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  • The Discoverers

    podle Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Série Kniha 2 - Knowledge Series
    An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to ... Přečtěte si více

    221,39 Kč

  • The Seekers

    The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

    podle Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Série Kniha 3 - Knowledge Series
    Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we? Why are we here?In his previous national bestsellers, The Discoverers and The Creators , Daniel J. Boorstin first told brilliantly how e discovered the reality of our world, and then he celebrated man's achievements in the arts. He now turns to ... Přečtěte si více

    119,29 Kč

  • The Creators

    A History of Heroes of the Imagination

    podle Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Série Kniha 1 - Knowledge Series
    By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller.Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso ... Přečtěte si více

    139,19 Kč

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  • The Neverending Empire

    The Infinite Impact of Ancient Rome

    podle Aldo Cazzullo ...
    Překlad: Loredana Maria Rinaldi ...
    From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire.“The only way to narrate over a thousand years of history is to understand what it has left us. To tell the reasons, the things and the stories, thanks to which Roman civilization is alive”.From its ... Přečtěte si více

    419,89 Kč

  • Allies at War

    The Sunday Times bestseller about The Rivals who defeated Hitler

    podle Tim Bouverie ...
    The Sunday Times bestselling, prize-winning history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace – from the author of the acclaimed Appeasing Hitler'Brilliant' ANTONY BEEVOR'Superb' JAMES HOLLAND'A masterpiece' RICHARD J. EVANS** WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2026**‘The best book I have ever read about the politics of the Second World War’ TIM SHIPMAN</stron... ... Přečtěte si více

    298,39 Kč

  • Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

    podle Simon Critchley ...
    From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our livesTragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A ... Přečtěte si více

    99,39 Kč

  • What's Gotten Into You

    The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

    podle Dan Levitt ...
    For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms ... Přečtěte si více

    372,49 Kč

  • Unholy Kingdom

    Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia

    podle Malise Ruthven ...
    In recent years, the de facto head of the House of Saud, Mohammed bin Salman, has promoted the oil-rich kingdom as an open, liberalizing nation that has invested in culture, tourism, and social innovation to become a beacon for the region. Malise Ruthven, a leading commentator on Islamic affairs, reveals the historical currents beneath these changes: how the royal house co-opted Wahhabism to ... Přečtěte si více

    182,79 Kč

  • The Shelf

    From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading

    podle Phyllis Rose ...
    "Exhilarating, adventurous, original . . . The Shelf is a reminder of what reading and writing are all about." —Azar Nafisi,#1 New York Times– bestselling author of Reading Lolita in TehranAfter a career of reading from syllabuses and writing about canonical books, Phyllis Rose decided to read like an explorer. Casting herself into the untracked wilde... ... Přečtěte si více

    273,89 Kč

  • Earthly Materials

    Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations

    podle Cutter Wood ...
    An “UNEXPECTEDLY PROFOUND,” “DEEPLY STRANGE,” and “UTTERLY UNIQUE tour of the human body” (Publishers Weekly)"A must read for anyone who’s ever been amazed or aghast at what just came out." — Rachel Yoder, author of NightbitchTo live, our bodies must continuously shed materials. Stop urinating, stop defecating, stop expelling breath, and death is near. While we often think of these materials as ... Přečtěte si více

    359,69 Kč

  • Murder the Truth

    Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

    podle David Enrich ...
    New York Times Bestseller"Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and violence. Now, as master investigative journalist David Enrich reveals, those tactics have arrived in America.” — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of StrongmenDavid Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the ... ... Přečtěte si více

    423,99 Kč

  • Ruby Ridge

    The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family

    podle Jess Walter ...
    With a new introduction“The most comprehensive, even-handed and best written account of Ruby Ridge currently in print.” — Washington TimesFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter, here is the story of what happened on Ruby Ridge: the tragic and unlikely series of events that destroyed a family, brought down the number-two man in the FBI, and left in its wake a ... Přečtěte si více

    266,29 Kč