Collins - Modern 1

From Berlin's divided streets to Moscow's hidden safehouses, CIA and KGB agents waged a shadow war that shaped global destiny without firing a shot. This book uncovers the clandestine battlesーtunne……続きを見る

Radicalization rarely announces itself. It arrives incrementally ー through a recommended video, a closed forum, a community that offers belonging alongside increasingly extreme ideas. The internet ……続きを見る

From the wiretaps of the Cold War to the data mining of the digital age, surveillance has become the defining condition of modern life. Privacy Lost traces a continuous thread of control, comparing ……続きを見る

Gold has outlasted every empire that minted it. From the treasure vaults of ancient Egypt through the gold standards of Victorian Britain, the Bretton Woods collapse of 1971, and the central bank re……続きを見る

History is rarely made by individuals acting alone. Behind the visible events of wars, revolutions, financial crises, and political transformations lies a more durable force: the organized networks ……続きを見る

Certain corporations transcended their commercial origins to become geopolitical forces, wielding power that rivaled nation-states and transforming societies through economic influence. This explora……続きを見る

The Formula Hall of Fame is a tribute to the extraordinary drivers who defined the soul of Formula One. For seventy-five years, the World Champions of this sport have embodied courage, brilliance, a……続きを見る

James Collins, historien américain spécialiste de la France moderne, fournit ici une analyse très stimulante de la société bretonne des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Étudiant successivement l'économie, la ……続きを見る

Despite an enormous amount of literature on St Augustine of Hippo, this work provides the first examination of what he taught about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Augustine expounded Christ's res……続きを見る

Originally published in 1967, this book is a history of church puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions; of th……続きを見る

Few human events have stirred the imagination, inspired myths and movies and had such a hold upon the weste world as the sinking of the unsinkable ship, the RMS Titanic. In his convincing analysis o……続きを見る

In Reforming Saints, David J. Collins explains how and why Renaissance humanists composed Latin hagiography in Germany in the decades leading up to the Reformation. Contrary to the traditional wisdo……続きを見る