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“Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.” - T. E. Lawrence. A short but c……続きを見る

Collection of 7 Works Sarah Knowles Bolton A Country Idyl and Other Stories Famous American Statesmen Famous European Artists Famous Givers and Their Gifts Famous Men of Science Lives of Girls Who B……続きを見る

Frattini desvela los secretos de la política de la Santa Sede, desde 1939 hasta la actualidad. El libro negro del Vaticano recoge el punto de vista de la CIA sobre las posiciones de la Santa Sede en……続きを見る

Volume thirty-one of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings together nine essays on leading geographers and their work. With its publication, the cumulative record of geographers' lives and ……続きを見る

From Jones's Woods, America's first amusement resort, to Coney Island during the golden age of the mid-1900s, and well beyond into the twenty-first century, the thrills of the amusement park have be……続きを見る

Wer sind diese großen Menschen, denen die Welt gehorchte? Was haben sie geleistet? Dieses reich bebilderte Buch bietet in chronologischer Folge einen allgemeinverständlichen, faktenreichen Überblick……続きを見る

Josef Wiesehöfer bietet eine farbige, klare und informative Schilderung der Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Kultur des antiken Persiens. Ein besonderer Reiz dieser leicht lesbaren Darstellung liegt dar……続きを見る

Die Geschichte des Menschen ist weit älter als die Erfindung der Schrift: Als der erste Frühmensch schöpferisch tätig wurde und einen Faustkeil formte, begann er zugleich seine Geschichte zu gestalt……続きを見る

Die Geschichte vom Auszug aus Ägypten ist eine der wirkmächtigsten Erzählungen der Menschheit. Sie steht für die Befreiung aus Sklaverei, aber auch für die Erfindung des Glaubens an den einen Gott. ……続きを見る

The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, ……続きを見る

Since the late nineteenth century, fears that marriage is in crisis have reverberated around the world. This volume explores this phenomenon, asking why people of various races, classes, and nations……続きを見る

Baby booms have a long history. In 1870, colonial Melbourne was ’perspiring juvenile humanity’ with an astonishing 42 per cent of the city’s inhabitants aged 14 and under - a demographic anomaly res……続きを見る

The relationship between the history, culture and peoples of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus is often reduced to an equation which defines one side in opposition to the other.The reality is much more comp……続きを見る

From this major author comes a totally unique history of the twentieth century. Eschewing the traditional model for histories of this kind – blow-by-blow political narratives typically overloaded wi……続きを見る

During the early modern period Oman held a key position in the trade routes whereby the Muslim world dominated indigenous trade in the Indian Ocean. In the second half of the eighteenth century, Oma……続きを見る

“The book helps fill in the picture of a complex and fascinating man…indispensable for the serious study of the subject.”ーEdmund Wilson, The New Yorker The most influential poet of his age, Yeats e……続きを見る

Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous ……続きを見る

This classic study of Yeats’ verse examines the poet’s development of theme, symbol, style, and pattern. Through his knowledge of Yeats’ life as well as his published and unpublished work, Ellmann r……続きを見る

The masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s greatest Catholic writers, Vipers’ Tangle tells the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered aging lawyer who has spread his misery to his entire estr……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Allgemeines / Vergleiche, Note: 1,5, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Beruf der Hebammen gehört mit zu den ältesten Frau……続きを見る

L'histoire pleine de fureur d'un pays monde, empli de contradictions et aux nombreux ancrages dans notre imaginaire. Le Brésil est un accident de l'histoire, une invention fortuite. Pays immense peu……続きを見る

Longtemps, l'émancipation des esclaves fut considérée comme l'œuvre des abolitionnistes, libéraux et blancs. Dans ce livre, qui fait pour la première fois le grand récit sur plus de trois siècles de……続きを見る

Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacifi……続きを見る

This book examines national debates on immigration, asylum seekers and guest worker programs from 1970 to the present. Over the past 45 years, contemporary immigration has had a profound impact thro……続きを見る

In the 21st century, ISIS will unleash several apocalyptic atrocities that will make 9/11 look like a Sunday picnic. These events will apparently happen despite the efforts of agencies such as the C……続きを見る

The history of Renaissance France is rich and varied. The Renaissance in France, as elsewhere in Europe, saw glory crowned amidst conflict and squalor. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Fra……続きを見る

Aunque tanto los medios de comunicación como los gobiernos occidentales se han esforzado en hacernos creer que los atentados terroristas de Charlie Hebdo en París fueron exclusivamente obra de los r……続きを見る

Una nueva interpretación de algunos de los episodios más relevantes de nuestra historia «Escribir historia ーsegún Sebastian Haffnerー es a la vez una ciencia y un arte. Una ciencia porque se trata ……続きを見る

Quand le couple s'affranchit du mariage ! On étudie traditionnellement le couple à travers le prisme du mariage. Or celui-ci n'est qu'une forme de couple parmi d'autres, rejetant à la marge ce qui l……続きを見る

En partenariat avec France Culture, la première histoire de la marche, par un auteur -historien et journaliste- dont la surface médiatique n'est plus à prouver. Des pèlerinages aux randonnées, des d……続きを見る