Picturing War in France, 1792-1856 (Hornstein Katie)(Pevná vazba)

Picturing War in France, 1792-1856 (Hornstein Katie)(Pevná vazba)

This fascinating study looks at representations of contemporary warfare in postrevolutionary France and explores the important role these immensely popular images played in reshaping understandings of conflict and national

Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960 (Black Liza)(Pevná vazba)

Standing at the intersection of Native history, labor, and representation, Picturing Indians presents a vivid portrait of the complicated experiences of Native actors on the sets of midcentury Hollywood Westerns. This behind-the-scenes look at costuming, makeup, contract negotiations, and union

My War in the SOE - Behind Enemy Lines in France and Burmah with the Special Operations Executive (Verlander Harry)(Pevná vazba)

World War II Abandoned Places (Kerrigan Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A rusting antiaircraft fort in the North Sea. A German submarine base in France. A Flak tower in a Viennese park -- more than 70 years after the end of World War II, its legacy can still be seen from Europe to Japan. World War II Abandoned Places explores more than 100 bunkers, pillboxes, submarine

Kill Monster (Doolittle Sean)(Pevná vazba)

A golem created to assassinate a criminal in 1856 is reawakened in the present ... intent on targeting his victim's innocent descendants. When treasure hunters excavate the long-lost wreck of the steamship Arcadia from a Kansas cornfield, a buried creature awakens - a mindless assassin of accursed

Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 (Bodleian Library)(Pevná vazba)

In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. This book is an irresistible insight into British attitudes towards the French and an interesting, timeless commentary on Anglo-French

Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Xu)(Pevná vazba)

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied

Argyll: Picturing Scotland - A photographic journey from Campbeltown to Glen Etive (Nutt Colin)(Pevná vazba)

The Forgotten War Against Napoleon: Conflict in the Mediterranean (Glover Gareth)(Pevná vazba)

The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been studied as a separate theater of the

Coll & Tiree: Picturing Scotland - Hebridean gems: a journey around these islands (Nutt Colin)(Pevná vazba)

Nuclear War In The UK (Young Taras)(Pevná vazba)

Biographic Czanne (Greenwood Katie)(Pevná vazba)

Picturing Quantum Processes (Coecke Bob)(Pevná vazba)

The unique features of the quantum world are explained in this book through the language of diagrams, setting out an innovative visual method for presenting complex theories. Requiring only basic mathematical literacy, this book employs a unique formalism that builds an intuitive understanding of

Dazzle - Disguise & Disruption in War & Art (James Taylor)(Pevná vazba)

Hansel and Gretel (Daynes Katie)(Pevná vazba)

Quarantine: A Love Story (Cicatelli-Kuc Katie)(Pevná vazba)

Love can be contagious in this infectiously fun romance by debut author Katie Cicatelli-Kuc.Oliver wants a girlfriend, and there's a girl back home who might be interested in him. The problem is, he has to spend his spring break on a volunteer trip in the Dominican Republic. Flora, on the other

Biographic Tesla (Clegg Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Many people know that Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an engineer and inventor, instrumental in developing the alternating-current (AC) electrical system and wireless radio communications we still use today. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was born during a lightning storm; that when he

Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments (Pickering J. L.)(Pevná vazba)

Picturing Apollo 11 is an unprecedented photographic history of the space mission that defined an era. Through a wealth of unpublicized and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely-seen views of the people, places, and events involved in the pioneering first moon landing of

Klimt and Schiele: Drawings (Hanson Katie)(Pevná vazba)

National Identities in France (Sudlow Brian)(Pevná vazba)

National Identities in France explores nationalism, national identities, and the various ways in which these concepts are accepted, adapted, discarded, or internally disputed across ideological divides. The popular assumption that automatically regards nationalism as a largely right-wing concern,

The Rose of Versailles Volume 4 (Ikeda Ryoko)(Pevná vazba)

France spirals towards a civil war, as nobles continue to ignore the people of France. Noblewoman Oscar Fran ois de Jarjayes is forced to reconsider her life as a soldier and a woman, her loyalties and her love. Marie Antoinette and the royal family seek escape, while Robespierre and the National

German Anti-Partisan Badge in World War II (Michaelis Rolf)(Pevná vazba)

Robert Frank: Valencia (Frank Robert)(Pevná vazba)

In 1950, Robert Frank left his job as a photographer in New York to travel through Europe with his family. That summer he arrived in Valencia, Spain, which was at the time a humble, bleak place enduring the austere conditions of the postwar period like the rest of the country. The pictures Frank

Frank Stella: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonn (Stella Frank)(Pevná vazba)

In addition to his achievements in abstract painting and sculpture, Frank Stella has also made major contributions to the history of the modern print. An exploration of the artist's innovative use of the medium, Frank Stella: Prints reveals the intimate relationships between Stella's prints and his