The Cryptopians. Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze, Hardback - Laura Shin

The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses.Publisher: PublicAffairs, U.S.Author(s):...

DescriptionAward-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-yea...

Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner reveals the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmace...

Looks at Elizabeth I life both before and after ascending the throne. Examines how her life before being a queen helped shape the monarch she became.

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The first nomadic empire and the making of China has its story told with meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, weighing in on the ci...

The Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism's and Christianity's sacred books. Why these texts, and how were they tra...

Reducere. In the winter of 1962, a time of three gargantuan broadcast networks and a power-wielding block of national advertisers, a relatively tiny ornament...

Reducere. UPDATED AND REVISED EDITION: Throughout his distinguished legal career, Stephen Sheller has relished the role of the underdog, evincing a sharply h...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Laura Mersini-HoughtonNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 245 x 26Cover type: Hardb...

In this brilliant, wide-ranging study of lies and lying, Kathleen Wyatt introduces us to a cast of professionals and professional liars, all to hel...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Reducere. Shame influences more of our thoughts and actions than many other emotions. Used as a punishment for bad behavior, shame acts as an incentive for u...

Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of fema...

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introd...

An in-depth look at the making of Star Trek: First Contact, featuring rare and previously unseen production art and new and exclusive cast and crew...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Liane MoriartyNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 242 x 160 x 42Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960 - Douglas E. Haynes

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Reducere. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the per...

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

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

Reducere. Against the backgrounds of World War II, the Cold War, the construction of Pax Americana, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, and ...

Reducere. Ralph Roberts, actor, masseur, and former Pentagon liaison, could frequently be found in the kitchen of Lee Strasberg's NYC apartment on Central Pa...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Saptarishi (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) Ba...

Skilfully uses this notorious episode to illuminate the nature and extent of piracy in the period.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Sarah C...

This book is a social history of popular history in Britain between the end of the First World War and the 1970s. It considers how ordinary people ...

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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 ...

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...

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

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Theresa (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto) EnrightIllustration(s): 9 figures; 9 Illustrations, unspeci...

When beavers make a dam that changes the path of the river, Camilla has to help make new maps and learn that change can be a good thing.Publisher: ...

Reducere. The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsess...

Reducere. Priests of the Law tells the story of the first people in the history of the common law to think of themselves as legal professionals. In the middl...