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Many see China's rise as a threat to US leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues instead that the real challenge lies in dissuading China from regional aggression while eliciting its global cooperation. Drawing on decades of scholarship and experience as a senior diplomat, Christensen offers a deep perspective on China's military and ...
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Prisoners, Lovers and Spies
The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21260-0
EAN 9780300212600
Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the first history of invisible writing, uncovered through stories about scoundrels and heroes. Spies were imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked, and battles lost because of faulty or intercepted secret communications. Yet, successfully hidden writing helped save lives, win battles, and ...
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Isaac and Isaiah
The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21232-7
EAN 9780300212327
Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of the ideological clash between two of the most influential scholars of Cold War politics, David Caute uncovers a ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 40,95 €
ISBN 978-1-137-44551-3
EAN 9781137445513
Negotiators are always driven by the clock, and the art of negotiation is one of this book's main themes. The examples included, such as the Iran nuclear talks, are mostly contemporary, but historical background to the diplomatic methods themselves is always provided. This helps to show that a rejuvenation of key features of traditional diplomacy ...
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The Coup
1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations
- New Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-62097-086-7
EAN 9781620970867
In August 1953, the CIA orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United States backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped a huge share of Iran s oil wealth. The blowback ...
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Landslide
LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of America
In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these two men-the same age, and driven by the same heroic ambitions-changed American politics forever.The liberal and the conversative. The deal-making arm twister and the ...
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From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970sThe Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch of ...
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The Edge of the World
How the North Sea made us who we are
- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96383-8
EAN 9780241963838
Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's transformation by sea.'An utterly beguiling journey into the dark ages of the north sea. A complete revelation . . . Pye writes like a ...
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A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean ...
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The Woman who would be King
Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-766-8
EAN 9781780747668
Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king's son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household. Married to her brother, she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father's family. ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-516-4
EAN 9781782395164
The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and ...
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The Trigger
The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip
- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958133-8
EAN 9780099581338
The most original of First World War centenary books; it is a travel narrative of rare resonance and insight' Sunday Times On a summer morning in 1914, a teenage assassin fired the starting gun for modern history. It was a young teenage boy named Gavrilo Princip who fired that fateful shot which killed Archduke Franz ...
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Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to 'Joe-1', the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949, Atomic is the first fully realised popular account of the race between Nazi Germany, Britain, America and the Soviet Union to build atomic weapons. Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, Jim ...
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The Jail Busters
The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho
- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78429-017-7
EAN 9781784290177
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-8305-6
EAN 9781444783056
'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto...the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ...this book sizzles.' The Times 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, and written ...
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- Cornerstone, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-195452-9
EAN 9780091954529
In the three hundred years between the Countess and Christine Keeler, the house was occupied by a dynasty of remarkable women: Elizabeth Villiers, an intellectual who brokered the rise and fall of governments; Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, a minor German royal who almost became queen of England; Harriet Duchess of Sutherland, the glittering society hostess turned ...
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In these Times
Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815
- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-26953-2
EAN 9780571269532
We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars - but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and ...
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The History of Modern France
From The Revolution to the Present Day
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-2929-2
EAN 9781471129292
With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyses the extraordinary sequence of events of this period from the end ...
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- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-00-716520-9
EAN 9780007165209
An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was determined to break with the extraordinarily dysfunctional home lives of his Hanoverian predecessors.He ...
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- Random House Uk, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84604-487-8
EAN 9781846044878
Samar Yazbek was well known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Since then, determined to bear witness to the suffering of her people, she bravely revisited her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence ...
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