The definitive visual history. Take an action packed flight through the history of aircraft and the intrepid pioneers who made a dream become reality. Uncover the engineering behind more than 800 aircraft models, from military jets to commercial planes. This visual history book captures the fascinating story of aeroplanes and aviation, and how this groundbreaking discovery has influenced the 21st Century. Inside the pages of this aircraft book, you'll discover: the history of military and commercial aircraft from all over the world, decade by decade, to the present day in stunning visual detail; comprehensive ... |
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The History Book is the ultimate guide to the ancient world, with incredible facts, stunning photographs and artworks and fantastic design. Kids aged 9+ will be enthralled and excited from start to finish. The book contains: the most exciting facts and images to keep kids interested; fantastic design concepts complement each subject to get kids hooked; covers everything from mighty warriors to amazing constructions. Four amazing chapters in The History Book: History Revealed goes back in time to uncover a host of extreme events, ideas and people; in Unearth History, dig deep to discover the mysteries of the ... |
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"A yet too rare example of a balanced approach towards the Bulgarian past is what you will come upon in this book... You might not share the opinion of what has been laid out here; you might find the events and their explanation well-known or queer - anyway, it is worth reading it." Andrey Pantev, Professor of history ... |
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Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action and follow Ghengis Khan sweeping through China, Napoleon conquering Europe, or two world wars raging across the globe. See empires rise and fall - from the Egyptians and the Aztecs to the British Empire and the Soviet Union. History of the World Map by Map also explains how elements of civilization, such as writing, printing, ... |
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Милиони почитатели мислеха, че познават Антъни Бурдейн - "свидетелят и гласът на света", той е "човекът, който имаше най-великата работа и най-великия живот". Когато за написването на Антъни Бурдейн. Разказаната биография Лори Уливър, неговата дългогодишна асистентка и сътрудничка, интервюира 91 души, които са го познавали добре, тя осъзнава, че нещата невинаги са такива, каквито изглеждат, и че тя самата е виждала "само част от личността на Тони Бурдейн, само част от противоречивата му същност". За първи път в тази книга авантюристът, който показа на милиони вкуса на живота и чистата ... |
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The Juvenilia and shorter works of Jane Austen with an afterword by Kathryn White. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites, representing what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen's literary work-basket. It contains not only her hilarious History of England, illustrated by her favourite sister Cassandra, but the unfinished Sanditon, the novel of her maturity on which she was working at her death, aged 42. Also included are the two epistolary novels, "Lady Susan" and "Love and Friendship" [sic], and other, shorter works: "The Watsons", & ... |
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"Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles" are non-fiction graded readers from the "Oxford Bookworms Library" available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. About a quarter of the people in the world today speak or use English. In homes and schools, offices and meeting rooms, ships and airports, people are speaking English... How has this happened? How did English begin, and what will become of it? The history of English is a journey through space and time, ... |
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A Guidebook for Children and Adults. ... Книгата включва: 9 теми, обхващащи периода от възникване на Цивилизацията до IX век; над 1500 уникални цветни фотографии и илюстрации; подбрана галерия от снимки на фотографа Асен Великов, разкриващи красивото лице на България в народна носия. "История на славните българи" - бранител на българската история и образование. Ролята на "История на славните българи" е да покаже, че имаме основание да бъдем горд народ с постиженията си и да помогнем на децата да повдигнат пердето на заблудите, да осветим умозрението, за да видят един свят на древни герои и ... |
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Изданието е триезично - на английски, немски и френски език. ... Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through to the end of the 19th century, the six volume work remains completely unique in its scope and detail. This Taschen reprint presents Racinet's exquisitely precise color illustrations, as well as his delightful descriptions and often witty commentary. Spanning everything from ancient Etruscan ... |
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Throughout history, people have sought to improve society by reducing suffering, eliminating disease or enhancing desirable qualities in their children. But this wish goes hand in hand with the desire to impose control over who can marry, who can procreate and who is permitted to live. In the Victorian era, in the shadow of Darwin's ideas about evolution, a new full-blooded attempt to impose control over our unruly biology began to grow in the clubs, salons and offices of the powerful. It was enshrined in a political movement that bastardised science, and for sixty years enjoyed bipartisan and huge popular support. ... |
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Петстотин години, побрани в по-малко от петстотин страници... Събитията в Америките от времето преди Колумб до войните за независимост от ранния ХІХ век, създаването на новите нации, икономическото и политическото им развитие и търсенето на идентичност през изтеклото столетие - това са процесите, около които професорът по история в Университета "Вандербилт" гради своя анализ. Сблъсъкът на народи и култури - местни американци, европейци и африканци, определя облика на Латинска Америка и ú придава онова единство и разнообразие, което авторът извежда като централна тема в краткото, но изчерпателно изследване. ... |
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A magisterial cultural history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, ranging from the early shaping of the continents and the emergence of homo sapiens to the story of shipbuilding, navigation, maritime exploration, slavery, and nascent European imperialism. A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonization of the New World. John Haywood ... |
