1808: The Flight of the Emperor: How a Weak Prince, a Mad Queen, and the British Navy Tricked Napoleon and Changed the New World, Hardcover - Laurenti

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No previous book has explored deeper or broader into Napoleon's seething labyrinth of a mind and revealed more of its complex, fascinating, provoca...

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In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of...

DescriptionHow the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation o...

The answer is a tale of operatic proportions, sweeping across continents from the 1848 European revolutions to the civil wars in Mexico and the USA...

Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down. How One Generation of British Actors Changed the World - Robert Sellers

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Jeff PearceIllustration(s): 24 Illustrations including: - 21 Black and White Illustrations; - 3 Maps.Number o...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jennifer Regan-LefebvreIllustration(s): 11 b-w illustrations, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 342Publica...

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...

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This immersive dive into the life and work of Salvador Dal unlocks the secret of this creative genius and reveals for the first time how his erotic...

DescriptionThough pressed many times to write about his battles and campaigns, the Duke of Wellington always replied that people should refer to hi...

The unsuccessful pursuit of two German Imperial navy warshipsThe Goeben-Breslau Incident was a naval action which took place in 1914 in the Mediter...

Reducere. The new MAD, Massive Attacks of Disruption--and not China or Russia--are the most immediate and greatest dangers to the nation. But no one has reco...

DescriptionThe Story of Trees takes the reader on a visual journey from some of the earliest known tree species on our planet to the latest fruit c...

The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for centuries.

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the French Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one b...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Devi SridharNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 169 x 243 x 40Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abra...

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Reducere. How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the firs...

Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, ObserverThe definit...

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A quirky and original adventure story. Nelly goes off searching for her mother in a knitted hot air balloon with Columbus, her best friend, who jus...

Reducere. Greenpeace: The Inside Story is the first comprehensive eye-witness account of the human drama behind the creation of the world's largest direct-ac...

The Craven family's inspirational story of their momentous two-year round-the-world sailing trip and how they did it--the vision, the planning, the...

Reducere. After her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again...Frank Senko had alway...

Catherine Parr and Anne Askew: united in faith and danger, divided in death

If you want to discover the captivating life of Nero, then keep reading...Nero's extravagance has become nothing short of legendary. In its day, it...

DescriptionThis title is an exploration of a life at sea in the time of Captain Cook and Admiral Nelson, covering topics as wide-ranging as science...

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the French RevolutionFew historical events are as greatly revered and entirely misunderstood as the French Revol...

In 1829, surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward placed soil, dried leaves, and the pupa of a sphinx moth into a sealed glass bottle,...

Napoleon III is brought out of the shadows of Napoleon Bonaparte by a prize-winning historian: 'An excellent biography... In these pages, he emerge...

Contributor(s): Author: Laurent DuBoisThe first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally explo...

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An inspiring account of the transformative power of purpose-driven entrepreneurship. Bag Lady is a masterful case study in how to start up a compan...

Reducere. From the Financial Times's global finance correspondent, the incredible true story of the iconoclastic geeks who defied conventional wisdom and end...

Reducere. When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has n...