The late 1990s and early aughts were a time of hope―for democracy and free press. The Soviet Union had failed, leaving behind a number of independent countries where the Scorpions’ 1990 pop ballad “Wind of Change” became a rallying cry... Zobraziť viac
Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion,... Zobraziť viac
Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion,... Zobraziť viac
Tells us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric dreamtime. This book describes their history and its meanings from... Zobraziť viac
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019. A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians. This is the captivating story of mathematics' greatest ever idea: calculus... Zobraziť viac
Bang! Space, time, matter... the Universe was born 13.7 billion years ago. Infinitely small at first, it expanded more rapidly than anyone can contemplate. Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott explain how all this came about... Zobraziť viac
In this colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book a boy of today and a Little Emperor from the past find adventure and fun in the Forbidden City! On a visit to the Forbidden City, Xiao Ming somehow manages to lose his father... Zobraziť viac
From the first cities of Sumeria and Babylon around 3500 BCE to the fall of the Rome and the bloody demise of the Aztecs, here-in 200 mini essays-are the critical leaders and wars; ideas and inventions; myths and religions, and art and architecture of t Zobraziť viac
Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe's experience, whether trying to escape danger, to find a better life or as a result of deliberate policy, whether moving from the countryside to the city, or between countries, or from outside the... Zobraziť viac
Marvel at the sheer brilliance of invention, from glass to underpants, the noble compass to the humble pencil. Not forgetting, of course, the undeniably indispensable banana suitcase. Filled with fascinating details about everything from... Zobraziť viac
Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, ... Zobraziť viac
Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? ... Zobraziť viac
When information is a weapon, everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy .. Zobraziť viac
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ... Zobraziť viac
The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during the Second World War. In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in the War and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country... Zobraziť viac
Drawing for the first time on Polish, German and Soviet sources, First to Fight is the definitive history of the German invasion of Poland, which opened the war in September 1939. Roger Moorhouse provides a dramatic narrative of military events... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil – felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt where the foreign visitors and diplomats... Zobraziť viac
<p>Der opulente Bildband dokumentiert erstmals zusammenhängend die Reisen Kafkas in die Schweiz und nach Italien, die vor allem der Beobachtung fremden Alltagslebens galten, aber auch literarische Implikationen hatten, besonders im Blick auf den Roman... Zobraziť viac
By the international bestselling author of The Science of Happiness and The Secret Pulse of Time, a fresh exploration of Da Vinci's real "code"—science! ... Zobraziť viac
