Sari: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674302860)
Umberto Grassi recovers a radical critique, suppressed by the Inquisition. A wave of 16th-18th century Italians claimed that Adam and Eve had angered God by engaging in sodomy-sexual practice reserved for the divine. The heresy was politically poten...Loe edasi...
The biblical image of David and Goliath captures fittingly the nature of the war that Russia, the world’s largest country by surface area, unleashed on neighboring Ukraine, a country that—while still the largest on the European continent—is almost...Loe edasi...
This book explores language conflicts in Soviet successor states: Ukraine, the Russian North Caucasus, Georgia, and the Baltics. Current violent developments in these multie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300284409)
An enchanting history of the otherworld of elves and fairies, from the nature spirits of Iceland and Ireland to Avalon and Middle Earth Originating in Norse and Celtic mythologies, elves and fairies are a firmly established part of W...Loe edasi...
This Element reevaluates geographical writings on Rs death and sacrificial rituals, redirecting focus towards the textual transmission of ideas in both Arabic and Persian to offer a critical guide to geographical knowledge dissemination on Rs funera...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781805263159)
As Russia rattles its sabers in the Baltic, Neil Taylor reconsiders the history of Estonia and its struggle to achieve statehood. With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europes least populous nations-yet it boasts one of the co...Loe edasi...
From the bestselling Ukrainian cookery writer comes a profound meditation on the hopes and fears across generations amid political upheaval...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691271606)
How the euro survived a series of crises, and how to make it more resilientThe euro has survived crises unimagined at its founding: the financial meltdown of 2007–2009, the sovereign debt crisis of 2010–2012, the pandemic, and the R...Loe edasi...
The propagandists share resourcesthe troll farms that promote one dictators propaganda can also be used to promote the propaganda of anotherand themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300244434)
A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers,...Loe edasi...
Als Bischofssitz gegrundet, durch den Hansehandel mit Russland reich geworden, dank der Landesuniversitat als Embach-Athen geruhmt, sowjetisches Sperrgebiet: Dieses Buch fuhrt seine Leserinnen und Leser durch die spannende und wechselhafte Geschich...Loe edasi...
Hugely informative and stunningly produced, the Elizabeth I Book of Days pairs a practical perpetual diary with a wealth of material on the life and times of the last Tudor queen, Elizabeth I (1533–1603), one of England’s most iconic and ce...Loe edasi...
A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century.The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Br...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780750994729)
A book on the Thirty Years War by an established history writer. Early seventeenth-century Europe was a dangerous place. The resulting Thirty Years War was to claim more lives proportionately than either the First or Second World Wars &a...Loe edasi...
This book presents a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the contemporary composer Arvo Part and his reception. The volume charts his influence on areas including film, cultural programming, new media, cultures of listening, politics an...Loe edasi...
DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Shortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Wolfson Prize The story of a vi...Loe edasi...
Martino Stierli, Jelica Jovanovic, Vladimir Kulic, Tamara Bjaic Klarin, Vladimir Deskov, Andrew Herscher, Sanja Horvatincic, Theodossis Issaias, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, Jovan Ivanovski...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jul-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Museum of Modern Art, ISBN-13: 9781633450516)
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been the battleground for neighbouring powers and the site of intense rivalry, but also interaction, between East and West. A History of the Baltic States masterfully traces the development of these thre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Ammonite Press, ISBN-13: 9781781453018)
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the worlds greatest thinkers and creative. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of...Loe edasi...
Offers profiles of the Roman emperors, from Augustus to Constantine, and looks at the most important events during this period in Roman history. For students in advanced high school and undergraduate history and classics courses, this volume...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2007, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Penguin USA, ISBN-13: 9780143038597)
An analysis of the life, influence, and mythical powers of the Oracle of Delphi draws on the accounts of her contemporaries as well as archaeological and geological findings from her ancient temple on Mount Parnassos, in an investigation that seeks t...Loe edasi...
