Knihy o humanitních vědách od nakladatelství Vintage - strana 8 z 12

Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  744 Kč

  Do 7 dnů

The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the twentieth century. This book explains how and why Communists came to power; how they were able, in a variety of countries on different continents to hol

• Kniha
  410 Kč

  Do 7 dnů

Anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee looks at pioneering experiments in communal living to present a rousing argument for rethinking what we mean by home...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  304 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

A panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine. A toy,a tool, a liberator, or complete nuisance: the bicycle has been many things to many people over the decades, yet it endures as the most popular form of transport in...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  305 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Have you ever kept a diary? This is the diary of a young girl growing up in sixties America - an honest account of teenage life. But as well as discovering new friends, dating and going to parties, the author of this diary discovers something else ...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  227 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Learn something new about yourself today.What does your workspace say about you? The most revealing clues aren’t on your desk or on your computer. Rather, they’re those paperclips in your bin – the ones you’ve fiddled with, probably without even r

• Knihapevná vazba
  357 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one ancient element has so dramatically shaped the country's fate that it remains the key to unlocking China's story...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  313 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  377 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping - even rediscovery - by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  295 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  241 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

A warm and immersive novel about ambition, power, women, friendship and finding your place in the world, from the bestselling author of The Wife and The Interestings. Greer Kadetsky is a shy college student when she meets the person who will change ...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  241 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. This book focuses particularly on the gypsies in Eastern Europe (an estimated 6 million)...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  359 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

From our foraging hunter-gatherer ancestors to the enormous appetites of modern cities, food has shaped our bodies and homes, our politics and trade, and our climate. Whether it’s the daily decision of what to eat...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  256 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

'Easily one of the truest and best books I've read about what it's like to be alive now, in this country' Max Porter Sleep. Sleep. Like money, you only think about it when you have too little. Then you think about it all the time...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  277 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

'This is the story of one man who went to Spain with an intellectual sympathy for socialist doctrine and came back...with a fervent, almost religious belief in its necessity...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  98 Kč

  Skladem 4 ks

Merchants of Truth by Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times, is the gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  281 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Our immune system is one of the great marvels of nature – and it holds the key to human health. Here, Professor Daniel Davis charts the groundbreaking scientific quest to understand how it fights disease and enables the body to heal itself...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  276 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  252 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

What do we do when we find ourselves trapped by our own thoughts or behaviour? Drawing on his twenty-five years’ experience as a psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz ushers the reader through the door of his consulting room and into the minds of his patients...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  192 Kč

  Skladem 2 ks

An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be writing, from widely admired writer and teacher Verlyn Klinkenborg...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  548 Kč

  Více než 30 dní