Cosmopolitan War

Cosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert ...

DescriptionA Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When t...

Reducere. Midland was a young farming and ranching community on the southern edge of the Llano Estacado when the real-photo postcard era began near the openi...

Reducere. Beginning in 1914 and ending on the eve of World War II, this epic story follows the coming of age and early manhood of the Prussian aristocrat, Ma...

Description During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resul...

Reducere. This powerful and moving historical novel is inspired by the written recollections and the memories that haunted the author's father, Nicias Aridji...

DescriptionWidely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civili...

Reducere. The Spy Wore Silk America's most captivating secret agent tells the true story of a Cold War mission into Morocco with William Casey. "For glamor, ...

Part biography of a wartime adventurer, part detective story, and part faith journey, this intriguing book from New York Times journalist and bests...

Reducere. In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans's complicated rel...

Contributor(s): Editor: Karin BauerEditor: Jennifer Ruth Hosek Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of unco...

Reducere. DescriptionThe acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing ...

DescriptionThe modern classic about the colonization of Libya continues, as Italy watches its prized colony slip away. The Confines of the Shadow m...

Reducere. Known to millions as the preeminent swashbuckler of the silver screen, Errol Flynn was a complex man who lived a life far more adventurous than any...

Bruckstein's two novellas, published for the first time in English, offer a fascinating depiction of rural life in the Carpathians around the time ...

Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry--the work of a man whose life lasted for ne...

The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. From Roman and then Norman London, we move on to Chaucer's London - the city of the P...

Reducere. Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in t...

Reducere. Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's bio...

Reducere. From the internationally bestselling author of The Club comes a gripping historical novel of love and betrayal, set in wartime BerlinIn 1942, Fried...

This important critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores their place in the wider history of European museums...

"The Eternal Audience of One is laugh-out-loud funny with writing that is sometimes so beautiful that it dances off the page--to a millennial beat-...

Reducere. Praise for Ruth Ware's instant New York Times, USA TODAY, and Los Angeles Times bestseller: "So many questions....Until the very last page Needless...

Reducere. By the 1870s, the word was out about Colorado. East coast and Midwest prospectors, European immigrants, and African Americans newly freed from slav...

Set in the ancient city of Smyrna, this powerful novel follows the intertwining fates of four families as their peaceful city is ripped apart by th...

Reducere. DescriptionSummer, 1936: Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell's first novel, takes the world by storm. Everyone in Hollywood knows Civil War pictu...

In 1643/4 the once-famous Francis Cleyn painted the unhappy young heir of Corfe Castle, John Bankes, and his tutor, Dr Maurice Williams. The painte...

Reducere. BAR KOKHBA is the search for the truth of the epic struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation.One was Hadrian, the cos...

Set in the ancient city of Smyrna, this powerful novel follows the intertwining fates of four families as their peaceful city is ripped apart by th...