Current History

There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.

This text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the world history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Isett and Miller argue that people rather than markets have been the primary agents of agricultural change, exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time.

La Historia de Actualidad 2: Nuevas revelaciones que cambiarán la Historia es el segundo audiolibro de una entretenida colección de carácter divulgativo y didáctico. Para comenzar, el autor nos traslada al preciso instante en que el paleoantropólogo estadounidense Donald Johanson asiste al excepcional hallazgo de "Lucy". A continuación, nos transporta hasta el Imperio romano para profundizar en la biografía de Nerón. Para continuar, nos sitúa en el siglo XV para intentar descifrar el enigmático lugar de procedencia del gran navegante y descubridor Cristóbal Colón.

Human history has seen many surprising and profound turning points. The ways that humans learned to use raw materials to create activity and resources set the stage for the most compelling and life-altering phase of the modern era, the Industrial Revolution. Born during this time on different continents but connected by similar interests, two men indelibly marked their generation and those that followed with their genius and foresight. This audiobook covers the war of currents and the individual lives of Tesla and Edison.