Kultura a zábava

• Rok vydání 2024

\nA landmark study of how the famed Bloomsbury Group developed their distinct aesthetic\n…

A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger, an expedition that laid the foundations for modern oceanography…

\nAn intimate and candid account of our national parks detailing their strengths, vulnerabilities, and essential role in…

Tracing the story of anger from the Buddha to Twitter, Rosenwein provides a much-needed account of our changing and…

• Rok vydání 2018

This paperback edition does not contain the appendixes included in the hardcover edition. All appendixes can be found at…

Explore the wonders of wild Mongolia through the eyes of a distinguished field biologist…

The forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era--and struggled to survive despite…

\nAn experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge\n…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nAn entirely original account of Victoria\'s relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian…

• Rok vydání 2020

A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the…

Two foreign policy experts chart a new American grand strategy to meet the greatest geopolitical challenges of the coming…

A radically new cosmological view from a groundbreaking neuroscientist placing the human brain at the center of humanity\'s…

An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world…

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• Rok vydání 2020

A compelling argument that the Internet of things threatens human rights and security"Sobering and important."―Financial…

\nA groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and…

\nAn accessible and contemporary introduction to the methods for determining cause and effect in the social sciences\n…

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A master class on piano performance and pedagogy from the world-renowned concert pianist…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nThe new paperback edition of Roy Strong\'s popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture.\n…

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• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2023

An examination of the innovative portrayals of industry and leisure created by five avant-garde artists working at Asnières…

• Rok vydání 2025

• Čeština

A new vision of money as a communication technology that creates and sustains invisible--often exclusive--communities…

\nA revelatory exploration of Mark Rothko\'s paintings on paper that transforms our understanding of a preeminent…

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• Angličtina

This fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and…

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through…

\nA compelling introduction to the life and artistic output of a trailblazing Norwegian painter, printmaker, and…

An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through…

An original account of the life and work of legendary designer Jan Tschichold and his role in the movement in Weimar Germany…

\nAn account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre\n…

\nA leading critic’s acclaimed story of “the photo boom” during the crucial decades of the 1970s and ’80s\n…

\nA major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution\n…

\nA comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century\n…

\nA highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional…

• Rok vydání 2018

\nThe first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years-the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered…

\nA technical examination of artists\' workshops and studios across history and media, told through the collections of the…

\nA lively and thought-provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walking\n…

\nA new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question…

• Rok vydání 2020

\nA compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-showing how the military gathered…