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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 28,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18093-9
EAN 9780691180939
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture ...
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- Harper Collins, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-829766-4
EAN 9780008297664
A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, which brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade - illegally smuggled from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship ...
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En los primeros meses de 1917, cuando se iniciaba en Rusia la revolución, en medio de las intrigas de agentes y espías que trataban de sacar partido de la confusa situación del país, el gobierno alemán decidió ayudar a un grupo de revolucionarios exiliados en Suiza para que regresaran a Rusia, con la esperanza de ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-35101-7
EAN 9780241351017
In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious and consequential international relationships. As President Barack Obama's adviser on Russian affairs, McFaul helped craft the United ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-0-19-068013-8
EAN 9780190680138
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- Carlton Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78739-091-1
EAN 9781787390911
This is the story of the mighty city of Troy that gave birth to one of the greatest legends ever told. Sumptuously illustrated, Troy uncovers the archaeological history of the city and the people involved with the discoveries. It also retells the compelling tale of the siege, the characters involved and the bloody battles that ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 510 páginas
PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-0-571-34025-5
EAN 9780571340255
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from Edward III to Richard III. In a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare - when the crown was constantly contested, alliances were made and broken, and the people rose up in revolt - this was the raw material ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-683-1
EAN 9781781256831
From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on sugar, Mary on chocolate and Anne was known as 'Brandy Nan'. Victoria ate all of this and more. The Greedy Queen celebrates Victoria's appetite, both for food and, indeed, for life.Born in May 1819, ...
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- Century, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78089-551-2
EAN 9781780895512
Legend has it that, in a few busy weeks in July 1789, a despotic king, his freeloading wife, and a horde of over-privileged aristocrats, were displaced and then humanely dispatched. In the ensuing years, we are told, France was heroically transformed into an idyll of Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite. In fact, as Stephen Clarke argues ...
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- Hurst, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-948-1
EAN 9781849049481
As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of little-known case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, War From The Ground Up offers a distinctive perspective on contemporary armed conflict: while most accounts of war look down ...
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- Routledge, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 212 páginas
PVP: 149,75 €
ISBN 978-1-138-48562-4
EAN 9781138485624
First published in 1963. The Moguls, the descendants of the Mongols, two and a half centuries later than Jenghiz Khan, created an empire that stretched from Persia to Burma and from the Himalayas to the centre of the Indian subcontinent. It was a creation almost more astonishing than Jenghiz Khan's own: an empire that was ...
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- Verso Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-278-8
EAN 9781784782788
In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? In a panoramic sweep, stretching from St Petersburg ...
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- Penguin USA, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311088-0
EAN 9780143110880
A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car ...
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- IBTauris, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-786-9
EAN 9781784537869
Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden tales paint a picture very different from ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 372 páginas
PVP: 37,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-66044-1
EAN 9780674660441
Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 23,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-875293-6
EAN 9780198752936
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 268 páginas
PVP: 23,20 €
ISBN 978-1-86118-520-4
EAN 9781861185204
A comprehensive view of the mythical and historic significance of the great medieval queen. Explains that courtly love was not a platonic and intellectual affectation but an intimate process of male transcendence akin to Tantra. Shows that Eleanor's embodiment of divine power undermined the pattern of patriarchy.Reveals how Eleanor inspired the powerful influence of the ...
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- Bodley Head, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-393-6
EAN 9781847923936
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal and defection to Moscow reverberated for decades. Christened Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was the perfect spy and Britain's most gifted traitor.But ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23438-1
EAN 9780300234381
A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make-or destroy-the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded, however, Praetorian soldiers served not only as ...
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The World at the Brink
- Little&Brown, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-1052-4
EAN 9781408710524
1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the US, President Reagan massively increased defence spending, described the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire' and announced his 'Star Wars' programme, calling for a shield in space to defend the US from incoming missiles.Yuri ...
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