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- Princeton, 2019
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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- Faber & Faber, 2019
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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- Yale University Press, 2019
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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- Vintage UK, 2019
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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- Basic Books, 2019
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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Visions of Empire
How five Imperial Regimes shaped the World
- Princeton, 2019
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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The New Silk Roads
The Present and Future of the World
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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- Reaktion Books, 2019
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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- Pan, 2019
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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- Little&Brown, 2019
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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After victory
Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars
- Princeton, 2019
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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- Dorling Kindersley, 2019
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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- Headline, 2019
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 29,90 €
ISBN 978-0-19-937319-2
EAN 9780199373192
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- Pan, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-9041-5
EAN 9781509890415
Blom's hypothesis is forceful, and has the potential to be both frightening and, if you hold it up to the light at just the right angle, a little optimistic. The idea can be put like this: climate change changes everything' John Lanchester, New Yorker In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom ...
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- Robinson, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-3812-5
EAN 9781472138125
An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . .By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises fundamental questions about our world.'Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-7514-8
EAN 9781473675148
Every phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America's emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the long-term decline of economic growth that started with Japan and has now spread to Europe, to ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-364-6
EAN 9781784873646
PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKSPlanet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us.We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8994-4
EAN 9781445689944
'This fascinating and beautifully written book is an absolute eye opener. John Gaudet has a remarkable story to tell, and he tells it extremely well. A wonderful, enlightening book.' Alexander McCall Smith.For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on ...
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