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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-673-2
EAN 9781784536732
As ISIS seeks to expand its reach in the Middle East, its territory serves as a base for training and operations for a new generation of jihadis. Thousands of young people from the West, primarily from Europe, have travelled to join ISIS, re-emerging as hardened fighters with military training and a network of international contacts. ...
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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-529-2
EAN 9781784535292
New York is often described as the greatest city in the world. Yet much of the iconic architecture and culture which so defines the city as we know it today from the Empire State Building to the Pastrami sandwich only came into being in the 1930s, in what was perhaps the most significant decade in ...
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ISBN 978-1-78453-327-4
EAN 9781784533274
Eva Peron remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Peron himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-600-3
EAN 9781780766003
Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.' The elegiac words of the Battle of Maldon, an epic poem written to celebrate the bravery of an English army defeated by Viking raiders in 991, emerge from a diverse literature - including Beowulf and Bede's Ecclesiastical History - produced by the ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-670-1
EAN 9781784536701
Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks-historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-457-8
EAN 9781784534578
Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East--caught between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an increasingly forceful leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Genc has been covering his country for the past decade. In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides of Turkey's political divide: Gezi park protestors who ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-784-5
EAN 9781784537845
HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED? On 23 June 2016, UK voters elected to leave the European Union. The result was perhaps the biggest bombshell in modern British political history. In this new and updated edition of Denis MacShane's bestselling history of the UK's relationship with Europe, the former Europe Minister reveals the full story behind ...
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PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-759-3
EAN 9781784537593
Peter Wilding offers an arresting answer, plotting out a new course for Britain's troubled relationship with Europe. He channels the pride Britain draws from its heritage through the prejudice Britain has historically had against Europe, and proposes a new popular-based platform for British influence in Europe: 'smart power'. Wilding identifies how British leaders from Pitt ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 30,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-747-5
EAN 9781780767475
Ronald Reagan is arguably the most successful post-war American president. A transformational leader, he is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity after the stagflation-hit 1970s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and bringing about the shift to the right in late-twentieth century politics. In this new biography, Iwan Morgan shrewdly assesses Reagan's considerable achievements ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 22,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-390-8
EAN 9781784533908
Its literary history began to develop with the Romans and reached an early flowering when Arabic poets drew on centuries of literary tradition, together with the landscapes and passions of Moorish Spain. Later, Prosper Merimee, Byron and Washington Irving forged legends of exotic southern Spain that persist to this day and Spanish writers themselves captured ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-909-7
EAN 9781780769097
What does it mean to be young and Muslim today? There is a segment of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims that is more influential than any other, and will shape not just the future of Muslims, but also the world around them: meet 'Generation M'.From fashion magazines to social networking, the 'Mipsterz' to the 'Haloodies', ...
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PVP: 30,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-588-9
EAN 9781784535889
What is the Gulen Movement and why is Turkey's President Erdogan so convinced that the organisation and its charismatic leader were behind the failed military coup of 15th July 2016? The Gulen, or Hizmet, movement in Turkey was until recently the country's most powerful and affluent religious organisation. At its head is the exiled Muslim ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-691-6
EAN 9781784536916
For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on through ideas as varied as the legendary Hanging Gardens, the career of the biblical Daniel, and even the Apocalypse. More recently, the site of Babylon has been the centre of major excavation, yet the spectacular results of this work ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-541-4
EAN 9781784535414
In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though methodical and restrictive, life there seemed to suit Lawrence: "The Air Force is not a man-crushing humiliating slavery, all its days.There is sun x{0026} decent treatment, and a very real measure of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 30,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-488-2
EAN 9781784534882
To what extent does ISIS pose an existential danger to our world? Or is it merely a threat from the margins of inherently unstable states in faraway places? Should ISIS be feared because of its future access to weapons of mass destruction? Or is it simply adept at grabbing land as well as headlines? ISIS ...
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