The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, Hardcover - William L. Silber

Reducere. DescriptionHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft...

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Reducere. Bruce Feiler's New York Times bestsellers Abraham, Walking the Bible, and Where God Was Born brilliantly explored the roots of faith. With America'...

Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser have joined together to tell the remarkable story of the noble cow in Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, a...

As globalisation wobbles into world crisis, a vividly written, brilliantly original history of world trade, the first for a generation: 'A Splendid...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Cathy (Cathy Crimmins) CrimminsNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 141 x 208 x 19Cover ty...

A global history of the world's most famous secret society, encompassing kings and presidents, writers and legislators, composers and entertainers,...

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Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L. Silber explores the Hail Mary effect, from its origins in ...

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of bi...

Reducere. DescriptionA dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and e...

Reducere. A gripping narrative of New Netherland a story of global sweep centered on a wilderness called Manhattan that transforms our understanding of early...

Reducere. It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial pow...

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Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Simon WinchesterNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 202 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedesco...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Anne RooneyIllustration(s): Hardback with jacketNumber of pages: 128Collection: The Story of Everythin...

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have ...

The epic story of the origin of calculus

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: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Nina M. (Inaugural fellow, Inaugural fellow, McKinsey Center for the Future of Work) YancyNumber o...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for...

Reducere. At a time when the dialogue concerning Black and White people in America is more crucial than ever, it is important to approach the conversation wi...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William L. WhiteThe product of more than 35 years of research, the Second Edition of Slaying the Dragon is the remarkable s...

Reducere. To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in histo...

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 ...

A dazzling new history of the modern world, as told through the remarkable story of population change.

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade--and its role in the making of America. Slave tr...

Reducere. Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Ar...

A comprehensive look at the life and continuing influence of 16th-century scientific genius and occultist Dr. John Dee - Presents an overview of De...

Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importanc...

Reducere. Scandal, Shock and Rivalry Can Be an Artist's Best Friends Scandal, shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catas...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Neil OliverNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 31Cover type: Paperback...

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Reducere. We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African c...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Neil (Author) OliverNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 42Cover type: ...

Reducere. DescriptionTHE YAKUB EXPERIMENT THE EXPLANATION OF RACISM. How can someone explain racism that is often demonic or otherwise unexplainable. The ans...

Reducere. "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age of dinosaurs to the ...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fe...

DescriptionThe Story of Trees takes the reader on a visual journey from some of the earliest known tree species on our planet to the latest fruit c...

DescriptionThrough the story of Tamara, an abused Native American girl, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan tells the story of the many children livi...

DescriptionA powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectualsThroughout mu...

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to...

"Empowers readers with a toolkit of traditional and sustainable practices for an emerging artisanal crafts movement, and a brighter future." --Alic...