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12 produkter
Games with Shadows
E-bok, 2011
210 kr
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Beautifully written, intelligent and provocative reflections on the world scene as Ascherson looks first at the painful business of being English in a period of decline marked by public nastiness and private confusion. He goes on to attack - in an important and original series of arguments -the …
Black Sea
From Pericles to Putin
E-bok, 2011
122 kr
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Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores, from the earliest times to the present. It explores the culture, history and politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea.Ascherson recalls the world of Herodotus and Aeschylus; Ovid's place of exile on what is now the coast of …
Polish August
E-bok, 2011
208 kr
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What has happened in Poland? Poland has erupted four times in the last twenty five years, but only the events of 1980 have had comprehensive media coverage. As a result, many questions have been raised in the minds of Western observers. How were such changes possible? What forces lay behind them? …
Games with Shadows
Häftad, 2013
256 kr
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Beautifully written, intelligent and provocative reflections on the world scene as Ascherson looks first at the painful business of being English in a period of decline marked by public nastiness and private confusion. He goes on to attack - in an important and original series of arguments -the …
Polish August
Häftad, 2013
256 kr
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What has happened in Poland? Poland has erupted four times in the last twenty five years, but only the events of 1980 have had comprehensive media coverage. As a result, many questions have been raised in the minds of Western observers. How were such changes possible? What forces lay behind them? …
Black Sea
Coasts and Conquests: From Pericles to Putin
Häftad, 2015
160 kr
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Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores, from the earliest times to the present. It explores the culture, history and politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea.Ascherson recalls the world of Herodotus and Aeschylus; Ovid's place of exile on what is now the coast of …
Death of the Fronsac: A Novel
E-bok, 2017
127 kr
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A STORY OF SABOTAGE, BETRAYAL AND THE TERRIBLE SADNESS OF EXILE. ''Remarkable'' The Times . ''A magnificent novel'' The Times . ''Gripping'' The Spectator . Scotland, 1940: The Fronsac , a French warship, blows up in the Firth of Clyde. The disaster is witnessed by three locals. Jackie, a young …
Stone Voices
The Search For Scotland
Häftad, 2025
146 kr
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In Stone Voices, Neal Ascherson weaves together a story of the deep past - the time of geology and archaeology, of myth and legend - with the story of modern Scotland and its identity. Stirring, insightful and beautifully crafted, and occupying that borderland between history, memoir, politics and …
Crno more
E-bok, 2017
157 kr
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Zadivljujuća povijest jednoga od najzanimljivijih i najturbulentnijih prostora europske povijesti Knjiga Crno more posveta je jednome moru i njegovim obalama, ali i zadivljujuće čitko razmišljanje o euroazijskoj povijesti od najstarijih vremena do danas. Ono priziva kulturu, povijest i politiku …
Stone Voices
The Search For Scotland
Häftad, 2003
114 kr
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Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the mid-1980s were deeply influential. In 1995, Black Sea …
