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*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize* 'Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world' J K Rowling 'Inspirational and powerful' GRAZIA 'For sheer inspiration read I Am Malala' SUNDAY TIMES 'A tale of immense courage and conviction' INDEPENDENT 'She has the heart and courage of a...

The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day, Stalingrad, and The Battle of Arnhem reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last gamble’ in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium...

Written by a leading historian of Latin America, Conquistadors and Aztecs offers a timely portrayal of the fall of Tenochtitlan and the founding of an empire that would last for centuries.

The discovery of DNA’s structure is the story of five towering minds in pursuit of the advancement of science, and for almost all of them, the prospect of fame and immortality: Watson, Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus Pauling. Howard Markel skillfully recreates the intense intellectual journey, and fraught personal relationships, that ultimately led to a spectacular breakthrough. But it is Rosalind Franklin - fiercely determined, relentless, and an outsider at Cambridge and the University of London in the 1950s - who becomes a focal point for Markel.

This remarkable account has had an enduring influence on social and economic studies and has remained in print since its first English publication in 1885. It was written, in German, by a youthful Friedrich Engels, the son of a German industrialist, who was already concerned - even angered - by...

This Very Short Introduction introduces listeners to the dimensions of the Russian economy that are often ignored by the media, or exaggerated and misunderstood. In doing so, it shows how Russia's economy is one of global significance, and helps explain why many of Russia's enduring features, such as the heavy hand of the state and the emphasis on military-industrial production, have persisted despite the immense changes that took place after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. 

In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly path along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, researchers J. Steven Picou and Keith Nicholls conducted a survey of the survivors in Louisiana and Mississippi, receiving more than 2500 responses, and followed up two years later with more than 500 of the initial respondents. Showcasing these landmark findings, Caught in the Path of Katrina: A Survey of the Hurricane's Human Effects yields a more complete understanding of the traumas endured as a result of the Storm of the Century.

The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society - even if, after more than 200 years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. 

在两河交汇的泥土中见证帝国的崛起与崩塌，这段六千年的中东历史全景，将解答文明摇篮如何沦为现代地缘政治的破碎地带。无论你是在通勤途中渴望构建硬核认知，还是面对纷繁国际新闻感到迷茫，这部宏大且客观的听觉...

当大国博弈的铁幕在1950年的半岛轰然落下，这场深刻重塑冷战地缘政治格局的残酷冲突，却意外沦为一段鲜少被追问的历史空白。对于每一位渴望看透今日国际局势焦灼点、在专注聆听中寻求深度洞察的听众而言，那隆隆炮...

重力という地球の束縛を断ち切り、人類初の月面着陸を果たしたアポロ11号の軌跡を、専門知識ゼロから深く学べる歴史サイエンス体験です。静かな夜のベッドタイムや毎日の通勤電車の中で目を閉じれば、落ち着いたト...

During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years.

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule, and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination?

"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: ...

9 maggio 1936: alle 22:30 il duce annuncia dal balcone di Palazzo Venezia "la riappropriazione dell'impero sui colli fatali di Roma". È l'apice del successo di Mussolini: finalmente può vantare il suo Impero, che "porta i segni indistruttibili della volontà e della potenza del Littorio romano". Sono passati pochi mesi dall'inizio della campagna d'Etiopia, quando il duce ha fatto il suo ingresso nelle competizioni coloniali, dettato da motivi di prestigio "nazionale" e di consenso interno.

The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's ultimate defeat was to determine the history of Europe for almost 100 years. From the frozen wastelands of Russia, through the brutal fighting in the Peninsula to the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo, this book tells the story of the dramatic rise and fall of the Napoleonic Empire.

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians themselves think they were doing—how did they understand their world? What were the motivations and aspirations that guided their actions?

夹在罗马帝国、奥斯曼铁骑与哈布斯堡王朝的权力博弈之间，这片亚得里亚海沿岸的狭长地带如何在两千年的地缘政治撕扯中，淬炼出坚韧的现代民族认同？这是一部节奏紧凑、引人入胜的欧洲历史生存史诗。只需要戴上耳机...

当旨在摧毁城市的二战杀戮武器，在冷战的地缘政治施压下被改造为探索宇宙的阶梯，人类的太空竞赛本质上是一场没有硝烟的生死豪赌。在这个充满安全焦虑与核威慑的时代，每一次点火升空不仅是技术突破，更是大国之间...

絶対的な権力を誇った大国が、外部からの攻撃ではなく、慢性的な財政破綻と政治エリートたちの些細な選択のミスから静かに内部崩壊していく歴史の残酷なダイナミズムを鼓膜へと直接響かせます。朝の通勤電車の中や...