World Civilizations

Dostoyevski, henüz yirmi dört yaşındadır. Abartılı yaşamı ve gelişen kumar bağımlılığı nedeniyle maddi zorluk yaşamıştır. Yabancı romanların bazı çevirilerini yapmış olmasına rağmen, çok az başarıları vardır ve standartlarını yükseltmeye çalışmak için kendi romanını yazmaya karar vermiştir. İnsancıklar, Fyodor Dostoyevski'nin 18441845 yılları arasında dokuz aylık bir süre zarfında yazdığı ilk romanı ve başyapıtıdır. Dünyanın her yerindeki eleştirmenler tarafından toplumsal olarak sorumlu edebiyat olarak lanse edilen İnsancıklar, insanlık durumunu tasvir etmesi için bir dönüm noktası hâline gelmiştir.

Ein großes Hörbuch von gewaltiger intellektueller Bandbreite, neugierig, visionär, und ein Plädoyer für die Macht des direkten Handelns. David Graeber, der bedeutendste Anthropologe unserer Zeit, und David Wengrow, einer der führenden Archäologen, entfalten in ihrer großen Menschheitsgeschichte, wie sich die Anfänge unserer Zivilisation mit der Zukunft der Menschheit neu denken und verbinden lässt. Sie revidieren unser bisheriges Menschenbild und erzählen Menschheitsgeschichte, wie sie noch nie erzählt wurde.

In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in US monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance.

A sweeping history of cities through the millennia - from Mesopotamia to Manhattan - and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to dominance.

Looking for a way to dive deep into the fascinating history of ancient civilizations? Look no further! Featuring Egypt, Rome, and Constantinople (Byzantine), three great civilizations that shaped the world as we know it. In this bundle, you'll discover the unique stories and struggles of each civilization, from the heights of their power to their eventual decline.

Duman, taş, kil, deri, kumaş, ağaç ve ışık... İlk sayfalar, ilk kitap, ilk kütüphane, ilk kitapçı... ve yazılı sözcüklerin peşinde bugüne kadar uzanan serüven... Yazılı anlatımın izini süren okurlara yazılmış gelmiş geçmiş tüm kitapların mucizevi hikâyesidir Papirüs. Sözcüklerin uzay-zamanda yolculuk edebilmesi için icat ettiğimiz nesnenin ve neredeyse otuz asırdır onu koruyanların yolculuğuna dair bir anlatı.

¿Es aburrida la Historia? Eso depende de quién te la cuente. Con este audio libro te lo pasarás de lujo oyendo y adentrándote en la fascinante Antigüedad. Los hechos más importantes de este periodo reunidos en un único volumen lleno de curiosidades y anécdotas, y relatados en orden cronológico para que no te pierdas.

"تدفن حضارات تحت الرمال فقط لعدم هطول أمطار كافية كما حدث في وسط آسيا، أو تنغمر وسط الغابات إذا هطلت أمطار غزيرة كما حدث في وسط أمريكا. ستنتكس منطقتنا المزدهرة وتعود إلى حالة من البدائية والكسل إذا ارتفعت درجة الحرارة عشرين درجة. في مناخ شبه استوائي، يمكن لأمة من نصف مليون نسمة أن تتكاثر كالنمل، لكن جوها الدافع للكسل قد يجعلها عرضة للاحتلال المتكرر من محاربين من بيئات أخرى أكثر تحفيزًا ودعوة للنشاط. يمكن أن تتمكن أجيالٌ من إرساء سيطرتها على الأرض، لكنها في النهاية محكومةٌ أن تتحولَ إلى حفريات تحت سطحها."

The Maya recorded their history and ritual knowledge in screen fold books, of which only three uncontested examples remain, the rest having been destroyed by the Spanish. The Maya developed a highly complex series of interlocking ritual calendars and employed mathematics that included one of the earliest instances of the explicit zero in the world.

Автор - знаменитый американский ученый. Газета New York Times назвала его "Дэном Брауном научной литературы". Книга удостоена Пулитцеровской премии в номинации нехудожественная проза. Почему евразийские цивилизации занимают доминирующее положение в современном мире?

Книга профессора современной истории в Университете Сент‑Эндрюса, признанного писателя, специализирующегося на эпохе Ренессанса Эндрю Петтигри впервые вышла в 2015 году и была восторженно встречена критиками и американскими СМИ.

Again and again, microbes have shaped our health, our genetics, our history, our culture, our politics, even our religion and ethics. This book reveals much that scientists and cultural historians have learned about the pervasive interconnections between infectious microbes and humans. It also considers what our ongoing fundamental relationship with infectious microbes might mean for the future of the human species.

Combining the scope of Yuval Noah Harari with the political savvy of Francis Fukuyama, The Origin of Politics, Wade’s work draws from anthropology, evolutionary biology, and historical analysis to explore how human nature shapes the direction of society—and how policies which ignore human nature risk chaos and even extinction. Political scientists agree that the roots of politics must lie in human nature, but then assume that human behavior is infinitely flexible. The Origin of Politics shows that limits set by human evolution cannot be ignored without penalty.

Nel 1494, solo due anni dopo la "scoperta dell’America", a Tordesillas, una piccola località della Castiglia, veniva firmato un trattato tra Spagna e Portogallo che divideva il mondo in due e inventava l’Occidente come spazio, comunità e cultura. Mai nessuno si sarebbe potuto aspettare che una semplice firma avesse conseguenze così gigantesche e durature. Questa è la storia di come, tra medioevo ed età moderna, le società europee (all’inizio spagnoli e portoghesi in testa) spinsero le proprie ambizioni sempre più verso l’oceano e così facendo trasformarono l’idea che esse avevano dell’Ovest.

Fast Hundertjährige erzählen. Die Zukunft ist so kurz. Wie sollen wir dem begegnen? (Ricarda R.) "Wie tickten die Menschen früher? Wie lebten sie? Was ist aus ihnen geworden? Und wie konnten sie die sein, die sie einmal waren?" Mich interessieren weniger die großen Politiker und Heerführer, nein, ich will wissen, wie lebten die einzelnen kleinen Menschen, die den Großen ihr Leben und ihre Kriege erst möglich gemacht haben. Doreen Mechsner hat zwölf zufällig ausgewählte fast Hundertjährige nach ihren Leben, ihren Erfahrungen und ihren Erkenntnissen befragt.

Книга английского профессора Чарльза Уильяма Гекерторна Тайные общества всех веков и всех стран – фундаментальное исследование религиозных, политических и прочих тайных обществ, существовавших в разных уголках нашей планеты в разное время и на момент написания книги известных автору. Она вышла в 1875 году и считается базовым классическим трудом по этой теме. В книге можно найти интересные материалы про тамплиеров и ассасинов, гвельфов и карбонариев, манихейцев и франкмасонов, про итальянские ордена и секты второстепенного значения, про практики приверженцев жуткого культа богини Кали.

Mensch und Müll – das ist eine lange und innige Beziehung. Bereits die Neandertaler haben Dinge für nutzlos befunden, aussortiert und weggeworfen. Das alte Rom kämpfte ebenso mit Müllproblemen wie die Metropolen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Doch alles verblasst hinter den Abfallbergen der Gegenwart. Anhand der Produktion von und dem Umgang mit Müll schreibt Roman Köster eine erhellende Geschichte unserer Spezies.

Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterized by displacement and domination and reveals the ways in which this relationship has been constitutive of global modernity.

Co może łączyć emancypację kobiet, „Wesele” Wyspiańskiego i prapoczątki ruchu nazistowskiego? To zaskakujące, ale wspólnym ogniwem jest... rower.

This audiobook follows our ascendancy from just another hominin to the alpha hegemon on Earth today endangering its entire future. Along the way, humans outwitted their competition with phenomenal efficiency to emerge in the 21st century as the linchpin of a mass extinction of countless lifeforms cohabiting their planet. The shredding of our ecosphere by overconsumption of Earth’s resources by this species, and the combustion of deadly fossil fuels to acquire the energy needed to sustain their lifestyle, is threatening to drive Homo sapiens to extinction within the next 300 years.