People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty... Zobraziť viac
Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective, for fans of William Dalrymple, David Olusoga and Peter Frankopan... Zobraziť viac
The New York Public Library unveils 500 years of documentation of one of the earth’s most inhospitable regions... Zobraziť viac
A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to leave their mark on one of the great capitals of the classical world... Zobraziť viac
A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions... Zobraziť viac
A compelling and masterly account of the D-Day landings from the No. 1 bestselling historian Max Hastings, author of Vietnam and Operation Pedestal... Zobraziť viac
The generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture... Zobraziť viac
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever... Zobraziť viac
'Endlessly captivating' - Tracy Borman'Tantalising' - Gill Hornby'More scandal than Bridgerton's Lady Whistledown' - Helena KellyThe carriages have rolled back into town, cards of invitation are propped up on chimney-pieces, and match-making mamas are plo Zobraziť viac
An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean... Zobraziť viac
Slovanská knihovna v Praze byla založena roku 1924 ministerstvem zahraničních věcí. Měla vytvářet informační zázemí pro souběžně vznikající Slovanský ústav a současně shromažďovat a... Zobraziť viac
From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the exploration... Zobraziť viac
Třetí část projektu někdejších "tajných" cirkulárních instrukcí a informací ministerstva zahraničí z let komunistického režimu - v pořadí již šestý svazek edice - přináší kritické vydání více než 920 dokumentů z let 1981-1985... Zobraziť viac
Čtvrtý díl ediční řady o pomnících první světové války "Tatíčku, vrať se k nám!" je věnován Děčínsku a Ústecku, oblasti s dřívější převahou německy hovořícího obyvatelstva... Zobraziť viac
Dvadsiate štvrté číslo Almanachu Slováci v Poľsku prináša z odborného, časového i tematického hľadiska širokú škálu článkov a štúdií, ktoré pojednávajú o minulosti slovenskej komunity v Poľsku či udalostiach a materiálnej i duchovnej kultúre... Zobraziť viac
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos... Zobraziť viac
Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today... Zobraziť viac
A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensation... Zobraziť viac
The sweeping story of one of the great epics of Europe's history: the rise and rise of the dynasty that dominated the Middle Ages... Zobraziť viac
This gripping book is the story of Ukraine’s Nazi occupation, told by one ordinary, brave child... Zobraziť viac
