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Pettegree, Andrew; Weduwen, Arthur der
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25479-2
EAN 9780300254792
The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25480-8
EAN 9780300254808
The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest bombardment before ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25221-7
EAN 9780300252217
A new account of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture In this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western culture-from literature and politics to philosophy and theater. Eagleton covers a vast array of thinkers and practitioners, including Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, and Slavoj Zizek, as well as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24332-1
EAN 9780300243321
Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust How can we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from? This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25737-3
EAN 9780300257373
The author of American Vertigo serves up an incisive look at how COVID-19 reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society. With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world.In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24404-5
EAN 9780300244045
A penetrating account of how unchecked capital mobility is damaging international cooperation, polarizing the economic landscape, and ultimately reshaping the global order When it comes to the afflictions of the global economy, almost everyone-and especially Donald Trump-is quick to point the finger of blame at the state of international trade. But what about unconstrained capital ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 602 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25473-0
EAN 9780300254730
A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 28,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25512-6
EAN 9780300255126
The untold story of the crises and compromises that united a continent "A work of impressive scholarship and historical imagination, . . .unlike anything written about the EU before or since"-Perry Anderson, London Review of Books As financial turmoil in Europe preoccupies political leaders and global markets, it becomes more important than ever to understand ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 774 páginas
PVP: 29,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24672-8
EAN 9780300246728
"A feminist classic."-Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review"A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."-Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24675-9
EAN 9780300246759
Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail-sometimes catastrophically-in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24333-8
EAN 9780300243338
An evocative and richly illustrated exploration of flowers and how, over the centuries, they have given us so much sustenance, meaning, and pleasure The bright yellow of a marigold and the cheerful red of a geranium, the evocative fragrance of a lotus or a saffron-infused paella-there is no end of reasons to love flowers. Ranging ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25338-2
EAN 9780300253382
A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the contrasts between the Scottish and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24713-8
EAN 9780300247138
Charles Harrison's landmark book offers an original, clear, and wide-ranging introduction to the arts of painting and sculpture, to the principal artistic print media, and to the visual arts of modernism and post-modernism. Covering the entire history of art, from Paleolithic cave painting to contemporary art, it provides foundational guidance on the basic character and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25339-9
EAN 9780300253399
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 worlds ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24987-3
EAN 9780300249873
A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time This insightful book looks at how mainstream economics' quest for scientific certainty has led to a narrowing of vision and a convergence on an orthodoxy that is unhealthy for the field, not to mention the societies which ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23222-6
EAN 9780300232226
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work-over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten.But this Little History is about some that have not. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25164-7
EAN 9780300251647
The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25147-0
EAN 9780300251470
A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown-the first woman ever to hold the position-and an able military general. This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16475-6
EAN 9780300164756
The first complete account of Catholic Europe's onslaught on "unbelievers" in the 12th century The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. But, to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 31,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24630-8
EAN 9780300246308
Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry-an erotic, powerful collection "One of the best books of contemporary poetry."-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post "Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."-Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005) Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Gluck as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets ...
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