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• Mythos Stephen Fry Engelstalig Paperback 9781405934138 Juli 2018 464 pagina's (3) he Greek myths are the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They... Vanaf 8,50 Bekijk exemplaren
• Meditations Marcus Aurelius Engelstalig Paperback 9780140449334 April 2006 304 pagina's A series of reflections, strongly influenced by Epictetus, which represent a Stoic outlook on life. It offers a range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the... Vanaf 10,16 Bekijk exemplaren
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari Engelstalig Paperback 9780099590088 Januari 2015 498 pagina's (13) 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? And what will our world... Vanaf 9,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• Orientalism Edward W. Said Engelstalig Paperback 9780141187426 Augustus 2003 432 pagina's Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial... Vanaf 14,41 Bekijk exemplaren
• Persian Fire Tom Holland Engelstalig Paperback 9780349117171 Augustus 2006 448 pagina's A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC. Vanaf 11,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• American Prometheus Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Engelstalig Paperback 9781838959708 Juni 2023 736 pagina's Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, published to exceptional reviews in both the US and the UK, American Prometheus is as compelling a work of biography as it is a significant work of history. Vanaf 16,96 Bekijk exemplaren
• Troy Stephen Fry Engelstalig Paperback 9781405944465 Juli 2021 496 pagina's (1) Stephen Fry's bewitching retelling of the legend of Troy - a tale of love and war, passion and power - following his sensational bestsellers MYTHOS and HEROES 'Troy. The most marvellous... Vanaf 14,41 Bekijk exemplaren
• Why the dutch are different: A journey into the hidden heart of the netherlands Ben Coates Engelstalig Paperback 9781857886856 Januari 2017 304 pagina's Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good.In the first book to consider the... Vanaf 8,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• SPQR Mary Beard Engelstalig Paperback 9781846683817 April 2016 608 pagina's Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of... Vanaf 9,50 Bekijk exemplaren
• African Europeans Olivette Otele Engelstalig Paperback 9781399804851 September 2022 304 pagina's A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent. Vanaf 14,41 Bekijk exemplaren
• Vietnam Max Hastings Engelstalig Paperback 9780008133016 Mei 2019 752 pagina's Vietnam became the Western worlds most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max... Vanaf 6,50 Bekijk exemplaren
• De politiek van het kleinste kwaad Bart van der Boom Nederlandstalig Paperback 9789024444878 April 2022 424 pagina's (1) De Nederlandse Joden werden tijdens de Duitse bezetting geïsoleerd van de rest van de maatschappij, in een getto zonder muren. Dat getto werd in opdracht van de Duitsers bestuurd door de... Vanaf 24,90 Bekijk exemplaren
• A Line in the Sand James Barr Engelstalig Paperback 9781847394576 April 2012 464 pagina's The untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East Vanaf 11,86 Bekijk exemplaren
• Revolusi David Van Reybrouck Engelstalig Paperback 9781847927057 Februari 2024 656 pagina's Vanaf 21,21 Bekijk exemplaren
• Meditations Marcus Aurelius Engelstalig Hardback 9780141395869 November 2014 351 pagina's Offers a range of spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. This book covers diverse topics such as the... Vanaf 11,50 Bekijk exemplaren
• The House of Hidden Meanings RuPaul Engelstalig Paperback 9780008614959 Maart 2024 304 pagina's THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing to date-a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black,... Vanaf 21,21 Bekijk exemplaren
• Persepolis I & II Marjane Satrapi Engelstalig Paperback 9780099523994 Maart 2008 352 pagina's CHOSEN BY EMMA WATSON FOR 'OUR SHARED SHELF' FEMINIST BOOK CLUBThe Story of a Childhood and The Story of a ReturnThe intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the... Vanaf 14,41 Bekijk exemplaren
• Mythos Stephen Fry Engelstalig Hardback 9781405955102 November 2023 464 pagina's Step into Stephen Fry’s richly colourful world of magic, mayhem, monsters and maniacal gods in MYTHOS: THE ILLUSTRATED STORY No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or... Vanaf 37,36 Bekijk exemplaren
• Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England Ian Mortimer Engelstalig Paperback 9781845950996 368 pagina's BThe past is a foreign country./B BThis is your guidebook. /B Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see? What would you smell?... Vanaf 8,50 Bekijk exemplaren
• The World Simon Sebag Montefiore Engelstalig Hardback 9780297869672 Oktober 2022 1.232 pagina's A thrilling, epic and original history of humanity from a dazzlingly fresh and global perspective, from the prize-winning, bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. Vanaf 35,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• Island at the Center of the World Russell Shorto Engelstalig Paperback 9781400078677 April 2005 416 pagina's In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual... Vanaf 10,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine Rashid I. Khalidi Engelstalig Paperback 9781781259344 September 2020 336 pagina's This is the story of Palestine told from the inside. Vanaf 14,41 Bekijk exemplaren
• Why nations fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson Engelstalig Paperback 9781846684302 Januari 2013 528 pagina's (1) Now shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this... Vanaf 9,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• Nature's Palette Patrick Baty Engelstalig Hardback 9780500252468 April 2021 290 pagina's First published in 1814 and expanded in 1821 – long before the era of colour photography or print – Syme’s edition of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours attempted to establish a universal... Vanaf 38,21 Bekijk exemplaren
• Humankind: a hopeful history Rutger Bregman Engelstalig Paperback 9781408898956 Mei 2021 496 pagina's THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry'You should read Humankind.... Vanaf 11,86 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Arabs Eugene Rogan Engelstalig Paperback 9780141986548 Maart 2018 736 pagina's (1) In a revised and updated edition, this is the extraordinary story of the Arab world. Drawing on the stories of individuals from soldiers to intellectuals, poets to politicians, it reflects... Vanaf 22,06 Bekijk exemplaren
• Heroes Stephen Fry Engelstalig Paperback 9781405940368 Januari 2019 400 pagina's (1) There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming... Vanaf 12,71 Bekijk exemplaren
• Putin's people. How the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West Catherine Belton Engelstalig Paperback 9780007583034 624 pagina's Vanaf 15,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• Tattooist of auschwitz Heather Morris Engelstalig Pocket 9781785763687 Januari 2018 275 pagina's (1) For readers of Schindler's List, The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes a heart-breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of... Vanaf 6,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs Engelstalig Paperback 9780679741954 458 pagina's Penetrating analysis of the functions and organization of city neighborhoods, the forces of deterioration and regeneration, and the necessary planning innovations Vanaf 18,66 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Real Anthony Fauci Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Engelstalig Hardback 9781510766808 April 2022 480 pagina's Vanaf 18,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• Vanished Kingdoms Norman Davies Engelstalig Paperback 9780141048864 Januari 2012 848 pagina's Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age. What happened to the once-great... Vanaf 13,50 Bekijk exemplaren
• Meditations Marcus Aurelius Engelstalig Hardback 9781529015027 April 2020 208 pagina's The private notebooks of Roman Emperor and Philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, published here with an introduction by John Sellars. Vanaf 12,71 Bekijk exemplaren
• Spare The Duke of Sussex Prince Harry Engelstalig Hardback 9780593593806 Januari 2023 416 pagina's #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in... Vanaf 17,50 Bekijk exemplaren
• Enemies and Neighbours Ian Black Engelstalig Paperback 9780141979144 Oktober 2018 640 pagina's A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish 'national home' in Palestine, veteran Guardian journalist Ian Black has produced a major new history of one of the most... Vanaf 9,50 Bekijk exemplaren
• Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India Shashi Tharoor Engelstalig Pocket 9780141987149 288 pagina's In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from... Vanaf 14,41 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz Heather Morris Paperback 9781785763670 368 pagina's Vanaf 7,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Dawn of Everything David Graeber, David Wengrow Engelstalig Paperback 9780141991061 Juni 2022 720 pagina's THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday... Vanaf 12,50 Bekijk exemplaren
• Meditations Marcus Aurelius Engelstalig Paperback 9781474620949 April 2021 208 pagina's (2) How to live a better life. One of the most important books on Western philosophy - a powerful and inspirational guide for the complicated world of today Vanaf 11,86 Bekijk exemplaren
• Pax Romana: War, Peace & Conquest in the Roman World Adrian Goldsworthy Engelstalig Paperback 9781474604376 514 pagina's The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took... Vanaf 11,95 Bekijk exemplaren