Louder Than Bombs: A Life with Music, War, and Peace, Paperback - Ed Vulliamy

Reducere. Part memoir, part reportage, Louder Than Bombs is a story of music from the front lines. Ed Vulliamy, a decorated war correspondent and journalist,...

Sixteen life-changing live music events are looked at to address how music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has interacted with politics...

Provides a view of global diplomacy during one of the most tumultuous periods in UN history. This title shows readers a world where solutions are a...

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Policymakers, legislators, scientists, thinkers, military strategists, academics, and indeed all with an interest in understanding the future want ...

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.War a...

From the celebrated author of Border, here is a portrait of an ancient but little-understood corner of Balkans, and a personal reckoning with the p...

A fine tribute to the unsung heroes and vessels during war and peace which is complemented with many evocative photographs.Publisher: Whittles Publ...

Reducere. Hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time and a classic of world literature, War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during th...

A new edition of the classic Russian novel, published to tie in with a new 6-part BBC TV adaptation. With an introduction by the screenwriter, Andr...

Reducere. Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of ...

Publisher: Good Read PublishingAuthor(s): Paul HenkeNumber of pages: 639Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 176 x 110 x 30Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Description"If you want peace, prepare for war." "A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive." "The worst road may be the best route to...

Reducere. National Book Critics Circle AwardJan Swafford's colorful biography first unfolds in Ives's Connecticut hometown of Danbury, then follows Ives to Y...

Blending memoir with an examination of the legacy of the Bosnian war, this is published on the 21st anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict. Vu...

Reducere. Hugo Grotius lived during Eighty and Thirty Years' Wars which influenced his concern with the issues of conflicts between nations and religions. Th...

Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature...

From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination, " humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-h...

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. DescriptionBattles, protests, standoffs, strikes. We hear about them all the time. On the surface, a battle and a protest don't seem to have much i...

Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Julia CookeIllustration...

A powerful and poignant memoir of survival and resistance by the critically acclaimed author of She Would Be King, about her family's dramatic esca...

Reducere. Rage & Revenge is a terrifying, up-close and personal look at what war and its aftermath are really like. For too long, the true nature of combat a...

Reducere. The de facto how-to manual of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which provides free food to the homeless and hungry and has branches in co...

A global history of world politics, offering a corrective to Western views of history and diplomacy. The East/West spanning approach allows Holslag...

Reducere. On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming i...

Reducere. The first history of the epic defeat of Napoleon's empire told from the Russian perspective. Though much has been written about Napoleon's doomed i...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Justus D. DoeneckeIllustration(s): 47 b&w illustrations, 4 mapsNumber of pages: 560Publication ...

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Reducere. Heroic actions speak volumes in a powerful middle grade novel based on real WWII events. Life is not easy for Jewish people in the midst of the Sec...

-Louder Than Words takes us from an understanding of nonverbal behavior to an understanding of something far more valuable for success--nonverbal i...

Reducere. CD 1: Iron Fist - 4: 08Stay Clean - 2: 48On Your Feet Or On Your Knees - 3: 20Over Your Shoulder - 3: 45Civil War - 3: 29Burner - 3: 29Metropolis -...

DescriptionDelve into the life of a man who did not speak for a career, but who found his voice in the middle of an empty stage, on the pages of no...

Reducere. Major General Smedley D Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of Honour, a true 'fighting marine' whose courage an...

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