Geography Is Destiny. Britain and the World, a 10, 000 Year History, Main, Hardback - Ian Morris

The story of Britain, from its first moments as an island to its possible future.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Ian MorrisIllustration(s): ...

Reducere. The author of the comparable food histories }Cod{ and }Salt{ turns his attention to the much-mythologised and expansively various substance profoun...

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and a...

'A majestic must-read' - Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England.Illustrations: 8 pages colour plate section

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Reducere. Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and a...

A bold and controversial rethinking of the role of war in human history and how it will shape our future, sure to provoke debate, from the bestsell...

Britain at War in Colour showcases 100 of the best rare and original colour images of the Second World War from the IWM photograph collection. Feat...

Following the bestselling Courage is Calling, this is the second book in a new series. This time: self-control.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s...

A richly detailed history of the Church of England from a top historian who is also an Anglican priest.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): The R...

Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most signific...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Tim BirkheadNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 241 x 45Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume describes the events of the Bible as taking place in Britain, with the Jews identified as the Silures and Moses as an arms d...

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Reducere. DescriptionAn exploration of one of the most celebrated and well-known theorems in mathematicsBy any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most f...

The sea has played an important part in shaping Britain's identity, and the country has long needed to look outwards, not inwards, for its trade an...

This highly illustrated book tells the heroic story of the air battle, as well asthe Blitz bombing campaign which followed, through photographs, in...

DescriptionA sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major cultural movements--Confucianism, Islam, Jud...

Reducere. By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this u...

Princes, collectors, bookworms and thieves: the extraordinary story of the library, from Alexandria to the age of Google.Publisher: Profile Books L...

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Dramatic accounts of living through the Blitz with insights into the political background to the first year of the Second World War.

The way we think about plants is about to change forever: this is your handbook to a new natural world.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Wellc...

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...

Ian Little, a young musical novice, lucked into an apprenticeship with Roxy Music including working on Avalon, leading to a collaboration with Dura...

Reducere. Award-winning food critic and writer William Sitwell chronicles the fascinating global history of dining out, from the Roman wine taverns of ancien...

Contributor(s): Author: Ian R. HamiltonIan Robertson Hamilton was an unknown law student at Glasgow University until Christmas Eve 1950. On that ni...

The definitive visual history of the world under Covid-19, documented by the photographers of Agence France Presse.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAu...

A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us.Publisher: Profile Books ...

Britain's shallow seas are a mysterious domain. They remain largely unseen and unexplored except by marine scientists and divers, who have been doc...

Reducere. A comprehensive chronicle and analysis of the two deadliest conflicts, and how they were fought.

We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely differ...

Reducere. Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10, 000 ...

A major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times*BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BECOMING DICKENS ...

Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most i...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Leslea NewmanIllustration(s): Full-color illustrations; 3D, tear-out dreidelNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2022Di...