World History category: 14642 books
Hybrid Warfare
Fighting Complex Opponents from the Ancient World to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Hybrid warfare has been an integral part of the historical landscape since the ancient world, but only recently have analysts - incorrectly - categorised these conflicts as unique. Great powers throughout history have confronted opponents who used a combination of regular and irregular forces to negate...
Origins
How Earth's History Shaped Human History
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species
When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes...
Povijest svake zemlje oko svijeta u bosanskom
History of Each Country around the World in Bosnian
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
Povijest svake zemlje Around The World na golu bosanskom je da ispunite svoj um s jednostavnim istorijskim znanje sa ovom eBook . U eBook je jednostavan za korištenje , osvježavajuće i garantuje da će biti uzbudljivo ! Možete pročitati ovaj e-knjiga , bez ikakvog prethodnog znanja o događajima...
by Kevin Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The Worst World Disasters of All Time is an overview of the most terrible disaster events in recorded history.Caution: Because of the nature of this book, some readers may find some of the content and pictures disturbing.
Hurricane Watch
Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
The ultimate guide to the ultimate storms, Hurricane Watch is a fascinating blend of science and history from one of the world's foremost meteorologists and an award-winning science journalist. This in-depth look at these awe-inspiring acts of nature covers everything from the earliest efforts by...
Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene
Perspectives on Asia and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
For the populations of the developing economies – the vast majority of humanity – the present century offers the prospect of emulating Western standards of living. This hope is combined with increasing awareness of the environmental consequences of the very process of global industrialisation...
Uncorking the Past
The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority...
The Global Lives of Things
The Material Culture of Connections in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which ‘things’, ranging from commodities to works of art and precious materials, participated in the shaping of global connections in the period 1400-1800. By focusing on the material exchange between Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia, this...
Mirrors
Stories of Almost Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism.”
Mirrors, Galeano's most ambitious...
by Patrick Moore
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Patrick Moore is Britain's most respected and best-loved astronomer. In Countdown! he examines the multifarious theories of how and when the world will end, from St Augustine to the Millennium Bug, via Nostradamus. With a healthy dose of irreverent humour, he investigates and dismisses the weird and...
1759
The Year Britain Became Master of the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
This “splendidly narrated” chronicle of the British Empire’s ascent during the French and Indian War “will enthrall all lovers of history told well” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
If not for the events of 1759, the history of the modern world would have been drastically different....
by Sharron Gu
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual performance, the arts and architecture. The thousands-of-years-old language is perhaps more highly developed and refined than any other on earth. This book focuses on what is unique about...
Germany and the Second World War
Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of individuals in Germany - soldiers at the front, women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave labourers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated...
Merchant, Soldier, Sage
A New History of Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
A bold new interpretation of modern history as a struggle between three economic groups
We are now living in an age of merchants, but it was not always so. The history of civilization, in large part, is a story of a battle between agrarian aristocracy, the military, and a class of learned experts,...