Coal: A Human History, Paperback - Barbara Freese

Reducere. In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Pr...

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Reducere. Masterly. Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus R...

Reducere. For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adv...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind's relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on faith a...

A wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated history of mermaids and merman.

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Reducere. From the bestselling author of Zealot and host of the new CNN series Believer comes a fascinating account of humanity's struggle to make sense of t...

The human stories behind disease, plagues and epidemics and their deadly impact through history.

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Reducere. Noise explores the human dramas that have revolved around sound at various points in the last 100, 000 years, allowing us to think in fresh ways ab...

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Reducere. " A] winningly obsessive history of our relationship with underground places" (The Guardian), from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuc...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the beginning of history to the present, a sweep of the world's oceans and seas and how they have shaped the course of civilization...

Reducere. Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, ...

The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Joseph JebelliNumber of page...

Reducere. The Arctic of towering icebergs and midnight sun, of flaming auroras and endless winter nights, has long provoked flights of the imagination. Now, ...

It is hard to imagine that much of the suburban townscape from Croydon to the Thames at Deptford was a vast wood, stretching for almost seven miles...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us?Publisher: Harp...

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Reducere. A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history, and how our experience and understanding of emotions have ...

Reducere. DescriptionHuman, All Too Human - A Book For Free Spirits is a philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche published in 1878. It is one of Nietzsche'...

Reducere. This English translation--the first since 1909--restores Human, All Too Human to its proper central position in the Nietzsche canon. First publishe...

Based on contemporary newspaper accounts and genealogical records, Digging Dusky Diamonds tells the story of the people who made the anthracite coa...

From Abdul Kassem Ismail, the tenth-century Persian who never went anywhere without his library, this title takes aim at the pretensions of officia...

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A stunning book on the incalculable debt human...

An accessible and entertaining guide to global economic history from a unique African perspective. Johan Fourie uncovers the roots of and reasons f...

Reducere. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 - 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin an...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the coal wars from Mother Jones and other important participants *Includes online resources and a bibliogr...

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Reducere. All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a lar...

Reducere. Short discussions on a variety of subjects. In English.

From the pestilence which contributed to the downfall of Rome to the dancing manias of medieval Europe, the aristocracy's fashion for wearing wigs ...

Nostalgic book takes you back to a different age, remembering what life was like for those growing up in the 1930s.Publisher: The History Press Ltd...

Reducere. This comprehensive look at the first humans in Florida combines contemporary archaeology, the writings of early European explorers, and experiments...

Reducere. Description"Franz Kline, one of the most celebrated painters of the twentieth century, once described his hometown as a "little Dutch settlement wr...

Reducere. "Philosophical anthropology on the grandest scale. . . .Gellner has produced a sharp challenge to his colleagues and a thrilling book for the non-s...