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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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The Danube
A Journey upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20545-9
EAN 9780300205459
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The Romans and their World
A Short Introduction
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20864-1
EAN 9780300208641
This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell, respected scholar and teacher, presents a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to Rome, drawing on an array of ...
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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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Siberia
A History of the People
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16794-8
EAN 9780300167948
Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries. Janet M. Hartley explores the history of this vast Russian wasteland-whose very name is ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20547-3
EAN 9780300205473
A gripping account of the philosophers who supported Hitler's rise to power and those whose lives were wrecked by his regime.
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Liberty's Dawn
A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20525-1
EAN 9780300205251
This title looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class.
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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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Thomas Aquinas
A Portrait
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20594-7
EAN 9780300205947
Leaving so few traces of himself behind, Thomas Aquinas seems to defy the efforts of the biographer. Highly visible as a public teacher, preacher and theologian, he nevertheless has remained nearly invisible as man and saint. What can be discovered about this man, his mind, and his soul? In this short, compelling portrait, Denys Turner ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20536-7
EAN 9780300205367
A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed since the ancient Greeks began to analyze it, and how has modern technology altered its very definition? In this fascinating ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20664-7
EAN 9780300206647
Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to shape the world today. Focusing on episodes both well ...
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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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Hard Times
The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20377-6
EAN 9780300203776
2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addressed the financial crisis, very little has been written about its social consequences.Journalist Tom Clark ...
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Hirata, Keiko; Warschauer, Mark
Japan
The Paradox of Harmony
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 31,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18607-9
EAN 9780300186079
Following a crushing defeat in World War II, Japan rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to become a model of modernity and success, for decades Asia's premier economic giant. Yet it remains a nation hobbled by rigid gender roles, protectionist policies, and a defensive, inflexible corporate system that has helped bring about political ...
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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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Brazil
The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16560-9
EAN 9780300165609
A knowledgeable appreciation of a complex, vital South American giant, destined to be one of the world's premier economic powersExperts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the ...
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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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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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