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China in One Village
The Story of One Town and the Changing World
- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,85 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-177-5
EAN 9781839761775
After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village hollowed-out by emigration, neglect, and ...
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The History Makers
2500 Years of Who We Are
- Random House USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4000-6876-0
EAN 9781400068760
An epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers'from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Simon Schama'continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today There are many stories we can spin about years gone by, but which accounts come to be told, and ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-360-7
EAN 9781789143607
In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan casts fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths and human sacrifice.While often described as 'stone age', the Aztecs' achievements were remarkable. They constructed lofty temples and produced fine arts ...
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Sicily '43
The First Assault on Fortress Europe
- Corgi, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-552-17690-3
EAN 9780552176903
This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history.Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history, landing more men in a single day than at any other time. That day, over 160,000 British, American and Canadian troops were dropped ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80024-030-8
EAN 9781800240308
A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war. Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Yet the romantic image of gallant ...
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The Lonely Century
Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart
- Sceptre, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-2927-8
EAN 9781529329278
Even before a global pandemic introduced us to terms like social distancing, loneliness was already becoming the defining condition of the twenty-first century. But it's also one we have the power to reverse. Combining a decade of research with first-hand reporting, Noreena Hertz takes us from a 'how to communicate in real life' class for ...
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Past Mistakes
How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 306 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-690-7
EAN 9781785786907
From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking. The stories we tell about our past matter. But those stories have been shaped by prejudice, hoaxes and misinterpretations that have whitewashed entire chapters of history, erased women and invented civilisations.Today history is often ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-36677-4
EAN 9780571366774
ONE OF DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 MUST READ BOOKSTHE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE 2013 DOCUMENTARY FILM TEENAGEWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHORThe acclaimed history of the century and a half of ferment, folly and angst that resulted in the arrival of 'the teenager' in 1945, from award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage. Ringing with ...
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The Broken House
Growing up under Hitler
- Bodley Head, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-635-7
EAN 9781847926357
In 1965 the German journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted with the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-665-4
EAN 9781784706654
It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer's Armchair is the story of what happened next, as Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences and family secrets, to uncover the life of one ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-782-1
EAN 9781781257821
A Times Book of the Year'Britain's wartime story has been told many times, but never as cleverly as this.' Dominic SandbrookIn the bleak first half of the Second World War, Britain stood alone against the Axis forces. Isolated and outmanoeuvred, it seemed as though she might fall at any moment. Only an extraordinary effort of ...
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Why the Germans do it Better
Notes from a Grown-Up Country
- Atlantic Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-978-3
EAN 9781786499783
Emerging from a collection of city states 150 years ago, no other country has had as turbulent a history as Germany or enjoyed so much prosperity in such a short time frame.Today, as much of the world succumbs to authoritarianism and democracy is undermined from its heart, Germany stands as a bulwark for decency and ...
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How Iceland Changed the World
The Big History of a Small Island
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-765-2
EAN 9781785787652
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Rich and funny' Julian Barnes, Guardian'Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique' The TimesA captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought, played and flourished in Paris between 1940 and 1950 and whose intellectual and artistic output still influences us today. After the horrors of the Second World War, Paris was the ...
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The Last Kings of Shanghai
The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
- Penguin USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7352-2443-8
EAN 9780735224438
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe"Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of BooksAn epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong ...
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- Little&Brown, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14298-2
EAN 9780349142982
A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to globalized capitalism' Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeAn epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and ...
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A True History Of The United States
Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism
- Steerforth Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-58642-253-0
EAN 9781586422530
In vivid, engaging prose, Sjursen challenges readers to think critically and to apply common sense to their understanding our nation's past, and present.Written by a combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, A True History of the United States grew out of a course that Daniel A. Sjursen taught to cadets at West ...
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After the Fall
Being American in the World We've Made
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-4205-9
EAN 9781526642059
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORTo be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted - a state of nature arrived at after all else had failed. In the span of just thirty years, this assumption would come crashing down. After the ...
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Burning the Books
A History of Knowledge Under Attack
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-7877-1
EAN 9781529378771
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilization itself. 'A wonderful book, full of good stories and ...
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Thebes
The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
- Pan, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-7318-0
EAN 9781509873180
An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of Istanbul and Helen of Troy Continuously inhabited for five millennia, and at one point the most powerful ...
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