Picturing War in France, 1792-1856 (Hornstein Katie)(Pevná vazba)

Picturing War in France, 1792-1856 (Hornstein Katie)(Pevná vazba)

This fascinating study looks at representations of contemporary warfare in postrevolutionary France and explores the important role these immensely popular images played in reshaping understandings of conflict and national

Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960 (Black Liza)(Pevná vazba)

Standing at the intersection of Native history, labor, and representation, Picturing Indians presents a vivid portrait of the complicated experiences of Native actors on the sets of midcentury Hollywood Westerns. This behind-the-scenes look at costuming, makeup, contract negotiations, and union

My War in the SOE - Behind Enemy Lines in France and Burmah with the Special Operations Executive (Verlander Harry)(Pevná vazba)

Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 (Bodleian Library)(Pevná vazba)

In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. This book is an irresistible insight into British attitudes towards the French and an interesting, timeless commentary on Anglo-French

Kill Monster (Doolittle Sean)(Pevná vazba)

A golem created to assassinate a criminal in 1856 is reawakened in the present ... intent on targeting his victim's innocent descendants. When treasure hunters excavate the long-lost wreck of the steamship Arcadia from a Kansas cornfield, a buried creature awakens - a mindless assassin of accursed

Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Xu)(Pevná vazba)

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied

The Forgotten War Against Napoleon: Conflict in the Mediterranean (Glover Gareth)(Pevná vazba)

The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been studied as a separate theater of the

Picturing Quantum Processes (Coecke Bob)(Pevná vazba)

The unique features of the quantum world are explained in this book through the language of diagrams, setting out an innovative visual method for presenting complex theories. Requiring only basic mathematical literacy, this book employs a unique formalism that builds an intuitive understanding of

Nuclear War In The UK (Young Taras)(Pevná vazba)

Quarantine: A Love Story (Cicatelli-Kuc Katie)(Pevná vazba)

Love can be contagious in this infectiously fun romance by debut author Katie Cicatelli-Kuc.Oliver wants a girlfriend, and there's a girl back home who might be interested in him. The problem is, he has to spend his spring break on a volunteer trip in the Dominican Republic. Flora, on the other

Biographic Tesla (Clegg Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Many people know that Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an engineer and inventor, instrumental in developing the alternating-current (AC) electrical system and wireless radio communications we still use today. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was born during a lightning storm; that when he

The Rose of Versailles Volume 4 (Ikeda Ryoko)(Pevná vazba)

France spirals towards a civil war, as nobles continue to ignore the people of France. Noblewoman Oscar Fran ois de Jarjayes is forced to reconsider her life as a soldier and a woman, her loyalties and her love. Marie Antoinette and the royal family seek escape, while Robespierre and the National

Dazzle - Disguise & Disruption in War & Art (James Taylor)(Pevná vazba)

National Identities in France (Sudlow Brian)(Pevná vazba)

National Identities in France explores nationalism, national identities, and the various ways in which these concepts are accepted, adapted, discarded, or internally disputed across ideological divides. The popular assumption that automatically regards nationalism as a largely right-wing concern,

Robert Frank: Valencia (Frank Robert)(Pevná vazba)

In 1950, Robert Frank left his job as a photographer in New York to travel through Europe with his family. That summer he arrived in Valencia, Spain, which was at the time a humble, bleak place enduring the austere conditions of the postwar period like the rest of the country. The pictures Frank

German Anti-Partisan Badge in World War II (Michaelis Rolf)(Pevná vazba)

F6F Hellcat: Grumman's Ace Maker in World War II (Doyle David)(Pevná vazba)

What Ails France? (Granville Brigitte)(Pevná vazba)

As evidenced by the yellow vests protest movement that began in France in 2018, the state of the French nation inspires gloom among many of its citizens. Brigitte Granville views this malaise as a peculiarly French symptom of the difficulties experienced by many advanced industrial democracies in

Artists Making Landscapes in Post-War Britain (Garlake Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period In this trailblazing study, Margaret Garlake complicates traditional histories of British landscape art in the post-war period. Drawing together work from painters and photographers--many of them

Of Love & War (Addario Lynsey)(Pevná vazba)

'Spectacular . . . a majestic collection that captures the drama of everyday existence in war zones around the world. . . . There is no disputing the impact of this revelatory collection.' --BookPage From the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and New York Times bestselling author, a stunning

Frank Stella's Stars: A Survey (Stella Frank)(Pevná vazba)

Stars as minimalist and maximalist motif in the art of Frank Stella, from his earliest paintings to his most recent sculptures As a painter, sculptor and printmaker, Frank Stella (born 1936) has always paid great attention to geometric lines and patterns in his work, creating pieces that are

Coolie's Great War - Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914-1921 (Singha Radhika)(Pevná vazba)

Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II (Rosen Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Spad Fighters: The Spad A.2 to XVI in World War I (Wilkins Mark C.)(Pevná vazba)