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The History Makers
2500 Years of Who We Are
NOVEDAD!!- Random House USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4000-6876-0
EAN 9781400068760
An epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers'from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Simon Schama'continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today There are many stories we can spin about years gone by, but which accounts come to be told, and ...
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Imperial Tragedy
From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363 - 568
NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-633-6
EAN 9781781256336
For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms ...
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The Year 1000
When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-35127-7
EAN 9780241351277
When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. This was the 'big bang' of ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Head Of Zeus, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 51,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78854-783-3
EAN 9781788547833
A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons - the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the ...
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The World Beneath their Feet
The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Race to Summit the Himalayas
NOVEDAD!!- John Murray, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-4964-4
EAN 9781473649644
One of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century and an unforgettable saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement-all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war. While tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was raging across the Himalayas.Contingents from ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Gilgamesh, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 215 páginas
PVP: 19,10 €
ISBN 978-1-908531-18-6
EAN 9781908531186
Philip the Arab was Roman Emperor from 244 to 249. He came from Syria, and is remembered for negotiating peace with the Sassanid Empire shortly before Rome came to celebrate its millennium. Among early Christian writers Philip had the reputation of being sympathetic to the Christian faith and it has even been claimed by some ...
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The Nine Hundred
The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
NOVEDAD!!- Hodder & Stoughton, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-2935-3
EAN 9781529329353
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager ...
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Afganistán: una república del silencio
Recuerdos de un estudiante afgano
NOVEDAD!!- Foca, 2021
Libro encuadernado en rústica con solapas · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-84-16842-65-0
EAN 9788416842650
"Afganistán es una república en la que habitan diferentes etnias y cuyo pasado -y presente- es sinónimo de guerra y genocidio.Pese a ello, en su sociedad reina una hipocresía que lo ensalza y dulcifica, y que ha ahogado en un mar de mentiras y silencios las voces de los hazaras, una minoría descendiente de los ...
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NOVEDAD!!- IBTauris, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-602-7
EAN 9781780766027
A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England - soon followed by Scotland and Ireland - exploded into bitter conflict as dissenting members John Hampden and John Holles fled the Long Parliament and Charles Stuart raised his royal standard at Nottingham in 1642. In his atmospheric new history of an era once ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Methuen, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,90 €
ISBN 978-0-413-77735-5
EAN 9780413777355
In this enthralling work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over six hundred years ago. A diplomat, and brother-in-law to John of Gaunt - one of the most powerful men in the kingdom - Chaucer was celebrated as his country's finest living poet, rhetorician and scholar: the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-0-19-967046-8
EAN 9780199670468
During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig ...
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Last Stands
Why Men Fight When All Is Lost
- St. Martin's Griffin, 2020
Libro · 368 páginas
PVP: 33,90 €
ISBN 978-1-250-21708-0
EAN 9781250217080
What is heroism? What are its moral components - altruism, love, self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic? In this dramatic and readable account of last stands in history - famous or otherwise - Walsh explores the stakes that led men at very different times and places to face overwhelming ...
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Epidemics and Society
From the Black Death to the Present
- Yale University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25639-0
EAN 9780300256390
This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today, and in a new preface addresses the global threat of COVID-19. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science ...
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- Macmillan, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-250-75816-3
EAN 9781250758163
A gripping and authoritative revisionist account of the German Winter Campaign of 1941-1942Germany's winter campaign of 1941-1942 is commonly seen as its first defeat. In Retreat from Moscow, a bold, gripping account of one of the seminal moments of World War II, David Stahel argues that instead it was its first strategic success in the ...
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For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with enduring insights into tactics, psychology, discipline and the nature of power. Favoured by countless great generals and military tacticians throughout history, over the last century the book has found a new ...
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Figuring Out the Past
The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History
- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-192-3
EAN 9781788161923
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever?We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we ...
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- Simon & Schuster, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-8650-9
EAN 9781471186509
From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader - an MIT-credentialled scientist, popular podcast host and SpaceX mission manager - an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilisation's earliest days to current planning for interstellar travel. For the first time in history, the human species ...
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- Pan, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-7316-6
EAN 9781509873166
'An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.'Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of Istanbul and Helen of Troy. Continuously inhabited for five millennia, and at one point the most powerful city in ...
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The Armchair General
Can you Defeat the Nazis?
- Vintage, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 204 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-2570-2
EAN 9781529125702
Re-write the course of WWII with this revolutionary new approach to history. Take the chair of Winston Churchill and other leaders. Make the decisions that will change the war - and the world.What might have happened if Poland was never invaded? Or if Hiroshima never happened? Or if the great evacutation at Dunkirk was scrapped? ...
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