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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 29,90 €
ISBN 978-0-19-937319-2
EAN 9780199373192
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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18003-8
EAN 9780691180038
Why does democracy--as a word and as an idea--loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its near extinction, to its rebirth amid ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1008 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-60057-222-7
EAN 9781600572227
Get thousands of facts at your fingertips with this essential resource.The World Almanac® and Book of Facts is America's top-selling reference book of all time, with more than 82 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for all your entertainment, reference, and learning needs. The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 39,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16745-9
EAN 9780691167459
How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entitiesHistorians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-9127-8
EAN 9781473691278
History is an infinite reservoir of stories, examples, warnings, explanations, jokes, rebukes and inspiration . . .You can't understand the present if you can't understand the past.' In On This Day in History Dan Snow, Britain's favourite historian, tells the story of an important event that happened on each day of the year. From the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,35 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-0742-3
EAN 9781526607423
All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.'When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective.The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing the present and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,35 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-7181-9
EAN 9781445671819
Prepare to feel queasy. Are you suffering from a life-threatening illness? Do you possess chronic fatigue, sexual dysfunction, severe mental impairment, or have to endure constant, debilitating pain? If not, then you might do so after reading this book! Snake-oil salesmen, preying like vultures upon the hopes and fears of the sick and the dying, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-0806-2
EAN 9781526608062
'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.' When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective.The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing the present ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-929-3
EAN 9781780239293
Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World -Africa and Southeast Asia - this book shows how the historical preoccupation with Columbus's `discovery' of the New World of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78854-341-5
EAN 9781788543415
Unquiet Women is an exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history. Wynflaed was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who owned male slaves and badger-skin gowns; Egeria a Gaulish nun who toured the Holy Land as the Roman Empire was collapsing; Gudrid an Icelandic explorer and the first woman ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 40,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17070-1
EAN 9780691170701
The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry--and a term of derision--in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 640 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-35204-5
EAN 9780241352045
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peaceIn three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 37,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-6682-2
EAN 9781471166822
The Golden Atlas is a spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, a treasure chest of adventures from the chronicles of global discovery, illustrated with a selection of the most beautiful maps ever created. The book reveals how the world came to be known, featuring a magnificent gallery of exceptionally rare hand-coloured antique maps, paintings ...
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