Knihy o humanitních vědách

E. H. Gombrich's bestselling history of the world for young readers tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the sweep of human experience, the extent of human achievement, and the depth of...

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This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992—from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, ...

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In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations...

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A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential. What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, ...

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A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume...

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A compelling argument about the importance of using more than one language in today's world. In a world that has English as its global language and rapidly advancing translation technology, it's easy to assume...

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What can be done consistent with the First Amendment to ensure that American voters can make informed election decisions and hold free elections amid a flood of virally spread disinformation...

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This sharp and engaging book by leading governmental scholar Cass R. Sunstein examines dramatically shifting understandings of what’s normal―and how those shifts account for the feminist movement, the civil rights movement...

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One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value. Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not...

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This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by...

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The first account of the new Taliban-showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors. Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have effective control of Afghanistan-a scenario few Western commentators anticipated...

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Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how

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The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, ...

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The first comparative, comprehensive history of Nazi mass killing - showing how genocidal policies were crucial to the regime's strategy to win the war...

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An authoritative, fresh, and vividly written account of the Kashmir conflict-from 1947 to the present. The India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir is one of the world's incendiary conflicts. Since 1990, at least 60,000 people have been killed-insurgents,...

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The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and programming in the decades before perestroika...

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"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that "China"-and its 5,000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day...

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Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks...

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Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) and Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) were critical Jewish mavericks who both suffered under violent political regimes and sought to reform systems of power...

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A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day...

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