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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23445-9
EAN 9780300234459
A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. Though wars are terrible and destructive, they also seem unavoidable. In this original and deeply ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-0-19-068013-8
EAN 9780190680138
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-881513-6
EAN 9780198815136
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-997-9
EAN 9781781259979
Kenneth Clark's 1969 BBC series Civilisation (note the singular) is perhaps the most celebrated documentary series ever made, except that it was entirely of its time: patrician to the exclusion of women and western to the exclusion of all other cultures. Spring 2018 sees an ambitious 10-part BBC re-make, presented by Britain's foremost historians, embracing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84994-451-9
EAN 9781849944519
A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think?In 100 Books that Changed the World, authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter bring together an exceptional collection of truly groundbreaking books ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 725 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952003-0
EAN 9780099520030
Wonderfully entertaining, comprehensive and astute.' The Times Genuinely hard to put down.' BBC History MagazineFrom murder to duelling, highway robbery to mugging: the darker side of English life explored. Spanning some seven centuries, A Fiery x{0026} Furious People traces the subtle shifts that have taken place both in the nature of violence and in people's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-5600-7
EAN 9781471156007
Ferdinand Mount has been fascinated by the great thinkers and politicians who have shaped human history over the past two millennia In this fascinating, and provocative book, he examines the proposals for a political theory from a number of widely different historical figures. Twelve key people, from the great orator and statesman of Ancient Greece ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-999-3
EAN 9781781259993
Kenneth Clark's 1969 BBC series Civilisation (note the singular) is perhaps the most celebrated documentary series ever made, except that it was entirely of its time: patrician to the exclusion of women and western to the exclusion of all other cultures. Spring 2018 sees an ambitious BBC re-make, presented by Britain's foremost historians, embracing global ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-560-5
EAN 9781781255605
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5168-5
EAN 9781408851685
War, comrades,' declared Trotsky, is a great locomotive of history.' He was thought to be acknowledging the opportunity the First World War had offered the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia in 1917. Twentieth-century warfare, based on new technologies and mass armies, certainly saw the locomotive power of war geared up to an unprecedented level. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-001-8
EAN 9781788160018
Since civilisation began, we have attempted to understand what it means to be human - be it through art, language, culture, or religion. Our understanding is most often split between two different interpretations of the self: as a physical being and spiritual one. Here, Professor Mary Beard lends a helping hand, mapping the progression of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78243-808-3
EAN 9781782438083
In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people.German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called it Flanders Grippe, but globally the pandemic gained the notorious title of 'Spanish Flu'.Nowhere escaped this common enemy: in Britain, 250,000 people died, in the United States ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 550 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-281-6
EAN 9781847922816
The words that failed were words of hope. But they did not fail at all times and everywhere.These gripping pages teem with words of defiance and optimism, sounds and images of tenacious life and adventurous modernism, music and drama, business and philosophy, poetry and politics. The second part of Simon Schama's epic Story of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 25,70 €
ISBN 978-0-19-880396-6
EAN 9780198803966
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One of Time's 12 Books for the History Buffs on Your Holiday Gift ListThe first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present.For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 40,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3997-3
EAN 9781408839973
The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-3360-3
EAN 9781509833603
Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating and drinking. Yet the origins of the customs which characterize the festive season are wreathed in myth. When did turkeys become the plat du jour? Is the commercialization of Christmas a recent phenomenon, or has the emphasis ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 26,30 €
ISBN 978-0-19-968918-7
EAN 9780199689187
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