard, Duke of York: King by Right
ISBN: 9781445672038 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard, 3rd Duke of York is frequently used to recall the colours of the rainbow with the mnemonic 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain', wrongly believed to be the Grand Old Duke of York who had 10,000 men, or mistaken for his youngest son, Richard III. The son of a traitor, he inherited a dukedom aged four, became the wealthiest man in England at thirteen and later rebelled against his king, and if he is remembered, it is as a man who ignited the Wars of the Roses. Further eclipsed by two of his sons, who would become the mighty warrior Edward IV and the recently rediscovered Richard III,...
Richard, 3rd Duke of York is frequently used to recall the colours of the rainbow with the mnemonic 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain', wrongly bel...
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65,37 |