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- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15432-0
EAN 9780300154320
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One State, Two States
Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict
- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,29 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16444-2
EAN 9780300164442
This book scrutinizes the history of the goals of the Palestinian national movement and the Zionist movement, then considers the various one- and two-state proposals made by different streams within the two movements. It also looks at the willingness or unwillingness of each movement to find an accommodation based on compromise. Morris assesses the viability ...
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- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15533-4
EAN 9780300155334
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 words ...
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- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16476-3
EAN 9780300164763
Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and films. But what of his father, Philip II, who united Macedonia, created the best army in the world at the time, and conquered and annexed Greece? This landmark biography is the first to bring ...
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The Colour of Paradise
The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires
- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16131-1
EAN 9780300161311
Among the magnificent gems and jewels left behind by the great Islamic empires, emeralds stand out for their size and prominence. For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was as it remains for all Muslims the color of Paradise, reserved for the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris Lane ...
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The Shameful Peace
. How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation
- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16399-5
EAN 9780300163995
The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation's artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained, including Gide and Celine, Picasso and Matisse, Cortot and Messiaen, and Cocteau and Gabin, responded in various ways. This fascinating book is the first to provide a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,09 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11439-3
EAN 9780300114393
Sixty-five years after the conclusion of World War II, its consequences are still with us. In this probing book, the acclaimed historian John Lukacs raises perplexing questions about World War II that have yet to be explored. In a work that brilliantly argues for World War II's central place in the history of the twentieth ...
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- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16393-3
EAN 9780300163933
The globalisation of finance should have brought substantial benefits. In practice it brought a series of devastating currency and banking crises in the 1980 and 1990s, particularly in the developing world. The failure of advanced countries and of the IMF to rescue the damaged economies of Asia, Russia or Brazil taught those countries, and the ...
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This important book draws on vital new archival material to unravel the mystery of Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941 and Stalin's enigmatic behavior on the eve of the attack. Gabriel Gorodetsky challenges the currently popular view that Stalin was about to invade Germany when Hitler made a preemptive strike. He argues instead that Stalin ...
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- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16404-6
EAN 9780300164046
An entertaining journey through five centuries of acquiring, reading, and enjoying books in Britain and America It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to ...
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- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 16,89 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16428-2
EAN 9780300164282
The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume unraveled, a volley of rancorous letters was fired off, then quickly published and devoured by ...
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Ryokan (1758-1831) was a poet, master calligrapher, Zen hermit, and is one of the most beloved poets of Japan. Instead of becoming the head of a Zen temple, he preferred the simple and independent life of a hermit. Ryokan's poetry is simple, direct, and colloquial in expression. This title features his poems.
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True Friendship
. Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound
- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 22,09 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13429-2
EAN 9780300134292
True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The critical attention then finds itself reciprocated, with Eliot and Pound being in their turn contemplated anew through ...
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- Yale University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16453-4
EAN 9780300164534
Terry Eagleton's witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the superstitious view of God held by most atheists ...
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William Godwin-husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, father of Mary Shelley, friend of Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and mentor of Wordsworth, Southey, and Shelley-has been recently recognized as an original moral and revolutionary thinker and a novelist of great skill, a man whose influence was far wider than is usually assumed. In a new biography of this flamboyant ...
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