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  • Sparks
    E.B Cohen
    From the first spark of fire to the dawn of artificial intelligence - the entire story of human invention in one unforgettable book. Three million years ago, on an African riverbank, a creature picked up a stone and struck it into a blade. From that single spark runs an unbroken chain - through fire, farming, and the wheel; the printing press and the steam engine; electricity, ...
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    22,84 €

  • The Middle Kingdom
    E.B Cohen
    Four thousand years of history. One unbroken civilization. The complete story of China - from the first emperors to Xi Jinping. No other civilization on earth has risen, fallen, and rebuilt itself so many times around the same enduring core. The Middle Kingdom tells that whole epic story in a single, sweeping volume - from the Neolithic villages of the Yellow River to the super...
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    30,11 €

  • The Guardians’ Republic
    E.B Cohen
    Three thousand years of Persian power, faith, and survival - in one definitive volume. For more than four decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has defied easy explanation. It is at once an ancient civilization and a revolutionary theocracy, a sophisticated society and a security state, a regional superpower and a regime at war with its own people. To understand it, you have to...
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    25,93 €

  • Bread and Circuses
    E.B Cohen
    At dawn a million people stir in the greatest city the ancient world had ever built. In the apartment blocks the poor climb down five flights to buy hot food from a street counter; in the great houses the master receives his clients; water pours from a thousand fountains along stone channels that run for miles; and across the city, on the drained lake of a mad emperor’s palace,...
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    32,05 €

  • The Invisible Enemy
    E.B Cohen
    In the spring of 542, a sickness with no name reached the greatest city on earth. Within weeks it was killing thousands of the people of Constantinople every day; the emperor Justinian, at the height of his dream to restore the Roman world, caught it and barely survived; and the dead were stacked in the towers of the sea-wall because there was no ground left to bury them. It wa...
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    29,08 €

  • The Two Spains
    E.B Cohen
    In the summer of 1936 a group of generals rose against Spain’s elected Republic, and within days a modern European country had split in two. What followed was not one war but many at once: a war of armies, a war of ideas, a war of nations fought on Spanish soil, and a savage war of neighbor against neighbor. The Two Spains is the epic, human, and astonishingly clear story of th...
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    33,05 €

  • The Machine That Learns
    E.B Cohen
    You typed a sentence into a box on a screen, and a machine answered like a person. In that small vertigo lies the story of our age. The Machine That Learns is the gripping, human, and astonishingly clear account of artificial intelligence - how it works, where it came from, what it can and cannot do, and where it might be taking us. From Alan Turing’s haunting question in 1950,...
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    29,02 €

  • The House of the Muses
    E.B Cohen
    Almost everyone carries a picture of it: a great hall of columns and scrolls, consumed in a single catastrophic blaze, the knowledge of antiquity turning to smoke, a thousand years of progress stolen in a night. It is a magnificent picture. It is also almost entirely wrong. The House of the Muses tells the true story of the Library of Alexandria, from its founding by a dynasty ...
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    29,09 €

  • The Thinking Sand
    E.B Cohen
    Reach into your pocket. The phone you are holding contains a fingernail of silicon etched with more electrical switches than there are human beings who have ever lived - and it is made, at its root, from sand. The Thinking Sand is the epic, human, and astonishingly clear story of how humanity took the commonest material on Earth and taught it to count, to remember, and finally ...
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    25,96 €

  • The Made World
    E.B Cohen
    Put on a modern virtual-reality headset and something strange happens in the first few seconds: your body believes the lie. You flinch at a ledge that is not there, reach for a rail made of light, forget the room you are standing in. That trick - presence, the felt sense of being somewhere you are not - is the oldest new thing in technology. People have chased it since the Vict...
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    26,02 €

  • City of Ash
    E.B Cohen
    In the small hours of Sunday, 2 September 1666, a fire began in a baker’s house on a narrow lane called Pudding, a stone’s throw from London Bridge. Four days later, the medieval City of London - a square mile of timber houses packed along twisting lanes - was gone: thirteen thousand houses, eighty-seven churches, the Royal Exchange, the Guildhall, and St Paul’s Cathedral itsel...
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    25,63 €

  • The Talking Wire
    E.B Cohen
    On the tenth of March, 1876, in a rented Boston attic, a young teacher of the deaf spoke a single sentence into a crude wooden instrument, and his assistant, in another room, heard it come out of a wire. It was the first time in the history of the world that the living human voice had traveled down an electric line - and nothing would ever be the same. The Talking Wire tells th...
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    28,57 €

  • Salt Water Tea
    E.B Cohen
    On the night of the sixteenth of December, 1773, after the largest town meeting Boston had ever seen broke up in the winter dark, a body of men with soot-blackened faces marched to Griffin’s Wharf, boarded three merchant ships, and in three orderly hours threw three hundred and forty-two chests of the East India Company’s tea into the harbor. They harmed no one and stole nothin...
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    29,59 €

  • The Machine at the Wheel
    E.B Cohen
    For a hundred years we dreamed of a car that would drive itself, and for a hundred years we got it wrong. We buried cables in highways and built radio-controlled stunts; we promised, again and again, that the driverless age was one year away. Then, in a single decade, it arrived - quietly, in the back seat of a car in Phoenix with no one in front. The Machine at the Wheel is th...
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    27,61 €

  • The Sun and the Wind
    E.B Cohen
    For a century and a half, catching the sun and the wind was a curiosity - a French inventor’s steam engine driven by mirrors, a Vermont mountaintop turbine that shed a blade in a gale, a delicate silicon wafer built to power satellites because nothing on Earth could afford it. Then, in the span of a single generation, the price of solar electricity fell by more than ninety perc...
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    25,19 €

  • The War of 1812
    E.B Cohen
    In June 1812 the United States - a republic barely a generation old, with an army smaller than a single European corps and a navy of a dozen ships - declared war on the British Empire at the height of its power. For thirty months the two sides fought across a vast theatre: the frozen frontier of Canada, the decks of frigates on the open Atlantic, the forests around the Great La...
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    28,56 €

  • The Conquest of the Air
    E.B Cohen
    For most of human history, flight was the one thing we watched and could not do. Then, in the space of a single lifetime, we went from a paper bag rising over a French town to a metal tube crossing an ocean while its passengers slept. The Conquest of the Air is the whole of that story, told from the ground up.This is not a catalog of airplanes. It is the human drama of the most...
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    25,58 €

  • The Ordinary Millennium
    E.B Cohen
    For a thousand years - from the last Roman emperor to the first printed book - Europe was neither dark nor stagnant nor filthy nor stupid, whatever the word medieval has been made to mean. It was a world of villages that governed themselves, peasants who sued their lords and won, women who brewed the beer and ran the businesses, and scholars who never for a moment doubted the E...
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    25,44 €

  • The Fall of Rome
    E.B Cohen
    For five hundred years the Roman Empire was the largest, richest, most durable state the western world had ever seen - a machine of roads and legions and law that ran from the moors of Britain to the sands of Arabia. And then, across a single tumultuous century, the western half of it came apart in the hands of its own generals and the peoples it could no longer keep out. In th...
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    25,65 €

  • Moonbound
    E.B Cohen
    For all of human history, the Moon was the very definition of unreachable - a light in the sky to steer by, to worship, to dream beneath. And then, in a single decade, a nation that in 1961 could barely keep a man in orbit built machines that carried human beings a quarter of a million miles across empty space, set them down gently on another world, and brought them home again....
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    25,43 €

  • Deep Field
    E.B Cohen
    For all of human history, we studied the heavens from the bottom of an ocean of air that keeps us alive and blurs everything we try to see through it. The dream of this book is the dream of rising above that air - of lifting a great mirror clear of the atmosphere and letting the ancient light of the cosmos fall onto it undisturbed. It took three centuries of optics, a Cold War’...
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    25,53 €

  • Bootleg Nation
    E.B Cohen
    At one minute past midnight on January 17, 1920, the United States did something no modern nation had ever tried: it abolished its own liquor trade by constitutional amendment. The saloons went dark, the breweries fell silent, and a country of drinkers was ordered, overnight, to become dry.It did not work. Within weeks the first illegal whiskey was moving through Chicago; withi...
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    25,63 €

  • The Middle Passage
    E.B Cohen
    For more than four centuries, from the 1440s to the 1860s, roughly twelve and a half million African men, women, and children were carried across the Atlantic in the holds of ships - the largest forced migration in human history. About one in seven died at sea. The survivors built the wealth of the Atlantic world with their bodies, and built new cultures with their spirit.In th...
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    25,39 €

  • The Hundred Years’ War
    E.B Cohen
    For a hundred and sixteen years, from 1337 to 1453, the royal houses of England and France fought the longest war of the Middle Ages - a struggle that began as a dynastic quarrel over a crown and ended by forging two modern nations. It is a story of astonishing drama: the arrow-storm of Crécy, where common longbowmen shattered the flower of French chivalry; the Black Death, whi...
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    25,23 €

  • The Book of Life
    E.B Cohen
    In the space of a single human lifetime, one species learned to read the instructions of its own making. The Human Genome Project - the thirteen-year, six-nation effort to sequence the three billion letters of human DNA - was one of the hinge events of modern history, and this is its complete, human story.Written for the curious general reader, with no background assumed, E.B C...
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    25,45 €

  • Code War
    E.B Cohen
    Somewhere right now, a machine you depend on is being probed by a stranger you will never meet. It might be a bank, a hospital, a power grid, or the phone in your pocket. This is the ordinary condition of the connected world - a quiet, ceaseless war fought in code - and almost none of us know how it began or how it works.In Code War, E.B Cohen tells the whole sweeping story in ...
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    27,50 €

  • The Feed
    E.B Cohen
    Some morning soon, before you were fully awake, you reached for a glowing rectangle and pulled downward with your thumb, and a river of other people’s lives began to scroll past. Roughly five billion other human beings did something like it the same morning. In less than a single lifetime, we have built a new organ of the species - a global nervous system of feeds and profiles ...
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    27,61 €

  • The Long Party
    E.B Cohen
    In 1920 America staggered out of a world war and a plague, exhausted and grieving. Within a few short years it was throwing the loudest, richest, most extravagant party in its history. The nation put itself on wheels, wired its homes for electricity, gathered around the radio, and learned - for the first time - to buy now and pay later. Jazz poured out of Harlem and Chicago and...
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    25,65 €

  • The Machine That Moved Us
    E.B Cohen
    For all of human history, going anywhere by land meant muscle - the horse, the ox, and the tired human foot. Then, in a workshop on the German Rhine in 1886, a frustrated engineer named Karl Benz fitted a small gasoline engine to a three-wheeled carriage, and the world began to change faster than anyone could have imagined. Within a single lifetime the automobile would pave the...
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    25,40 €

  • Words Made Metal
    E.B Cohen
    For a thousand years, a book was a rare and costly thing, copied one letter at a time by hand, so that a single Bible could take a scribe a year and cost as much as a small farm. Then, around 1450, in the Rhineland city of Mainz, a goldsmith named Johannes Gutenberg fitted together a cluster of ordinary crafts - a metal-casting mould, an oily new ink, a wine-press, and cheap ra...
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    25,43 €


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