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- Why Marx Was Right
Why Marx Was Right
- Terry Eagleton
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 280
- 2018
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to...
- Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed Mary Heimann
Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed Mary Heimann
- Mary Heimann
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 406
- 2011
This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in...
- About Time - Fashion and Duration
About Time - Fashion and Duration
- Andrew Bolton, Jan Giler Reeder, Jessica Regan, Amanda Garfinkel, Theo
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 400
- 2020
Traces fashions from 1870 to the present along a conceptual, disruptive, and nontraditional timeline of fashion history About Time: Fashion and Duration traces the evolution of...
- Fur
Fur
- Jonathan Faiers
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 240
- 2020
The first and only book of its kind, Fur: A Sensitive History looks at the impact of fur on society, politics, and, of course, fashion. This material has a long, complex, and...
- A Little History of the World E. Gombrich
A Little History of the World E. Gombrich
- E H Gombrich, Ernst Hans Gombrich
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- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 304
- 2008
The international bestseller available in English for the first time: E. H. Gombrich’s world history for the curious of all ages... E. H. Gombrich’s bestselling history of the...
- Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
- Saul Friedländer
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 200
- 2016
A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka’s life, work, legacy, and thought Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a...
- Battle for Syria
Battle for Syria
- Christopher Phillips
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 384
- 2020
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil war“One of the best informed...
- A Little History of Religion - Richard Holloway
A Little History of Religion - Richard Holloway
- Richard Holloway
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 256
- 2017
For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity’s earliest days to our own contentious times In an era of hardening religious attitudes...
- Survivors - Rebecca Clifford
Survivors - Rebecca Clifford
- Rebecca Clifford
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 344
- 2020
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust―named a...
- The Piano - Susan Tomes
The Piano - Susan Tomes
- Susan Tomes
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 400
- 2021
A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK’s most renowned concert pianists An astonishingly versatile instrument, the piano allows...
- How I Became a Tree
How I Became a Tree
- Sumana Roy
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 248
- 2021
An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard’s...
- Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination Aveni AnthonyPevná vazba
Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination Aveni AnthonyPevná vazba
- Anthony Aveni
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- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 240
- 2021
An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity’s origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation...
- Why Food Matters Freedman PaulPevná vazba
Why Food Matters Freedman PaulPevná vazba
- Paul Freedman
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 216
- 2021
From the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of food’s cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human history. “A rich and fascinating...
- Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 Piketty ThomasPevná vazba
Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 Piketty ThomasPevná vazba
- Piketty, Thomas
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 360
- 2021
A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century"What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . ....
- Reimagining Time: A Light-Speed Tour of Einstein's Theory of Relativity Bub TanyaPevná vazba
Reimagining Time: A Light-Speed Tour of Einstein's Theory of Relativity Bub TanyaPevná vazba
- Tanya Bub, Jeffrey Bub
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- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 192
- 2021
A quirky, funny, and accessible blend of science and art that delves into the heart of Einstein’s theory of relativity “A fascinating introduction to the core concepts of...
- Story of Tutankhamun
Story of Tutankhamun
- Garry J. Shaw
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- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 192
- 2022
A lively new biography of Tutankhamun―published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb’s modern discovery The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 sparked...
- The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe
- Marek Kohn
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- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 329
- 2023
A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history Historic quarters in cities...
- Landscapes of Modern Architecture
Landscapes of Modern Architecture
- Marc Treib
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 272
- 2017
An authoritative study of the interrelationship between modern architecture, landscape, and site strategy as viewed through the work of five prominent architects Modern...
- Medieval Europe
Medieval Europe
- Chris Wickham
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- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 352
- 2017
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages. The millennium between the breakup of the...
- Little History of Economics
Little History of Economics
- Niall Kishtainy
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 256
- 2018
A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field. What causes poverty? Are...
- Civil Wars
Civil Wars
- David Armitage
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 368
- 2018
A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we...
- Devotion
Devotion
- Patti Smith
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 120
- 2018
The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process. A work of creative brilliance...
- The Qur'an and the Bible - Ali Quli Qarai, Gabriel Said Reynolds
The Qur'an and the Bible - Ali Quli Qarai, Gabriel Said Reynolds
- Gabriel Said Reynolds
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 672
- 2018
A groundbreaking comparative study that illuminates the connections between the Qur'ān and the Bible While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related...
- Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
- Phyllis Rose
- anglické
- naučné
- Yale University Press
- 272
- 2019
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists...