Harry Mount and John Davie unlock the wisdom of the past in this light-hearted and fascinating book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better in the present... Zobraziť viac
Winston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be ‘great’, to gain historical immortality. And he did so through deeds and words: his actions as a soldier and politician, gilded by his writings as a journalist and historian... Zobraziť viac
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other... Zobraziť viac
A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives... Zobraziť viac
Creatures like Lilith, the seductive first wife of Adam, and mermaids, who lured sailors to their death, are familiar figures in the genre of monstrous temptresses who use their charms to entice men to their doom... Zobraziť viac
The Ticket Collector from Belarus tells the remarkable story of two interwoven journeys. Ben-Zion Blustein and Andrei Sawoniuk were childhood friends in 1930s Domachevo, a holiday and health resort in what is now Belarus... Zobraziť viac
The powerful rediscovered masterpiece of Kyiv during the Second World War, told by a young boy who saw it all... Zobraziť viac
Anglický překlad doprovodné publikace k výstavě „Václav IV. Král na rozhraní věků. 600 let od úmrtí římského a českého krále“, jež byla uspořádána v prostorách Karolina v září až listopadu 2019. Zobraziť viac
A collection of the world's most mind-boggling, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious theories... Zobraziť viac
Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. We are so accustomed to living in a forest of monuments, to having the past represented to us through museums, historic sites, and public sculpture, that we easily lose... Zobraziť viac
A brilliant overview of the history and politics of the Middle East over the last two centuries, from Napoleon's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to the painful emergence of modern nations... Zobraziť viac
Over the centuries, the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book,... Zobraziť viac
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the Caudillo of Spain from the Nationalists' brutal, Fascist-sponsored victory over the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War until his quiet death in 1975, is the subject of this book. The biography presents a... Zobraziť viac
"History and Computing" introduces its readers to the history and practice of historical computing. While functioning as a practical introduction to the field, this book is designed also to raise awareness of the use of computers as an important tool... Zobraziť viac
This volume in The Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty (1368 1644). Zobraziť viac
14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum.The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill... Zobraziť viac
Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before... Zobraziť viac
A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended... Zobraziť viac
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things... Zobraziť viac
'The Flood didn't come suddenly as a big surprise. It came at the end of a long, tormented story. Men just went on multiplying and the noise they made was ever more irksome... Zobraziť viac
