Twentieth century history for dummies
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Oxford History of the Twentieth Century
Victoria still ruled over the British Empire, the imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, with radio and television still to be developed. The earliest cars were on the road, but air travel was yet to come. Before antibiotics and effective vaccines against many common diseases, death rates were high. Over the c...
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Women in Twentieth-Century Britain
This is the first thematic book to explore the history of women throughout the entire twentieth century. Appropriate for 1st and 2nd year undergraduat
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History+ for Edexcel A Level: Nationalism, dictatorship and democracy in twentieth-century Europe
Enable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert narrative and extended rea
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History+ for Edexcel A Level: Democracies in change: Britain and the USA in the twentieth century
Enable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert narrative and extended rea
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History+ for Edexcel A Level: Communist states in the twentieth century
Enable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert narrative and extended rea
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Modern Minds the twentieth-century world Pupil's Book
Builds thorough understanding and enjoyment of History through enquiry. Think Through History provides an enthralling enquiry-based approach for 11
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Graphic Edition), 1. vydání - Timothy Snyder
<p>A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential books of recent years, using the darkest moments in twentieth-century history to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. These include a warning to be ...
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My Brief History
Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inwards for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution. My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his post-war London boyhood to his...
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Czech Photography of the 20th Century
Czech Photography of the 20th Century, published simultaneously in Czech and English versions, is the first book to present the main trends, figures, and works of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century to such a large extent. Its 517 plates include not only the most important, well-known photographs and photomontages, but also works that have ...
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The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth C (1416526153)
Kniha - autor Peter Watson, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá - autor Peter Watson, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá A virtuoso tour through the cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present. This is a grand, sweeping cultural history in the bestselling tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, with the resonance and histo...
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Czech Photography of the 20th Century - kolektiv autorů
<p>Czech Photography of the 20th Century, published simultaneously in Czech and English versions, is the first book to present the main trends, figures, and works of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century to such a large extent. Its 517 plates include not only the most important, well-known photographs and photomontages, but also works t...
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Searching for the Spirit of the West
A hidden history of the USA in the twentieth century.
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Czech Photography of the 20th Century - Vladimír Birgus,Jan Mlčoch
Anotace: Czech Photography of the 20th Century, published simultaneously in Czech and English versions, is the first book to present the main trends, figures, and works of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century to such a large extent. Its 517 plates include not only the most important, well-known photographs and photomontages, but also works ...
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The Good, The Bad and The History - Taylor Jodi
Anotace: BOOK 14 IN THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY`S SERIES, FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JODI TAYLOR. `Brilliant, hilarious, keeps you on your toes` Reader review `The characters make me come back time and time again` Reader review `I have not found another author who can tell a story involving time travel as well` Reader review St Mary`s is under investiga...
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The Good, The Bad and The History - Jodi Taylor
<p>BOOK 14 IN THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIES, FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JODI TAYLOR. 'Brilliant, hilarious, keeps you on your toes' Reader review 'The characters make me come back time and time again' Reader review 'I have not found another author who can tell a story involving time travel as well' Reader review St Mary's is under investigat...
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The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name - Muraresku Brian C.
Anotace: The most influential religious historian of the twentieth century, Huston Smith, once referred to it as the "best-kept secret" in history. Did the Ancient Greeks use drugs to find God? And did the earliest Christians inherit the same, secret tradition? A profound knowledge of visionary plants, herbs and fungi passed from one generation to the next, ever since th...
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Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift
The beginning of the twentieth century was an important time in African-American history. Segregation and discrimination were on the rise. Two seminal
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Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age - Berglund Bruce R.
Anotace: Prague in the early twentieth century was the city of cubists, surrealists, and the Good Soldier vejk. This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by identifying religion as an integral part of the city s cultural history. As Prague emerged as a modern city and the Czech nation gained independence, Catholics, Protestants, and those who imagined a non-secta...
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Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age - Bruce R. Berglund
<p>Prague in the early twentieth century was the city of cubists, surrealists, and the Good Soldier vejk. This book takes a new approach to interwar Prague by identifying religion as an integral part of the city s cultural history. As Prague emerged as a modern city and the Czech nation gained independence, Catholics, Protestants, and those who imagined a non-sectar...
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Barry Island
By the mid-twentieth century, Barry Island had become one of Britain's most popular seaside resorts. Its history carries important lessons for histori
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Looking to Sea
An alternative history of Britain in the twentieth century, told through the prism of ten iconic artworks of the sea, one for each decade.
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Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s–1970s
This book traces the history of engagements between dance and the visual arts in the mid-twentieth century, and provides a backdrop for the emerging f
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Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939
Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise o
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Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution Taylor & Francis Ltd
Situated within an emerging academic interest in documentary film in the Middle East and North Africa, this book studies the development of diverse documentary forms in relation to revolutionary and emancipatory movements that took place across the twentieth-century Arab World. The book is much-needed reading for students and academics interested in film and media studies...
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Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution Taylor & Francis Ltd
Situated within an emerging academic interest in documentary film in the Middle East and North Africa, this book studies the development of diverse documentary forms in relation to revolutionary and emancipatory movements that took place across the twentieth-century Arab World. The book is much-needed reading for students and academics interested in film and media studies...
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The Anatomy Of Fascism
What "is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time by focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said. From the first violent uniformed bands beating up "enemies of the state," through Mussolini's rise to power, to ...
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Mornings in Jenin (1408813556)
Kniha - autor Susan Abulhawa, 338 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Set against one of the twentieth century's most intractable political conflicts, MORNINGS IN JENIN is a deeply human novel - a novel of history, identity, friendship, love, terrorism, surrender, courage, and hope. Its power forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining conflicts of o...
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On Tyranny - Timothy Snyder
Anotace: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br><br> 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer<br> History does not repeat, but it does instruct.<br> In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fas...
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Kandinsky Wassily
Anotace: A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most famous abstract painters of all time, urges the reader to free themselves from art`s traditional bonds to material reality. In this radical theoretical work, he calls for a spiritual revo...
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Battle of Britain : A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940 - Bishop Patrick
Anotace: From the bestselling author of Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, this is a magisterial chronicle of a defining episode in British history: the epic struggle of the Royal Air Force with the Luftwaffe.Patrick Bishop`s Battle of Britain is a compelling account of Britain`s fight for national survival, from the shock defeat and evacuation from Dunkirk in May/June 1940 t...
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Battle of Britain
From the bestselling author of Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, this is a magisterial chronicle of a defining episode in British history: the epic struggle of the Royal Air Force with the Luftwaffe. Patrick Bishop's Battle of Britain is a compelling account of Britain's fight for national survival, from the shock defeat and evacuation from Dunkirk in May/June 1940 to fighte...
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Self Made
The book behind the new Netflix series, starring Octavia Spencer 'One of the most fabulous African-American figures of the twentieth century' Ishmael Reed Madam Walker was the first free-born child in her family, growing up in abject poverty in post-Civil War America. From humble beginnings, she overcame societal prejudice, family betrayals and epic business rivalries t...
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On Her Own Ground:The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker - A'Lelia Perry Bundles
<p>The book behind the new Netflix series, starring Octavia Spencer 'One of the most fabulous African-American figures of the twentieth century' Ishmael Reed Madam Walker was the first free-born child in her family, growing up in abject poverty in post-Civil War America. From humble beginnings, she overcame societal prejudice, family betrayals and epic business ri...
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Psychology and the Soul
In his last years, Otto Rank turned his lifetime of thought and learning toward two of the most difficult topics in human history: religion and the soul. The result was this now-classic work, available in this new, very accessible English translation. Unlike many other intellectuals of the twentieth century, Rank maintains a place for the soul rather than dismissing it as...
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The Secret Lives of Numbers - Kate Kitagawa
<p>A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa...
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Animal Farm & 1984 - Orwell George
Anotace: Two modern classics in one volume.George Orwell is one of the finest and most influential writers of the twentieth century. Here in one volume, are two of his best-known works of electrifying political fiction, 1984 and Animal Farm.Winston Smith rewrites history. It`s his job. Hidden away in the Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party and the omnipresent Big Broth...
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Animal Farm & 1984 - George Orwell
<p>Two modern classics in one volume. George Orwell is one of the finest and most influential writers of the twentieth century. Here in one volume, are two of his best-known works of electrifying political fiction, 1984 and Animal Farm. Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party and the omnipresent Big ...
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My Family and Other Animals (1909621986)
Kniha - 376 stran, anglicky, Pevná bez přebalu lesklá - 376 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, ...
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The Great Transformation
‘One of the most powerful books in social sciences ever written. ... A must-read’ Thomas Piketty'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' ProspectKarl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is one of the earliest and most powerful critiques of unregulated markets.Tracing the history of capitalism from the great transformation of the industrial revolution onwards...
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The Myth of Sisyphus, 1. vydání - Albert Camus
<p>Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and vision...
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Cypria. A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - Alex Christofi
<p>An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires; a place marked by the struggle between fascism and communism and where the capital city is divided in half as a result of bloody ...
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The Sovereign Individual
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.Fe...
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Fascism : A Warning, 1. vydání - Madeleine Albright
<p>A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. "There is priceless wisdom on every page." Kirkus Starred review A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, `is someone who claims...
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Revolution 1989 : The Fall of the Soviet Empire - Sebestyen Victor
Anotace: For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power ...
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Wassily Kandinsky
<p>A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most famous abstract painters of all time, urges the reader to free themselves from art's traditional bonds to material reality. In this radical theoretical work, he calls for a spiritual revol...
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Revolution 1989 : The Fall of the Soviet Empire - Victor Sebestyen
<p>For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power b...
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State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia : Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Krakovsky Roman
Anotace: Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a socialist future. Although many aspects of this utopian project are well known - such as fast-paced industrialisation, collectivisation and urbanisation - the regimes...
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WG's Birthday Party
On a hot morning in July 1898, the sporting world gathered at Lord's to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of WG Grace, the greatest cricketer the game has ever seen. Grace was cheered onto the field by a packed crowd as he captained the Gentlemen, the privileged old guard of the Establishment. Their opponents in this annual match were the Players, cricketers for whom the sp...
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State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia : Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Roman Krakovský
<p>Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a socialist future. Although many aspects of this utopian project are well known - such as fast-paced industrialisation, collectivisation and urbanisation - the regimes ...
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American Pastoral - Philip Roth
Anotace: In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - co...
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Homelands
Homelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, reportage and memoir by our greatest writer about European affairs.Drawing on half a century of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the story of Europe in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - how, having emerged from its wartime hell in 1945, it slowly recovered and rebuilt, liberated and unit...
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Essays in Zen Buddhism - Suzuki Daisecu Teitaró
Anotace: `Suzuki`s works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism` Carl JungEssays in Zen Buddhism was the first book to fully introduce Zen in the West. In it, Dr D.T. Suzuki outlines the origins of Zen as a unique Chinese interpretation of the Doctrine of Enlightenment with the aim of attaining Satori (`Sudden Enlightenment`...
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Hayek's Challenge
Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent social theorists of the twentieth century as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell - ed...
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Essays in Zen Buddhism - Daisecu Teitaró Suzuki
<p>'Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism' Carl Jung Essays in Zen Buddhism was the first book to fully introduce Zen in the West. In it, Dr D.T. Suzuki outlines the origins of Zen as a unique Chinese interpretation of the Doctrine of Enlightenment with the aim of attaining Satori ('Sudden Enlightenment...
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A Pipeline Runs Through It
'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry' The Economist 'The book I have long been waiting for... Essential reading' Michael KlarePetroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extracti...
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The 7th Function of Language, 1. vydání - Laurent Binet
<p>Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures, is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, who is locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident. But what if it were an assassination? What if Bar...
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The 7th Function of Language, 1. vydání - Laurent Binet
<p>Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures, is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, who is locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident. But what if it were an assassination? What if Bar...
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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters - Klaas Brian
Anotace: A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything.In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas deep-dives into the phenomenon of randomness, unpicking our neat and tidy storybook version of events to reveal a reality far wilder and more fascinating than we have dared to consider. The bewildering truth is that...
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Bismarck´s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe - Rachel Chrastil
<p>Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order. Other countries looked on in helpless amazement. Pushing aside further French resistance, a new German Empire was proclaimed (as a deliberate humiliation) in the Palace of Ve...
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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters - Brian Klaas
<p>A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything.In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas deep-dives into the phenomenon of randomness, unpicking our neat and tidy storybook version of events to reveal a reality far wilder and more fascinating than we have dared to consider. The bewildering truth is that ...
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