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To the City
Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
- Harper Collins, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
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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The Road
A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
- Harper Collins, 2024
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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Shylock's Venice
The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto
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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Revolusi
Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
- Random House UK, 2024
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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Magus
The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
- Penguin UK, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 44,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-363-2
EAN 9781846143632
A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the world of Renaissance EuropeAt the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-576-6
EAN 9781781255766
'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' The TimesTour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before trekking into rural Asia (or Turkey as we know it), past the already ancient Luxor monuments ...
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- Bonnier Books Ltd, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80418-254-3
EAN 9781804182543
A writer of genius' - William Dalrymple'Remarkable' - Kwame Anthony Appiah'Utterly captivating' - Anthony DoerrCan anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and ...
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Dark Brilliance
The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great
- Atlantic Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 500 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-856-5
EAN 9781838958565
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme turbulence in the form ...
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Iron and Blood
A Military History of the German-speaking Peoples Since 1500
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 976 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198888-7
EAN 9780141988887
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier, from Switzerland to the North Sea. Wilson's narrative considers everything from weapons development to recruitment to battlefield strategy. Germans' military ...
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Pirate Enlightenment
or the Real Libertalia
- Penguin, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80206-156-7
EAN 9781802061567
'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the ...
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Empireworld
How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-60041-2
EAN 9780241600412
Bestselling author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of the British Empire, and the ways it continues to influence economics, politics, and culture around the world.2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside ...
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The Holocaust
An Unfinished History
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50874-9
EAN 9780241508749
A searing, nuanced history of the Holocaust that brings to light new aspects of this terrible episode of history, from one of the leading Holocaust scholars of his generation
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- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27649-7
EAN 9780300276497
The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for ...
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- Orion, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 35,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1032-2
EAN 9781474610322
From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis.The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes.The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-8370-6
EAN 9781471183706
On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil.Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-3994-0987-2
EAN 9781399409872
Vladimir Putin s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar world entitled to impose democracy on countries that failed to recognise ...
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- Random House UK, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5299-1857-1
EAN 9781529918571
Now a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg, and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Now a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg (starring Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Anthony Boyle) and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific. 'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the ...
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Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
- Random House UK, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5299-1393-4
EAN 9781529913934
A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a ...
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- Random House UK, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-593-65518-4
EAN 9780593655184
A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance by Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Our Enemies Will Vanish achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. One is ...
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