At the heart of this history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty are the lives of six men - Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius and Nero - men who mastered Rome and changed it from a democracy to a personal possession... 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
Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more... Zobraziť viac
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's fable of revolutionary farm animals - the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep ... Zobraziť viac
The original mindfulness book, in a landmark new translation by the award-winning translator of the I Ching and The Art of War... Zobraziť viac
Autoři této kolektivní práce se pokoušejí zmapovat základní kontury vývoje evropské historiografi e soudobých dějin. Historiografie soudobých dějin přestala být pro badatele i pro čtenářské uživatele brzy po konci studené války přehledná... Zobraziť viac
Covering the period from the rise of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC to the eve of the Battle of Actium, this book offers a narrative of this crucial phase of Roman history, making the conflict "within" the Roman state to the exclusion of other material... Zobraziť viac
**With a Foreword by Steve McQueen**‘Rigorously researched, yet reads like a novel you can’t put down’ LUCY WORSLEY‘Joshua Levine is a fantastic and passionate individual. I highly recommend him for the breadth of knowledge he has’&... Zobraziť viac
The most famous memoir of its kind and a key text in the anti-slavery movement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass tells the striking and emotionally charged story of one man's journey from slavery to freedom. Complete & Unabridged. Part of... Zobraziť viac
From the Sunday Times No. 1 Bestselling Author Douglas Murray, international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the Palestinian cause is u ... Zobraziť viac
When one's heart breaks, that is life getting in. Life making room.A heart-stopping family epic of grief and hope, and one family blown apart - across the globe, across time, across parallel possibilities - by war.For the Alterman family, Fania and... Zobraziť viac
In the course of human history there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-45. Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian deaths in the period now stand at more than 25 million. In Russia's War, ... Zobraziť viac
Pre-order book 11 of Ladybird expert history of The second world war, from award-winning historian James Holland... Zobraziť viac
From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain. Between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed... Zobraziť viac
"Supernatural: of or relating to things that cannot be explained according to natural laws." Less than 50,000 years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying... Zobraziť viac
Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals... Zobraziť viac
A user's guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole... Zobraziť viac
Born a poor nomad in an unforgiving world, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan transformed the thirteenth century, ultimately ruling an empire that would stretch from Korea to Crimea and Syria to Siberia... Zobraziť viac
From the esoteric account of the evolution of the species to the occult roots of science, from the secrets of the Flood to the esoteric motives behind American foreign policy, ... Zobraziť viac
Stále více hlasů, které ještě dovedou vyprávět o dětství ve 40. a 50. letech minulého století, umlká. Ve svých vzpomínkách na dětství nás Helmut Birkhan, dlouholetý badatel v oboru medievalistiky na Univerzitě ve Vídni... Zobraziť viac
