How the world made the west

How the World Made the West

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How the World Is Made

Explores how ancient people who grasped the timeless principles of sacred geometry were able to create flourishing societies. This title features more

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How The West Was Lost

We think we know what's coming. But is it already too late? This title explores how the 'first world' has its wasted inheritance with flawed economic

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How Europe Made the Modern World

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God Made the World

Helping children piece together how God made the world, this bright book is part of the 'God made' series of books that blends science and faith in a

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The West: A New History of an Old Idea - Mac Sweeney Naoise

Anotace: *A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*`A fantastic achievement` Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads`Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent` Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb_________________A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our hist...

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Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World - Harari Yuval Noah

Anotace: *From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* We humans aren`t strong like lions, we don`t swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don`t have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you`ll ever hear. And it`s a true story ...

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The Right Side of History : How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, 1. vydání - Ben Shapiro

<p>Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away? In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California-Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech. What was so frightening about Shapiro? He came to argue that Western civi...

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Belonging and Betrayal – How Jews Made the Art World Modern

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The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Pros (0141976217)

Kniha - 704 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná

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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the

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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the

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How the Just So Stories Were Made

A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard KiplingÂ’s world-famous childrenÂ’s classic

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The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are (0241963834)

Kniha - autor Michael Pye, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Bestselling historian Michael Pye tells how the North Sea transformed Northern Europe from a barbaric outpost to the centre of everything, building the world as we know it. Brimming with rollicking adventures, vivid characters and witty observations. Now in paperback.

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How Emotions Are Made

Emotions aren’t hardwired into you – you create them. A world-leading neuroscientist argues that understanding the origin and nature of emotions has

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (0393343405)

Kniha - autor Stephen Greenblatt, 356 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.

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How To Watch Football: 62 rules for understanding the beautiful game, on and off the pitch - neuveden

Anotace: `I love Tifo` Ian Wright `Tifo are great` Alan Shearer`Tifo have changed the game when it comes to football analysis` Elis JamesRULE #1: DON`T WATCH THE BALLYes, football is about stars, goals and glory. But it`s also about the intense calculations and movements being made by the twenty-one other players on the pitch. It`s about the ticking clock, and the bellow...

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World Philosophy Made

How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new conc

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How the Army Made Britain a Global Power

An examination of the British Army during the long 18th century, how it became a world-operating force and its part in imperial expansion and preserva

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World of the Crusades

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders

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World of the Crusades

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders

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How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (1783782307)

Kniha - autor Julian Baggini, 432 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or le...

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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West (0007578814)

Kniha - autor Catherine Belton, 640 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020 A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2020 'The Putin book that we've been waiting for' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland 'Books about modern Russia abound ... Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is ...

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The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins (0241989051)

Kniha - autor Tom Higham, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of...

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Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700–c.1500

How did elites gain and retain power and resources in the medieval Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic world? This set of parallel studies offers re

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Kicking Off Around The World

55 unbelievable stories of how football made history

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Book that Made Your World

Indian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his own study of the Bible and systematically illustrates how its pre

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World of the Happy Pear

With their energy, imagination and delight in sharing their vision the authors have made vegetables sexy. In this cookbook, they share how the Happy P

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Pathogenesis: How germs made history - Kennedy Jonathan

Anotace: A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR`Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy` Sunday Times, Book of the Week`Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman` The Times`Full of amazing facts` Observer`The book shines when it brings cutting-edge science to bear` Fi...

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Pathogenesis: How germs made history - Jonathan Kennedy

<p>A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman' The Times'Full of amazing facts' Observer'The book shines when it brings cutting-edge science to bear' Fin...

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Putin´s People : How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West, 1. vydání - Catherine Belton

<p>A chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB’s renaissance, Putin’s rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world.</p> <p>In Putin’s People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new leag...

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Exit West

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017Finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2018THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERGUARDIAN TOP 10 BESTSELLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER'Mixing the real and the surreal, using old fairy-tale magic... Compelling, crystalline, unnervingly dystopian' Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAn extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling,...

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Connecting with the Fairies Made Easy

Fairies are nature spirits and the guardian angels of the natural world. Learn where to find fairies and how to communicate with them; spells, meditat

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China's Revolutions in the Modern World

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world.

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Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World - Harari Yuval Noah

Anotace: *From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* We humans aren`t strong like lions, we don`t swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don`t have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you`ll ever hear. And it`s a true story ...

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Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World, 1. vydání - Yuval Noah Harari

<p>*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you'll ever hear. And it's a true story ....

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Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World, 1. vydání - Yuval Noah Harari

<p>*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you'll ever hear. And it's a true story ....

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The Secret World : A History of Intelligence - Andrew Christopher

Anotace: The history of espionage is far older than any of today`s intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of espionage in world literature is in the Book of Exodus.`God sent out spies into the land of Canaan`. From there, Christopher Andrew traces the shift in the ancient world from divination ...

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Art of War

Niccolo Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in history and said to have influenced no lesser lights than Frederick the Great and Napoleon, Art of War is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the history and theory of war in the West. Christopher Lynch's fluid tran...

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Bourgeois Dignity

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, an...

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The Silk Roads: The Extraordinary History that created your World – Illustrated Edition - Peter Frankopan

<p>Set your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world. Peter Frankopan, number one bestselling author and historian explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the east married the west with a remarkable voyage at its heart – the journey along t...

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Chip War : The Fight for the World´s Most Critical Technology, 1. vydání - Chris Miller

<p>Chip War reveals how we can't make sense of politics, economics or technology today without first understanding the central role played by computer chips in shaping the modern world. But the West's lead in this area is under threat. At stake is America's military superiority and the economic prosperity of democratic nations. Power in the modern world - military,...

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History of the World in 100 Animals

A powerful and fascinating insight into the 100 animals - from the blue whale to the mosquito - that have had the biggest influence on humanity through the ages. We are not alone. We are not alone on the planet.We are not alone in the countryside. We are not alone in cities. We are not alone in our homes.We are humans and we love the idea of our uniqueness. But the fact i...

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Buffalo Bill's Wild West

This is the story of Buffalo Bill, the Wild West and how more than a century before `The Only Way is Essex' the county flocked to see the world's firs

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The Thief of Farrowfell

Anotace: Welcome to a fantasy world where edible magic is the hottest commodity, traded between those who can pay or - in the case of Jude Ripon, the youngest thief in Farrowfell - those who can steal it! An epic debut series from a FAB Prize winner.Twelve-year-old Jude Ripon has never been taken seriously by her family of magic-stealing masterminds. To them, she`s just ...

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The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet (1786498294)

Kniha - autor Jimmy Soni, 304 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Perfect for readers of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance and Zero to One by Peter Theil Out of PayPal's ranks have come household names like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Reid Hoffman. Since leaving Paypal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading companies of our era, including Tesla...

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Alibaba´s World - How a remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the face of Global Business - Porter Erisman

<p>In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Westerners had never heard of held the largest IPO in history - bigger than Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. Alibaba, now the world's largest e-commerce company, mostly escaped Western notice for over ten years, while building a customer base larger than Amazon's, and handling the bulk of e-commerce transaction...

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Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith - Beardová Mary

Anotace: `The reigning Queen of Classics` SpectatorWhat are civilisations?At the heart of this big question is how people have depicted the human and divine, from prehistory to the present day. Britain`s most famous classicist Mary Beard asks: how have we portrayed ourselves in some of the world`s earliest art? Why have these images sometimes been so contentious?In time ...

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How the World Really Works : A Scientist´s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future - Václav Smil

<p>We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works o...

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Kay Nielsen: East of the Sun and West of the Moon (abridged edition) - Daniel C. Noel

<p>This abridged edition of East of the Sun and West of the Moon revives a classic collection of 10 Norse folktales illustrated by the beloved Danish artist Kay Nielsen, one of the most famous children’s book illustrators of all time. Based on a precious first edition and including 11 of his extremely rare watercolor originals, the book features an all-new design re...

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How To Watch Football: 62 rules for understanding the beautiful game, on and off the pitch

<p>'I love Tifo' Ian Wright 'Tifo are great' Alan Shearer'Tifo have changed the game when it comes to football analysis' Elis JamesRULE #1: DON'T WATCH THE BALLYes, football is about stars, goals and glory. But it's also about the intense calculations and movements being made by the twenty-one other players on the pitch. It's about the ticking clock, and the bellowi...

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Expected Goals: The story of how data conquered football and changed the game forever - Rory Smith

<p>Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022 Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it's not the algorithms or new metric...

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The Truth

Neil Strauss became famous to millions around the world as the author of The Game, a funny and slyly instructive account of how he transformed himself from a scrawny, insecure nerd into the ultra-confident, ultra-successful 'pickup artist' known as Style. The book jump-started the international 'seduction community,' and made Strauss a household Name - revered or notoriou...

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Brooklyn Crime Novel - Lethem Jonathan

Anotace: 1978 and two14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who`s just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a daylight sidewalk shooting in 1979. At another time, a couple of blocks over, a kid gets caught trying to shoplift an adult magazine from a Puerto Rican hole-in-the-wa...

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A History of the World in 100 Objects (0241951771)

Kniha - autor Neil MacGregor, 614 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A paperback reader's edition of this original and very successful history of humanity. The book's range is enormous, with each chapter immersing the reader in a past civilisation, not just describing the objects and how they were made, but what their significance is. 'Magnificent...brings hom...

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The Secret World : A History of Intelligence, 1. vydání - Christopher Andrew

<p>The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of espionage in world literature is in the Book of Exodus.'God sent out spies into the land of Canaan'. From there, Christopher Andrew traces the shift in the ancient world from divination t...

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How to Survive 2

Special Offer Survivalist, I’ve got a little something for you… Just a little surprise…I love surprises… Reminds me when I was kid in…oh, I’m getting emotional again… Survivor Loyalty Item: “Primal Fear” Armor Set. If you are already a survivor who has How to Survive or How to Survive: Third Person Standalone on ...

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Exiles on Mission – How Christians Can Thrive in a Post–Christian World

Invites readers to embrace the language of exile and imagine a hopeful mission of the scattered church in the post-Christian West.

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World of Warcraft Art Book The Cinematic Art of World of Warcraf

Containing more than 150 drawings, concept art pieces, and final renders, as well as secrets of game mythology and development stories, this mesmerizing book reveals how Blizzard Entertainment's acclaimed series is made. In addition to a behind-the-scenes technical look at the game cinematics and developmental art, fans learn how Blizzard updated Arthas the Death Knight t...

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Anansi´s Gold: The man who swindled the world. WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024. - Yepoka Yeebo

<p>Winner of the Jhalak Prize &amp; Plutarch Award | A New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME Book of the Year 2023 'Fabulously entertaining' Daily Telegraph | 'Perfect for fans of Frank Abignale Jr.'s Catch Me If You Can' Publishers Weekly The astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the 20th c...

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