Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries,including suggestions for discussion... Zobraziť viac
#1 New York Times Bestseller The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century... Zobraziť viac
Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, ... Zobraziť viac
The gripping account of how the royal family really operates. Valentine Low, royal correspondent for The Times, asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, with Charles now crowned as King, what will happen next? ... Zobraziť viac
Growing up in the safety of England, far away from his family’s past, Jonathan Wittenberg had never asked too many questions about his ancestors, although his father had told him Hitler murdered millions of people and ‘turned thousands of them into bars o Zobraziť viac
New York City entered 1986 as a city reborn, with record profits on Wall Street sending waves of money splashing across Manhattan and bringing a once-bankrupt and reeling city back to life.But it also entered 1986 as a city divided. Nearly one-third of... Zobraziť viac
Tennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem 'Morte d'Arthur' he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in two periods of intense creativity over nearly twenty years. Idylls... Zobraziť viac
By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage,... Zobraziť viac
A new history of the letter that changed the history of the Middle East Zobraziť viac
Renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late eighteenth century, fragmented, mutilated, and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world... Zobraziť viac
3,6 rentgenu není žádná hrůza... Prožijte příběh nejhorší jaderné havárie v dějinách lidstva v unikátním propojení faktografie a cestopisu. Vydejte se s Andrewem do opuštěné Pripjati a do Černobylské jaderné elektrárny... Zobraziť viac
Veľkolepý román o láske, nezávislosti a ceste za šťastím. Román neprekonateľného majstra napätia a dramatických zvratov sa odohráva v turbulentnom období sociálnych zmien v Európe na konci 18. storočia... Zobraziť viac
Bitva u Zborova je nejvýznamnějším vystoupením čs. legionářů v 1. světové válce. Tato výpravná publikace přináší veškeré dostupné informace, rozdělené do tří částí. První část tvoří popis situace v Rusku v roce 1917... Zobraziť viac
Strhující příběh jednoho z nejuznávanějších japonských prozaiků podle skutečných událostí Výměnou za právo obchodovat s Latinskou Amerikou se skupina samurajů vydává spolu s františkánským knězem na cestu do křesťanského... Zobraziť viac
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears... Zobraziť viac
It's 1961 and the white heat of the Space Race is making the Cold War even colder.The age of global surveillance dawns. Secret agent Richard Knox has been hung out to dry by someone in MI5 and he needs to find the traitor in their midst... Zobraziť viac
Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel of feminism, existentialism, and self-realization is an essential read for all lovers of classic literature... Zobraziť viac
Suzi Ronson was working in a Beckenham hair salon in the early '70s when Mrs Jones came in for her weekly shampoo and set. After being introduced to her son David and his wife Angie... Zobraziť viac
Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where snow never falls? ... Zobraziť viac
