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The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
**The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us?
“As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel,...
Portrait psychologique de Tolstoï
(de la naissance en 1828 à la mort en 1910)
Language: French
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Biographie de Léon Tolstoï par François Porché, historien, poète et dramaturge, auteur également de « Verlaine tel qu'il fut » et de « Baudelaire, histoire d'une âme » que nous avons tous deux déjà édité....
De zijderoutes
Een nieuwe wereldgeschiedenis
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The Times – ‘Veel boeken beweren “een nieuwe geschiedenis van de wereld” te zijn; dit boek heeft die benaming met recht.’
DWDD-boekentip maart 2016
De zijderoutes is een schitterende verkenning van de elementen die de stuwende kracht waren achter de opkomst en de ondergang van wereldrijken,...
Sapiens
een kleine geschiedenis van de mensheid
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Honderdduizend jaar geleden leefde de Homo sapiens nog een tamelijk onbekommerd bestaan in een uithoek van het Afrikaanse continent en deelde hij de planeet met ten minste vijf andere menssoorten. Maar op een zeker moment onderging het brein van deze mens een ingrijpende verandering: nu kon hij zich...
by SpeedReader Summaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
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The Creative Spark
How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth?
Creativity. It is the secret of what...
Summary & Study Guide - Homo Deus
A Brief History of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
What Does the Future Hold for Humans?
The must-read summary of ‘Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow’, by Yuval Noah Harari.
For most of history, humans were preoccupied with three problems: famine, plagues, and war. As we enter the 21st century, we realize these problems are no longer...
Summary & Study Guide - Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
How Humans Evolve from Insignificant Apes to Become the Rulers of the World
The must-read summary of “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” by Yuval Noah Harari.
In Sapiens, Professor Yuval Noah Harari focuses on the three great revolutions of human history: Cognitive, Agricultural,...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
*Includes maps of Genghis Khan's empire and pictures depicting Genghis and other important people and places in his life.*Discusses legends and controversies surrounding Genghis Khan's life, death and legacy.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. Conquering the world...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
*Includes extracts from Columbus's journal of his first voyage. *Includes Cortes's letter to King Charles V describing Tenochtitlan and the Aztec Empire.*Includes passages from Antonio Pigafetta, a member of Magellan's crew.*Includes descriptions of both the Aztec and Inca Empires.*Includes pictures...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
*Includes maps of each conqueror's empire and pictures depicting the conquerors and other important people and places.*Discusses legends and controversies surrounding the lives, deaths, and legacies of the conquerors. .*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. The most...
Famous Trials
Cases that made history
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
To amend Clausewitz on war, one might say that the trial in a courtroom is the pursuit of battle by other means. And, short of the horror on the battlefield, to be on trial is perhaps the most traumatic of all life experiences. Yet in the great trials of history much more than individual destinies...
Bible and Sword
England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century.
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Historically, the British were...
by theign and Commonwealth Office
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In the spring of 1917 the Foreign Office, in connexion with the preparation which they were making for the work of the Peace Conference, established a special section whose duty it should he to provide the British Delegates to the Peace Conference with information in the most convenient form—geographical,...