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With a spectacular illustrated journey through 4,000 years of weaponry, Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armour is the most comprehensive visual reference charting the history of arms and armour worldwide. Follow the evolution of weaponry from stone maces to machine-guns, and discover the brutal ...
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, ...
William Collins: The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, starring Tom Hardy.Reggie...
''A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport.'' Simon Sebag Montefiore (Author, The Romanovs)Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport’s masterful telling ...
In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official trust'. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should, be told. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As successive governments have been selective about ...
From June 18 to July 3, 2016, 100 kilometers east of Milan and 200 kilometers west of Venice, thousands of people will walk on water. The Floating Piers byChris…
A hilarious and indispensable guide to the weirdness of the workplace from "Esquire" editor and "Entrepreneur" etiquette columnist Ross McCammon Ten years ago, Ross McCammon made an incredible and unexpected transition from working at an in-flight magazine in suburban Dallas to landing his dream job ...
The Times'' complete coverage of World War II is now available in a paperback edition of this unique book. Hundreds of the most riveting articles from the archives of the Times including firsthand accounts of major events and little-known anecdotes have been selected for inclusion in The New York Times: ...
In this illuminating collection of oral-history style interviews, Casey Jarman talks to a funeral industry watchdog about the (often shady) history of the death trade; he hears how songwriter David Bazan lost his faith while trying to hold on to his family; he learns about cartoonist Art Spiegelman using ...
The testament to a tragedy. Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the \''Shoah\'' from Hitler\''s rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of \''The Final Solution\'' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people ...
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian R…
A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement''s most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lectures In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem ''Howl'' and Jack Kerouac''s On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course ...
Tato kniha je věnována nákladním lodím Liberty, jejichž vývoj a nasazení za druhé světové války nejen představují jednu z nejzajímavějších stránek historie světové mořeplavby a stavby lodí, ale také čin, který se významně zasloužil o vítězství Spojenců nad mocnostmi Osy. Projekt na co nejjednodušší nákladní ...
Takes a revolutionary approach to learn about those subjects you feel you should really understand. In this book, every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one picture, all digestible in 30 seconds. It uses this approach to grapple with the truly diverse thoughts of the ultimate ...
This is a completely new and updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller&,nbsp,The Penguin History of the World. For generations of readers&,nbsp,The Penguin History of the World&,nbsp,has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire ...
Kniha navazuje na současný badatelský zájem o kulturu oblasti východního Středomoří v poantickém a byzantském období. Zároveň vyplňuje mezeru v bádání o pozdně antickém divadle. Dosud většinou opomíjený text řeckého rétora Chorikia z Gazy (6. stol. po Kr.), známý pod latinským názvem Apologia mimorum, ...
Prvý zväzok výberu z diela významného historika pozostáva zo 16 príspevkov, ktoré reprezentujú počiatky autorovej vedeckej spisby prostredníctvom štyroch rozsiahlych filozoficko-teologických prác, ktoré doteraz neboli publikované (napr. Spoločenskosť ako inštinkt a jeho psychogenéza vo vývojovom veku ...
A powerful and revealing firsthand account of the migrant and refugee experience on the overland route across Europe. War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants to set out for Europe. The ...
Vyprávění o anglickém jezuitovi Edmundu Kampiánovi, mučedníkovi z doby nesnadných náboženských sporů 16. století, představuje světce jako barvitou osobnost. K plně prožívané víře ho přivádějí církevní otcové. Sám dobře obeznámený s různými křesťanský mi tradicemi nakonec nachází bohatství v propojení ...
We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, woman''s rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition. Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, Human Race is a treasure chest ...
