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  • The Stories Old Towns Tell

    A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe

    de Marek Kohn ...
    A journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history“[A] fascinating chronicle.”—Benjamin Balint, Wall Street JournalHistoric quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now ... Leer más

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  • Dope Girls

    The Birth Of The British Drug Underground

    de Marek Kohn ...
    This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. They were ... Leer más

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  • Four Words for Friend

    Why Using More Than One Language Matters Now More Than Ever

    de Marek Kohn ...
    A compelling argument about the importance of using more than one language in today’s worldIn a world that has English as its global language and rapidly advancing translation technology, it’s easy to assume that the need to use more than one language will diminish—but Marek Kohn argues that plural language use is more important than ever. In a divided world, it helps us to understand ourselves ... Leer más

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  • Four Words for Friend

    Why Using More Than One Language Matters Now More Than Ever

    de Marek Kohn ...
    A compelling argument about the importance of using more than one language in today’s worldIn a world that has English as its global language and rapidly advancing translation technology, it’s easy to assume that the need to use more than one language will diminish—but Marek Kohn argues that plural language use is more important than ever. In a divided world, it helps us to understand ourselves ... Leer más

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  • Turned Out Nice

    How the British Isles will Change as the World Heats Up

    de Marek Kohn ...
    Marek Kohn - 'one of the best science writers we have' (AC Grayling) - paints an important and eye-opening portrait of Britain and Ireland after a century of global warming.Author of A Reason for Everything and Four Words for Friend Marek Kohn projects one hundred years into the future when, based on the climate change evidence we have now, some parts of Britain will be like regions of today's ... Leer más

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    The Stories Old Towns Tell

    A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe

    de Marek Kohn ...
    Narrado por Philip Battley ...

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    9 hora 11 minutos

    A fascinating journey through Europe's old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent's fraught historyHistoric quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of ... Leer más

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    **How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more?This internationally acclaimed revelatory history—"filled with first-person accounts from articles and diaries" (The *New York Times)—*of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors ... Leer más

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  • Hitler at Home

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  • Hitler's Art Thief

    Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis and the Looting of Europe's Treasures

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  • The Book Thieves

    The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance

    de Anders Rydell ...
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  • Moscow, 1937

    Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin’s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence.In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which 1 ½ million human beings lost their lives ... Leer más

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  • Forgotten Land

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