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ISBN 978-1-4059-4523-3
EAN 9781405945233
On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution.Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed beaten and stabbed in a conflict with the indigenous population. What brought Cook to these final moments, so at odds ...
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ISBN 978-0-241-65849-9
EAN 9780241658499
Florence, August .Fifteen miles south-east of the city, a unit of German soldiers arrive at Il Focardo, the home of Robert Einstein. Nearby, Robert is hiding out in the Tuscan countryside, while his wife and two daughters remain in the villa. The Germans knock hard. The owner of the house, Nina Einstein, answers the door.Where ...
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ISBN 978-1-78816-777-2
EAN 9781788167772
A pacy, character-driven history of the KGB's deepest cover spies in the West, a system that took decades to unravel In 2010, two decades after the Cold War, ten Russian spies were arrested in the US following a ten-year FBI operation. Among them were three couples who had lived as Americans for years, and one ...
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ISBN 978-0-241-75238-8
EAN 9780241752388
Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice, drawn from Baldwin's early life in Harlem and his experience as a prominent cultural figure of the civil rights movement.
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ISBN 978-0-7156-5548-1
EAN 9780715655481
Based on the hit podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in ...
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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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