Historia: teori & metod

From the author of ?Wartime? and ?The Thirties?comes an outstanding history of the most prolonged and devastating attack ever endured by Britain''s civilian population ? the Blitz.September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany''s sustained at...

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??A History of Jerusalem? should be read, not only by travellers and potential travellers in Jerusalem, but by all of us.? Stephen Tummin, Daily TelegraphJerusalem has probably cast more of a spell over the human imagination than any other city in...

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?A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter? New York Times?An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly?Sunday TimesFrom the creation of the first ency...

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'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' SpectatorFor the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has credited the autho...

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'' Fuel for the post-Christmas lunch argument '' Financial Times Death and taxes are our inevitable fate. We''ve been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it ca...

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Brought to you by Penguin. For generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. Their...

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Brought to you by Penguin. The year is 1735. Twelve unruly men board ships bound for South America. Their mission? To discover the true shape of the earth. They will be exposed to a wilderness of dangers none can imagine. The survivors won''t retu...

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Brought to you by Penguin.The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for ...

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, read by Fred Sanders. Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face today Democracies can die with a coup d''état - or they can die ...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them. Most of us don''t know it, but we are living in the world''s greatest era of civil wars. While violence ...

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A ';supremely entertaining' (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world's historyfrom Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burnsand how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can ...

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