Sansibar boomt als Urlaubsdestination, seit die Insel 2020 für coronafrei erklärt wurde und damit Tausende TouristInnen anlockte, die Infrastruktur und Leben der Einheimischen auf den Kopf stellten.
The Age of Discovery transformed global geography, trade networks, and power relations through systematic maritime exploration driven by commercial ambition, technological innovation, and imperial competition.
Magia Bianca: La fantastica capacità di comprendere, percepire e utilizzare consapevolmente le forze energetiche onnipresenti"C'è più tra cielo e terra di quanto la scienza possa spiegare.
Witte magie: Het fantastische vermogen om alomtegenwoordige energetische krachten te begrijpen, waar te nemen en doelgericht te gebruiken"Er is meer tussen hemel en aarde dan de natuurwetenschap kan verklaren.
European arrival in the Americas initiated catastrophic demographic collapse, violent conquest, and the establishment of colonial systems that fundamentally reshaped three continents.
Contemporary armed conflicts differ from twentieth-century wars in their participants, motivations, and consequences, yet they emerge from similar patterns of state fragility, resource competition, and unresolved historical grievances.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt von Richard Wagners Oper Der Fliegende Holländer – einem Meisterwerk, das nicht nur musikalisch, sondern auch als Zeitdokument von unschätzbarem Wert ist.
Este libro examina las relaciones bilaterales entre España y Estados Unidos durante tres décadas cruciales (1936-1964), revelando cómo el régimen de Franco se apoyó en una estrategia de política exterior que, en plena Guerra Fría, encontró aliados estratégicos en diversos sectores estadounidenses.
From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire comes the story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA Station Chief William Buckley and the bloody beginning of the CIA's endless war against Islamic radicalism.
A 'compelling, arresting' (New Scientist) behind-the-scenes tour through the world's greatest natural history museums, revealing their hidden secrets Zoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in Britain's natural history museums, and in Nature's Memory he guides us through a series of extraordinary collections, from marvellous mounted whale skeletons and impossibly tiny insect cabinets to buried treasures in vast museum storehouses.
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Based on a real-life seventeenth century Danish witch trial, The Wax Child tells in vivid prose the story of Christenze Kruckow, a noblewoman long pursued by a scandal of sorcery.
A gripping, vividly told journey into a family's wartime past, from the bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches Endearingly personal, honest and reflective invites you to rethink where memory ends and history begins Dominic Sandbrook, The Times, Books of the Year 'As I finished his book, I began to see my own family s past through his glass mountain' Ian Ellison, Literary Review Malcolm Gaskill knew two things about his great-uncle Ralph s wartime adventures: he d been a prisoner in Italy, and he d cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork.
From the relentless media scrutiny and controversies of their 2022 Caribbean Tour to the shock cancer diagnoses of both the Princess of Wales and the King, this captivating biography by acclaimed royal expert Russell Myers intimately traces the story of William and Catherine s relationship from their earliest meeting at St Andrews University to the present day.
Bracing and essential, a radical reframing of British Romanticism through the lens of Black experience for fans of David Olusoga, Gretchen Gerzina, Saidiya Hartman and Emma Dabiri A masterpiece about how history is made, written with power and ferocity Boston GlobeWordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats the Romantic poets are titans of English literature, taught and celebrated around the world.
** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **All We Say is the story of the United States through fifteen speeches some iconic, others long forgotten, all pivotal from its founding to the intense divisions of our times, from one of President Obama's former speechwriters.
An epic journey of adventure, endurance, and the search for home In The Odyssey, Homer crafts one of the oldest and most influential adventure stories in Western literature.
An electrifying narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, from the bestselling author of The Popes and Sicily: A Short HistoryThe Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents.
Richly-layered and packed with insight, this riveting account of terrible events tells us as much about the present as it does the past Patrick Bishop, author of Paris '44From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried - and failed - to wipe off the mapThe siege of Saint Petersburg then known as Leningrad stands as a testament to human endurance.
Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188.
One of the last major untold stories of the war, this is the first-hand account of a conscientious objector born into a famous artistic family who, after the death of his brother on active service, decides to fight the Nazis and joins SOE.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom New York Times Bestselling author Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of America and the reasons behind its current social and economic crisisIn Adrift, Scott Galloway looks from the past to the present - from 1945 to the 2020s - to reveal how America has reached its current state of political, social and economic crisis.
'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.
On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people.
Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188.
