• Rok vydání 2026

From the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia's forests account for nearly…

• Počet stran 272
• Pevná / vázaná
• Angličtina

From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new…

\nA compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight…

• Čeština

Separating historical fact from fantasy, the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century…

• Rok vydání 2020

For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator re-imagines The Art of War.…

\nAn urgent examination of the world barrelling toward a new Cold War, from a scholar on the diplomatic front lines\n…

\nHow Chinese migration to the world\'s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race\n…

Destined to be the classic account of what may be the oldest . . . hardest form of war.-John Nagl, Wall Street Journal…

\nAn incisive biography of E.E. Cummings\' early life, including his First World War ambulance service and subsequent…

The story of Dostoevsky s extraordinary second marriage during which he wrote his greatest novels is a novel in itself . . .…

• Rok vydání 2013

Beginning in the days just after the First Crusade, this volume - the third in the series - chronicles the contradictions of…

• Rok vydání 2012

It was the middle of World War I. Two men one, a visionary British politician (Mark Sykes), the other, a veteran French…

Professor Fischer's great work is possibly the most important book of any sort, probably the most important historical book,…

• Rok vydání 2004

The great speeches of our times, including the ones that never got aired, from Kennedy to Nixon.…

• Rok vydání 2009

The most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology."The years, of which I have spoken to you, when I pursued…

\nAn eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity—and how, for three centuries,…

• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 2023

\nThe first biography of the extraordinary essayist, critic and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the…

\nA classic essay on the distortions of history that occur when historians impose a rigid point of view on the study of the…

\nA narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorised Peru even after the fall of global Communism.\n…

• Počet stran 288
• Rok vydání 2015
• Angličtina

The story of why psychotherapy actually works.…

\nAn entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized…

• Rok vydání 2020

Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate…

• Počet stran 512
• Rok vydání 2022
• Angličtina

A former chair of the Federal Reserve explains the transformation of one our most powerful and consequential institutions…

\nAmerican presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution; this is the inspirational…

\nThe first book in a new three-volume history of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and…

\nFinally revealing the family\'s indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the…

A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen…

The definitive account of Louis Armstrong-his life and legacy-during the most creative period of his career.…

\nThe leading text, beloved for authoritative coverage and narrative flair.\n…

• Počet stran 432
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2025

In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of…

• Rok vydání 2022

The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we…

• Rok vydání 2016

Misbehaving is Richard Thalers arresting account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth - and…

Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this study by Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y…

• Brožovaná
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2022

\nA startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living\n…

• Rok vydání 2011

Beginning with the origins of Western civilisation, Nell Irvin Painter traces the invention of the idea of a white…

\nThis revision of the acclaimed and widely-assigned Norton Critical Edition of Frederick Douglass\' autobiography includes…

• Počet stran 448
• Rok vydání 2011

"A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era."-Boston Globe…

With history in ferment, leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters and how it should be written.…

• Rok vydání 2021

A gripping account of the infamous Nazi doctor from a former US Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate.…

• Počet stran 272
• Rok vydání 2004
• Angličtina

Tato kniha pojednává o jedné z klíčových bitev, která ovlivnila směřování Římské říše a evropské historie.…

\nAn entertaining and fascinating memoir of \"gifted storyteller\" (People) Ann Hood\'s adventurous years as a TWA flight…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nA New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Guardian Book of the Day “Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli\'s Secret is a…

• Počet stran 320
• Rok vydání 2002

An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian…

• Rok vydání 2023

Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did…

\nThe first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our…

• Rok vydání 2025

We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century.…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nA group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why-and how-we play them\n…