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pro vyhledávání: 'Klerck, Eduard Servaas de'
Autor:
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of tobacco, and sea salt blocks. As art and technology advanced, monetary systems and currencies altered. Today, coins and currency provide an historical and archeolog
Autor:
Scott Wilson
In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture. Many entries are new to this editi
Autor:
Melvyn J. Willin
Exploring the paranormal through musical phenomena, this encyclopedia covers a range of anomalies, from musical mediumship to locations throughout the world where music has been heard with no obvious source. Other manifestations, such as the abilitie
Autor:
Arthur J. McLaughlin, Jr
This first comprehensive analysis of the Third Reich's efforts to confiscate, loot, censor and influence art begins with a brief history of the looting of artworks in Western history. The artistic backgrounds of Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goring are ex
Autor:
Tom A. Jerman
This is a comprehensive history of the world's midwinter gift-givers, showcasing the extreme diversity in their depictions as well as the many traits and functions these characters share. It tracks the evolution of these figures from the tribal pries
Autor:
Lora Ann Sigler
The heyday of silent film soon became quaint with the arrival of'talkies.'As early as 1929, critics and historians were writing of the period as though it were the distant past. Much of the literature on the silent era focuses on its filmic art--
Autor:
Vincent Terrace
This fully updated and expanded edition covers over 10,200 programs, making it the most comprehensive documentation of television programs ever published. In addition to covering the standard network and cable entertainment genres, the book also cove
Autor:
Luther F. Sies
In this revised, expanded and corrected edition, the acclaimed Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960 (Booklist Editors'Choice;'recommended'--Library Journal) offers even better coverage of the performers and programming on American radio from its
Autor:
John Stewart
This second edition of the 1990 Library Journal'Best Reference'book, four years in the compiling and writing, is an exhaustive A-Z direct-entry encyclopedia of Antarctica. It doubles the first edition's entries to 30,000, covering geographical featur
Autor:
Sabine Schwientek
This book depicts the life of Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), the defining German actor of Expressionist cinema in the 1920s. His legendary performance in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1919/20) earned him the epithet'Demon of the Screen'and made Veidt an i