Reveals how today's managers can avoid the million-dollar mistakes that many top executives continue to make despite their highly paid consultants and business-school wisdom
"From Stage to Throne: A Novel of Catherine Schratt" by Job Paal is a romantic-historical story about an Austrian actress who became the mistress of Emperor Franz Joseph I. Light fiction with courtly intrigue and a love plot.
Naklada "Hrvatskog lista", 1940.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
5.64 €
Biology • Math & Physics • Space and astronomy • Popular Science
The book by Feliks Barušić, a Croatian writer, pedagogue and science popularizer from Osijek, is a collection of popular science essays about natural phenomena, science and life intended for a wider audience.
Vlastita naklada, 1899.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
8.56 €
Francuska književnost • Historical novel • Biography
In his biography "Disraeli," Maurois depicts the life of British statesman Benjamin Disraeli, his political rise, literary work, and role in shaping 19th-century British politics.
Minerva nakladna knjižara, 1939.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
8.56 €
Biography • Music: Books, Sheet Music, and Magazines • Art history
A fundamental monograph on Vatroslav Lisinski presents the life and work of the first Croatian opera composer, as well as the cultural, political and musical circumstances of the Illyrian period. With a portrait of Vatroslav Lisinski.
Matica hrvatska, 1904.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
5.32 €
Francuska književnost • Science Fiction • Popular Science
The second part of Flammarion's popular science work The Doom of the World (1894.). A speculative account of life on Earth in ten million years and the gradual end of humanity. Popular science with elements of science fiction.
Hrvatsko prirodoslovno društvo, 1920.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
12.34 €
German literature • Biography • Music: Books, Sheet Music, and Magazines
Ludwig van Beethoven is a popular, accessible biography of Beethoven by German author Maria Lipsius, known under the pseudonym La Mara. Extremely rare, like all Edition Slave editions.