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Historia och samhälle är för dig som tycker det är spännande med böcker om världens historia eller dagens samhälle. Vi kompromissar inte med varför vår värld ser ut som den gör idag. Därför är vårt urval stort och du kan hitta allt från krig, världshistoria och lokalhistoria till politik, religion och mytologi. Om du tyckte att ämnet historia var spännande i skolan hittar du bland annat historiska böcker om andra världskriget, annars kan du hitta bra böcker om Sveriges historia och andra historiska böcker. Om du å andra sidan vill titta tillbaka på de många olika samhällen vi har levt i hittar du även debatter och analyser om detta hos oss.
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  • - The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
    av Natalie Livingstone
    191 - 337

    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mistresses of Cliveden, an enthralling, sumptuous and surprising history of the Rothschild women

  • av Thomas Piketty
    257 - 327

    The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality.Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It's a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. But through it all, Piketty shows, human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship.Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. To keep moving, Piketty argues, we need to learn and commit to what works, to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality. At the same time, we need to resist historical amnesia and the temptations of cultural separatism and intellectual compartmentalization. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people.We know we can do better, Piketty concludes. The past shows us how. The future is up to us.

  • - How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
    av Ashley Rindsberg
    247 - 471

  • - The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
    av Michael Wolff
    171

    The SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER - now in paperback

  • av Diana Beresford-Kroeger
    281

    "A rare gift: an inspiring tale about trees, trauma and the very purpose of life." -Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Empire of the Beetle Diana Beresford-Kroeger-a world-recognized botanist and medical biochemist-has revolutionized our understanding of the natural world with her startling insights into the hidden life of trees. In this riveting memoir, she uncovers the roots of her discoveries in her extraordinary childhood in Ireland. Soon after, her brilliant mind bloomed into an illustrious scientific career that melds the intricacies of the natural world with the truths of traditional Celtic wisdom. To Speak for the Trees uniquely blends the story of Beresford-Kroeger's incredible life and her outstanding achievement as a scientist. It elegantly shows us how forests can not only heal us as people but can also help save the planet.

  • av Michael Ignatieff
    157 - 241

    From renowned intellectual and historian Michael Ignatieff comes a moving portrait of artists, writers, politicians, emperors, and poets overcoming tragedy and crisis an ancient tradition of consolation which will resonate with readers in our turbulent times.

  • av Walter Benjamin
    377 - 441

    Collected here are "Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," discussions of photography and the French writer, and previously untranslated pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, Valery, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.

  • av Jonathan Joly
    137 - 217

  • - Women, Art and the Power of Looking
    av Catherine McCormack
    147

  • - A History of Nighttime
    av A. Roger Ekirch
    171

    A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. 'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR

  • - How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall
    av Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    171

  • av Mohammed El-Kurd
    181 - 477

    In Rifqa, El-Kurd tightropes between statelessness and uncertainty, still one thing remains clear: "Jerusalem is ours! / The biggest punchline of all time."

  • av Michael E Haskew
    291

    Tanks is a comprehensive study of the key tanks and armoured fighting vehicles built since World War I. Arranged chronologically, each vehicle has a cutaway artwork labelled with key items of interest, and photographs showing both the interior and exterior, with full design and development history and detailed specifications.

  • - Winner of the Palestine Book Award
    av Susan Abulhawa
    147

  • av J. B. Mackinnon
    147

  • - (and Other Truths I Need to Hear)
    av Kate Bowler
    157

    She explores both the comically absurd and the profound, from attempting to remove bestsellers by hollow self-help gurus from the hospital gift shop while still attached to a drip, to crawling into bed with a four-year-old dragon after his birthday party, as mere minutes transform into a transcendent moment, hovering outside of time.

  • - Dispatches from an Alternative Present
    av Yanis Varoufakis
    157

    Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like.

  • - Your Guide to Being an Active Ally of Inclusion in the Workplace
    av Poornima Luthra
    421

    Dr. Poornima Luthra challenges us to diversify diversity and address biases, and guides us on how to be an active ally of inclusion in the workplace.

  • - Including a Step-by-Step Translation
    av Lao Tzu
    281

    The Dao De Jing (also called the Tao Te Ching) was written more than 2,500 years ago and is considered one of the most important books in world literature. Coming in at only 5,000 Chinese characters, its timeless wisdom has inspired millions of people around the world and serves as one of the cornerstones of the Taoist religion.It has been translated into English many, many times, but this new work by the best-selling writing team of Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang is much more than a translation. The authors have taken the unusual step of not just giving you the English translation, but also showing, word by word, how one gets from the original Chinese characters to the English version.Each of the 81 short chapters contains a beautiful English translation, followed by a word-by-word and line-by-line breakdown of the chapter, showing the original Chinese, the pinyin (phonetic spelling in English characters), a word-for-word literal translation into English, and occasional helpful notes to help the reader better understand the translation. The result is a book that can be read casually, or studied carefully, or anything in between.This new translation expresses the DDJ in simple language that anyone can access. In their Authors' Notes they say: "This is a book for ordinary people, not scholars. Many DDJ translations have been created by scholars for other scholars, and while we have studied many of them and owe a debt of gratitude to those scholars, we feel that the DDJ's message is simple, practical and universal, and we want everyone to have the chance to benefit from it. We try to follow the guidance of Laozi in Chapter 70, who tells us, in his usual elliptical way: "My words are very easy to understand, very easy to practice. In this world, they can't be understood, and can't be practiced."It's impossible to do a 100% literal translation of the DDJ. Ordinary modern Chinese is quite different from Western languages, and the language used in this book is even more different. To start with, the original DDJ is extremely compact. Its verses have very few connecting words, forcing the reader to think deeply about the verse in order to tease out its underlying meaning or meanings. Some words can, depending on context, serve as nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs. Verbs in Chinese generally have no past, present or future tense, nouns have no gender (male/female), and no number (singular/plural). And to make things even more difficult, helpful little words like prepositions and pronouns are often missing entirely. As a result, translating literally from Chinese to English usually results in gibberish. Pepper and Wang have added just enough connecting words so that the sentence makes sense, while still expressing Laozi's thoughts as concisely as possible. They've also tried really hard to avoid the temptation to add things that weren't already there in order to make the sentence more readable.A Pocket Edition of this book is also available. The Pocket Edition contains only the English translation, not the original Chinese or the detailed translation notes. It's only 114 pages vs. 380 pages, and it's a smaller size (5"x8" instead of 6"x9"), making it a better fit for the pants pocket.

  • - How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    av Michael Pettis & Matthew C. Klein
    251

    A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers

  • - Mein Kampf
    av &#1040, &#1076, &#1086, m.fl.
    481

  • - Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming
    av Steven L. Kent
    297

    The definitive behind-the-scenes history of video games’ explosion into the twenty-first century and the war for industry power“A zippy read through a truly deep research job. You won’t want to put this one down.”—Eddie Adlum, publisher, RePlay MagazineAs video games evolve, only the fittest companies survive. Making a blockbuster once cost millions of dollars; now it can cost hundreds of millions, but with a $160 billion market worldwide, the biggest players are willing to bet the bank.Steven L. Kent has been playing video games since Pong and writing about the industry since the Nintendo Entertainment System. In volume 1 of The Ultimate History of Video Games, he chronicled the industry’s first thirty years. In volume 2, he narrates gaming’s entrance into the twenty-first century, as Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and Microsoft battle to capture the global market.The home console boom of the ’90s turned hobby companies like Nintendo and Sega into Hollywood-studio-sized business titans. But by the end of the decade, they would face new, more powerful competitors. In boardrooms on both sides of the Pacific, engineers and executives began, with enormous budgets and total secrecy, to plan the next evolution of home consoles. The PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Sega Dreamcast all made radically different bets on what gamers would want. And then, to the shock of the world, Bill Gates announced the development of the one console to beat them all—even if Microsoft had to burn a few billion dollars to do it. In this book, you will learn about• the cutthroat environment at Microsoft as rival teams created console systems• the day the head of Sega of America told the creator of Sonic the Hedgehog to “f**k off”• how “lateral thinking with withered technology” put Nintendo back on top• and much more!Gripping and comprehensive, The Ultimate History of Video Games: Volume 2 explores the origins of modern consoles and of the franchises—from Grand Theft Auto and Halo to Call of Duty and Guitar Hero—that would define gaming in the new millennium.

  • av Elizabeth Lim
    137

    Project Runway meets Mulan in this sweeping fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on an impossible journey to sew three magic dresses, from the sun, the moon, and the stars.

  • - Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD
    av Tamara Phd Rosier
    173

    Using the most current research and her approachable style, Dr. Rosier shows those with ADHD and their families how to create new thinking habits, identify unhelpful thought and emotional patterns, and apply strategies to change them.

  • - A Guide to Lore, Land, and the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner
    av Roger J Horne
    257

  • av Pat Barker
    147

  • - A Human History
    av Ed Douglas
    191

  • - A Daily Gospel Devotional
    av Paul David Tripp
    257 - 331

  • av Charlotte Fiell
    291

    This sourcebook is a season-by-season fashion evolution of the Forties, featuring original photos and illustrations. Includes analysis of the social, economic and cultural factors that influenced this period, and information about the major designers.

  • - An Intersectional Political Economy
    av Nancy Folbre
    367

    A major new work of feminism from the MacArthur Award-winning economist

Historieböcker

Historia är ett brett och intressant ämne eftersom det täcker hela vårt förflutna. Vårt sortiment består därför också av många olika historieböcker, så det borde definitivt finnas en spännande bok som faller i din smak. Vi älskar historia, och om du också tycker att det är intressant att veta hur och varför vår värld ser ut som den gör idag, skynda dig då att hitta en bok i vårt stora utbud. Sveriges historia är spännande för många svenskar att läsa om, och här är boken "Sveriges historia" av Björn Höglund intressant. Här fokuserar författaren på de människor, förhållanden och händelser som på gott och ont har satt sina spår i Sveriges historia tillsammans med massor av härliga illustrationer som gör det hela mer lättillgängligt.
Förutom att vi erbjuder böcker om Sveriges historia, erbjuder vi också historiska böcker om händelser i andra länder. Om du har ett stort intresse för historiska böcker om andra världskriget och till exempel vill bli klokare om de många politiska strategierna och om Sveriges agerande under kriget, kan en rekommendation från Tales.se vara boken ”Hitler, Stalin och Sverige” av John Gullmour.
Vårt urval kan vara relevant för både dig som studerar, men också för dig som vill läsa böcker om litteraturhistorien med ditt barn. Här blir du klokare på historien, samtidigt som du ger ditt barn en bakgrundskunskap och förståelse för vad som på gott och ont har påverkat den värld vi lever i idag.



Böcker om samhället

Ett samhälle är en gemenskap av individer och det förändras mycket genom historien. Samhället vi har levt i har haft många olika faser, vilket har gjort att vårt stora urval har varit en nödvändighet då vi vill ge alla en bok de tycker är spännande. Om du är intresserad av de konkreta samhällen som har funnits genom tiderna kan du hitta böcker om allt från det traditionella, det moderna och det senmoderna samhället till det humanistiska samhället.
Här kan du till exempel läsa om de sociala, ekonomiska och kulturella relationerna mellan befolkningen, eftersom det har varit stora fluktuationer över tiden. Om du till exempel är intresserad av Kväkarna, kan en bok som ”Kväkarnas människosyn” av Henning E. Sandström vara en spännande bok att läsa. En fascinerande berättelse om kväkarna i det förflutna, nuet och framtiden. Annars kanske du tycker att boken ”Society without God” av Phil Zuckerman är intressant? Boken behandlar många frågor om hur vårt samhälle kan fungera när Sverige tror mycket mindre på Gud än resten av världen. Vi har en bok för alla.

På Tales.se hittar du därför ett stort urval av svenska och utländska böcker, som ger en inblick i hur historien har påverkat vår värld. Vi har också böcker om den värld vi lever i idag och vilka svåra samhällen människor har varit med om tidigare och naturligtvis vilket inflytande det har haft på oss idag. Så skynda dig att utforska vårt historiska universum och lär dig mer om världens historia.

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