The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World, Hardcover - John Dickie

A global history of the world's most famous secret society, encompassing kings and presidents, writers and legislators, composers and entertainers,...

Professor John Dickie's riveting new history of Freemasonry - an organization as mysterious as it is influential.

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to...

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Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World - Giorgio Riello

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The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has be...

The history of Japan's unprecedented takeover of the global imaginary, as told through the eight packaged fantasies that charmed and changed the wo...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): J. C. SharmanIllustration(s): 9 maps.Number of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 23...

One thousand years ago, a traveler to Baghdad or the Chinese capital Kaifeng would have discovered a vast and flourishing city of broad streets, sp...

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The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured--and transformed--the world's imagination...

DescriptionAt the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they ...

The new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard. This is a spirited exploration of cars and their cultural impact throu...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for...

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Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Simon WinchesterNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 202 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedesco...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

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What does Japan's 2011 nuclear accident have in common with the 2005 flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina? This thought-provoking book pr...

DescriptionOver the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability t...

Reducere. DescriptionA dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and e...

Reducere. "Seek for meetings with holy men and women." These words from fifth-century bishop Palladius ring as true today as they did 1600 years ago. Palladi...

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have ...

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Reducere. In a time of terror for Europe s monarchs--imprisoned, exiled, executed--Napoleon s army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent Jo\u00e3o h...

A dazzling new history of the modern world, as told through the remarkable story of population change.

Reducere. Build your brain and blitz through the canon with Literature in 30 Seconds of Less!, a collection of illuminating synopses of the great works. Burs...

Reducere. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with exci...

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Reducere. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the ...

DescriptionA powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectualsThroughout mu...

Reducere. To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in histo...

Reveals the psychological and spiritual damage digital technology and social media are having on the human mind, as well as a digital free lifestyl...

From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, an "expansive" global history that highlights "how textiles truly changed the world" (Wall Street Journal)Pub...

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of bi...

DescriptionThe remarkable story of a T-shirt company that sparked a global movement to aid people living in poverty. All his life, Derek Evans felt...

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A fresh, challenging and compassionate response to busyness, based on the way of life Jesus offered his disciples

This book tells the extraordinary story of Shetland's most enduring export. It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic and the remote ice...

Reducere. MAFIA. CAMORRA. 'NDRANGHETA. The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country ho...

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A comprehensive look at the life and continuing influence of 16th-century scientific genius and occultist Dr. John Dee - Presents an overview of De...