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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-513-1
EAN 9781781255131
What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation, or is the world we inhabit shaped just as much by real people - leaders for example - and the decisions that they make? For better or for worse, the personalities of the powerful can ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16521-9
EAN 9780691165219
The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence.This book ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 52,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15363-6
EAN 9780691153636
The empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized and interconnected world. Until now, most recent scholarship on empires has focused on their subject peoples. Visions of Empire looks at their rulers, shedding critical new light on who they were, ...
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Torture and Twilight of Empire
from Algiers to Baghdad
- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17348-1
EAN 9780691173481
Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds ...
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Waging Insurgent Warfare
Lessons from the Vietcong to the Islamic State
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-0-19-060086-0
EAN 9780190600860
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A Most Improbable Journey
A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-29269-5
EAN 9780393292695
Famed geologist Walter Alvarez expands our view of human history by revealing the cosmic, geologic, and evolutionary forces that have shaped us. Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. In The Little Book of Big ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-5945-9
EAN 9781471159459
The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms - non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139314-8
EAN 9780141393148
..as when iron is drawn to a magnet, camphor is sucked into hot air, crystal lights up in the Sun, sulfur and a volatile liquid are kindled by flame, an empty eggshell filled with dew is raised towards the Sun . . .'This rich, fascinating anthology of the western magical tradition stretches from its roots ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-226-41244-3
EAN 9780226412443
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- Penguin USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7352-2211-3
EAN 9780735222113
On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiriss wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, in the deadliest attack on France since World War II. Three days later, Leiris wrote an open letter addressed directly to his wifes killers, which he posted on Facebook. He refused ...
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This authoritative work provides an essential perspective on terrorism by offering a rare opportunity for analysis and reflection at a time of ongoing violence, threats, and reprisals. Some of the best international specialists on the subject examine terrorism's complex history from antiquity to the present day and find that terror, long the weapon of the ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-4094-8
EAN 9781473640948
Throughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From inciting violence and asserting control to restoring peace and securing freedom, nothing has the raw emotional power of a speech delivered at the right moment, in the right place, with the right content, and the right delivery. 50 Speeches That Made The Modern World is a ...
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- Harper Collins, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-00-745251-4
EAN 9780007452514
The object of this book is to introduce readers to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they have been fought. Through them we can understand how warfare and world ...
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Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano's 2006 exposé of Naples's Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months and compelled to keep perpetual company with his bodyguards. ...
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- Random House Uk, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 36,85 €
ISBN 978-1-910701-87-4
EAN 9781910701874
During the twentieth century, humankind has managed to do the impossible: we have brought famine, plague and war under control. Today, more people die from obesity than from starvation; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed in war. We are the only species in ...
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Revolution and Resistance
Moral Revolution, Military Might, and the End of Empire
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2069-1
EAN 9781421420691
In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that "irregular warfare"'including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other insurgency tactics'is intimately linked to the rise and decline of Euro-American empire around the globe. Tracing the evolution of resistance warfare from the age of the conquistadors through the United States recent ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, Revolution and Resistance ...
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- Random House Uk, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-910701-88-1
EAN 9781910701881
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between.Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-672-8
EAN 9781780236728
Faith and Sword gives a concise history of what has arguably been the longest conflict in human history - a conflict that continues, in a new form, to this day. The overtly religious Christian-Muslim struggle lasted for nearly thirteen centuries, and for most of that period the Muslims were in the ascendant. The Christians eventually ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5013-0744-7
EAN 9781501307447
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-62892-286-8
EAN 9781628922868
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious affiliation, marital status, and cultural leanings, among other things. The meanings of hair are deep, powerful, and so ...
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