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After Tamerlane is an immensely important and stimulating work. It takes a fresh look at our global past. Our idea of world history is still dominated by the view from the West: it is Europe's expansion that takes centre-stage. But for much of the six-hundred year span of this book. Asia's great empires seemed much more than a match for the ...
15 de ene. de 1989 · The Kennedy book is a worthwhile read providing it is read bearing in mind the constraints of its two dimensional limitations; being economics and the military, and the belief that they are the causes of the social, political, etc, rise and fall of a great power [as he states on page 439] for the book has a great deal to offer.
3 de oct. de 2023 · AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 • One of Pure Wow's 42 Book to Gift This Year • One of Fortune's Best Crypto Books of 2023 "Going Infinite is in many ways Lewis at his best. He marshals a complex global story without losing sight of the delightful and revealing human details.
24 de abr. de 2018 · I bet it is not very hard for the majority of people to grasp the content of this book just by scanning its title. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte is an epically written summary of the amazing history of the dinosaurs, from their modest beginnings in the Triassic supercontinent called Pangea, through their remarkably ...
19 de sept. de 2023 · A NPR Best Book of the Year. The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.
Books. American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto. Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. Harvard University Press, 2000 - Political Science - 332 pages. High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post–World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects ...
9 de oct. de 2001 · In this book, Roger Lowenstein presents an excellent detailed narrative of the rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management. The book is aimed at a layman and does not require understanding of complex financial instruments - but that knowledge makes the story even more intriguing.
