• Rok vydání 2018

Produkt In Praise of Forgetting - Rieff, David zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale University Press.…

A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of…

A biography that offers a fresh portrait of Anne Boleyn, one of England's most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging…

For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in…

A uniquely personal yet deeply informed exploration of the hidden history of class in American life…

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous…

Produkt Hundred Years War - Green, David zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale University Press.…

The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed…

Presents the history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict. This book presents an account of the military…

A biography of Edward VI, drawing a portrait of the boy king as a highly precocious, well educated, intellectually confident…

\nA feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy\n…

A biography of the influential jazz pianist, Bill Evans. Peter Pettinger, himself a concert pianist, describes Evans's life,…

Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the…

The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to…

\nA vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential\n…

\nA compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England\n…

Produkt Rise and Decline of Nations - Olson, Mancur zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Yale University Press.…

Encompassing the period from Rome\'s founding in the eighth century BC through Justinian\'s rule in the sixth century AD,…

A timely and illuminating history of Tibet, from the seventh century to what it means to be Tibetan today…

\nAn investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live\n…

Offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War II, challenging the common belief that the…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nA powerful and poignant translation of Vergil\'s epic poem, newly equipped with introduction and notes\n…

The untold story of the crises and compromises that united a continent…

An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography published to mark the bicentenary of the great explorer…

\nA lively new biography of Tutankhamun-published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb\'s modern discovery\n…

A major new biography of Edith Tudor Hart, the photographer and Soviet agent who recruited Kim Philby Edith Tudor Hart has…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nThe first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III\'s rule, from when he first assumed the crown to the moment…

Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this memoir of life…

This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes…

The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world\'s greatest bibliophiles…

In the 50 years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being a lavishly Catholic country to a Protestant nation.…

\nA new edition of a seminal work-one that explores crucial changes within Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth…

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Janusz Korczak devoted himself to the care of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. This volume…

An enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the Americas…

Now available in paperback, a glorious illustrated edition of the international bestseller…

Outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism,…

The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts.…

\nA fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling\'s world-famous children\'s…

\nThe gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the…

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• Rok vydání 2025

An enchanting history of the otherworld of elves and fairies, from the nature spirits of Iceland and Ireland to Avalon and…

\nThe most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of…