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War on Science
Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process
Av Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
145 kr
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An unparalleled group of prominent scholars from wide-ranging disciplines detail ongoing efforts to impose ideological restrictions on science and scholarship throughout western society.From assaults on merit-based hiring to the policing of language and replacing well-established, disciplinary …
Civilization
The West and the Rest
Häftad, 2018
165 kr
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Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. Yet, somehow, the West came to dominate the Rest for most of the next half …
House of Rothschild
Money's Prophets 1798-1848
Häftad, 1999
237 kr
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In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family's vast political network, which gave it …
The Ascent of Money
A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2009
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
225 kr
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The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency "[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis." — The Washington Post "Fascinating." —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic …
Kissinger
1923-1968: The Idealist
Häftad, 2016
221 kr
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'Riveting ... this will be his masterpiece' - Andrew Roberts, The New York Times'For big, bold and compelling, it is impossible to ignore Kissinger' - John Bew, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'This is a superb history of the modern world as well as a biography of Kissinger ... a tour de force' …
Square and the Tower
Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
Häftad, 2018
1,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
192 kr
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtMost history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares? Niall Ferguson, the international …
House of Rothschild
The World's Banker 1849-1998
Häftad, 2000
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
237 kr
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This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating families of modern times. With all the depth, clarity and drama with which he traced the Rothschild's …
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
Häftad, 2004
269 kr
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
266 kr
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Häftad, 2022
160 kr
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'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York TimesA compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)Disasters are …
Virtual History
Alternatives and Counterfactuals
Häftad, 2011
160 kr
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Edited by Niall Ferguson, Virtual History applies 'counterfactual' arguments to decisive moments in modern history.What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War?What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940?What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union?How would England look if there had …
Om historien : att lära av det förflutna
Av Erica Benner, John Bew m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
224 kr
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Historien, mänsklighetens samlade erfarenheter, lär oss om nuet och framtiden. Hur är det möjligt att titta på händelser i det förflutna och med hjälp av dem lösa samtidens politiska eller ekonomiska förhållanden och konflikter? Essäerna i denna antologi härrör från Engelsbergsseminariet 2019 där …
Om historien
Av Janne Haaland Matláry, Maurizio Viroli m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
139 kr
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Historien, mänsklighetens samlade erfarenheter, lär oss om nuet och framtiden. Hur är det möjligt att titta på händelser i det förflutna och med hjälp av dem lösa samtidens politiska eller ekonomiska förhållanden och konflikter?Essäerna i denna antologi härrör från Engelsbergsseminariet 2019 där …
Civilization
The West and the Rest
Ljudbok, 2011
158 kr
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Niall Ferguson''s provocative bestseller, Civilization: The West and the Rest, read brilliantly by the author himself. If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling …
Middle Parts of Fortune
Somme And Ancre, 1916
Av Frederic Manning, Niall Ferguson
E-bok, 2014
108 kr
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With an Introduction by Niall Ferguson'Kill the buggers! Kill the bloody fucking swine! Kill them!'Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the ranks, drawn into the universal struggle for survival in a …
Pity of War
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
210 kr
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The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why …
Pity of War
E-bok, 2012
125 kr
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The controversial revisionist history of World War I that made Niall Ferguson's nameThe First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. More than any other event, it made the twentieth century. In this boldly conceived book and provocative, aimed to appeal not only to students …
Cash Nexus
Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000
Häftad, 2002
192 kr
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Modern history shows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From 1700 to the present day, Niall Ferguson offers a bold and original analysis of the evolution of today's economic and political landscape. Far from being driven by …
War of the World
History's Age of Hatred
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
225 kr
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The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalized and wealthy. What turned it into a bloodbath?Niall Ferguson re-tells the story of history's most savage century as a continual war that raged for 100 years. From the plains of Poland to …
Colossus
The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
Häftad, 2009
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
160 kr
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Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, expanding westwards throughout the nineteenth …
High Financier
The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
Häftad, 2011
247 kr
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This is the extraordinary story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's preeminent international financial centre. In recounting how this brilliant, scholarly man brought wit, passion and, above all, high ethical standards to …
Ascent of Money
A Financial History of the World
Ljudbok, 2017
118 kr
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson, read by Gareth Armstrong. Behind each great historical phenomenon there lies a financial secret - Niall Ferguson uncovers the hidden stories behind history. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you like, it …
War of the World
Ljudbok, 2006
79 kr
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The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Niall Ferguson''s comprehensive The War of the World, read by Sean Barrett. The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological …
Ascent of Money
A Financial History of the World
E-bok, 2016
108 kr
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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history.From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that caused the French …
War of the World
History's Age of Hatred
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most …
Empire
How Britain Made the Modern World
Ljudbok, 2010
132 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? …
Great Degeneration
How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
E-bok, 2012
105 kr
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The latest work from Niall Ferguson, bestselling author of Empire, The Great Degneration is based on his 2012 BBC Reith Lectures 'The Rule of Law and Its Enemies'The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing …
Great Degeneration
How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
Häftad, 2014
137 kr
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The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that the institutions that were once the …
High Financier
The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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In this groundbreaking biography, based on more than 10,000 hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, Niall Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to tell the story of the extraordinary Siegmund Warburg.A refugee from Hitler's Germany, Warburg rose to become the dominant …
Cash Nexus
Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000
E-bok, 2013
147 kr
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The Cash Nexus is the controversial history of money's central place in the world, from Niall Ferguson, bestselling author of Empire and CivilizationGenerations of historians have shied away from the truth behind the cliche: money makes the world go around. International bestseller Niall Ferguson …
