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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 32,35 €
ISBN 978-0-500-25169-0
EAN 9780500251690
This book profiles forty of the worlds greatest explorers, from Europe, America, Asia and Australia. These are the men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous explorations, opening our eyes to the physical, natural and historical wealth around us. Under the aegis of Robin Hanbury-Tenison, hailed by the "Sunday Times" ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-736459-6
EAN 9780007364596
In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life story of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future. At the core of the book is the story of mankind's complex relationship with this immense sea, which stretches ...
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Discover urban legends, arcane knowledge, and little-known facts about world history in this fascinating, addictively readable book sure to please trivia fans everywhere.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-780-0
EAN 9781861897800
Whiskey: poets have celebrated it, preachers have condemned it, and blood has been shed over it. Governments, distillers and the public have fought over whiskey as it changed from a sometimes lethal, herb-infused concoction to a high-quality, meticulously crafted liquor. Kevin R.Kosar tells the story of whiskey, and its rise from obscure medieval origins to ...
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In the form of 150 brief, witty, and information-packed essays, this work offers an enlightening tour of the major innovations of the past 20 centuries, examining how they shaped the world.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
PVP: 27,29 €
ISBN 978-0-8223-4648-7
EAN 9780822346487
An account of the day-to-day scramble to make ends meet after the end of the Soviet Union, letters recording ordinary Russians' reactions to the Revolution as events unfolded in 1917, and excerpts from a sixteenth-century manual instructing elite Muscovites on proper household management The Russia Reader brings these and many other selections together in this ...
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Clementine Churchill -- shy, passionate, and high-strung -- shunned publicity but was in the limelight throughout her adult life. As a young woman, her character, intelligence, and good looks won the attention of the impetuous Winston Churchill. Their courtship was swift, but their marriage proved immensely strong, spanning many of the major events of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-942256-3
EAN 9780099422563
In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lagoon.His account is at once romantic and packed with facts, conjuring up the atmosphere of the canals, ...
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ISBN 978-0-8129-7996-1
EAN 9780812979961
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. ...
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In January 2007, the young and optimistic soldiers of the 2-16, the American infantry battalion known as the Rangers, were sent to Iraq as part of the surge. Their job would be to patrol one of the most dangerous areas of Baghdad. For fifteen months, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Finkel was with them, following them ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-58648-813-0
EAN 9781586488130
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years. In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed to the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-650-6
EAN 9781861896506
Caviar: piquant, luxurious and decadent, it is renowned the world over. A story of greed, indulgence, enterprise and hope, "Caviar: A Global History" starts by looking back to its heyday in Tsarist Russia, America and Europe in the Roaring Twenties, before telling the story of production, trade and consumption today. Renowned food writer and historian ...
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The fundamental issues of maritime strategy and naval power in the Mediterranean, when considered over the broad spectrum of past, present and future, clearly touch on the clash of civilizations. In terms of the millennial political situation, this includes issues of migration, the environment, geography, technology, economic power and rivalries in those fields. It also ...
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What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-210-0
EAN 9781846682100
The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to look to history for guidance? No; their mistake was to exaggerate one of its lessons while ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4391-4995-9
EAN 9781439149959
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their five decades of work on the eleven monumental volumes of The Story of Civilization. The result is a survey of human history, full of dazzling insights into the nature ...
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