Greece. Biography of a Modern Nation, Paperback - Roderick Beaton

Three-time winner of the Runciman Award Roderick Beaton looks at the centuries of events that have shaped the intricacies of Greece's unique positi...

Reducere. We know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us much that defines Western culture today. Yet, as financial crises ha...

Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - ar...

Reducere. Cartea de fata este povestea unei culture care a contribuit mai mult ca oricare alta la felul in care traim azi in Occident. Este o poveste care ne...

Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's yo...

The way we are governed. It all began on the mountains and islands of Europe's southeastern edge, more than 3, 000 years ago. The Greeks is the sto...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the History and Mythology of the Ancient Greeks There are few things as fascinating and exciting as the world of Ancient Greece,...

Grecii. O istorie globala - Roderick Beaton

Modern Greece is an updated and enhanced edition of a classic survey of Greek history since the beginning of the 19th century. Giving equal weighti...

What do the Greek myths mean to us today?Publisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Peter FiennesIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumb...

Reducere. This is a heart-wrenching and honest account of a family's effort to understand the journey of their son that led to his death from a heroin overdos...

This first comprehensive account of Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain explores the content, sources, form, and historical...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Greece, then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Greece: A Capt...

What do the Greek myths mean to us today?Publisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Peter FiennesIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumb...

Reducere. "Lucid and lyrical...a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization." --The Daily Telegraph In A History of Modern Japan, cult...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of Ancient Greece The culture and events of Greece were so influential they have a significant effect on modern-day...

Reducere. In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sic...

Reducere. In September 1996, fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto shielded her baby brother while shots rang out outside the family home in Karachi. This was the ...

Reducere. "Fascinating.... A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game--at once engaging and tightly argued." --The New York Times Book Review...

Reducere. An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom.I...

Reducere. For thousands of years before the classical myths were recorded by Hesiod and Homer, the Goddess was the focus of religion and culture. In Lost God...

Explore the History and Mythology of the Ancient Greeks There are few things as fascinating and exciting as the world of Ancient Greece, and in the...

This book aims to provide an original perspective on the changes that Greece has undergone in recent decades, by examining questions related to bor...

From the much lauded author of Breaking News comes a version of Walking the Bible just for Israel. With its dense history of endless conflict and b...

Now in its second edition, Transnational France takes a transnational approach to the history of modern France that draws the reader into a key asp...

DescriptionThe first volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2, 000 years ago Written in the second century AD by a Greek trav...

This book relates three years (1921-1924) in the life of Gilbert Bagnani, a young Italian archaeologist in Greece, based on his letters to his moth...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Angelos VarvarousisNumber of pages: 224Collection: In CommonPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x ...

Reducere. Originally published in 1943, this book was written using a variety of evidence from archaeology and literature concerning Norse funeral customs to...

Contributor(s): Author: Yolanda a. Willis"Your story deserves to be widely heard." --Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor...

Pausanias (fl. 150 CE), one of the Roman world's great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography, landmarks, legends, and...

Reducere. Certainly, the biography of Sayidah A'isha, the Mother of the Believers, has provoked many a topic to occupy historians, students of the Shariah, a...

Reducere. Paulette Ramsay's study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to under...

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Reducere. DescriptionDespite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was produced by men, some important literature written by women during this p...

Reducere. The Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of A...

Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans were masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. Wha...