Rád si predstavuješ časy dávno minulé? Vyber si knihy o histórii. Zaujíma ťa starovek, stredovek, novovek.. pre teba čokoľvek. Obľube sa teší napríklad doba Márie Terézie a Habsburgovcov, či história Slovenska. Napínavý pohľad na históriu prinášajú vo svojich knihách aj Yuval Noah Harari alebo Timothy Snyder. Tak hor sa do histórie knižnou cestou!
Bestselling author Philip Matyszak explores how the Greeks and Romans used magic, who performed it - and why. Magic was everywhere in the ancient world. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies... Zobraziť viac
Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of the earth to bring... Zobraziť viac
It is 1988 and Florida-based FBI agent Joe Navarro divides his time between SWAT assignments, flying air reconnaissance, and working counter-intelligence. A body-language expert with an uncanny ability to “read” those he interrogates, Navarro is known Zobraziť viac
Autofikční román z temného období po sovětské invazi v roce 1968 nastoluje otázky o individuální a společenské paměti, traumatu a vině. Autor a jeho žena Zora Jesenská byli významnými osobnostmi slovenského kulturního života a jako... Zobraziť viac
An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel dispossessed by how much the city has changed... The son of political dissidents in Soviet-era Prague is condemned to a life of menial jobs, like working at a local abattoir... Zobraziť viac
V poslední době se Katalánsko ocitlo v zájmu světových médií především díky svým snahám o nezávislost. Přestože je dnes Katalánsko vnímáno pouze jako jeden z mnoha španělských regionů, jeho vlastní historie je... Zobraziť viac
Astonish Me! is an adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through history's seismic first nights, exploring how individual artists can change and shape the story of culture - and allow us to see ourselves in new ways... Zobraziť viac
A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece... Zobraziť viac
History has not been kind to Himalaya. Empires have collided here, cultures have clashed. Buddhist India claimed it from the south, Islam put down roots in its western approaches, Mongols and Manchus rode in from the north, and, from the east, China... Zobraziť viac
Welcome to the museum! Here you will find a collection of objects from ancient civilisations. Objects of beauty, functionality, war, life, death and burial. As you wander from room to room, explore the magnificence of what civilisations have left behind o Zobraziť viac
Fake news about the past is fake history.Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?Did medieval people think the world was flat?Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sphinx?... Zobraziť viac
A journey through the great mass-extinction events that have shaped our Earth... Zobraziť viac
A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history... Zobraziť viac
The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War II: Thomas Kendrick... Zobraziť viac
What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, ... Zobraziť viac
The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by... Zobraziť viac
The astonishing untold history of the Western invasion of Soviet Russia - and the tragedy it created... Zobraziť viac
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of colour, instead of actual accomplishments... Zobraziť viac
Timothy Snyder’s New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning... Zobraziť viac
Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today... Zobraziť viac
