Last Giants - The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant (Wood Levison)(Pevná vazba)

Last Giants - The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant (Wood Levison)(Pevná vazba)

The Last Giants explores the rapid decline of one of the world's favourite animals and the measures required to halt their extinction, through Levison Wood's time spent with elephants in

Last Giants - The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant (Wood Levison)(Paperback / softback)

The Last Giants explores the rapid decline of one of the world's favourite animals and the measures required to halt their extinction, through Levison Wood's time spent with elephants in

Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom (Whitehead Annie)(Pevná vazba)

Many people know about Wessex, the 'Last Kingdom' of the Anglo-Saxons to fall to the Northmen, but another kingdom, Mercia, once enjoyed supremacy over not only Wessex, but all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. At its zenith Mercia controlled what is now Birmingham and London ‒ and the political,

Billion Dollar Loser - The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork (Wiedeman Reeves)(Pevná vazba)

THE SPECTACULAR RISE AND EXPLOSIVE FALL OF

Encounters: A Photographic Journey (Wood Levison)(Pevná vazba)

Join award-winning explorer and photographer Levison Wood on his extraordinary journeys around the world - vividly revealed in his first photography book. From images documenting his time in war zones to encounters with communities who have returned to traditional ways of life in the face of

Walking the Nile (Wood Levison)(Paperback / softback)

In November 2013, former soldier Levison Wood embarked on one of the last great explorations; to walk the Nile from source delta. Here is his

The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria (White Owen)(Pevná vazba)

The surprising story of the wine industry's role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire. 'We owe to wine a blessing far more precious than gold: the peopling of Algeria with Frenchmen,' stated agriculturist Pierre Berthault in the early 1930s. In the last decades of the nineteenth

Last Ride of the Valkyries: The Rise and Fall of the Wehrmachthelferinnenkorps During WWII (Pool Jimmy L.)(Pevná vazba)

This is the first major work in the English language devoted entirely to the uniforms, insignia, and history of the female auxiliaries that served in the German armed forces during WWII. Using wartime photographs and references, along with contemporary sources and examples the author presents an

Royals and Rebels - The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire (Atwal Priya)(Pevná vazba)

The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan (Wynn Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

Forgotten Country House - The Rise and Fall of Roundway Park (Baynes Simon)(Pevná vazba)

The story of Roundway's rise and fall, the people who built and owned it, lived and worked there, and the house's eventual partial demolition in

The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles (Storper Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The Rise and Fall of Great Urban Economies closely examines the divergent economic paths of San Francisco and Los Angeles in order to explain how regions copes with new opportunities and unfavorable shocks. By honing in on micro-level trends in these two cities, the authors make a significant

Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi (Yee F. C.)(Pevná vazba)

An instant USA Today and New York Times bestseller, F.C. Yee's Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi delves into the story of Kyoshi, the Earth Kingdom-born Avatar. Written in consultation with Michael Dante DiMartino, the visionary cocreator and executive producer of Avatar: The Last

Bournemouth, the Fall and Rise: The Astonishing Rags to Riches Tale of the Premier League's Smallest Club (Meldrum Neil)(Pevná vazba)

AFC Bournemouth: The Fall and Rise is the ultimate rags-to-riches football story - from administration and the brink of non-league to the Premier League within six years. Manager Eddie Howe and a host of key players behind the club's surge up the leagues provide a fascinating insight into how they

Walking the Himalayas - An Adventure of Survival and Endurance (Wood Levison)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of Walking the Nile, explorer Levison Wood begins his next challenging adventure - walking the length of the

Piggy Goes to University: The Rise and Fall of a Social Justice Piglet (Elia Ezra)(Pevná vazba)

Piggy Goes to University is the story of a precocious young pig, and his rise to the forefront of the Anti-Piggist social justice movement. Journeying from the rural fringes of the United Union of Pigs (UUP), he arrives at the Central State University, where he learns of the terrible, dark legacy

Walking the Americas - 'A wildly entertaining account of his epic journey' Daily Mail (Wood Levison)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of Walking the Himalayas and Walking the Nile, explorer Levison Wood begins his next challenging adventure - walking 1,700 miles along the spine of the Americas from Mexico to

Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom (Whitehead Annie)(Paperback)

Many people know about Wessex, the 'Last Kingdom' of the Anglo-Saxons to fall to the Northmen, but another kingdom, Mercia, once enjoyed supremacy over all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Those interested in the period will surely have heard of Penda, Offa, and thelfl d, Lady of the Mercians, but

Keep the Wretches in Order: America's Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the Iww (Strang Dean)(Pevná vazba)

Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants (Shell Jacob)(Pevná vazba)

High in the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India grow some of the world's last stands of mature, wild teak. For more than a thousand years, people here have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest

Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron (Preston John)(Pevná vazba)

A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell from the acclaimed author of A Very English Scandal - available for pre-order now In February 1991, Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour on board his yacht, the Lady

The Untouchables: Liverpool FC 1919-1923 (Goulding Jeff)(Pevná vazba)

The Untouchables: Anfield's Band of Brothers chronicles the rise and fall of one of the greatest Liverpool teams ever. In 1918 an enlisted man, Tom Bromilow, stepped off the streets of Liverpool and straight into the team. Still in uniform, he was one of tens of thousands of Liverpudlians who

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

The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution (Dean Mitchell)(Pevná vazba)

Foucault's personal and political experimentation, its ambiguous legacy, and the rise of neoliberal politicsPart intellectual history, part critical theory, The Last Man Takes LSD challenges the way we think about both Michel Foucault and modern progressive politics. One fateful day in May 1975,