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PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-7876-4
EAN 9781529378764
Knowledge is under attack. In our digital age, we are drowning in information, faced with new and complex challenges around data preservation and organisation; at the same time, libraries and archives are suffering huge funding cuts, media censorship is a global phenomenon and fake news is rife. Now, more than ever, libraries have to fight ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,90 €
ISBN 978-3-570-55427-2
EAN 9783570554272
Worauf gründen sich Macht und Herrschaft?Wer Macht hat, verortet sich in der Zeit. Er begreift sich als Teil der Geschichte und schafft damit das Geschichtsbild seiner Epoche. Vier solcher Geschichtsbilder betrachtet dieses Buch: das des Gro en Kurfürsten von Brandenburg, Friedrichs II. von Preu en, Bismarcks und der Nationalsozialisten.Geschrieben während der Brexit-Ereignisse, Trumps Präsidentschaft und ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-9866-6
EAN 9781473698666
Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of western classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyid Caliphates. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5828-7
EAN 9780753558287
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 424 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17746-5
EAN 9780691177465
"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."-Steven Levitsky, New York Times-bestselling author of How Democracies DieA new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this teaches us about the futureHistorical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20351-5
EAN 9780691203515
How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states-not sovereign states-drove European expansion, building the world's ...
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PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-9893-2
EAN 9781408898932
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A beacon of hope for a frighted world' DANNY DORLING'This is the book we need right now' TELEGRAPH'It'd be no surprise if it proved to be the Sapiens of 2020' GUARDIANIt's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 43,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-33262-7
EAN 9780241332627
A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS AND DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literary SupplementIn ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78929-197-1
EAN 9781789291971
Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world. From the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where remains of some of our earliest tool-using ancestors were found, to the CERN laboratory, where ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-391-2
EAN 9781784703912
'Wry, readable and often astonishing ... nimbly combines breadth and sweep with fine-grained attention to detail. The result is a provocative and absorbing history of the United States' NEW YORK TIMES For a country that has always denied having dreams of empire, the United States owns a lot of overseas territory.America has always prided itself ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 26,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6826-0
EAN 9781445668260
In this fascinating book, Philip Grove, an expert in naval history at Britannia Royal Naval College, analyses naval battles from the Roman World to the present day to show how naval power made the difference in winning some of the most famous battles and wars in history. In a book that is certain to attract ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-35096-4
EAN 9780571350964
A delightful journey through the glamorous story of the English country house party by the bestselling historian. Croquet. Parlour games.Cocktails. Welcome to a glorious journey through the golden age of the country house party - and you are invited. Our host, celebrated historian Adrian Tinniswood, traces the evolution of this quintessentially British pastime from debauched ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-5661-8
EAN 9781471156618
"Riveting stuff. Through the prism of his experience of the military elite, Fiennes presents a dazzling history of the world's best fighting units to amaze and enthral the reader." Damien Lewis, Bestselling author of Zero Six Bravo Inspired by the heroic war time escapades of his father, as well as drawing on his own experiences ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-1-984880-25-3
EAN 9781984880253
For fans of the Kingsbridge series, particularly those who love The Pillars of the Earth. And those who have visited Notre-Dame Cathedral and are interested in its history and rebuilding effort. In this short, spellbinding book, international bestselling author Ken Follett describes the emotions that gripped him when he learned about the fire that threatened ...
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In his first book, the creator of the award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks to some of humanity's most apocalyptic moments to understand the challenges of our future.Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology or capabilities ever peak or regress? Why, since the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 67,35 €
ISBN 978-0-500-02229-0
EAN 9780500022290
A splendid - and necessary - publication...a great resource Iain SinclairCharles Booth's landmark survey of life in late-19th-century London, published for the first time in one volume. In the late nineteenth century, Charles Booth's landmark social and economic survey found that 35 percent of Londoners were living in abject poverty. Booth's team of social investigators ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-8647-9
EAN 9781471186479
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-0919-7
EAN 9781474609197
INCLUDES NEW MATERIALWRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling; some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse and frankly outrageous; ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-5905-6
EAN 9781473659056
The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . .I recommend this book to anyone' THE SPECTATOR'A charming, absorbing and history that takes us on a journey from the silk roads to sportswear, from ruffs to spacesuits . . .I devoured this quietly feminist book' SUNDAY TIMES'Joyful and beautiful' NATURE'Will make ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,70 €
ISBN 978-0-281-08113-4
EAN 9780281081134
This bold and wide-ranging investigation into our concept of the self considers the role of the individual in the great world religions, and the portrayal of human self-awareness in some of the greatest works of world literature - from a Tang Dynasty poet in eighth-century China to works by Hafez (Iran) Tagore (India) and Chekhov ...
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