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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 664 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22880-9
EAN 9780300228809
A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22882-3
EAN 9780300228823
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period-one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22339-2
EAN 9780300223392
An updated classic that recounts the long hunt for Einstein's predicted gravitational waves and celebrates their recent discoveryIn February 2016, astronomers announced that they had verified the last remaining prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity vibrations in space-time, called gravitational waves. Humanity can now tune in to a cosmic orchestra. We have heard the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 11,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23221-9
EAN 9780300232219
Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22712-3
EAN 9780300227123
A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws' reputations are so weighted with legend and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22869-4
EAN 9780300228694
A strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, ...
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Libro · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22881-6
EAN 9780300228816
For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity's earliest days to our own contentious times In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion-from the dawn of religious belief to the twenty-first ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21936-4
EAN 9780300219364
An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities-revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, and regicides-that befell the mid-seventeenth-century world and wiped out as much as one-third of the global population, and reveals ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 178 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22644-7
EAN 9780300226447
In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimism, cheeriness, desire, idealism or adherence to the doctrine of Progress, bringing into focus a standpoint that requires ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22263-0
EAN 9780300222630
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21804-6
EAN 9780300218046
A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets, is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22640-9
EAN 9780300226409
We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words. David Crystal, a world-renowned expert ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22396-5
EAN 9780300223965
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion.Her poems cross historical boundaries ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22709-3
EAN 9780300227093
A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian Paul Rahe ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22642-3
EAN 9780300226423
Far from being a defect that may indicate Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, Draaisma claims, forgetting is one of memory's crucial capacities.In fact, forgetting is essential. Weaving together an engaging array of literary, historical, and scientific sources, the author considers forgetting from every angle. He pierces false cliches and asks important questions: Is a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 552 páginas
PVP: 35,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22639-3
EAN 9780300226393
A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22645-4
EAN 9780300226454
A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism's origins in the writings ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-1-85709-609-5
EAN 9781857096095
The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance Through most of Michelangelo's working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485--1541). The two men met in Rome in 1511, shortly after Sebastiano's arrival from his native city, and while Michelangelo ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21895-4
EAN 9780300218954
A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make-or destroy-the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded, however, Praetorian soldiers served not only as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22641-6
EAN 9780300226416
In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer's lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the ...
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