Cornell University Press
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Cizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
Political Thinkers for Our Time explains the principles that are foundational to the Anglo-American political tradition by looking at leading thinkers and statesmen who wrote about them. In discussing each thinker, William T. Reddinger introduces…825 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Science
Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications and defense systems.957 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Reading Faithfully reveals how Russian critics of the Silver Age (the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) reread and remade Fyodor Dostoevsky for their era of religious renewal amid a broader political embrace of liberal…1 353 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Relief on the Hoof is about the thousands of horses and cattle that the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) shipped as humanitarian aid in the immediate aftermath of WWII and about the "seagoing…1 023 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
In Retrench, Defend, Compete, Charles L. Glaser advances a thought-provoking strategy for securing vital US interests in the face of China's rise. Many believe China's ascent will drive it to war with the United States.…924 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Leslie Day's life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin – a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan's Upper West Side.…429 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
When terrorists attacked on September 11, 2001, Lieutenant Brian Murphy rescued seven people from the World Trade Center. Even as steel girders buckled and groaned, Brian rushed back up the stairs of the North Tower…792 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
A cultural history of nineteenth-century media imaginaries, Seeing Things tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical technologies – magic lanterns, stereoscopes, phenakistoscopes, museum displays, and illusionistic stage magic.…891 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
Surviving Revolution explores how two wealthy and well-connected families with roots in Lyon responded to the French Revolution and the resulting transformations. In building a new political system based on liberty, equality, and fraternity, the…693 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
An introduction for students, teachers, and lay readers to the delights of exploring the world of ancient Greece.990 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
In The Cold War from the Margins, Theodora K. Dragostinova reappraises the global 1970s from the perspective of a small socialist state—Bulgaria—and its cultural engagements with the Balkans, the West, and the Third World. During…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
The Dutch World of Washington Irving tells an alternative origin story of American literary culture. In December of 1809, before finding fame with "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Washington Irving published…1 287 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
The Feeling of the Form explores the concept of Einfuehlung - the projection of human feelings and life into inanimate forms - developed by German aesthetic theorists in the late nineteenth century. The word would…957 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
The Finnish Front Line is a historical biography of Urho Kekkonen, the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland. The most controversial as well as the most misunderstood figure in Finnish history, Kekkonen governed Finland for…957 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
In this fascinating memoir, Ansara takes you into the heady days of the 1960s and 1970s activism and traces an arc of discovery: from the hope and moral clarity of the civil rights movement to…627 Kč Koupit
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