Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland (Schlgel Karl)(Pevná vazba)

Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland (Schlgel Karl)(Pevná vazba)

Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against

Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine (Reid Anna)(Paperback / softback)

A classic and vivid history of Ukraine, fully updated to cover the Euromaidan Revolution of 2014 and ongoing crisis in the

Moscow, 1937 (Schlgel Karl)(Paperback)

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schl gel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a

Gates of Europe - A History of Ukraine (Plokhy Serhii)(Paperback / softback)

'An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' (David Blair Sunday Telegraph)Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape,

Voltaire: Philosophical Letters - Or, Letters Regarding the English Nation (Voltaire)(Pevná vazba)

Ghost Towns (McNab Chris)(Pevná vazba)

From Pripyat in Ukraine to Bodie in California to English villages requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence during World War II, from Greek leper colonies to deserted Italian mountain villages, Ghost Towns is a fascinating visual history of the mysteries of lost worlds illustrated in 150 striking

Gangs of the El Paso-Jurez Borderland: A History (Tapia Mike)(Pevná vazba)

This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Known as the El Paso-Ju rez borderland region, the area contains more than three million people spanning 130 miles from east to west. From the badlands--the

Looking for Lenin (Ackermann Niels)(Pevná vazba)

The eerie beauty of Ukraine's Lenin statues, toppled in the name of decommunization In the process of decommunisation, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. The authors have hunted down and photographed these banned Soviet statues, revealing their inglorious fate. As Russia celebrates the

Autopsy of America: The Death of a Nation (Lawless Seph)(Pevná vazba)

AUTOPSY OF AMERICA; The Death of a Nation is a harrowing look deep inside the crumbling apocalyptic landscape of America through the eyes of Photojournalist Seph Lawless. Autopsy of America takes you through the tattered remnants of the United States of America in a way that you never seen before

Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle (Senor Dan)(Pevná vazba)

What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success. Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel -- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces

Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (Ray Avishek)(Pevná vazba)

From the shaping of identities and belongings through to current reconfigurations of nation, governance and state under a Hindu-Right dispensation, this book tracks the sentiments and structures that sustain the nation and nationalism in India. Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious

Summer Kitchens - Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine (Hercules Olia)(Pevná vazba)

Yoga Pant Nation (Gelman Laurie)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of Class Mom and You've Been Volunteered comes Yoga Pant Nation--a novel about one mom's challenges through parenting and life, keeping her on her toes and perpetually in yoga pants. Jen Dixon of Overland Park, Kansas--fearless mother of a fifth-grade boy and two thirty-something

North Korea: Warring with the World (Moorcraft Paul)(Pevná vazba)

North Korea remains the most secretive nation on

Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture (Twitchell James B.)(Pevná vazba)

In Winnebago Nation, popular critic James B. Twitchell takes a light-hearted look at the culture and industry behind the yearning to spend the night in one's car. For the young the roadtrip is a coming-of-age ceremony; for those later in life it is the realization of a lifelong desire to be

Building the Nation: Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan (Gregg Heather Selma)(Pevná vazba)

Building the Nation draws from foreign-policy reports and interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent U.S.-led efforts to 'nation-build' in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heather Selma Gregg argues that efforts to nation-build in both countries mistakenly focused more on what should be

Wings Above the Planet: The History of Antonov Airlines (Sovenko Andrii)(Pevná vazba)

The Ukraine based Antonov company had its origins in the Soviet era Antonov Design Bureau which latterly had been working on large transport aircraft. Created in the late 1980s in the turbulent post-Soviet era, the new company began to focus on this aspect of the international aviation market

Karl Blossfeldt: Variations (Blossfeldt Karl)(Pevná vazba)

How Karl Blossfeldt's plant photographs were disseminated in the popular media of the time, from pattern books to magazine spreadsIn the 1890s, the Berlin artist, sculptor and teacher Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) started to photograph plants, seeds and other illustrative material from nature for the

Guardians of Ukraine: The Ukrainian Air Force Since 1992 (Taghvaee Babak)(Pevná vazba)

The independent Ukrainian Air Force was officially established on 17 March 1992. It inherited 944 former Soviet aircraft, making it the second largest air force in Europe. With a variety of exotic combat aircraft types, including the last operational Yak-28s and Su-15s in the world, the Ukrainian

Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine and Eastern Europe (Hercules Olia)(Pevná vazba)

A celebration of the food, flavors, and heritage of Eastern Europe--from the Black Sea to Baku, Kiev to Kazakhstan--Mamushka features over 100 recipes for fresh, delicious, and unexpected dishes from this dynamic yet underappreciated region. Olia Hercules was born in Ukraine and lived in Cyprus for

The Nation of Plants (Mancuso Stefano)(Pevná vazba)

A leading plant neurobiologist presents the eight fundamental pillars on which the life of plants--and by extension humans--rests in this playful yet eye-opening guidebook. Even if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents

Recovering Hispanic Religious (Kanellos Nicolas)(Pevná vazba)

The primary role played by religion in the development of the Spanish nation in the Iberian Peninsula and its subsequent role in the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas has been well studied. Similarly, Hispanics around the world and in the United States have been characterized in

Abject Quizzery - The Utterly Depressing Quiz Book (Shaw Karl)(Pevná vazba)

Mamushka - Recipes from Ukraine & beyond (Hercules Olia)(Pevná vazba)

Winner of Fortnum & Mason's Debut Food Book Award