Una apasionante y divertida historia de la humanidad que da cuenta de los miles de años de pruebas y errores —sobre todo errores— cometidos a lo largo del auge de la civilización, para aquellos que desearían que Breve historia del mundo hubiera sido escrita por Monty Python.
El sobrecogedor relato del regreso de una superviviente al campo de concentración muchos años después. Uno de los escasos testimonios del Holocausto escritos por una mujer.
Más que una Revolución mexicana, tuvimos una Revolución maderista, una zapatista, otra villista... múltiples revoluciones que no fueron sino la suma de luchas y resistencias contra la opresión, largo tiempo acumuladas.
A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women, each striving for a better future in an unequal society.
An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England
The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can: running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern Wind is the anticipated next volume in Kynaston’s landmark ‘Tales of a New Jerusalem’ series
An acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world.
The remarkable story of an overlooked map archive that reveals how maps have helped inspire some of the greatest scientific discoveries, but also led to terrible atrocities.
Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies – and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet
