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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-355-4
EAN 9781847923554
It is selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist. A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilization, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 26,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-269-4
EAN 9781847922694
"Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing than the career of Alessandro de' Medici". (Hilary Mantel). In The Black Prince of Florence, a dramatic tale of assassination, spies and betrayal, the first retelling of Alessandro's life in two-hundred years opens a window onto the opulent, cut-throat world of Renaissance Italy.The year is 1531. After years ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 928 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-285-4
EAN 9781847922854
Given his status as arguably the most despised political figure in history, it is surprising that there have only been four serious biographies of the Fuhrer since the 1930s. Perhaps even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in how he came to power and how he exercised his leadership than in Hitler the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-367-7
EAN 9781847923677
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-395-0
EAN 9781847923950
Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-383-7
EAN 9781847923837
`The classic, groundbreaking account of women's lives in Greece and Rome' Mary BeardFor centuries, half the ancient world remained invisible -- until Sarah Pomeroy's pioneering history, which at last revealed the women of antiquity to modern eyes. What did daily life hold for women in ancient Greece and Rome? How many women read the great ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-100-0
EAN 9781847921000
The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, the Third Reich expended and exhausted all its moral and physical reserves, leading ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-335-6
EAN 9781847923356
In Ghettoside by Jill Leovy a high-stakes murder investigation uncovers the roots of a homicide epidemic. Based on the best part of a decade embedded with the homicide units of the LAPD, this gripping, immersive work of reportage takes the reader onto the streets, inside the homes and into the lives of a community wracked ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-325-7
EAN 9781847923257
Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as 'Manager of the Holocaust', he was able to portray himself, from the defendant's box in Jerusalem in 1960, as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-303-5
EAN 9781847923035
History's greatest tour guide is back. And he's ringing the changes. In a contest of change, which century from the past millennium would come up trumps? Imagine the Black Death took on the female vote in a pub brawl, or the Industrial Revolution faced the internet in a medieval joust - whose side would you ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-187-1
EAN 9781847921871
Countering the atheist claim that believers are by default violent fanatics and religion is the cause of all major wars, Karen Armstrong demonstrates that religious faith is not inherently violent. In fact, the world's major religions have throughout their history displayed ambivalent attitudes towards aggression and warfare. At times they have allied themselves with states ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 38,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-289-2
EAN 9781847922892
If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. But there's no need to feel guilty.Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility: it points to realms beyond our senses, serves ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-297-7
EAN 9781847922977
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and fight rather than run away. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-298-4
EAN 9781847922984
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity far beyond its European epicentre, it broke the century of relative peace and prosperity which we associate with the Victorian era. It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - pestilence, military destruction and mass death - and the ideas which ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-006-5
EAN 9781847920065
Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Francois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into the modern world. As a statesman and as a human being, he was the incarnation of the mercurial, contrarian France which ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 42,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-132-1
EAN 9781847921321
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-133-8
EAN 9781847921338
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-226-7
EAN 9781847922267
Today, we inevitably view 1913 through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart. Yet hindsight can obscure as much-or more-than it reveals. In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this "prelude to war" narrative and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-114-7
EAN 9781847921147
We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. But ...
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