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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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Scots and Catalans
Union and Disunion
- Yale University Press, 2020
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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- Yale University Press, 2020
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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Empires of the Atlantic World
Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
- Yale University Press, 2020
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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What's Wrong with Economics?
A Primer for the Perplexed
- Yale University Press, 2020
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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- Yale University Press, 2020
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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- Yale University Press, 2020
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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- Yale University Press, 2020
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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- Yale University Press, 2020
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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- Yale University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
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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The Escorial
Art and Power in the Renaissance
- Yale University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 38,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25387-0
EAN 9780300253870
An acclaimed historian of Europe explores one of the world's most iconic buildings and the monarch who created it Few buildings have played so central a role in Spain's history as the monastery-palace of San Lorenzo del Escorial. Colossal in size and imposing even forbidding in appearance, the Escorial has invited and defied description for ...
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Why Liberalism Works : How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
- Yale University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23508-1
EAN 9780300235081
An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how ...
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Arabs
A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
- Yale University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25163-0
EAN 9780300251630
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this ...
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- Yale University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 34,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24145-7
EAN 9780300241457
A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar's autocracy When the Senate ordered Julius Caesar, conqueror of Gaul, to disband his troops, he instead marched his soldiers across the Rubicon River, in violation of Roman law. The Senate turned to its proconsul, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23031-4
EAN 9780300230314
On 18 May 1291, after a desperate siege of six weeks, the city of Acre, the last crusader stronghold in the Holy Land, fell to the Mamluk army. It was the effective end to Christendom's two-hundred-year adventure in the realm it called Outremer. The aftershock was immense. Despite calls for crusade that lasted for centuries, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1008 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24893-7
EAN 9780300248937
A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds ...
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- Yale University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23404-6
EAN 9780300234046
An engaging and original account of 1921, a pivotal year for Churchill that had a lasting impact on his political and personal legacy After the tragic consequences of his involvement in the catastrophic Dardanelles Campaign of World War I, Churchill's political career seemed over. He was widely regarded as little more than a bombastic and ...
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