Civilizations – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Swing

3 CDs mit insgesamt 60 Swing Krachern, die zum Tanzbein schwingen einladen! Alles Originalaufnahmen, die klanglich nochmals auf den neusten Stand der Technik gebracht wurden! Den Start macht Peggy Lee, de…

Eleanor Barraclough

Embers of the Hands

In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such …

Edward J Watts

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the story of 2200 years of the use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politicians, authors, and autocrats as well as the people scapegoated and…

Michael McBride

How to Sound Smart at Parties

Welcome to the most interesting dinner party you’ve ever attended! Join seven friends for an evening of trivia, myth-busting, and camaraderie. You'll have a front row seat at the party, listening in to t…

Guy De La Bédoyère

Populus

"Living in ancient Rome was one of the most intense experiences in human history. It was also superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians and poets, who were acutely aware of the seething and volup…

A Companion to Assyria

A Companion to Assyria is a collection of original essays on ancient Assyria written by key international scholars. These new scholarly contributions have substantially reshaped contemporary understanding…

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…

Adrian Bliss

The Greatest Nobodies of History

History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII, and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scho…

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…

Yuval Noah Harari

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in world history. His two books, Sapiens: A Brief History of Human…

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 new history of humanity told through the lens of collapse, from Neanderthals to AI, and what it means for our uncertain future For the first 200,000 years, humanity lived in egalitarian groups and succ…

Andrews Sisters

The Hits Collection 1937 - 1955

Toby Wilkinson

The Last Dynasty

Alexander the Great and Cleopatra may be two of the best-known figures from the ancient world, but the Egyptian era bookended by their lives-the Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC)-is little known. In The Last D…

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…

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…

Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3

This third volume of the illustrated adaptation of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, Sapiens: A Graphic History--The Masters of History, tackles the question of the driving force of humanity's f…

Simon Winchester

Knowing What We Know

"With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button. With so much knowledge at our fingertips, what is there left for our brains …

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 understanding ab…