• Rok vydání 2022

Covers the Kosovo War, and the overthrow of Milosevic, with close-up accounts of his trial at the Hague, and subsequent…

• Rok vydání 2022

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

• Rok vydání 2023

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

\nThe daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first…

The money spent by the French government on the public image of Louis XIV was extensive and succeeded in making him into a…

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…

Provides an illustrated account of changes in our perception of what the heart does and what it means. This book explores…

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

Despite a long and eventful reign, Britain's George II is a largely forgotten monarch, his achievements overlooked and his…

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

• Rok vydání 2018

\nThirty years after the Soviet Union\'s collapse, this book reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia…

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nAn authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066\n…

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…

Offers a comprehensive history of ancient Greece. This title brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the…

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

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

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…

\nAn insightful new biography of the central figure of the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly…

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

The history of Britain\'s complex relationship with Europe, untangled…

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• Rok vydání 2025

A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe Mathematics is fundamental to our daily…

A foremost digital expert looks at the most powerful political tool ever created-the internet of things. Will it be like the…

Tells the story of the veils' and headscarves' resurgence, from Egypt through Saudi Arabia and into the West, suggesting a…

The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the…

A guide to the buildings of Nottingham, from its medieval beginnings to the innovative architecture of the 21st century.…

Produkt American Colonial History - Kidd, Thomas S. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale University Press.…

A study of democratization, which proposes that the spate of retreating democracies, one after another over the years, is…

Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, this book presents a fresh take…

Compares and contrasts the historical course of Britain and America, exploring the significance of their similarities and…

A comprehensive and revelatory history of modern Belarus - from independence to 2020's contested election In 2020 Belarus…

\nA rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day\n…