Magnificent Rebels. The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self, Hardback - Andrea Wulf

From the Costa Prize-winning author of The Invention of Nature, Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a r...

A nuanced account of the life and art of Piero della Francesca.Illustrations: 94 colour illustrations

Reducere. In 12 April 1937 Frank Whittle became the first person to successfully start and run a turbojet engine. In May 1941 the engine took to the air in a...

This book is a sociological account of the connections between organizations and people in them, looking at the social processes of self and identi...

DescriptionAn engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe The James Webb Space Telescope, when launch...

Publisher: Datum Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): John GolleyIllustration(s): Illustrations, mapsNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 2010Dimensions: ...

This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden ...

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

Reducere. Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to...

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. DescriptionThis book presents the first detailed history of the modern passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the mode...

Reducere. This gorgeous and empowering picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Evan Turk paints the portrait of Marietta Barovier, the groundbreak...

Balloons, parachutes, aeroplanes, gliders, airships -the extraordinary personal tales of the women who led the way in early British aviation!Publis...

DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative reco...

The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical r...

A revelatory look at how the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich engaged with concurrent developments in natural science and philosophy.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 264Collection: Advances in Experimental PhilosophyPublication date...

Reducere. Inventarea naturii. Aventurile Alexander von Humboldt eroul uitat al stiintei Numele lui Alexander von Humboldt poate fi gasit pretutindeni in juru...

Reducere. The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the b...

DescriptionA historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Je...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 74 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 183 x 263 x 17C...

Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games - Michael Llewellyn

On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit o...

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. Contributor(s): Author: Michael RiordanAuthor: Lillian HoddesonOn December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laborator...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Greg CarpenterMoore. Gaiman. Morrison. They came from Northampton, West Sussex, and Glasgow, and even though they spoke wit...

Richly illustrated with manuscripts, portraits, Sir John Tenniel's original line drawings and contemporary photographs, this is a fresh look at two...

Reducere. During the Golden Age of Sports in the 1920s, Walter Hagen was to golf what Babe Ruth was to baseball. The first professional golfer to make his li...

Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan's reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two va...

The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in fav...

Publisher: Sounds True IncAuthor(s): Becca PiastrelliIllustration(s): 75 illustrationsNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 211 x 2...

Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of the post-punk period and developed alongside club cultu...

DescriptionMichel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to ha...

Jeevan Vasagar is a superb and evocative writer, and Lion City is a compelling, illuminating and personal history that will be regarded as the defi...

The extraordinary story of Singapore told by the expert correspondent for the Financial TimesPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Jeevan V...

Connecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well as Britain's posture in ...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Silvia FerraraTranslator: Todd PortnowitzNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 216 x...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Nik Farrell FoxNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 24Cover type: Hardb...

Detailed, evocative account of desertion on the home front during the First World War.Illustrations: 20 black and white illustrations

The Invention of Tradition - Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger

A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

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Reducere. A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

A story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the b...