Knihy o histórii od vydavateľstva Thames & Hudson

A remarkable study in social and cultural change that explains how and why the late antique world (circa 150–750CE) came to differ from "classical civilization." ...

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  22,82 €

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Renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late eighteenth century, fragmented, mutilated, and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world...

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  16,15 €

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Join Egyptologist Garry J. Shaw on a tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of Horus, Isis, Osiris, and their enemies and allies, tales of vengeance, tragedy, and...

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  18,95 €

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In the first collection of Slavic myths for an international readership, Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak expertly weave together the ancient stories with nuanced analysis to illuminate their place at the heart of Slavic tradition...

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  25,39 €

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Ancient Rome: Infographics tells the story of a great empire through graphic design. This book offers readers a new way to conceptualize ancient Rome from the birth of the empire to the Punic Wars, and from the Roman political system to the role...

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  24,59 €

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Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more...

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  16,55 €

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An entirely fresh and accessible approach to reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by a proven expert, this step-by-step introduction assumes no previous knowledge of grammar or ancient languages, but guides readers through the inscriptions, ...

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  18,50 €

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This book traces the extraordinary life of an artist whose unforgettable imagery combined cruelty and wit, honesty and insolence, pain and empowerment. Admired by the Surrealists and photographed by the greatest...

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  10,99 €

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‘The Scots’, said a censorious English member of Parliament in 1607, ‘have not suffered above two kings to die in their beds these two hundred years.’ He may have exaggerated, but undeniably Scotland has had a rough and bloodstained history...

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  12,34 €

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For too long the Neanderthals have been seen as dim-witted evolutionary dead-enders who looked and behaved completely differently from us, but in recent years their story has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and advances in scientific...

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  15,68 €

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The book presents 170 images, mainly shop window displays, shot by artist David Hlynsky during the final years of the collapsing Soviet empire in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany and Moscow, ...

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  20,92 €

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Since its first publication in 1987 as ‘The History of Beads’, this book has become the world’s definitive guide for bead lovers, collectors and scholars...

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  46,85 €

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A concise, reader-friendly illustrated survey of western art and architecture from prehistory to the present day...

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  13,82 €

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A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today...

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  37,12 €

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An overview of the lost peoples and cultures who flourished and fought for survival alongside the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans...

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  24,99 €

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A journey through the great mass-extinction events that have shaped our Earth...

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  31,80 €

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Brings together brief biographies of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China and the country’s transition from dynastic empire to republic...

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  43,79 €

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Bestselling author Philip Matyszak explores how the Greeks and Romans used magic, who performed it - and why. Magic was everywhere in the ancient world. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies...

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  19,21 €

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A comprehensive anthology of vampires in literature, from Dracula to Twilight...

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  19,21 €

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An expert palaeoarchaeologist reveals how our understanding of the evolution of our species has been transformed by momentous discoveries and technological advancements...

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  29,99 €

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