ISBN: 9780300228755 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Oliver Hilmes Ilość stron: 368 Rok wydania: 2018
An engrossing new biography of the musical revolutionary who was the world's first international megastar Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and...
ISBN: 9780300210040 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 96 Rok wydania: 2014
In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world's foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses...
ISBN: 9780300205343 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 2014
Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War II, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of...
ISBN: 9780300205282 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 232 Rok wydania: 2014
Was Charles Dickens the secret lover of young actress Nelly Ternan? How would a man of his renown have hidden such an affair? This engaging book is the first complete account of the scandal that...
ISBN: 9780300126044 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 2007
Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial war. His life, passions,...
ISBN: 9780300194104 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2013
Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood...
ISBN: 9780300181562 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2012
How can you effectively stand up for your values when pressured by your boss, customers, or shareholders to do the opposite? Babson College business educator and consultant Mary Gentile draws on...
ISBN: 9780300253665 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2022
A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art's central role in culture today "This lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the...
ISBN: 9780300267884 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2023
ISBN: 9780300271034 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2023
ISBN: 9780300181258 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 432 Rok wydania: 2012
Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His poems have earned international acclaim, and his influence on Arabic literature has been likened...
ISBN: 9780300248548 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Pascal Boyer Ilość stron: 376 Rok wydania: 2020
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies "There is...
ISBN: 9780300212488 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 480 Rok wydania: 2015
The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War
ISBN: 9780300205251 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2014
This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced aby the working class....
ISBN: 9780300216103 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Green, David Ilość stron: 360 Rok wydania: 2015
The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell...
ISBN: 9780300268348 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 496 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9780300167962 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2012
"Five Spice Street" is a novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a...
ISBN: 9780300248616 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2019
This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original translations At a time when the association of Islam...
ISBN: 9780300153323 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2014
In Can Xue's extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other's...
ISBN: 9780300248562 Oprawa: miękka Autor: John J. Mearsheimer Ilość stron: 328 Rok wydania: 2019
A major theoretical statement żeby a distinguished political scholar explains why a policy of liberal hegemony is doomed to fail It is widely believed in the West that the United States should...