“Lascelles has achieved the seemingly impossible: a concise and highly readable history of Catholic Popes that manages to be extremely entertaining and informative at the same time.”Gerald Posner, author of God’s Bankers"A brilliant book on a number of different levels. Lascelles has an engaging prose style and an amazing eye for detail and apposite anecdote. Surely only purblind Catholic zelanti will object to this outstanding analysis.”Frank...

Existe uma perceção cada vez maior de que o nosso conhecimento acerca da história mundial - e de como tudo se encaixa - está longe de ser perfeito. Uma Breve História do Mundo vem preencher as nossas lacunas. É de leitura fácil e não exige muitos conhecimentos prévios. Abrange toda a história do mundo, do Big Bang aos nossos dias, através de personagens-chave, eventos e impérios, desde o surgimento das primeiras civilizações, por volta de 3500 a. C. Há quanto tempo existe o ser humano? Qua...

There is an increasing realization that our knowledge of world history—and how it all fits together—is far from perfect. Here, Christopher Lascelles aims to fill the big gaps in our historical knowledge with a book that is easy to follow and assumes little prior knowledge of past events. He doesn't aim to come up with groundbreaking new theories on why things occurred, but rather gives a broad overview of the generally accepted version of events so that non-historians will feel less ignora...