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  • Games of History

    Games and Gaming as Historical Sources

    podle Apostolos Spanos ...
    Série série Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts, textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a “serious” activity can be used as sources for the study of history.From the vast world of games, the book’s focus is on board and card games, with reference to physical games, sports and digital games as well. Considering culture, society, politics and metaphysics, ... Přečtěte si více

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  • The 99% Invisible City

    A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

    **A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER“[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces.”—The New York Times Book Review**“Here is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious. Your city’s secret anatomy laid bare—a hundred things you look at but don’t ... Přečtěte si více

    367,69 Kč

  • A Short History of World War II

    "A balanced account of World War II . . . Dr. Stokesbury's one-volume history is by far the best short account of the war yet published." —Thaddeus V. Tuleja, Professor of History, St. Peter's College, author of Climax at MidwayDespite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive. Previous volumes have usually been ... Přečtěte si více

    302,89 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Tao Te Ching

    A New English Version

    The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell"Mitchell’s rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." — Huston Smith, author of The Religions of ManIn eighty-one ... Přečtěte si více

    192,19 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • J. R. R. Tolkien: A Life from Beginning to End

    Biographies of British Authors

    podle Hourly History ...
    Série série Biographies of British Authors
    J. R. R. Tolkien, an orphan in love with words, spent most of his life as an unassuming Professor of Literature at Oxford studying and teaching old languages. During his time there, he created his very own languages and a mythological world, Middle-earth. Middle-earth was inhabited by Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves, and other fascinating creatures. It was a world that became almost more real to Tolkien ... Přečtěte si více

    62,39 Kč

  • A Brief History of History

    podle Jeremy Black ...
    In A Brief History of History, acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The stories we tell about the past are a crucial aspect of all cultures. However, while the traditional storytelling process—what we think of as "history" in the proper sense—is useful, it is also misleading, not least because it leads to the repetition of bias and ... Přečtěte si více

    396,29 Kč

  • How to be a Tudor

    A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life

    podle Ruth Goodman ...
    TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII - but what was life really like for a commoner like you or me?To answer this question, the renowned "method historian" Ruth Goodman has slept, washed and cooked as the Tudors did - so you don't have to!She is your expert guide to this fascinating era, ... Přečtěte si více

    237,89 Kč

  • Lies My Teacher Told Me

    Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

    podle James W. Loewen ...
    "Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."—Howard ZinnA new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the authorSince its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one ... Přečtěte si více

    270,29 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Sigmund Freud

    An Introduction

    Jean-Michel Quinodoz introduces the essential life and work of Sigmund Freud, from the beginning of his clinical experiences in Vienna in the 1880s to his final years in London in the 1930s. Freud’s discoveries, including universally-influential concepts like the Oedipus complex and the interpretation of dreams, continue to be applied in many disciplines today. Elegantly and clearly written, each ... Přečtěte si více

    727,95 Kč

  • War Memory and East Asian Conflicts, 1930–1945

    Série série History (R0)
    This book explores how narratives, exhibitions, media representations, and cultural heritage sites that communicate memories of conflicts in East Asia between 1930 and 1945 spread, interact, and are re-packaged for post-war audiences across national divisions. The contributors examine individual case studies of grassroots engagement with war memory, and collectively demonstrate the necessity of ... Přečtěte si více

    3 062,79 Kč

  • History and the Written Word

    Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins

    podle Henry Bainton ...
    Série série The Middle Ages Series
    A thought-provoking look at the Angevin aristocracy's literary practices and historical recordComing upon the text of a document such as a charter or a letter inserted into the fabric of a medieval chronicle and quoted in full or at length, modern readers might well assume that the chronicler is simply doing what good historians have always done—that is, citing his source as evidence. Such ... Přečtěte si více

    2 159,99 Kč

  • The Autofictional

    Approaches, Affordances, Forms

    Série série Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” and “Forms,” the ... Přečtěte si více

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  • MATRIOTISMUS-DIE VERGESSENE HÄLFTE DER LIEBE ZUM (MUTTER)LAND: Ein Hoch auf schwarze Frauen: Hommage an wahre Heldinnen

    Vorreiterinnen der Frauenemanzipation: Warum ihre Leistungen zur Weltgeschichte spezielle Anerkennung verdienen

    podle Dantse Dantse ...
    Die vergessene Hälfte der Liebe zum (Mutter)Land – die Leistung der Frauen, ohne sie kein Land Die Provokation, die das Vaterland braucht – ein Aufruf zur Revolution der Liebe zum Mutterland und zur Anerkennung Derjenigen, welche die wahre Basis unserer Gesellschaft sind: die Frauen. Matriotismus: die verlorene Essenz der Heimatliebe Dantse Dantse, der unerschrockene Denker und Autor, enthüllt in ... Přečtěte si více

    379,00 Kč

  • Historiografia e cultura da alimentação e dos modelos alimentares

    podle Sandro Dias ...
    Série série Série Universitária
    A Série Universitária foi desenvolvida pelo Senac São Paulo com o intuito de preparar profissionais para o mercado de trabalho. Os títulos abrangem diversas áreas, abordando desde conhecimentos teóricos e práticos adequados às exigências profissionais até a formação ética e sólida.Historiografia e cultura da alimentação e dos modelos alimentares explora um campo de investigação relativamente ... Přečtěte si více

    133,46 Kč

  • Conversaciones sobre Historia, Lengua y Literatura en español

    Encuentros entre el Mediterráneo y el Adriático

    Este volumen reúne 24 estudios que, desde diversas disciplinas como la literatura, la traducción, la historia y la cultura, abordan la riqueza de la cultura hispánica desde una perspectiva mediterránea ampliada. Sus autores —provenientes de España, Albania, Turquía y Asia— reflexionan sobre las intersecciones culturales entre el Mediterráneo occidental y oriental. La obra ofrece una mirada ... Přečtěte si více

    1 426,29 Kč

  • Perspectives on Nation-State Formation in Contemporary Africa

    The challenge of state formation and national integration is evident, and the need for a solution is even more demanding in places like Africa where nation states were formed under very special historical circumstances. In Perspectives on Nation-State Formation in Contemporary Africa, author Godknows Boladei Igali presents a digest that examines the challenges of state formation and national ... Přečtěte si více

    83,25 Kč

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies

    Série série Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism mobilities, tourist experiences, the co-creation of touristic meaning, and ‘difficult heritage’ processes and ... Přečtěte si více

    7 416,79 Kč

  • "Sodom & Gomorrah"

    Lot has been in Sodom for many years now. Everything seemed to be moving well. Business was without interruption amidst the grave sin of the people and the outcry that went up to God on a daily basis. Lot was comfortably married to a Sodomite beautiful lady, and their union was blessed with two daughters who until then were virgin. Lot had no idea of the outcry that has recently been troubling ... Přečtěte si více

    104,12 Kč

  • Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian

    Writing the Life of a Roman Emperor

    podle Keith Bradley ...
    Série Kniha 62 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires d’Hadrien, her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The work can be examined from the perspective of the issues raised by writing Roman imperial biography at large and the many ways in which Mémoires has a claim to historical authenticity.In Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian, Keith Bradley explains how ... Přečtěte si více

    1 952,99 Kč

  • Galileo, the Jesuits, and the Medieval Aristotle

    podle William A. Wallace ...
    Série série Variorum Collected Studies
    The conventional opposition of scholastic Aristotelianism and humanistic science has been increasingly questioned in recent years, and in these articles William Wallace aims to demonstrate that a progressive Aristotelianism in fact provided the foundation for Galileo's scientific discoveries. The first series of articles supply much of the documentary evidence that has led the author to the ... Přečtěte si více

    1 568,22 Kč

  • Tisdall of Charlesfort Co. Meath Ireland

    podle Arthur Kavanagh ...
    This book traces the history of the TISDALL FAMILY OF CHARLESFORT from about 1630 up to the present day. Charlefort was the name of the house built by the Tisdalls c. 1740 and replaced their old residence known as MOUNT TISDALL. Their estates were mainly in MARTRY, NEAR KELLS IN CO. MEATH. They came into possession of other smaller lots of lands in Co. Limerick and Co. Kilkenny over the centuries. ... Přečtěte si více

    83,25 Kč

  • History at the Limit of World-History

    podle Ranajit Guha ...
    Série série Italian Academy Lectures
    The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of history. Ranajit Guha, perhaps the most influential figure in postcolonial and subaltern studies at ... Přečtěte si více

    515,19 Kč

  • Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World

    Provincial Cosmopolitans

    podle Göran Rydén ...
    Eighteenth-century Sweden was deeply involved in the process of globalisation: ships leaving Sweden’s central ports exported bar iron that would drive the Industrial Revolution, whilst arriving ships would bring not only exotic goods and commodities to Swedish consumers, but also new ideas and cultural practices with them. At the same time, Sweden was an agricultural country to a large extent ... Přečtěte si více

    1 288,13 Kč

  • European Vistas

    History, Ethics and Identity in the Works of Claudio Magris

    podle Remko Smid ...
    Série Kniha 31 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
    Claudio Magris is one of Italy’s – and Europe’s – most renowned thinkers and writers. He is considered an authority on central European literature and culture and is frequently interviewed about his hometown Trieste, the region called Mitteleuropa and the European Union. But what makes Magris such a relevant figure on the European literary scene?European Vistas aims to answer this question by ... Přečtěte si více

    1 361,49 Kč