Rum: A Social and Sociable History, Paperback - Ian Williams

Reducere. Ian Williams describes in captivating detail how Rum and the molasses that it was made from was to the 18th century what oil is today. Rum was used...

Reducere. "The most significant contribution to the history of Caribbean rum since John McCusker's Rum and the American Revolution. . . . It adds significant...

Reducere. 'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chines...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe richest place in America's musical landscape is that fertile ground occupied by jazz. Scott DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the h...

Almost fifteen per cent of the world's population today experiences some form of mental or physical disability and society tries to accommodate the...

The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia.

A funny and eloquent graphic novel taking us behind the scenes of a GP practice and reminding us that doctors are human too, from cartoonist and do...

A follow-up companion volume to The Bad Doctor, this is a comic novel which follows the fortunes of Dr Lois Pritchard, who works with Robert Smith ...

A hilarious and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Wil...

A new and dangerous computer bug is sweeping the internet. But this bug is different. Smart, quick, sophisticated, and developed by elite hackers w...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE AND CBC'S BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR, this best-selling debut novel is an energetically told, funny, and mov...

In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how China's aggressive foreig...

London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750 - Robert O. Bucholz, Joseph P. Ward

Reducere. A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early mo...

Reducere. The seminal history of Ireland's most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium. With its starting point the bloody creation of th...

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Ian Williams examines the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, how information is controlled and how it affects the population. Th...

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Reducere. A plea for the social efficacy of the neighborhood and its ecologyThe pressure is on: people move to cities in ever-growing numbers. So we build ne...

DescriptionFrom encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth c...

DescriptionMotorcycles and Motorcycling in the USSR from 1939 provides the first accessible English language account of motorcycles in the Soviet U...

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Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature ...

DescriptionJalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi ...

Publisher: Three Rivers PressAuthor(s): Eli ZaretskyNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 204 x 133 x 26Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Martin (Newcastle University, UK) PughIllustration(s): 42 bw illusNumber of pages: 616Publ...

Revealing the fascinating social history of bricks in Britain!

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rod PhillipsWine is a drink with a long history. It is produced in every continent apart from Antarctica, and there are ver...

Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, B...

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