British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2024

Updated September 19, 2024
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Material world : the six raw materials that shape modern civilization
Conway, Ed
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them,...
The secret lives of numbers : a global history of mathematics & its unsung trailblazers
Kitagawa, Kate
Paper Book
The protagonists of this book won't be familiar to most readers. Pythagoras, Newton and Descartes seldom feature. Instead, it highlights the remarkable lives and works of a diverse group of pioneers, who fought millennia of oppression to leave a spectacular legacy of mind-melting ideas and theorems....
Smoke and ashes : opium's hidden histories
Ghosh, Amitav
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An acerbic, compelling and always accessible account of how opium corrupted the world' TLS 'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday Telegraph
Language city : the fight to preserve endangered mother tongues
Perlin, Ross
Ebook

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