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Based on the award winning 2014 film, "The Imitation Game" tells the true story of cryptanalyst Alan Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers as they crack the famous Enigma Code during…
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At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. …
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Now a major film starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy and Kyle Chandler, directed by Oscar-winner Damien Chazelle, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of…
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When Emma O'Reilly joined the US Postal cycling team in 1996, she could have had no idea how she would become a central figure in the biggest doping scandal in sporting history. Yet when Lance…
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From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the…
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In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down. Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the…
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that…
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On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain addressed the British crowds: 'My good friends. I believe it…
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In this candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain, an American hero reflects on his life-and what matters most."I don't know how much longer I'll be here. Maybe I'll have another five…
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Kniha sleduje nevšední příběh předního pražského krejčího, couturiéra a oděvního designéra Oldřicha (Ulricha) Rosenbauma (1896–1991), který vytvářel více než sedmdesát let elegantní a vysoce…
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The explosive story of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and the new spy war between the West and Russia, based on hours of exclusive interviews Skripal gave before his near-death with number one…
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In 1939, Germany shattered the peace of Europe with a lightning-fast strike against Poland. In less than two years of fighting, Nazi Germany became the master of mainland Europe. This theatre…
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Niall Ferguson's House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 was hailed as "definitive" by the New York Times, a "great biography" by Time magazine, and was named one of the Ten Best Books…
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Kniha Speeches That Changed the World:With over a million copies already sold, this is the newly updated edition of the definitive collection of great speeches ancient and modern. From calls to…
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An urgent examination of how the political, economic and social volatility in Europe will affect the world. In President Obama’s effort to reshape America’s image abroad, he made overtures to…
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Just in time for the next blockbuster, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, this unique and beautifully designed compendium with removable features traces one of the franchise’s most iconic characters—the…
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Exciting investigations in north-west China are about to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor, a portion of which was accidently discovered in 1974 by farmers…
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Companion to the major new BBC documentary series Civilisations, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama. Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. Was…
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The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts…
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The first short, single-volume history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England. Europe has for two millennia been a remarkably successful continent. In…
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Pankaj Mishra explains that the rages tearing up so many parts of the world have their roots firmly in the West - without understanding the West's own dysfunction we cannot make sense of groups…
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How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are…
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From the fury of the Punic Wars to the icy waters of Dunkirk, relive 5, 000 years of world-changing combat with this guide to the most famous battles in history, including a foreword from TV…
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The Talmud says: "If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first." This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israels…
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He emerged from nowhere to seize the presidency, defeat populism and upend French party politics. Who is Emmanuel Macron? How far can he really change France? In Revolution Française, Sophie…
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This book separates myth from truth and describes the development of the society from its origins amongst the masons working upon the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages.
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The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now…
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All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen wrappings of Tutankhamun\'s mummy actually meant; from the Silk…
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Beautifully illustrated and rich in detail, Theatre of the World reignites our curiosity with the world both ancient and modern. Before you could just put finger to phone to scroll Google Maps, …
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For all the moments of chaos, frustration, and yes, disillusionment, Litt remains a believer in the words that first drew him to the Obama campaign: "People who love this country can change it."…
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From the former Secretary of State and bestselling author - a sweeping, definitive look at the birth, life and struggle of global democracy. From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the…
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After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace…
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The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad. On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of…
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A stunning gift hardback featuring beautiful maps and stories of unrecognised countries. Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton takes us on a magical tour of countries…
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From the much-admired correspondent comes a powerful, moving and important book on the effect of gun crime on children in the US. On Saturday 23 November 2013 ten children were shot dead. The…
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Offers an account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832. This English social history shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole-life…
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Who killed Pamela Werner? On a frozen night in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner, the teenage daughter of…
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An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amsterdam as a…
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In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's…
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For the empires of Germany and Austria - Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia…
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How does the experience and memory of the Second World War - one of the most catastrophic events in human history - affect our lives today? The years after 1945 were a time of both terror and…
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Japonský prozaik Ibuse Masudži (1898-1993) se proslavil svým románem Černý déšť (1966, česky 1978 v překladu I. Krouského), který se zabýval tragickými důsledky jaderného útoku na Hirošimu. …
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It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry–from the telephone to radio to film–once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by…
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In the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was…
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Blízkovýchodní nestabilita se vnějškově manifestuje různými způsoby: krizí vládnoucích režimů, vzestupem politického islámu, terorismu, revolucí, občanských válek či rostoucí migrací a…
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In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five…
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Being able to speak is what makes us human. If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity. We…
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Michael Lewis could spin gold out of any topic he chose ...his best work ...vivid, original and hard to forget Tim Harford, Financial Times Gripping ...There is war, heroism, genius, love, loss, …
