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Written by an eminent scholar of both European and American history, this will stand as the standard biography of Alexis de Tocqueville for years to come. Annotation: Written by an eminent scholar of both European and American history, this will stand as the standard biography of Alexis de Tocqueville for years to come.
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This is the first biography of William McChesney Martin, Jr. (1906-1998), the first paid president of the New York Stock Exchange and the chairman of the Federal Reserve System under Presidents Truman to Nixon. The extent of Martin's influence on the course of American economic history was significant: arguably he has done more to strengthen ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12034-9
EAN 9780300120349
Seizing the Hungarian throne at the age of fifteen, Matthias Corvinus, the "Raven King, was an effervescent presence on the fifteenth-century stage. A successful warrior and munificent art patron, he sought to leave as symbols of his strategic and humanist ambitions a strong, unified country, splendid palaces, and the most magnificent library in Christendom. But ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12641-9
EAN 9780300126419
This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen, is a unique analysis of the myths that Spaniards have held, and continue to hold, about themselves and about their collective past. Kamen discusses how perceptions of key aspects of early modern Spain, such as the monarchy, the empire, and the Inquisition, were influenced by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-10061-7
EAN 9780300100617
When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 6,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12202-2
EAN 9780300122022
William Shakespeare; Edited, fully annotated, and introduced by Burton Raffel; With an essay by Harold Bloom Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by moral restraint, and embittered by physical deformity, Richard, the younger brother of King Edward IV, is ablaze with ambition to take England's throne. Richard III, Shakespeare's long chronicle of Richard's machinations to be king, is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12601-3
EAN 9780300126013
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title from 2007.The swift and unexpected defeat of the French Army in 1940 shocked the nation. Two million soldiers were taken prisoner, six million civilians fled from the German army's advance to join convoys of confused and terrified refugees, and only a few managed to escape the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 37,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11583-3
EAN 9780300115833
"Exploring in Chinese" is an intermediate-level multimedia Chinese programme consisting of a student text and accompanying DVD that uses unscripted dialogues as the basis for students to make the transition from the basic skills acquired at the elementary level to the more complex comprehension skills required at the intermediate level. This two-volume set spans the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 41,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11569-7
EAN 9780300115697
Exploring in Chinese is an intermediate-level multimedia Chinese program consisting of a student text and accompanying DVD that uses unscripted dialogues as the basis for students to make the transition from the basic skills acquired at the elementary level to the more complex comprehension skills required at the intermediate level. This two-volume set spans the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 7,65 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11563-5
EAN 9780300115635
Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola, shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin brother, dresses as a man in order to enter the service of Orsino, duke of Illyria. Complications ensue - deceptions, infatuations, misdirected overtures, malevolent pranks - ...
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Advanced Russian Through History is a Russian reader for students working towards advanced and superior level proficiency in Russian. The book consists of thirty-six chapters focusing on the history of Russia, from Kievan Rus' to the post-Soviet era. Each chapter is accompanied by a corresponding minilecture and related learning tasks on the Web.The learning tasks ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12399-9
EAN 9780300123999
This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the ...
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In this book on the real, historical Jesus, Meier sifts the evidence of 2000 years to portray neither a rural magician nor a figure of obvious power, but a marginal Jew.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11992-3
EAN 9780300119923
In this provocative book Richard Sennett looks at the ways today's global, ever-mutable form of capitalism is affecting our lives. He analyzes how changes in work ethic, in our attitudes toward merit and talent, and in public and private institutions have all contributed to what he terms "the specter of uselessness," and he concludes with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11070-8
EAN 9780300110708
Immanuel Kant's views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant's writings on international relations theory and political philosophy, superbly translated and accompanied by stimulating essays. Pauline Kleingeld provides a lucid introduction to the main themes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11170-5
EAN 9780300111705
Comic artist Ivan Brunetti, the creator of Schizo, offers a best-of anthology of contemporary art comics, along with some classic comic strips and other historical materials that have retained a modern sensibility. As with Chris Ware's selections for his best-selling McSweeney's anthology, Brunetti's choices make for a highly personal book ( my criteria were simple: ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 526 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11973-2
EAN 9780300119732
The definitive biography of Ivan the Terrible, setting the Tsar's infamous cruelty within the context of his time. Ivan IV, "the Terrible" (1533-1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror-and for killing his own son-he has been ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 5,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-10809-5
EAN 9780300108095
The first tragedy to be played in the new Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar is set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely removed in time and place from Shakespeare's Elizabethan England, Rome makes the perfect laboratory for the playwright's free-ranging political analysis.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11979-4
EAN 9780300119794
Sparta, Macedonia, and Rome--how did these nations come to dominate the ancient world? Lendon shows readers that the most successful armies were those that made the most effective use of cultural tradition.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 219 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11743-1
EAN 9780300117431
Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He completed The Iceman Cometh in 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a long run of performances in 1946 after receiving mixed reviews. Three years after O'Neill's death, Jason Robards starred in a Broadway revival ...
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