Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone ... Zobraziť viac
The fighting around the town of Demyansk was one of the longest encirclement battles on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, stretching from February 1942 to February 1943... Zobraziť viac
Velikiye Luki had been an important Russian fortress city since the 13th century and had become an important rail-hub by the 19th century. In August 1941, the Germans occupied the city of 30,000 during Operation Barbarossa... Zobraziť viac
In From Nicopolis to Mohács, Tamás Pálosfalvi offers an account of Ottoman-Hungarian warfare from its start in the late fourteenth century to the battle of Mohács in 1526. During this period of one century and a half, the Kingdom of Hungary was... Zobraziť viac
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily ... Zobraziť viac
Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard 'Authoritative and provocative... For its range and breadth, it is a tour de force and a must read' Evening Standard It could have been a very different story.... Zobraziť viac
Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Veniers waned midconstruction and the project was abandoned. Empty, unfinished, and decaying, ... Zobraziť viac
1558. Noch immer wacht die altehrwürdige Kathedrale von Kingsbridge über die Stadt. Doch diese ist im Widerstreit zwischen Katholiken und Protestanten zutiefst gespalten. Freundschaft, Loyalität, Familie - nichts scheint mehr von... Zobraziť viac
Drawing the Human Head describes in detail of how emotions and feelings are reflected in people’s faces and of how to depict them. It is a systematic structured textbook for learning the skills necessary to draw the human head, a useful manual for ... Zobraziť viac
Cyrus Schayegh's socio-spatial history traces how a Eurocentric world economy and European imperialism molded the Middle East... Zobraziť viac
What to do with the fragments of a love affair? A postcard from a childhood sweetheart. A wedding dress in a jar... Zobraziť viac
Vyberanie pápežských desiatkov v Uhorsku v 13. a 14. storočí na obranu Svätej zeme sa konalo v rokoch 1281 – 1375. Záznamy z vyberania z rokov 1281 – 1331 a 1338 – 1375 nie sú pre nás natoľko zaujímavé pre ich obsahovú stránku... Zobraziť viac
A lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Theodore-Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the most influential Egyptologists, ... Zobraziť viac
A large family migrated over from Europe in the early 1700's and settled in Pennsylvania. After some time one of the sons, Marcus Boylan, and his family decided to join others to travel and settle the frontier. Disaster struck when two young ... Zobraziť viac
This personal and immensely moving collection of photographs taken decades after the Holocaust poignantly documents a once thriving culture that disappeared virtually overnight. The first country to adopt Nazi Germany's anti-Jewish policies, Sl. Zobraziť viac
From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives... Zobraziť viac
Covering one of the most unforgettable moments in modern history—and including striking images of twentieth-century icons such as Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Grace Slick, and more... Zobraziť viac
How has capitalism devastated the planet—and what can we do about it? Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape... Zobraziť viac
Approaching the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, the world- renowned da Vinci expert recounts his fifty- year journey with the work of the world’s most famous artist... Zobraziť viac
Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, received unprecedented accolades. This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis's life in rich and previously unimagined detail, ... Zobraziť viac
