Medici. Godfathers of the Renaissance, Paperback - Paul Strathern

Tells the history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe. This title explores the intensely dramatic rise and...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty--all have been as...

An illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important patrons - the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states.Pub...

In this fascinating new history, Paul N Balchin provides a comprehensive account of one of the more formative historical periods, uniquely describi...

Reducere. The Renaissance began in Italy, but it grew out of European civilization, with roots in Antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The artist...

Reducere. De la Imperiul Akkadian la America vremurilor moderne, Marire si decadere cartografiaza istoria lumii prin zece imperii majore. Prin prisma lor est...

Reducere. 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 ...

Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious s...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Dark Ages, then keep reading...Following the fall of Rome in 476 CE, the entire dynamic of E...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 75 bw illusNumber of pages: 232Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

Reducere. A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive...

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 ...

DescriptionMan and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution,...

De la Imperiul Akkadian la America vremurilor moderne, Marire si decadere cartografiaza istoria lumii prin zece imperii majore. Prin prisma lor est...

In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out on one of the mos...

A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Subtitled, }The Medici, Savronarola & The Battle For The Soul Of The Renaissance{. Looks at 15th century Florence, and the battle between Renaissan...

A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias.Publisher: Atlantic B...

The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender cate...

Learning about art through the ages has never been as interesting or fun as in this humorous and very informative graphic novel. As two kids give t...

Reducere. Fresco painting was reintroduced to public attention in this important work by a recognized authority. In addition to translating descriptions of p...

Before long, with the enterprising nuns working tirelessly as typesetters, the Ripoli Press began printing a series of books and pamphlets that tri...

The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici.Illustrations: 2x8pp colou...

In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Colu...

Reducere. John Riddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century with forays into Victori...

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 ...

The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici.

Reducere. A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of ...

Reducere. Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landma...

The author, a colorful trial lawyer, was once described by Alexander Woollcott as the "Knight with the rueful countenance." This book is based on l...

Marirea si decaderea. O istorie a lumii in zece imperii - Paul Strathern

Reducere. On July 6, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein became a household name as an international sex trafficker of underage girls, serial sex abuser, and confidant of ...

Reducere. O FASCINANTA ISTORIE A LUMII VAZUTA PRIN PRISMA A ZECE IMPERII CELEBRE.De la Imperiul Akkadian la America vremurilor moderne, Marire si decadere ca...

Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies - Paul G. Yock, Stefanos Zenios, Josh Makower

From the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, this history of ten cities explores how urban centres have led civilisation for...

The fourth catalogue devoted to the Wyvern Collection, an exceptional private collection of medieval and Renaissance art, comparable to the holding...

The product of five years' investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the Na...

Reducere. Following her first groundbreaking work, The Godfathers of Sex Abuse, Book I: Jeffrey Epstein, Professor Deana Pollard Sacks now takes on two other...

Reducere. The Last Of The Old-World Mob Bosses--And The Ultimate Betrayal For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the large...

Reducere. DescriptionBuilding the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedr...

Reducere. ``Clinical versus Statistical Prediction`` is Paul Meehl's famous examination of benefits and disutilities related to the different ways of combini...

Accompanying an exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts - only the second exhibition ever devoted to the artist - this noteworthy publicati...

Available in English for the first time, Julius von Schlosser's seminal work in the history of art and collecting was the first study to interpret ...

Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike....

Reducere. It is the height of the Renaissance. The "princes" of the states which 400 years later will be united into the country of Italy are trying to maint...