Yuval Noah Harari, einer der aufregendsten Denker der Gegenwart, erzählt in seinen ersten beiden Büchern von Aufstieg des Homo Sapiens zum Herrn der Welt und von der Zukunft unserer Spezies. Nun schaut er auf das Hier und Jetzt und widmet sich... Zobraziť viac
In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Wester Zobraziť viac
From the watch Napoleon used to synchronize with his generals at Waterloo and Chinese David vases believed to be the oldest example of blue and white porcelain to the US Constitution and the Mayan Dresden codex... Zobraziť viac
Toto vkusné vydání brněnských pověstí vychází ze sbírky Leopolda Masura, která vyšla roku 1934 v tehdejším Československu. Pozornost čtenáře upoutá tato sbírka v porovnání s jinými knihami pověstí díky siluetám, mapám... Zobraziť viac
In the early 1950s, teenage Seymour Hersh was finishing high school and university - while running the family's struggling dry cleaning store in a Southside Chicago ghetto. Today, he is one of America's premier investigative journalists... Zobraziť viac
This beautifully illustrated multicultural children's book tells a story about China's most famous archealogiclal site—the terracotta soldiers of Xi'an. When a special exhibition of terracotta warriors comes to town... Zobraziť viac
From the demonstrations for democracy, through the beginnings of the Free Syrian Army, to the arrival of ISIS, the author offers remarkable snapshots of soldiers, of children, of old men and women simply trying to stay alive... Zobraziť viac
In I Never Knew That About New York Christopher Winn digs beneath the gleaming towers and mean streets of New York and discovers its secrets and its hidden treasures. Learn about the extraordinary people who built New York into one... Zobraziť viac
Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art," who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradèany hill... Zobraziť viac
In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common - murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city; Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic... Zobraziť viac
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys... Zobraziť viac
Titul je v anglickom jazyku. Obrazovo-textová publikácia predstavuje samostatné mapové diela, atlasy, grafické zobrazenia miest (veduty), ako aj historicko-politickú spisbu, ilustračné výpravné vydanie encyklopedického charakteru, mestské... Zobraziť viac
What to do with the fragments of a love affair? A postcard from a childhood sweetheart. A wedding dress in a jar. Barbed wire. Silicone breast implants. Red stilettos, never worn. These objects and many others make up the inspiring, whimsical, sometimes Zobraziť viac
In this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift in our view of Stalin as an ally in the Second World War. Stalin's only difference from Hitler, he argues, was that he was a successful murderous predator... Zobraziť viac
Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, was the largest military operation in history, its aim nothing less than 'a war of extermination' to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and... Zobraziť viac
'This is a bold book. Nick Lloyd has written a tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . .. Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War' Lawrence James... Zobraziť viac
'Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music' Daniel Levitin 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. 66 million years ago was the first melody.... Zobraziť viac
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos? ... Zobraziť viac
How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period - the first recent war fought for something less than total victory... Zobraziť viac
As Tony Judt argues persuasively in Reappraisals, we have entered an "age of forgetting.” Today's world is so utterly... Zobraziť viac
