Takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling…

An accessible blend of narrative history and science, Strange Glow describes mankind's extraordinary, thorny relationship…

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Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, with the…

A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient vinicultureThe history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of…

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A sweeping history of the drama, intrigue, and rivalry behind the creation of the postwar economic orderWhen turmoil strikes…

The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is…

On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised…

The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a…

The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a…

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Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Brožovaná, Počet stran: 928, Nakladatelství: Princeton University Press, Autor: Karl…

An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticismFirst published in…

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness…

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of…

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A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th…

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Offers a collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into…

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life - and even invented real…

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Thurston has written the definitive history of Boko Haram. By weaving a complex tapestry of politics and religion, he…

Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks.…

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• Angličtina
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A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient worldIn the late 8th and early…

In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of…

Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much…

• Rok vydání 2019

A renowned historian addresses misconceptions about Byzantium, suggests why it is so important to integrate the civilization…

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Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Pevná, Počet stran: 240, Nakladatelství: Princeton University Press, Autor: Maxwell V. L.…

A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von…

A groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessThe 1978…

The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of…

A compelling history of liberalism from the nineteenth century to todayDespite playing a decisive role in shaping the past…

Produkt Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961'-2021 zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Princeton…

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Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Pevná, Počet stran: 240, Nakladatelství: Princeton University Press, Autor: David Wagner, ISBN-13:…

Though there have been a number of fine studies of Stalin and his henchmen in the past few years, On Stalins Team offers new…

• Rok vydání 2019