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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-833-5
EAN 9781786498335
For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face today.From Russia's incursions in the Ukraine to Brexit; from Trump's 'America-first' policy to China's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-780-2
EAN 9781788167802
Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history.So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25639-0
EAN 9780300256390
This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today, and in a new preface addresses the global threat of COVID-19. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-8650-9
EAN 9781471186509
From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader - an MIT-credentialled scientist, popular podcast host and SpaceX mission manager - an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilisation's earliest days to current planning for interstellar travel. For the first time in history, the human species ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198754-5
EAN 9780141987545
Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Margaret Thatcher. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4197-4625-3
EAN 9781419746253
The Toys That Made Us (the numberone original Netflix unscripted show that is not a food show) is an exploration of the toys that helped shape our lives. This book covers the properties from the first and second seasons of the Netflix series in even more depth than the show. This is the ultimate gift ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-0993-7
EAN 9781474609937
A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020. This collection of extraordinary speeches ranges from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some are exquisite and poignant; others cruel and chilling.Among others we hear from Martin Luther ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 43,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-796-8
EAN 9781846147968
'Phenomenal ... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale' Coren Apicella, Washington PostDo you identify yourself by your profession, rather than your family? Do you consider yourself unique? Do you have personal goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-7876-4
EAN 9781529378764
Knowledge is under attack. In our digital age, we are drowning in information, faced with new and complex challenges around data preservation and organisation; at the same time, libraries and archives are suffering huge funding cuts, media censorship is a global phenomenon and fake news is rife. Now, more than ever, libraries have to fight ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,90 €
ISBN 978-3-570-55427-2
EAN 9783570554272
Worauf gründen sich Macht und Herrschaft?Wer Macht hat, verortet sich in der Zeit. Er begreift sich als Teil der Geschichte und schafft damit das Geschichtsbild seiner Epoche. Vier solcher Geschichtsbilder betrachtet dieses Buch: das des Großen Kurfürsten von Brandenburg, Friedrichs II. von Preußen, Bismarcks und der Nationalsozialisten.Geschrieben während der Brexit-Ereignisse, Trumps Präsidentschaft und Putins vierter ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-9866-6
EAN 9781473698666
Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of western classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyid Caliphates. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5828-7
EAN 9780753558287
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 424 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17746-5
EAN 9780691177465
"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."-Steven Levitsky, New York Times-bestselling author of How Democracies DieA new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this teaches us about the futureHistorical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20351-5
EAN 9780691203515
How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states-not sovereign states-drove European expansion, building the world's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-9893-2
EAN 9781408898932
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A beacon of hope for a frighted world' DANNY DORLING'This is the book we need right now' TELEGRAPH'It'd be no surprise if it proved to be the Sapiens of 2020' GUARDIANIt's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78929-197-1
EAN 9781789291971
Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world. From the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where remains of some of our earliest tool-using ancestors were found, to the CERN laboratory, where ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-543-5
EAN 9781784705435
Human evolution in East Africa was driven by geological forces.Ancient Greece developed democracy because of its mountainous terrain. Voting behaviour in the United States today follows the bed of an ancient sea. Professor Lewis Dartnell takes us on an astonishing journey into our planet's past to tell the ultimate origin story.Blending science and history, Origins ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-391-2
EAN 9781784703912
'Wry, readable and often astonishing ... nimbly combines breadth and sweep with fine-grained attention to detail. The result is a provocative and absorbing history of the United States' NEW YORK TIMES For a country that has always denied having dreams of empire, the United States owns a lot of overseas territory.America has always prided itself ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 26,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6826-0
EAN 9781445668260
In this fascinating book, Philip Grove, an expert in naval history at Britannia Royal Naval College, analyses naval battles from the Roman World to the present day to show how naval power made the difference in winning some of the most famous battles and wars in history. In a book that is certain to attract ...
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