Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption, Paperback - Simon Pirani

DescriptionCoal, gas, and oil have powered our societies for hundreds of years. But the pace at which we use them changed dramatically in the twent...

Looking at the eleventh century to the twentieth century, Kuroda explores how money was used and how currencies evolved in transactions within loca...

The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumptio...

A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

Reducere. DescriptionEveryone knows that fossil fuels won't last forever. Something needs to change at some point, regardless of whether the issue is climate...

This is the fi rst comprehensive stocktaking of what the global lowcarbon transition may mean for fossil fuel-dependent countries and how they can ...

DescriptionThe collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study...

Mennonite Farmers is a pioneering work that brings faith into conversation with the land in distinctive ways.Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Pr...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): James PoskettNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 175 x 242 x 38Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

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DescriptionA global history of restaurants beyond white tablecloths and ma tre d's, Dining Out presents restaurants both as businesses and as venue...

The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues tha...

Reducere. Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? I...

This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the p...

For millennia, cavalry was the premier combat arm. Horses gave armies mobility and speed; often cavalry charges, either on the enemy's flanks and i...

DescriptionCompassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human hist...

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? B...

A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline beca...

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Sul's history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity o...

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncNumber of pages: 294Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 227 x 151 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackEd...

The first truly global history of sport, covering everything from football to baseball, boxing to motor racing.Illustrations: 98 illustrations

DescriptionJulian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Rens BodIllustration(s): 11 Illustrations, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and whiteTra...

For fashion buffs, romantics, and brides-to-be, a fascinating collection of wedding garb and glamour through pop culture and history.The Way We Wed...

Reducere. As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco...

In this fascinating study, Matthew J. Kuiper the story of how Islam became a world religion and cultural phenomenon of immense scale, astonishing d...

The first historical account of the development of prison gangs world-wide.Illustrations: 70 illustrations

This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you've never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movem...

This book provides the first broad history of the evolution of combined operations since antiquity. Jeremy Black provides a balanced assessment of ...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foun...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...

Reducere. Richard Davenport-Hines examines how licit medicines developed into a huge illegal business. Drawing on evidence from different continents and cult...

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What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it? Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civi...

DescriptionKorean dramas gained popularity across Asia in the late 1990s, and their global fandom continues to grow. Despite cultural differences, ...

Description"Masterly" -- The New Yorker A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of the YearA groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving histo...

From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex w...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Eivind Heldaas SelandIllustration(s): 25 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

From large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat-- more than any other food--has had an enormous impact on our environment. Historically, A...

Reducere. More than forty years ago, conservative Christianity emerged as a major force in American political life. Since then the movement has been analyzed...

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