Knihy o historii

Trace the history of the world in over 500 easy-to-follow maps, from the dawn of humanity to the present day....

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  850 Kč

  Skladem 3 ks

No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miró. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It was a way of life – a rebellion against the establishment ...

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  734 Kč

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A fresh take on the history of art, using cultural timelines to reveal little-known connections and influences between artworks and artistic movements...

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  584 Kč

  Dočasně vyprodané,
  opět bude 30. 6. 2024

Spanning the Minoan and Mycenaean origins of Greece to its eventual conquest by Rome, this new single-author survey combines an authoritative and engaging retelling of the history of ancient Greece with an assessment ...

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  1 180 Kč

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The mass of available data about World War II has never been as large as it is now, yet it has become increasingly complicated to interpret it in a meaningful way. Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, ...

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  758 Kč

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Home Computers showcases the quirky and characterful beginnings of a commercial product that would come to unite the globe: the personal computer...

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  629 Kč

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  326 Kč

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Despite our culture’s proclaimed respect for scientific reason, we live in a society that is no less bedazzled-and bedevilled-by myth than those of our remote ancestors. Roland Barthes first examined the mythical resonances of ...

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  770 Kč

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From the days of the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Magic and magicians appear in early Babylonian texts, the Bible, Judaism, and Islam. Secret words, spells, and incantations lie at the heart of ...

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  752 Kč

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For more than 4,000 years the pyramids of Giza have stood like giant question marks that have intrigued and endlessly fascinated people. Who exactly built them? When? Why? And how did they create these colossal structures? But the pyramids are not a compl

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  2 935 Kč

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Global in perspective and covering over four million years of history, this accessible volume provides a chronological account of both the development of the human race and the order in which modern societies have made discoveries ...

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  676 Kč

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Bauhaus Imaginista is a major international project marking the centenary of this fascinating and popular school, which championed the idea of artists working together as a community. The Bauhaus reconnected art with everyday life, ...

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  991 Kč

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Brings together brief biographies of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China and the country’s transition from dynastic empire to republic...

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  971 Kč

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An expert palaeoarchaeologist reveals how our understanding of the evolution of our species has been transformed by momentous discoveries and technological advancements...

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  677 Kč

  Do 4 dnů

Join Egyptologist Garry J. Shaw on a tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of Horus, Isis, Osiris, and their enemies and allies, tales of vengeance, tragedy, and...

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  433 Kč

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A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today...

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  815 Kč

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A fully updated and revised edition of a classic bestseller: the definitive guide to Tutankhamun and his tomb...

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  1 114 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy...

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  473 Kč

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A vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of its ninety-two emperors...

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  621 Kč

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Since its first publication in 1987 as ‘The History of Beads’, this book has become the world’s definitive guide for bead lovers, collectors and scholars...

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  1 349 Kč

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The book presents 170 images, mainly shop window displays, shot by artist David Hlynsky during the final years of the collapsing Soviet empire in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany and Moscow, ...

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  605 Kč

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