Editorial Pimlico
Mostrando 61 libros encontrados (4 páginas)
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Teenage
The Creation of Youth - 1875-1945
- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-146-7
EAN 9781845951467
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- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-099-6
EAN 9781845950996
The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook. Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? Should you go to a castle or a monastic guesthouse? And what ...
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- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-915-6
EAN 9781844139156
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- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-130-6
EAN 9781845951306
In the years between the two great wars, the nations of the world, ravaged by war and depression, struggled to maintain a delicate peace.Torn between pressing social needs- record-setting unemployment and the threat of revolutions, Western Europe played for time in which to repair its economies and to strengthen its governments.No one wanted war: Britain ...
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The Enemy at the Gate : Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-741-1
EAN 9781844137411
* In 1683, two empires the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. * Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender to the largest army ever assembled by the Turks created an ...
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- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-115-3
EAN 9781845951153
Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and ...
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This study traces the sweep of intellectual development in Germany since the French Revolution. As well as chronicling historic events, the book deals in detail with the contributions of philosophers, poets and novelists alongside those of parlimentarians and generals.
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The Red Prince
The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe
- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-120-7
EAN 9781845951207
Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of his archduke mother, the German of his archduke father, the English ...
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- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-093-4
EAN 9781845950934
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent ...
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- Pimlico, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6846-0
EAN 9780712668460
No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Where Britain's writ did not run directly, its influence, sustained by matchless ...
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Justinian's Flea
Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe
- Pimlico, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-744-2
EAN 9781844137442
In the middle of the sixth century, the world's smallest organism collided with the world's mightiest empire. With the death of twenty-five million people, the Roman Empire, under her last great emperor, Justinian, was decimated. Before Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that carries bubonic plague, was finished, both the Roman and Persian empires were easy pickings ...
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Napoleon's Master
The Life of Prince Talleyrand
- Pimlico, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-742-8
EAN 9781844137428
He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task: flattery, courtesy and an alarmingly straight face. And he won. Quite as much as the Duke of Wellington it was the club-footed genius of French diplomacy who defeated the greatest conqueror since Julius Caesar. This is the story of Prince ...
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Stravinsky, the Second Exile
France and America 1934-1971
- Pimlico, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-9795-8
EAN 9780712697958
In 1934, Igor Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris and already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation. Stravinsky: The Second Exile follows Stravinsky through the remainder of his long life, which he would spend largely in the United States. These are the years during which he would ...
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- Pimlico, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-537-0
EAN 9781844135370
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- Pimlico, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-308-6
EAN 9781844133086
The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. To the peoples living around its periphery, it has served at various times as a cradle and a grave, a bond and a barrier, ...
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- Pimlico, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-926-2
EAN 9781844139262
I was exhausted at the end, x{0026} yet I am sure that if ever I saw x{0026} heard anyone in a true state of inspiration it was then.'So wrote Isaiah Berlin's secretary Lelia Brodersen to a friend in 1952, after hearing one of Berlin's Mary Flexner Lectures at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. Political Ideas in ...
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- Pimlico, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-8459-5015-6
EAN 9781845950156
Vasily Grossman's masterpiece Life and Fate is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of Stalingrad and Berlin. A Writer at War is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material. It depicts as never before the crushing ...
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- Pimlico, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-1-8441-3534-9
EAN 9781844135349
'Phiz' - Hablot Knight Browne - was the great illustrator of Dickens' fiction. For over twenty-three years they worked together, and Phiz's drawings brought to life a galaxy of much-loved characters, from Mr Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby and Mr Micawber, to Little Nell and David Copperfield. But, from the mystery of his birth onwards, Phiz himself ...
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- Pimlico, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,55 €
ISBN 978-1-8441-3932-3
EAN 9781844139323
In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing art of fresco; and, at twelve thousand square feet, the ceiling represented one of the largest such projects ever attempted. Nevertheless, for the next four years he ...
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- Pimlico, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-1-8441-3928-6
EAN 9781844139286
On the night of 13 and 14 February 1945 the RAF bombed the city of Dresden, causing devastating fires which obliterated the historic city centre and killed many thousands of people. Sixty years later these raids remain one of the most notorious, and also one of the most controversial, episodes in the history of the ...
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