Relics: A History of the World Told in 133 Objects, Hardcover - Jamie Grove

Reducere. Four billion years in the palm of your hand, Relics: A History of the World Told in 133 Objects is the story of our planet as you've never seen it ...

Reducere. The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse ar...

A treasure trove of human creativity from around the world. History of the World in 1000 Objects takes a fresh look at world history, viewing cultu...

Reducere. In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in t...

Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change. In the closing third of the twentieth ce...

Reducere. Books containing words of one syllable proliferated in the late nineteenth century as a way to teach children to read. Today, these books still ser...

DescriptionA collector's edition of the classic, illustrated, and comprehensive history of magic and the occult - Written by renowned Surrealist an...

Publisher: Chronicle BooksAuthor(s): Ross PetrasIllustration(s): hardcover, foil stamped-cover, unjacketed, 2-color illustrations throughoutNumber ...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Alex WoolfNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 234 x 278 x 27Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central In...

The various objects chosen by the author tell the story of the conflicts which shaped the nature of the Western World known today, both in spiritua...

Reducere. Journey through the history of the world, one day at a time!If you ever wondered what happened on your birthday 100 years ago, or on Christmas in t...

A stunningly illustrated book of extraordinary city maps, telling the story of human civilisation throughout history. From the walled city of ancie...

DescriptionWhat do the Mona Lisa, the light bulb, and a Lego brick have in common? The answer - intellectual property (IP) - may be surprising, bec...

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...

The phenomenally creative musician and filmmaker David Byrne presents new artwork that explores daily life in surprising ways, with unique reflecti...

A code-cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention - the art of writing.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s...

Reducere. Seb is determined to find some light for his sleepy coastal town. It is so far north, the sun does not shine in winter and the days are cold, drear...

A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fough...

Reducere. Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914 1950, the Golden Age, 1950 1973, and the Landslide, 1973 1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast arra...

Publisher: PicadorAuthor(s): Yang JishengTranslator: Guo JianNumber of pages: 768Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 209 x 36Cover type: Paperb...

From the beginning of the world, when God created Audrey Hepburn, the guilt complex and worker ants, to the end, broadcast live on a TV chat show, ...

Reducere. When investigating the mysteries of Chicago's past, it's helpful to examine the physical evidence. From a fiddle played by a Chicago pioneer and a ...

Reducere. Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians a...

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. From the hard-ridden half-pipe of a suburban driveway to teens doing boardslides down stairway handrails in Rio de Janeiro, from the bright-light g...

Reducere. Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, ...

Reducere. Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience--and as an influentia...

Reducere. A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Reducere. TRAGEDY AND HOPE shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of t...

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Publisher: ...