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The compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow’s memoirs are as revealing about the great and the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs.Jon Snow is perhaps the most highly regarded newsman of our time; his qualities as a journalist and as a human being – his …
Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history. Curious to learn more about the city she has lived in for over twenty years, journalist Pascale Hugues investigates the lives of the men, women and children who have occupied her ordinary street during the course of the last century. We see the street being built in 1904 and the arrival of the first families of businessmen, lawyer…
Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of methodologies and sources, and has been integral to the rise of interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to history since the second half of the twentieth century. Shane Ewen offers an accessible and …
Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of methodologies and sources, and has been integral to the rise of interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to history since the second half of the twentieth century. Shane Ewen offers an accessible and …
Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of methodologies and sources, and has been integral to the rise of interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to history since the second half of the twentieth century. Shane Ewen offers an accessible and …
Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of methodologies and sources, and has been integral to the rise of interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to history since the second half of the twentieth century. Shane Ewen offers an accessible and …
«Я не собираюсь учить вас танцам. Я просто хочу научить вас летать, как птицы, гнуться, как молодые деревца под ветром, радоваться, как радуется под майским утром бабочка, дышать свободно, как облака, прыгать легко и бесшумно, как серая кошка». Когда на сцену выпархивала юная Айседора Дункан, «прекрасная босоножка», чтобы танцем «пересказать» музыку, картину, стихотворение и даже философский тракт…
Начало лета 1943 года. В преддверии Курской битвы на передовой сохраняется относительное затишье. Однако самая страшная в истории человечества война продолжается. Диверсионные группы Красной Армии и Вермахта осуществляют рейды по неприятельским тылам, вступая в ожесточенные рукопашные схватки, а минометные и артиллерийские обстрелы являются непременным атрибутом фронтового быта… Снайперы разведрот…
Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication – what we call the media. In this book, historian Frédéric Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in the mid fifteenth century. In great detail and wit…
Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication – what we call the media. In this book, historian Frédéric Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in the mid fifteenth century. In great detail and wit…
Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication – what we call the media. In this book, historian Frédéric Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in the mid fifteenth century. In great detail and wit…
Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication – what we call the media. In this book, historian Frédéric Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in the mid fifteenth century. In great detail and wit…
НОВАЯ КНИГА ведущего военного историка. Продолжение супербестселлера «Я дрался на Т-34», разошедшегося рекордными тиражами. НОВЫЕ воспоминания танкистов Великой Отечественной. Что в первую очередь вспоминали ветераны Вермахта, говоря об ужасах Восточного фронта? Армады советских танков. Кто вынес на своих плечах основную тяжесть войны, заплатил за Победу самую высокую цену и умирал самой страшной …
Александр Александрович Зиновьев – всемирно известный ученый, писатель, философ, публицист. Миллионы читателей знают его книги «Зияющие высоты», «Глобальный человейник», «Катастройка», «Русская трагедия» и другие. Но мало кто знает, что он прошел всю войну от 1941 до 1945 года; служил в кавалерии, в танковых войсках, затем, по окончании летной школы, воевал на легендарном штурмовике «Ил-2». Воспом…
TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated electronic tracking.The British Police Force’s relationship with the car started by chasing after pioneer speeding motorists on bicycles. As speed re…