The Empress of Art. Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia, Paperback - Susan Jaques

Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world a...

Catherine is a powerful female voice seeking her place within her family, among friends, in the cities she lives in, and constructing her unique id...

The astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead a groundbreaking public health cam...

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The Poet's Great War: Violence, Revolution and Modernism

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Napoleon is one of history's most fascinating figures. But his complex relationship with Rome--both with antiquity and his contemporary conflicts w...

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Liberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat in countries where they seem...

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Perhaps no one in the 20th century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. This title provides a biography of his life....

William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit (180...

Using previously unpublished material from the Royal Archives and information in Russian, Danish and Finnish previously unavailable in English, thi...

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Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in cr...

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From one of the world's leading experts, an absorbing narrative history of the changing structure of modern families, showing how children can flou...

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The onslaught of globalization has brought with it sweeping changes to the foreign economic policy of the last 50 years. As the international polit...

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Now available in paperback: The Great Transformation is nothing less than a global account of the time when religion was born. 'A remarkable histor...

The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history.

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Instead of smoothing over contemporary art's violent and iconoclastic dimensions, instead of sanitizing and making complex artworks docile in terms...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Tristram HuntNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 37Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

This Element focuses on Xin Fengxia (1927-1998), a star of the regional xiqu form pingju, and her prominent role in transforming the genre from fol...

DescriptionAlchemy is best known as the age-old science of turning base metal into gold. But it is much more: essentially, it is a path of self-kno...

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The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history.

Tabbaa's Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the of...

Not Being completes the trilogy of Not Knowing and Not Doing by closing the gap on what today's managers and leaders need to "know, do and BE". Not...

The first comprehensive look at the origins and diffusion across Europe of the etched print during the late 15th and early 16th centuries The etchi...

DescriptionHow remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek cultureWhy did soldiers stop fighting, athl...

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustratio...

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