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Destiny Disrupted
A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
NOVEDAD!!- Little&Brown, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5417-0620-0
EAN 9781541706200
We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed through the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the events of 9/11 and beyond. ...
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Tracks on the Ocean
A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel
NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-883-0
EAN 9781788168830
Longlisted for the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize 'Enthralling' Philip Ball'Ingenious' Sujit SivasundaramIn Tracks on the Ocean, Sara Caputo tells how our journeys around the globe became fixed lines on maps - and how journey lines themselves reshaped maps and the way that we view the world. From Captain Cook's route across the South Seas to ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Bonnier Books Ltd, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80444-113-8
EAN 9781804441138
Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was preferred to a woman, with female inheritance vanishingly rare and frequently disputed. In spite of this, women have secured crowns - or fought for them - over several millennia.This scintillating book ...
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Four Points of the Compass
The Unexpected History of Direction
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin Books Ltd, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199956-2
EAN 9780141999562
A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. For millennia, these four directions have been foundational to our travel, navigation ...
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Dinner in Rome
A History of the World in One Meal
- Reaktion Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-782-7
EAN 9781789147827
There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum,' writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of the Eternal City, and global civilization. Food, he argues, is history's secret driving force.From the starter of bread, ...
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Lineages of Modernity
A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-7011-9
EAN 9781509570119
In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ago is being questioned, and there is a widespread urge to try and understand how we reached our present situation, and where we are heading. In this ...
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Spice
The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28112-5
EAN 9780300281125
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and ...
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- Bantam, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-85750-724-2
EAN 9780857507242
From breakups that ended empires to naps that sank ships, Mistakes That Changed History reveals how overlooked historical errors are responsible for some of the most era-defining events of the past.Featuring many of the most recognisable characters and episodes in history, from Cleopatra to the sinking of the Titanic, comedian and historian Paul Coulter reframes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-6867-7
EAN 9781526668677
rom the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns! This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history's best and most bizarre moments. Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution, journey through Baghdad to discover the origins ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-729-2
EAN 9781838957292
Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; out of Abbasid Baghdad came algebra and modern medicine, and the Dutch Republic furnished us with Europe's greatest artistic movements. As such, each has unique lessons to ...
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Catland
Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World
- Harper Collins, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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- Gerald Duckworth, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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A History of the World in 47 Borders
The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
- Headline, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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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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The Far Edges of the Known World
A New History of the Ancient Past
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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How the World Made the West
A 4,000 Year History
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,25 €
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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The Loom of Time
Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
- Random House USA, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 26,50 €
ISBN 978-0-593-24281-0
EAN 9780593242810
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Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac
A New History of Rome's Imperial Women
- Harper Collins, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 32,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-863880-1
EAN 9780008638801
A superb and illuminating history of Imperial Rome's most important women dispelling the myths and misogyny that have distorted their reputations for over 2000 years. "This book honours its female subjects with the truth in a way only a brilliant story teller can do." Julie Bindell, author, Feminism for Women Writer, activist and journalist Joan ...
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