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What Is the History of Emotions? offers an accessible path through the thicket of approaches, debates, and past and current trends in the history of emotions. Although historians have always talked about how people felt in the past, it is only in the ..

China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history ..

This narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs and shines a light on our perceptions of women in power today.

From homemade horsewhips to fancy carriage whips, braided leather straps have worked to move our country (and our livestock) forward. Author, in his new book, Whips of the West, An Illustrated History of American Whipmaking, shows how whipmaking and the in

Go beyond the glass and discover the secrets behind your favorite style of whiskey. Over the past three decades, Lew Bryson has been one of the most influential voices in whiskey–a longtime editor of Whisky Advocate and au

This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest ..

Kniha Who Killed Jane Stanford? vydaná v nakladatelství WW Norton & Co v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 384, ISBN-13: 9781324064428, zařazení do kategorie: Historie.

Huge advances in our ability to sequence ancient DNA have revolutionised what we know about the earliest human populations. David Reich explains the science, and tells the emerging story of our complex and often surprising ancestry – the extraordinar ..

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Essential' Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-Winner 2015'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant'A wake-up call to a country in denial' Observer

Kniha Why Politics Fails autora Ben Ansell vydaná v nakladatelství Penguin Books v roce 2024, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 320, ISBN-13: 9780241992753, zařazení do kategorie: Všeobecné a světové dějiny.

In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the West's rise to power, and computers and nuclear weap ..

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a