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  • The Scottish Nation

    A Modern History

    podle T. M. Devine ...
    The Scottish Nation examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland. Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing levels of social inequality, Devine places Scotland firmly within an international context and provides a key focus for the ongoing ... Přečtěte si více

    344,29 Kč

  • 1812

    Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

    podle Adam Zamoyski ...
    Adam Zamoyski’s bestselling account of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia – history’s first example of ... Přečtěte si více

    250,29 Kč

  • The Renaissance: A History from Beginning to End

    podle Hourly History ...
    During the Middle Ages, the nations of Europe forged new identities that moved them away from the lost glory of the Roman Empire into their own ethnicity. The experience of maturation was often clumsy and out of step, an evolutionary process that saw the nation's developing at their own pace as they struggled to replace the protection of Rome with their own home-grown strength. What the nations, ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Iron Kingdom

    The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

    podle Christopher Clark ...
    Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world.Prussia began as a medieval backwater, but transformed itself into a major European power and the force behind the creation of the German empire, until it was finally ... Přečtěte si více

    344,29 Kč

  • The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson

    The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Iceland in 1627

    podle Ólafur Egilsson ...
    A seventeenth-century minister tells his story of abduction by pirates, and a solo journey from Algiers to Copenhagen, in this remarkable historical text.In summer 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens and abducting almost four hundred people to sell into slavery in Algiers. Among those taken was Lutheran minister Olafur Egilsson.Reverend Olafur—born in the same year as William ... Přečtěte si více

    295,89 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Filterworld

    How Algorithms Flattened Culture

    podle Kyle Chayka ...
    **A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself."[Filterworld] is about how algorithms changed culture…[Chayka asks] what is taste? What is a sense of aesthetics? And what happens to it when it collides with the homogenizing ... Přečtěte si více

    247,99 Kč

  • American Prometheus (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

    THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic ... Přečtěte si více

    212,39 Kč

  • The Sleepwalkers

    How Europe Went to War in 1914

    podle Christopher Clark ...
    The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher ClarkSUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering ... Přečtěte si více

    261,69 Kč

  • End Times

    Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration

    podle Peter Turchin ...
    THE THOUGHT BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE TIMESA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Game of Thrones-style intra-elite conflict meets big data' TLS'Extraordinary. . . the culmination of many years of highly original and innovative work' BloombergOne of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time offers a brilliant new theory of how society w... ... Přečtěte si více

    298,39 Kč

  • 1942

    Crux of War

    podle Jonathan Parshall ...
    An engrossing and encyclopedic narrative of the year in which the outcome of World War Two hung in the balance The year opened with the Axis powers inflicting a series of disasters on the newly formed Allies: Pearl Harbor, followed by Japan's conquest of the Philippines and Southeast Asia; Rommel running unchecked in North Africa; German U-boats transforming the East Coast of the United States ... Přečtěte si více

    600,79 Kč

  • Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 8

    The grenadiers

    Série Kniha 13 - Soldiers, Weapons & Uniforms - Napoleonic
    Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various ancient editions of the work, Mark Conrad’s translation is the first and the better to remain ... Přečtěte si více

    145,61 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Age of Enlightenment: A History From Beginning to End

    podle Hourly History ...
    From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed that progress and the betterment of the human condition was inevitable.Inside you will read about.. ... Přečtěte si více

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  • On Tyranny

    The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing

    podle Timothy Snyder ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER **THE BOOK TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHY DEMOCRACY IS FAILING IN 2025‘The most coherent manifesto on confronting Trump’ New StatesmanIn the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, ... Přečtěte si více

    261,69 Kč

  • The Genius of Lisp

    podle Cees de Groot ...
    Journey through the fascinating story of Lisp: How it came about and why it was designed the way it was. Meet the geniuses involved in its creation, including Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, and the father of Lisp and artificial intelligence, John McCarthy. Lisp has informed the design of most programming languages in use today, and to learn how Lisp was constructed is to learn what programming is all ... Přečtěte si více

    303,52 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • The Road to Unfreedom

    Russia, Europe, America

    podle Timothy Snyder ...
    From the author of international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia's ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant than ever.'One of the best...brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy's retreat in the early years of 21st century' GuardianThe past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For ... Přečtěte si více

    298,39 Kč

  • Why We're Polarized

    A Barack Obama summer reading pick 2022

    podle Ezra Klein ...
    A BARACK OBAMA AND A BILL GATES SUMMER READING PICK 2022A NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER'This book helped me understand modern politics better' - Bill Gates, Summer Reading Pick 2022'Superbly researched and written' - Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Post'It's been a long time since I learned so ... ... Přečtěte si více

    233,99 Kč

  • Frederick the Great’s Army (1)

    Cavalry

    Série Kniha 236 - Men-at-Arms
    The Prussian army of King Frederick II, 'the Great', became so renowned as a result of its campaigns, principally during the Seven Years' War, that it was regarded as a model for many of the other armies of Europe.In this first of two volumes exploring Frederick the Great's splendid army, Philip Haythornwaite examines the organisation, tactics and uniform of his cavalry troops, in a text backed by ... Přečtěte si více

    220,59 Kč

  • Can Europe Survive?

    The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World

    podle David Marsh ...
    A bold new account of Europe’s plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and external challenges from the U.S., China and RussiaToday, Europe finds itself in a fast-changing, polarised world dominated by Chinese-American rivalry. The European Union and its surrounding nonmember states, despite initial successes after the fall of the Berlin Wall, have failed to implement a strategy ... Přečtěte si více

    598,89 Kč

  • The House of Dudley

    A New History of Tudor England. A TIMES Book of the Year

    podle Dr Joanne Paul ...
    Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family you've never heard of . . .'A tour-de-force of Tudor history. Remarkable' DAN JONES'Exciting and immersive. An immensely entertaining history' SUNDAY TIMES'This is riveting stuff: death, desire, power and scandal'SPECTATOR'A twist on the Tudors . . . E... ... Přečtěte si více

    298,39 Kč

  • A Voyage Around the Queen

    podle Craig Brown ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 … 'GENIUS'A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the**SPECTATOR, MAIL ON SUNDAY, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, INDEPENDENT, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY EXPRESS**and THE TABLET.From one of the funniest writers of our time, the a... ... Přečtěte si více

    202,49 Kč

  • The Long Walk

    The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

    podle Slavomir Rawicz ...
    'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves'Slavomir RawiczSlavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to twenty-five years in a gulag.After a three-month journey in the dead ... Přečtěte si více

    283,59 Kč

  • Harrier 809

    Britain’s Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War

    podle Rowland White ...
    'Utterly brilliant: a fantastically exciting book... This really does read like the best kind of thriller. His best book yet' James Holland, author of Normandy '44April 1982. Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.In response, Britain despatches a naval task force. Eight thousand miles from home, its fate hinges on just twenty Sea Harriers against the two hundred-strong might of the Argentine Air ... Přečtěte si více

    285,49 Kč

  • Becoming

    The intimate, inspiring and award-winning memoir from the bestselling author and former First Lady

    podle Michelle Obama ...
    An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwideNow in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and ... Přečtěte si více

    298,39 Kč

  • Titanic: The Story Of The Unsinkable Ship

    podle Hourly History ...
    It has been more than one hundred years since the RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic ocean. The disaster has captivated history buffs and non-history buffs alike, and it is easy to see why. Some of the most illustrious people of the day were on board: some survived, and some did not. Legends abound about whether the ship's maiden voyage was cursed. And then there is the ship ... Přečtěte si více

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