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- St. Martins Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 27,70 €
ISBN 978-0-312-67657-5
EAN 9780312676575
Noted historian of the Broadway musical chronicles the braided lives of two of the twentieth century's most influential artistsFor the first time, Ethan Mordden chronicles the romance of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in Love Song, a dual biography that unfolds against the background of the tumultous twentieth century, scored to music from Weil's greatest ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-662-6
EAN 9781846146626
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Gulag" comes a major new work of historical and moral reckoning: the story of life behind the Iron Curtain. Once the Nazis were defeated in 1945, the people of Central and Eastern Europe expected to recover the lives they had led before 1939. Instead, they found themselves subjected to ...
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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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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,99 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16004-8
EAN 9780300160048
With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for five hundred years. Encompassing the period from Rome's founding in the eighth century B.C.through Justinian's rule in the sixth century A.D., ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-381-1
EAN 9781780763811
China's transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable - and most controversial - development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and outdated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to Communist state, to hybrid capitalist superpower. Yet the full ...
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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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- Polity, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4926-9
EAN 9780745649269
Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power and market growth.The legacy of this age of plenty includes declining conventional oil reserves, volatile prices, climate change, and enduring ...
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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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The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase
Stories from the Diplomatic Bag
- Viking, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-670-92103-4
EAN 9780670921034
Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson bring together some of the funniest despatches from British Ambassadors abroad, in this sequel to their acclaimed Parting Shots. Based on a new BBC Radio 4 series, it features some classic stories, from the horse given to John Major by the authorities in Turkmenistan which got lost in the Russian ...
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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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Churchill and Company
Allies and Rivals in War and Peace
- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-718-6
EAN 9781848857186
Winston Churchill is one of the dominating figures of the 20th century. In this stimulating and original book, David Dilks presents Churchill, not only as a war leader and international statesman, but also as a private person with a rich variety of friendships and rivalries. New and penetrating light is directed on Churchill during World ...
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A Very British Family
The Trevelyans and their World
- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-287-6
EAN 9781780762876
'It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the "right people". The world has given us money enough to enable us to do what we think is right. We thank it for that and ask no more of it, but to be allowed to serve ...
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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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- Doubleday, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-0-385-53241-9
EAN 9780385532419
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius ...
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