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The Spanish Inquisition
A Historical Revision
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
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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The Great Plague
A People's History
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17381-9
EAN 9780300173819
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's fascinating reconstruction of life during plague times presents the personal experiences of a wide range ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20571-8
EAN 9780300205718
What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20530-5
EAN 9780300205305
What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and a host of others. How to Read Literature is ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 37,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20407-0
EAN 9780300204070
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 9,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18610-9
EAN 9780300186109
Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this masterful translation. In ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 25,90 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20399-8
EAN 9780300203998
New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why "authentic" atheism is so very hard to come byHow to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20393-6
EAN 9780300203936
In times of economic crisis austerity becomes a rallying cry, but what does history tell us about its chances for success?Austerity is at the center of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of ...
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The Invention of News
How the World Came to Know About Itself
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 465 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17908-8
EAN 9780300179088
The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaperLong 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. ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18641-3
EAN 9780300186413
Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his masterpiece and a classic of American drama. With this new edition, at last it has the critical edition that it deserves. William Davies King provides students and theater artists with an invaluable guide to the text, including an essay on historical and ...
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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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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 42,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20729-3
EAN 9780300207293
One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures-lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a notable lack of jargon-distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20346-2
EAN 9780300203462
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19833-1
EAN 9780300198331
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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, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19546-0
EAN 9780300195460
A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coo's mesmerizing new play is a delicious amalgam of farce and tragedy, a carnival funhouse with very dark ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 54,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19658-0
EAN 9780300196580
A remarkable photographic record of World War One, its relentless progression and the destruction it wrought, as seen from the skies above Flanders FieldsAerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As ...
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The Power of Knowledge
How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16795-5
EAN 9780300167955
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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
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19838-6
EAN 9780300198386
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