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Un universo increíble y vibrante, curioso y fascinante.410 páginas. Más de 700 ilustraciones originales, riquísimas en detalles. Una cuidada edición y, sobre todo, una selección temática inesperada y, sin duda, genial. Si nuestra civilizacion estuviera a punto de desaparecer, ¿como podriamos reconstruirla desde cero? De esta pregunta y de la extraordinaria creatividad del colectivo de artistas Hungry Minds nace The Book.The Book es una enciclopedia del saber ilustrada que relata los descubrimientos e inventos cruciales de la historia de la humanidad, acompañados de unas ilustraciones maravillosas. Desde la rueda hasta las hierbas medicinales, el submarino y la psicoterapia, sin olvidar el arte y la gastronomia, a lo largo de veintitres capitulos se exploran las conquistas materiales e inmateriales que han permitido evolucionar a nuestra especie. Inspirado en algunos de los libros mas misteriosos e imaginativos de la historia como el legendario Manuscrito Voynich del siglo xv y la Summa Technologiae de Stanisaw Lem, sus fascinantes ilustraciones combinan el estilo retrofuturista con dibujos sumamente detallados que remiten a laminas renacentistas y a los codices, invitandonos a reflexionar y conversar sobre los infinitos caminos que hemos recorrido y los que se abren ante nosotros.Para soñadores, pensadores y personas infinitamente curiosas. Este es el viaje de la humanidad.LA HISTORIA DE UN PROYECTO UNICO:En 2020, un equipo de creativos, artistas y diseñadores repartidos por los cuatro rincones del mundo y que opera como colectivo bajo el nombre de Hungry Minds, lanza una campaña de financiacion en Kickstarter para costear la fase inicial de redaccion y diseño de un libro. Su objetivo es de 8.000 dolares. La acogida es inaudita: superan los 2.300.000 dolares. The Book se convierte asi en el tercer proyecto editorial de mayor exito en la plataforma de crowdfunding. A partir de ese momento, el equipo se consolida: al proyecto se unen cientificos y profesores universitarios expertos en distintas materias, ademas de redactores publicitarios, editores y correctores, dibujantes e ilustradores que crearan esta obra unica en el panorama editorial actual.EL TALENTO DE CONVERTIR LO ORDINARIO EN EXTRAORDINARIO. LAS MENTES DETRAS DE ESTE PROYECTO:Timur Kadyrov, Seva Batischev y Artur Stelmakh, fundadores de Hungry Minds, comparten una vision: transformar objetos cotidianos en autenticos artefactos magicos que sorprendan y despierten nuestra curiosidad. Su enfoque disruptivo y su apuesta por la calidad y la originalidad han convertido a Hungry Minds en una referencia mundial, gracias a obras que combinan el conocimiento, la belleza artistica y el placer de descubrir.

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Bestselling historian Frank McDonough tackles the subject in the same way as his brilliantly reviewed and bestselling titles in this series The penultimate title in the Hitler s Germany series the book marks the end of the Second World War and the end of the Nazi regime offering the reader a sweeping narrative tackling the major characters significant events of this horrific period of Nazi doctrine formed in their early years of the 1920s that would evolve into full blown genocide of a race of people by the end of World War Two The Hitler Years Holocaust 1933 1945 describes in detail the development of early persecution formulated by Adolf Hitler from as far back as the early 1920s placing in context what was to come once the Nazi Party gained power in 1933 the Nuremberg Laws to constrain the German Jewish population It covers the country s slow slide into a pre war policy of intimidation that would culminate in the murderous attacks on Kristallnacht the Night of Broken Glass As Europe marched into another global conflict in 1939 tens of thousands of German Jews had fled the country only to be swept up as Hitler s armies conquered all Western Europe With the invasion of the Soviet Union the secret meeting in early 1942 the Wannsee Conference wou

Todas las reinas de Cristina Morató reunidas en este estuche. Porque los mejores reyes de la Historia fueron reinas. Cristina Morató es periodista, escritora, fotógrafa y una incansable exploradora de vidas femeninas olvidadas por la historia oficial. A lo largo de su extensa obra ha revindicado un espacio central para las mujeres, ya fueran viajeras intrepidas, actrices inolvidables o reinas inmortales como las que protagonizan este estuche especial compuesto por dos titulos emblematicos de la autora: Reinas malditas y Reinas de leyenda. Reinas inmortales nos invita a descubrir las vidas de once mujeres cultas y valientes que alcanzaron el poder en un mundo de hombres: La Emperatriz Sissi, Alejandra Romanov, Cristina de Suecia, Eugenia de Montijo, Victoria de Inglaterra, Maria Antonieta, Catalina de Aragon, Isabel I de Inglaterra, Catalina la Grande, Carlota de Mexico y la emperatriz Cixi.

From the author of Dunkirk Fight to the Last Man and Enigma The Battle for the Code a deep dive into the Second World War s maritime epic in the Arctic In a reconfiguration of recent events in Ukraine it is 1941 and Russia has been invaded The terms of the new alliance were that Western nations would ship urgently needed war materials to Russia via the shortest but most dangerous route sailing north of the Arctic Circle while being hunted by U boats the Luftwaffe and a surface fleet spearheaded by Tirpitz and Scharnhorst This endeavour was called the Arctic convoys Battle of the Arctic is about the conflict and naval battles that unfolded while Allied naval and merchant seamen airmen submariners soldiers and intelligence officers delivered on this wartime commitment to Russia from 1941 45 passing through terrific storms snow ice and Arctic mirages When ships went down in seas so cold that a man could die after just five minutes of immersion it triggered events reminiscent of the do or die moments during the sinking of the Titanic As is shown in this description the aftermath of such incidents was harrowing Men perished one by one in lifeboats and as castaways on deserted Arctic islands where they were stalked by polar bears Frostbitten and wounde

From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history With the depth of a classic history and the drama of a thriller 1929 unravels the greed blind optimism and folly that led to an era defining collapse one with ripple effects that still shape our society today In 1929 the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders another drama unfolded one of visionaries and fraudsters titans and dreamers euphoria and ruin With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger than life characters whose ambition and naivety in an endless boom led to wreckage The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today s world where markets soar political tensions mount and the fight over financial influence plays out once again This is not just a story a

Few historians write with Serhii Plokhy s authority clarity or global vision Essential reading and a marvellous book Peter FrankopanFrom the bestselling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race from the first atomic bomb to todayOn 16 July 1945 the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J Robert Oppenheimer Now I am become Death the Destroyer of Worlds While the threat of mutually assured destruction kept a lid on a simmering and tense geopolitical landscape events like the Chernobyl disaster and near misses like the Cuban Missile Crisis showed that total destruction was only ever one malfunction mistake or miscommunication away Now as governments re arm their nuclear arsenals treaties designed to limit the acquisition and use of nuclear weapons fall away and nuclear weapons come increasingly within reach of non state actors we are on the brink of a renaissance of the nuclear industry In The Nuclear Age acclaimed historian Serhii Plokhy paints an intricate picture of a world governed by fear From the first artificial splitting of the atom in 1917 and the race to create the first atomic bomb in World War II through the fraught arms race of the Cold War t

Survivor Rebel Conspirator Mother and grandmother of kings Margaret Beaufort was one of the most remarkable and influential women of the Middle Ages Born the daughter of the Duke of Somerset into a century of conflict and a descendant of Edward III she was married at twelve a mother orphan and widow at thirteen and rode the vicissitudes of the Wars of the Roses and two further marriages to see her only son Henry ascend the throne of England as the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty She helped to bring about the marriage of Henry VII to Elizabeth of York a union that helped heal the wounds of a bitterly divided nation During Henry s reign she exerted considerable influence at court and played a part in the upbringing of her grandson the future Henry VIII She was a lifelong artistic patron and supporter of academia In old age she founded a professorship of divinity and two colleges at Cambridge University By the time of her death in June 1509 she had outlived by two months the son whose birth fifty two years previously had so nearly killed her Lauren Johnson s life of Margaret Beaufort brings its subject vividly and memorably to life She delineates the decades of political upheaval that were the backdrop to her long and resilient career and highli

A definitive new biography of General Franco that offers a new insight into his lasting legacy in Spain From a scrawny overlooked military graduate to the youngest general in Europe Francisco Franco was known for his ambition talent and calculated risk taking Yet his reputation remains a topic of fierce debate Did he destroy Spain and stifle its democracy or rescue the nation from left wing tumult In this compelling biography Giles Tremlett unravels the complex life and legacy of the enigmatic dictator who shaped twentieth century Spanish history This book will delve into the complexities of Franco s character exploring his volatile relationship with a domineering father his traumatic experiences fighting in Morocco and the formation of his authoritarian ideology The narrative follows Franco s ruthless leadership during the Civil War his alignment with Hitler and Mussolini and the subsequent Cold War era that brought him international rehabilitation Tremlett interrogates Franco s transformation of Spain through a lens that challenges the conventional view of him as a bumbling leader Instead he argues that Franco was a deliberate and pragmatic dictator who wielded terror to maintain an iron grip on power and whose lasting and most surprising contri

By 1942 Churchill faced a vastly different war than the one he d inherited from Neville Chamberlain Britain was no longer alone the Soviets were now an unlikely ally in the East and Pearl Harbor had finally pushed America into action Yet the scale of violence remained unchanged On average seven British men women and children were killed every hour of the Second World War The country would never be the same again In Advance Britannia historian Alan Allport reveals the war as it was lived from the battlefields to the ration books in the War Ministry and in the air raid shelters Mixing social history with dramatic storytelling this is a definitive account of the war that reshaped the world

Una obra definitiva y magistral de una etapa determinante de la historia de Europa. Nuevo prólogo de Timothy Garton Ash «Realmente soberbia. Una obra maestra.» Ian Kershaw En 1945 Europa se encontrab

Al igual que nosotros, también los hombres y mujeres del medievo estaban preocupados por envejecer, a veces les salían ampollas, sufrían indigestiones, se enamoraban y tenían hijos. Y, sin embargo, sus vidas estaban llenas de experiencias milagrosas y metaforicas radicalmente distintas de las nuestras, desarrolladas en un mundo donde las heridas mortales podian sanar de repente gracias a la intervencion divina, o donde el corazon de un rey, extraido de su cadaver, servia como simbolo eficaz de poder politico.En esta historia profusamente ilustrada, Jack Hartnell nos descubre los fascinantes modos en que las personas pensaron, exploraron y experimentaron su realidad fisica durante la Edad Media, desde Granada al Cairo pasando por Constantinopla o Bagdad. Repletas de santos, soldados, califas, reinas, monjes y bestias monstruosas, estas paginas arrojan luz sobre los cuerpos medievales, de la cabeza a los pies, y revelan al mismo tiempo el conocimiento medico sorprendentemente sofisticado de la epoca.Al combinar medicina, arte, musica, politica, filosofia e historia social, no hay mejor guia para comprender como era realmente la vida de los hombres y mujeres que vivieron y murieron en la Edad Media.

Accompanying the 4 part documentary series from multi award winning filmmaker James Bluemel It s been 63 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to ever go into space Since then only 676 people have followed him up there But now with huge technological advances bridging the gap between our planet and all that lies beyond that number is about to rise dramatically Once Upon a Time in Space is the human story of how we ve made it this far the remarkable achievements tragic losses left field experiments renegade characters and ever shifting powerplay and where we re about to go Featuring stunning full colour photography from both personal collections of astronauts and NASA s archives the human story of space is told through intimate and powerful testimony from the astronauts scientists engineers and space tourists who have lived it Looking ahead as we take the first steps towards becoming an interplanetary species Once Upon a Time in Space brings you closer to the incredible story of our next stage of evolution as the human species Life on Earth will never be the same again

This is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth century Pallant House in Chichester It s the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields built for a Huguenot silk weaver ultimately a synagogue It s also the story of among others a row of two up two downs in Toxteth a block of flats in London s East End and what Ideal Home s magazine described in 1926 as Britain s first modern house in Northampton Together these buildings reveal the ways in which English homes have developed and changed over the past few centuries At the same time as Dan Cruickshank shows they have much to tell us about the lives of their first occupants their aspirations their struggles their place within society and relationship with their local community The English House brilliantly weaves these two strands together blending architectural and social history to create a series of brilliantly observed portraits of fascinating buildings

The global powerhouse that is the United States of America is younger even than the British Museum Guinness and the flushing toilet In 2026 it will celebrate its 250th birthday How did this vast land long inhabited by diverse indigenous cultures come to be dominated by English speakers How has it grappled with the stark contradictions between its ideals of liberty and the grim reality of genocide and slavery This extraordinary collection of fifty distinct states has weathered immense and recent challenges including a Civil War that was still raging as the first London Underground station opened How did this melting pot of peoples and ideas not only endure but rise to dominate global politics commerce culture and warfare What insights does this rich history offer about an increasingly divided nation and the world that moves to its rhythm Is this the twilight of American supremacy signalling a shift toward a more introspective nation A Short History of America is rich with vivid characters from arrogant conquistadors and idealistic revolutionaries to imperial presidents and presents a narrative so astonishing it often feels like fake news This is a gripping must read for anyone seeking to make sense of our world today

Beyond Profit brings together the latest academic research on Purpose Driven Leadership and Organizations to show how leaders can create a Wellbeing Economy that is aligned with a sustainable future where we innovate and protect collective long term wellbeing through governance that works It is a must read for all leaders wanting to implement a coherent roadmap to meet the needs of the world we want it will help you ask critical questions learn from inspirational stories and be armed with an innovative approach to find answers that will lead to a better tomorrow Leaders make decisions with real consequences that are not just local but national and even global they impact matters of intense importance decisions with environmental economic societal and moral implications The reality of leadership in times of uncertainty and risk places an unprecedented challenge at the door of today s generation of leaders As a leader you may often feel locked into pursuing sustained growth and endless increases in financial returns while held back by less resources and more challenges around employees customers and new technologies Perhaps you feel overwhelmed and weighed down by responsibility troubled by the legacy you are leaving behind It doesn t have to be thi

From the bestselling author of FEMINA a brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been exploited over centuries for political nation building ends In LEGENDA bestselling historian Professor Janina Ramirez peels back the layers of time to reveal how the lives of women have been co opted by those intent on crafting national identities Their names are well known and summaries of their achievements have been recited in classrooms for decades but medieval women like Joan of Arc Lady Godiva and Isabella of Castile have been misrepresented their stories twisted and weaponised Meanwhile ground breaking 18th and 19th century women who blazed a trail through revolutionary Europe have been forgotten their legacies too easily dismissed or ignored Questioning established narratives and searching for the real women behind the legends Ramirez interrogates what defines a nation and who gets to build it shining a light on how history is so often hijacked to serve the ideological and political interests of the present PRAISE FOR JANINA RAMIREZ Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so called Dark Ages and reveals a vibrant world awash with colour and character DAN SNOW host of History Hit Skillfully brings out from the shadows the lives of w

Our obsession with land is the driving force behind human history It has sparked revolutions and fuelled economic booms as well as financial crises Land is the world s oldest and most important asset and it governs the course of our lives more than any other form of wealth But this immense power is also what makes it so dangerous In The Land Trap The Economist s Wall Street editor Mike Bird reveals a sweeping global history that shows how fortunes have been built or destroyed all on the bedrock of land It has become the linchpin of the world s banking system and it affects everything from soaring housing prices to geopolitical tensions From the speculative land grabs of colonial America to China s modern day real estate crisis this gripping narrative shows how the economics of land can make and break families businesses and even entire nations This is the book for anyone who wants to see beyond markets and money to the hidden game being played out on the ground beneath our feet

In this fully revised and updated edition of the best selling popular science book of the 21st century Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the world around them NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED Possibly the best scientific primer ever published Economist Truly impressive It s hard to imagine a better rough guide to science GuardianBill Bryson can t contain his curiosity about the world around him A Short History of Nearly Everything 2 0 is the result of his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization how we got from being nothing at all to what we are today Now fully updated to reflect the many scientific discoveries in the last twenty years since this book was first published it explains among much else why Pluto is no longer a planethow the number of moons in the solar system has more than doubled in 20 yearshow scientists used advances in genetics to discover previously unknown species of early humanswhy we still don t know what most of the universe is made ofhow the little Higgs boson transformed physicsThis journey through time and space will inform a new generation of readers young and old as well as those who read this book on first publication w