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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13724-8
EAN 9780300137248
Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician ...
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The Artist and the Warrior
Military History through the Eyes of the Master
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12637-2
EAN 9780300126372
How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare? In this uniquely wide-ranging book, Theodore Rabb blends military history and the history of art to search for the answers. He draws our attention to masterpieces from the ancient world to the twentieth century paintings, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, engravings, architecture, and photographs and documents the evolving ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17803-6
EAN 9780300178036
How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully observed. In this succinct and penetrating book, Charles Rosen draws upon more than a half century ...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
Queen of France, Queen of England
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17820-3
EAN 9780300178203
Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two sons who rose to take the English throne Richard the Lionheart and ...
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The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far removed from the global Islamist jihad, is perhaps comforting to Americans and other Western nations, but it is a myth. Moreover, the North Caucasus jihad may be the harbinger of a much larger Muslim challenge to Russia's political stability and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 644 páginas
PVP: 38,90 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11910-7
EAN 9780300119107
Edward III (1312-1377) was the most successful European ruler of his age. Reigning for over fifty years, he achieved spectacular military triumphs and overcame grave threats to his authority, from parliamentary revolt to the Black Death. Revered by his subjects as a chivalric dynamo, he initiated the Hundred Years War and gloriously led his men ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 38,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11173-6
EAN 9780300111736
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This Seat of Mars
War and the British Isles 1485-1746
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13913-6
EAN 9780300139136
Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often and most bloodily against each other. The almost continuous fighting on land and sea ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17813-5
EAN 9780300178135
Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the Georgian city in its first big wave of American visitors. At the very point of ...
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Shadow of a Great Rock
A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16683-5
EAN 9780300166835
The King James Bible stands at "the sublime summit of literature in English," sharing the honor only with Shakespeare, Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. Distilling the insights acquired from a significant portion of his career as a brilliant critic and teacher, he offers readers at last the book ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17134-1
EAN 9780300171341
Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labor outside the home, which is a function of structural, political, and institutional conditions. They go on to explain several anomalies of modern ...
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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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Two Lives
Gertrude and Alice
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,68 €
ISBN 978-0-300-14310-2
EAN 9780300143102
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17766-4
EAN 9780300177664
How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this stimulating new book, bound to provoke controversy, Peter Krentz argues that Herodotus was right ...
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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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Encounters Character Writing workbook 1 (ver incidencias)
Chinese Language and Culture
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16170-0
EAN 9780300161700
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Sunday
A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16703-0
EAN 9780300167030
The mere mention of "Sunday" will immediately conjure up a rich mix of memories, associations, and ideas for most anyone of any age. Whatever we think of-be it attending church, reading a bulky newspaper, eating brunch, or watching football-Sunday occupies a unique place in Western civilization. But how did we come to have a day ...
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Too Much to Know
Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16539-5
EAN 9780300165395
The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of information overload, yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann M. Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15261-6
EAN 9780300152616
Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity reveals the historical dynamics propelling two centuries of Ottoman and Turkish history. As mounting threats to imperial survival necessitated dynamic responses, ethnolinguistic and religious identities inspired alternative strategies for engaging with modernity. A radical, secularizing current of change competed with a conservative, Islamically committed current. Crises sharpened the differentiation of ...
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