Editorial Allen Lane
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The Golden Age
The Spanish Empire of Charles V
- Allen Lane, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
PVP: 38,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-084-6
EAN 9781846140846
Hugh Thomas brings alive one of the most extraordinary and influential moments in High Renaissance and world history.
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The Party
The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
- Allen Lane, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-173-7
EAN 9781846141737
China's secret rulers are the elephant in the room. They are the largest political organisation in the world. They control every aspect of Chinese life. And no one discusses them. Until now. Who are they? And how do they operate? Richard McGregor has spent twenty years reporting on this region of the world and he ...
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- Allen Lane, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9242-7
EAN 9780713992427
To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures.As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no ...
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- Allen Lane, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-359-5
EAN 9781846143595
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith. Something has gone profoundly amiss in our public affairs over the past thirty years. In the West, we are wealthy and secure enough to allow ourselves to drift very far off course before anything has to be ...
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- Allen Lane, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-169-0
EAN 9781846141690
Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply' of infatuation and on to the 'eternally' of love that lasts beyond the end of life, along the way taking in flirtation, passion, fury, betrayal and broken hearts. Bringing together the greatest love ...
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Pears' Cyclopedia
- Allen Lane, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1056 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-135-5
EAN 9781846141355
Continuing to inform and intrigue generations of readers with its unique mix of solid facts and fascinating gems, Pears' Cyclopaedia offers clear and concise information on such wide-ranging subjects as global economics, Norse mythology and modern cinema. Plus, some surprising and curious details about, among others, brittle stars, cloud computing and ziggurats.Updated regularly by a ...
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- Allen Lane, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-147-8
EAN 9781846141478
This major philosophical work, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals, constructs a new theory of justice, not from abstract ideals or notions of what perfect institutions and rules might be, but from what the results of a system are practically, in the world. It highlights the importance of public reasoning and argues that ...
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- Allen Lane, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-058-7
EAN 9781846140587
Famous for its ingenuity and wit, The Canterbury Tales is a major part of England's literary heritage. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth century London and medieval society. Incorporating every style of Medieval narrative - bawdy anecdote, ...
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- Allen Lane, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-097-6
EAN 9781846140976
All animals are equal - but some, as George Orwell said, are more equal than others, and birds, most people would surely agree, are in the very first rank. They can do almost everything that mammals can do - and more besides. By mastering flight, they have a way of living that encompasses the whole ...
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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human ...
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Once upon a time, luxury was only available to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty; luxury wasn't simply a product, it was a lifestyle. It denoted a history of tradition, superior quality and a pampered buying experience. Today's luxury marketplace would be virtually unrecognizable to the old-world elite.Gone are the family-owned ...
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Angler
The Shadow Presidency of Dick Cheney
- Allen Lane, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-162-1
EAN 9781846141621
For eight years the world has felt the consequences of an American leader who has managed to alienate natural allies, show his contempt for international law, fritter away the sympathy felt around the world in the wake of the terrible events of 9/11 and disregard threats to the global environment. This man was not George ...
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Travelling Heroes
The Greeks in the Epic Age of Homer
- Allen Lane, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 45,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9980-8
EAN 9780713999808
This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main sites in the story to describe ...
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Hitler's Empire
Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
- Allen Lane, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9681-4
EAN 9780713996814
Hitler's Empire constituted the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of the continent ever attempted in Europe's history. Liberalism and democracy were swept aside, as Germany aimed to turn itself into the most powerful state on the continent, and to compel everyone else to recognize its mastery. Europe's future was to lie in a ...
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Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; ...
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To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian, the first time any of the world's leading intelligence or security services has taken such a step. "The Defence of the Realm", the book which results, is an unprecedented publication. It reveals the precise role ...
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