Títulos en Mundial

Berättelser om sagoskeppet Titanic slutar aldrig att fascinera. Titanic är en av de främsta mytiska berättelserna i modern tid och har kommit att bli en av västerlandets starkaste symboler, för såväl triumf och kärlek som för tragedi och sorg. Claes-Göran Wetterholm, en av världens främsta experter inom ämnet, berättar i denna bok om människorna som var ombord på fartyget eller som på andra sätt hade med händelsen att göra. Det är ett intimt porträtt av riktiga människor och deras livsöden.

Vikingerne var vilde. De slagtede alt og alle med deres økser og sværd. Men hvorfor var de så vilde? Hvordan kom de rundt i verden? Og hvem var de allerstørste vikinger? Blev Grønland og Amerika virkelig opdaget af vikinger? Lyt med, og få svarene. "Carlsens Klogebøger" er en serie, der gør dig klogere på ting, du gerne vil vide mere om. Christian Mohr Boisen (f. 1970) er cand.mag. i dansk, forfatter, oversætter og fodboldjournalist. Han skriver for store dagblade og magasiner, blandt andet Børsen og Euroman.

Vulkanudbrud, epidemier og jordskælv har flere gange ændret historiens gang. Byer er forsvundet i aske, lava og flammer eller lagt øde af pest. Da den sorte død hærgede sidst i middelalderen, døde omkring halvdelen af Europas befolkning, og da en voldsom orkan 8. september 1900 ramte den amerikanske østkyst, døde 8.000 indbyggere i byen Galveston.

Da man efter Anden Verdenskrig oprettede FN, var det med håb om, at man ved at forene sig kunne gøre en ende på krig. Men det håb var næppe realistisk, og verden har set et væld af vidt forskellige krige siden. I dag er krigsførelsen takket være opfindelser som droner og robotter meget forandret, og selve definitionen på krig er i konstant forandring. Professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen efterlyser en mere realistisk forståelse af de krige, vi er vidne til i dag, og de midler, der skal til for at opnå sikkerhed uden at give vore frihed i bytte.

I USA börjar soldater plötsligt blöda ur munnen och öronen. Året är 1918 och den mystiska sjukdomen sprider sig med blixtens hastighet, och några veckor senare är tre kontinenter drabbade. Året därpå har femtio miljoner människor dött. Sjukdomen, som får namnet spanska sjukan för att spanska tidningar är först med att skriva om den, orsakas av ett virus. Senare forskning visar att spanska sjukan var en fågelinfluensa, som muterat så att den kunde smitta mellan människor. Världshistoriens farligaste sjukdomar har ofta hoppat från djur till människor.

Through the stories of 12 clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where 19th-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years.

On May 29, 1914, after a collision in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Empress of Ireland sank in minutes, taking 1,012 passengers and crew to their deaths. The disaster shocked the world but then was forgotten with the torpedoing of the Lusitania and the engulfing cataclysm of World War I. Now, in Dark Descent, acclaimed author and diver Kevin McMurray revives the story of this forgotten maritime catastrophe.

From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad, the migrants spent years dynamiting tunnels through the snow-packed cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laying tracks across the burning Utah desert. Their sweat and blood fueled the ascent of an interlinked, industrial United States. But those of them who survived this perilous effort would be pushed to the margins of American life and then to the fringes of public memory.

Freud's landmark work about the pleasure principle covering ancient times to his own: psychology, arts, literature, science, biology, and social science.

This is Buber's landmark work in psychology and philosophy as well as in religion.

Moving philosophy and New Age insights given long ago. The Chicago Post reviewer said, “The words bring to one’s ears the magnificent myths of Ecclesiasticus. The work of a great man.”

You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions. In this prophetic blend of history, theology, and cultural commentary, Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah reveal the far-reaching, damaging effects of the "Doctrine of Discovery."

Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them. Upending popular misconceptions and cartoonish stereotypes, Dolin provides this wholly original account of these seafaring outlaws.

Christopher Columbus was a Genoese navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean - funded by Queen Isabella of Spain - led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere.

From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally. Goeschel, a scholar of 20th-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and Hitler's key meetings and asks how these meetings constructed a powerful image of a strong Fascist-Nazi relationship that still resonates with the general public.

Since the Six-Day War, Israelis have been entrenched in a national debate over whether to keep the land they conquered or to return some, if not all, of the territories to Palestinians. In a balanced and insightful analysis, Micah Goodman deftly sheds light on the ideas that have shaped Israelis' thinking on both sides of the debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Contrary to opinions that dominate the discussion, he discovers that the paradox of Israeli political discourse is that both sides are right in what they affirm - and wrong in what they deny.

From the best-selling author of Day of Infamy: In the bloodiest island combat of WWII, one group of men kept watch from behind Japanese lines. The Solomon Islands was where the Allied war machine finally broke the Japanese empire. As pilots, marines, and sailors fought for supremacy in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and the Slot, a lonely group of radio operators occupied the Solomon Islands' highest points. Sometimes encamped in comfort, sometimes exposed to the elements, these coastwatchers kept lookout for squadrons of Japanese bombers headed for Allied positions.

Here, in heart-stopping human detail, are 21 personal accounts told by the men themselves. They are the stories of men who lived in hell and lived to tell of it. The battles of Gavutu-Tanambogo, Tulagi, Tenaru, Matanikau, and Guadalcanal are all covered through these accounts, which take the listener right to the epicenter of the Pacific conflict.

Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge - winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal - turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size. Lambert demonstrates how creating maritime identities made these states more dynamic, open, and inclusive than their lumbering continental rivals. Only when they forgot this aspect of their identity did these nations begin to decline.

In this remarkable work, renowned historian Professor Norman Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of the Polish II Corps or "Anders Army", and their exceptional journey from the Gulag of Siberia through Iran, the Middle East, and North Africa to the battlefields of Italy to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with Allied forces. Complete with firsthand accounts from the men and women who lived through it, this is a unique record of one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II.