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Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's most prolific…

\nA myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers-and our abject…

• Angličtina

An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history The Carpathian…

• Rok vydání 2020

• Rok vydání 2020

\nA bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England\n…

\nThe gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to…

Produkt Houses and Cottages of Britain - Brunskill, R W zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale University Press.…

A lavishly illustrated and long-overdue guidebook to the rich natural history of Long Island Sound and its coastlines, a…

Produkt Questions on Love and Charity - Aquinas, Thomas zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale University Press.…

A Chinese language programme that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. By combining a story line with a…

A lively analysis of the Arab Gulf states' stunning rise to global power over the last half-century and of the daunting…

Travelling throughout the remote Celtic world, the author describes the pressure on Celtic communities to assimilate. He…

Presents a reinterpretation of American diplomatic history. This book addresses the challenges to the thesis.…

Provides a range of writing skills that an experimental scientist needs to employ. Chapters cover various types of science…

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• Rok vydání 2021

\nAn exemplary collection of work from one of the world\'s leading scholars of intellectual history\n…

Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of the Club, a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers…

• Rok vydání 2018

Tells the story of Lucius, a curious and silly young man, who is turned into a donkey when he meddles with witchcraft.…

Produkt Discovering the Vernacular Landscape - Jackson, John Brinckerhoff zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale…

An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia's distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution…

Examines how the US, the Soviet Union and various European powers have developed their "grand Strategies" - how they have…

An astute exploration of the most outrageous shoe designs of the 21st century…

This study places the reign of Edward IV in the context of late-medieval power politics, and analyzes the methods by which a…

Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass, yet it became one of the most…

• Čeština

Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, the author…

Human intelligence is among the most powerful forces on earth. This book explains how brains break down problems into…

\nA searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan\n…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nA collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a…

\nFrom the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto on the crises confronting higher…

• Rok vydání 2024

• Rok vydání 2024

From the perspectives of developmental psychoanalysis, this book makes a case for what the author calls "gender heterodoxy",…

This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a…

Well-written and eminently accessible, this book explores and celebrates the Upper Palaeolithic art of the Dordogne,…

• Rok vydání 1955

\nVaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. This book recounts a devastating episode in 1955 at…

The production of Wagner's operas is fiercely debated. This book evokes the - often scandalous - great productions that have…

A novel look at the relationship between Impressionist painting and photography and the forging of a national identity in…

For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution -…