Angela Saini The patriarchs

how men came to rule

Verkenning van de oorsprong en ontwikkeling van het patriarchaat, met een pleidooi voor het bestrijden van genderongelijkheid.

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Engels | 305 pagina's | 4th Estate, London | 2024

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Daniel Casanave | Yuval Noah Harari The masters of history

Stripverhaal over de geschiedenis van de evolutionaire ontwikkeling van de mensheid vanaf de homo sapiens tot in de 21ste eeuw.

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Engels | 275 pagina's | Harper Perennial, New York | 2023

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Sarah Ogilvie The dictionary people

the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary

De geschiedenis van de totstandkoming van de Oxford English Dictionary.

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Engels | 368 pagina's | Chatto & Windus, London | 2023

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Larry Loftis The watchmaker's daughter

the true story of World War II heroine Corrie ten Boom

Verhalende biografie van de Haarlemse horlogemaker en verzetsstrijder Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), die samen met haar familie onderdak bood aan Joodse onderduikers tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en concentratiekamp Ravensbrück overleefde.

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Engels | 370 pagina's | William Morrow, New York | 2023

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Jonathan I. Israel Spinoza, life and legacy

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Engels | 1313 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom | 2023

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Thomas Piketty Nature, culture, and inequality

Engels | 82 pagina's | Scribe, Melbourne, Victoria | 2024

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Nicholas Spencer Magisteria

the entangled histories of science and religion

Engels | 467 pagina's | Oneworld, London | 2024

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Paul Baker Camp!

the story of the attitude that conquered the world

Non-fictie

Engels | 297 pagina's | Footnote, London | 2024

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David Graeber Pirate enlightenment, or the real libertalia

Engels | 175 pagina's | Penguin Books, [London], UK | 2024

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Kirsty Loehr A Short History of queer women

Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. ?But historians famously care about women!?, said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who sailed the seas together disguised as pirates, to US football captain Megan Rapinoe declaring ?You can?t win a championship without gays on your team?, via countless literary salons and tuxedos, A Short History of Queer Women sets the record straight on women who have loved other women through the ages

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Engels | 208 pagina's | Oneworld, London | 2023

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Ferdinand Mount Big caesars and little caesars

how they rise and how they fall - from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson

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Engels | 304 pagina's | Bloomsbury Continuum, London | 2024

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Martyn Rady The middle kingdoms

a new history of Central Europe

Engels | 617 pagina's | Penguin Books, [London] | 2024

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Diarmuid Hester Nothing ever just disappears

seven hidden histories

Engels | 357 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2024

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Carol Spencer Dressing Barbie

a celebration of the clothes that made America's favorite doll and the incredible woman behind them

De mode van de Barbiepop, van de zestiger tot en met de negentiger jaren.

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Engels | 160 pagina's | Harper Design, New York | 2023

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Roland Allen The notebook

a history of thinking on paper

"The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At sea, the invention of the logbook expanded horizons on the journeys of Magellan and fellow discoverers. Artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso, thinkers from Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein, writers from Chaucer to Henry all created work forged in their notebooks. In The A History of Thinking...

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Engels | 416 pagina's | Profile Books, London | 2023

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Tania Branigan Red memory

Living, remembering and forgetting China's Cultural Revolution

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Engels | 284 pagina's | Faber & Faber Limited, London | 2023

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Bernard Wasserstein A small town in Ukraine

the place we came from, the place we went back to

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Engels | 289 pagina's | Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, UK | 2023

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James Fraser | Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones | Henry Cosmo Bishop-Wright Luxury and power

Persia to Greece

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Engels | 240 pagina's | The British Museum Press, London | 2023

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