Jacqueline Kennedy and the Architecture of First Lady Diplomacy (Moore Jr John Allphin)(Pevná vazba)

Jacqueline Kennedy and the Architecture of First Lady Diplomacy (Moore Jr John Allphin)(Pevná vazba)

Jacqueline Kennedy and the Architecture of First Lady Diplomacy offers a unique rhetorical analysis of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's communication uncovers five forms of soft diplomacy that catapult her to the top of all American first ladies as a model of international

A Short Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy (Harrison MIM)(Pevná vazba)

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1929 - 1994) was a First Lady with elegant style, wit and intelligence. She traveled the world as a young woman and celebrated culture. Nothing in her experience would prepare her for the success or the tragedy that would unfold in her life. The Short Biographies series

Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier (Perry Barbara A.)(Paperback)

A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole John Kennedy)(Pevná vazba)

After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won

Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (Berridge G. R.)(Pevná vazba)

Fully revised and updated, this comprehensive guide to diplomacy explores the art of negotiating international agreements and the channels through which such activities occur when states are in diplomatic relations, and when they are not. This new edition includes chapters on secret intelligence

The Forgotten Flight: Terrorism, Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Justice (Newberger Stuart H.)(Pevná vazba)

The Wonders of Florence (Cestaro Dario)(Pevná vazba)

The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in colored pages shaped into Florence's most

Neon Bible (Toole John Kennedy)(Paperback / softback)

The accomplished and evocative first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of

Sport and diplomacy: Games within games (Rofe J. Simon)(Pevná vazba)

This book critically enhances the appreciation of sport and diplomacy in global affairs from the perspective of both practitioners and scholars. It draws on a range of scholarship across history, politics, sociology and international relations. It explores the linkages across these fields

Jackie: Her Transformation from First Lady to Jackie O (Brandus Paul)(Paperback)

Everyone knows that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was married to two of the twentieth century's most powerful men: John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis. Lesser known are the five incredible years between those marriages, when she was on her own. Jackie tells that story--the story of a woman who was

John Major: An Unsuccessful Prime Minister? - Reappraising John Major(Pevná vazba)

The first political biography of John Major and his government. A timely reassessment of a forgotten man of British

Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present (Moores Jr.)(Pevná vazba)

From Black Sabbath to Big Black, a ride through the evolution, diversity, and influence of genre-defying heavy music. It began with the Beatles' 'Helter Skelter.' It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. And it has flourished into a vibrant modern underground, epitomized by

Kent: North East and East (Newman John)(Pevná vazba)

The exceptionally rich architecture of eastern Kent is covered by this fully revised, updated, and expanded edition of John Newman's classic survey, first published in 1969. This city of Canterbury is the county's greatest treasure, and its glorious cathedral is the first mature example of Gothic

Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney (Kennedy Kate)(Pevná vazba)

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the

Mesopotamia - Ancient Art and Architecture (Bahrani Zainab)(Pevná vazba)

The only comprehensive survey in print of the art and architecture of ancient

Modern Architecture and the Sacred: Religious Legacies and Spiritual Renewal (Anderson Ross)(Pevná vazba)

Modern Architecture and the Sacred provides a timely reappraisal of architecture's manifold engagements with notions of the sacred in the twentieth century. A wide range of case material is presented over sixteen contributed essays - including the work of iconic modernist architects such as Le

Up & Down: The Adventures of John Jeffries, First American to Fly (Brown Don)(Pevná vazba)

The incomparable Don Brown chronicles the ballooning misadventures of John Jeffries, scientist and aviation pioneer. Swept up by the European ballooning craze of the 1780s, Dr. John Jeffries longed to become the first person to fly across the English Channel. But first he had to outwit a rascally

Saturn V Rocket (Lawrie Alan)(Pevná vazba)

In 1961, Pres. John F. Kennedy set the challenge of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In order to achieve this, NASA partnered with US industry to build the largest rocket ever produced, the Saturn V. It was designed and tested in record time and made its first flight in 1967

Antarctic Resolution (Foscari Giulia)(Pevná vazba)

The first ever book on the architecture of the world's southernmost continentAccounting for approximately 10% of the land mass of Planet Earth, the Antarctic is a global commons we collectively neglect. Far from being a pristine natural landscape, the continent is a contested territory which

The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture (Eisenman Peter)(Pevná vazba)

First published in 2006 (and now rare), and originally written as a dissertation in 1963, The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture is the acclaimed American architect Peter Eisenman's masterly formal analysis of architecture. 'I wanted to write an analytic work that related what I had learned to

Poland's New Ways of Public Diplomacy (Dobek-Ostrowska Boguslawa)(Pevná vazba)

The book explains when and how Poland implemented public diplomacy. The author explains it as a form of external political communication of governments conducted in cooperation with non-state actors to position the country internationally. The Polish case shows how a country in Europe attempts to

Anything Goes? Berlin Architecture in the 1980s (Mller Ursula)(Pevná vazba)

For the first time, this publication and the accompanying exhibition examine the significance of the architectural visions developed in East and West Berlin in the final decade before the fall of the Berlin

A Chronology of Architecture: A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to Skyscrapers (Zukowsky John)(Pevná vazba)

Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius defined architecture's characteristics to include firmitas, utilitas, and venustas--essentially, structural integrity, usefulness, and beauty. Amazingly, all three Vitruvian characteristics can be found one way or another in most buildings and constructions

Chinese Architecture: A History (Steinhardt Nancy)(Pevná vazba)

An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to today Throughout history, China has maintained one of the world's richest built civilizations. The nation's architectural achievements range from its earliest walled cities and the First