Dutch Light. Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe, Paperback - Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Ch...

An in-depth exploration of the tide, its history and its science. From author of }Periodic Tables{. Now in paperback. 'It is profound and powerful,...

The phenomenal "Sunday Times" bestseller "Periodic Tales" by Hugh Andersey-Williams, packed with fascinating stories and unexpected information abo...

Reducere. Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a my...

Reducere. Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ens...

Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.Publishe...

Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tas...

Explains the emergence of physical chemistry in America by presenting a series of lively portraits of such pivotal figures as Wilhelm Ostwald, A A ...

This study projects a 50-year perspective across 27 European countries, offering an extended discussion of theories and factors underlying the assu...

The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles

This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices th...

Innovation, technology, and spectacle combine in wondrous works of decorative art and furniture that embody the splendor and luxury of the royal co...

Offers a sustained and systematic focus on the intersections of time and space in contexts of border crossing, considering the historical transform...

The edited book brings together country experts on populism, ethno-territorial politics, and party competition. It consists of twelve empirical cha...

Looks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro-Caribbe...

This book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novel...

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

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Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy - James Williams

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Contributor(s): Author: William PooleMilton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self-elected nationa...

The Citizen is an early prose work relating to Roy Fisher and his native city of Birmingham - previously thought to have been lost - which was the ...

Reducere. This stunning history of neon sign making includes more than 100 illustrations and charts showing the technical aspects of manufacture, and the daz...

Grandmaster Simon Williams has played the Classical Dutch for over twenty years. It remains his favourite opening and has featured in some of his g...

Reducere. New Delhi was the grandest planned capital city of the British empire. In its meticulous urban plan it owed as much to earlier imperial traditions ...

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - Odd Arne Westad

Now in paperback, this is the latest novel in the }Merde{ series, featuring Englishman Paul West as he goes to Brussels to work for a French MEP. W...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER" The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- ...

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and soci...

An investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ...

The Palm House at Kew has been one of Britain's most popular attractions since it opened in 1848 - this is the story of its creation and the men wh...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Mark (Professor of English, Pace University, USA, Pace University, USA) HusseyNumber of pa...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter PesicIllustration(s): 143 figuresNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 231 x 28Cover...

A spellbinding history of 20th-century Europe, which has the scope, pace and capacity to delight and surprise of an epic novel. It has sold a stagg...

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Reducere. This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of...

Reducere. A "Philadelphia Inquirer "Best Book of the Year A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

Reducere. Shame influences more of our thoughts and actions than many other emotions. Used as a punishment for bad behavior, shame acts as an incentive for u...