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- Polity, 2012
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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- Norton, 2012
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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- Picador, 2012
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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- Grove Press, 2012
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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- Allen Lane, 2012
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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Unfinished Empire
The Global Expansion of Britain
- Allen Lane, 2012
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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- Dorling Kindersley, 2012
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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Merchant, Soldier, Sage
A New History of Power
- Allen Lane, 2012
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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- Yale University Press, 2012
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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- Random House UK, 2012
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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A Century of Women
The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the 20th Century
- Verso, 2012
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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To the Ends of the Earth
Scotland's Global Diaspora 1750-2010
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95177-4
EAN 9780241951774
A chipped stone that was one of the first things ever made by human hands; a clay tablet telling the story of the great flood centuries before the Bible; a broken hunter's spear dropped by one of the earliest settlers in America; a hoard of gold abandoned in the Wars of the Roses ... every ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95326-6
EAN 9780241953266
From Moses to Nelson Mandella, speeches have helped both change the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped. A great orator, however, has to have the right words and the right message to inspire his or her followers.
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95325-9
EAN 9780241953259
The twentieth century was a century of idealism and revolution and as never before speeches were crucial in stirring the hearts and minds of millions around the world.
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- Reaktion Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-924-8
EAN 9781861899248
Mother's Milk or Blue Ruin, Dutch Courage or Cuckold's Comfort - the fanciful nicknames that gin has acquired only hint at its colourful story. The story begins with the aromatic juniper berry originally used by the Dutch to flavour the whisky-like genever. The drink then made its way to Britain, where cheap imitations laced with ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-926-2
EAN 9781861899262
What did Charles Dickens savour in punch, Thomas Jefferson eat in omelettes, Queen Victoria sip in navy grog, and the Kamehameha Kings of Hawaii drink straight? What helped spark the American Revolution, was used as currency in Australia, was targeted by the Temperance Movement, and is still a sacramental offering among voodoo worshippers? The answer ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-929-3
EAN 9781861899293
A tasteless, odourless and colourless liquid, vodka is the most versatile of spirits. It can be transformed into a classic cocktail; turned into a refreshing drink when combined with fruit juice, tonic water, or ginger beer; or is a powerful beverage in its own right, taken neat and swallowed in one gulp, Russian style. Vodka ...
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