Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Veteran & Vintage Magazine
Author: The Veteran and Vintage Magazine
Author: The Flying Lady
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rolls-Royce automobile
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Motor Sport
Author: William BoddyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
Gold: How it Shaped History
Author: Alan EreiraPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1036115356
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 651
Book Description
Gold is not what we think. It is usually discussed in the context of wealth and art but this book has a broader subject, so fundamental that it has been largely unremarked. Informed by a mass of recent discoveries and a South American indigenous perspective, it offers a new way of understanding the history of civilization. Gold has been coinage, treasure and adornment. But it has been much more, as the hidden driver of wars and revolutions, the rise and fall of empires and the transformation of societies. As the sun traveled east to west across the sky, gold, incorruptible and corrupting, flowed west to east, hand to hand across the world. That flow has brought empires to grow and collapse and driven plunder, conquest and colonization. It brought about wars and revolutions, empowered new forms of arts and science and created the capitalist consumer economy that dominates us now. All the gold people ever shaped still exists, shining as new; it can be mislaid but never decays. Right from its first appearance on the west shore of the Black Sea, long before the rise of Egypt and Mesopotamia, gold crowned the first proto-king. Ever since, it has been regarded as value incarnate with transcendental power. The quantity we take has been increasing steadily for 6,500 years. Now extraction accelerates. Our gold mountain has doubled in the last fifty years. Yet its price increases faster. While the quantity doubled, its buying power multiplied by six. What does gold do that makes us want it so much? As Alan Ereira reveals in this skilfully woven narrative, gold is the hidden actor that shapes our story.
Cars & Parts
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Periodical Publications in the National Reference Library of Science and Invention: List of non-Slavonic titles in the Bayswater Division
Author: National Reference Library of Science and InventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
History of Technology Volume 23
Author: Ian InksterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350018961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life--social, cultural and economic--and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.