Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? How fast was the medieval Chinese post system? How do we know how people sounded in the past? Who invented maths... Zobraziť viac
Vibrant, feminist and unexpected, Cathy Newman rewrites the history books to expose this strange power of two – and to ask why certain collaborators are so often left out of the narrative... Zobraziť viac
In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in Washington DC when an unusual job interview landed her in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers. She joined the... Zobraziť viac
У цій книзі видатний китайський генерал Сунь-цзи дає розуміння, що відбувається до, під час і після битви. Він говорить про підготовку — планування, виявлення слабких сторін, розробку атаки тощо. Важливим аспектом є вибір місцевості... Zobraziť viac
The author is among the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the failed and desperate state of Somalia. In this book, he takes us to the heart of the struggle, meeting everyone from politicians, pirates... Zobraziť viac
Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. In To Obama, Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, ... Zobraziť viac
The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation. Anne Glenconner reveals the real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama, tragedy and courage, with the wonderful wit... Zobraziť viac
The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the obliteration of Hiroshima by the dropping of the first atom bomb... Zobraziť viac
V meziválečné době nejznámější Češka ve světě. Senátorka. Předsedkyně Ženské národní rady. Čím chtěla své zemi, zvláště ženám, prospět? O čem se hovořilo na mezinárodních ženských fórech? Jak žila, s kým se přátelila? „Kterak ji popsat! Skvělá, hluboká... Zobraziť viac
Two fundamental questions about the Holocaust must be answered: How did it happen? And why? More completely than any other single work of history yet published, Laurence Rees's Holocaust definitively answers them... Zobraziť viac
The First World War was unique in being fought largely in trenches. Men ate, slept, fought, played, sang, prayed, and died in the trenches. This book brings together a collection of postcards which portray this strange subterranean world in ... Zobraziť viac
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields... Zobraziť viac
In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar, Shahpur Edalji, is a Parsi convert to Christianity and the first Indian to have a parish... Zobraziť viac
The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease... Zobraziť viac
The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose... Zobraziť viac
Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain... Zobraziť viac
Píše se rok 1941. Lině je patnáct let a těší se, že po prázdninách půjde na uměleckou školu. Jednoho večera ale k nim domů vrazí sovětská tajná policie a společně s její matkou a malým bráškou ji odvlečou pryč... Zobraziť viac
Jediná rozsáhlejší próza Oscara Wilda předvádí na fantastickém příběhu aristokrata, jemuž kouzelná moc propůjčila věčnou krásu a mládí, rozpor mezi morálkou a estetickým prožitkem – zatímco Dorian Gray zůstává stále dvacetiletý, jeho dokonalá... Zobraziť viac
