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- St. Martin's Griffin, 2016
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PVP: 13,90 €
ISBN 978-1-250-09233-5
EAN 9781250092335
A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.In this 1 New York Times Bestseller, the anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor "recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy - and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president ...
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Drawing upon her experience as research assistant to the celebrated Renaissance historian John Hale (her late husband), Hale frames her first foray into historical scholarship by tracing one artist's life to inform an epic biography of the Most Serene Republic of Venice. Compelling and well-researched, the book follows the career of Titian, an "explorer in ...
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Corruption in America
From Benjamin Franklin s Snuff Box to Citizens United
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 20,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65998-8
EAN 9780674659988
When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history.
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The Emperor's Shadow
Bonaparte, Betsy and the Balcombes
- Atlantic Books, 2016
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PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-76011-351-3
EAN 9781760113513
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years until his death, he was an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the ...
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The Unravelling : High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
As a Brit, a woman and a liberal, Emma Sky's presence and position in Iraq following the invasion in 2003 is the stuff of fiction. Shortly after the coalition troops went in, Sky, an Arabist, volunteered to go to assist the Coalition Provisional Authority in the occupation. Alone, she made her way to Baghdad, was ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2016
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PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-025-1
EAN 9781782390251
The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war defying the Nazis by striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp in which he was incarcerated. ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4725-2711-0
EAN 9781472527110
During the Nazi regime many children and young people in Europe found their lives uprooted by Nazi policies, resulting in their relocation around the globe. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime represents the diversity of their experiences, covering a range of non-European perspectives on the Second World War and aspects of memory. This book ...
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- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-18420-2
EAN 9780241184202
Edward III lived through bloody and turbulent times. His father was deposed by his mother and her lover when he was still a teenager; a third of England's population was killed by the Black Death midway through his reign; and the intractable Hundred Years War with France began under his leadership. Yet Edward managed to ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4725-9071-8
EAN 9781472590718
Britain in the Middle East provides a comprehensive survey of British involvement in the Middle East, exploring their mutual construction and influence across the entire historical sweep of their relationship.In the 17th century, Britain was establishing trade links in the Middle East, using its position in India to increasingly exclude other European powers. Over the ...
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- Basic Books, 2016
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PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-465-04898-4
EAN 9780465048984
As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of Englands country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous and glamourous history of English country houses during ...
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Distinguished historian John Merriman maintains that the Age of Modern Terror began in Paris on February 12, 1894, when anarchist Emile Henry set off a bomb in the Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding twenty French citizens. The true story of the circumstances that led a young radical to commit a cold-blooded act of violence ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
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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Track Changes
A Literary History of Word Processing
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-41707-6
EAN 9780674417076
Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg's shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or ...
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An intellectual and cultural history of political culture in Restoration Ireland. The period 1660-1667 was one of insecurity for the Protestant plantation in Ireland, as Catholic spokesmen undermined the Protestant status quo. This book draws out the dynamism of therhetorical, moral and legal challenges that Catholics made to Protestant power in Ireland and examines the ...
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The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions as ...
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Drones are changing the conduct of war. Deployed at presidential discretion, they can be used in regular war zones or to kill people in such countries as Yemen and Somalia, where the United States is not officially at war. Advocates say that drones are more precise than conventional bombers, allowing warfare with minimal civilian deaths ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84885-850-3
EAN 9781848858503
The termination of the British Mandate in Palestine was a momentous turning point in Middle Eastern history, marked by the failure of the British to bring about a workable political composition between the Arab and Jewish communities, the subsequent referral of the problem to the United Nations and the emergence of the state of Israel, ...
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The South Pole
Nature and Culture
The Geographic South Pole is a place of paradox. It is a point around which the Earth, quite literally, pivots; yet it has a habit of falling off the edge of our maps. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, but is nonetheless a much sought-after ...
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The Kitchener Enigma
The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916
- The History Press, 2016
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PVP: 37,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-6729-7
EAN 9780750967297
In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener's latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East as a biblical ...
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- Biteback Publishing, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78590-056-3
EAN 9781785900563
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