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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
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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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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PVP: 14,75 €
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 Latest Catastrophe
History, the Present, the Contemporary
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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This Mortal Coil
The Human Body in History and Culture
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-959903-5
EAN 9780199599035
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- Bodleian Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,20 €
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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The Silk Roads
A New History of the world
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
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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Red
A Natural History of the Redhead
- Atlantic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-925266-39-9
EAN 9781925266399
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 36,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28997-0
EAN 9780520289970
The world is facing an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 31,65 €
ISBN 978-0-19-966324-8
EAN 9780199663248
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Possession
The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20852-8
EAN 9780300208528
A riveting account of private art collectors' passion from Roman times to the present.Whether it's the discovery of 1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark history of looting, ...
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Segregation
A Global History of Divided Cities
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PVP: 33,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-37971-5
EAN 9780226379715
When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us in this magisterial history, segregation is everywhere, deforming cities and societies ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 48,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-3502-0
EAN 9781474235020
War in Europe is an overview of war and military development in Europe since 1450, bringing together the work of a renowned historian of modern European and military history in a single authoritative volume. Beginning with the impact of the Reformation and continuing up to the present day, Jeremy Black discusses the following key themes: ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-1-4729-3637-0
EAN 9781472936370
The present age is a contest: between the good and bad consequences of global entanglement and human development; between forces of inclusion and exclusion; between flourishing genius and flourishing risks. Whether we succeed or flounder depends on what we all do to promote the possibilities and dampen the dangers that this contest brings. Ian Goldin ...
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Track Changes
A Literary History of Word Processing
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-41707-6
EAN 9780674417076
Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenbergs shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or ...
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Juvenescence
A Cultural History of Our Age
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PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-0-226-38196-1
EAN 9780226381961
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a history that predates us and will outlast us. Looked at ...
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McNeill, J. R. / Engelke, Peter
The Great Acceleration
An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 22,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-54503-8
EAN 9780674545038
The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet's biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment.The Earth has entered a new age the Anthropocene in ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-598-1
EAN 9781780235981
As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. "The Idea of North" is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21980-7
EAN 9780300219807
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker
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