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A history of Hungary

Átfogó és elfogulatlan angol nyelvű Magyarország-történet „Minden idők legjobb angol nyelvû könyve Magyarországról...” (The Slavic Re...

The Hero with a Thousand Faces - The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell

This newly redesigned edition of Campbell's seminal 1949 work combines the insights of modern psychology with the author's revolutionary ...

Oxford Guide to British And American Culture - New Edition - New Edition

This is the most up-to-date Guide to British and American culture that gives you an insight into what's important in both countries today...

History and Theories of the Mind - Neurocognitive Development and Impairments

The history of cognitive science in a combination with a history of psychology is essential to understand the nature of multisdiciplinari...

How to Change Your Mind - What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 A New York Times Notable Book The #1 New York Times bestseller. A brilliant and brave in...

The Old Jewish Quarter of Budapest - A régi budapesti zsidónegyed - angol nyelvű

If a time machine could take us back a hundred years, we might not recognize what became known as the old Jewish quarter of Budapest. Sim...

Transylvania - Fragile wonder

Transylvania is more than its hills and valleys, more the Hungarian cities such as Kolozsvár and Saxon cities such as Nagyszeben. It is E...

Mansi Mythology

The Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies offers a basis for the study of the roots and present character of Finno-Ugrian and Samoyedic eth...

Why The West Rules - For Now - The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future

How long will the power of the West last? In order to find out we need to know: why has the West been so dominant for the past two hundre...

The Finest Illustrated Maps of Hungary, 1528-1895 - DVD INCLUDED

Maps are true reflections of history. They offer snapshots of conditions in the region they deal with at a given moment. The present volu...

Ecclesiastical Treasures in Hungary

In Hungary there are more than thirty monastic collections that survived the vicissitudes of history throughout the centuries. This title...

Kéklő hegyek alatt lótuszok tava - Lotus Lake under Blue Mountains - Tanulmányok Bethlenfalvy Géza tiszteletére - Essays in honour of Géza Bethlenfalvy

Ezzel az ünnepi kötettel magyar és külföldi indológusok és orientalisták szeretnék kifejezni tiszteletüket Bethlenfalvy Géza oktatói és t...

From Victimhood - The Path of Roma Integration to Citizenship - The Path of Roma Integration

This book is intended as an invitation and a challenge to all concerned with the situation of Roma to discuss crucial issues in order to ...

The teeth of the tiger

The old rules no longer apply - anybody with a spare AK47 or a knowledge of kitchen chemistry can become a player. In a nondescript offic...

Princess

The Sum of All Fears

Prisoners of Geography - Ten Maps That Explain Everything about the World

Originally published: London: Elliot and Thompson Limited, 2015, with the subtitle Ten maps that tell you everything you need to know abo...

The Interpretation of Cultures

"Preface to the 2000 edition": pages x-xiii.

From Here to Eternity - Travelling the World to Find the Good Death

As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she ...

Geisha

Published with a new preface, this bestseller offers an intimate glimpse into a unique female community. Liz Dalby, the only non-Japanese...

The Danube - A Cultural History

The Danube is the longest river in western and central Europe. Rising amidst the beautiful wooded hills of Germany s Black Forest, it tou...

Goodbye Eastern Europe - An Intimate History of a Divided Land

A farewell to Eastern Europe and its vanishing culture.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

The 1948 Palestine-Israel War is known to Israelis as 'The War of Independence', but for Palestinians it will forever be the Nakba, the `...

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels - How Human Values Evolve

Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most pe...

Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)

Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are t...

The Everyday Life of the Emperor - Francis Joseph and his Imperial Court

The Court in Vienna under Emperor Francis Joseph was not only Europe's most illustrious and refined, it was also a huge economic enterpri...

Mercenaries and Crusaders

Memoria Hungariae 15. A Mercenaries and Crusaders c. 2022 nyarán a Debreceni Egyetemen megrendezett nemzetközi középkortörténeti konfe...

The Immortality Key - The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the or...

From Here to Eternity - Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From...

King Solomon's mines

"Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are se...

The Great Sea - A Human History of the Mediterranean

For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical...

A History of the World in 100 Objects

A paperback reader's edition of this original and very successful history of humanity. The book's range is enormous, with each chapter im...

Muqaddimah - An Introduction to History

The Muqaddimah is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the renowned fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn ...

The Nineties - A Book

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Informative, endlessly entertaining.”—BuzzFeed “Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture.”—...

Congo

An epic history of one of the world's most devastated countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ranges from the slave trade and ivory ...

How the World Made the West - A 4,000-Year History

What does history look like without 'civilisations'? Josephine Quinn calls for a major reassessment of the West and the concepts that def...

Medieval Bodies - Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'A triumph' Guardian'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic ...

Fighting Ships 1850-1950

"Fighting Ships 1850-1950" presents a stunning collection of 150 large-scale paintings, drawings, photographs and ship plans that tell th...

Russia Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage c...

Maya

Turkey Under Erdogan - How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West

Dimitar Bechev traces the political trajectory of Erdogan's populist regime, from the era of reform and prosperity in the 2000s to the ef...

Post-Socialism and Globalization

Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different

This collection of profiles (including Rimbaud, Frank Ocean, Barack Obama and more) offers a way through the connected problem of a lack ...

Pathogenesis - How germs made history

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerfully argued... Fascinating...

skoda - A Car That Made History

Es ist eine der faszinierendsten Erfolgsgeschichten in der Welt der Technik: skoda verbindet die Tradition einer hundertjährigen Fahrzeug...

Winter Uniforms of the German Army - Army, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS

Comprising 448 pages, this illustrated book is the first comprehensive reference work covering winter uniforms used by the German Army, A...

Death - A Graveside Companion

A volume of unprecedented breadth and sinister beauty, Death: A Graveside Companion examines a staggering range of cultural attitudes to ...

The Witch - A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's his...

Histories of Nations - How Their Identities Were Forged

National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, w...

Normal Women - 900 Years of Making History

A NEW STATESMENBOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ¿`A lasting work of social history¿ THE TIMES `A genuinely new history of our nation¿ DAN JONES `Thi...

Arabs - A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes

Great Cities - The Stories Behind the World's most Fascinating Places

Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. From the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's globa...

Conspiracy - A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lie...

The Myths That Made America - An Introduction to American Studies

This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still deter...

American Dynasty - Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit...

Brunetti's Venice - Walks through the novels

Visitors to Venice might hope to find a Venetian friend who will guide them through the narrow streets, explaining a bit of history here,...

King Solomon's mines

"Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are se...

The valhalla exchange

The Berlin Wall - 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989

The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity During the night of 12-13 August 1961, a barbed-wire entanglement ...

The Patriarchs - How Men Came to Rule

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023