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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 20,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312206-7
EAN 9780143122067
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower"A dazzling history of Western ideas." --The Economist"Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase." --Wall Street Journal" W ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force." --Boston GlobeWestern civilization's ...
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A witty, personal and entertaining meditation on the history and meaning of paper during the (passing) era of its universal importance. Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost. Paper is the technology through which and with which we have made sense of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18774-8
EAN 9780300187748
Love - unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting - is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4926-9
EAN 9780745649269
Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power and market growth.The legacy of this age of plenty includes declining conventional oil reserves, volatile prices, climate change, and enduring ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08896-0
EAN 9780393088960
Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-0103-8
EAN 9781471101038
In November 2001, as the world still reeled from the attack on the Twin Towers, German historian Sonke Neitzel discovered an extraordinary cache of documents from the Second World War. The documents were the transcripts of German prisoners of war talking among themselves in prisoner of war camps, and secretly recorded by the allies. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4472-0898-3
EAN 9781447208983
A hung Parliament, terrorist bombs, sex trafficking and tabloid war ... Welcome to London, 1885.In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for a gentleman in a city brothel, they were legally trafficked to Brussels, Paris and beyond. All ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59420-349-7
EAN 9781594203497
A history of the project of world government, from the first post-Napoleonic visions of the brotherhood of man to the current crisis of global financeThe Napoleonic Wars showed Europe what sort of damage warring states could do. But how could sovereign nations be made to share power and learn to look beyond their own narrow ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-0-8021-4592-5
EAN 9780802145925
One of the most important and highly-praised books of 2011, Karl Marlantes's What It Is Like to Go to War is set to become just as much of a classic as his epic novel Matterhorn.In What It Is Like to Go to War, Marlantes takes a deeply personal and candid look at the experience and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 35,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-099-0
EAN 9781846140990
Jerry Brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC4 series "Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession". Here he tells the story of our world through maps. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it.But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-088-4
EAN 9781846140884
For perhaps two centuries its existence, expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events. Now that it has gone, it seems to us baffling that such a strange entity should ever have existed. What was the dynamic that led to English-speakers standing on the shores of the Pacific, controlling the world's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4093-8391-8
EAN 9781409383918
This title presents history as you've never seen it before. This is an amazing visual guide to the 20th century. From global wars to the digital revolution, explore the world-changing events of the 20th century decade-by-decade with "20th Century".This is history as you've never seen it before - the events, the people and the political ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 140 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-743-2
EAN 9781846147432
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institutions - the intricate frameworks within which a society ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-485-1
EAN 9781846144851
We live in an age ruled by merchants. Competition, flexibility and profit are still the common currency, even at a time when Western countries have been driven off a cliff by these very values. But will it always be this way? "Merchant, Soldier, Sage" is a remarkable book that proposes a radical new approach to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18812-7
EAN 9780300188127
How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed milk production and consumption since its use in the earliest societies. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 53,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-217-5
EAN 9781847922175
This is the fourth volume of Robert Caro's monumental work on American President Lyndon Johnson that spans the years 1958 to 1964, arguably the most crucial years in the life of Johnson and pivotal years for American history. This era saw some of the most frustrating moments of Johnson's career, but also some of his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3354-4
EAN 9781408833544
We know the tales of Columbus and Captain Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold and world-changing voyages. In Beyond the Blue Horizon, archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring quest to master the oceans, the planet's most mysterious terrain. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84467-870-9
EAN 9781844678709
In this rich and illuminating account of the twentieth century, Sheila Rowbotham presents the fascinating stories of a diverse group of American and British women. She charts the dramatic changes that have taken place in women's lives over the course of the last century and details the ways in which women in turn shaped their ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-312-60347-2
EAN 9780312603472
The brutal murder of the Russian Imperial family was both a human tragedy anda turning point in world history. This work gives a riveting moment by momentaccount of the last 13 days of their lives.
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