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Outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism,…

\nThoroughly revised and updated, a new edition of the most popular guide to the UN for students and interested readers\n…

\nA timely and provocative essay about the parallel lives of Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt and their mission for a more…

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• Rok vydání 2025

A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major…

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• Rok vydání 2023

An entertaining and lively guide to rediscovering the pleasure in art How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nAn informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better…

A thrilling history of the dramatic siege of Acre in 1291, the bloody climax to the two hundred years of the Holy Land…

• Rok vydání 2019

First performed at the midpoint of the twentieth century, John Cage's 4'33", a composition conceived of without a single…

Produkt Medievalism - Alexander, Michael zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale University Press.…

Reading the King James Bible alongside Tyndale's Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts, the…

What is literariness, or the poetic function, and why does literary theory need to answer this question?…

Encompasses the history of the Papacy, from its beginnings nearly two thousand years ago to the election of Francis I.…

• Rok vydání 1989

Originally published as Le Gout de l'archive. Editions du Seuil, 1989. Collection La Librairie du XXIe siecle sous la…

Argues that the concept of employee ownership has deep roots extending back to the political and economic vision of…

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, this title…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nA major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the…

• Rok vydání 1977

Originally published as Libret de famille. A Editions GALLIMARD, Paris, 1977.--Title page verso.…

\nA collection of John Carey\'s greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews-amassed over a lifetime of writing\n…

• Rok vydání 2022

From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque…

Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Untangling Yemen's history before examining the country's role in both al-Qaeda…

Drawing upon insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, this book deals with the concept of historical…

Offers an analysis of worldwide democratic institutions. Examining thirty-six democracies during period from 1945 to 2010,…

A biography that provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its 'nineteen…

In this title, Walter Frisch provides a sensitive, analytical commentary on Braham's four symphonies as well as a…

How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490…

Demolishes the facade of objective research behind which the revolution in psychiatry has hidden. This book finds psychiatry…

Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into the chaotic…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nA concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion\n…

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• Rok vydání 2020

A fascinating look at the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia“A richly detailed…

A compact and accessible edition of Hume's political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors…

• Rok vydání 2023

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Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu…

\nThe extraordinary story of St. Paul\'s Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for…

Produkt Lawrence of Arabia's War - Faulkner, Neil zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale University Press.…

Offering an introduction to the New Testament, the author presents an historical study of the origins of Christianity by…

Provides a survey of the history of the American West, from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the…

Produkt Muse Learns to Write - Havelock, Eric A. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale University Press.…

The Swami Vivekananda's speech to the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 is the centrepiece of Indian…

The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity,…

Lively, up-to-date accounts of every significant building are included, with detailed walks exploring the outer areas, and a…