Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 730, Publishers: ACADEMIC STUDIES PR, Author: Anna Zaranko, ISBN-13: 9798887192772, Date of issue: 2024
Tootekood: 10974763GTIN: 9780143126713Literature: history & criticism
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien ciphers--shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguel move
Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet the stories and figures that dominate Scottish history - tales of failure, submission, thwarted ambition and tragedy - often badly serve this great nation, overshadowing the rich tapestry of her intricate past. Historian Neil Oliver presents a compelling new portrait of Scottish history, peppered with action, high drama and centuries of turbulence that have helped to shape modern Scotland.Along the way, he takes in iconic landmarks and historic architecture; debunks myths surrounding Scotland's famous sons; recalls forgotten battles; charts the growth of patriotism; and explores recent political developments, capturing Scotland's sense of identity and celebrating her place in the wider world.
Tootekood: 10963913GTIN: 9780060930349United States of America, USA
In this bestseller, praised as "a magnificent achievement" ("Wall Street Journal"), the author of "Modern Times" offers a challenging reinterpretation of American history.
Tootekood: 24345961GTIN: 9780141978505History of religion
'With emotional and psychological insight, Barton unlocks this sleeping giant of our culture. In the process, he has produced a masterpiece.' Sunday Times The Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths which hold it sacred, it
Tootekood: 17481689GTIN: 9781514690802Information technology: general issues
The book is a short history of the computer industry, starting with relay computers and ending with the IBM PC, introduced in 1981. Before digital computers, there were digital switching systems, used by the phone companies, made with relays. With the earl
Tootekood: 05047103GTIN: 9788024622279Eastern Europe
Born January 1, 1993, after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, this new state and the areas just outside its modern borders boast an ancient and intricate past. With A History of the Czech Lands, editors Jaroslav Panek and Oldrich Tuma-along with several scholars from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University - provide one of the most complete historical accounts of this region to date. Panek and Tuma's history begins in the Neolithic Era and follows the development of the state as it transformed into the Kingdom of Bohemia during the ninth century, into a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into Czechoslovakia after World War I, and finally into the Czech Republic. Such a tumultuous political past arises in part from a fascinating native people, and A History of the Czech Lands profiles the Czechs in great detail, delving into past and present traditions and explaining how generation after generation adapted to a perpetually changing government and economy.In addition, contributors examine the many minorities that now call these lands home - Jews, Slovaks, Poles, Germans, Ukrainians, and others - and how each group's migration to the region has contributed to life in the Czech Republic today. With sixty new illustrations and an additional chapter examining the transformation of the Czech Republic from a post-communist country into a member of the European Union, this new edition of A History of the Czech Lands will be essential for scholars of Slavic, Central, and East European studies and a must-read for those who trace their ancestry to these lands.
Tootekood: 10963826GTIN: 9780060915339Relating to Jewish people & groups
The author delivers a brilliant and comprehensive one-volume survey covering 4,000 years of Jewish history. His book is a forceful and sustained analysis of Jewish emergence and an interpretation of how Jewish history, philosophy, ethics, and social and political notions interplay with world history.
The 4th volume in this series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. This is the story of the tactical air forces up to the point when Rome was occupied, just at the same time as the Normandy landings were occurring in north-west France.
Tootekood: 43351387GTIN: 9780691236575General & world history
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 848, Publishers: Princeton University Press, Author: Michael Cook, ISBN-13: 9780691236575, Date of issue: 2024
Tootekood: 17525030GTIN: 9781517483951Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
The office of bishop of Rome, is one of the most powerful positions in the world. As an ancient institution stretching back for centuries, the papacy has a history that is marked by archaic and modern customs alike. The history of the men who have held thi
Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. 'Hugely entertaining and illuminating' -Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 Here's how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes... We kick off with Romulus murdering his brother, go on to Brutus overthrowing Tarquin, bounce through an appallingly tedious list of battles and generals and consuls, before emerging into the political stab-fest of the late Republic. After 'Et tu, Brute?', it runs through all the emperors, occasionally nodding to a wife or mother to show how bad things get when women won't do as they're told, until Constantine invents Christianity only for Attila the Hun to come and ruin everything. Let's tear up this script. The history of Rome and its empire is so much more than these 'Important Things'. In this alternative history, Emma Southon tells another story about the Romans, one that lives through Vestal Virgins and sex workers, business owners and poets, empresses and saints. Discover how entrepreneurial sex worker Hispala Faecenia uncovered a conspiracy of treason, human sacrifice and Bacchic orgies so wild they would make Donna Tartt blush, becoming one of Rome's unlikeliest heroes.Book yourself a table at the House of Julia Felix and get to know Pompeii's savviest businesswoman and restauranteur. Indulge in an array of locally sourced delicacies as you take in the wonderful view of Mount Vesuvius... what could possibly go wrong?Join the inimitable Septimia Zenobia, who - after watching a series of incompetent, psychopathic and incompetently psychopathic emperors almost destroy the Empire - did what any of us would do. She declared herself Empress, took over half the Roman Empire and ran it herself.
Tootekood: 11298603GTIN: 978006050594320th century, c 1900 to c 1999
Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of Germany. He continues on to document wars in South Africa, China, Ethiopia, Spain, Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, as well as apartheid, the arms race, the moon landing, and the beginnings of the computer age, while interspersing the influence of art, literature, music, and religion throughout this vivid work. A rich, textured look at war, celebration, suffering, life, death, and renewal in the century gone by, this volume is nothing less than extraordinary.
Neil MacGregor's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, "A History of the World in 100 Objects" begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and ends with objects which characterise the world we live in today. Seen through MacGregor's eyes, history is a kaleidoscope - shifting, interconnected, constantly surprising, and shaping our world today in ways that most of us have never imagined. A stone pillar tells us about a great Indian emperor preaching tolerance to his people; Spanish pieces of eight tell us about the beginning of a global currency; and an early Victorian tea-set speaks to us about the impact of empire. An intellectual and visual feast, this is one of the most engrossing and unusual history books published in years. "Brilliant, engagingly written, deeply researched". (Mary Beard, "Guardian")."A triumph: hugely popular, and rightly lauded as one of the most effective and intellectually ambitious initiatives in the making of 'public history' for many decades". ("Sunday Telegraph"). "Highly intelligent, delightfully written and utterly absorbing". (Timothy Clifford, "Spectator"). "This is a story book, vivid and witty, shining with insights, connections, shocks and delights". (Gillian Reynolds, "Daily Telegraph"). Neil MacGregor has been Director of the British Museum since August 2002. His latest book, "Shakespeare's Restless World" is an enthralling exploration of Shakespeare's world, and of the minds of his audiences, based on Neil MacGregor's new 20-part BBC Radio 4 series. MacGregor was previously Director of the National Gallery in London from 1987 to 2002.
'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history' BILL BRYSON'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOEPeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does - and about the scale of human folly.From the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a fascinating, witty and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders.More endorsements for 47 BORDERS: 'Fascinating and hugely entertaining' MARINA HYDE 'You'll never look at a map the same way again' STEPHEN BUSH '[A] clever, confounding history' PATRICK MAGUIRE'A witty grand tour' DORIAN LYNSKEY 'Warm, funny and sharply political' PHIL TINLINEIn the press:'[A] sprightly telling' New Statesman'Open and inviting' History Today'Wonderfully nerdy - and at times shocking' Byline Times'A diverting and informative read' theartsdesk.com
Tootekood: 11026784GTIN: 9780802715524General & world history
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quenchthirst. According to the author of "The Victorian Internet," six of them havehad a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming thedefining drink during a pivotal historical period.
Tootekood: 11010421GTIN: 9780679730828Society & culture: general
The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians . . . A History of Warfare is perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written."--The New York Times Book Review.
Tootekood: 27001940GTIN: 9781687227096History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
Featuring quotations by Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, and many more, A History of Western Philosophy in 500 Essential Quotations, contains two-and-a-half thousand years of wisdom distilled into one compac
Tootekood: 42871302GTIN: 9781805300878Feminism & feminist theory
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women.Open up this cabinet of curiosities and you'll find objects that have been highly esteemed - even, like the Bayeux tapestry, fought over by nations - and others that are humble and domestic. Some (like a sixteenth century glass dildo) are objects of female pleasure, some (a thumbscrew) of female subjugation. There are artefacts of women celebrated by history and of women unfairly forgotten by it; examples of female rebellion and of self-revelation; objects that are inspiring, curious or (like radium-laced chocolate) just fundamentally ill-conceived.Through the variety and nuance in all these 101 objects, Annabelle Hirsch has created a new history - teeming, unexpected, witty and always illuminating. This overdue corrective reveals what a healed femur says about civilisation, what men have to fear from hat pins, and it shows that the past has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it.
Tootekood: 02231495GTIN: 9780312202316Fiction: general & literary
Jonathan und Bobby sind Freunde seit ihrer Kindheit. In New York begegnen sie der exzentrischen Clare, die sich zu beiden Männern hingezogen fühlt. Als sie ein Kind von Bobby erwartet, ziehen die drei gemeinsam aufs Land, in ein altes Farmhaus ganz in der Nähe des legendären Woodstock. Hier wollen sie ein neues Leben beginnen ...§Die bewegende Geschichte dreier Menschen auf der Suche nach dem Glück abseits ausgetretener Pfade.
Proven al houses are true homes. Warm shades of ochre glow from the walls and roofs, weathered doors shine, and reflections glance off glazed ceramics and strike printed cotton tablecloths. This volume showcases the architectural diversity of Proven al hou
Tootekood: 11012543GTIN: 9780689870644Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction
This new board book edition of the successful picture book tells the story ofHermit Crab, who lovingly decorates his shell with underwater friends only tohave to move out when he grows too big for it. Full color.
A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2023A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family. "Mom seems off." Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone.She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps. Sam's excited for this rare extended visit, and looking forward to nights with just the two of them, drinking boxed wine, watching murder mystery shows, and guessing who the killer is long before the characters figure it out. But stepping inside, she quickly realizes home isn't what it used to be. Gone is the warm, cluttered charm her mom is known for; now the walls are painted a sterile white. Her mom jumps at the smallest noises and looks over her shoulder even when she's the only person in the room. And when Sam steps out back to clear her head, she finds a jar of teeth hidden beneath the magazine-worthy rose bushes, and vultures are circling the garden from above.To find out what's got her mom so frightened in her own home, Sam will go digging for the truth. But some secrets are better left buried.Also by T. KingfisherWhat Moves the DeadWhat Feasts at NightNettle & BoneThornhedgeA Sorceress Comes to Call
How much pain are you willing to endure for someone you love?Bold, charismatic, and charming Blu Henderson wears a fake smile every day, pushing through life because she has to - not because she wants to.Quiet, introverted, and mysterious Jace Boland catches her eye the second she sees him. After that, it's game over - not just for Blu, but for Jace as well.Drawn together by inexplicable attraction, a whirlwind connection forms that persists and torments, mends and breaks, and forces both Blu and Jace to confront the traumas of their past while trying to make their relationship work.A Hue of Blu explores how two broken hearts can find comfort in tragic losses, how two broken souls can find peace in pain, and how loving yourself may be the only way to love another...No matter the consequence.
Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak.
A stunning brand new edition of a bestselling classic in paranormal romance, featuring a vampire and werewolf fated mates romance, for fans of Ali Hazelwood's Bride.
The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people's participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-artist at least once a day; on the later days there were season-ticket holders who sat for days on end in front of his little cageReading these stories by the master of the absurd is like entering a dreamworld in which nothing, and yet somehow everything, makes sense.
Tootekood: 11523526GTIN: 9780805055306Ethics & moral philosophy
The controversial book that has redefined ethical hunting. David Petersen, himself a committed hunter who has long debated the ethics of blood sport, has now assembled a group of writers to share their experiences in the field and tell why they became hunters and how hunting protects wildlife and habitats.
In space no one can hear you giggle as you read this Little Golden Book for all ages featuring the characters from the classic movie Alien! Follow Ripley and the rest of the Nostromo crew on a space adventure that introduces the alphabet from A to Z. With fun illustrations, this light-hearted reimagining of the iconic movie Alien will delight fans young and old, as well as Little Golden Book collectors throught the universe. Since 1979, Alien has been an iconic franchise that has thrilled viewers around the world. Little Golden Books enjoy nearly 100% consumer recognition. They feature beloved classics, hot licenses, and new original stories . . . the classics of tomorrow.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 48, Publishers: Universe Publishing, Author: M. Musgrove, ISBN-13: 9780789341457, Date of issue: 2023
Tootekood: 11117177GTIN: 9781589258723Early years: letters & words
This brilliant, innovative book offers an engaging new way for children to discover and learn basic concepts of the alphabet. Colorful lift-the-flaps on every sturdy page further reinforce easy learning. Each board page features a grooved letter that a child can trace with his finger, a flap to lift to find a surprise, and bright illustrations depicting familiar objects. Full color.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 208, Publishers: KESTREL PUBLICATIONS, Author: Landis Blair, ISBN-13: 9780988192546, Date of issue: 2023
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 32, Publishers: INSIGHT ED, Author: Christie Golden, ISBN-13: 9798886630206, Date of issue: 2023
Tootekood: 46461984GTIN: 9781849949040Biography, Literature & Literary studies
This beautifully illustrated book charts the life, works and legacy of one of the world’s most beloved authors, offering a seasonal guide to Jane Austen's life through the objects that surrounded her, the personal letters and manuscripts that she created, and the events that shaped her life and understanding. It is created by Jane Austen’s House - the enchanting Hampshire cottage where her genius flourished, now a museum that attracts tens of thousands of visitors every year - and reveals highlights from the museum's collection. Arranged over the course of a calendar year, from snowy scenes in January to festive recipes in December, specially commissioned photography of Austen’s home and possessions are brought together with extracts from her books, reproductions of her letters, and stories of her life throughout the seasons.Highlights include affectionate letters to her sister Cassandra, the story of the publication of the first edition of Pride and Prejudice, and the 'topaze crosses' that inspired Mansfield Park. Read this book for a unique and intimate insight into Jane Austen’s world. Dip into it as you will, or visit each month, and enjoy a full year of Austen – her life, works and letters, people and objects she knew, and of course her idyllic, inspiring home.
(Music Sales America). 12 great jazz arrangements of your favorite carols and Christmas hits. Includes a CD with professional performances of every piece by a live jazz trio, plus backing tracks so you can play-along. Performance notes also included. Songs
