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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 28,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18478-5
EAN 9780300184785
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from the internationally celebrated Alberto ManguelCuriosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question Why? has appeared under ...
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The Old Boys
The Decline and Rise of the Public School
- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 39,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18992-6
EAN 9780300189926
To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country's top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner's vibrant history of Great Britain's public schools, from the ...
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Does Altruism Exist?
Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 180 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18949-0
EAN 9780300189490
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21254-9
EAN 9780300212549
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20546-6
EAN 9780300205466
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 168 páginas
PVP: 24,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-14429-1
EAN 9780300144291
A renowned scholar's reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to themWith his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
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PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21276-1
EAN 9780300212761
Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community ...
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Artists under Hitler
Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19747-1
EAN 9780300197471
A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose to remain in Nazi Germany"What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?" Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of ...
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Family Politics
Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11211-5
EAN 9780300112115
An exploration of the convulsive history of the 20th century's first five decades, seen through the lens of families and family life.In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at center stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and ...
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The Hundred Years War
A People's History
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13451-3
EAN 9780300134513
What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their worldThe Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 71,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20805-4
EAN 9780300208054
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20610-4
EAN 9780300206104
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19805-8
EAN 9780300198058
A trio of intertwined novellas from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literatureIn this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, ...
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The Bet
Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19897-3
EAN 9780300198973
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 500 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20612-8
EAN 9780300206128
This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.
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Eugene O'Neill
A Life in Four Acts
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 584 páginas
PVP: 28,35 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17033-7
EAN 9780300170337
A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theaterThis extraordinary new biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O'Neill's tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama. Robert M. Dowling innovatively recounts O'Neill's life in four acts, thus highlighting how the stories he told ...
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Imprudent King
A New Life of Philip II
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 456 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19653-5
EAN 9780300196535
A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Spain's best-known kingPhilip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. ...
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The South China Sea
The Struggle for Power in Asia
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18683-3
EAN 9780300186833
A discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferentChina's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20888-7
EAN 9780300208887
When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's plan: to reestablish Christian control of Syria and Palestine. This book is ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20866-5
EAN 9780300208665
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