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An acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz

Kniha How to Slay a Dragon vydaná v nakladatelství Harper Collins Publishers v roce 2021, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 224, ISBN-13: 9781982164119, zařazení do kategorie: Evropské dějiny.

The crazy story of how Soviet scientists in Siberia in the 1950s embarked on a project to turn foxes into dogs through selective breeding-and managed it within mere generations.

„Some of the material in this book appears in The Zinn Reader, 2nd ed., Seven Stories Press, 2009“–T.p. verso.

The Ling shu, also known as the Ling shu jing, is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with the Su wen and Nan jing. Following an introduction, this volume contains the full original Chinese text of the Ling shu, ..

Bowden's most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centrepiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American war in Vietnam.

Kniha Humankind : A Hopeful History autora Rutger Bregman vydaná v nakladatelství LITTLE BROWN & CO v roce 2021, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 480, ISBN-13: 9780316418522, zařazení do kategorie: Všeobecné a světové dějiny.

Detailed narrative combines with a deep historical understanding to create a lively and accessible account of the war. 38 b/w maps.

In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest and most populous nation state of medieval Europe to suffering a complete internal collapse and a partial conquest by a foreign power. This book tells the story of the destructi ..

On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, Genera ..

Nati in Germania, da un'idea dell'imperatore Massimiliano I° che istituě queste milizie nel 1487, sul modello dei mercenari svizzeri. Soldati mercenari provenienti dalle regioni tedesche del Sacro Romano Impero. Il termine deriva dal tedesco Landskne ..

Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, it ..

Alternative military strategies of the Second World War.

Immensa costruzione ideologica e mitologica, in cui una grande congerie di dati č ordinata in modo da costituire una struttura ciclica della storia, l'opera di Spengler ebbe una ricezione imprevedibilmente ampia. Dall'introduzione di Stefano Zecchi: ..

• Barack Obama's shocking ties to this Mystery Religion-and it's not Islam. * How American politics have been rigged and who has the power to control every level of your government. * All of America's external threats-illegal immigration, pandemics, terror

Kniha Illustrated Tour of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu Battlefields autora Adrian Greaves vydaná v nakladatelství Pen & Sword Books Ltd v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, ISBN-13: 9781399040686, zařazení do kategorie: Vojenská historie.

In May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan on Korea's southern tip. His objective: to conquer Korea, then China, then the whole of Asia. The resulting seven years of fighting, known i ..

Kniha Impeccable Spy autora MATTHEWS OWEN vydaná v nakladatelství Bloomsbury Publishing v roce 2020, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 448, ISBN-13: 9781408857816, zařazení do kategorie: Historie.

At the center of Byzantine society, fifteen-year old orphaned Anna Dalassena lives with her grandparents among the most powerful men and women in Constantinople. But the cutthroat politics of the Great Palace sends the family into exile in a distant cor

2014 Reprint of 1951 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 bo ..

Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He prophesied that those third world c ..

Those seeking a handle on the nature of modern capitalism and war, can do no better than to start with this incisive analysis by Lenin – it still applies, writ large, today.Ideologically a Marxist, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, (better known

Viele betrachten die USA als die größte Gefahr für den Weltfrieden. Woran liegt das? Ein Buch über Hintergründe, Motive und Mittel der Weltmacht USA. Nach Ansicht vieler haben die USA den stärksten destabilisierenden Einfluss auf das Weltgeschehen un ..

"Come si viveva nell'Impero romano? Che tipo di persone avremmo incontrato nelle sue cittŕ? Come sono riusciti i romani a creare un Impero cosě grande, unendo popolazioni e luoghi cosě diversi? Il libro che avete in mano č, idealmente, la prosecuzion ..