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ORIGINS - HOW THE EARTH SHAPED HUMAN HISTORY
Lewis Dartnell
- Vintage uk
- 6 February 2020
- 9781784705435
The Sunday Times bestseller that take us back in time to reveal how the earth made us 'Origins by Lewis Dartnell stands comparison with Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens...
A thrilling piece of Big History' James McConnachie, Sunday Times 'A sweeping, brilliant overview of the history not only of our species but of the world' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us?
As a species we are shaped by our environment. Geological forces drove our evolution in East Africa; mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece; and today voting behaviour in the United States follows the bed of an ancient sea. The human story is the story of these forces, from plate tectonics and climate change, to atmospheric circulation and ocean currents.
How are the Himalayas linked to the orbit of the Earth, and to the formation of the British Isles? By taking us billions of years into our planet's past, Professor Lewis Dartnell tells us the ultimate origin story. When we reach the point where history becomes science we see a vast web of connections that underwrites our modern world and helps us face the challenges of the future.
From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, Origins reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilizations.
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SAY NOTHING:TRUE STORY OF MURDER AND MEMORY IN NORTHERN IRELAND (EN ANGLAIS)
RADDEN KEEFE PATRICK
- William collins
- 24 January 2020
- 9780008159269
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ''Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people ... Larson tells the story of how that feat was accomplished ... Fresh, fast and deeply moving.'' New York Times A STARTLING, GRIPPING PORTRAIT OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE ALIVE IN BRITAIN DURING THE BLITZ, AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE AROUND CHURCHILL. On Winston Churchill''s first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, the Nazis would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons and destroying two million homes. In The Splendid and the Vile , Erik Larson gives a new and brilliantly cinematic account of how Britain''s most iconic leader set about unifying the nation at its most vulnerable moment, and teaching ''the art of being fearless.'' Drawing on once-secret intelligence reports and diaries, #1 bestselling author Larson takes readers from the shelled streets of London to Churchill''s own chambers, giving a vivid vision of true leadership, when - in the face of unrelenting horror - a leader of eloquence, strategic brilliance and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.
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THIS SOVEREIGN ISLE : BRITAIN IN AND OUT OF EUROPE (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)(28/01/21)
TOMBS ROBERT
- Penguin
- 18 January 2021
- 9780241480380
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JAKARTA: HISTORY OF A MISUNDERSTOOD CITY (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
VAN DER LINDE HERALD
- Marshall cavendish
- 26 February 2021
- 9789814893480
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A brand new book from the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening Standard Revised and updated edition The New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the ancient trade routes today. The world is changing dramatically and in an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the western world stand in sharp contrast to events along the Silk Roads, where ties are being strengthened and mutual cooperation established.
This prescient contemporary history provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. Following the Silk Roads eastwards from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, Peter Frankopan assesses the global reverberations of continual shifts in the centre of power - all too often absent from headlines in the west.
The New Silk Roads asks us to re-examine who we are and where we stand in the world, illuminating the themes on which all our lives and livelihoods depend.
The Silk Roads , a major reassessment of world history, has sold over 1 million copies worldwide.
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The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east
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Faces and places ; Northern Ireland, 1975-2020
Bernard Lesaing
- Editions de juillet
- 20 November 2020
- 9782365100854
Plus de vingt ans après les accords de paix de 1998 qui mirent fin à la période des « Troubles », et alors que la mise en oeuvre du Brexit remet l'Irlande du Nord sur le devant de la scène, cet ouvrage bilingue en trois parties pose un regard nouveau sur l'histoire récente de ce territoire vulnérable.
Il juxtapose des scènes de vie quotidienne prises dans les années 1970, au coeur du conflit, à celles de l'Irlande du Nord d'aujourd'hui, que côtoie une série d'une vingtaine de portraits.
Bernard Lesaing, photographe-reporter, a pris le temps de se lier aux habitants et d'expérimenter la vie locale.
Il nous invite dans ce livre à le suivre sur le chemin de la réconciliation en suivant le fil narratif du noir et blanc. Des textes d'universitaires et des témoignages d'habitants apportent un éclairage complémentaire. Ce projet collaboratif contribue à faire émerger une nouvelle représentation de l'Irlande du Nord, à révéler la vitalité de ses habitants, la pluralité de leurs expériences et la persistance de l'espoir face à l'adversité.
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GREEK MYTHS (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
TURNBULL ANN (ILLUSTRATED BY SARAH YOUNG)
- Walker books
- 13 February 2020
- 9781406339383
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WINDS OF CHANGE : BRITAIN IN THE EARLY SIXTIES (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
HENNESSY PETER
- Penguin
- 20 September 2020
- 9780141036052
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BUDDHISM : ORIGINS, TRADITIONS AND CONTEMPORARY LIFE (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
IGUNMA JANA
- British library
- 12 September 2020
- 9780712352390
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SCOTTISH HISTORY (COLLINS LITTLE BOOKS)(LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
COLLECTIF
- Collins
- 20 February 2020
- 9780008251109
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SECOND WORLD WAR: THE HISTORY OF THE GLOBAL CONFLICT FROM 39 TO 45
COLLECTIF
- Collins
- 6 September 2020
- 9780007973354
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Democracy in america: and two essays on america
Tocqueville Alexis D
- Adult pbs
- 7 December 2006
- 9780140447606
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SPLENDID AND THE VILE, THE (RELIE) (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
LARSON ERIK
- William collins
- 12 March 2020
- 9780008274948
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In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won? From the history of the city to the attack itself, conveyed in a minute-by-minute account from the first of the flares to the flames reaching almost a mile high - the wind so searingly hot that the lungs of those in its path were instantly scorched - through the eerie period of reconstruction, here bestselling author Sinclair McKay creates a vast canvas and brings it alive with telling human detail. Along the way we encounter, for example, a Jewish woman who thought the English bombs had been sent from heaven, novelist Kurt Vonnegut who wrote that the smouldering landscape was like walking on the surface of the moon, and 15-year-old Winfried Bielb, who, having spent the evening ushering refugees, wanted to get home to his stamp collection. He was not to know that there was not enough time. Impeccably researched and deeply moving, McKay uses never-before-seen sources to relate the untold stories of civilians and vividly conveys the texture of life in a decimated city. Dresden is invoked as a byword for the illimitable cruelties of war, but with the ever-lengthening distance of time, it is now possible to approach this subject with a much clearer gaze, less occluded with the weight of prejudice in either direction, and with a keener interest in the sorts of lives that ordinary people lived and lost, or tried to rebuild. From general and individual morality in war to the raw, primal instinct for survival, through the seemingly unstoppable gravity of mass destruction and the manipulation of memory, this is a master historian at work. 'Extraordinary . . . a remarkably faithful account' Guardian on The Secret Life of Bletchley Park 'Painstakingly researched and fascinating' John Harding, Daily Mail on The Secret Listeners 'Lucid, well-researched and rich in detail' John Preston, Daily Mail on The Spies of Winter 'Fascinating, riveting, unsettling, and wonderfully rich in period detail' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday on Mile End Murder
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IRISH HISTORY (COLLINS LITTLE BOOKS)(PEOPLE PLACES AND EVENTS)(LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
HEGARTY NEIL
- Collins
- 13 March 2020
- 9780008340131
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WRITTEN IN HISTORY - LETTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Simon Sebag-Montefiore
- Weidenfeld and nicolson
- 17 October 2019
- 9781474609197
WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling; some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse and frankly outrageous; many are erotic, others heartbreaking. The writers vary from Elizabeth I, Rameses the Great and Leonard Cohen to Emmeline Pankhurst, Mandela, Stalin, Michelangelo, Suleiman the Magnificent and unknown people in extraordinary circumstances - from love letters to calls for liberation, declarations of war to reflections on death. In the colourful, accessible style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these letters are essential reading: how they enlighten our past, enrich the way we live now - and illuminate tomorrow.
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THE VOLUNTEER - THE TRUE STORY OF THE RESISTANCE HERO WHO INFILTRATED AUSCHWITZ
Jack Fairweather
- Wh allen
- 23 January 2020
- 9780753545188
Totally gripping ... fascinating, revelatory and surreal -- Simon Sebag Montefiore How do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror?
This is untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War.
In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich.
His mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. The name of the detention centre -- Auschwitz.
It was only after arriving at the camp that he started to discover the Nazi's terrifying designs. Over the next two and half years, Witold forged an underground army that smuggled evidence of Nazi atrocities out of Auschwitz. His reports from the camp were to shape the Allies response to the Holocaust - yet his story was all but forgotten for decades.
This is the first major account of his amazing journey, drawing on exclusive family papers and recently declassified files as well as unpublished accounts from the camp's fighters to show how he saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
The result is a enthralling story of resistance and heroism against the most horrific circumstances, and one man's attempt to change the course of history.
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ASCENT OF MONEY: A FINANCIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
FERGUSON NIAL
- Penguin
- 3 January 2020
- 9780141990262
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