The diary of a young girl

Edition

The definitive edition

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9780141315188

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940 FRA d

The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780553577129

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384 p.

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900 FRA d

The bomber mafia

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-

ISBN/ISSN

9780316296618

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-

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800 GLA b

One day, everyone will have always been against this

On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times. As an immigrant who came to the West, El A…

Anthem for doomed youth

The great Firs World War poet portrays first-hand the horror, devastation and futility of the trenches.

The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful …

Days of love and rage

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781668062173

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582 p. ; 24 cm

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-

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959 GOP d

A short history of the world in 50 failures

From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder, to the unsuccessful stint in medical school which led to a career in naturalism for Charles Darwin, to the missile detection system malfunction that almost sparked a nuclear war, the course of human history has so often been shaped by failures of all magnitudes.

Spice: the 16th century contest that shaped the modern world

Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find their elusive source. But when the Portuguese finally reached the spice islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competi…

Picture atlas

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780746098479

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14 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm

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Lift the flap

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911 FRI p