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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21717-9
EAN 9780300217179
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil warMost accounts of Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the escalating violence. Christopher Phillips argues instead that the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21986-9
EAN 9780300219869
Peter Singer's books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profoundly unsettling idea that living a fully ethical ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21536-6
EAN 9780300215366
Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author's life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns that guide authors in both their writing and their lives. In a series of provocative, incisive, and unflinching ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20883-2
EAN 9780300208832
In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion-from the dawn of religious belief to the twenty-first century-with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. Writing for those with faith and those without, and especially for young readers, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20733-0
EAN 9780300207330
A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meaningsSince the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired ...
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An engrossing new biography of the musical revolutionary who was the world's first international megastar. Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811 1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21531-1
EAN 9780300215311
Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, a forthcoming referendum on independence for Southern Sudan ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 632 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22170-1
EAN 9780300221701
Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to LondonThe terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. ...
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PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17903-3
EAN 9780300179033
A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe.For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws ...
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ISBN 978-0-300-20718-7
EAN 9780300207187
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PVP: 28,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22044-5
EAN 9780300220445
A world-renowned economist offers cogent and powerful reflections on one of the great avoidable economic catastrophes of the modern era.The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time. The financial woes of this relatively small European nation threaten the long-term viability ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20441-4
EAN 9780300204414
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21937-1
EAN 9780300219371
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21974-6
EAN 9780300219746
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18279-8
EAN 9780300182798
A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds.The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21984-5
EAN 9780300219845
Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of enticing new visions of human rights and universal freedom. This expansive history explores how the revolutionary ideas that spurred the American and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20852-8
EAN 9780300208528
A riveting account of private art collectors' passion from Roman times to the present.Whether it's the discovery of 1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark history of looting, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21942-5
EAN 9780300219425
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21978-4
EAN 9780300219784
The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims ...
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