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- Reaktion Books, 2016
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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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
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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- 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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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- 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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The Silk Roads
A New History of the world
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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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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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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- 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 Gutenberg's 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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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Poppyganda
The Historical and Social Impact of a Flower
- Unicorn, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-1-910500-16-3
EAN 9781910500163
The poppy has been the enduring symbol of World War I since the years of the war itself, and it now embodies a century of ever-changing attitudes towards the world's first global war. But the Great War didn't represent the poppy's first association with combat long before 1914, it was seen as an emblem of ...
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In the Family Way
Illegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties
Only a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family. In the Family Way tells secrets kept for entire lifetimes: long-silent voices from the workhouse, the Magdalene Laundry or the distant mother-and-baby home. Anonymous childhoods are recalled, spent in the care of Dr Barnardo or ...
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The Destruction of Memory
Architecture at War
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-7080-5
EAN 9780745670805
The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction. These are places that have witnessed some of the worst environmental degradation in recent history. But they are also the locations of some of the most farsighted measures of environmental protection. They are places where people have sought to conquer nature ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16857-9
EAN 9780691168579
Europe and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark book, three eminent historians bring to life ...
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