Editorial Tauris Parke
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- Tauris Parke, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 29,35 €
ISBN 978-1-83860-170-6
EAN 9781838601706
Much of our perception of Babylon in the West is filtered through the poignant echoes of loss and longing that resonate in the Hebrew Bible. The lamenting exiles of Judah craved a return to their lost homeland after the sack of Jerusalem in 587 BC and their forcible removal by Nebuchadnezzar to the alien floodlands ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 28,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78831-995-9
EAN 9781788319959
Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential non-conformist to a figure made up at various points of selfishness, hypocrisy, self-delusion, narcissism, and arbitrary vindictiveness. Richard Bradford shows that Hemingway's work is by parts erratic and unique because it was tied into these ...
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News from Tartary
An Epic Journey Across Central Asia
- Tauris Parke, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,35 €
ISBN 978-1-83860-034-1
EAN 9781838600341
News from Tartary is the account of a journey from Peking to Kashmir, made in 1935 by that legendary adventurer, Peter Fleming. It lasted seven months and covered about 3,500 miles. The route chosen by Fleming and his companion, adventurer and writer Ella Maillart, took them westwards across a China torn by civil war to ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-314-0
EAN 9781848853140
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Death
Antiquity and its Legacy
- Tauris Parke, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-557-1
EAN 9781848855571
Personal and yet utterly universal, inevitable and yet unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures, since earliest times. Different societies address death and the act of dying in culturally diverse ways; yet, remarkably, across the span of several millennia, we can recognize in the customs of ancient Greece and Rome ceremonies and ...
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Race
Antiquity and its Legacy
- Tauris Parke, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-158-0
EAN 9781848851580
How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person's physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising ethnic disparity. The colour of one's ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 25,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-977-7
EAN 9781848859777
Albert: Prince Consort to Queen Victoria, social and cultural visionary in his own right, was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld but defined the culture and direction of 19th century Britain - a superpower at the zenith of its influence - more than any other British royal or politician. Although he pleaded with his ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-312-6
EAN 9781848853126
'There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical.' Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient land steeped in mystery, myth and legend. Home to the fiery chimera and to the great heroes Sarpedon and ...
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The Great Humanists
European Thought on the Eve of the Reformation
- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-082-8
EAN 9781848850828
Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil of sixteenth-century Europe to survive in a new form in post-Reformation thought. Jonathan Arnold here explores the finest intellects of late-Renaissance Europe, providing an essential guide to the most important scholars, priests, theologians ...
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English Traits
A Portrait of 19th Century England
- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 196 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-588-5
EAN 9781848855885
Emerson visited England twice - in 1833 and again in 1847. On his first visit, as a young and unpublished writer, he travelled to meet the men whose works had inspired him, the giants of 19th century English literature. With Coleridge, 'old and preoccupied' in the year before his death, Emerson discussed religion and the ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,48 €
ISBN 9781848857032
EAN 9781848857032
Who were the men who helped Hitler establish the Third Reich and then carry out some of the worst atrocities in modern history? In fifteen chilling profiles, Joachim Fest examines the lives of the most infamous Nazi leaders. They include Hermann Goering: the self-styled 'Iron Man', who directly issued orders for the Final Solution; Joseph ...
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The Great Caliphs
The Golden Age of the Abbasid Empire
- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-976-0
EAN 9781848859760
The flowering of the 'Abbasid caliphate between 750 and 1258 CE is often considered the classical age of Islamic civilization. In the preceding 120 years the Arabs had conquered much of the known world of antiquity and established a vast empire stretching from Spain to China. But was this empire really so very different, as ...
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In the midst of turmoil in the Middle East, and in the face of protests and demonstrations from Homs to Damascus and other places all over Syria, the Ba'th Party and Bashar al-Asad are truly caught up in a struggle to hold onto power in Syria. In this important book, Nikolaos van Dam explores and ...
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Etruscan Places
Travels through forgotten Italy
- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-532-8
EAN 9781848855328
The Etruscan civilisation, which flourished from the 8th until the 5th century BC in what is now Tuscany, is one of the most fascinating and mysterious in history. An uninhibited, elemental people, the Etruscans enthralled D.H. Lawrence, who craved their 'old wisdom', the secret of their vivacity and love of life. To him they represented ...
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The reign of Charles I, defined by religious conflict, a titanic power struggle with Parliament - culminating in the English Civil Wars, the execution of the king and the brief abolition of the monarchy - was one of the most turbulent in English history. Six years after the First Civil War began, and following Charles' ...
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English hours
A Portrait of a Country and its People
'Spring was already in the air, in the town; there was no rain but there was still less sun - one wondered what had become of it, on this side of the world - and the grey mildness, shading away into black at any pretext, appeared in itself a promise.' Henry James left America for ...
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Empires at War
A Short History of Modern Asia since World War II
- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-865-7
EAN 9781848858657
As the major geopolitical power bloc, Asia - with 4 billion people, two-thirds of the world's population, a huge land-mass and the fastest-growing economies - has shifted the global political balance. "Empires at War" gives a dramatic narrative account of how 'Modern Asia' came into being. Ranging over the whole of Asia, from Japan to ...
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Edged by the fearsome Empty Quarter to the North, the Arabian Sea to the South and resting on layers of history that stretch back to the dawn of human civilisation, the Hadhramaut - heart of 'Arabia Felix', in what is now Yemen - is one of the wildest and most remote parts of Arabia, little-changed ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-674-5
EAN 9781848856745
How should Jews respond to an age of militant Zionism and resurgent anti-Semitism? Is insisting on a separate sense of identity anachronistic and dangerous, or is it the only way of preserving the Jewish cultural heritage? Rabbi David Goldberg, one of today's most respected and outspoken Jewish leaders, grapples with the dilemmas of contemporary Jewishness ...
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