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A highly regarded academic and former policy analyst and consultant charts the forty-year history of neoliberalism,…

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• Rok vydání 2021

An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate…

• Rok vydání 2021

A collection of essay, which reexamine the Wu Family Shrines pictorial carvings from Han dynasty China, helping readers…

An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It…

A fresh and engaging look at the controversial work of Jeff Koons, with insightful analyses and illustrations of all of his…

During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female…

An unprecedented exploration of Gauguin's works in various media, from works on paper to clay and furniture…

Produkt Architecture of British Transport in the Twentieth Century zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale University…

Discusses the issues that divide the community, from concerns about the efficacy of religious practices to questions about…

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

An enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the Americas…

Now available in paperback, a glorious illustrated edition of the international bestseller…

\nFirst published in India to great acclaim, this exquisitely crafted meditation on trees is already on its way to becoming…

A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements…

\nThe first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the…

For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only…

Using comparative history and organization theory, this text analyzes the politics of conscription in military and…

A collection of 18 essays by architectural historian, Howard Colvin. They cover such topics as the idea of a Court Style in…

How ambition, once considered a pernicious vice, became a celebrated virtue that defines American character…

A thought-provoking examination of the challenging and sometimes sinister roles that fashion has played in the history of…

The Wadsworth Atheneum's remarkable collection of 20th-century art is due to a succession of adventurous directors and…

A stunning new look at the Tuileries Garden and its importance to the history of art and landscape architecture…

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Focuses on helping school and university students to acquire the skills to read and appreciate the great works of Latin…

\nA funny, fierce, and uninhibited musical chronicle of the convulsive past six years, from one of our finest cultural…

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\nThe gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the…

\nA new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism\n…

\nA profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal\'s most celebrated…

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• Rok vydání 2025

An enchanting history of the otherworld of elves and fairies, from the nature spirits of Iceland and Ireland to Avalon and…

\nThe most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of…

What was childhood like for mediaeval boys and girls in England? Nicholas Orme draws on a vast range of sources to create a…

An examination of the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice, from Brunelleschi's invention of…

In the 18th century, the Russian Empress Catherine the Great and some of her courtiers developed a taste for British art,…

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The American art collector Norton Simon assembled his collection of more than 8,000 artworks in just thirty-five years. In…

A beautiful presentation of fifty masterworks of late 19th- to mid-20th-century avant-garde European art from one of…

• Rok vydání 1828

The artistic accomplishments of James Northcote (1746-1831) have tended to be overshadowed by his role as a biographer of…

An in-depth look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century…

The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on…