S britským původem s pevnou vazbou knihy o historii - strana 8 z 8

Can anyone truly understand Russia? Let one of the world's leading experts show you how, using the fascinating history of a nation to illuminate its future. Russia is a country with no natural borders...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world....

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

The ancient world saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. In mainstream history the Classical world is dominated by Greece and Rome, and the Biblical world is centred on the Hebrews...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

From the award-winning author of The Great Sea, a magnificent new global history of the oceans and of humankind's relationship with the sea. For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

From the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes an outstanding new history of how our world was made...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel PozziIn the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in ...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In How Religion Evolved, evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar tracks its origins back to what he terms the 'mystical stance' - the aspect of human psychology that predisposes...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

Feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Helen Lewis argues that too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

Spain's position on Europe's south-western corner has exposed it to cultural, political and actual winds blowing from all quadrants. Africa lies a mere nine miles to the south. The Mediterranean connects it to the civilizational currents...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

By the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller The EtymologiconAlmost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

Between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment, concerned with kings and statesmen, gave way to a new interest in the lives of ordinary people...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

Lavishly illustrated with many full-page and mind-blowing illustrations...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts, and fears...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

Fascinujúca prehliadka miest, ktoré sa stratili v histórii. Čo sa stalo s miestami, na ktoré dejiny zabudli? S mestami pod morskou hladinou, zdecimovanými cudzími vojskami či stratenými v prúde času? Čo sú zač a čo nám prezrádzajú .....

• Knihapevná vazba
  Připravujeme,
  vychází 2. 10. 2024

Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané