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Offers an important mid-career retrospective of the work of American artist Richard Hawkins (born 1961), whose paintings,…

• Rok vydání 2020

\nAn engaging and authoritative history of Scotland\'s influence in the world and the world\'s on Scotland, from the Thirty…

• Rok vydání 2020

A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia\'s art world…

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\nThe definitive biography and assessment of the wily and formidable prince who unexpectedly became monarch-the most…

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A widely celebrated translator's vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece…

Examines the development of viable political institutions in nations and contributes to modern political analysis.…

In this work, a legal scholar provides a comparative analysis of how justice is administered in legal systems around the…

The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were begun in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art in order to bring the best in…

Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music.…

• Čeština

This volume presents translations of ancient Sumerian poems, including a number of compositions that have never before been…

This account of King John's reign is a study both of the king and his political misfortunes, and also of his times. John is…

Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1870 - the rise of women's…

Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were…

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\nThe fascinating story of the so-called “Prayer Book Rebellion” of 1549 which saw the people of Devon and Cornwall rise up…

\nAn eminent engineer and historian tackles one of the most elemental aspects of life: how we experience and utilize…

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\nAn exhilarating chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary…

\nThe first serious full-length biography of modern Africa\'s most famous dictator\n…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nA captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire\n…

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\nA thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history\'s most maligned rulers\n…

\nA provocative account of the seismic shift in attitude toward the supernatural in seventeenth and eighteenth century…

In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of…

The story of the Grail. Perceval progresses from a naive boyhood in rural seclusion to a position of high respect as a…

Exploring Mexican, American, and Indian sources ranging from diplomatic correspondence and congressional debates to…

Deals with the development of the concept of American identity. Centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and…

The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings…

Introduces Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science.…

Paul's letters, the earliest writings in the New Testament, are filled with allusions, images and quotations from the Old…

Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, is now in the midst of dramatic upheaval. This history of Indonesia provides…

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\nA case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years\n…

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\nAn incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam\n…

\nA portrait of Jane Austen\'s England told through the career paths of younger sons-men of good family but small fortune\n…

Presents an analysis of Jonathan Edwards' theological position. This book includes a study of his life and the intellectual…

Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era's most innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey.…

• Angličtina

The definitive biography of the celebrated composer, published in English to coincide with the centenary of his death…

Focusing on Spinoza's "Theologico-Political Treatise", this text argues that Spinoza was the first thinker of note to make…

Gout has been seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius and creativity. It is also believed to…

A landmark biography of the charismatic king beloved of fourteenth-century England…

Presents the history of the bicycle, an invention that precipitated nothing short of a social revolution. This book recounts…