ilość książek w kategorii: 3212
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9780140513318 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civilizations of its time. This atlas traces its turbulent history and remarkable cultural development, from the founding of Memphis around 5000 BC, through the territorial expansion and flourishing trade of the age of empire, to Greek domination and ultimate collapse. Political rivalries are charted through the successive dynasties, from the strife of the intermediate periods to the golden ages of prosperity and artistic glory under Akhenaten, Tutankhamun...
From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civilizatio...
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96,24 zł |
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece
ISBN: 9780140513356 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Charting topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, the Persian Wars, the Golden Age of Athens, and the conquests of Alexander the Great, the atlas traces the development of this creative and restless people and assesses their impact not only on the ancient world but also on our own attitudes and environment today.
Charting topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, the Persian Wars, the Golden Age of Athens, and the conquests of Alexander the Great, the atlas tra...
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95,40 zł |
The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History
ISBN: 9780140513486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Now completely revised, this bestselling historical atlas includes a chronological series of more than fifty maps and accompanying text tracing the movements of peoples in Europe, the Mediterranean area, and the Near East from 5000 b.c. to the fourth century a.d.
Now completely revised, this bestselling historical atlas includes a chronological series of more than fifty maps and accompanying text tracing the... |
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65,84 zł |
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World
ISBN: 9780141014494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World traces the development of peoples, cultures, and faiths between the coming of the barbarian invasions in the fourth century and the first voyages to the New World in the sixteenth. This colorful atlas illustrates the sweeping changes from the fall of the Roman Empire to the birth of Islam, the rise of Christianity, and the role of Judaism across Europe. Packed with vivid maps and photographs, this atlas is a perfect guide to Europe and its neighbors in the Middle Ages.
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World traces the development of peoples, cultures, and faiths between the coming of the barbarian ...
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86,11 zł |
Southwest: Three Peoples in Geographical Change, 1600-1970
ISBN: 9780195012897 / Angielski / Miękka / 1971 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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631,56 zł |
Concise Historical Atlas of World War Two: The Geography of Conflict
ISBN: 9780195182200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. World War Two was a war of rapid and far-reaching conquest and movement, and a good sense of world geography is essential to grasping its magnitude and sweep. The Concise Historical Atlas of World War Two: The Geography of Conflict consists of 50 full-color maps that vividly convey not only the key military battles and campaigns but also the cultural and political geography of the war. Each map covers a significant phase of World War Two and is accompanied by an adjacent page of explanatory text that clarifies the shifting frontiers and populations of the region represented. These...
World War Two was a war of rapid and far-reaching conquest and movement, and a good sense of world geography is essential to grasping its magnitude an...
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207,72 zł |
Anatolica: Studies in Strabo
ISBN: 9780198149439 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sir Ronald Syme (1903-89) is internationally known as one of the greatest Roman historians of this century. After his death, the massive manuscript for a practically complete, major work on ancient Turkey was discovered among his papers. Written during the war, while the author was himself in Turkey, it offers a fascinating insight into the development of a great historian, and is itself a masterly, original, and splendidly written study of the peoples and places of Asia Minor under Persian, Greek, and Roman rule.
Sir Ronald Syme (1903-89) is internationally known as one of the greatest Roman historians of this century. After his death, the massive manuscript fo...
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1050,53 zł |
Armenia: A Historical Atlas
ISBN: 9780226332284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From its conversion to Christianity to the Genocide during World War I, from the Soviet occupation to its recent independence, Armenia has seen a long and often turbulent history. In the magnificent Armenia: A Historical Atlas, Robert H. Hewsen traces Armenia's rich past from ancient times to the present day through more than two hundred full-color maps packed with information about physical geography, demography, and sociopolitical, religious, cultural, and linguistic history.
Hewsen has divided the maps into five sections, each of which begins with a chronology of important... From its conversion to Christianity to the Genocide during World War I, from the Soviet occupation to its recent independence, Armenia has seen a long...
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1310,40 zł |
Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780226534169 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Writers know only too well how long it can take and how awkward it can be to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively.
In his acclaimed "How to Lie with Maps, " Mark Monmonier showed how maps can distort facts. In "Mapping it Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences, " he shows authors and scholars how they can use expository cartography the visual, two-dimensional organization of information... Writers know only too well how long it can take and how awkward it can be to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might no...
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414,96 zł |
Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780226534176 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Writers know only too well how long it can take-and how awkward it can be-to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively. In his acclaimed How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier showed how maps can distort facts. In Mapping it Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences, he shows authors and scholars how they can use expository cartography-the visual, two-dimensional organization of...
Writers know only too well how long it can take-and how awkward it can be-to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might no...
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103,74 zł |
China and International Law: The Boundary Disputes
ISBN: 9780275934620 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first volume to systematically look at how China uses international law to deal with its complex boundary questions--it borders on twelve countries. The book includes an examination of boundary claims, border policies, settlements, alignments, and armed conflicts. The author draws a clear picture of China's attitude toward the use of traditional law. He supports his study with treaties, historical background, maps, and legal arguments. The reader walks away with a fine understanding of China's behavior in negotiations and armed conflicts, the country's policy, and its... This is the first volume to systematically look at how China uses international law to deal with its complex boundary questions--it borders on twel... |
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300,30 zł |
The Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography, 1805-1910
ISBN: 9780295974859 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 598 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Dismissed in early years as a wasteland, the rolling open country that covers the interior parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is today one of the richest farmlands in the nation. This work is the story of its transformation. Meinig traces all of the aspects of its development by combining geographic description with historical narrative. Dismissed in early years as a wasteland, the rolling open country that covers the interior parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is today one of t... |
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124,44 zł |
Latin American History: A Teaching Atlas
ISBN: 9780299097141 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Conference on Latin American History series
Conference on Latin American History series
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77,84 zł |
An Atlas of Russian History, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780300014457 / Angielski / Miękka / 1967 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This atlas, which combines thorough scholarship with the most practical features for use, will become an indispensable supplement to texts on Russian history for the historian, the student, and the inquiring layman. The book contains thirty-four handsomely drawn maps--accurate, uncluttered, and easy-to-read--that show how Russia's boundaries have changed from the formation of the embryonic state of Kievan Rus in the ninth century to the most recent revisions resulting from World War II. Each map is accompanied by concise, descriptive text. The atlas will be a permanent addition to the...
This atlas, which combines thorough scholarship with the most practical features for use, will become an indispensable supplement to texts on Russian ...
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182,36 zł |
The Tory View of Landscape
ISBN: 9780300059045 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, England seemed to be transformed by various kinds of "improvements" in gardening and the ornamentation of the landscape. Many people saw these changes as reflections of highly controversial moral, social, and economic issues. To clear a wood or plant one, to build a folly or a cottage, to design in the formal style or the picturesque, to choose to employ one improver or another--these were all interpreted as decisions that expressed a political orientation. Poets, essayists, political theorists, theologians, and economists debated the merits...
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, England seemed to be transformed by various kinds of "improvements" in gardening and the ornamentati...
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413,06 zł |
A World Atlas of Military History 1861-1945
ISBN: 9780306803321 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With a large index, concise commentary, and dozen of charts of statistics, this book can serve as a basic reference and a unique perspective on a turbulent era of military history.
With a large index, concise commentary, and dozen of charts of statistics, this book can serve as a basic reference and a unique perspective on a turb...
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127,66 zł |
The Best Poor Man's Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania
ISBN: 9780393008043 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book deserves careful attention. . . . Lemon is a professional geographer, but historians will read his book as an imaginative approach to social history. . . . He demonstrates that geography, quite as much as demography, child psychology, or the sociology of the family, can organize and interpret data that has remained intractable to more conventional methodologies. . . . The Best Poor Man s Country is a distinguished and important book, a fitting addition to the recent Chesapeake studies of Aubrey Land and the New England efforts of Greven, Lockridge, John Demos, and Sumner Chilton...
This book deserves careful attention. . . . Lemon is a professional geographer, but historians will read his book as an imaginative approach to social...
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108,19 zł |
The Atlas of African Affairs
ISBN: 9780415054881 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Atlas of African Affairs is divided into five sections dealing with environmental, historical, political and economic issues and with Southern Africa. Throughout, the book presents an interdisciplinary, integrated perspective on African affairs. Most of the chapters deal with continent-wide themes and are illustrated by maps of Africa as a whole drawn to a standardized outline of the same map projection and scale. Other chapters, often by way of example, discuss parts of the continent or individual countries and are illustrated with appropriate maps. The basic format of integrated text...
The Atlas of African Affairs is divided into five sections dealing with environmental, historical, political and economic issues and with Southern Afr...
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259,30 zł |
Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780415066891 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Marshalling 129 maps, numerous diagrams and incisive textual commentary, the Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century draws a definitive picture of the changing shape of Eastern and some of central Europe from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, charting the emergence of a volatile world from the abrupt collapse of the communist system. An invaluable guide to a complex subject, this Atlas:
* gives a general introduction to the physical, ethnic and religious composition of the region * includes summary maps of Eastern Europe in 1900, 1923,... Marshalling 129 maps, numerous diagrams and incisive textual commentary, the Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century draws a definit...
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700,25 zł |
The Americas : World Boundaries Volume 4
ISBN: 9780415088367 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Americas offers a wide-ranging and original interpretaion of matters relating to territory, boundaries and societies in the American continent.
The Americas offers a wide-ranging and original interpretaion of matters relating to territory, boundaries and societies in the American continent.
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907,73 zł |