A revised edition of this classic survey that presents a thorough overview of Georgia O'Keeffe's life and work... Zobraziť viac
The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize... Zobraziť viac
An essential visual overview for students and readers with an interest in Sienese art, history and Renaissance culture... Zobraziť viac
An updated edition of this indispensable reference, surveying the history of textiles from 25,000 years ago to the present... Zobraziť viac
Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before... Zobraziť viac
Why do human beings fight one another?In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics.... Zobraziť viac
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended... Zobraziť viac
CCV: Book Description The shocking and compelling story about the original inhabitants of America and the first book to... Zobraziť viac
HarperCollins Publishers: Dava Sobel has written a gem of a book!one of the best reads for the non-scientific writing to... Zobraziť viac
A stunningly illustrated book of extraordinary city maps, telling the story of human civilisation throughout history. A gorgeous, large-format gift hardback with a stunning neon cover, A History of the World in 25 Cities features... Zobraziť viac
An astonishingly wide-ranging history of Russian nationalism chronicling Russia's yearning for Empire and how it has affected its politics for centuries... Zobraziť viac
In March 1930, after the collapse of the coalition that had ruled Germany since 1928, President Hindenburg asked Heinrich Bruning, bespectacled and scholarly leader of the Catholic Centre Party, to form a government. Some three years later... Zobraziť viac
Nearing half a century since the last Apollo mission, mankind has yet to return to the Moon, but that is about to change. With NASA's Artemis program scheduled for this decade, astronomer David Whitehouse takes a timely look at what the next 50 years... Zobraziť viac
Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.... Zobraziť viac
In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever seen... Zobraziť viac
In a rip-roaring global expedition, based on original sources in many languages, Goodman gives a momentous history of how the discoveries made by Banks and his collectors advanced scientific understanding around the world... Zobraziť viac
An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness... Zobraziť viac
Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history... Zobraziť viac
Videohry představují v současnosti největší část zábavního průmyslu. Přitom jen před několika desetiletími to byla zábava pro pár podivínů z technických oborů. Vzestup nové počítačové zábavy však... Zobraziť viac
From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup... Zobraziť viac
