Engelstalige boeken / English language books

From Solitude to Dialogue And Contemplation.

Philosophers speak—or, rather, they respond to various forms of speaking that are handed to them. This book by one of our most distinguished philosophers focuses on the communicative…

Dit boek geeft een fantastisch inzicht in de collctie Eastern eggs, ofwel Paaseieren. De prachtig beschilderde eieren werden tentoongesteld van 18 september 1996 - 13 januari 1997 in Ariana Museum Geneve, Ville de Geneve,…

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Auteur : Robert F. Dorr
Artikelnummer : BF2053
Categorie(ën) : Vervoermiddelen / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 9780760303061
Uitgever : Motorbooks…

A lonely young girl living on a remote farm with her work obsessed-parents cares for an old and battered wooden horse with such devotion that it comes to life.

"… a rare find…you need look no further for the perfect storybook…

Preeminent among this generation of Rothschilds, the head of the French Rothschild Bank until its nationalization in 1981, recalls his high-powered, star-studded life as an international businessman and jet set leader.

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Auteur : Vicki Caron
Artikelnummer : BF8123
Categorie(ën) : Geschiedenis / oorlog / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 9780804733120
Uitgever : Stanford…

The Russian prohets: Khomiakov, Dostoevsky en Soloviev.

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Auteur : Nicolas Zernov
Artikelnummer : BF9053
Categorie(ën) : Godsdienst en theologie /…

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Auteur : Gary Marker
Artikelnummer : BF9052
Categorie(ën) : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 069105441x / 9780691054414
Uitgever : Princeton…

In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. Reexamining leaders from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's preeminent opponent, and Nikita…

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Auteur : Amos E. Simpson
Artikelnummer : BF9037
Categorie(ën) : Biografieën/waargebeurd / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : Niet aanwezig
Uitgever : Mouton
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Piero Melograni here offers a wholly readable account of Mozart's remarkable life and times. This masterly biography proceeds from the young Mozart's earliest years as a wunderkind - the child prodigy who traveled with his family…

Yekl (1896), the novel upon which the highly successful film Hester Street was based, was written by Abraham Cahan, editor of the prestigious Jewish Daily Forward for half a century. It is probably the first novel in English that…

This book inquires into the nature of the 'Second Russian Revolution'. It argues that Russia deserves attention, because it raises so many of the big questions about how societies operate in the modern world. This work is of…

Real socialism and socialist realism in Stalin's Russia.

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Auteur : Thomas lahusen, Professor of History and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
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The Caucasus--a region of supreme natural beauty and fiercely proud warriors--has throughout history been characterized by violence and turmoil. During the Great Caucasus War of 1834-1859, the warring mountain tribes of Daghestan…

On December 31, 1999, ailing political maverick Boris Yeltsin abruptly handed the country's leadership over to the virtually unknown former intelligence officer Vladimir Putin. The new Kremlin boss represented both continuity and…

A life in war and peace. The memoires of Sir Michael Howard.

Not since A.L. Rowse published his memoir On Historians has such a witty and perceptive memoir been published by a celebrated historian.

Captain Professor constitutes…

Professor Pocock’s subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook…

One of the most eminent historians of our time offers here a perceptive guide to the study of history. Truth in History teaches how to read, how to analyze, how to discriminate. It is as helpful to the reader whose history is…

Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World.

States like Russia and Ukraine may not have gone back to totalitarianism or the traditional authoritarian formula of stuffing the ballot box, cowing the population and imprisoning the…

Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society’s value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking…