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ISBN 978-0-300-28325-9
EAN 9780300283259
The internationally bestselling guide to the extraordinary human story, for the curious of all ages The World has existed for over 4 billion years, but humanity arrived much more recently. Here E. H.Gombrich brings to life the full story of human experience on Earth. He paints a colourful picture of remarkable people and events, from ...
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ISBN 978-0-300-28343-3
EAN 9780300283433
A character-filled history that brings the American saga to life This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn. Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to reflect ...
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ISBN 978-1-80546-193-7
EAN 9781805461937
The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles, including Marc Antony, Fulvia was not content to play the usual background role that was expected of a wife - instead she challenged the Roman ...
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ISBN 978-1-4722-9854-6
EAN 9781472298546
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling ...
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Colm Tóibín's Homage to Barcelona celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of the city's founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the lives of Gaudí, Miró, Picasso, Casals and Dalí. It also explores the history of Catalan ...
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ISBN 978-0-241-18689-3
EAN 9780241186893
A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detailThe ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. To rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor ...
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ISBN 978-1-3997-2379-4
EAN 9781399723794
The history of Europe told through twenty-nine key borders that define the past, present and future of our continentEurope's internal borders have rarely been 'natural'; they have more often been created by accident or force. In Borderlines, political historian Lewis Baston journeys along twenty-nine key borders from west to east Europe, examining how the map ...
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ISBN 978-1-78954-231-8
EAN 9781789542318
A portrait of the rhythms and rituals of the magnificent court of the Spanish Habsburgs during Spain's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century 'Golden Age'. Of all the European courts between the Renaissance and the French Revolution, none exercised a greater influence than the court of the Spanish Habsburgs in the Castilian fastness of El Escorial, northwest of ...
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From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer -and what we can learn from him today. The incredible true story of a forgotten and complex WWII hero - the first historical work from Peter Pomerantsev, the prize-winning author and leading expert ...
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ISBN 978-1-5291-5915-8
EAN 9781529159158
How has humans' evolutionary inheritance shaped global society?Why are humans everywhere prone to believe in ghosts?How might our tendency to imitate one another be contributing to the climate catastrophe?And does our deep evolutionary past impel us to vote for strongmen?In 1987, Harvey Whitehouse went to live with an indigenous community deep in the Papua New ...
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ISBN 978-0-85789-181-5
EAN 9780857891815
The fascinating story of the Venetian who helped to map the World during the Renaissance, by the author of A Venetian Affair and Autumn in Venice. 'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5* 'Triumphant' Literary Review DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information ...
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ISBN 978-1-3996-0427-7
EAN 9781399604277
On 17 October 2019, in Hamburg's imposing criminal justice building, a trial laden with extraordinary historical weight begins to unfold. Bruno Dey stands accused of being involved in a crime committed over seven decades ago: the murder of at least 5,230 inmates at Stutthof, the Nazi concentration camp in present-day Poland. Only seventeen at the ...
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ISBN 978-1-80206-520-6
EAN 9781802065206
The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to Americas disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details Americas fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein.Beginning with Saddams rise to power in and the birth of Iraqs secret nuclear weapons programme, Steve Coll traces ...
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ISBN 978-1-83639-049-7
EAN 9781836390497
Both humorous and shocking, Miracula is filled with astonishing facts and stories drawn from ancient Greece and Rome that have rarely been retold in English. It explores 'the incredible' as presented by little-known classical writers like Callimachus and Phlegon of Tralles. However, it offers much more: familiar authors such as Herodotus and Cicero often couldn't ...
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ISBN 978-1-78125-726-5
EAN 9781781257265
A fresh look at the past, present and future of a conflict that lies at the heart of the Middle East.
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We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we're living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global population, industrial might and potential military power; it touches all four of the great oceans.Eurasia is a strategic prize without equal which ...
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ISBN 978-0-300-28187-3
EAN 9780300281873
The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman When we think of ancient Rome, it's impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most notable exports but what if it hadn't been? This is the question provoked by classicist Philip Freeman in Julian, an appealing new ...
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ISBN 978-1-9821-8490-2
EAN 9781982184902
LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina. At present, Latinos comprise twenty percent of the US population, a number that is growing. By 2050, census reports project that one in every three Americans will claim Latino heritage.But Latinos are ...
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ISBN 978-1-5266-5373-4
EAN 9781526653734
What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world?When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his new bleak and barbarous surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world was ...
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ISBN 978-1-5266-0522-1
EAN 9781526605221
The West, the story goes, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. But what if that isn't true? In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the real story of ...
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