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The Disinherited
A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
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PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4340-6
EAN 9781408843406
In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story emerged. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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PVP: 37,10 €
ISBN 978-1-137-51283-3
EAN 9781137512833
Latin America is assuming an increasingly important position on the world stage with its heterodox economic policies and bold political experiments attracting world-wide attention in an era characterized by a general crisis of perspectives. Since European colonization from 1500 onwards, the region has played a key role in the modernization and enrichment of Europe and ...
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A History of the Armenian Genocide
They can live in the Desert but Nowhere Else
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 408 páginas
PVP: 45,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14730-7
EAN 9780691147307
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent'more than a million people. A century later, ...
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Beyer, Rick / Sayles, Elizabeth
The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects
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PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-61689-318-7
EAN 9781616893187
A cultural history/visual culture book featuring the story, photos, ephemera, and art of The Ghost Army, a World War II deception unit, which used inflatable tanks and other illusions to mislead the Germans on the battlefields of Europe. The Army recruited artists to create these illusions; in private moments, they painted and sketched their way ...
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Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 33,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16039-9
EAN 9780691160399
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris, author of the best-selling Why the West Rules'for ...
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The Angel and the Cad
Love Loss and Scandal in Regency England
The story of the high society scandal that gripped Regency England.At the age of sixteen, Catherine Tylney Long became the wealthiest heiress in England, and the public found their 'angel'. Witty, wealthy and beautiful, Catherine was the most eligible of young ladies and was courted by royalty but, ignoring the warnings of her closest confidantes, ...
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Emigration and the Sea
An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese
- Hurst, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-416-5
EAN 9781849044165
Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese 'Discoveries' of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions that planted Portuguese communities in every continent. Some were part of the Portuguese empire but many survived independently under ...
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Fracture
Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 31,95 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02249-6
EAN 9780465022496
When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an ...
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- Fonthill, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78155-448-7
EAN 9781781554487
"In this state of mind, which excludes any falsehood, I declare that not a single word of what I have written in my diaries is false or exaggerated or dictated by selfish resentment. It is all just what I have seen and heard. And if, when making ready to take leave of life, I consider ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 52,80 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28059-5
EAN 9780520280595
In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of ...
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Transnational Nation
United States History in Global Perspective since 1789
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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PVP: 31,45 €
ISBN 978-1-137-33854-9
EAN 9781137338549
The development of nationalism, movement of peoples, imperialism, industrialization, environmental change and the struggle for equality are all key themes in the study of both US history and world history. In this revised and updated new edition, Tyrrell explores the relationship between events and movements in the US and wider world.Contents: Preface / Introduction / ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78185-756-4
EAN 9781781857564
This book tells the story of freedom and explains how it is a uniquely 'British', rather than 'Western', invention. It shows how the inhabitants of a damp island at the western tip of the Eurasian landmass stumbled upon the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, and not the master, of the individual. This ...
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- Doubleday, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-85752-293-1
EAN 9780857522931
On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. "Lusitania"-pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat-became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. Sunk off the southern coast of ...
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Farewell Kabul
How the West Ignored Pakistan and Lost Afghanistan
- William Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-725693-8
EAN 9780007256938
How did the war in Afghanistan go so terribly wrong? This shocking account by the journalist who knows this story best provides answers that will surprise even the experts. An unmissable account of the conflict that has dominated foreign affairs since 9/11. Crouched in a ditch in Helmand, with Taliban gunfire exploding around her, Christina ...
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A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realised and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low. And few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Through vivid ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-250-06250-5
EAN 9781250062505
A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society'for the better'War!..../What is it good for?/Absolutely nothing,' says the famous song'but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.In War! What Is It Good For?, the ...
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- Random House USA, 2015
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PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-307-95882-2
EAN 9780307958822
Richly detailed and written with elan, a powerfully inspiring story: the first comprehensive account of the life and times of arguably the most unlikely first lady in the nation's history, an African American descended from slaves and of less-than-privileged background.
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ISBN 978-0-19-505412-5
EAN 9780195054125
The first full biography of the talented and troubling figure of John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed Abraham LincolnWith a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-021269-8
EAN 9780190212698
A riveting and necessary take on some of the most prevalent myths surrounding oil securityThe last decade has seen a far-reaching revolution in the oil industry, both in the US and globally. By some measures, America is on pace to become the world's biggest oil producer in the next decade, an outcome that was inconceivable ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-50377-9
EAN 9780674503779
The cataclysm that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79 continues to fascinate nearly two thousand years later. Darley's meditation on a powerful natural wonder touches on pagan beliefs, vulcanology, and travel writing, as it sifts through the ashes of Vesuvius to expose changes in our understanding of cultural and natural environments.
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