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Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe ..

This is the first title of a highly detailed yet accessible two-volume history of America's involvement in Vietnam, drawing on cutting-edge research and top secret material to tell the full story from the end of World War II through to the Fall of Sa

An admired historian offers a unique account of the events at Salem, Massachusetts, helping readers to understand the witch hunt as it was understood by those who lived through the frenzy.

Tells the story of the 1820 wreck of the whaleship Essex, which in its time was as mythic as the sinking of the Titanic and which inspired Melville's classic Moby Dick, recounting its doomed crew's ninety-day attempt to survive whale attacks and the elements on three tiny lifeboats. Reprint.

In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished for ever, while the other was a dismembered, bleeding trunk. In their place, a new superpower had arisen: ..

Six-thousand-year-old clay tablets left behind by the Sumerians tell us in cuneiform script that the planets Uranus and Neptune are „greenish-blue.“ How did they know? Our science could not confirm that until the Voyager II fly-by in the 1980s. The ignored

Kniha Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America vydaná v nakladatelství LIVERIGHT PUB CORP v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 592, ISBN-13: 9781324094067, zařazení do kategorie: Historie.

Kniha Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere autora Paulette F. C. Steeves vydaná v nakladatelství University of Nebraska Press v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 328, ISBN-13: 9781496234704, zařazení do kategori

From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus—how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better.  Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultraso ..

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires .. ..

Anita Chari revives the key concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight the resistance to neoliberal capitalism now forming at the level of political economy and the more sensate, experiential level of subjective transforma ..

Kniha Innovation autora ACKROYD PETER vydaná v nakladatelství Pan Macmillan v roce 2022, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 512, ISBN-13: 9781509896738, zařazení do kategorie: Anglie.

Kniha Inside Bridgerton autora Shonda Rhimes,Betsy Beers vydaná v nakladatelství Scribner / Marysue Rucci Books v roce 2022, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 288, ISBN-13: 9781668001073, zařazení do kategorie: Sociální a kulturní histori

Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production under Hitler, the man who had kept Germany armed and the war machine running even after Hitler's mystique had faded, takes a brutally honest look at his role in the war effort, giving readers a comp ..

A faithful reprint of the 1944 Australian driving and maintenance manual for the „Truck, 1/4 Ton (USA)“ or as we know it, the WWII Jeep. This manual covers both the Willys MB and the Ford GPW. Don't rely on dodgy photocopies or printouts when res

Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefield areas, historic houses, and museums. For anyone interested in our natural and manmade heritage, this book offers guidance for exploring educational and recreational resources.

Il „secolo breve“ è finito nel 1991: com'è, come sarà il nuovo secolo in cui abbiamo cominciato a vivere? Come saranno le guerre? Sopravviveranno le nazioni? E saranno ancora gli Stati Uniti il paese leader? Con quali nuovi e sconvolgenti problemi – ..

Historian Theodore Zeldin writes about the history of feelings, habits, emotions and perceptions. He views the past from a new and fresh perspective, investigating the feelings of human beings through time, from the Vikings and Aztecs to contemporary ..

The scene is Treblinka; the character is Franz Stangl. The theme is the mass extermination of men, women and children. As Commandant of Treblinka, Stangl was imprisoned for life. Gitta Sereny covered the trial on behalf of a London newspaper. Fascina ..

Un país es su historia y este libro resulta de una ayuda inestimable para conocerla. Por sus páginas desfilan romanos y cristianos, árabes e iberos, austrias y borbones… Nos topamos con invasiones, guerras y revoluciones, pero también con fecundas ..

Kniha Introduction to Forensic Anthropology autora Byers,Steven N. (New Mexico State University,USA),Chelsey A. Juarez vydaná v nakladatelství Taylor & Francis Ltd v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 480, ISBN-13: 978103225

Kniha Introduction To Vulgar Latin vydaná v nakladatelství Alpha Edition v roce 2020, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 242, ISBN-13: 9789354308512, zařazení do kategorie: Všeobecné a světové dějiny.

A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekApproximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe–descendants of a much earlier migra

A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be read and reckoned with. Was there really a forced exi