ilość książek w kategorii: 39365
Seville, Córdoba, and Granada: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780195182033 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Spain's southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to its sybaritic spirit. For all their fame as passionate performers, the poet Unamuno called Sevillanos "finos y frios"-refined and cool. Once Europe's most cosmopolitan metropolis, bridging cultures of East and West and hub of a sea-borne empire, Seville was defined by Spain's great seventeenth-century playwright Lope de Vega as "port and gateway to the Indies." The city retains both the swagger of its seafaring heyday, and the sensual flavor of...
Spain's southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to...
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1030,89 zł |
The Road to Oxiana
ISBN: 9780195325607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Throughout, he kept a thoroughly captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures. His story would become a best-selling travel book throughout the English-speaking world, until the acclaim died down and it was gradually forgotten. When Paul Fussell published his own book Abroad, in 1982, he wrote that The Road to Oxiana is to the...
In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran...
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73,06 zł |
Catalonia
ISBN: 9780195327977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is tormented, too. Michael Eaude traces this history and it monuments: roman Tarragona, celebrated by the poet Martial; Greek Empuries, lost for centuries beneath the sands; medieval Romanesque architecture in the Vall de Bo: i churches (a World Heritage Series) and Poblet and Santes Creus monasteries. He tells the stories of several of...
Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens...
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240,09 zł |
Zagreb: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780195327991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For most of its history, Zagreb was a small town to which big things happened. It has been ruled by Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, threatened by the Ottomans, and absorbed into Yugoslavia. Today it is the capital city of the newly independent Croatia.
In Zagreb: A Cultural History, Celia Hawkesworth guides us through a modern city that reflects all the important trends in Central European culture, architecture, and fashion. We visit the city's center, a beautiful "green horseshoe," graced with trees and public gardens, and lined with imposing buildings. Hawkesworth explores... For most of its history, Zagreb was a small town to which big things happened. It has been ruled by Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, threatened by t...
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137,36 zł |
Last Voyages: Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh
ISBN: 9780198128946 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The narratives of the voyages of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean era have delighted readers over the centuries as stirring accounts of the daring of empire-builders. In the belief that in our post-imperial era these writings can be seen as a powerful and special kind of literature, having kinship with the great fictional tragedies of the period, Philip Edwards here collects the contemporary accounts of three famous "last voyages." Written by the participants themselves--leaders, mutineers, young gentlemen, and a poet and mathematician--the narratives recount moving stories of endeavor and...
The narratives of the voyages of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean era have delighted readers over the centuries as stirring accounts of the daring o...
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249,69 zł |
The Spartan Tradition in European Thought
ISBN: 9780198147336 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political and educational thought of Renaissance Italy, the France of the Philosophes, Whig England, and Nazi Germany. This book outlines the little we know of ancient Sparta, describes Greek reaction to the ambiguous institutions of the great rival to democratic Athens, makes a first attempt to follow the subsequent fortunes of the debate, and indicates Sparta's role--over twenty-five centuries--in the intellectual history of Europe.
Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political and educational thought of Ren...
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445,35 zł |
Frauen, Fische, Fjorde : Deutsche Einwanderinnen in Island. Vorwort von Kristín Steinsdóttir
ISBN: 9783492406093 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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82,40 zł |
Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape
ISBN: 9780226101408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Chicago whose motto is City in a Garden is currently at the forefront of a global movement to end the division between town and country. In" Chicago s Urban Nature," Sally A. Kitt Chappell provides a beautifully illustrated guide to the city s stunning blend of nature and architecture.
At the heart of this new urban concept is the idea of connection, bringing buildings and landscapes, culture and nature, commerce and leisure into an energetic harmony. With "Chicago s Urban Nature" in hand, you ll see those connections woven through the fabric of the city. Chappell provides new insights... Chicago whose motto is City in a Garden is currently at the forefront of a global movement to end the division between town and country. In" Chicago s...
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84,84 zł |
They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today
ISBN: 9780226104256 / Angielski / Miękka / 1956 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Edward Chiera was that most remarkable of men, a competent and respected scholar possessed of an ardent desire to make his research readily and entertainingly available to laymen. More remarkable, Chiera had extraordinary gifts to equal to his desire. "They Wrote on Clay" combines fascinatingly the fruits of sound and painstaking archeology with the natural-born storyteller's art. As transmitted by Chiera, the message of the recently discovered Babylonian clay tablets becomes an absorbing exrusion into the common life of a vanished civilization. Few will read "They Wrote on Clay" without...
Edward Chiera was that most remarkable of men, a competent and respected scholar possessed of an ardent desire to make his research readily and entert...
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159,08 zł |
Mammals of South America, Volume 1: Marsupials, Xenarthrans, Shrews, and Bats
ISBN: 9780226282404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 690 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The vast terrain between Panama and Tierra del Fuego contains some of the world's richest mammalian fauna, but until now it has lacked a comprehensive systematic reference to the identification, distribution, and taxonomy of its mammals. The first such book of its kind and the inaugural volume in a three-part series, Mammals of South America both summarizes existing information and encourages further research of the mammals indigenous to the region. Containing identification keys and brief descriptions of each order, family, and genus, the first volume of Mammals of South America...
The vast terrain between Panama and Tierra del Fuego contains some of the world's richest mammalian fauna, but until now it has lacked a comprehensive...
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503,74 zł |
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
ISBN: 9780226452388 / Angielski / Miękka / 1971 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them.
Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy... The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was prob...
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127,26 zł |
White Waters and Black
ISBN: 9780226500188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. With a wicked eye for absurdities, Gordon MacCreagh recounts his adventures with eight "Eminent Scientificos" as they set out to explore the Amazon in 1923 without any idea of what lies ahead of them: rapids, malaria, monkey stew, and "dangerous savages." A combination of Twain's The Innocents Abroad and a cautionary tale for explorers, this is one of the most honest accounts ever written of a scientific expedition.
With a wicked eye for absurdities, Gordon MacCreagh recounts his adventures with eight "Eminent Scientificos" as they set out to explore the Amazon in...
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111,35 zł |
The Creature in the Map
ISBN: 9780226580258 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "This brilliantly written reconstruction of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1595 South American journey combines painstaking scholarship, vivid travelogue, and an intuitive sensitivity for the many meanings of the El Dorado myth. . . . Nicholl brings this six-week expedition to life. . . . A rare treat for both intellect and imagination."-Kirkus Reviews
"Walter Raleigh . . . was one of those Elizabethan all-rounders who still seem staggeringly larger than life. . . . Mr. Nicholl's cogent reconstruction of the journey uses Raleigh's own account, 'The Discoverie of Guiana'-part truth, part... "This brilliantly written reconstruction of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1595 South American journey combines painstaking scholarship, vivid travelogue, and a...
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137,87 zł |
People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character
ISBN: 9780226676333 / Angielski / Miękka / 1958 / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a "people of plenty" a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this phenomenon and in his approach to the question of national character. He brings a fresh historical perspective to bear on the vital work done in this field by anthropologists, social psychologists, and psychoanalysts.
"The rejection of hindsight, with the insistence on trying to see events from the point of... America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a "people of plenty" a people whose distincti...
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148,47 zł |
Readings in Russian Civilization Volume I: Russia Before Peter the Great, 900-1700
ISBN: 9780226718538 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "This new and enlarged version of "Readings in Russian Civilization" is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which 2 appear in English for the first time. In the second volume there are 6 new items; all of them appear in English for the first time. The third volume has undergone the greatest revision, with 11 new items, of which 6 are newly translated from the Russian. It is the editor's hope that items left out in the new edition will not be sorely...
"This new and enlarged version of "Readings in Russian Civilization" is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items...
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148,47 zł |
Readings in Russian Civilization Volume II: Imperial Russia, 1700-1917
ISBN: 9780226718552 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "This new and enlarged version of "Readings in Russian Civilization" is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which 2 appear in English for the first time. In the second volume there are 6 new items; all of them appear in English for the first time. The third volume has undergone the greatest revision, with 11 new items, of which 6 are newly translated from the Russian. It is the editor's hope that items left out in the new edition will not be sorely...
"This new and enlarged version of "Readings in Russian Civilization" is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items...
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159,08 zł |
Readings in Russian Civilization Volume III: Soviet Russia, 1917-1963
ISBN: 9780226718576 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which 2 appear in English for the first time. In the second volume there are 6 new items; all of them appear in English for the first time. The third volume has undergone the greatest revision, with 11 new items, of which 6 are newly translated from the Russian. It is the editor's hope that items left out in the new edition will not be...
"This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 ...
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174,98 zł |
Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela
ISBN: 9780226731278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain, Conrad Rudolph made the passage to the holy site of Santiago de Compostela, one of the most important modern-day pilgrimage destinations for Westerners. In this chronicle of his travels to this captivating place, Rudolph melds the ancient and the contemporary, the spiritual and the physical, in a book that is at once travel guide, literary work, historical study, and memoir.
Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain, Conrad Rudolph made the pas...
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68,93 zł |
The Culture of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9780226901527 / Angielski / Miękka / 1956 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The story of Egypt is the story of history itself--the endless rise and fall, the life and death and life again of the eternal human effort to endure, enjoy, and understand the mystery of our universe. Emerging from the ancient mists of time, Egypt met the challenge of the mystery in a glorious evolution of religious, intellectual, and political institutions and for two millenniums flourished with all the vigor that the human heart can invest in a social and cultural order. Then Egypt began to crumble into the desert sands and the waters of the Nile, and her remarkable achievements in...
The story of Egypt is the story of history itself--the endless rise and fall, the life and death and life again of the eternal human effort to endure,...
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68,93 zł |
The Enchantments of Britain: King Arthur's Round Table of the Stars
ISBN: 9780227678329 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of essays tracing the ideas and history behind the great Zodiac of Glastonbury, bringing together sources from religion, mythology and history to weave a complex and fascinating story.
A collection of essays tracing the ideas and history behind the great Zodiac of Glastonbury, bringing together sources from religion, mythology and hi...
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79,62 zł |