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Cowen's History of Life

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History of Ideas

A collection of humanityÂ’s most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive.

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History of Life in 100 Fossils

A fascinating history of life presented through the worldÂ’s key fossils, with specimens from LondonÂ’s Natural History Museum and the Smithsonian in

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History of Life in 100 Fossils The Natural History Museum

A fascinating history of life presented through the world’s key fossils, with specimens from London’s Natural History Museum and the Smithsonian in Washington DC....

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Ace of Spies

Ace of Spies reveals for the first time the true story of Sidney Reilly, the real-life inspiration behind fictional hero James Bond. He was a master s

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Last Days of the Dinosaurs

A fascinating exploration of the world’s worst mass extinction – and how it shaped all subsequent life on our planet

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Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel

A new biography of one of the most influential female scientists looking at the ten â€lost’ years of Caroline’s life, when virtually no re

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Harry H. Corbett: The Front Legs of the Cow

Widely respected as a stage actor, he became a leading light in Joan LittlewoodÂ’s Theatre Workshop until his life was changed by the television comed

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Private Inquiries

The history of the UK’s real-life female detectives told for the first time

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History of King Richard the Third: by Sir George Buc, Master of the Revels

Reconstruction of George Buc’s study and defence of the life and reign of Richard III.

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History of the Kings of Britain

Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain—the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and life of King Arthur—was

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History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides

Anotace: `With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide` Tom HollandThe long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the ancient Greek world into decades of war. Thucydides was an Athenian and achieved the rank of gener...

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Secret of Life

A definitive history of the race to unravel DNAÂ’s structure by one of our most prominent medical historians

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Secret of Life

A definitive history of the race to unravel DNAÂ’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians.

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The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour - Attenborough David

Anotace: The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough`s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. `This is, quite simply, the best thing I`ve ever done.` Sir David Attenborough on the TV series, The Trials of Life, upon which...

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Ocean Of Life - Roberts Callum

Anotace: `Thrilling` Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall`Authoritative and furious, urgent and persuasive` Sunday Times`Compelling ... Roberts is that precious pearl: a practising scientist who not only knows his field inside out, but also understands how to write` Guardian Oceans are the most mysterious places on earth. Their depths remain largely unexplored, yet ninety-five pe...

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Leaders Who Changed History - neuveden

Anotace: Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world`s most inspirational and influential leaders with this innovative, and boldly graphic biography-led book. Comprehensive in its scope and depth, and fully illustrated, Leaders profiles leaders from all walks of life - kings, queens, and political leaders; military leaders; religious icons, revolution...

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Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow - Harari Noah Yuval

Anotace: From the author of the number 1 global bestseller Sapiens **The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller** Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation. Death is just a technical problem....

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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life - Freud Sigmund

Anotace: This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase `Freudian slip`. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social milieu of Freud and his patients. Through a series of case histories, some no longer than a few lines long, Freud explores how it is that normal people make slips of speech, writing, reading and rememberi...

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Heartbreak - The School of Life Press

Anotace: Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make our situation far worse than it needs to be through certain ideas we develop about why we`ve been left. We start to tell ...

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Black Britain : A Photographic History - Gilroy Paul

Anotace: People of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited Great Britain for centuries. Professor Paul Gilroy has assembled a living visual history of their social life in the modern British Isles. Published in association with Getty Images,this volume faeture 321 b&w photographs, commentary by Paul Gilroy and a preface from Professor Stuart Hall.

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Energy and Civilization: A History - Smil Václav

Anotace: A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today`s fossil fuel-driven civilization.Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects ...

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Soundtrack: Willis Christopher - The Personal History Of David - CD (9029686087)

Hudební CD - Soundtrack k filmu The Personal History of David Copperfield z roku 2019. The Personal History of David Copperfield je film skotského režiséra Armanda Iannucciho. Ten je rovněž spolu se Simonem Blackwellem autorem scénáře, který vznikl na motivy románu David Copperfield od Charlese Dickense. Seznam stop My Own Story / Baby Davy / Yarmouth / Last Days of Inn...

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Life Magazine and the Power of Photography

The first comprehensive consideration of Life magazineÂ’s groundbreaking and influential contribution to the history of photography

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A Cool History of Ukraine: From Dinosaurs Till Now - Kovalyshena Inna

Anotace: Take an unforgettable journey through the history of Ukraine, from ancient times until the present day. This beautifully illustrated book takes you on a tour of Ukraine`s history, told through the voices of four friends coming from different corners of the country. What kind of dinosaurs lived in Ukraine? Who fought for Ukraine`s i...

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

Anotace: 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 civil...

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Schwabová Victoria

Anotace: "For someone damned to be forgettable, Addie LaRue is a most delightfully unforgettable character, and her story is the most joyous evocation of unlikely immortality." -Neil GaimanA Sunday Times-bestselling, award-nominated genre-defying tour-de-force of Faustian bargains, for fans of The Time Traveler`s Wife and Life After Life, and The Sudden Appearance of Hop...

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Život věcí / The Life of Things

Anotace: Ideu zátiší ve fotografii dokumentuje Siegertova sbírka, shromažďovaná od počátku sedmdesátých let 20. století a dnes jedna z nejvýznamnějších na světě, půldruhou stovkou snímků vybraných do této publikace, jež obsáhly více než stopadesátileté období. Kromě proslulých fotografií kniha obsahuje i řadu snímků dosud málo známých - vedle klasických námětů květin, po...

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The Cold War : A World History - Westad Odd Arne

Anotace: As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War.For over forty years ...

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The World: A Family History - Montefiore Simon Sebag

Anotace: THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST`S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Mont...

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Wool: The thrilling dystopian series, and the #1 drama in history of Apple TV (Silo) - Howey Hugh

Anotace: NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF AppleTV+, SILO.An epic story of survival at all odds and one of the most anticipated books of the year, soon to also be a major Apple TV series.`Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ... one of dystopian fiction`s masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World.` DAILY EXPRESS_____________In a ruined and ho...

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Life: an Unauthorized Biography

A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain’s most d

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SHP History Year 9 Pupil´s Book - Banham Dale

Anotace: Develop your students` understanding and skills step by step with Schools History Project`s carefully planned approach to Key Stage 3.This textbook combines expertise in course planning with features that reflect the possibilities and requirements of the National Curriculum.It has everything you would expect from the Schools History Project, including intriguing...

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Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (1524796301)

Kniha - autor George R.R. Martin, 738 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones. With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally bestselling author George R. R. Martin, this is the firs...

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Witch of Pungo

The authoritative cultural history of VirginiaÂ’s most famous accused witch. This is the first book to explore Grace SherwoodÂ’s life and cultural imp

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King: The Life of Martin Luther King - Eig Jonathan

Anotace: Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig`s King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courag...

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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man : A Memoir - Newman Paul, Newman Paul

Anotace: The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward, his innermost fears and passions and joys. With thoughts/comments throug...

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Native American Loanwords in Contemporary American English : History and Development - Reese Katharina

Anotace: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (John-F. Kennedy-Institut fur Nordamerikastudien), course: Language Change II: Language Contact Phenomena and Change in English, language: English, abstract: The number of indigenous people that inhabited the American continent before the Europea...

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The World: A Family History - W. a CH. Awdry, Montefiore Simon Sebag

Anotace: The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a fresh and original history of humanity, unlike any previous world history: it uses family, the one thing all humans have in common, to tell the story. It is genuinely global, spanning all eras and all continents, from the perspective of places as diverse as Haiti, Congo and Cambodia as well as Europe, China and America. S...

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Principles : Life and Work - Dalio Ray

Anotace: "Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving." -The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world`s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he`s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business-and which any person or organization can adopt...

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Life in a Medieval Village

Medieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villagesThis new reissue of Life in a Medieval V

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Helga´s Diary: A Young Girl´s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp - Helga Weiss

Anotace: 'The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank' Daily Telegraph First they led us to the baths, where they took from us everything we still had. Quite literally there wasn't even a hair left. I didn't even recognize my own mother till I heard her voice . . . In 1941, aged 12, Helga Weiss, her mother and father were forced to say goodbye to their hom...

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SHP History Year 8 Pupil´s Book - Culpin Chris, Culpin Chris

Anotace: SHP History is a major new book-per-year course for Key Stage 3 History. It takes the best of the old and the best of the new to create a dynamic and coherent course for a new generation of history pupils. This is the second book in the series and provides a course for Y8 continuing the big stories of Empire, Movement and settlement, Conflict, Power and Everyday...

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A Life Story: King Charles III - Morganová Sally

Anotace: King Charles III: environmental activist, monarch and head of the Commonwealth. Read all about the life of King Charles III, from his early days at boarding school and watching his mother become queen to his dedicated work as an environmental activist and becoming king himself, this book will take you on a royal tour through King Ch...

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I Loved You In Another Life - Arnold David

Anotace: Some souls are meant for each other - yesterday, today, forever ... A sweeping romantic novel from New York Times bestselling author David Arnold about the power of soulmates and love. Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father's departure. But after...

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The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages: The Most Abundant Life Forms on Earth and What They Can Do For Us - Ireland Tom

Anotace: Winner of the Giles St Aubyn Award 2021Not all viruses are out to get us - in fact, the viruses that do us harm are vastly outnumbered by viruses that can actually save lives.At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times per second, `good` viruses known as phages are infec...

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Helga´s Diary: A Young Girl´s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp - Helga Weissová

<p>"The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank". (Daily Telegraph). First they led us to the baths, where they took from us everything we still had. Quite literally there wasn't even a hair left. I didn't even recognize my own mother till I heard her voice...In 1941, aged 12, Helga Weiss, her mother and father were forced to say goodbye to ...

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Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse. The Ultimate History - 40th Anniversary Edition - Daniel Kothenschulte

<p>Celebrate 90+ years of Mickey Mouse with one of the most expansive illustrated publications on the Disney universe: behind-the-scenes shots, rare animation art, and vintage comics trace Mickey’s cartoons, his comic adventures, the world of Mickey merchandise and memorabilia, as well as the legendary Mickey Mouse Club.</p> <p>On November 18, 1928, the ...

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Act of Oblivion - Harris Robert

Anotace: From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliant imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail-an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, a...

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Tinny little Stories of animals AJ - neuveden

Anotace: Our history has been linked with that of animals since the very beginning of human life on Earth. This bond has grown stronger and stronger over the centuries, and some creatures have become real animal celebrities. Some of them are famous because they su

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The Storm Before the Storm, The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic PublicAffairs,U.S.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic....

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Stillness is the Key : An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life - Holiday Ryan

Anotace: Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it ataraxia and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focused and calm in a constantly busy world.Drawing on a wide range of history`s greatest thinkers, Holiday shows u...

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Saltblood: An epic historical fiction debut inspired by real life female pirates - De Tores Francesca

Anotace: `A gripping tale of one woman`s extraordinary adventures ... Saltblood is a triumph of the imagination`ELODIE HARPER, author of `The Wolf Den` trilogy`A ravishing picaresque told with fireworks, finesse and gusto` PAUL LYNCH, author of Prophet Song`Saltblood is exquisite. The writing is sumptuous and lyrical, the story fascinating`LOUISE O`NEILL, author of Askin...

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THE MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITES PA - neuveden

Anotace: `As intoxicating as the finest island rum` IndependentFrom the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of history`s most captivating `invisible` women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro.Growing up on the idyllic island of St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel`s mother, a...

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The Art of War - Tzu Sun

Anotace: Previous translations of The Art of War have presented Sun Tzu`s classic from the point of view of military strategy, Chinese history, or Taoist philosophy. This translation--accompanied by the translators` in-depth essays and illuminating line-by-line commentary--offers a fresh perspective on this ancient Chinese text. Here, Sun Tzu`s strategic principles of wa...

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The Physics of Sorrow - Gospodinov Georgi

Anotace: From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories. In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest. Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from ...

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Feast of the Goat - Llosa Mario Vargas

Anotace: `The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America`s twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.` Times Literary Supplement Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that h...

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House of Ash and Shadow - Stone Leia

Anotace: From USA Today bestselling author Leia Stone, House of Ash and Shadow is the first book in the addictive Gilded City series, about a girl who must battle curses, dark powers, and her own heart. This world of dazzling fae magic and romantic pining is perfect for fans of Wednesday and Holly Black.Seventeen-year-old Fallon Bane was born with a devastating curse: a ...

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The End of the Ocean - Lunde Maja

Anotace: From the author of the number one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter.`The story of a present-day Norwegian eco-campaigner alternates with that of a French family in the overheated future. They are in a camp for refugees from eco-dis...

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A Reunion of Ghosts - Judith Claire Mitchell

Anotace: `What if the man who invented chemical weapons was also a grandfather, and what if his great-grandchildren grew up to be three hilarious, introverted, deeply-haunted sisters? And what if those sisters co-wrote a fascinating, funny, and deeply sad 350-page suicide note? Then you´d have A REUNION OF GHOSTS.´Anthony DoerrMeet the Alter sisters: Lady, Ve...

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