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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 500 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20612-8
EAN 9780300206128
This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.
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Eugene O'Neill
A Life in Four Acts
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 584 páginas
PVP: 28,35 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17033-7
EAN 9780300170337
A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theaterThis extraordinary new biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O'Neill's tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama. Robert M. Dowling innovatively recounts O'Neill's life in four acts, thus highlighting how the stories he told ...
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Imprudent King
A New Life of Philip II
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 456 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19653-5
EAN 9780300196535
A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Spain's best-known kingPhilip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. ...
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The South China Sea
The Struggle for Power in Asia
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18683-3
EAN 9780300186833
A discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferentChina's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20888-7
EAN 9780300208887
When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's plan: to reestablish Christian control of Syria and Palestine. This book is ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20866-5
EAN 9780300208665
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Italian Venice
A History
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19387-9
EAN 9780300193879
In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice-not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernization, the two world wars, and the ...
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Weimar
From Enlightenment to the Present
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17056-6
EAN 9780300170566
Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany's most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a center of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Goethe and Schiller made their reputations here, as did Franz ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20531-2
EAN 9780300205312
This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infectious passion for books and ...
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The Danube
A Journey upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20545-9
EAN 9780300205459
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The Romans and their World
A Short Introduction
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20864-1
EAN 9780300208641
This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell, respected scholar and teacher, presents a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to Rome, drawing on an array of ...
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Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 904 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20863-4
EAN 9780300208634
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence.The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-hand accounts of men and women ...
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Siberia
A History of the People
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16794-8
EAN 9780300167948
Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries. Janet M. Hartley explores the history of this vast Russian wasteland-whose very name is ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20547-3
EAN 9780300205473
A gripping account of the philosophers who supported Hitler's rise to power and those whose lives were wrecked by his regime.
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Liberty's Dawn
A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20525-1
EAN 9780300205251
This title looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class.
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Jonathan Swift
His Life and His World
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20541-1
EAN 9780300205411
From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language.
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Thomas Aquinas
A Portrait
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20594-7
EAN 9780300205947
Leaving so few traces of himself behind, Thomas Aquinas seems to defy the efforts of the biographer. Highly visible as a public teacher, preacher and theologian, he nevertheless has remained nearly invisible as man and saint. What can be discovered about this man, his mind, and his soul? In this short, compelling portrait, Denys Turner ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20536-7
EAN 9780300205367
A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed since the ancient Greeks began to analyze it, and how has modern technology altered its very definition? In this fascinating ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20664-7
EAN 9780300206647
Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to shape the world today. Focusing on episodes both well ...
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