Warum besuchen Millionen Menschen Volksfeste, was begeistert Millionen Besucher an Freizeitparks und was fasziniert Millionen Spieler an den Simulationen dieser Vergnügungswelten in Computerspielen?
The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and A GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK FOR APRIL 2024 **'So entertaining' THE TIMES'Cracking' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHThe atomic bombs of 1945 changed everything.
Durante las últimas décadas siglo XVIII, período de crecimiento demográfico general en que los Borbones redirigieron su atenta mirada a los procesos cada vez más visibles de forasterización de la población indígena y mestizaje, y reimpulsaron políticas tendientes a disciplinar al conjunto de la población y a incrementar la recaudación fiscal, los pueblos de indios de Córdoba se vieron tensionados por dos tendencias: una de migración de personas y familias que colaboró en la disgregación de algunos de ellos, y otra de incorporación de foráneos que sostuvo la reproducción social y el crecimiento demográfico de otros.
¿Cómo es que Neuquén, una pequeña provincia de la norpatagonia argentina, se convirtió en el paradigma de la resistencia al neoliberalismo durante la década de los '90?
El Barroco es un período que ha generado posiciones encontradas a lo largo de la historia y permite enhebrar una serie de debates cruciales en la literatura, el arte y el pensamiento.
The story of a Scottish city as seen by its residents and visitors: "e;It's a fine treasure-house-and even Glaswegians may learn something new from it.
Between May 1940 and the summer of 1941 the British people expected a German invasion that, had it succeeded, would have enslaved them into the Nazis' racist war.
Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor prize for literary nonfiction';A riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution.
A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter.
This is the first book to not only select the events that most influenced the causes and outcome of Americas Civil War, but also to rank them in order of significance.
The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence.
Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherishedand the treasures they've housed have evolved from early stone tablets to the mass-produced, bound paper books of our present day.
The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books.
In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, a sweeping history of food and culture that summons everyone to the table for a fresh look at the people, ingredients, events, and movements that have shaped how and what we eat in the United StatesThis exploration of the American table presents a fresh look at what and how we've fed ourselves, for sustenance and for pleasure, through the lens of location, immigration, ingenuity, innovation, and culture.
"Ich hielt das Leben meines Vaters für das allerunspektakulärste", sagt Tarek Leitner – keine Heldentaten, keine menschlichen Abgründe, keine tragischen Schicksalsschläge.
Las relaciones sexuales humanas involucran necesariamente la interconexión sincronizada de varios elementos: nervios, músculos, hormonas específicas, señales electroquímicas, etc.
The globalization of schooling has become a lively focus for research in the field of international education; however, few scholars have looked at specific model ';global' schools.
A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of makingConcise but comprehensive, Ceramic Art brings together the voices of art historians, conservators, and artists to tell the history of making art from fired clay.
In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do: "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets).
A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine's religious, ethical, and political thoughtAugustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context.
