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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044776-7
EAN 9780140447767
"The Saga of the Greenlanders" and "Eirik the Red's Saga" contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by ...
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- Harper Collins, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749289-3
EAN 9780007492893
A visual guide to how the world really works, through stunning infographics and data visualisations, thoroughly revised, recalculated and reimagined for this new edition. We are overwhelmed by information - from our phones, our televisions, our computers, our newspapers. This new edition of Information is Beautiful has been revised throughout with over 20 updates and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84614-290-1
EAN 9781846142901
Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In "Baudelaire's Folly", Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later called 'the Modern.' His protagonist is Charles Baudelaire: poet of nerves, art lover, pioneering ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045564-9
EAN 9780140455649
Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity Tacitus describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies ...
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- Penguin USA, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 20,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312206-7
EAN 9780143122067
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower"A dazzling history of Western ideas." --The Economist"Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase." --Wall Street Journal" W ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force." --Boston GlobeWestern civilization's ...
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A witty, personal and entertaining meditation on the history and meaning of paper during the (passing) era of its universal importance. Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost. Paper is the technology through which and with which we have made sense of the ...
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Villains of All Nations
Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-281-3
EAN 9781844672813
Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations unearths the thrilling historical truth behind such fictional characters and rediscovers their radical democratic challenge to the established powers of the day.
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Ordinary Men
Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Viking, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100042-8
EAN 9780141000428
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1914-1918
The History of the First World War
- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9795-7
EAN 9780718197957
In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the victorious countries were scarred for a generation, and we still today remain within the conflict's shadow.In this major new analysis, published some ninety years after ...
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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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- 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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- 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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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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- 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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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-343-5
EAN 9781846683435
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, but what it was like to live through. There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from ...
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The Swerve
How the World became Modern
- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34340-3
EAN 9780393343403
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a ...
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