Age of War: Book Three of the Legends of the First Empire (Sullivan Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

Age of War: Book Three of the Legends of the First Empire (Sullivan Michael J.)(Mass Market Paperbound)

Age of War: Book Three of the Legends of the First Empire (Sullivan Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

The epic battle between humankind and their godlike rulers finally ignites in the masterful follow-up to Age of Myth and Age of Swords. The alliance of humans and renegade Fhrey is fragile--and about to be tested as never before. Persephone keeps the human clans from turning on one another through

Age of Myth: Book One of the Legends of the First Empire (Sullivan Michael J.)(Mass Market Paperbound)

Empire of Storms - Sarah J. Maasová

Only the greatest sacrifice can turn the tide of war. War is brewing in the fifth book of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends

The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace (Boyle Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

In The Drone Age, Michael J. Boyle addresses some of the biggest questions surrounding the impact of drones on our world today and the risks that we might face tomorrow. Will drones produce a safer world because they reduce risk to pilots, or will the prospect of clean, remote warfare lead

Age of Myth (Sullivan Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

One of fantasy's finest next-generation storytellers continues to break new ground. Michael J. Sullivan's trailblazing career began with the breakout success of his Riyria series: full-bodied, spellbinding fantasy adventures whose imaginative scope and sympathetic characters won a devoted

Empire of Night - Book 2 in the Age of Legends Trilogy (Armstrong Kelley)(Paperback / softback)

The gripping second volume in the Age of Legends trilogy by international bestselling author Kelley

The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions (Paquette Gabriel)(Pevná vazba)

An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and

The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols (Legutko Ryszard)(Pevná vazba)

The book has two currents. The first is an analysis of the three concepts of freedom, which are called, respectively, negative, positive, and inner. Negative freedom is defined as an absence of coercion, positive freedom as an ability to rule oneself and rule others, inner freedom as being oneself,

Indian Empire At War - From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War (Morton-Jack George)(Pevná vazba)

A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian

Rise Of Empire - The Riyria Revelations (Sullivan Michael J)(Paperback / softback)

The birth of the Nyphron Empire has brought war to Melengar. To save her kingdom, Princess Arista runs a desperate gamble when she defies her brother and hires Royce and Hadrian to perform a dangerous mission behind the enemy's lines. As the power of the Nyphron Empire grows, so does Royce's

Legends of Today (Bilal Enki)(Pevná vazba)

Legends of Today brings together the first three volumes that Enki Bilal has created in collaboration with the scriptwriter Pierre Christin: The Cruise of Forgotten (1975), The Stone Vessel (1976) and The City That Did Not Exist (1977). Antagonised by an enigmatic character with supernatural

European Stamp Issues and the First World War - Fall of Empires, Rise of Nations (Parker David)(Pevná vazba)

Gods at War - Understanding Three Millennia of Religious Conflict (Thomson Oliver)(Pevná vazba)

The use and abuse of religious belief in the age-old history of conflict. Gods at War examines the role played by

The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia (Foster Benjamin R.)(Paperback)

The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world's first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws together more than 40 years of research by one of

How Armies Grow: The Expansion of Military Forces in the Age of Total War 1789-1945 (Strohn Matthias)(Pevná vazba)

The first two decades after the end of the Cold War were characterized by governments' desires to reduce the sizes of their armed forces, not least in order to save money. Hand in hand with this general reduction went an intellectual and doctrinal re-orientation of the armies from conventional

Heir of Novron (J. Sullivan Michael)(Paperback)

The New Empire intends to mark its victory over the Nationalists with a bloody celebration. On the high holiday of Wintertide, the Witch of Melengar will be burned and the Heir of Novron executed. On that same day the Empress faces a forced marriage, with a fatal accident soon follow. The New

The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 2: The State (Winter Jay)(Pevná vazba)

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the state. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways in which different political systems responded to,

Children of Hurin (Tolkien J. R. R.)(Pevná vazba)

The first complete book by J.R.R. Tolkien in three decades -- since the publication of The Silmarillion in 1977 -- The Children of Hurin reunites fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, Eagles and Orcs. Presented for the first time as a complete,

The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 1: Global War (Winter Jay)(Pevná vazba)

This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in

Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence (Fehrle Johannes)(Pevná vazba)

1. One of the first book length contributions to the emerging field of adaptation & convergence culture. 2. Connects the diverse range of new phenomena relevant to adaptation studies from fan culture and mash ups to studies that rethink the fields of adaptation studies and convergence culture from

The Fellowship of the Ring, 1: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings (Tolkien J. R. R.)(Pevná vazba)

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth - home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving 'little people,' cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of

The Fall of Numenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth - J. R. R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien's writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one deluxe slipcased edition. J.R.R.Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a 'dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told'. And for many years readers would need to

War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of Isis, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran (Cockburn Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

Is the fall of ISIS the end of the perpetual war in the Middle East? In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East. Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory