An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from 1660 to the present.
The Teavangelicals is a one-of-a-kind book chock-full of original reporting from the 2012 presidential race with an up-close look at how evangelicals and the Tea Party are plotting strategy to reclaim America.
From the playing fields of Eton via the horrors of the Western Front to the pinnacle of political power in 20th-century Britain - a brilliant collective biography of Harold Macmillan, Lord Salisbury, Oliver Lyttleton and Harry Crookshank.
A gripping history of the Mediterranean campaigns from the first rumblings of conflict through the Second World War and into the uneasy peace of the late 1940s.
A gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler's most terrifying battleship - the legendary Tirpitz - and the brave men who risked their lives to attack and destroy this most potent symbol of the Nazi's fearsome war machine.
'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' ObserverIn February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.
The River Rhine and its delta in Holland, protecting Germany's vital industrial area of the Ruhr, helped dictate the course of events in three land campaigns of the Second World War.
The D-Day landings of June 6th 1944 did not bring immediate victory, that first foothold on French soil was won at enormous cost and for the next two months a fierce battle raged for control of the key town of Caen.
Como prolongación de los estudios binacionales que integran la serie Araucanía Norpatagonia, este volumen emerge a partir de la interpelación de la coyuntura provocada por las movilizaciones de octubre de 2019 en Chile, con el objetivo de ampliar las miradas sobre las construcciones sociales y simbólicas en una temporalidad más extensa.
Die Digitalisierung bedeutet für die Religionspädagogik Herausforderung und Chance zugleich: Lehr-Lernprozesse verändern sich inhaltlich wie methodisch.
El título que aquí se presenta, Perspectivas transversales: cultura, educación y género, incluido en la colección «Sociedad y Comunicación» de la Editorial Marcial Pons está conformado por un compendio de investigaciones originales y punteras, fruto del trabajo de académicos internacionales pertenecientes a las áreas de las Ciencias Sociales, Artes y Humanidades, al que sumar su plasmación en el mundo de la Docencia, ya que aplicar lo investigado supone la razón de ser de la Universidad, así como también lo es el instituir a futuros formadores en el ámbito de la Enseñanza Superior, erigida como fuente de la que emana la sempiterna arquitectura del saber.
'The one meditation tactic that will get you through the toughest times' Oprah DailyOvercome negative thoughts and develop a positive mindset this January with these meditation practices proven by neuroscientific research.
OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD in 20 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES WORLDWIDELEARN THE TECHNIQUES YOU NEED TO COMMUNICATE BETTER AT WORK AND HOME'Communication is a bit like love - it's what makes the world go round, but nobody really knows how it works.
The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare by a mind that has consistently and unhesitatingly engaged with its changing realities and often anticipated the way things have moved in the last decade.
The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman.
From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film.
The inspiring, uplifting true story of a group of London girls dispatched to a children's home in rural England during the Blitz, and meet the formidable nurse and Lady in Waiting who transformed their lives forever .
The shocking true story of the infected blood scandal: the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, which saw people infected with HIV by a revolutionary medical treatment and a cover-up from governments and the multi-billion-dollar plasma industry.
