ilość książek w kategorii: 362486
Vikings: Fear and Faith
ISBN: 9780007104024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An engaging and popular account of the mysterious Dark Age of English history when Vikings and Anglo-Saxons collided--and faith won out At the turn of the first millennium, Viking raiders devastated Anglo-Saxon England, looting monasteries and cathedrals and destroying much of the fragile culture. Yet pressure from the invaders caused the Anglo-Saxon nations to unite and grow strong under King Alfred, resulting in the conversion of many Viking marauders. Learning flourished and, even when fully conquered, Anglo-Saxons found themselves protected as part of a Christian Viking empire. Author... An engaging and popular account of the mysterious Dark Age of English history when Vikings and Anglo-Saxons collided--and faith won out At the turn... |
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98,25 zł |
Fenian Fire: The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria
ISBN: 9780007104826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A historical investigation into one of the most serpentine attempts on Queen Victoria's life that reveals for the first time the true instigator at the heart of government. - There were eight attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria during her long reign; four of them were of Irish origin. The most serious of all was the 'Jubilee Plot', a conspiracy apparently hatched in New York by the Fenian Brotherhood to blow up the Queen, her family and most of the British Cabinet with dynamite at the great service of thanksgiving to commemorate the 50th anniversary of her accession, held at... A historical investigation into one of the most serpentine attempts on Queen Victoria's life that reveals for the first time the true instigator at... |
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64,06 zł |
Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2002
ISBN: 9780007127566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The seminal history of Ireland's most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium. With its starting point the bloody creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History explores how Irish identity has shifted across eighty years of unprecedented change and violence. What was the legacy of De Valera and Sinn Fein - or of remaining neutral during the Second World War? What were the effects of the establishment of a formally recognised Republic of Ireland in 1949 and thus the continued status of Northern Ireland as part of Great Britain? How... The seminal history of Ireland's most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium. With its starting point the bloody creation... |
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72,61 zł |
The Hitler/Hess Deception: British Intelligence's Best-Kept Secret of the Second World War
ISBN: 9780007141197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At last, new archival discoveries reveal the truth about the German Deputy-Fuhrer's incredible solo flight to Britain in May 1941, and explain the British government's sixty-year silence as to what the Hess mission was all about. On the night of 10 May 1941, in one of the most extraordinary and bizarre incidents of the Second World War, a Messerschmitt-110 crash-landed on a remote Scottish hillside. Its pilot, who had parachuted to safety, was Rudolf Hess, the Deputy-Fuhrer of the German Reich. Hess's remarkable solo flight was immediately dismissed in both Britain and Germany as the... At last, new archival discoveries reveal the truth about the German Deputy-Fuhrer's incredible solo flight to Britain in May 1941, and explain the ... |
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51,24 zł |
Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780007156610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1757 signals a unique moment in history where belief collided with the cold certainty of reason. Set at the tipping point between the ancient and modern world, Evening in the Palace of Reason captures the tumult of the eighteenth century, the legacy of the Reformation, and the birth of the Enlightenment in this extraordinary tale of two... Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now k... |
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72,61 zł |
The King, the Crook, and the Gambler: The True Story of the South Sea Bubble and the Greatest Financial Scandal in History
ISBN: 9780007161782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An unscrupulous Englishman had the notion for a company that would establish a lucrative trade in silver and spices between England and the Americas. What the investors didn't know was that the South Sea Company barely owned a ship. In this gripping account, Malcolm Balen reveals the true story of how a simple stock-share scheme became a Dickensian web of political and financial intrigue that threatened to overturn two monarchies and topple the British government. Set in the mazy back alleys of the newly inaugurated financial districts of 1720s London and Paris, The King, the Crook,... An unscrupulous Englishman had the notion for a company that would establish a lucrative trade in silver and spices between England and the America... |
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72,61 zł |
Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Modern Age, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal
ISBN: 9780007163076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the pioneering genius of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Dreams of Iron and Steel, acclaimed historian Deborah Cadbury tells the heroic tale of the visionaries and ordinary workers who brought to life seven great wonders of the world that still have the power to awe and inspire us today. Fueled by Deborah Cadbury's characteristic scholarship and insight, this extraordinary chronicle re-creates the human odyssey of how our modern world was forged not only with rivets, grease, and steam... A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the pioneering genius of the nineteenth and twentieth centur... |
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68,33 zł |
Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience
ISBN: 9780007163632 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Salem witch hunt has entered our vocabulary as the very essence of injustice. Judge Samuel Sewall presided at these trials, passing harsh judgment on the condemned. But five years later, he publicly recanted his guilty verdicts and begged for forgiveness. This extraordinary act was a turning point not only for Sewall but also for America's nascent values and mores. In Judge Sewall's Apology, Richard Francis draws on the judge's own diaries, which enables us to see the early colonists not as grim ideologues, but as flesh-and-blood idealists, striving for a new society... The Salem witch hunt has entered our vocabulary as the very essence of injustice. Judge Samuel Sewall presided at these trials, passing harsh judgm... |
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72,61 zł |
Democracy Needs Aristocracy
ISBN: 9780007183166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In one of the most explosive and hotly debated books of the past year, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne presents a reactionary and playful look at the origins, evolution and demise of the aristocracy and what we can expect to replace them. Every country has the aristocracy it deserves; so what does it say about Britain that it is in the process of removing the last vestiges of political power from one of the most ancient hereditary aristocracies in the world, and one, moreover, whose record of public service has been impeccable? The word aristocracy has many connotations, some good,... In one of the most explosive and hotly debated books of the past year, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne presents a reactionary and playful look at the orig... |
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42,69 zł |
SAS Behind Enemy Lines
ISBN: 9780007199907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Through in-depth research and interviews with veterans, William Fowler has produced the most complete history of this elite and elusive unit to date. Out of Africa 1941 - 1943 Into Italy 1943 - 1945 Overlord and Europe 1944 - 1945 Post War Phoenix Malaya 1948 - 1960 The Confrontation 1962 - 1966 Oman 1970 - 1976 The Cold War 1945 - 1990 The Falklands Interlude 1982 The First Gulf War 1990 - 1991 Back to Africa 1981 - 2000 Balkan interlude 1994 - Afghanistan 2001 - The Second Gulf War 2003 C Squadron to 1 SAS Regiment (Rhodesia) 1951 - 1980 Enter the Kiwis 1954 - The Australian... Through in-depth research and interviews with veterans, William Fowler has produced the most complete history of this elite and elusive unit to dat... |
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51,24 zł |
The Campaigns of Napoleon
ISBN: 9780025236608 / Angielski / Twarda / 1973 / 1216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex--an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally-minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat. The Campaigns of Napoleon is an exhaustive analysis and critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. Napoleon disavowed any suggestion that he worked from formula ("Je n'ai jamais eu un plan...
Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex--an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling...
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305,43 zł |
Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants
ISBN: 9780028516509 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Hafner Library of Classics brings new understanding and modern interpretation to B.F. Sarmiento's most notable piece of writing. The Hafner Library of Classics offers a refreshing approach to the study of major Western philosophers through introductory essays by noted scholars that work to enliven the discussion of the human side of great thinkers. This edition of Life in Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants includes a biographical sketch of the author by Mrs. Horace Man.
The Hafner Library of Classics brings new understanding and modern interpretation to B.F. Sarmiento's most notable piece of writing. The Hafner Libr...
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105,06 zł |
Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite
ISBN: 9780028740232 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the Arabists were men and women who spent much of their lives living and working in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, intelligence agents, scholar-adventurers, and teachers. As such, the Arabists exerted considerable influence both as career diplomats and as bureaucrats within the State Department from the early 19th century to the present.
A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the Arabists were men and women who spent much of their lives...
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103,16 zł |
Becoming American: An Ethnic History
ISBN: 9780029009802 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Traces the history of American immigration from 1607 to the 1920s and looks at how groups of immigrants have adapted to the United States.
Traces the history of American immigration from 1607 to the 1920s and looks at how groups of immigrants have adapted to the United States.
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95,49 zł |
Crucible of Liberty: 200 Years of the Bill of Rights
ISBN: 9780029010556 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Seven scholars - Kermit Hall, John Hope Franklin, Samual Walker, Stephen J. Whitfield, Paul Murphy, David Bodenhamer and James W. Carey - explore the history and contemporary meaning of the first ten amendments to the US Constitution.
Seven scholars - Kermit Hall, John Hope Franklin, Samual Walker, Stephen J. Whitfield, Paul Murphy, David Bodenhamer and James W. Carey - explore the ...
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81,36 zł |
Louis XIV and the Greatness of France
ISBN: 9780029010808 / Angielski / Miękka / 1965 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,70 zł |
Tokugawa Religion
ISBN: 9780029024607 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Argues that Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shintoism are more responsible for Japan's current economic success than contact with the West, and discusses Japanese religion and culture.
Argues that Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shintoism are more responsible for Japan's current economic success than contact with the West, and discusses ...
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90,70 zł |
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
ISBN: 9780029024805 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1913, Beard's iconoclastic masterwork sparked a deep historical debate that has not abated. Scrutinizing the Constitution in light of economic forces, he proposed for the first time that this politico-legal document was shaped by a group of men whose commercial interests were best served by its provisions. One hundred years later, An Economic Interpretation continues to stand the test of time, raising important questions about commercial and political power and generating radical new insights into our laws and our economy.
First published in 1913, Beard's iconoclastic masterwork sparked a deep historical debate that has not abated. Scrutinizing the Constitution in light ...
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105,06 zł |
Causes of War, 3rd Ed.
ISBN: 9780029035917 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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105,25 zł |
History of the Southern Confederacy
ISBN: 9780029087107 / Angielski / Miękka / 1965 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Synopsis coming soon.......
Synopsis coming soon.......
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114,63 zł |