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- Harvill, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84655-246-5
EAN 9781846552465
Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. Her father, a scholar in China, ran a laundry business and a gambling house in California; her mother, a doctor in China, helped with the laundry and worked in the fields. Maxine won scholarships to the University ...
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Pirates of Barbary
Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-century Mediterranean
- Random House, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952386-4
EAN 9780099523864
From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to swap religions, to battle and to trade goods and sales - raiding as far as Ireland and Iceland in search of their human currency. Studying the origins of these ...
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in caves near the Dead Sea fifteen miles east of Jerusalem between 1947 and 1956, include the oldest existing biblical manuscripts and the remarkable texts of the purist Jewish community at Qumran. The discovery of the Scrolls has added dramatically to our understanding of the varieties of Judaism at the ...
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The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
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Cultures of War
Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Embracing Defeat, John W. Dower returns with a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times, presenting a conceptual breakthrough in the ways we think about "culture" in general and "war" in particular. Immediately after the attacks, the US media proclaimed 11 September a "day ...
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The American Crucible
Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
The acclaimed historian of slavery Robin Blackburn presents a novel interpretation of slavery and emancipation in the Americas, tracing the importance of the peculiar institution to the Rise of the West as well as to the discourse of human rights that looms large in local and global politics today. Arguing that watershed events led or ...
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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51615-0
EAN 9780262516150
The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the ...
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- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-191-7
EAN 9781849081917
With the wars between the US and the Native Americans drawing to a close, one tribe in Eastern Oregon continued to resist. The Nez Perce, led by the Red Napoleon' Chief Joseph, refused to surrender and accept resettlement. Instead, Chief Joseph organized a band of 750 warriors and set off for the Canadian border, pursued ...
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Van Meter relates the horrifying, true story of 18-year-old Katie Autry, who was raped, stabbed, covered with hairspray, and set on fire in her dorm room at Western Kentucky University in 2006. photos. Annotation: Van Meter relates the horrifying, true story of 18-year-old Katie Autry, who was raped, stabbed, covered with hairspray, and set on ...
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The Bismarck 1941
Hunting Germany's greatest Battleship
- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-383-6
EAN 9781849083836
The break of the German battleship Bismarck into the North Atlantic in May 1941 was one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II. It began with a battle between the Bismarck and the British battleship Prince of Wales and the heavy cruiser Hood. The Hood was blown to pieces, while the battered Prince ...
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Life in Year One
What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine
- Sin referencia, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59448-503-9
EAN 9781594485039
What was it like to live in the time of Jesus? What did people eat? Whom did they marry? How did they keep themselves clean? What did their cities and towns look like? What did they believe? The answers, it turns out, are surprising. This simple question is not so simple after all. With a ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 33,75 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05246-8
EAN 9780674052468
Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers have often served as its most influential political actors think of Gandhi, whose collected ...
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Empires at War
A Short History of Modern Asia since World War II
- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-865-7
EAN 9781848858657
As the major geopolitical power bloc, Asia - with 4 billion people, two-thirds of the world's population, a huge land-mass and the fastest-growing economies - has shifted the global political balance. "Empires at War" gives a dramatic narrative account of how 'Modern Asia' came into being. Ranging over the whole of Asia, from Japan to ...
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Fleeing Franco
How Wales Gave Shelter to Refugee Children from the Basque Country durin
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7083-2336-6
EAN 9780708323366
Packed on an old cruise liner leaving Bilbao for Southampton, 8862 Basque children left their parents behind to flee their country amid the chaos which ensued following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1937.Fleeing Franco by Hywel Davies tells the story of the Basque children who came to Wales during the turmoil of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-954620-6
EAN 9780199546206
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Carthage must be Destroyed
The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101809-6
EAN 9780141018096
The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the Ancient World. In an epic series of land and sea battles both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally buckled and their capital city, history and culture were almost utterly erased. The last ...
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Whose Ideas Matter?
Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism
- Cornell, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-8014-7708-9
EAN 9780801477089
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- Viking USA, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-670-02171-0
EAN 9780670021710
A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today. When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations, who discovered his ...
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River of Darkness
Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Am
In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito in search of La Canela, South America's rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, "the golden man." Driving an enormous retinue of mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, hunting dogs, and other animals across the Andes, they watched ...
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