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A Companion to John F. Kennedy presents a comprehensive collection of historiographical essays addressing the life and administration of the nation's 35th president. Features original contributions from leading Kennedy scholars Reassesses Kennedy, his administration, and the era of the New Frontier Reconsiders relevant Kennedy scholarship and...

Jak zostać fantastą? Kir Bułyczow, doskonale znany polskim czytelnikom pisarz fantasta, odpowiada: Proste. Wystarczy żyć w irracjonalnym państwie kierującym się surrealistycznymi zasadami, wśród nietuzinkowych ludzi przeżywających nieprawdopodobne przygody. I dowodzi powyższego, rozwijając przed oczami czytelników barwny kobierzec opowieści o życiu...

Album prezentuje barwny obraz życia miasta nad Motławą i jego okolic (Trójmiasto, Malbork, Kaszuby). Zapoznaje nas z jego fascynującą historią - od czasów pierwszego osadnictwa po wydarzenia ostatnich lat....

This beautiful volume explores the lesser-known history of Europe and the Mediterranean, bridging the gap between the Mediterranean and the North of Europe, the Byzantine and Roman empires and the barbarian world of the Dark Ages; a period that saw Christianity established as a major world religion as well as the rise of Islam. Drawn from all the...

From southern Greece to northern Russia, people have long believed in female spirits, bringers of fertility, who dance in the fields and forests. So appealing were these spirit-maidens that they took up residence in nineteenth-century Romantic literature. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has sleuthed through ethnographic lore and archaeological reports of...

There have been many books about the Vikings, but few that see them from their own point of view. Most accounts rely heavily on the records of prejudiced observers (who saw the Vikings only as savage raiders) or the archaeological record, which tells us much about their material culture but little about their values. This classic book reveals how...