How Iceland Changed the World. The Big History of a Small Island, Paperback - Egill Bjarnason

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

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...

A new edition of an irreverent homage to the '95 travel classic, from the author of The Gran Tour.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Ben AitkenNumber ...

Reducere. During the post-emancipation through to the 21st century, the descendants of slaves had established on the small Grenadine island of Carriacou, the...

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. This book...

The incredible story of how the village of Lesmahagow has influenced the world in a variety of fields, from industry to espionage, throughout history.

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

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. From a contributor to The Cut, one of Vogue's most anticipated books "bravely and honestly" (Busy Philipps) talks about weight loss and sheds a lig...

On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, an...

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...

Marisa Meltzer was put on her first diet aged five: it was the beginning of a fraught relationship with food. Jean Nidetch was a housewife from Que...

In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of...

Reducere. IT'S TRUE: Jewish Girls Have Changed the WorldThis book celebrates the lives and extraordinary contributions of eighteen Jewish girls whose aspirat...

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 ...

DescriptionFor over a decade, Simon Roberts has photographed events and places across Britain that have drawn people together in public, communal e...

Reducere. Big history becomes engaging and personal in Big History, Small World by Cynthia Stokes Brown, the first guide in English to a new approach to hist...

Told in the words of the band themselves, the studio owners, producers and engineers who worked with them, and admirers of their music, including B...

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

Reducere. - A compelling tale of heart-stopping adventure and immersion in nature -Searching for solitude in the wilderness, Helen Lloyd went to Iceland via ...

Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, ObserverThe definit...

Reducere. The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another...

Reducere. Hold onto your hatsIt's windy on the Danish island of Samso. Meet the environmentally friendly people who now proudly call their home Energy Island...

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

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

Reducere. On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men...

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

Reducere. It's the 1980s and the rock landscape is littered with massive hair, synthesizers, and monster riffs, but there is an alternative being born in the...

Reducere. On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Michael Meyer recounts the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold ...

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