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Вниманию читателя предлагается книга великого французского математика и философа Рене Декарта представляющая собой перевод первой части его знаменитого сочинения `О мире`; эту часть он назвал `Трактат о свете`. Данная работа играет огромное значение в историческом развитии взглядов Декарта; в ней впервые изложены принципы общефизического учения Картезия и намечены контуры его космогонической теории. В книгу также…
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С конца IV в. и до XVIII в. украинская степь являлась территорией непрерывного обитания представителей различных тюркских народов, в тесном соседстве с которыми все это время находились предки современных украинцев. История этих взаимоотношений сложна и многообразна, однако данная работа посвящена главным образом их конструктивным аспектам. Автор предоставляет значительный объем малоизвестных фактов и делает попытку придать…
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Античность постепенно умирала… Если в истории культуры Боэций считается`последним римлянином`, то Теодорих, безусловно, явился своеобразным хранителем античной цивилизации. Когда в 476 г. рухнула Западная Римская империя, подвергавшаяся в течение всего V века постоянным нападениям варваров, огромные территории: Британия, Испания, Галлия и Италия — оказались во власти соперничающих между собой племен. Центр римской цивилизации, Италия, был…
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An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it’s surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted to…
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Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and…
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WINNER OF THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A SPECTATOR BOOK THE YEAR 2019’Brilliant. The best discussion of soldiers in combat, their motivation, behaviours and fears, that I…
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.’By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development’ Antony Beevor’Groundbreaking. You might have thought that we know everything there is to know about…
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‘Wry, readable and often astonishing… A provocative and absorbing history of the United States’ New York TimesThe United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by Canada above, Mexico below, and oceans…
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Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019’Astonishing, staggering’ Ben Okri, Daily TelegraphA groundbreaking history that will transform our view of West Africa By the time of…
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At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history — Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus Barbie — not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the…
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2014 AND THE PADDY POWER POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BOOK OF THE YEAR. Award-winning journalist James Fergusson is among the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the failed and desperate state of Somalia. This corner of the world has long been seen…
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‘Vivid, thrilling, a delight … Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and ecologist of global standing, and this is a compelling and authoritative narrative of the evolution of Europe’s flora and fauna, from the formation of the continent to its near future … an exciting book, full of wonder’ James McConnachie, Sunday Times A place of…
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From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany,…
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless…
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‘A training manual for our troubled times … It makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical judgements. … It is a book that cares about liberty, choice and a moral compass, that warns against hubris’ Roger Boyes, The TimesJohn Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian and acclaimed author of…
