Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin... Zobraziť viac
Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, at the intersection of ancient trade routes... Zobraziť viac
The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes... Zobraziť viac
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past. In prose that is, at once, both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera shows how... Zobraziť viac
Kniha Sedmkrát o Brně historiků Jiřího Čejky a Dany Olivové předkládá čtenáři v sedmi kapitolách sedm historických obrazů Brna. V jednotlivých kapitolách jsou slovem i obrazem zachyceny důležitější momenty historických dějů, z nichž některé svým... Zobraziť viac
The remains of Tai Fu's lost collection Kuang-i chi preserve three hundred short tales of encounters with the other world. This study analyses these tales. Zobraziť viac
Subtitled, "The Last Years Of The British Empire In India". A narrative history of the final years of the British presence in India, arguing that it laid the foundation for the violence between India and Pakistan. Zobraziť viac
This book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes in the post-Cold War era. Zobraziť viac
A new edition of Paul Fussell's literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, now a classic text of literary and cultural criticism. Zobraziť viac
Writers, Readers, and Reputations explores the literary world in which the modern best-seller first emerged. Writers were promoted as celebrities, advertising both products and themselves. Philip Waller's detailed and entertaining study is a... Zobraziť viac
A team of leading scholars survey the development of philosophy in the period of extraordinary intellectual change from the mid-16th century to the early 18th century. They cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and... Zobraziť viac
Offers insight into the key economic, social, and political developments that have shaped both the individual countries of South Asia and the region as a whole. Zobraziť viac
In The Archaeology of Early Egypt, David Wengrow provides a new interpretation of the emergence of farming economies and the dynastic state c. 10,0002,650 BC. Comparison with neighbouring regions brings the dynamics of prehistoric social development... Zobraziť viac
Jednými zo špecializovaných kolesových vozidiel sú také, ktoré boli navrhnuté pre operácie na súši aj na vodnej hladine. Tieto vozidlá sa nikdy príliš neuplatnili na komerčnom trhu, ale vojenské zložky vždy o ne mali záujem... Zobraziť viac
Inspired by the influential text What Is History? authored by Helen Carr’s great-grandfather, E.H. Carr, and published on the 60th anniversary of that book, this is a groundbreaking new... Zobraziť viac
Publikace Around the Globe. Rethinking Oral History with Its Protagonists přináší rozhovory s třinácti významnými osobnostmi, které se zabývají orální historií. Profesor Miroslav Vaněk formou interview zaznamenal nejen části... Zobraziť viac
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart... Zobraziť viac
Even before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp. Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York, somewhere anything could happen or at least be believed... Zobraziť viac
The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish ... Zobraziť viac
Napoleon's Plunder tells the remarkable story of Bonaparte's obsessive accrual of the spoils of war - his hoarding of art, artefacts and treasures from across the world, ostensibly taken for the French nation, but also very much for his own... Zobraziť viac
