Our Sixties: An Activist's History (Lauter Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Our Sixties: An Activist's History (Lauter Paul)(Pevná vazba)

The social movements of the 1960s - still vital and challenging - seen through the author's experiences as a civil rights activist, a feminist, an antiwar organizer, and a radical teacher. Today, some fifty years after, we celebrate - or excoriate - the Sixties. Using his wide-ranging experience as

Breathing: An Inspired History (Williams Edgar)(Pevná vazba)

Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status for the ancients, while today it is central to the practice of many forms of meditation, like Yoga. Over time physicians, scientists, and engineers have pieced

Women Our History (DK)(Pevná vazba)

World History - 50 Events You Really Need to Know (Crofton Ian)(Pevná vazba)

An essential guide to the things that shaped our

Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis (Bell Alice)(Pevná vazba)

Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defining story of our age: the climate crisis. In 1856, American scientist and women's rights activist Eunice Newton Foote

Women in the War (Fisher Lucy)(Pevná vazba)

'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR 'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads of 2021' GARETH RUSSELL Poignant and inspiring, Women in the War tells the first-hand stories of ten of the last surviving female members of Britain's 'Greatest

Historic Photos of Outlaws of the Old West (Johnson Larry)(Pevná vazba)

From our earliest history, Americans have had an uneasy affection for our outlaws, especially those from the romantic period of the Old West. Whether it is the fearlessness and freedom they represent or some other psychological need, we often overlook the misdeeds of these people in our fascination

Curious Guide to London (Leyland Simon)(Pevná vazba)

An alternative guide to the weird and wonderful history of our capital city. From petticoat duels and lucky cats to the Stiffs Express, Lord Nelson's spare nose, the Piccadilly earthquake and the Great Beer Flood of 1814, A Curious Guide to London takes you on a captivating, wildly entertaining

The Environment: A History of the Idea (Warde Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors

Popular Pleasures: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Popular Visual Culture (Duncum Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Today's many popular aesthetic pleasures have a very long history. Paul Duncum considers the historical critical discourses, and socio-political issues raised by aesthetic pleasures in fifteen thematic chapters. Using illustrative examples from the past, present, and across cultures, he challenges

Horror Cinema - Paul Duncan, Jürgen Müller

Get ready to quake in fear with this revised and expanded edition of our history of horror cinema. From serial killers to satanists, The Shining to Scream, some 600 pages explore the genre’s favorite themes, mythologies, and motifs, and get up close and trembling to 50 top horror masterworks from

Timeline: A Visual History of Our World (Goes Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Take a journey through the history of our planet... A perfect introduction to history for young and old, Timeline travels the story of our world, through a lens that captures myths and legends, dinosaurs, the great civilizations, kings and knights, discoveries and inventions. Timeline shows the

Our Seamen: An Appeal (Plimsoll Samuel)(Pevná vazba)

Spare Parts - A Surprising History of Transplants (Craddock Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Rivers: A Natural and Not-So-Natural History (Raven Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Obsolescence: An Architectural History (Abramson Daniel M.)(Pevná vazba)

In our architectural pursuits, we often seem to be in search of something newer, grander, or more efficient-and this phenomenon is not novel. In the spring of 1910 hundreds of workers labored day and night to demolish the Gillender Building in New York, once the loftiest office tower in the world,

All Our Yesterdays - An Anthology of Childhood Memories(Pevná vazba)

African Europeans - An Untold History (Otele Olivette)(Pevná vazba)

Motorcycling - An Illustrated Social History (Fogg Roger)(Pevná vazba)

100 Women Who Made History - Remarkable Women Who Shaped Our World (DK)(Pevná vazba)

The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Kanoh Arata)(Pevná vazba)

In the Soviet-occupied Japan of an alternate history, two childhood friends who have grown apart find each other again and begin a search for a missing third friend-and possibly save the world in the process. Acclaimed director Makoto Shinkai pens his own novelization of his first feature-length

Allergic - Theresa MacPhail

An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent decadesHay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide have some form of allergy; millions have one severe enough to seriously endanger their health. And

Prisoners of History - What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves (Lowe Keith)(Pevná vazba)

Roman History (Appian)(Pevná vazba)

Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction of Carthage. Born circa AD 95, Appian was an Alexandrian official at ease in the