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Eastern Europe, 1939-2000
ISBN: 9780340762196 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the post-war history of Eastern Europe from the perspective of social history. It examines the nature and impact of socialist dictatorships on life in the region, and reveals the extent to which phenomena that emerged during the dictatorships are shaping society in the region today. It also integrates research conducted in the archives opened in the last eleven years into a general history of the region.
This book examines the post-war history of Eastern Europe from the perspective of social history. It examines the nature and impact of socialist dicta...
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173,09 zł |
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Irish Studies
ISBN: 9780340807415 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This glossary offers an introduction to Irish culture and society and a route-map to further study. Designed specifically with undergraduates in mind, it contains around 400 short and accessible explanations of the key events, figures and concepts in Irish Studies since the pre-modern period. Covering literary terms, traditions and movements, as well as Irish history, politics, music and art, the entries are fully cross-referenced and assume no prior knowledge, making this an essential source of information for students of Irish Studies.
This glossary offers an introduction to Irish culture and society and a route-map to further study. Designed specifically with undergraduates in mind,...
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209,82 zł |
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
ISBN: 9780345308238 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government.
Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma's senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail,... Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest su...
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96,10 zł |
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The Quotable Paul Johnson: A Topical Compilation of His Wit, Wisdom and Satire
ISBN: 9780374524234 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Quotable Paul Johnson contains 2,000 pithy and hard-hitting Johnson excerpts, edited and arranged alphabetically by topic, and with a cross-reference index. Since the publication of Modern Times in 1983, Paul Johnson has been recognized as one of the world's most distinguished popular historians. In addition to having written twenty-eight books, including Intellectuals and History of the Jews, he frequently contributes essays and book reviews to both the British and the American press. The Quotable Paul Johnson contains 2,000 pithy and hard-hitting Johnson excerpts, edited and arranged alphabetically by topic, and with a cr... |
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144,14 zł |
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The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World
ISBN: 9780375704758 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: -Who are we?- and -Why are we here?- Daniel J. Boorstin, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Americans, introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning. Moses sought truth in God above while Sophocles looked to reason. Thomas More and Machiavelli pursued truth through social change. And in the modern age, Marx... A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man... |
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91,73 zł |
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Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
ISBN: 9780380793242 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in Washington, the world's official timekeeper since the 1960s. We visit cultures from Vedic India and Cleopatra's Egypt to Byzantium and the Elizabethan court; and meet an impressive cast of historic personages from Julius Caesar to Omar Khayyam, and giants of science from Galileo and Copernicus to Stephen Hawking. Our present calendar system predates the invention of the telescope, the mechanical clock, and the concept ol zero and its... The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic cl... |
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78,58 zł |
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea...: A Compendium of Great Historical Fiascoes
ISBN: 9780380807710 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the annals of history, the best of intentions--and sometimes the worst--have set in motion events with a vastly different outcome than originally intended. In this entertaining, fact-filled chronicle, William Forstchen and Bill Fawcett explore the watersheds of history that began as the best of ideas and ended as the worst of fiascoes. A Holy War--The Medieval Crusades for religious liberation become centuries of slaughter and destruction. Sibling Rivalry--Leif Erikson spares his sister's life and delays the discovery of the New World for five hundred... Throughout the annals of history, the best of intentions--and sometimes the worst--have set in motion events with a vastly different outcome than o... |
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61,11 zł |
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Plagues and Peoples
ISBN: 9780385121224 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William...
Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of wo...
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82,99 zł |
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The Cartoon History of the Universe II: Volumes 8-13: From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome
ISBN: 9780385420938 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is hip, funny, and full of info. B & W illustrations.
Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ...
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117,94 zł |
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The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History
ISBN: 9780393307528 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and culture. These wide-ranging essays appear under various headings: "Current Events" --this section includes the wonderful story of the moment in 1792 when all the delegates in the French Legislative Assembly kissed each other; "Media," on television, pounding a newspaper beat, and tips to academics on how to get a book published; "The Printed Word," with an essay on the history of books; "The Lay of the Land," on aspects of intellectual history;...
At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and cu...
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117,72 zł |
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The Muslim Discovery of Europe
ISBN: 9780393321654 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is one of the great sagas of world history.
The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came tog...
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109,20 zł |
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The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
ISBN: 9780393324037 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature. Praised by Jonathan Spence in the New York Times Book Review as "a curious hybrid, at once flippant and scholarly, witty and politically correct, zany and traditionalist," Gonick's clever illustrations deliver important information with a deceptively light tone, teaching us about the people and events that have shaped our world. This long-awaited new volume covers the Middle Ages around the globe,...
Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scho...
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109,16 zł |
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A Brief History of the Human Race
ISBN: 9780393326451 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sweeping over the last 10,000 years of human history, this work addresses some of the most fascinating questions about our past. Michael Cook explores the great forces that have shaped our past - natural disasters, human ingenuity - and along the way zooms in on some of the details of history.
Sweeping over the last 10,000 years of human history, this work addresses some of the most fascinating questions about our past. Michael Cook explores...
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117,72 zł |
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Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors
ISBN: 9780395911501 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the lives of survivors who were shipwrecked, banished, or abandoned during the past several centuries.
Explores the lives of survivors who were shipwrecked, banished, or abandoned during the past several centuries.
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141,96 zł |
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A History of Medieval Islam
ISBN: 9780415059145 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an introduction to the history of the Muslim East from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquests. It explains and indicates the main trends of Islamic historical evolution during the Middle Ages.
This is an introduction to the history of the Muslim East from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquests. It explains and indicates the main trends of...
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241,30 zł |
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Growth and Guilt: Psychology and the Limits of Development
ISBN: 9780415116602 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relentless exploitation of the earth's resources and technologys boundless growth are a matter of urgent concern. When did this race towards the limitless begin?
The Greeks, who shaped the basis of Western thinking, lived in mortal fear of humanity's hidden hunger for the infinite and referred to it as hubris, the one true sin in their moral code. Whoever desired or possessed too much was implacably punished by nemesis, yet the Greeks themselves were to pioneer an unprecedented level of ambition that began to reverse that tabu. If it is true that no culture can truly repudiate its... The relentless exploitation of the earth's resources and technologys boundless growth are a matter of urgent concern. When did this race towards the l...
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409,21 zł |
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Growth and Guilt: Psychology and the Limits of Development
ISBN: 9780415116619 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relentless exploitation of the earth's resources and technologys boundless growth are a matter of urgent concern. When did this race towards the limitless begin?
The Greeks, who shaped the basis of Western thinking, lived in mortal fear of humanity's hidden hunger for the infinite and referred to it as hubris, the one true sin in their moral code. Whoever desired or possessed too much was implacably punished by nemesis, yet the Greeks themselves were to pioneer an unprecedented level of ambition that began to reverse that tabu. If it is true that no culture can truly repudiate its... The relentless exploitation of the earth's resources and technologys boundless growth are a matter of urgent concern. When did this race towards the l...
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209,82 zł |
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Rewriting the Self : Histories from the Middle Ages to the Present
ISBN: 9780415142793 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is an exploration of ideas of the self, in the western cultural tradition, from the Renaissance to the present. The contributors analyze differing religious, philosophical, psychological, political, psychoanalytical and literary models of personal identity. They examine these models from a number of viewpoints, including the history of ideas, contemporary gender politics, and post-modernist literary theory. This study offers a challenge to the received version of the ascent of western man. The book is based on a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London....
This work is an exploration of ideas of the self, in the western cultural tradition, from the Renaissance to the present. The contributors analyze dif...
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655,86 zł |
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Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Middle Ages to the Present
ISBN: 9780415142809 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is an exploration of ideas of the self, in the western cultural tradition, from the Renaissance to the present. The contributors analyze differing religious, philosophical, psychological, political, psychoanalytical and literary models of personal identity. They examine these models from a number of viewpoints, including the history of ideas, contemporary gender politics, and post-modernist literary theory. This study offers a challenge to the received version of the ascent of western man. The book is based on a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London....
This work is an exploration of ideas of the self, in the western cultural tradition, from the Renaissance to the present. The contributors analyze dif...
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199,33 zł |
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The Limits of Independence
ISBN: 9780415158114 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nation states are not as independent as they seem. In The Limits of Independence, Adam Watson explores how independence of action is limited by both a tightening net of interdependence between countries and by the rules which the 'international society of states' has put in place to manage order and change. He also argues that the external and internal behaviour of independent states is increasingly determined by the influence of the richest and strongest powers.
After setting out the general framework of restraint imposed on states, Adam Watson details the attempts to... Nation states are not as independent as they seem. In The Limits of Independence, Adam Watson explores how independence of action is limited ...
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708,33 zł |
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