Katastrofy jsou ze své podstaty těžko předvídatelné. Neexistuje žádný historický cyklus, který by nám pomohl předvídat příští pandemie, zemětřesení, požáry, fin ...
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A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field What cause ...
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What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a who ...
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'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Times A compellin ...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtMost history is about the people at the top of th ...
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The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing populati ...
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The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all re ...
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Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval It ...
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Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no ...
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Most history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares? Niall ...
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Shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book Awards Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction The most enchanting novel you'll read ...
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Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013 In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant ...
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Britský historik Niall Ferguson, autor řady vysoce oceňovaných publikací (naposledy např. Civilizace), ve své nové práci analyzuje podoby mocenského vlivu. Jedn ...
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Drawing not only on Kissinger's hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, this is the history of ...
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'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric Schmidt'The most brilliant British historian of his generation' The TimesWhat if ever ...
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, ačkoli k tomu postrádala jakékoli předpoklady a ačkoli z hlediska technických inovací za „zbytkem světa“ v mnohém velmi pokulhávala. Spolu s tím se ale zárov ...
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Ráno vyjíždějí z Liverpoolu dva tvrdí chlapi, mají za úkol najít jednorukého feťáka a potrestat ho za starý podraz. Jsou to ostří hoši jako vystřižení z filmů G ...
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Riveting ...this will be his masterpiece' - Andrew Roberts, The New York Times 'For big, bold and compelling, it is impossible to ignore Kissinger' - John Bew, ...
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A remote stage-coach station is closing down and a small group of travellers are thrown together on the last wagon out: the mysterious Doctor Favor and his wife ...
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A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore LeonardOrdell and Louis have picked the wrong woman to kidnap…They thought it would be easy money. ...
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An unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen. Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, b ...
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