History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past, Paperback - Jason Steinhauer

Reducere. 1. Introduction2. e-History: Not Quite History, Not Quite The Past3. The Crowd-Sourced Past4. Nostalgia On-Demand5. The Viral Past6. The Visual Pas...

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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...

Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web is a must-read for anyone interested in how our online present has been shaped by t...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Anne BodenNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 133 x 256 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softba...

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Melvyn Bragg explores a controversial selection of British books and their huge impact on historyPublisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Melvyn Bra...

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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...

In the first official book from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Food Programme, Alex Renton tells the stories of 13 key ingredients such as spices, oi...

Sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch-as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAu...

Reducere. DescriptionA source of inspiration for young women with strong social convictions, She Takes a Stand highlights 16 extraordinary women who have fou...

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

Reducere. Rendered by women artists and writers, these portraits illuminate the most influential women of our time. Liv Ullman marvels at Anne Frank s faith ...

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

Reducere. Whether they came from Sioux Falls or the Bronx, over half a million Jews entered the U.S. armed forces during the Second World War. Uprooted from ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hugh KennedyIn this engaging history, world-renowned historian Hugh Kennedy deftly sews together the stories of the people,...

Reducere. How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful h...

Reducere. This lively chronicle of the years 1847--1947--the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world--is " a] thrilling and tragic histor...

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

Publisher: Webster's Digital ServicesAuthor(s): Victoria HockfieldIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 74Publication dat...

Reducere. In a time of terror for Europe s monarchs--imprisoned, exiled, executed--Napoleon s army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent Jo\u00e3o h...

Reducere. A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But ...

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them

DescriptionOver the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability t...

This book covers the Lavochkin fighters of the Second World War, from the original I-301 prototype, first flown in 1940, to the La-7 fighter of 194...

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...

Publisher: Webster's Digital ServicesAuthor(s): Victoria HockfieldIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 92Publication dat...

New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journey of the beloved tomato in this fascinating and ...

A groundbreaking book that explains how the world's history of empires still shapes our lives and politics today

Reducere. Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for th...

A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China

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Publisher: Webster's Digital ServicesAuthor(s): Victoria HockfieldIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 88Publication dat...

Publisher: Webster's Digital ServicesAuthor(s): Victoria HockfieldIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 74Publication dat...

A groundbreaking book that explains how the world's history of empires still shapes our lives and politics todayIllustrations: Integrated maps

Andrew Reynolds' The Children of Harvey Milk is not only a compelling collective portrait of LGBTQ politicians around the globe; it also offers a p...

A collection of history's greatest speeches, with commentary from internationally bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. Updated with new sp...

We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future.Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s...

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...

Reducere. History does not simply happen. Most often it is the result of years of graduate training, assiduous research, and careful writing. Without histori...

Reducere. No right seems more fundamental to American life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century that freedom was still an unfulfilled ...

Reducere. Recalls the group of scientists whose invention of radar during World War II contributed to the Allied victory, and chronicles their post-war achie...

This book considers the significant legal developments that have arisen due to social media. It provides an expert explanation of the issues that p...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Brian SimpsonNumber of pages: 182Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 155 x 232 x 18Cover type: Paperback / ...

La Violencia exposes the bloody heart of Spain - from its origins in the ancient past to the Civil War and the current crisis in Catalonia.

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Double Helix History examines the interface between genetics and history in order to investigate the plausibility of 'new' knowledge derived from s...

In all societies--but especially those that have endured political violence--the past is a shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always i...