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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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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, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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- 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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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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- 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 · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20531-2
EAN 9780300205312
This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infectious passion for books and ...
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Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 904 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20863-4
EAN 9780300208634
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence.The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-hand accounts of men and women ...
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Jonathan Swift
His Life and His World
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20541-1
EAN 9780300205411
From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language.
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17647-6
EAN 9780300176476
Mary Wollstonecraft's visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women's rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft's heartfelt feminist argument includes illuminating essays by leading scholars that highlight the author's significant contributions to modern political philosophy, making a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20535-0
EAN 9780300205350
A groundbreaking study of the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich-and the consequences for music worldwide With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at ...
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The Spanish Inquisition
A Historical Revision
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18051-0
EAN 9780300180510
In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new-and thought-provoking-view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences for Jewish ...
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Fragile Empire
How Russia Fell in and out of Love with Vladimir Putin
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20522-0
EAN 9780300205220
From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah's thorough research: a probing assessment of ...
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Bidlack, Richard; Lomagin, Nikita
The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 : A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 552 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19816-4
EAN 9780300198164
Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-44 siege of Leningrad, during which close to one million citizens perished. It shows how the city's inhabitants responded to the extraordinary demands placed ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19718-1
EAN 9780300197181
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19724-2
EAN 9780300197242
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758 94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793 94. This masterful biography combines ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,35 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19817-1
EAN 9780300198171
From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 21,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19836-2
EAN 9780300198362
Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a figure of mythical proportion today. This thoroughly researched biography by a renowned historian of the American West strips away ...
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