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The Interest
How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery
For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer. In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British colonies remained enslaved. And ...
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- Ebury, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-0994-8
EAN 9781529109948
'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther KingIn an era where our liberties are often under threat, Letters to Change the World sends reminders from history that standing up for - and voicing - our personal and political beliefs ...
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Metropolis
A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
- Vintage UK, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-752-1
EAN 9781784707521
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk and Babylon to Baghdad and Venice, and on to London, New York, Shanghai and Lagos, Ben Wilson takes us through millennia ...
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The Great Imperial Hangover
How Empires Have Shaped the World
- Atlantic Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-833-5
EAN 9781786498335
For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face today.From Russia's incursions in the Ukraine to Brexit; from Trump's 'America-first' policy to China's ...
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The History Makers
2500 Years of Who We Are
- Random House USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4000-6876-0
EAN 9781400068760
An epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers'from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Simon Schama'continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today There are many stories we can spin about years gone by, but which accounts come to be told, and ...
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Past Mistakes
How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 306 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-690-7
EAN 9781785786907
From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking. The stories we tell about our past matter. But those stories have been shaped by prejudice, hoaxes and misinterpretations that have whitewashed entire chapters of history, erased women and invented civilisations.Today history is often ...
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Burning the Books
A History of Knowledge Under Attack
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-7877-1
EAN 9781529378771
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilization itself. 'A wonderful book, full of good stories and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97966-2
EAN 9780241979662
A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos. 'Fascinating, original, excellent' Simon Sebag Montefiore. Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. But magic ...
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Dancing on Ropes
Translators and the Balance of History
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-263-0
EAN 9781788162630
Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where snow never falls? Who, or what, is Kuzma's mother, and why was Nikita Khrushchev so threateningly obsessed with her (or it)? The course ...
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The Craft
How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-5822-6
EAN 9781473658226
'Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining' - Wall Street JournalTHE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020'This book shows that, despite rumours of demon dwarfs, piano-playing crocodiles and world domination, the real story of the Freemasons is one of male eccentricity.''The Craft is a superb book that often reads like an adventure novel. It's informative, fascinating and often ...
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Open
How collaboration and curiosity shaped Humankind
- Atlantic Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-719-2
EAN 9781786497192
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARHumanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas or people - has led to stunning achievements in science, technology and culture. As a result, we live at a time of unprecedented wealth and opportunity.So why are we ...
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- Penguin, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198723-1
EAN 9780141987231
'As fascinating as it is beautifully written' JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelRivers, more than any road, technology or political event, have shaped the course of civilization. Rivers have opened frontiers, defined borders, supported trade, generated energy and fed billions. Most of our greatest cities stand on river banks or deltas, ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-780-2
EAN 9781788167802
Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history.So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating ...
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Epidemics and Society
From the Black Death to the Present
- Yale University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25639-0
EAN 9780300256390
This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today, and in a new preface addresses the global threat of COVID-19. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-8650-9
EAN 9781471186509
From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader - an MIT-credentialled scientist, popular podcast host and SpaceX mission manager - an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilisation's earliest days to current planning for interstellar travel. For the first time in history, the human species ...
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Leadership in War
Lessons from Those Who Made History
- Penguin UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198754-5
EAN 9780141987545
Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Margaret Thatcher. ...
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- Harry N. Abrams Inc, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4197-4625-3
EAN 9781419746253
The Toys That Made Us (the numberone original Netflix unscripted show that is not a food show) is an exploration of the toys that helped shape our lives. This book covers the properties from the first and second seasons of the Netflix series in even more depth than the show. This is the ultimate gift ...
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The Boundless Sea
A human history of the oceans
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1088 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95627-4
EAN 9780241956274
David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills, long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern ...
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Voices of History
Speeches that Changed the World
- Orion, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-0993-7
EAN 9781474609937
A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020. This collection of extraordinary speeches ranges from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some are exquisite and poignant; others cruel and chilling.Among others we hear from Martin Luther ...
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- Penguin UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 43,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-796-8
EAN 9781846147968
'Phenomenal ... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale' Coren Apicella, Washington PostDo you identify yourself by your profession, rather than your family? Do you consider yourself unique? Do you have personal goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a ...
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