This comparative study analyzes the ways that Central European writers used stereotypes of the Turks to develop their national identities from the early modern period to the present. Charles D. Sabatos uses Andre Gingrich's concept of "frontier... Zobraziť viac
A study of the archaeology and history of ancient harbours, with particular focus on the Greek world during the Archaic and Classical eras. It questions what locations were the most propitious for the installation of harbours; what kinds of harbour-... Zobraziť viac
Taschen; Taschen 25th anniversary ed edition (28 Oct 2005): TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Famous Manuscripts... Zobraziť viac
Taschen; Taschen 25th anniversary ed edition (28 Oct 2005): What do we really know about our ancestors? Not about the rulers... Zobraziť viac
The gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an acclaimed historian and writer. On the morning of 26 April... Zobraziť viac
The Atlas Maior, the cartographical masterpiece of the Baroque period, was brought out between 1662 and 1665 by the Amsterdam publisher Joan Blaeu, one of Holland’s leading cartographers... Zobraziť viac
Phaidon Press: After the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th 2001, the world-renowned... Zobraziť viac
New, expanded edition: the world´s best full-colour travel guides just got better. This volume in the award-winning... Zobraziť viac
Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw. The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire ... Zobraziť viac
Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson... Zobraziť viac
The gripping story of how - and against what odds - the perpetrators of Balkan genocide were subjected to the most... Zobraziť viac
A star-studded roster of iconic women write powerfully about what it means to be a feminist yesterday, today, and tomorrow. These poets, essayists, activists, actors, and professors address topics ranging from workplace harassment ... Zobraziť viac
Unregulated capitalism is bad for women. Socialism, if done properly, leads to economic independence, better labour conditions, better work/family balance and, yes, even better sex... Zobraziť viac
The life and culture of Hapsburg Vienna before World War I the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. An independent work...challenging, new, and useful. New York Times Book Review. Zobraziť viac
In this work, Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian... Zobraziť viac
Examines the role of Deutsche Bank during the Nazi dictatorship. Zobraziť viac
Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin—such is the... Zobraziť viac
In recent years historians of China have focused increased attention on the critical decades of National rule on the mainland. This recent scholarship has substantially modified our understanding of the political events of this momentous period,... Zobraziť viac
Aesthetics is not a "factual" discipline; there are no aesthetic facts. The word itself is derived from the Greek word for "feeling" and the discipline arises because of the need to find a place for the passions within epistemology the branch of... Zobraziť viac
