'Bracingly apocalyptic stuff: atmospheric, chock-full of information and with a constantly escalating sense of pace and tension' Sunday TelegraphSimon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world.
How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species.
A través del análisis de la historia de vida de Cristóbal Acevedo Martínez, hijo de Aurelio Acevedo Robles —un importante personaje implicado en la guerra cristera—, la autora presenta algunas de las experiencias y consecuencias de la Cristiada, un hecho que aún vive en la memoria colectiva e individual de sus sobrevivientes y descendientes, con implicaciones en la dimensión cultural.
Des Kaisers Platz an der Sonne: die Kolonie Deutsch SamoaDie deutschen Kolonien (offiziell Schutzgebiete genannt) wurden vom Deutschen Reich ab den 1880er Jahren erworben und es bestand aus den überseeischen Kolonien, Dependenzen und Territorien des Deutschen Reiches.
A sweeping history of the British village, both rural and urban, which makes a compelling case for why we need to protect our local communities, from bestselling author Simon JenkinsWe are a nation of villages, from the rural, picturesque hamlets of Castle Combe and Clovelly, to the tight-knit urban communities of Leeds terraces and Cricklewood s backyards.
Discover the story of Britain as you've never seen it before through the extraordinary archive of Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey has been the home of British mapmaking since 1745, when a twenty-one-year old engineer was first tasked with a small-scale military survey of Scotland.
