World History - Page 55

Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency

A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energyT...

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Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture

Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city? In the late 1960s the world was fac...

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The Tablet of Destinies

A beguiling new reimagining of one of the most ancient and mysterious origin myths of human civiliza...

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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt....

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The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism

A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the...

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A Social History of Western Political Thought

A sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thought In this groundbreakin...

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How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you w...

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In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretc...

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Rules: A Short History of What We Live By

Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set...

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Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History

From ancient philosophy to Tristram Shandy and Buster Keaton movies, this book tells the engaging hi...

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Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East

The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on th...

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Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

The global boom in skyscrapers—why it’s happening now, how they’re made, and what they do to cities...

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Slow Rise: A Bread-Making Adventure

'Compelling, vivid . . . Slow Rise will be welcomed by the new bread geeks' SpectatorOver the course...

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Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping

“Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do.”—Robert D. Kaplan...

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The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egypt

In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when h...

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