The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and…

• Počet stran 176
• Rok vydání 2015

This Very Short Introduction explores the history of the 18th-century Enlightenment movement. Considering its intellectual…

• Brožovaná

David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No…

Produkt Movement - Holt, Thomas C. (James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History and the…

• Rok vydání 2018

Major new edition of the Oxford First Thesaurus in paperback updated to include more related words, synonyms and antonyms to…

Offering an unparalleled level of assessment support, IB Prepared: History has been developed directly with the IB to…

• Rok vydání 2025

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and…

How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate themselves…

• Počet stran 160
• Rok vydání 2026

An engaging and highly readable account of criminal justice. The text walks the reader through the various stages of the…

• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 2009

'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far…

Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama…

• Brožovaná
• Počet stran 336

The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek…

• Rok vydání 2008

In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home. This gave…

• Počet stran 848
• Rok vydání 2008

"The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and…

• Počet stran 464
• Rok vydání 2008

Produkt Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French…

• Rok vydání 2008

'The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during…

Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. In this book, Suzannah Lipscomb…

• Rok vydání 2024

An authoritative account of Xi Jinping''s worldview and how it drives Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world…

• Počet stran 496
• Rok vydání 2018

Archaeologist Sir Barry Cunliffe brings up to date his classic work on the Ancient Celts, those bold warriors and skill…

Produkt Great Museum of the Sea - Delgado, James P. (Senior Vice President, Senior Vice President, leading cultural…

Brian Holden Reid offers a definitive biography of William Tecumseh Sherman, among the most important Union generals in the…

• Počet stran 600
• Rok vydání 2012

A comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the `Iron Chancellor`, Otto von Bismarck: a political…

Produkt When the Declaration of Independence Was News - Sneff, Emily (Independent scholar, Independent scholar) zakoupíte na…

• Rok vydání 2007

Thousands of years-way before Christopher Columbus set sail-wandering tribes of hunters made their way from Asia across the…

• Počet stran 816
• Rok vydání 2001

Covers the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms to the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087. Professor…

• Rok vydání 2018

A panoramic account of the Russian empire from the last years of the nineteenth century, through revolution and civil war,…

Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War…

• Rok vydání 2001

The author of the acclaimed two volume biography, }Hitler: 1889-1936{ and }Hitler: 1936-1945{, charts the creation and…

• Rok vydání 2010

A fascinatingly whimsical and amusing collection of Roman trivia, lavishly illustrated, which illuminate aspects of life in…

• Rok vydání 1999

History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and…

• Počet stran 160
• Rok vydání 2025

James E. Kelly traces the Catholic Reformation from its beginnings in the first half of the sixteenth century, through the…

• Počet stran 184
• Rok vydání 2017

This Very Short Introduction provides a narrative interpretation of key themes that emerge in the history of Asian…

• Počet stran 176
• Rok vydání 2022

This concise, lively, and authoritative biography examines the life of Margaret Thatcher and sets it in the context of…

• Počet stran 312
• Rok vydání 2025

Produkt Libya and the West - Hahn, Peter L. (Arts a Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, Arts a Sciences…

• Počet stran 320
• Rok vydání 2014

B. Jack Copeland celebrates the life and work of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. Best known for the role…

• Počet stran 240
• Rok vydání 2016

The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of…

• Počet stran 310
• Rok vydání 2016

The first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day.…

• Počet stran 336
• Rok vydání 2024

This book provides an authoritative new narrative of the Roman conquest of Britain, from the two campaigns of Julius Caesar…

• Rok vydání 2008

Much more than a series of battle scenes, the Iliad is a work of extraordinary pathos and profundity that concerns itself…

• Brožovaná
• Počet stran 384

For some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed enormous commercial success with a wide variety of…

\nAncient Myths, Legends and Superheroes introduces a global selection of the stories we tell to make sense the world, where…

This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being. There are…

Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends, and history of the Blasket Islands, which are three miles off Irelands Dingle…

• Počet stran 152
• Rok vydání 2020

Restall and Solari explore Maya identity, politics, culture, and indigenous views of the universe from ancient times to the…

• Brožovaná
• Počet stran 288

'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the…

• Počet stran 240
• Rok vydání 2010

Studies in the History of the Renaissance is a highly influential defence of aestheticism. Pater redefined the practice of…

Since its coinage in mid-19th century Germany, Realpolitik has proven both elusive and protean. To some, it represents the…

• Rok vydání 2017

On 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day-shortened to "V.E. Day"-brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies,…