• Rok vydání 2026
• Počet stran 576

An extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history of the world's largest state and its decline and fallWith Stalin's…

• Počet stran 352
• Rok vydání 2018

Produkt Made in America: Mi Historia / Made In America: My History - Walton, Sam zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele…

• Rok vydání 2020

For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between…

• Rok vydání 2012

The author and her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two…

• Počet stran 704
• Rok vydání 2026

A powerful, definitive account of modern Syria and its fateFew countries have had as vexed a political history as Syria.…

• Rok vydání 2023

In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered…

One of the most important economic documents of the 20th century John Maynard Keynes, at the time a rising young economist,…

This title presents a thought-provoking account of the scientific achievements and lives of cosmologists from Babylonians to…

The incredible story of the May 1940 rescue of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk Kniha…

In the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short…

Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format Kniha…

• Brožovaná
• Angličtina
• Počet stran 368
• Rok vydání 2010

A deluxe edition of the journals of this figure synonymous with the New York art scene of the 1980s. Kniha 9780143105978…

MEET JESSIE, CARA AND NELL. Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey. Three very different women tied to three very…

• Počet stran 529

'A monumental work filled with first-person accounts of the master's life and a dizzying array of never-before heard…

• Počet stran 381

When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn't…

• Počet stran 237

Whether we like it or not, the AI revolution is coming to education. In Brave New Words, Salman Khan, the visionary behind…

• Rok vydání 2017

'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European rail journey and how it shook the world' Simon Sebag…

• Rok vydání 2021

'Delany's works have become essential to the history of science fiction' New YorkerSamuel Delany is one of the most radical…

• Počet stran 448
• Rok vydání 2025

This is the history of the Eastern Front I’ve waited all my life to read’ Simon Sebag MontefioreThe definitive history of…

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain…

• Rok vydání 2003

The classic Victorian masterpiece that paints a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants in the midst…

Ovid's witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked…

Based on his personal experiences in France during the First World War, Dos Passos' novel is a fierce denunciation of the…

• Rok vydání 2008

Geza Vermes' "The Resurrection" presents a comprehensive account of exactly what the earliest Christian sources report about…

Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged…

• Rok vydání 1995

The Nuremberg trials took place from November 1945 to October 1946, and, after nearly 50 years, they remain an extraordinary…

• Brožovaná
• Angličtina
• Počet stran 784
• Rok vydání 2016

The first major history of the Scientific Revolution in more than a generation, by one of the UK's leading intellectual…

Winner of the Longman's History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature,…

Bothwell writes a sweeping survey of Canadian history from its earliest beginnings to today. Kniha 9780143050322 Penguin…

The first book to come to terms with the terrible conflict that killed over a million Spaniards and ended its empire. Sold…

Following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, the author brings to bear all the force of his humanity,…

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough…

• Brožovaná
• Počet stran 368
• Rok vydání 2025

Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon,…

Deals with the underworld of society. In this book, the author documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor -…

• Brožovaná
• Počet stran 272
• Rok vydání 2025

In this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestselling author Vaclav Smil investigates many…

• Brožovaná
• Počet stran 384
• Rok vydání 2025

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays…

• Rok vydání 2022

• Rok vydání 2014

A breakthrough examination of the professional wrestling, its history, its fans, and its wider cultural impact The Squared…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Blum tells the fascinating story of William James--philosopher and Harvard psychiatry…

A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison camp In 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an…

• Rok vydání 2013

In this fascinating glimpse into the world of urban exploration, Gates describes his trespasses in some of the most…

• Počet stran 404

A cult bestseller in the US, available around the world for the first time, The Great Mental Models introduces the simple…

The definitive, character-led history of the most famous year in English history. On 5 January 1066, Edward the Confessor’s…

• Rok vydání 2024

A sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed historian of the USSRWhy did the Cold War erupt so soon…

• Rok vydání 2004

The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades,…

'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric…