Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent." The former Americas editor for the Economist, ... Zobraziť viac
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution... Zobraziť viac
First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology... Zobraziť viac
A stunning elegy to a vanished time, Caroline Heller’s memoir traces the lives of her parents, her uncle, and their circle of intellectuals and dreamers from Central Europe on the eve of World War II to present-day America... Zobraziť viac
Heralded by stunning reviews, Perlstein's best-selling Nixonland begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots - one week after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, and nine months after his historic... Zobraziť viac
Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin-such is the environment in which Andrei A. Kovalev lived and worked. In this memoir of his time as a successful diplomat serving in... Zobraziť viac
A journey in search of one of the most elusive creatures on the planet... Zobraziť viac
We are all too familiar with the stories of Jews who were tortured and killed in concentration camps throughout the Third Reich. But less is known about the persecution of Polish prisoners housed in Majdanek... Zobraziť viac
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier... Zobraziť viac
Učebnica dejepisu je napísaná v súlade s platným iŠVP, jeho obsahovým a výkonovým štandardom. Zodpovedá časovej dotácii pre daný predmet. Učebnica vystihuje základné vývinové charakteristiky miestnych, regionálnych, národných, globálnych historických... Zobraziť viac
Zibranyy z 3000 rokiv istoriyi vlady, tse ostatochnyy posibnyk, yakyy dopomozhe chytacham dosyahty toho, choho koroleva Yelyzaveta I, Lyudovyk XIV i Makiavelli navchylysya na vazhkomu shlyakhu. Zakon 1: Nikoly ne zatʹmaryuy hospodarya Zakon 2: Nikoly Zobraziť viac
Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came to define some of the key developments of the early modern world... Zobraziť viac
Say the word “work,” and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most people—whether in colonies, developing countries, or the industrialized world... Zobraziť viac
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development... Zobraziť viac
Yorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting... Zobraziť viac
An accessible, comprehensive, freshly-updated celebration of the vast range of human artistry from 28,000 BC to today Brought completely up to date for this revised edition and now available in a compact new format, this new edition of Phaidon's ... 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 original new way of appreciating the vast series of events that have shaped world history, allowing complete and quick comparability between different periods and regions... Zobraziť viac
Czech immigrants traveled to the unknown beyond the Atlantic in several waves. Some came to America in search of religious and political freedom, while others simply sought a better life in a country of great opportunities. Today we know that without... Zobraziť viac
Meet famous explorers and adventurers in this exciting non-fiction storybook for children. Venture into steaming jungles in search of lost temples, fight off frostbite in the Arctic, and blast off into space!Great explorers have one thing in common... Zobraziť viac
