A Short History of Decay, Paperback - E. M. Cioran

Reducere. E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human p...

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 ...

The most extraordinary memoir about illness and grief since Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Sarah Mang...

Author: Ion Bulei

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity abou...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: K. K. EdinIn the far future, Earth's nearby star systems have been colonized. Outfitted with a device that allows them to e...

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This is a second edition of the successful study of Finland in the English language. A Short History of Finland traces the historical development o...

Through his timely and intimate portrait of the world's most populous capital city, Jonathan Clements reveals the history of China itself. This fir...

Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Mark GaleottiNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 126 x 197 x 21Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. "Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are, " writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly bee...

Reducere. A Short History of British Civilisation, From the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century This book has arisen out of my love of Britain and of a...

Reducere. This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, ...

Reducere. Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and ...

Of all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, it is perhaps the Etruscans who hold the greatest allure. This is fundamentally because, unlike ...

The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asia...

Explore the fascinating history of south-east Asia A Short History of South-East Asia, Sixth Edition is the latest in a series of updated texts spo...

A moving journey through the history of the Vietnam War, packed with gripping accounts of struggle, sacrifice, and braveryThis is the definitive st...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Feng YoulanEditor: Derk BoddeThe classic chronicle of Chinese philosophical thought from the third millennium to the 20th c...

Chosen by BusinessWeek as One of the Top Ten Business Books of the YearWith apologies to Hegel, Marx, and Lenin, the basic unit of modern society i...

DescriptionWinner, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize"We are the happy riders on the stream of Padua's consciousness . . . a smart, sympathetic mind...

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and...

DescriptionA brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five ce...

Publisher: The Dovecote PressAuthor(s): John FowlesIllustration(s): 50ill.; 50ill.Number of pages: 52Publication date: 1991Dimensions: 217 x 157 x ...

Paris, Cartierul Latin, intr-una din mansardele pamantului: istoria otravita a sfarsitului nostru de mileniu s-a petrecut in afara acestui spatiu n...

Asa cum o arata si titlul, lucrarea de fata isi propune sa prezinte succint evolutia cinematografiei in Romania, incepand cu prima proiectie cinema...

What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it? Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher Lascelles'A clearly written, remarkably comprehensive guide to the greatest story on Earth - man's journey from...

DescriptionIn an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio H sle traces the evolution of German philosophy and d...

From board game cafes to puzzle books, we need diversion more than ever. This cheeky but nostalgic look at the history of board games is the perfec...

DescriptionOf the more than one hundred books that H. G. Wells published in his lifetime, this is one of the most ambitious. Spanning the origins o...