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Clarence L. Kelly Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed Skunk Works cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
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A dazzling follow-up to Life as told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78954-563-0
EAN 9781789545630
A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the ruins of the Roman Empire. The process of preservation of surviving texts, fragile at first, was strengthened ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-955-7
EAN 9781785789557
**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians**'Alice Loxton is the star of her generation ... the next big thing in history' DAN SNOW'Vivid, pacey and endlessly engaging, this brilliant debut brings the late Georgian period dazzlingly to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-0354-0133-8
EAN 9781035401338
A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington Post'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for those left behind' The Times'A tale of intrigue and suppression' New York Times'A compelling and often horrifying tale of moral degradation and occasional heroism superbly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5893-5
EAN 9780753558935
A bold, sweeping bird's eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement. Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk RoadsPrize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how Western Civilization the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-0-500-29748-3
EAN 9780500297483
The first century CE was one of momentous events: the end of the Roman Empire, the rise of Christianity across Western Europe, and the disappearance of Persia from the Near East. An era in which the most deep-rooted ancient institutions disappeared, creating divergent legacies that are still present today. Renowned historian Peter Brown examines these ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-518-2
EAN 9781838955182
Through the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of the northern European Renaissance, which rivalled its Italian counterpart.There is no denying that many of the first developments of the Renaissance took place ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5299-2507-4
EAN 9781529925074
'Tremendously enjoyable ... thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide ... panoramic ...defiantly hopeful' Financial TimesDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered. Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198421-6
EAN 9780141984216
The best account in a single volume of Spain since 1898, exemplary for concision and for accuracy in the use of language, as well as for equanimity and generosity of spirit' Felipe Fernández-Armesto, TLSA revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5299-2077-2
EAN 9781529920772
In the 1930s, women and men from across the world made their way to Spain to be part of what they saw as a historic fight for freedom from fascism. Tomorrow Perhaps the Future follows extraordinary outsiders who were determined to live out their lives with courage and conviction.Sarah Watling weaves together the experiences of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 37,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26342-8
EAN 9780300263428
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-0519-1
EAN 9781526605191
A work of great confidence, empathy, learning and imagination' RORY STEWART 'Eye-popping, mind-blowing, ground-breaking' LUCY WORSLEY The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. But what if that isn't true? What ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-1343-1
EAN 9781526613431
Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the Continent, and the Reformation forever changes the religious organisation of society. Amidst it all, three young women come of age and into power in an era of empires and revolutions.Catherine de' Medici's story begins in a convent stormed by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-712374-2
EAN 9780007123742
Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon's invasion of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-841605-8
EAN 9780008416058
Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future.Caught between two seas and two continents, Istanbul lies at the centre of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-835672-9
EAN 9780008356729
On nearly every page a random passage takes one's breath away' The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod. Almost everyone in Britain ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-1566-4
EAN 9781526615664
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. 'A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the story' - William Dalrymple, Financial Times ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-3994-0727-4
EAN 9781399407274
The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline.And essential to any history of Venice during its glory days is the story ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 792 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-705-7
EAN 9781847927057
A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world.'Astounding . . .history at its best' Yuval Harari'Utterly compelling' Financial Times'Superb' GuardianOn a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag ...
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