One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments (Tismaneanu Vladimir)(Pevná vazba)

One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments (Tismaneanu Vladimir)(Pevná vazba)

Why has communism's humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin's coup brought the first communist regime to power in St

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

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

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

Gabriel Garc a M rquez's finest and most famous work, the Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buend a generations-from Jos Arcadio and rsula, through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buend a (who commands

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

ONE HUNDRED PRACRICAL TEXTS OF PERCEPTIO (DIADOCHOS OF PHOTIKE)(Pevná vazba)

One hundred pracrical texts of perception and spiritual discernment from Diadochos of

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

Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction (Ning Ou)(Pevná vazba)

This book is a collection of texts on one of China's boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction project in Bishan. The Bishan Project (2011-2016) was a rural reconstruction project in a small village Bishan, Anhui Province, China. The writings describe and criticize the

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

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot (Cronin Marianne)(Pevná vazba)

'A beautiful debut, funny, tender, and animated by a willingness to confront life's obstacles and find a way to survive. . . . It celebrates friendship, finds meaning in difficulty and lets the reader explore dark places while always allowing for the possibility of light. Lenni and Margot are fine

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

A Century of Remembrance: One Hundred Outstanding British War Memorials (Boorman Derek)(Pevná vazba)

A Century of Remembrance is a study of one hundred outstanding United Kingdom war memorials which commemorate 20th century conflicts from the Boer War to the Falklands and Gulf wars. The first described is a Boer War memorial unveiled on 5 November 1904, and the last is the Animals in War memorial

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,

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

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

One Hundred Reasons To Hope (Brown Danielle)(Pevná vazba)

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

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

Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear After One Hundred Years (Harrison Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson, Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujundzic, Ivana Milkovic, Niall Nance-Carroll, Perry Nodelman, David Rudd, Jonathan Chun Ngai Tsang, Nicholas Tucker, Donna Varga, and Tim Wadham One hundred years ago, disparate events culminated in one of the

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

Soviet & Russian Military A/C Africa (Gordon Yefim)(Pevná vazba)

From the outset, the export of revolution and Communist ideology had been one of the cornerstones of Soviet Russia's (and later the Soviet Union's) foreign policy and by the mid-1950s the export of Soviet arms expanded into Africa with Algeria being amongst the first African countries to receive

Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925 (Horowitz Brian J.)(Pevná vazba)

In the early 20th century, with Russia full of intense social strife and political struggle, Vladimir Yevgenyevich (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a Revisionist Zionist leader and Jewish Public intellectual. Although previously glossed over, these years are crucial to Jabotinsky's development as

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