A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020.
This collection of extraordinary speeches ranges from ancient times to the twenty-first centur……続きを見る
著者:Kate Fox
出版社: Hodder & Stoughton
発売日: 2014年04月24日
'Brilliant and hilarious' GRAYSON PERRY
'Absolutely brilliant' JENNIFER SAUNDERS, THE TIMES
'A delightful read' SUNDAY TIMES
'An entertaining, clever book' TELEGRAPH
The international bestseller and……続きを見る
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the national bestselling author of Stalin: An "epic history on the grandest scale” (Financial Times) about the most successful dynasty of modern times, a family wh……続きを見る
1917 war ein bedeutendes Jahr des historischen Umbruchs im Weltmaßstab, in dem der Grundstein für prägende Strukturen des 20. Jahrhunderts gelegt wurde. Den Zeitgenossen waren diese globalen Zusamme……続きを見る
著者:Stefan Schomann
出版社: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
発売日: 2013年10月14日
Vom Hilfswerk für verwundete Soldaten zur bedeutendsten humanitären Organisation der Welt
Unter dem Eindruck des Leidens verwundeter Soldaten auf dem Schlachtfeld von Solferino wurde 1863 in Genf ei……続きを見る
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of the Marxist leader a……続きを見る
What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book p……続きを見る
著者:Stefan Kuhl
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration o……続きを見る
From music to gaming, information gathering to eLearning; eCommerce to eGovernment, Lorenzo Cantoni and Stefano Tardini's absorbing introduction considers the internet as a communication technology;……続きを見る
Do you enjoy listening to music while driving? Do you find radio traffic information indispensable? Do you like to sing along with whatever you like as you drive? This book tells the fascinating sto……続きを見る
著者:James Steffes
出版社: James Steffes
発売日: 2015年05月15日
A Swift Boat is sunk by two rockets from an unidentified aircraft near the border between North and South Vietnam. It is June 15/16th, 1968, around midnight, and now five sailors are dead or missing……続きを見る
As a scholar, writer and ascetic, Jerome was a major intellectual force in the early Church and influenced the ideals of Christian chastity and poverty for many generations after his death. This boo……続きを見る
The authors of the letters in this collection were my great-grandparents Captain John Reed Beatty (Union) and Laura Elizabeth Maxfield. He wrote nearly 150 wartime letters to his "Dearest Laura" whi……続きを見る
Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique.
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Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the Sultan and……続きを見る
The first four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan were repatriated at Canadas largest military base in 2002. The fallen soldiers were driven down the 172-kilometre stretch of highway between Tr……続きを見る
Ce que furent d’abord les vélites, on le sait: des soldats romains légèrement armés, destinés à escarmoucher avec l’ennemi (velitare). À la fin de la Révolution, en l’an XII, deux corps de vélites, ……続きを見る
著者:Stefan Hagel
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic nota……続きを見る
This is one of the most diverse yet accessible collections of Chinese strategies yet assembled. Brief in form, yet endless in wisdom, these fundamental rules of military engagement are easily adapte……続きを見る
A new, updated, revised edition of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY, the wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City, from King David to today.
The story of Jerusalem is the story of ……続きを見る
著者:Stefan Sperling
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2013年04月12日
The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can German……続きを見る
著者:Stefan Kanfer
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年11月04日
Stefan Kanfer, acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, now gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the man and the work to give us a stunning and illumi……続きを見る
**Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize**
This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supre……続きを見る
Sentimental Opera is a study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena of eighteenth-century European culture - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama. A thorou……続きを見る
著者:Stefan Winter
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule provides an original perspective on the history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. Winter presents a history of the community before the 1……続きを見る
L'analisi che abbiamo ritenuto di articolare vuole rendere omaggio ad una memoria storica rimossa e ai cosiddetti “briganti”, rappresentati in maniera del tutto travisata e faziosa nell’immaginario ……続きを見る
In the mid-19th century, Tenafly was a small Dutch-settled farming community located along the Hudson River, west of the Palisades. Once the railroad started running through the village around 1860,……続きを見る
著者:Stefan Maechler
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年07月29日
This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil.
In 1995 Fragments, a memoir by ……続きを見る
著者:Matt Stefon
出版社: Britannica Educational Publishing
発売日: 2009年10月01日
Islam is the second most followed religion on Earth, with more than one billion practicing Muslims around the globe. However, few Westerners fully understand the beliefs of the religion nor the cult……続きを見る
Futurism began as an artistic and social movement in early twentieth-century Italy. Until now, much of the scholarship available in English has focused only on a single individual or art form. This ……続きを見る