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91The Deerslayer , Фенимор Купер (2004)
Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the essence of both the murderous humanity and the natural beauty that distinguished America’s founding. The… 110 грн (только Украина)92Poetics
'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics… 493 руб93Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat , Brown Andrew (2012)
Joseph Rotblat was the Jewish nuclear scientist whose disillusionment with nuclear weapons encouraged him to become one of the prime architects of the anti-nuclear movement, and resulted in his… 1418 руб94Florence Foster Jenkins , Martin Nicholas (2016)
Despite having no pitch, no rhythm and no tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, giving a sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in Pennsylvania in 1868, Florence… 692 руб95Therese Raquin , Zola Emile (2008)
Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters… 493 руб96Kirchner , Wolf Norbert (2016)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged… 1048 руб97Kandinsky Marc and Der Blaue Reiter (2016)
For just a few years at the beginning of the 20th century, Munich was the hot spot of Germany's artistic avant-garde. Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc's initiative as founding editors… 2385 руб98Hoffmann , Аугуст Сарниц (2016)
Before aesthete, designer, and architect Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) came along, Austrian architecture and design was suffocating under a surfeit of opulent ornamentation and bombastic flourish… 470 грн (только Украина)99Zionism , Stanislawski Michael (2016)
In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Stanislawski presents an impartial and disinterested history of Zionist ideology from its origins to the present. Sharp and accessible, he charts the crucial… 493 руб100The American Presidency , Charles O. Jones (2016)
The American founding fathers were dedicated to the project of creating a government both functional and incapable of devolving into tyranny. To do this, they intentionally decentralized decision… 493 руб
