Making The World

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

The Outbreak of the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision-Making - Jack S. Levy, John A. Vasquez

Publisher: Greystone Books, CanadaAuthor(s): Antonia BanyardNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 187 x 235 x 16Cover type: Hardback...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Dr Thomas HallidayNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 245 x 39Cover type: HardbackRe...

Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions.Publisher: Profile Boo...

Discussing theoretical perspectives on the archaeological study of settlements, this volume revisits a central topic of study in archaeology and an...

An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and inte...

Why the new nomad and an increase in migration is the best way to help the planet to prosper.Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Felix Marqua...

On Every Tide is an immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Sean ConnollyNu...

Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Louis WeinstockNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 146 x 222 x 33Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Reducere. What started as 8-year-old Sammie Vance's mission to get a buddy bench for her school to fight loneliness grew to be so much more. Now Sammie is ma...

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Throughout the ages of sail and steam, migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime world in terms of the built envi...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ali Humayun AkhtarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23Cover type: Ha...

The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore th...

Reducere. There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ussama MakdisiIllustration(s): 3 mapsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 150 ...

A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing.Publisher: The School of Life Pres...

Publisher: Explore Books (London)Author(s): Tom FeilingIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2017Dimen...

Reducere. What started as 8-year-old Sammie Van's mission to get a buddy bench for her school to fight loneliness grew to be so much more. Nor Sammie is maki...

An incredible story of extreme perseverance, unimaginable grit, and of what it takes to keep going despite countless obstacles.Publisher: GillAutho...

This is the definitive history of the largest and dominant firm in Britain's toy-making industry in the 20th century and by its leading historian.P...

Mark Shirk examines historical and contemporary state responses to transnational violence to develop a new account of the making of global orders. ...

In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and wor...

In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to...

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What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

Reducere. Each of them is one in a million. They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powe...

Reducere. This test book serves as a companion resource to The Story of Civilization: The Making of the Modern World. With this book, students can test their...

Reducere. In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to...

Reducere. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the ...

Reducere. Political polarization and unrest are not exclusive to our era, but in the twenty-first century, we are living with seemingly unresolvable disagree...

Written by one of the world's leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the b...

Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and ...

Reducere. "A deft, informative, and often screamingly funny primer on the ways that machine learning can (and often does) go wrong." --Margaret Harris, Physi...

The Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world-thinking, acting, fee...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

Reducere. It is rare for an individual in history to have successfully made such a mark on their world that people are still talking about them centuries aft...

Reducere. Girls have the power to make a difference, whether that's in their own lives, their community, or even the world But it can be confusing to know wh...

A diverse and innovative collection that explores the radical and innovative ways in which public services in the global south are being remade fro...

Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors - including royals, politicians and indigenous people...

Description"Flawless . . . Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."--Robert...

Reducere. Love him or hate him, Triple H does what he wants, when he wants to do it. And now, for the first time anywhere, he tells you how he does it -- and...

DescriptionA revised and updated edition of the international bestsellerInspiring readers all over the globe to reimagine their future, this revise...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of Willie Mays's rookie year with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the ma...

DescriptionEmotions can be complicated at the best of times. If something goes wrong right at the beginning of someone's life things can often feel...

Reducere. A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now. -New York Ti...

How organizations--including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook--learn from experiments in a data-driven world.Have you logged into Facebook rec...

This book offers a blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome the defects COVID-19 has exposed in our political-economic ...

Enter the cross-cultural tale of gusto and enchantment, adaptation and loss, preserving the old ways of making a life. Presented in six acts with i...

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popul...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Jalaja BonheimNumber of pages: 304Collection: Sacred ActivismPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 154 ...

Drawing on researchers in the United States and France, this work tells the story of the wavelet transform - a scientifically intriguing method of ...

Indicators simplify complex issues and produce numeric evidence to guide and justify decision-making. However, we know little about the social proc...

"We all want our dreams to come true. Within The Way, we learn the exact steps on how to get there. This is one of those books that everyone needs ...

Robert Zafft presents the too-often abstract language of business ethics in straight-forward language, laying out two themes commonly ignored: in t...

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

From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led by archaeologist Hans-J...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Men in the Making, the authors have endeavored to equip young men with biblical information and practical knowledge they need to deal...

Misbehaviour, a major motion picture based on the author's life, and starring Keira Knightley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (as Jennifer Hosten), will be rel...

Reducere. At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet be...

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this ...

Reducere. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with...

Why the new nomad and increased migration will help bring greater prosperity to the planet.Illustrations: None

Why the new nomad and an increase in migration is the best way to help the planet to prosper.Illustrations: None

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and E...

How do you keep your employees engaged, creative, innovative, and productive? Simple: Work human From the pioneers of the management strategy that'...