著者:Joel Mokyr
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do……続きを見る
A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.
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The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria an……続きを見る
La reproduction complète du manuscrit de Voynich, formaté pour des lecteurs ebook à écran couleur haute définition. Le manuscrit de Voynich est un livre ancien écrit à l'aide d'un alphabet inconnu. ……続きを見る
著者:Kerry Ward
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively ……続きを見る
著者:William H. McNeill
出版社: The University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2009年07月30日
"The most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind." ーH. R. Trevor-Roper, The New York Times Book Review
The Rise of the West, win……続きを見る
A “brilliant” (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political accountability has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empires
Whether building a road or f……続きを見る
By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concis……続きを見る
Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of ……続きを見る
著者:Jeremy Black
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2017年01月05日
The modern age of naval warfare began with the combination of steam power, iron warships, and modern artillery, which launched an intense period of international competition. Tracing naval warfare f……続きを見る
著者:Robert C. Allen
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolut……続きを見る
Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a c……続きを見る
A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700-1918 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces, societies, and institutions that existed on the territory of today's Northe……続きを見る
Dans "L'ancienne France", Paul Lacroix nous plonge au cœur des mécanismes complexes de la société française d'autrefois, évoquant aussi bien l'histoire politique que les aspects culturels et sociaux……続きを見る
The definitive history of the world's most popular drug
Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast revi……続きを見る
'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill Gates
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.
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著者:Eric Storm
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2024年10月29日
A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present
The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, l……続きを見る
A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change
*Winner of a Nouvel Observateur Award, a Fondation pour l'écologie ……続きを見る
**From the pre-eminent scholar of foreign policy, the classic work that defined soft power
“As brilliant as it is timely, Professor Nye’s book is must reading for anyone who cares about the success ……続きを見る
Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning EPB offers nine principles to master ha……続きを見る
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early Church.
The claim at the heart of the Christian faith……続きを見る