Pestizide waren und sind ein zentrales gesellschaftliches Thema von ungebrochener Aktualität: Die (deutsche) Gesellschaft ist untrennbar mit den Schädlingsbekämpfungsmitteln verbunden und immer wieder erreicht ihre Nutzung politische und öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit.
This book investigates how a nation built on democratic principles systematically dismantled its own ethical frameworks when confronted with geopolitical urgency, examining the institutional mechanisms that allowed former Nazi scientists to be absorbed into the American state apparatus not despite their histories, but in many cases because of their specialized capabilities.
Memorials, Monuments, and Memories is a collection of personal essays and reflections spanning more than a decade of Memorial Days, Veterans Days, and moments of quiet civic remembrance.
America's bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americansand explains how it should shape our politics today.
Ta Prohm Temple: Beyond the Jungle Myth of AngkorImmortalized on the silver screen through Tomb Raider and the iconic presence of Lara Croft, Ta Prohm has become one of the most recognizable archaeological sites in the world.
Amidst the tumult of the Algerian War, "e;8th January 1961: Shifting Sands"e; delves into a pivotal moment in history when the fate of Algeria hung in the balance.
A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in AsiaA Telegraph Book of the Year 2025 'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle.
A SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLERA Waterstones Best Nature & Travel Writing Book 2025'Educational, smart and funny' Richard Osman'This book is superb' Charlie Brooker'Brilliant.
This story, based on real events, provides us with an image adjusted to a historical moment – the mid-twentieth century – in which the world, in general, and Europe in particular, were divided into two large ideological blocs, as a result of the end of the S.
FINANCIAL TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR and DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEARShortlisted for the 2012 DUKE OF WESTMINSTER MEDAL FOR MILITARY LITERATUREAt the end of 1917 Britain and France faced a strategic nightmare.
Jenkins sets about his task with infectious enthusiasm and draws out all the most important themes in America s 250-year history' The TimesIn the two hundred and fifty years since its foundation, the United States of America has grown to become the world s richest and most powerful union.
'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMESVera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers' rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery.
The most iconic planes of WWII, the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, DeHavilland Mosquito and the Avro Lancaster, were all powered by one engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin.
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy' Richard DawkinsIs modernity really failing?
On the evening of 30 March, 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a telephone call giving him the order to 'store for war'.
'THE SUN' EBOOK OF THE WEEKFrom the brilliant author of 'Black Boxes' comes a gritty and heartfelt novella with a twist: 99 Reasons, 11 endings, your pick.
Eleni Gage, a young journalist living in New York, leaves her Manhattan flat to return to the remote but beautiful Greek village of Lia in northern Greece and rebuild her ruined ancestral home.
'A readable and very informative history packed with a wealth of splendid detail' Joyce Tyldesley OBE, author of Tutankhamun'A brilliantly concise, but also entertaining, summary - in all its complexities - of an empire that spanned more than five centuries and three continents.
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingly her story and a deeply important testament for Ashkenazi Jews.
Der Sammelband eröffnet neue Perspektiven auf die städtische Historiographie der Vormoderne als einem klassischen wie aktuellen Gegenstand der Geschichtswissenschaften.
NATIONAL BESTELLER * Named a Best Book of Summer by TIME and Oprah Daily * A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2026From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Cuba: An American History comes a heartbreaking yet redemptive memoir about migration, separation, and the love of one family forcing its way through the fissures of history.
Essential reading Rory Sutherland, author of Alchemy Possibly the best-timed book ever Merryn Somerset Webb, Bloomberg Gold (noun): A precious, yellow metal, prized for its beauty.
BOOK 9 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Keith Burns, bringing the story to life in vivid detailWhy did the Allies attack on D-Day?
