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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human ...
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Once upon a time, luxury was only available to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty; luxury wasn't simply a product, it was a lifestyle. It denoted a history of tradition, superior quality and a pampered buying experience. Today's luxury marketplace would be virtually unrecognizable to the old-world elite.Gone are the family-owned ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 832 páginas
PVP: 33,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9742-2
EAN 9780713997422
The third and final volume in Richard J Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, against the background of the mobilization of the people's community' in the service of a war of conquest, racial subjugation and genocide.Interweaving a broad narrative of the war's progress ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-162-1
EAN 9781846141621
For eight years the world has felt the consequences of an American leader who has managed to alienate natural allies, show his contempt for international law, fritter away the sympathy felt around the world in the wake of the terrible events of 9/11 and disregard threats to the global environment. This man was not George ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 45,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9980-8
EAN 9780713999808
This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main sites in the story to describe ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9681-4
EAN 9780713996814
Hitler's Empire constituted the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of the continent ever attempted in Europe's history. Liberalism and democracy were swept aside, as Germany aimed to turn itself into the most powerful state on the continent, and to compel everyone else to recognize its mastery. Europe's future was to lie in a ...
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Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; ...
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To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian, the first time any of the world's leading intelligence or security services has taken such a step. "The Defence of the Realm", the book which results, is an unprecedented publication. It reveals the precise role ...
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