The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the most momentous times in the history of Britain, and Londoners took center... Zobraziť viac
Discover all the foul facts about the TERRIFYING TUDORS, including who invited Elizabeth I to see his brand new toilet, what you get when you sew the front of a chicken to the back of a pig and how to catch jail... Zobraziť viac
A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies... Zobraziť viac
This commentary on the Chinese masterpiece, The Classic of Tea, offers a fascinating perspective on this ancient pastime and art.The Classic of Tea, the first known monograph on tea in the world, was written in... Zobraziť viac
A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America's past and present, by one of the leading scholars of policing and mass incarceration in the USBetween 1964 and 1972, the United States endured domestic violence on a... Zobraziť viac
The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and the company's epic unraveling from the journalists who first broke the story wide open. In 2001, Adam Neumann arrived in New York after five years as a conscript in the Israeli navy... Zobraziť viac
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that... Zobraziť viac
History didn't listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out ... A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, celebratory speeches, rousing speeches to inspire soldiers to fight to the death, ... Zobraziť viac
Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies in America, Africa and India... Zobraziť viac
A magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial political movements. Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It's usually seen as meaning chaos and disorder - or even nothing at all... Zobraziť viac
In war, there is no easy victory. When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its ramifications continue to reverberate through the ... Zobraziť viac
Císař František Josef I. vtiskl době svého panování výraznou pečeť a stal se posléze ztělesněním starého Rakouska 19. století. Pozvednut na trůn v roce 1848 jako mladý princ, vládl císařství pevnou rukou plných 68 let. Zobraziť viac
The Jerrycan, prolific in its use for nearly 80 years after its birth, deserves a specific and thorough study of its origins in Germany. Never addressed in a single work and prefaced by the grandson of one of the founding developers of the receptacle... Zobraziť viac
Kniha nie je monografia a nezahŕňa v sebe kompletné informácie o Tatrách. Napriek tomu má cez 1500 strán, obsahuje cez 5800 hesiel. Nemala chýbať v knižnici žiadneho milovníka (nie len histórie) Tatier... Zobraziť viac
During the first and second millennia BCE a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into the Eurasian periphery. One group of these people would find themselves encamped in an unpromising, arid region just south of the Caspian Sea... Zobraziť viac
Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History In a sweeping narrative, Peter Cozzens tells the gripping story of the wars that destroyed native ways of life as the American nation continued its expansion onto tribal lands after the Civil War... Zobraziť viac
China, Korea and Japan are the neighbours who love to hate each other. But why? Europe has forgiven Germany’s war crimes, why can’t Japan’s neighbours do likewise? To what extent do the ongoing state-level disputes about island ownership, war history, ... Zobraziť viac
In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it... Zobraziť viac
Jak vypadala Praha během posledních sto let, jak se její obyvatelé bavili, jaké osobnosti v ní žily, to představuje jedinečný soubor dokumentárních fotografií, pohlednic a plakátů, doplněný zasvěcenýmy komentáři o historickém pozadí 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
