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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19410-4
EAN 9780300194104
A timely and illuminating history of Tibet, from the seventh century to what it means to be Tibetan todaySituated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history.Sam ...
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1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler-the Election amid the Storm
- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-19086-1
EAN 9780300190861
The spellbinding story of the Roosevelt-Willkie election season, when bitterly divided Americans debated the fate of the nation and the worldIn 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency-Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie-found themselves ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19100-4
EAN 9780300191004
David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new edition, Jeal draws on fresh sources and archival discoveries to provide the most fully rounded portrait of this ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 326 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-18821-9
EAN 9780300188219
Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, "An Empire of Ice" presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-18820-2
EAN 9780300188202
Eric Hobsbawm is professor emeritus, department of history, classics and archaeology, and president, Birkbeck University of London. He lives in London. "[T]his collection shows [Hobsbawm] is a brilliant writer, erudite critic and, as he approaches his 94th birthday, a joyfully unrepentant communist. . . . [How to Change the World] is a book anyone interested ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18774-8
EAN 9780300187748
Love - unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting - is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-18640-6
EAN 9780300186406
Renowned moral philosopher Jonathan Glover confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the mystery of why so many atrocities occurred. In a new preface, Glover brings the book through the post-September 11 era and into our own time-and asks whether humankind can "weaken the grip war has on us." Praise for the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18779-3
EAN 9780300187793
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18772-4
EAN 9780300187724
Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the 'Final Solution', Heydrich ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18157-9
EAN 9780300181579
The Wars of the Roses (1455 85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this original and stimulating new synthesis, distinguished historian Michael Hicks examines the difficult economic, military, and financial crises and explains, for the first ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 424 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16680-4
EAN 9780300166804
This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how it influenced their social and religious lives as the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-300-18166-1
EAN 9780300181661
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 41,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17821-0
EAN 9780300178210
Winner of the 2011 Phyllis Goodhart Gordon Book Prize, presented by the Renaissance Society of AmericaThe dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16605-7
EAN 9780300166057
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17086-3
EAN 9780300170863
In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a geographical niche particularly favored in facing many seas. These seas, and Europe's ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 664 páginas
PVP: 30,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17143-3
EAN 9780300171433
For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688 1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view. By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England's revolution was a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17082-5
EAN 9780300170825
With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling. From the first ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17083-2
EAN 9780300170832
This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a familiar story The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early Christianity shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17088-7
EAN 9780300170887
The first modern biography of the most powerful politician in late Tudor England William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), was the closest adviser to England's Queen Elizabeth I and-as this revealing and provocative biography shows-he was the driving force behind the Queen's reign for four decades. Cecil's impact on the development of the English state was ...
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