A Hundred Years of Spying (Carradice Phil)(Pevná vazba)

A Hundred Years of Spying (Carradice Phil)(Pevná vazba)

Early espionage organizations like Walsingham's Elizabethan spy network were private enterprises, tasked with keeping the Tudor Queen and her government safe. Formal use of spies and counter spies only really began in the years after 1909, when the official British secret service was founded

A Pembrokeshire Childhood in the 1950s (Carradice Phil)(Paperback)

As Phil Carradice says in this hugely entertaining and evocative book 'the memories of childhood have no order.' What they do have, however, is a resonance and an ability to quicken the heart beat and transports you back to a time when the entire world was young and free and intriguing. Phil

The Battle of Tsushima (Carradice Phil)(Pevná vazba)

In 1905, Japan and Russia were at war. With the Russian Far East Fleet destroyed, the Czar decided to send his Baltic Fleet half way around the world to exact revenge. This mammoth journey took many months and was, in itself, an amazing feat of seamanship. But, at the end of this epic adventure,

St Hugh's: One Hundred Years of Women's Education in Oxford (Griffin Penny)(Pevná vazba)

Hitler and His Women (Carradice Phil)(Pevná vazba)

Adolf Hitler - a ranting, evil demagogue whose insane ambitions and beliefs took the world to the brink of extinction and caused the deaths of millions.And yet there was another side to the Fuhrer, one that was rarely seen and even now remains unknown by most people. It was a softer side, a gentler

Pleasures of the Firth - Two Hundred Years of the Clyde Steamers 1812 - 2012 (Clark Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Endurance: Winning Lifes Majors the Phil Mickelson Way (Magee David)(Pevná vazba)

ENDURANCE Winning Life's Majors the Phil Mickelson Way For the first twelve years of his career, Phil Mickelson was one of the world's most skilled, successful, and beloved professional golfers. He also spent most of that period under the cloud of a different title--''The best golfer never to win a

Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists (Knight Elliot A.)(Pevná vazba)

A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists Alabama artists have been an integral part of the story of the state, reflecting a wide-ranging and multihued sense of place through images of the land and its people. Quilts, pottery, visionary paintings, sculpture,

Psychology of Religion (Barrett Justin L.)(Pevná vazba)

Psychology of religion is essentially as old as psychology itself, with over a hundred years of history and claiming some of psychology's most notable characters as contributors, including William James, Sigmund Freud, Gordon Allport, and Jean Piaget. In recent years, this subfield of psychology

Julia Watson. Lo--Tek. Design by Radical Indigenism (Watson Julia)(Pevná vazba)

Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, this mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive. Today, we have slowly come to realize

Bloody Mary: Tudor Terror, 1553-1558 (Carradice Phil)(Paperback)

The story of Bloody Mary, the most brutal of brutal

Shadow of the Hawk, Volume 7 (Gilman David)(Pevná vazba)

Th seventh instalment of David Gilman's gripping chronicle of the Hundred Years' War, following Thomas Blacstone, Edward III's Master of

Moomin Deluxe: Volume One (Jansson Tove)(Pevná vazba)

A celebration of Tove Jansson's legacy, one hundred years after her birth Tove Jansson's Moomin stories made her one of the most beloved Scandinavian authors of the twentieth century. Jansson's whimsical tales of Moominvalley resonate with children for their lighthearted spirit, and with adults for

Edward I and Wales, 1254-1307 (Pilling David)(Pevná vazba)

The late 13th century witnessed the conquest of Wales after two hundred years of conflict between Welsh princes and the English crown. In 1282 Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the only native Prince of Wales to be formally acknowledged by a King of England, was slain by English forces. His brother Dafydd

Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds (Gregory Phil)(Pevná vazba)

Gospel of Mary of Magdala (King Karen L.)(Pevná vazba)

Lost for more than fifteen hundred years, the Gospel of Mary is the only existing early Christian gospel written in the name of a woman. Karen L. King tells the story of the recovery of this remarkable gospel and offers a new translation. This brief narrative rejects Jesus' suffering and death as a

Peggy Lee: A Century of Song (Oney Tish)(Pevná vazba)

A June 2020 Library Journal Starred ReviewOne hundred years after the legendary singer's birth, this book brings to life the career of an iconic performer whose contributions to the Great American Songbook, jazz, popular music, and film music remain

Picton's Division at Waterloo (Haythornthwaite Philip)(Pevná vazba)

In the two hundred years since the Battle of Waterloo countless studies examining almost every aspect of this momentous event have been published narratives of the campaign, graphic accounts of key stages in the fighting or of the role played by a regiment or by an individual who was there - an

Nolyn (Sullivan Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

Now a New York Times Bestseller & Amazon Editor's Pick!After more than five hundred years of exile, the heir to the empyre is wary about his sudden reassignment to active duty on the Goblin War's front lines. His assignment to rescue an outpost leads to a dead-end canyon deep inside enemy

Crossing Continents: A History of Standard Chartered Bank (Penguin)(Pevná vazba)

For almost a hundred years from the 1860s, the City of London's overseas banks financed the global trade that lay at the core of the British Empire. Foremost among them from the beginning were two start-up ventures: the Standard Bank of South Africa, which soon developed a powerful domestic

Pandemic Century - One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris (Honigsbaum Mark)(Pevná vazba)

A smart and lively journey through a century of pandemics, from the Spanish flu to

Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires (Peakman Julie)(Pevná vazba)

Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behavior through five hundred years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience of women (as well as marginalized men), showing how women

Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict (Neel Phil A.)(Pevná vazba)

Over the last forty years, the human landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. The metamorphosis is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering, coastal hubs for finance, infotech, and the so-called creative class. But this is only the tip of an economic iceberg, the

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Pevná vazba)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his body of work is an undisputed cultural landmark and a touchstone for countless readers and writers alike. This book deals with his work and