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- Yale University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 37,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24982-8
EAN 9780300249828
A wealthy Moscow textile merchant, Morozov started buying art in a modest way in 1900 until, on a trip to Paris, he developed a taste for the avant-garde. Meticulous and highly discerning, he acquired works by the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cezanne. Unlike his friendly rival Sergei Shchukin, he collected Russian as well as ...
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Robert Schumann
Life and Death of a Musician
This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a completely fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness. John Worthen's scrupulous attention to the original sources reveals Schumann to have been an astute, witty, articulate and immensely ...
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MI9
A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two
- Yale University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23320-9
EAN 9780300233209
When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organization set up clandestine routes that zig-zagged across Nazi-occupied Europe, enabling soldiers and airmen to make their way home. Secret agents and resistance fighters risked their lives and those of their families to hide the men.Drawing on ...
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Delocque, André; Semenova, Natalya
The Collector
The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces
- Yale University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25481-5
EAN 9780300254815
A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia's art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists ...
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- Yale University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25483-9
EAN 9780300254839
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 968 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25482-2
EAN 9780300254822
An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950 Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from ...
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- Yale University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24561-5
EAN 9780300245615
Is Britain a part of Europe? The British have been ambivalent on this question since the Second World War, when the Western European nations sought to prevent the return of fascism by creating strong international ties throughout the Continent. Britain reluctantly joined the Common Market, the European Community, and ultimately the European Union, but its ...
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Cambodia
From Pol Pot to Hun Sen and Beyond
- Yale University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21173-3
EAN 9780300211733
To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of Phnom Penh, now offers ...
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In the Dragon's Shadow
Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
- Yale University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23403-9
EAN 9780300234039
A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacted by its claims over the South China Sea. All dwell in the lengthening shadow ...
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Pettegree, Andrew; Weduwen, Arthur der
The Bookshop of the World
Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
- Yale University Press, 2020
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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- Yale University Press, 2020
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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- Yale University Press, 2020
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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Survivors
Children's Lives After the Holocaust
- Yale University Press, 2020
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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- Yale University Press, 2020
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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The Cost of Free Money
How Unfettered Capital Threatens Our Economic Future
- Yale University Press, 2020
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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Mussolini and Hitler
The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
- Yale University Press, 2020
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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The Passage to Europe
How a Continent Became a Union
- Yale University Press, 2020
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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- Yale University Press, 2020
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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Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
- Yale University Press, 2020
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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Blooming Flowers
A Seasonal History of Plants and People
- Yale University Press, 2020
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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