<P><B>The creator of the hit podcast series <I>Tides of History </I>and<I> Fall of Rome</I> explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn.</B></P> In the bestselling tradition of <I>The Swerve </I>and <I>A Distant Mirror</I>, <I>The Verge</I> tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides of the same historical coin: the world-altering implications of the developments of printed mass media, extreme taxation, exploitative globalization, humanistic learning, gunpowder warfare, and mass religious conflict in the long term, and their intensely disruptive consequences in the short-term.<BR/><BR/>As told through the lives of ten real people—from famous figures like Christopher Columbus and wealthy banker Jakob Fugger to a ruthless small-time merchant and a one-a
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Bill Wyman has worked in the London borough of Chelsea on-and-off since joining the Rolling Stones in 1962, and has lived in the area since 1982. Over the past few years, Bill has walked every street of his beloved neighbourhood, photographing anything...
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<B>This cookbook spotlights the recipes, traditions, and tales of a popular New Jersey bakery that started as a tiny, hole in the wall but became a pillar of resilience for the community during the global pandemic. Montclair Bread Company not only...
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