Civilizations – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 10

Peta Greenfield

Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire

Discover the wild and fascinating true stories of the Roman Empire that were never taught in your boring history class with this ultimate collection of notorious emperors, scandalous love affairs, rebelli…

Toby Wilkinson

The Last Dynasty

One of the world's leading Egyptologists tells the rich and fascinating story of ancient Egypt's last dynasty.

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…

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…

Andrews Sisters

The Hits Collection 1937 - 1955

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…

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…

Tom Standage

A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, an eye-opening road trip through 5,500 years of humans on the go, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization. Hailed f…

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…

Cyprian Broodbank

The Making of the Middle Sea

An award-winning history of the Mediterranean from prehistory to the Classical world reissued with an extended new preface by the author.

Bettany Hughes

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

"For millennia, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been known for their aesthetic sublimity, ingenious engineering, and sheer, audacious magnitude: The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens…

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 …

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Song of the Cell

Presenting revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, the author draws on his own experience as a researcher, doctor, and prolific…

Carolina López-Ruiz

Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introduced their alphabet, art, technology, and gods to places …

Zahi Hawass

Pyramids

After his successful Netflix documentary "Unknown: The Lost Pyramid," Zahi Hawass (the most famous Egyptologist in the world), updates readers on the newest discoveries relating to the pyramids. Each chap…

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…

Margaret D Jacobs

After One Hundred Winters

A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession…

David Graeber

The Dawn of Everything

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'I…

Siddhartha Mukherjee

La Armonía de Las Células: Una Exploración de la Medicina Y del Nuevo Ser Humano / The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

En un relato a la vez lâirico y amplio, Mukherjee nos lleva a travâes de una historia de la comprensiâon humana: desde el descubrimiento en el siglo XVII de que estamos formados por câelulas hasta la actu…