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Natural Capital
Valuing the Planet
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21937-1
EAN 9780300219371
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Founders as Fathers
The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21974-6
EAN 9780300219746
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In Praise of Forgetting
Historical Memory and Its Ironies
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18279-8
EAN 9780300182798
A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds.The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet ...
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Revolutions without Borders
The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21984-5
EAN 9780300219845
Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of enticing new visions of human rights and universal freedom. This expansive history explores how the revolutionary ideas that spurred the American and ...
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Possession
The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20852-8
EAN 9780300208528
A riveting account of private art collectors' passion from Roman times to the present.Whether it's the discovery of 1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark history of looting, ...
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Hans Christian Andersen
European Witness
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21942-5
EAN 9780300219425
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21978-4
EAN 9780300219784
The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims ...
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Distinguished historian John Merriman maintains that the Age of Modern Terror began in Paris on February 12, 1894, when anarchist Emile Henry set off a bomb in the Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding twenty French citizens. The true story of the circumstances that led a young radical to commit a cold-blooded act of violence ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 380 páginas
PVP: 68,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18437-2
EAN 9780300184372
The Russian Canvas charts the remarkable rise of Russian painting in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the nature of its relationship with other European schools. Starting with the foundation of the Imperial Academy of the Arts in 1757 and culminating with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, it details the professionalization and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20473-5
EAN 9780300204735
Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability, and bring the guilty to justice. She corrects many misconceptions about particular poisons ...
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Disraeli
The Novel Politician
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13751-4
EAN 9780300137514
Lauded as a "great Jew," excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain's most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways did he contribute to Jewish causes? In this groundbreaking, lucid investigation of Disraeli's ...
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Black Wind, White Snow
The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12070-7
EAN 9780300120707
A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia.In this important, thought-provoking work, journalist Charles Clover, former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, attempts to shed light on the sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Clover suggests that a nearly ...
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The Savage Shore
Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery
For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled Great Southland. In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than three ...
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Tales From the Long Twelfth Century
The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18725-0
EAN 9780300187250
This intriguing book tells the story of England's great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events. Whether noble and brave or flawed and ...
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Barbra Streisand
Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19222-3
EAN 9780300192223
A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin's death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21715-5
EAN 9780300217155
Winner of the 2015 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize.Noah Warren's brilliant collection of poetry, The Destroyer in the Glass, is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the desire for human connection in a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21980-7
EAN 9780300219807
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker
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Black Hole
How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21966-1
EAN 9780300219661
For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes not even light seemed to confound all logic. This engrossing book tells the story of the fierce black hole debates and ...
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