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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80206-520-6
EAN 9781802065206
The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to Americas disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details Americas fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein.Beginning with Saddams rise to power in and the birth of Iraqs secret nuclear weapons programme, Steve Coll traces ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-862183-4
EAN 9780008621834
Does there exist a form of speech so powerful as to allow the speaker to control the listener, taking over their thoughts and even their will? Renaissance prodigy and polymath Giovanni Pico della Mirandola the uncontested marvel of an age of true wonders believed that there was. The Grammar of Angels tells how Pico dedicated ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-4059-7488-2
EAN 9781405974882
How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did?Why did they willingly often enthusiastically oversee mass murder?How did ordinary Germans tolerate the removal of Jewish people?And how do we ensure it never happens again?Bestselling author Laurence Rees combines history and the latest psychological research to help answer the most perplexing questions surrounding the Holocaust ...
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PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-6069-3
EAN 9780753560693
Roger Dooley wasn t looking for the San Jose. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive in the 1980s led him to the story of a lifetime the journey of a ship that had gathered a mountain of riches from the New World for a long-awaited delivery to the King ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-7217-9
EAN 9781526672179
In Eight Million Ways to Happiness, Hiroko Yoda invites readers on a deeply personal and transformative journey into the spiritual heart of Japan. While millions have found inspiration in ideas like ikigai or The Courage to Be Disliked, Hiroko reveals the deeper traditions that quietly shape Japan's culture, drawn from Shinto, Buddhism, and the mountain ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28865-0
EAN 9780300288650
One of the most famous figures in Christian history, Francis of Assisi (1181/82 1226) was revered as a miracle worker during his life and quickly canonized after his death. He has inspired generations of Christians and other spiritual seekers, from medieval ascetics to 1960s hippies and modern environmentalists.The poverello wrote poems praising the sun, moon, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-3987-1403-8
EAN 9781398714038
In that moment, another countdown begins. How could it be that a single generation - just three decades - would separate the USSR's crowning achievement from the collapse of the Soviet empire?More than a history lesson, The Dark Side of the Earth is a testament to the enduring fight for truth and freedom. In pursuit ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80526-414-9
EAN 9781805264149
A revelatory journey into the Spanish Civil War's physical and visual legacies, investigating how conflict is memorialised, and obscured, today. Fifty years after Franco's death, and almost ninety since the Civil War began, the scars of violence still run deep in Spain. Nick Lloyd traces this legacy through a series of road trips. Travelling through ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-863884-9
EAN 9780008638849
In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A superb and illuminating history of Imperial Rome's most important women dispelling the myths and misogyny that have distorted their reputations for over 2000 years. Writer, activist and journalist Joan Smith has ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-7535-6042-6
EAN 9780753560426
In LEGENDA, bestselling historian Professor Janina Ramirez peels back the layers of time to reveal how the lives of women have been co-opted by those intent on crafting national identities. Their names are well known, and summaries of their achievements have been recited in classrooms for decades, but medieval women like Joan of Arc, Lady ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80546-510-2
EAN 9781805465102
'Jones has an eagle's high eye for the history of Rome' The Times 'Jones makes the classical world feel both beguiling and fresh' Sunday TimesThe untold story of the real people who built an empireThe plebs were the backbone of Roman civilization. They were the farmers who fed the city, the soldiers who conquered the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-3994-0985-8
EAN 9781399409858
An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83726-122-2
EAN 9781837261222
The North Sea, a maritime highway and the edge of a nation of islanders with a proud sea-faring past. Running from Kent and the Rhine estuary to the Norwegian coast and the tip of the Shetland islands, it has been home to warring tribes, foreign invaders, lost civilisations and holidaymakers. Its history spans millennia, since ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5417-0620-0
EAN 9781541706200
We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed through the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the events of 9/11 and beyond. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 43,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-5195-2
EAN 9781526651952
From a scrawny, overlooked military graduate to the youngest general in Europe, Francisco Franco was known for his ambition, talent and calculated risk-taking.Yet his reputation remains a topic of fierce debate. Did he destroy Spain and stifle its democracy or rescue the nation from left-wing tumult? In this compelling biography, Giles Tremlett unravels the complex ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4059-6609-2
EAN 9781405966092
An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters for China, the West and everyone's future'An erudite primer . . .Brown's mission to educate westerners about Taiwan and why it matters is a critical one, which makes this book well worth reading' SUNDAY TIMES 'Anyone with a care to avoid a third world war between China ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83726-504-6
EAN 9781837265046
In 1913, William Mulholland finished building the Los Angeles Aqueduct - a 233-mile engineering masterwork transporting water from the Owens Valley, across the desert, to a barren corner of California that would become the home of filmmaking. Over one hundred years later, award-winning Italian author and filmmaker Chiara Barzini traces the geography of the aqueduct, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 34,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-65738-6
EAN 9780593657386
A major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany's implacable hostility towards Soviet RussiaIn the West, World War II is commonly understood as the Allies' struggle against Nazism. Often elided, if not simply forgotten, is the Soviet Union's crucial role ...
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PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28494-2
EAN 9780300284942
A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire The Ptolemaic era, Egypt's last and one of its longest dynasties, was in many ways a gilded age. Its early rulers restored and even expanded Egyptian power. Over a span of 300 years the period was witness ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80429-224-2
EAN 9781804292242
The Paris Commune had a little Spanish sister, the Canton of Cartagena, whose impressive and neglected history is unearthed in this book. In July 1873, thousands of men and women proclaimed a Commune, or "Canton", in the south-eastern Spain military port of Cartagena. Their aim was to build a federal Republic 'from below', while refusing ...
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