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  • Okładka książki: A Guide to Stoicism
    A Guide to Stoicism
    George Stock
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    If you strip Stoicism of its paradoxes and its wilful misuse of language, what is left is simply the moral philosophy of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, dashed with the physics of Heraclitus. Stoicism was not so much a new doctrine as the form under... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: A History of Montenegro
    A History of Montenegro
    Francis Seymour Stevenson
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    The historical interest that attaches to Montenegro is utterly out of proportion to the space that country occupies on the surface of the earth. With the exception of the politically insignificant republics of San Marino and Andorra, and of the... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: The Reformation and the Renaissance
    The Reformation and the Renaissance
    Frederick Bewsher
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    The purpose of this volume is to supply several of those documents which are of great historical importance, and which, at present, find no place in the series of documents published by the Oxford University Press. Further, while most of the more... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: The Reorganization of Spain by Augustus
    The Reorganization of Spain by Augustus
    John James van Nostrand
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    A knowledge of the chief geographic features of Spain and its position with reference to other parts of the Mediterranean World is essential to an understanding of its history, particularly the history of the Roman conquest. Separated from Italy by... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: Pope Alexander VI and His Court - Extracts from the Latin Diary of John Burchard
    Pope Alexander VI and His Court - Extracts from the Latin Diary of John Burchard
    John Burchard
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    "My dear Son:— We have learned that your Worthiness, forgetful of the high office with which you are invested, was present from the seventeenth to the twenty-second hour, four days ago, in the Gardens of John de Bichis, where there were several... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: Regenerator of Ecuador
    Regenerator of Ecuador
    Mary Scott
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    In course of time followed the abolition of the Missions, the expulsion of the Jesuits and other religious orders, and the people, gradually reduced to a state of desperation, revolted against Spain who lost, one by one, all her South American... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: Legendary Heroes of Ireland
    Legendary Heroes of Ireland
    Harold F. Hughes
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    These stories are offered in the hope that they may help promote the love of reading in our boys and girls. After all, our duty in teaching reading is not in the subject matter but in the desire. If we show to the child that the art of reading is... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: The Roman Wars 218-133 BC
    The Roman Wars 218-133 BC
    B.L. Hallward
    od 7.53 zł Brak ofert
    THE Second Punic War has rightly been regarded by ancient and modern writers alike as the greatest in the history of Rome. The deep insight of Polybius, who lived to see Rome undisputed mistress of the Mediterranean, has noted and recorded how the... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: Don Jose de San Martin
    Don Jose de San Martin
    Anna Schoellkopf
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    The history of General Jose de San Martin has been amply and authoritatively recorded by General Bartolome Mitre in three exhaustive volumes. In writing this work he has consulted all the books, pamphlets, newspapers, and fly-sheets which had ever... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: Frederick the Great and His Court - A Historical Romance
    Frederick the Great and His Court - A Historical Romance
    Louisa Muhlbach
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    The palace glittered with light and splendor; the servants ran here and there, arranging the sofas and chairs; the court gardener cast a searching glance at the groups of flowers which he had placed in the saloons; and the major domo superintended... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: Creative Intelligence
    Creative Intelligence
    Harold Brown
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    The Essays which follow represent an attempt at intellectual coöperation. No effort has been made, however, to attain unanimity of belief nor to proffer a platform of "planks" on which there is agreement. The consensus represented lies primarily in... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: The Great German Composers
    The Great German Composers
    George Ferris
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    The sketches of composers contained in this volume may seem arbitrary in the space allotted to them. The special attention given to certain names has been prompted as much by their association with great art-epochs as by the consideration of their... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: Alfred the Great and the Viking Invasions of Europe
    Alfred the Great and the Viking Invasions of Europe
    Beatrice Lees
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    "IN the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 light rose out of darkness. Alfred, King of the English, was born in the royal 'vill' [villa regia] which is called Wanetinge [Wantage]." To later historians, as to the early chronicler who wrote these... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: Arabian Society in the Middle Ages
    Arabian Society in the Middle Ages
    Edward Lane
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    When Mr. Lane translated the "Thousand and One Nights," he was not content with producing a mere rendering of the Arabic text: he saw that the manners and ideas there described required a commentary if they were to become intelligible to an... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: History of the Battle of Agincourt
    History of the Battle of Agincourt
    Harris Nicolas
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    About the middle of the year 1414, Henry the Fifth, influenced by the persuasions of Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury, by the dying injunction of his royal father not to allow the kingdom to remain long at peace, or, more probably, by those... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: History of Armenia
    History of Armenia
    Frederic Macler
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    LYING across the chief meeting-place of Europe and Asia, Armenia suffered immeasurably more from the conflict of two civilizations than it profited by their exchange of goods and ideas. If the West penetrated the East under pressure from Rome,... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: The Life of Belisarius
    The Life of Belisarius
    Philip Stanhope
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    At the beginning of the sixth century of the Christian era, the empire of Constantinople was beset with enemies and sinking to decay. The tide of barbarian invasion had lately overwhelmed one half of the ancient provinces of Rome, and these... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: Ibrahim Pasha
    Ibrahim Pasha
    Hester Jenkins
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    Ibrahim was a Christian of base extraction, the son of a Greek sailor of Parga. He was born in 1494. In his childhood he was captured by Turkish corsairs. It would seem that he was first sold to a widow of Magnesia, who clothed him well and had... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: Feudalism
    Feudalism
    Paul Vinogradoff
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    THE feudal organization of state and society is the dominant fact of medieval history on its institutional side quite as much as the city-state is the dominant fact of ancient history from the institutional point of view. Such dominant facts cannot... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: For the White Christ
    For the White Christ
    Robert Bennet
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    Early of an April morning of the year 778, a broad-beamed Frisian trade-ship was drifting with the ebb-tide down the Seine estuary. Wrapped about by the morning vapors, the deeply laden little craft floated on the stream like a dreamship. The mists... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: The Rise of Macedonia
    The Rise of Macedonia
    Cambridge
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    IN the year 360 B.C. the position of Athens in the Greek world  was, to all appearance, a very strong one. The battle  of Mantinea had put an end for the time to the rivalry of Thebes; the influence of Sparta even in the Peloponnese itself was... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: The Five Great Philosophies of Life
    The Five Great Philosophies of Life
    William De Witt Hyde
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    When asked why some men with moderate talents and meagre technical equipment succeed, where others with greater ability and better preparation fail; why some women with plain features and few accomplishments charm, while others with all the... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: The Rise of the House of Rothschild
    The Rise of the House of Rothschild
    Egon Corti
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    The progenitors of the House of Rothschild lived under conditions such as those in the ghetto of Frankfort. The earlier ancestors of Meyer Amschel Rothschild, who laid the foundations of the future greatness of the house, existed in the middle of... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: The Foundation of the Kingdom of England
    The Foundation of the Kingdom of England
    William Corbett
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    IT is not surprising that the Venerable Bede, being a Northumbrian, in his Ecclesiastical History completed about 731, just one hundred years after the conversion of Northumbria to Christianity, should regard Edwin of Deira, the king who had brought... (więcej)
  • Okładka książki: Adventures and Conquests of Pizarro
    Adventures and Conquests of Pizarro
    George Towle
    od 3.74 zł Brak ofert
    In the early morning of a warm autumn day, not quite four hundred years ago, three lads, varying in age from thirteen to fifteen, were hurriedly climbing a rough and precipitous mountain road in Central Spain. Every now and then, as they mounted... (więcej)

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