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- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-297-85208-7
EAN 9780297852087
The book is one of drama on a grand scale, a Renaissance epic, as Christendom emerged from the shadows of the calamitous 14th century. The sweeping tale involves inspired and corrupt monarchs, the finest thinkers, the most brilliant artists, and the greatest beauties in Christendom. Here are the stories of its most remarkable women, who ...
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1914-1918
The History of the First World War
- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9795-7
EAN 9780718197957
In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the victorious countries were scarred for a generation, and we still today remain within the conflict's shadow.In this major new analysis, published some ninety years after ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18774-8
EAN 9780300187748
Love - unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting - is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the ...
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- Perseus, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-306-82151-6
EAN 9780306821516
Prominent historian and biographer, Charles Bracelen Flood, reveals the last year of General Grant's life and the portrait of a man, who despite his flaws, had great courage and determination, an abiding love of family and country, and an unshakeable vision for reconciling a divided nation. Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29069-7
EAN 9780571290697
Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plantations, as she traces ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95304-4
EAN 9780241953044
A History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world's busiest and most powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon in 1797. Rich in fascinating historical detail, ...
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Vanished Kingdoms
The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 536 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104886-4
EAN 9780141048864
Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age. What happened to the once-great Mediterranean 'Empire of Aragon'? Where did the half-forgotten kingdoms of Burgundy go? Which current nations will one day become a distant memory too? This original ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-463-0
EAN 9781846684630
This is the definitive concise account of our remarkable past. Which battle was fought 'For England, Harry and St George'? Who demanded to be painted 'warts and all'? What - and when - was the Battle of the Bulge? In "A Short History of England", bestselling author Simon Jenkins answers all these questions - and ...
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Pax Britannica II
The Climax of an Empire
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29071-0
EAN 9780571290710
Jan Morris recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height of its vigour and self-satisfaction, imposing on the rest of the world its traditions ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29070-3
EAN 9780571290703
Jan Morris traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic brilliance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissolution of the British Empire. The British Empire is fortunate in having found in ...
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MI6
Life and Death in the British Secret Service
- Phoenix, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2833-5
EAN 9780753828335
The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. THE ART OF BETRAYAL provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction.It tells the story of how the secret service has changed since the ...
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The Abacus and the Cross
The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
- Basic Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-03144-3
EAN 9780465031443
The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages,in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called The Scientist Pope," Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant beginnings to lead the church. By turns a teacher, ...
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- Columbia, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15319-5
EAN 9780231153195
From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15635-4
EAN 9780691156354
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts, how they expressed admiration for ...
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Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945
Foreign Authors Report from Germany
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-226-00645-1
EAN 9780226006451
"Even now, wrote Christopher Isherwood in his Berlin Diary of 1933, I can't altogether believe that any of this has really happened. Three years later, W. E. B. DuBois described Germany as silent, nervous, suppressed; it speaks in whispers. In contrast, a young John F. Kennedy, in the journal he kept on a German tour ...
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- Flash Point, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 40 páginas
ISBN 978-1-59643-542-1
EAN 9781596435421
From the award-winning author of Silent Music comes a lavishly illustrated and surprising account of how the first printed book came to be. What was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds? What took a mountain to make? For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century'to a time when books were made by ...
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- Modern Library, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1109 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64560-3
EAN 9780679645603
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. The acclaimed author of "Catherine the Great, " Robert K. Massie delves deep into the life of this captivating historical figure, chronicling the pivotal events that shaped a boy ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4472-0898-3
EAN 9781447208983
A hung Parliament, terrorist bombs, sex trafficking and tabloid war ... Welcome to London, 1885.In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for a gentleman in a city brothel, they were legally trafficked to Brussels, Paris and beyond. All ...
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- Collins (Uk), 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-0-00-720376-5
EAN 9780007203765
Her personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue, Queen Anne presided over some of the most momentous events in British history. Like Antonia Fraser's life of Marie Antoinette or Amanda Foreman's 'The Duchess', 'Queen Anne' is historical biography at its best. In 1702, fourteen years after she helped oust her father from his throne ...
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