Trefferliste "Civilization" - alle Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, DVDs und mehr

The Book

Über THE BOOKMan stelle sich vor, man könnte mit dem Wissen von heute das Gestern erkunden und den Menschen der Vergangenheit von unseren modernen Wunderwerken berichten. Vom Wissensdurst angetrieben und …

Richard Overy

The Morbid Age

Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include Why the Allies Won, Russia's War, The Battle of Britain and The Dictators, which won the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltma…

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies

"The Emperor of All Maladies" reads like a novel, but it deals with real people and real successes, as well as with the many false notions and false leads. Not only will the book bring cancer re…

Cultural History and the Anthropocene

This open access collection is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to contemporary and cross-disciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene.

Ryan Ruby

Context Collapse

"Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet--from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafâes of Gr…

Toby Wilkinson

The Last Dynasty

Alexander the Great and Cleopatra may be two of the most famous figures from the ancient world, but the Egyptian era bookended by their lives-the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC)-is little known. In The Last …

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies

"The Emperor of All Maladies" reads like a novel, but it deals with real people and real successes, as well as with the many false notions and false leads. Not only will the book bring cancer re…

Wolfgang Engler

Stand der Zivilisation

Die Überzeugung, die Demokratie mitsamt ihren Gesetzen und Vorschriften biete den besten Weg, friedlich und gedeihlich miteinander zu leben, scheint in Teilen der Bevölkerung zu schwinden. Übergriffe gege…

David Eaton

World History Through Case Studies

This innovative textbook demystifies the subject of world history through a diverse range of case studies. Each chapter looks at an event, person, or place from prehistory to the present and from across t…

Luke Kemp

Goliath's Curse

A vast and unprecedented survey of societal collapse--stretching from the Stone Age to the age of silicon--that digs through the ruins of fallen societies to understand the root causes of their downfall a…

Peta Greenfield, Fiona Radford

Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire

Discover the wild and fascinating true stories of the Roman Empire that are rarely taught in history class with this ultimate collection of notorious emperors, scandalous love affairs, rebellion, and more…

Oswyn Murray

The Muse of History

Oswyn Murray charts the shifting uses of the ancient past, showing how three centuries of scholars interpreted ancient Greece in the light of contemporary political interests. Rich in stories and portrait…

Andrews Sisters

The Hits Collection 1937 - 1955

Michael Mcbride

How to Sound Smart at Parties

"Packed with over 150 fun facts spanning the topics of ancient civilizations, animal behavior, natural science, outer space, human accomplishments, pop culture, and more..."--Provided by publish…

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Auf dem Weg zur Sonnenkultur

Zwar wissen wir, daß die Sonne das Zentrum unseres Planetensystems ist, wir haben jedoch daraus noch nicht alle Schlußfolgerungen gezogen: Sie ist uns allen gegenwärtig und kann unser Bewußtsein zu einer …

Tamim Ansary

The Invention of Yesterday

In this "terrific" (San Francisco Chronicle) book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual AgeTraveling across millennia and cul…

Kathleen Duval

Native Nations

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • "A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history" (The New York Review of Books ), from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to…

Richard Cohen

Making History

A "supremely entertaining" ( The New Yorker ) exploration of who gets to record the world's history---from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns---and how their biases influence our …

Hanno Sauer

The Invention of Good and Evil

In this ambitious volume Hanno Sauer integrates the findings of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research into a sweeping synthetic narrative of human evolution -- a history with morality at its core. He ex…