• Rok vydání 2009

In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger,…

The candid and entertaining memoir "What They Teach You at Harvard Business School" by Philip Delves Broughton, author of…

• Rok vydání 1777

Philadelphia in 1777 is a city at war. Here ruthless Captain Kit Vane and beautiful Martha Crowl, passionate patriot…

• Rok vydání 1985

After eleven years living as an American in London, the author set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what…

Violet Venable ist Witwe und ihr Sohn Sebastian ist ihr ganzer Stolz. Als dieser verschwindet, erfährt Mrs. Venable kurz…

Now in paperback, this guide shows that, contrary to popular belief, you can train your cat, helping it to become a more…

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The book that created the modern United States, Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule…

The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but…

• Rok vydání 2005

"A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel.…

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• Rok vydání 2013

Lose weight and feel great in 2020. Allen Carr, international bestselling author of The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, helps you…

• Angličtina

The old, top-down approach to leadership doesn\'t work any more. What we need is a more flexible, creative approach – one…

Mesopotamia, AD 260. Betrayed by his most trusted adviser, the Roman Emperor Valerian has been captured by the Sassanid…

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Offers an account of the war in former Yugoslavia and contains material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and…

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his…

Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city living.…

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• Rok vydání 2024

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they…

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• Rok vydání 2023

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor…

Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell…

A travel book that reveals Corsica as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have…

• Rok vydání 2024

• Rok vydání 1943

Offers an account of author's time in the army during World War Two that begins as he and his regiment land in sunny Italy…

A wonderfully enjoyable storehouse of ancient Chinese history and legends, which also has an important role in understanding…

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant…

• Rok vydání 1987

A story that centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth and final year of the war between the Greeks and the…

• Rok vydání 2013

Peking, 1937: The teenage daughter of a British consul is brutally slaughtered. The police investigation is botched; as war…

The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murderBehind oak-panelled doors in the House of…

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, this work traces the development of Italian art across three…

The accounts given by Bede and Eddius give the reader an idea of 6th and 7th century life in Britain as Roman Episcopal…

• Rok vydání 1929

A collection of author's comic monologues, performed between 1929 and 1941. It features the much-loved characters such as…

What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? This title shows them adjusting…

Presents various examples of Groucho, one of the influential and well-loved figures in the history of comedy. From early…

• Rok vydání 1973

Aeneas the True - son of Venus and of a mortal father - escapes from Troy after it is sacked by the Greeks. He undergoes…

• Rok vydání 2012

As a young boy, growing up in London and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, the author had little sense of home.…

Kniha 9780141037141 World War Two Norman Stone…

\nPRE-ORDER BOOK 11 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES…

• Rok vydání 2024

Presents a subjective meditation on a city and its buildings including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks,…

A compendium of travel writing from a master traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, it…

Explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route.…

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late…

The biography of one of the most remarkable and memorable of the Medieval kings of Norway.…

A.J.P. Taylor's bestselling "The Origins of the Second World War" overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war. One of…

Presents an account of the Atlantic slave trade which helps us to understand the rise and fall of one of the most shameful…

Takes us on a backstage tour of the real but hidden world of the Internet, introducing us to the remarkable clan of insiders…

Mr Artur Sammler, intellectual and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a registrar of…