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- Yale University Press, 2008
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PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13840-5
EAN 9780300138405
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The Arts of Intimacy
Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture
- Yale University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 395 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-14214-3
EAN 9780300142143
"I am sure the "Arts of Intimacy" was a labor of love for the authors, but for the reader this brilliantly conceived book opens a window onto a marvelous new vista of Muslim Spain. The Islamic political enterprise in al-Andalus collapsed in 1492, and the human survivors of that debacle were soon either expelled or ...
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- Yale University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12671-6
EAN 9780300126716
Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change rapid and unpredictable is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged in this world of change. These outstanding cartoonists, selected by Brunetti for their graphic sophistication and literary style, are ...
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- Yale University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 354 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11833-9
EAN 9780300118339
This wise and friendly guide to Mozart's operas encompasses the full range of his most popular works--Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi, Magic Flute, Seraglio, Clemenza di Tito--as well as lesser known works like Mitridate and Il re Pastore. Music historian Mary Hunter provides a lively introduction to each opera for any listener who has enjoyed a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-14332-4
EAN 9780300143324
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna ...
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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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The Raven King
Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of his Lost Library
- Yale University Press, 2008
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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Imagining Spain
Historical Myth and National Identity
- Yale University Press, 2008
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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The Shape of Time
Remarks on the History of Things
- Yale University Press, 2008
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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- Yale University Press, 2008
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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- Yale University Press, 2007
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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- Yale University Press, 2007
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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- Yale University Press, 2007
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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- Yale University Press, 2007
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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- Yale University Press, 2007
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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- Yale University Press, 2007
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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- Yale University Press, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
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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