Editorial IBTauris
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-618-8
EAN 9781780766188
The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-283-3
EAN 9781784532833
What did people really believe in the Middle Ages? Much of our sense of the medieval period has come down to us from the writings of the learned: the abbots, priors, magnates, scholastic theologians and others who between them, and across Christendom, controlled the machinery of church and state. For G R Evans too much ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-826-2
EAN 9781784538262
In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Since 2002, Erdo?an has consolidated his hold on domestic politics while using military ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78453-699-2
EAN 9781784536992
If the Middle Ages form the present-day backdrop to the continents of Westeros and Essos, then antiquity is their resonant past. The Known World is haunted by the remnants of distant and powerful civilizations, without whose presence the novels of George R. R.Martin and the ever popular HBO show would lose much of their meaning ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-781-4
EAN 9781784537814
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-318-7
EAN 9781780763187
The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts are evident throughout his most substantial works, the incomplete but still remarkable Annals and Histories. In concise and concentrated prose, marked by sometimes bitter and ironic reflections on the human capacity to misuse power, Tacitus charts ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78453-724-1
EAN 9781784537241
In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78453-769-2
EAN 9781784537692
In thiscollection of polemical pieces, Foner expounds on the relevance ofAbraham Lincoln's legacy in the age of Obama and on the need foranother era of Reconstruction. In addition to articles in which Fonercalls out politicians and the powerful for their abuse and misuseof American history, Foner assesses some of his fellow leadinghistorians of the late ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-793-2
EAN 9781780767932
In 1917 revolutionary fervour swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and instigating political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. Arising out of proletariat discontent with the Tsarist autocracy and Lenin's proclaimed version of a Marxist ideology, the revolutionary period saw a complete overhaul of Russian politics ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-764-7
EAN 9781784537647
In this classic account, Bernard Wasserstein draws on the files of the Shanghai Police as well as the intelligence archives of the many countries involved, to provide the definitive story of Shanghai's secret war. Bernard Wasserstein introduces the British, American and Australian individuals who collaborated with the Axis powers as well as subversive warfare operatives ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-763-0
EAN 9781784537630
His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach's mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother found sanctuary with a family of Communists and Orbach - under the assumed identity of Gerhard Peters - entered Berlin's underworld of 'divers'. He scraped a living by ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-187-9
EAN 9781780761879
In this remarkable and original book, Sean Redmond examines the issues and themes that are repeatedly found across a range of contemporary science fiction films and television programmes. He argues that they reveal the profound effects the digital age has had on our social lives. Through narratives that feature the 'post-human', genetic engineering and cloning, ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-715-9
EAN 9781784537159
She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar. From The Virgin Suicides to The Bling Ring, her work carves out new spaces for the expression of female subjectivity that embraces rather than rejects ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-260-9
EAN 9781780762609
He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce, conceptualise and discover art. Badiou Reframed is an original book about an original thinker which ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-696-1
EAN 9781784536961
The rapid expansion of ISIS and its swathe of territorial gains across the Middle East have been headline news since 2013. Yet much media attention and analysis has been focussed upon the military exploits, brutal tactics and radicalisation methods employed by the group. While ISIS remains a relatively new phenomenon, it is important to consider ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-608-4
EAN 9781784536084
How corrupt is the West? Europe and North America's formal self-perception is one of high standards in public life. And yet, corruption is receiving ever greater attention in the European, American and Canadian press, with high-profile cases affecting both the corporate and political worlds. This book identifies the driving forces behind such cases, particularly the ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-144-7
EAN 9781784531447
The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The 'Napoleonic Mediterranean' was composed of almost the entirety of the western, European lands bordering its northern shores, however tenuously many of those ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-463-9
EAN 9781784534639
One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more civilian deaths than perhaps any other historical ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-708-1
EAN 9781784537081
The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups has prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation, permitting the collection of communications data. This provides journalism with acute dilemmas. The media claims responsibility for holding power to account, yet cannot know more than superficial details about the newly ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-890-9
EAN 9781848858909
After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one time an advisor at court to Nero, Seneca and his political career came to ruin when he was implicated in a later plot to kill the capricious and ...
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