Schlagwort Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte

Amitav Ghosh
Smoke And Ashes

A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars . . . But it's Ghosh's big-…

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Yuval Noah Harari
Nexus

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens Stories brought us together. Books spread our ideas - and our mythologies. …

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Author TBA 328086
Title TBA 328086

A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 Maps North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselv…

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Jake Adelstein
The Last Yakuza

'Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else.' Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo Vice When acclaimed journalist Jake Adelstein hires a former Yakuza boss, known …

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Jake Adelstein
Tokyo Noir

The sequel to bestseller Tokyo Vice, now a major HBO drama, with a second season coming in 2024. It's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The glo…

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Lucy Adlington
Four Red Sweaters

The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revea…

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Paula Akpan
When We Ruled

'POETIC AND FIERCE' - Olivette Otele, author of AFRICAN EUROPEANS 'A RICH, SUMPTUOUS AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN TAPESTRY' - Candice Carty-Williams, author of QUEENIE 'A SEARING, NOURISHING JOURNEY THROUGH …

lieferbar ab 8.5.2025.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid
Between Two Rivers

A parent desperately trying to soothe a baby, a bored teenager doodling during class, a slave negotiating their freedom: snapshots from everyday lives, preserved in clay from ancient Mesopotamia. At the …

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Stephen Alford
All His Spies

'Alford triumphs... in recreating the historical moment. By immersing himself in Cecil's vast archive, he draws the reader deep into his working environment, capturing the closeness of his study and the c…

lieferbar ab 19.6.2025.

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Rolad Allen
The Notebook

A New Yorker Book of the Year 2024 A Ryan Holiday '(Very) Best Book I Read in 2024' 'Excellent' Ian Samson, TLS 'From plans for flying machines to philosophy - the remarkable joy of jotting things down…

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Howard Amos
Russia Starts Here

Why do ordinary people support Putin? Why does Russia act so aggressively abroad? How fragile is the regime? In Russia Starts Here, Howard Amos paints a fascinating portrait of the lives of ordinary Russ…

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Sunil Amrith
The Burning Earth

In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on a…

lieferbar ab 21.10.2025.

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Noah Angell
Ghosts of the British Museum

An artist investigates strange goings on at the British museum - and uncovers a maelstrom of disquiet within its corridors, galleries and vaults

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Aharon Appelfeld
The Story of a Life

Penguin Modern Classics

An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma Aharon Appelfeld was the beloved only child of middle-class Jewish parents living in w…

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Anne Applebaum
Between East and West

Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, and Iron Curtain, which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster's Medal …

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Zeinab Badawi
An African History of Africa

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2024* *An instant Sunday Times bestseller, Radio 4 Book of the Week and Guardian Best Summer Read* Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Guardian and The …

lieferbar ab 31.7.2025.

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Zeinab Badawi
An African History of Africa

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2024* *An instant Sunday Times bestseller, Radio 4 Book of the Week and Guardian Best Summer Read* Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Guardian and The …

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Caitlin Blackwell Baines
How to Build a Haunted House

What makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particularly creepy, while others leave us unmoved? Barring the possibility of a looming afterlife, what are the particu…

lieferbar ab 9.10.2025.

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Anthony Bale
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reade…

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Anthony Bale
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz to the mysterious island of Caldihe, Anthony Bale brings history alive, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world. 'A joyful, erudite book . . . A global M…

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