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Catland
Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World
- Harper Collins, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-836514-1
EAN 9780008365141
He invented a whole cat world' declared H. G. Wells of Louis Wain, the Edwardian artist whose anthropomorphic kittens made him a household name.His drawings were irresistible but Catland was more than the creation of one eccentric imagination. It was an attitude a way of being in society while discreetly refusing to follow its rules. ...
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The Cleopatras
The Forgotten Queens Of Egypt
- Headline, 2025
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PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4722-9518-7
EAN 9781472295187
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the legend tells ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5294-1662-6
EAN 9781529416626
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strength. Illustrated with over thirty original paper cutouts by the author.Jeffs writes beautifully, erring just on the right side of florid, and her linocut prints make for attractive illustrations . . . This ...
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Victory '45
The End of the War in Eight Surrenders
- Bantam, 2025
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PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-0-85750-795-2
EAN 9780857507952
From the Italian Alps to northern Germany, to London, New York, Washington and Tokyo, Victory tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after six surrenders that heralded the Allied victory.Comprised of eight chapters based around each of those surrenders and the ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
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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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2025
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PVP: 21,50 €
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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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 32,75 €
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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- Gerald Duckworth, 2025
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PVP: 19,50 €
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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- Yale University Press, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
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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- Atlantic Books, 2025
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PVP: 29,75 €
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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A History of the World in 47 Borders
The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
- Headline, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
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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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2025
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PVP: 31,00 €
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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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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- Atlantic Books, 2025
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PVP: 19,50 €
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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Final Verdict
A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century
- Orion Publishing, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
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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The Achilles Trap
Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003
- Penguin, 2025
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PVP: 22,25 €
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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- Reaktion Books, 2025
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PVP: 23,75 €
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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The Eurasian Century
Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World
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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Julian
Rome's Last Pagan Emperor
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
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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The Far Edges of the Known World
A New History of the Ancient Past
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PVP: 28,25 €
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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