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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 696 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19647-3
EAN 9780691196473
How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic book, Jurgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-34842-8
EAN 9780571348428
For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, accompanying the rise of cities, nations, and empires. In Walls, David Frye uncovers a story that is more than just bricks and stone: he reveals the startling link between what we ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23494-7
EAN 9780300234947
An eye-opening history of Britain and the Islamic world-a thousand-year relationship that is closer, deeper, and more mutually beneficial than is often recognized In this broad yet sympathetic survey-ranging from the Crusades to the modern day-Martin Pugh explores the social, political, and cultural encounters between Britain and Islam. He looks, for instance, at how reactions ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-828-3
EAN 9781784708283
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present.How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 27,95 €
ISBN 978-1-5416-9938-0
EAN 9781541699380
First published in 1999, Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the 21st century. Mark Pendergrast uses coffee production, trade, and consumption as a window through which to view broad historical themes: the clash and blending ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 600 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19280-2
EAN 9780691192802
What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and they have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized world. Visions of Empire sheds critical new light on their rulers--who they were, how they justified their ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-0824-6
EAN 9781526608246
A brand new book from the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening Standard Revised and updated editionThe New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the ancient trade routes today. The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-051-4
EAN 9781789140514
Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural resonances of this most ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-8611-0
EAN 9781447286110
'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the story of opium tells us much about our faults and foibles as humans - our willingness to experiment; our ability to become addicts; our pursuit ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 25,90 €
ISBN 978-0-316-49264-5
EAN 9780316492645
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16921-7
EAN 9780691169217
The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the World Wars in 1919 and 1945. Here John Ikenberry asks the question, what do states that win wars do with their newfound power ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-30193-7
EAN 9780241301937
From the fury of the Punic Wars to the icy waters of Dunkirk, relive more than 3,000 years of world-changing combat with this guide to the most famous battles in history, including a foreword from TV presenter and historian Sir Tony Robinson. This military history book takes you on a journey through the battlefields of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4722-5905-9
EAN 9781472259059
'F*cking brilliant' Sarah Knight'Very funny' Mark WatsonAN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORYIn the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 26,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-6365-4
EAN 9781471163654
A FASCINATING INVESTIGATION INTO THE HISTORY OF CITIES: WHY DID THEY OCCUR, HOW HAVE THEY EVOLVED, WHY DO SO MANY OF US CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THEM AND HOW DO THEY AFFECT US? Monica Smith is the person best qualified to write a book about the big problems raised by the increasing concentration of the ...
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