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ISBN 978-0-226-41244-3
EAN 9780226412443
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ISBN 978-0-7352-2211-3
EAN 9780735222113
On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiriss wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, in the deadliest attack on France since World War II. Three days later, Leiris wrote an open letter addressed directly to his wifes killers, which he posted on Facebook. He refused ...
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This authoritative work provides an essential perspective on terrorism by offering a rare opportunity for analysis and reflection at a time of ongoing violence, threats, and reprisals. Some of the best international specialists on the subject examine terrorism's complex history from antiquity to the present day and find that terror, long the weapon of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-4094-8
EAN 9781473640948
Throughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From inciting violence and asserting control to restoring peace and securing freedom, nothing has the raw emotional power of a speech delivered at the right moment, in the right place, with the right content, and the right delivery. 50 Speeches That Made The Modern World is a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-00-745251-4
EAN 9780007452514
The object of this book is to introduce readers to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they have been fought. Through them we can understand how warfare and world ...
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Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano's 2006 exposé of Naples's Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months and compelled to keep perpetual company with his bodyguards. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 36,85 €
ISBN 978-1-910701-87-4
EAN 9781910701874
During the twentieth century, humankind has managed to do the impossible: we have brought famine, plague and war under control. Today, more people die from obesity than from starvation; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed in war. We are the only species in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-4214-2069-1
EAN 9781421420691
In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that "irregular warfare"'including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other insurgency tactics'is intimately linked to the rise and decline of Euro-American empire around the globe. Tracing the evolution of resistance warfare from the age of the conquistadors through the United States recent ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, Revolution and Resistance ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-910701-88-1
EAN 9781910701881
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between.Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-672-8
EAN 9781780236728
Faith and Sword gives a concise history of what has arguably been the longest conflict in human history - a conflict that continues, in a new form, to this day. The overtly religious Christian-Muslim struggle lasted for nearly thirteen centuries, and for most of that period the Muslims were in the ascendant. The Christians eventually ...
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ISBN 978-1-5013-0744-7
EAN 9781501307447
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the ...
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ISBN 978-1-62892-286-8
EAN 9781628922868
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious affiliation, marital status, and cultural leanings, among other things. The meanings of hair are deep, powerful, and so ...
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ISBN 978-1-5013-1487-2
EAN 9781501314872
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Where does a password end and an identity begin? A person might be more than his chosen ten-character combination, but does a bank know that? Or an email provider? What's an 'identity theft' in the digital age if ...
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The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today's historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on the concept and practices of what is called contemporary history, a history ...
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-959903-5
EAN 9780199599035
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ISBN 978-1-85124-251-1
EAN 9781851242511
Which statesman was, by the end, bored with it all? Which world-renowned economist considered on his deathbed whether he ought to have been less abstemious, saying I should have drunk more champagne. Did Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of England's greatest naval heroes, really utter Kiss me, Hardy to his captain just before his death in ...
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Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3999-7
EAN 9781408839997
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the eastFor centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World ...
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PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-925266-39-9
EAN 9781925266399
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