Dieses Buch untersucht die unsichtbaren Kerker des post-9/11-Krieges, wo CIA-Entführungen und Geheimhaft Leid erzeugten – ein Netz aus Rendition und Black Sites, das Recht umging und globale Partnerschaften in Schatten tauchte, während öffentliche Empörung Fassaden der Zivilisation sprengte.
High in the freezing altitudes of the Peruvian Andes, archaeologists discovered a 500-year-old Inca girl so perfectly preserved that she still had blood in her heart.
Dieses Buch untersucht, wie Klima, Krieg und Ungleichheit nicht als isolierte Katastrophen wirken, sondern als ineinandergreifende Kräfte, die Gesellschaften von innen aushöhlen – lange bevor der eigentliche Zusammenbruch einsetzt.
How does a crew of elderly, retired criminals-some in their late 70s with diabetes and knee replacements-manage to execute the most sophisticated, physically demanding, and lucrative safe deposit burglary in British legal history?
Three distinct civilizations-China, India, and Japan-developed sophisticated imperial systems that governed vast populations, generated enduring cultural traditions, and created administrative innovations that shaped Asian history for millennia.
Dieses Buch verschiebt den Blick vom westlichen Bild des "verlorenen Krieges" auf die Erinnerung derjenigen, die ihn faktisch gewonnen haben: die vietnamesische Seite, die den Konflikt als nationalen Befreiungskrieg und moralischen Sieg liest.
Every great financial collapse in modern history carries, buried somewhere in its wreckage, the same evidence: a policy decision made too late, held too long, or calibrated for a world that no longer existed.
This book pulls aside the bright narrative of progress to reveal the dark underbelly of the Industrial Revolution: a world where steam engines and spinning mules were powered by exhausted children, poisoned air, and the grinding labour of an urban working class that paid the price for luxury it never touched.
When Napoleon Bonaparte declared that his greatest achievement was not his military campaigns but the Civil Code of 1804, he was making a claim that history has largely vindicated.
In the summer of 1787, while delegates in Philadelphia debated the architecture of a new republic, a quieter act of nation-building unfolded in the halls of a dying Congress.
Bordered by Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and situated at a crossroads on an ancient East-West trading route, Georgia's rich and diverse history is nowhere more evident than through its cuisine and legendary hospitality.
Long before American settlers carved farms from the Ohio Valley's forests, the land had already absorbed centuries of movement, alliance, and survival.
'A historically insightful read'Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It's A ContinentWe need to think differently about African economics.
'Top-notch'Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee'A well researched study injected with humour and humanity' Mail on Sunday*Featured on The Happiness Lab with Dr Laurie Santos*After a decade of living in Denmark and raising a family there, Helen Russell noticed that Nordic children are different.
'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew MarrA unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains.
PRE-ORDER THIS THRILLING ADVENTURE OF A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL IN A LOST ARABIAN CITY, FROM FORMER GREEN BERET ALEX DEKKER An explosive adventure with the grit and authenticity that only a seasoned operator can deliver JACK CARR, bestselling author of The Terminal List'Heart-pounding' - DAVID MCCLOSKEY'Dekker is the real deal' - GREGG HURWITZ'Starts like a rocket and never lets up' - BRAD TAYLOR'To all of you who read me, Dan Brown, James Rollins and Daniel Silva, this is THE book for you.
PRE-ORDER the enthralling history of the iconic, world class Jumbo Jet, from former 747 pilot Scott BatemanNothing like Boeing's 747 had ever been seen before.
PRE-ORDER THE ACTION-PACKED STORY OF THE WWII GROUP THAT BECAME OUR SAS, FROM ONE OF THE UK'S MOST STORIED SPECIAL FORCES OPERATORS History at its gripping, fascinating finest THE DAILY EXPRESS'A must read for any military enthusiast' JASON FOX Brilliant Stuff.
Ausgabe 1/26 der Spiegelungen Archive in Serbien begibt sich auf die Suche nach den vielfältigen Spuren deutscher und österreichischer Geschichte, die heute in Archiven, Bibliotheken und weiteren Institutionen der Republik Serbien bewahrt werden.
Pre-order this global history of high speed rail, from the railways' "e;wisest, most detailed historian"e; (The Observer)'The greatest expert on British trains' GUARDIAN'The high priest of railway studies' LITERARY REVIEW'Our most eminent transport journalist' SPECTATOR'If you love the hum of the wheels and of history, then Christian Wolmar is your man' OBSERVERSleek, comfortable, accessible, and sustainable, high-speed rail is the future.
During the colonization of Africa, European colonists set about creating game reserves in Africa, convinced that they would find in Africa a nature that no longer existed in Europe.
Venezuela zählt zu den rohstoffreichsten Ländern der Welt – und zugleich zu den schwersten politischen und wirtschaftlichen Krisenfällen der Gegenwart.
This work provides a welcome antidote to some of the distortions and biases which the two dominant schools of Anglo-American philosophical thinking, logical positivism and ordinary language analysis have introduced into the philosophy of history in the past three or four decades.
Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social institution.
The strife that has been raging in Ulster for centuries has left many observers wondering whether there is any solution to this complex and emotion-charged problem.
The author considers the Morgantina terracottas as representatives of one of the liveliest traditions of the Greek minor arts, and thus he examines questions of stylistic development and influence, workshop traditions, and technique.
The Progressive Era and the Rise of American Power explores a transformative period when the United States confronted the challenges of industrialization, political corruption, social inequality, and global ambition.
This examination of the relationship of the economy to political process in the United States from 1877 to 1916 shows how the railroad industry encouraged and relied on national politics to solve its economic problems, and created a precedent for government regulation of the economy in the twentieth century.
From the caveman selecting the right stick to the Babylonian priest who predicted an eclipse and claimed credit for it, the weaponization of knowledge is as old as human civilization.
