New Ways. The Founding of Modernism, Paperback - Nigel Dale

This is a meticulously researched and liberally illustrated account with exquisite drawings of key people and selected works. Biographic profiles f...

In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely ana...

DescriptionThe Bauhaus is not to be found only in Berlin, Dessau, or Weimar; there are outstanding Bauhaus and modernist sites all over Germany--tr...

DescriptionWhy does it seem like the world is falling apart?Everywhere we look today, the world is changing, and not for the better. For many of us...

The League of the Iroquois was a true representational democracy--so much so that the United States Constitution is said to have been modeled on so...

Reducere. Established in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia was known as "The University" throughout the South for most of the nineteenth c...

In Act of Creation, Stephen C. Schlesinger tells a pivotal and little-known story of how Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and the new American ...

Reducere. DescriptionBehind the pristine beaches and world renown of Hilton Head Island lies a history that dates back to the early exploration of the nation...

A fascinating and unique history of the launch of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service through the unusual life of its founder, Mansfield Cumming.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Darrius Jerome GourdineJewels: The Story of the Founding of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity (Second Edition) This novel is based...

The book covers her life in Whitchurch, Burton on Trent, Everton, Liverpool and finally in Middlesex. It describes her school and investigates the ...

The book covers her life in Whitchurch, Burton on Trent, Everton, Liverpool and finally in Middlesex. It describes her school and investigates the ...

Reducere. Behind the pristine beaches and world renown of Hilton Head Island lies a history that dates back to the early exploration of the nation. In 1663, ...

Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the creation of the Venice ghetto, and accompanies an exhibition currently taking place in Venice. Relev...

This is the first, long overdue biography of Thomas Mackay, a major promoter of Ottawa as the capital of Canada. Mackay built the Ottawa and Hartwe...

Reducere. The Age Book of the Year 2012 'A first-class piece of historical writing' - The Sunday Age Shortlisted for the Australian History Prize in the 2012...

Reducere. In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Roger Williams purchased the fertile Aquidneck Island from the Narragansett tribe in 1637. It was here that Anne Hutchinson, along with William Cod...

Details the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt from someone who harboured negative impressions of Jews to become a leading Gentile champion of Israel i...

Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand--or Siam, as it was formerly known--has succeed...

Reducere. Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America's religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey...

Reducere. "During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking featu...

Jewel in the Crown: Bonnie Cone and the Founding of UNC Charlotte chronicles the postwar development of the University of North Carolina at Charlot...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marek Adam WozniakA military history of ancient Persia from its founding to the the end of the Sasanid Empire translated fr...

Elephants have captivated the human imagination for as long as they have roamed the earth, appearing in writings and cultures from thousands of yea...

Black Georgetown Remembered is a journey through more than two hundred years of history. This one-of-a-kind book invites readers to consider how th...

Reducere. In 1768 the sixty-year struggle to open the lands of the Kayaderosseras Patent north of Albany for settlement was finally resolved. The long confli...

Reducere. Eight-year-old Encarnación Castro embarked on a life-altering journey that challenged her endurance and resolve. Her life would never be the same. ...

Reducere. Eight-year-old Encarnación Castro embarked on a life-altering journey that challenged her endurance and resolve. Her life would never be the same. ...

Looking to fuel the transformation that the most successful organisations are seeking from their leaders?Publisher: The Book Guild LtdAuthor(s): Ni...