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  • Tobacco

    A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization

    de Iain Gately ...
    "A rich, complex history . . . Deeply engaging and witty" ( Los Angeles Times).Long before Columbus arrived in the New Word, tobacco was cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes. But when Europeans began to colonize the American continents, it became something else entirely—a cultural touchstone of pleasure and ... Leer más

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  • Drink

    A Cultural History of Alcohol

    de Iain Gately ...
    A spirited look at the history of alcohol, from the dawn of civilization to the modern dayAlcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the ... Leer más

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  • The Queen's Pirate

    The Triumphant Life and Tragic End of Thomas Cavendish, Elizabethan Privateer

    de Iain Gately ...
    In June 1593, a ghostly ship drifted into an Irish harbour. Only 16 crewmen remained alive, and the deck was littered with the dead.This was the melancholy homecoming of the ship Desire, one of a fleet of five that had left England two years before, fuelled by dreams of Spanish gold and the glory of exploring the globe. The expedition's captain, thirty-one-year-old Thomas Cavendish, had been lost ... Leer más

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  • La diva nicotina

    Come il tabacco ha sedotto il mondo

    de Iain Gately ...
    Nel 1492, al suo sbarco sulle coste americane, Cristoforo Colombo venne accolto con offerte di pane, frutta e foglie secche. Colombo gettò le foglie in mare, ridendo del bizzarro dono, ma ben presto lui e i suoi uomini compresero il potere di quelle foglie, rimanendone affascinati. Pianta medicinale capace di produrre allucinazioni, inducendo stati di trance, il tabacco era al centro dei riti ... Leer más

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    Drink

    A Cultural History of Alcohol

    de Iain Gately ...
    Narrado por Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

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    21 hora 37 minutos

    A spirited look at the history of alcohol, from the dawn of civilization to the modern day.Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to ... Leer más

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  • Dirt

    A Social History as Seen Through the Uses and Abuses of Dirt

    Delve into the fascinating world of dirt in this history of culture, cleanliness, and our evolving perceptions of what is and isn't gross.In this engaging and often humorous study of life's imperfections, public health and hygiene authority Terence McLaughlin dissects our attitudes toward the filth that has accompanied society throughout human history. According to him, "dirt" is a matter of ... Leer más

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  • The Far Traveler

    Voyages of a Viking Woman

    The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse ... Leer más

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  • Whose Middle Ages?

    Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past

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    Think Like a Freak

    The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

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  • Abraham Lincoln

    The Prairie Years

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    This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers "a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us" ( New York Herald Tribune Book Review).Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up ... Leer más

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  • The Quiet Before

    On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas

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  • The Pity of War

    Explaining World War I

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