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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-19-969767-0
EAN 9780199697670
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-512-4
EAN 9781781255124
What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation that change the world? Clearly not: real people-leaders in particular-and the decisions that they make change our lives irrevocably, whether in deciding to go to war or not, decisive tactical choices made in the heat ...
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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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Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history ...
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Empire of Things
How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 43,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9962-4
EAN 9780713999624
What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our ...
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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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- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 52,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-814779-2
EAN 9780008147792
From Babylonian tablets to Google Maps, the world has evolved rapidly, along with the ways in which we see it. In this time, cartography has not only kept pace with these changes, but has often driven them. In this beautiful book, over 70 maps give a visual representation of the history of the world.Every map ...
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