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Do you ever wonder where the stuff around you all came from? No, not from eBay. I mean, who had the amazing idea of making a mobile phone or the annoying idea of building a school? ...

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  vychází 23. 5. 2024

What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigate...

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  vychází 30. 5. 2024

In Nottingham, England, widow Emma Taylor finds herself in desperate need of a job. She and her beloved daughter Olivia have always managed just fine on their own, but with the legal restrictions prohibiting widows with children from most employment...

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  vychází 10. 10. 2024

Karl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is one of the earliest and most powerful critiques of unregulated markets. Tracing the history of capitalism from the great transformation of the industrial revolution onwards...

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  vychází 20. 6. 2024

What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are?Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freedom can be taken away from us...

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  vychází 27. 6. 2024

Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order...

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  vychází 6. 6. 2024

The influence Britain’s geology has had on our daily lives is profound. While we may be unaware of it, every aspect of our history has been affected by events that happened ten thousand, a million, or a thousand million years ago...

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  vychází 13. 6. 2024

A riveting history of Europe told through twenty-nine key borders that define the past, present and future of our continent...

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  vychází 6. 6. 2024

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history...

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  vychází 13. 6. 2024

Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos...

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  vychází 13. 6. 2024

Expands on the traditional 'Seven Wonders' to examine an impressive number of ancient marvels from around the globe...

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  vychází 5. 9. 2024

A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever...

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  vychází 6. 6. 2024

Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject...

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  vychází 6. 6. 2024

An in-depth overview of Ukrainian art from the dawn of Modernism in the late nineteenth century to the start of the Russian invasion in Spring 2022...

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  vychází 21. 6. 2024

Eighty years on, D-Day The Oral History is a fresh and significant new history of arguably the most important day of the 20th Century...

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  vychází 4. 6. 2024

In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man...

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  vychází 6. 6. 2024

The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge...

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  vychází 19. 9. 2024

On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture...

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Germany, 1918- a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to their core, revolution is afoot and the victory of democracy beckons...

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  vychází 20. 6. 2024

Petroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extraction from the earth in vast quantities transformed light, heat and power...

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  vychází 25. 7. 2024