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ISBN 978-1-84614-088-4
EAN 9781846140884
For perhaps two centuries its existence, expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events. Now that it has gone, it seems to us baffling that such a strange entity should ever have existed. What was the dynamic that led to English-speakers standing on the shores of the Pacific, controlling the world's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-84614-406-6
EAN 9781846144066
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 140 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84614-743-2
EAN 9781846147432
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institutions - the intricate frameworks within which a society ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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ISBN 978-1-84614-587-2
EAN 9781846145872
With Bin Laden dead, Pakistan threatened by internal power struggles, relationships between the United States and Pakistan at an all-time low, and as the US and Britain begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan, what are the possibilities-and hazards-facing the world's most unstable region? Where is the Taliban now, and how do they figure in the future ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84614-485-1
EAN 9781846144851
We live in an age ruled by merchants. Competition, flexibility and profit are still the common currency, even at a time when Western countries have been driven off a cliff by these very values. But will it always be this way? "Merchant, Soldier, Sage" is a remarkable book that proposes a radical new approach to ...
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ISBN 978-1-84614-260-4
EAN 9781846142604
Elizabeth I was a ruler who radiated a sense of power and purpose. Her long and successful reign was a Golden Age of wealth, confidence, creativity, Shakespeare's plays and Walter Raleigh's adventures: the apotheosis of the Tudor dynasty. Across much of Europe, however, Elizabeth was viewed very differently.She was 'Jezebel', the bastard offspring of Henry ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84614-448-6
EAN 9781846144486
In recent years, economic growth has been regarded as a self-evident good, with political debate focussed on the best means to achieve it. But there are now signs that this shared assumption is weakening. Anger at 'greedy' bankers and their 'obscene' bonuses has given way to a deeper dissatisfaction with an economic system geared overwhelmingly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84614-693-0
EAN 9781846146930
The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Stiglitz draws on his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84614-488-2
EAN 9781846144882
Almost everything we know about the terrible experience of the Gulag has been based on survivor memoirs, in many cases written decades later. For obvious reasons there is very little authentic, contemporary material. "Just Send Me Word" is a uniquely powerful and moving experience.It is the story of the relationship between Lev and Sveta, two ...
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ISBN 978-1-84614-598-8
EAN 9781846145988
Are we in control of our lives? Just how powerful are the influences all around us? In Subliminal, bestselling author Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a tour from advertising to romance to political propaganda, to show that we shouldn't put much faith in how we see ourselves or the world around us. We are not ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84614-326-7
EAN 9781846143267
The United States is a country founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom, yet throughout the last century it has used secret and lawless methods to destroy its enemies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the most powerful of these forces. Following his award-winning history of the C.I.A., Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner has ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-7139-9874-0
EAN 9780713998740
Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing us today. Though our society is becoming ever more complicated materially, we tend to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves. Modern politics emphasizes unity and similarity, encouraging the politics of the tribe rather than of ...
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ISBN 978-1-84614-510-0
EAN 9781846145100
Societies from ancient Greece to revolutionary France have experimented with all kinds of money, from seashells to tobacco, before finally settling on the paper version we have come to know so well. What exactly is money? This title shows how the financial crisis has very deep roots indeed - in the very nature of money ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9494-0
EAN 9780713994940
In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical detectives of our time. His subjects range from a murder-case in Renaissance Rome to the disappearance of Jim Thompson in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84614-427-1
EAN 9781846144271
From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide allows us to see the great centres of classical civilization afresh. The key feature of "Cities of the Classical World" is 120 specially drawn maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defences, monuments and places of worship. Every map is to the same scale, allowing readers for the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 42,24 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-324-3
EAN 9781846143243
The origins of the Royal Mail go back to the early years of the Tudor monarchy: Brian Tuke, a former King's Bailiff in Sandwich, was acknowledged as the first 'Master of the Posts' by Cardinal Wolsey in 1512, and went on to build up a network of 'postmasters' across England for Henry VIII. Over the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84614-216-1
EAN 9781846142161
In this provocative and persuasive new book, Nicholas Ostler challenges our assumption that English will continue to dominate as the global lingua franca. Drawing on his encyclopaedic knowledge of world languages and their history, Ostler reveals that just as past great languages like Latin and Sanskrit have died out, so English will follow. The influence ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-432-5
EAN 9781846144325
"The Quantum Universe" brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science. But just what is quantum physics? How does it help us understand the universe? Where does it leave Newton and Einstein? And how - for all its apparently counter-intuitive ideas - can ...
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