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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17125-9
EAN 9780300171259
For many enlightened, liberal-minded thinkers today, and for most on the political left, evil is an outmoded concept. It smacks too much of absolute judgments and metaphysical certainties to suit the modern age. In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on ...
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Afghanistan
How the West Lost its Way
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 25,98 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15457-3
EAN 9780300154573
In October 2001, NATO forces invaded Afghanistan. Their initial aim, to topple the Taliban regime and replace it with a more democratic government aligned to Western interests, was swiftly achieved. However, stabilizing the country in the ensuing years has proven much more difficult. Despite billions of dollars in aid and military expenditure, Afghanistan remains a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15404-7
EAN 9780300154047
Situated 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 van Schaik brings the history of Tibet to life by telling the stories of the people involved, ...
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Pashas
Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17091-7
EAN 9780300170917
Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The Pashas, merchants and travelers from Europe, discovered an Islamic world that was alluring, dynamic, and diverse. Ranging across two and a half centuries and through the ...
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Cosima Wagner
The Lady of Bayreuth
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 33,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17090-0
EAN 9780300170900
In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans von Bülow, then mistress and subsequently wife of Richard Wagner. After Wagner's death in 1883 Cosima played a crucial role in the promulgation and politicization of his ...
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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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All but forgotten today, eight historic gardens that once flourished along the length of the Thames in early Tudor London are here historically recreated and analysed in this richly illustrated book. One of the gardens belonged to Sir Thomas More and the others to politically powerful friends and acquaintances of his. The stories of these ...
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Czechoslovakia
The State that Failed
- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17242-3
EAN 9780300172423
This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992 from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, and invasion by the Soviet Union to, at last, democracy again. The common Western view of Czechoslovakia ...
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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
PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16984-3
EAN 9780300169843
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-four years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he was a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life ...
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- Yale University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,65 €
ISBN 978-0-300-08976-9
EAN 9780300089769
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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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Literature on domestic interior decoration first emerged as a popular genre in Britain during the 1870s and 1880s, as middle-class readers sought decorating advice from books, household manuals, women's magazines, and professional journals. This intriguing book examines that literature and shows how it was influenced by the widespread liberalism of the middle class.Judith Neiswander explains ...
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