A panoramic study of strategy throughout world civilization, from Ancient Greece through to the nuclear age. Selected as a "Financial Times" Best Book of 2013, it is now published in a new 2nd edition. 'Arguably the best book ever written on strategy (... Zobraziť viac
An illustrated guide to our astonishing new understanding of dinosaurs, with the latest science and the most accurate and visually stunning palaeoart. Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were – or at least, they didn’t look like you thought they ... Zobraziť viac
A beautifully illustrated and unique history of the rose-the "queen of flowers"-in art, medicine, cuisine, and more"Rich in fascinating cultural history, Rosa takes us on a joyous visual romp through the stories and symbolism of the most iconic of all gar Zobraziť viac
A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving... Zobraziť viac
An Economist Best History Book 2017 "History as it should be written."-Barry Cunliffe, Guardian "Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civilization and political order... Zobraziť viac
Berlin, 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use - long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws - is rampant throughout the city... Zobraziť viac
In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man... Zobraziť viac
Bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe in a vibrant exploration of cloth through the ages. She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes... Zobraziť viac
Tsey odyn iz naypopulyarnishykh u svitoviy literaturi romaniv spochatku publikuvavsya okremymy rozdilamy v hazeti «Le Sʹyeklʹ» z bereznya po lypenʹ 1844 roku yak tradytsiynyy roman z prodovzhennyam, rozdily yakoho obryvalysya na naytsikavis Zobraziť viac
A sweeping history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe, from the acclaimed author of The Eagle Unbowed... Zobraziť viac
Philosophy begins with the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them just how little... Zobraziť viac
London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. It was a century of genius - of Blake, ... Zobraziť viac
Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries... Zobraziť viac
Did you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? ... Zobraziť viac
Milan Rastislav Štefánik gehört zweifellos zu den bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten der slowakischen Geschichte. Dieses Buch gewährt Ihnen Einblick in mehrere – darunter auch bisher unbeachtete – Seiten seines Lebens. Dank der einzigartigen... Zobraziť viac
An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world's leading intellectual historians and social ethicists The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a ... Zobraziť viac
Anglická verzia diela O koľko lásky som prišla. Rozprávanie o živote pred vojnou a o prežití rasovo prenasledovanej rodiny v priebehu II. svetovej vojny. Príbeh o spôsobe života, o tragických stratách, o strachu, o utrpení aj o odvahe... Zobraziť viac
In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams greatly admired the Persian Empire, while Iranians regarded America as an ideal their own government might emulate. Beginning there, how did they become the enemies they are today... Zobraziť viac
"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that "China"-and its 5,000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day... Zobraziť viac
Ovid’s deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition... Zobraziť viac
