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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27290-3
EAN 9780520272903
Dirt, soil, call it what you want - it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, and our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter.An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps ...
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The Glorious Art of Peace
From the Iliad to Iraq
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 49,65 €
ISBN 978-0-19-957576-3
EAN 9780199575763
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If Walls Could Talk
An Intimate History of the Home
- Faber & Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25954-0
EAN 9780571259540
Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit? All these questions - and ...
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- ISI Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 25,65 €
ISBN 978-1-935191-99-5
EAN 9781935191995
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- Polity, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4936-8
EAN 9780745649368
Food is one of the most basic resources that humans need for daily survival. Forty percent of the world's population gains a livelihood from agriculture and we all consume food. Yet control over this fundamental resource is concentrated in relatively few hands.The 2008 food price crisis illustrated both the volatility and vulnerability built into the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11810-0
EAN 9780300118100
The life story of Mary I - daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon - is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of her half-sister Elizabeth, the burning of Protestants, her short marriage to Philip of Spain. This ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 644 páginas
PVP: 38,90 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11910-7
EAN 9780300119107
Edward III (1312-1377) was the most successful European ruler of his age. Reigning for over fifty years, he achieved spectacular military triumphs and overcame grave threats to his authority, from parliamentary revolt to the Black Death. Revered by his subjects as a chivalric dynamo, he initiated the Hundred Years War and gloriously led his men ...
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(+ Cd) At 1:30 pm on 10 April 1912, the Titanic began her first and final voyage. For over 1,500 people this would be the last time they would ever see land. Published to coincide with this centenary The Titanic Remembered tells the complete history of this magnificent ship, from its conception as the most ...
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.' Punch Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous - transformed into novels, into broadsides ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-854-8
EAN 9781861898548
What food is more basic, more essential and more universal than bread? Common to the diets of both rich and poor, bread is one of our oldest foods. Loaves and rolls have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs, and excavated from ovens in Pompeii that were buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. From the ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-857-9
EAN 9781861898579
From the smash of a bottle on the side of a new ship to the pop of a cork at a party, champagne signals celebration, fun and camaraderie. Bubbly, as we affectionately call sparkling wine, is a symbol of luxury and decadence and the preferred drink for any important toast. Champagne reveals the history of ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-868-5
EAN 9781861898685
Olives are at once a mythical food - bringing to mind scenes from Ancient Rome and the Bible - and an everyday one, given the ubiquity of olive oil in contemporary diets. In this original, succinct and engaging history Fabrizia Lanza traces the olive's roots from antiquity, when olive oil was exalted for ritual purposes ...
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Why the West Rules... For Now
The History and Future of Development and Disruption
- Profile Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-208-7
EAN 9781846682087
Why does the West rule? Eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing uniquely on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science. In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats ...
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Historia, política y sociedad
Estudios en homenaje a la profesora Cristina Viñes Millet
- Universidad de Granada, 2011
Libro · 248 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-84-338-5301-1
EAN 9788433853011
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- Reaktion Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-799-2
EAN 9781861897992
From its obscure Pre-Columbian beginnings in South America to its global popularity today, the story of the potato is one of rags to riches. In Potato, esteemed culinary historian Andrew F. Smith reveals the captivating story of a once lowly vegetable that has changed - and continues to change - the world.First domesticated by prehistoric ...
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This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought. This book: explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history; reveals that the world was far more 'globalised', even at the beginning of ...
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Merchant Kings
When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900
- Thomas Dunne Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 314 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-312-61611-3
EAN 9780312616113
Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern worldIt was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating ...
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- Routledge, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 202 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-0-415-58275-9
EAN 9780415582759
World History has rapidly grown to become one of the most popular and talked about approaches to the study of history. World History: The Basics introduces this fast-growing field and addresses key questions such as: What is world history? How do we study a subject with such a broad geographic and chronological range? Why has ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-472-7
EAN 9781848854727
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