Democracy: A Life, Paperback - Paul Cartledge

Reducere. Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy, " yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambival...

Reducere. Spartanii au ramas in istorie ca un popor de razboinici eroi, intruchipari ai unor valori cum ar fi datoria, disciplina, sacrificiul de sine si dur...

Publisher: Paul DavidAuthor(s): Paul DavidNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 150 x 210 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

Reducere. Since the last full life of G. I. Gurdjieff appeared in 1991, a number of books have corrected received facts and disclosed new information on sele...

The Spartans of ancient Greece were a powerful and unique people, radically different from any civilization before or since. A society of warrior-h...

* An authoritative and immensely readable biography of the remarkable Vera Brittain* 'Two men writing with rare sympathy about an ardent feminist ....

Spartanii au ramas in istorie ca un popor de razboinici eroi, intruchipari ai unor valori cum ar fi datoria, disciplina, sacrificiul de sine si dur...

This highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative ...

Spartanii. O istorie legendara - Paul Anthony Cartledge

DescriptionPaul Hayles biography is a fast moving story deeply embedded in the music and entertainment business. With some very famous friends, ban...

Reducere. Spartanii au ramas in istorie ca un popor de razboinici eroi, intruchipari ai unor valori cum ar fi datoria, disciplina, sacrificiul de sine si dur...

Reducere. Titlurile din colectia Cultura si Civilizatie sunt pentru tine daca: esti preocupat(a) de istoria si cultura vechilor civilizatii anticevrei sa afl...

DescriptionGreeks - in later times - saw Athens as 'the Hellas of Hellas', but in the classical period many Athenians thought otherwise. Athens mig...

Reducere. One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's ...

Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): Carol WyerNumber of pages: 364Collection: Detective Kate YoungPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 172 x 197 x ...

Reducere. What good is it for a man to gain the world but lose his soul? That is the question GANGSTA must answer when he finds himself on the other end of a...

DescriptionYou Call This a Democracy? is a penetrating and troubling look at how the U.S. ruling class and the power elite dominate wealth, power a...

Reducere. On the occasion of Mozart's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, read Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life, universally hailed as the Mozart biography of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul C. NagelJohn Quincy Adams was raised, educated, and groomed to be President, following in the footsteps of his father,...

Reducere. A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles ...

Reducere. No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story--until now. "Many say I was the best g...

The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years is the most complete telling of his life and times to date.

A comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the 'Iron Chancellor', Otto von Bismarck: a political genius who remade Europe ...

A source of inspiration for Mike Leigh's MR TURNER, in this blend of biography and art history, the author introduces Turner to a new generation, d...

Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interv...

The revealing and deeply moving autobiography of one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century

Translation of: Montaigne: un biographie politique.

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Sue PrideauxNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 193 x 138 x 30Cover type: Paperback / ...

Haunted by a mysterious and half remembered event from her early childhood, Marianne's life evolves from her upbringing in Vermont, to her literary...

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. If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. He does not stand for one tribe or nation, but for all Native Americans. H...

From the founder of Noughticulture, Rootbound explores how a whole new generation are discovering the power of plants

A beautifully written and moving memoir of one of the great British photographers of the twentieth century. "A moving book, lyrically written, a po...

Reducere. One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second ...

The first major life of the outstanding British painter - and Jack the Ripper suspect - Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biograp...

Reducere. Combining firsthand scholarship and material drawn from the Jefferson Papers, Willard Sterne Randall calls on his skills as an investigative journa...

An insightful biography of Florence's famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, ...

Reducere. Rudyard Kipling: A Life, Paperback

Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would fost...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jan CaeyersTranslator: Brent AnnableNumber of pages: 680Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x...

What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life...? It's a question most of us consider only hypothetically-opting instead to "do what we...

Now in paperback this revised and updated highly readable illustrated biography of the painter Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) who was one of the lea...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marshall FradyMarshall Frady, the reporter who became the unofficial chronicler of the civil rights movement, here re-creat...