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Navigations
The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance
NOVEDAD!!- Reaktion Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 356 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-702-5
EAN 9781789147025
Navigations re-examines the Portuguese voyages of discovery by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages grew out of a crusading ethos, as well as long-distance trade with Asia and Africa and developments in map-making and ship design. The slave trade, the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews and the intercontinental ...
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Mina Loy
Apology of Genius
NOVEDAD!!- Reaktion Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-554-0
EAN 9781789145540
Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe, and finally, Aspen, Colorado until she died in 1966. Flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde, she was a painter, poet, novelist, essayist, manifesto-writer, actress, and dress and lampshade designer. Her life involved an impossible abundance of artistic friends, performance and ...
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Pan
The Great God's Modern Return
- Reaktion Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-690-5
EAN 9781789146905
Part-goat, part-man, Pan bridges the divide between the human and animal worlds. In exquisite prose, Paul Robichaud explores how Pan has been imagined in mythology, art, literature, music, spirituality and popular culture through the centuries. At times, Pan is a dangerous, destabilizing force; at others, a source of fertility and renewal.His portrayals reveal shifting anxieties ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-656-1
EAN 9781789146561
The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much - or too little - sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to ...
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Dinner in Rome
A History of the World in One Meal
- Reaktion Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-674-5
EAN 9781789146745
'There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum', writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of The Eternal City, and global civilization. Food, he argues, is history's secret driving force. Viestad finds deeper meanings ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-360-7
EAN 9781789143607
In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan casts fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths and human sacrifice.While often described as 'stone age', the Aztecs' achievements were remarkable. They constructed lofty temples and produced fine arts ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-379-9
EAN 9781789143799
Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of 23, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with the rise ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-414-7
EAN 9781789144147
One should either wear a work or art, or be a work of art', Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde's self-creation as a 'work of art' and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde's inventive, provocative life, from his Irish origins - ...
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The Sumerians
Lost Civilizations
- Reaktion Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-415-4
EAN 9781789144154
The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BC. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 22,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-219-8
EAN 9781789142198
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- Reaktion Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 34,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-137-5
EAN 9781789141375
Spanish cuisine is a melting-pot of cultures, flavours and ingredients: Greek and Roman, Jewish, Moorish and Middle Eastern. It has been enriched by its climate, geology and spectacular topography, which have encouraged a variety of regional food traditions and `Cocinas', such as Basque, Galician, Castilian, Andalusian and Catalan. It has been shaped by the country's ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-051-4
EAN 9781789140514
Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural resonances of this most ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-929-3
EAN 9781780239293
Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World -Africa and Southeast Asia - this book shows how the historical preoccupation with Columbus's `discovery' of the New World of ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 17,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-716-9
EAN 9781780237169
Born in Budapest in 1905, Arthur Koestler was a pivotal European writer and intellectual who inspired, provoked and intrigued in equal measure. Koestler wrote enduring works of reportage and memoir but he is most famous for his political novel Darkness at Noon, which received widespread international acclaim. This book offers a fresh and unbiased account ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 19,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-650-6
EAN 9781780236506
During the first and second millennia BCE a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into the Eurasian periphery. One group of these people would find themselves encamped in an unpromising, arid region just south of the Caspian Sea. From these modest and uncertain beginnings, they would go on to form one of ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-672-8
EAN 9781780236728
Faith and Sword gives a concise history of what has arguably been the longest conflict in human history - a conflict that continues, in a new form, to this day. The overtly religious Christian-Muslim struggle lasted for nearly thirteen centuries, and for most of that period the Muslims were in the ascendant. The Christians eventually ...
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Can it!
The Perils and Pleasures of Preserving Foods
What do beer, cheese, yogurt, bacon, sauerkraut, miso and jam have in common? They are all preserved foods, and come from a culinary need as old as human civilization itself: the problem of alternating food scarcity and seasonal overabundance. Can It! celebrates the miracle of preservation, which has done so much to create the diversity ...
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The South Pole
Nature and Culture
The Geographic South Pole is a place of paradox. It is a point around which the Earth, quite literally, pivots; yet it has a habit of falling off the edge of our maps. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, but is nonetheless a much sought-after ...
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Phillips, Michael W., Jr. / Zorach, Rebecca
Gold
Nature and Culture
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-578-3
EAN 9781780235783
Ernest Hemingway has enjoyed a rich legacy as the progenitor of modern fiction, as an outsized character in literary lore who wrote some of the most honest and moving accounts of the twentieth century, set against such grand backdrops as the bullrings of Spain, the savannahs of Africa, and the rivers and lakes of the ...
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