To the Lake. A Journey of War and Peace, Paperback - Kapka Kassabova

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...

Reducere. Frontiera. O calatorie spre marginea Europei Aceasta carte face parte din colectia Anansi Mentor . O carte minunata, despre un taram plin de magie....

Reducere. In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previo...

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

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. In September 1944, seven-year old Elin, her mother and grandmother fled Estonia ahead of the advancing Soviet Army escaping the risk of deportation...

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

Reducere. The voices speaking here - from a Roman housewife to a Chinese bar-owner in Berlin or an Argentine DJ - are the voices of the heart-sick, the cultu...

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...

Reducere. Frontiera. O calatorie spre marginea Europei - Kapka Kassabova

Reducere. In acest exceptional reportaj literar, Kapka Kassabova se intoarce in Bulgaria, de unde a emigrat cu 25 de ani in urma, pentru a explora zona de fr...

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...

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 ...

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...

'A fascinating collection of military stories ... The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals ... [but] once tasted, is hard to put down' W...

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'.

Reducere. DescriptionDe jure belli ac pacis (English: On the Law of War and Peace) is a 1625 book in Latin, written by Hugo Grotius and published in Paris, o...

DescriptionFrom celebrated author and illustrator Ashley Bryan comes a deeply moving picture book memoir about serving in the segregated army durin...

3, 000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthro...

Reducere. ``One of the most important books of Vietnamese American and Vietnam War literature...Moving, powerful.`` --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winni...

Clearly and accessibly written, Dixon provides a lively introduction to the nature and politics of the Northern Ireland conflict and of successive ...

Recognised as a classic when first published (winner of 'Lakeland Book of the Year' in 1994) this is a fullyrevised and updated edition of Grevel L...

An amazingly fresh approach to a much covered subject.... TR's Last War is a riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt's impassioned crusade for m...

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, this reader assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of internati...

Reducere. Description"A story of love and courage amid brutality and terror, this is the testimony of a child who has endured the unthinkable." --J.K. Rowlin...

Inspired by a real-life flu epidemic in Moscow, To the Lake was a number one bestseller in Russia, and has now appeared in a dozen languages and be...

Publisher: Swift PressAuthor(s): Yana VagnerNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

Reducere. Pave Low. The term itself generates an image: a dark, wispy night; a low, pulsating rumble approaching from the distance. The rumble becomes a pres...

A lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant ethical debates. The third edition has been revised and updated throughout. The ...