War and Peace

Martha Beck, the woman Psychology Today calls "the best-known life coach in America" shatters the myth that willpower is an effective weight-loss t...

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

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...

Peace on Our Terms is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of women's activism to the Paris Peace Conference and the critical diplomatic ev...

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Reducere. A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruc...

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A groundbreaking and revealing portrait of two of the greatest British political leaders by a prize-winning historian.Illustrations: 2x8pp b&w plates

A original and fresh perspective on two enigmatic and popular historical figures. An engaging, easy-to-read narrative that looks at key historical ...

Reducere. The Arab-Israeli Wars is former President of Israel Chaim Herzog's acclaimed history of Israel's fight since 1947 to preserve her existence against...

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...

Reducere. Apaches at War and Peace is the story of the Chiricahua Apaches on the northern frontier of New Spain from 1750 to 1858, especially those within th...

Reducere. "Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and importa...

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...

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...

Reducere. The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon-...

"Brilliant."--Time "Admirable, rigorous. De Waal is] a wise and patient reporter."--The New York Review of Books "Never have all the twists and tur...

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. Contributor(s): Author: Judy FosterAuthor: Marlene DerletBased on many years of research into ancient history and prehistory, this insightful tome ...

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Publisher: Sweet Cherry PublishingPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 136 x 208 x 102Cover type: Boxed packIllustrator: Helen PanayiRedescopera farme...

Presents a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity, cyberwar, and cyber-terrorism. From basic concepts to advanced principles, Martin Libicki ...

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Give your students the be...

Reducere. Read Tolstoy's original War and Peace without the need for a dictionary with this insightful edition. Bringing you nine chapters from various parts...

Reducere. In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last great una...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this long-awaited history, Neil Sheehan, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, describes the US-Soviet arms race ...

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...

Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.Illustrations: 8 Plates, black and white

A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian periodPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies ...

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

A beautiful, illustrated exploration of European burial sites and memorials from the First and Second World Wars

The strangely named First Aid Nursing Yeomanry traces its origins to the Great War.

Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-Day landings he had champ...

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

Originally intended as a trainer, the Anglo-French Sepecat jet, equipped with the very latest in weapon-aiming and navigational equipment, eventual...

Tolstoy's epic novel focuses on the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and valour.

The first global history of 1917-a year of calamitous events, and of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War.

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...

Reducere. How can peace be encouraged and sustained in a violent world? For nearly half a century at the United Nations, ultimately as Under Secretary-Genera...

DescriptionPraise for In Peace and War""A comprehensive, balanced, and compelling history of a first-class educational institution, and of the comp...

Reducere. DescriptionWilfred Trotter's book on the 'herd instinct' was published on the heels of World War I. He had seen how the various nations had engaged...

DescriptionTo mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war--proof that he was WWII's k...

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...

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. Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly or...

'The Battle of Maldon', along with 'Beowulf' and Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People', is perhaps the best known text of the Anglo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lien-Hang T. NguyenWhile most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanizatio...

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 ...

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

This volume helps tackle unfamiliar topics from the broadened curriculum with confidence.

Reducere. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. In Crucible of Command, William C. Davis, one of America's preem...

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion o...

Reducere. Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967. They...

War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which m...

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...

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

A definitive history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War, now in paperback. The au...

Reducere. Three-Volume Boxed SetTranslated by Louise and Aylmer Maude War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows thre...

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. This book is the product of 23 scholars across various denominations who have collaborated annually for six years to specify the 10 practical steps...

This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and wit...

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...

Trade paperback. A new series of new editions of classic Russian novels, with new stylish jacket designs.

Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingl...

Publisher: Hodder EducationAuthor(s): Keith ShepherdIllustration(s): Full colour throughoutNumber of pages: 224Collection: Discovering the PastPubl...

Reducere. Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghani...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Robin KnightIllustration(s): 150 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021...