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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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- 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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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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- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08896-0
EAN 9780393088960
Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15635-4
EAN 9780691156354
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts, how they expressed admiration for ...
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- Osprey, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-674-5
EAN 9781849086745
Upon the outbreak of war, the British Royal Navy was deployed globally, whilst the Imperial German Navy was concentrated in two areas Home Waters and Tsingtao, the home port of the crack East Asia Cruiser Squadron which, under the command of Admiral von Spee contained some of Germany's most modern cruisers. As Spee made his ...
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Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945
Foreign Authors Report from Germany
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-226-00645-1
EAN 9780226006451
"Even now, wrote Christopher Isherwood in his Berlin Diary of 1933, I can't altogether believe that any of this has really happened. Three years later, W. E. B. DuBois described Germany as silent, nervous, suppressed; it speaks in whispers. In contrast, a young John F. Kennedy, in the journal he kept on a German tour ...
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- Random House USA, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,10 €
ISBN 978-0-553-58464-6
EAN 9780553584646
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18819-6
EAN 9780300188196
The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: "We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity". The Soviet Union, he wrote, was "at once unconquerable and in ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-0845-7
EAN 9781445608457
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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 35,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9942-6
EAN 9780713999426
In "The Sleepwalkers" acclaimed historian and author of "Iron Kingdom", Christopher Clark, examines the causes of the First World War. The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-0103-8
EAN 9781471101038
In November 2001, as the world still reeled from the attack on the Twin Towers, German historian Sonke Neitzel discovered an extraordinary cache of documents from the Second World War. The documents were the transcripts of German prisoners of war talking among themselves in prisoner of war camps, and secretly recorded by the allies. In ...
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- Indiana University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 45,35 €
ISBN 978-0-253-00603-5
EAN 9780253006035
By mid-1942 the Allies were losing the Mediterranean war: Malta was isolated and its civilian population faced starvation. In June 1942 the British Royal Navy made a stupendous effort to break the Axis stranglehold. The British dispatched armed convoys from Gibraltar and Egypt toward Malta. In a complex battle lasting more than a week, Italian ...
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- Flash Point, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 40 páginas
ISBN 978-1-59643-542-1
EAN 9781596435421
From the award-winning author of Silent Music comes a lavishly illustrated and surprising account of how the first printed book came to be. What was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds? What took a mountain to make? For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century'to a time when books were made by ...
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- Modern Library, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1109 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64560-3
EAN 9780679645603
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. The acclaimed author of "Catherine the Great, " Robert K. Massie delves deep into the life of this captivating historical figure, chronicling the pivotal events that shaped a boy ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4472-0898-3
EAN 9781447208983
A hung Parliament, terrorist bombs, sex trafficking and tabloid war ... Welcome to London, 1885.In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for a gentleman in a city brothel, they were legally trafficked to Brussels, Paris and beyond. All ...
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