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Enter The Universe According to Peter Max. A true Pop Art iconーone of the world’s most well-loved visual artistsーPeter Max now offers us an intimate, unprecedented look at the inner workings of hi……続きを見る

The book analyses the attitudes of non-EU countries towards European integration in historical and contemporary perspectives. The authors study a range of actors in Europe and beyond to explain the ……続きを見る

The Great War did not only mark the history of the twentieth century: to a large extent, the conflict also affected culture and literature in Europe and the rest of the world. This collection of ess……続きを見る

Das Buch behandelt die «Arisierung» von Banken in Deutschland während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Anhand der Geschichte des Bankhauses E. J. Meyer werden soziale, ökonomische und rechtliche Ra……続きを見る

Au XVIe siècle, les protestants réformés, à Genève surtout, mais également dans la France huguenote, à Londres ou à Berne, intériorisent une conception originale du temps et appliquent une éthique p……続きを見る

Il est Napoléon le Grand : après Austerlitz, qui peut arrêter l'Empereur des Français ? Il bouscule les Rois, à Iéna, à Friedland, à Wagram. Il conquiert les femmes. Marie Walewska, la Polonaise, et……続きを見る

How a reluctant soldier and ranger, excelling in reconnaissance, intelligence, and covert operations, details his journey post-Cold War training to the War on Terror. I am a soldier and a ranger – a……続きを見る

Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of thirteen. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy he rose to become a fine seaman, a master of gunne……続きを見る

Pretend it's Science Fiction, if it helps. Logos intending meaning into vibration equals creation. Nothing isn't everything. Words are. The spirit is the reality, and love is what lasts forever. The……続きを見る

Dive into the aromatic depths of "Awakening the World: Coffee's Global Journey from Exploration to Enlightenment," where history steams with the invigorating essence of coffee. This enthralling expe……続きを見る

This book provides an introduction to human rights controversies in twentieth-century France, from the Dreyfus Affair at the beginning of the century, to the arguments over women and immigrants’ rig……続きを見る

Max Hastings's account of his family's tumultuous 20th century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even – his father's most exotic 196……続きを見る

To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes – Luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latter). This thorough and engaging social history of I……続きを見る

This comprehensive narrative history of the California Gold Rush describes daily life during this historic period, documenting its wide-reaching effects and examining the significant individuals and……続きを見る

Ici se nouent les derniers actes du fabuleux destin de Napoléon. Le 24 juin 1812, il entre en Russie à la tête de la Grande Armée. Alors chaque jour, chaque page de ce livre, et jusqu'à la mort de l……続きを見る

For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern lifeーand s……続きを見る

This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of the greatest wars the world had ever known. It offer……続きを見る

Il est arrivé le 15 mai 1779 à l'Ecole royale militaire de Brienne. Il n'a pas encore dix ans et parle à peine le français... Il va rester cinq ans dans cette école, sans la quitter un seul jour, sa……続きを見る

Napoléon a trente ans en ce mois de noembre 1799. Il est Premier consul. Dans cinq ans, il sera Empereur des Français. "Joseph, si notre père nous voyait", murmurera-t-il à son frère aîné lors du sa……続きを見る

Jaurès ? Quel est cet homme, assassiné le 31 juillet 1914, alors que le mot même de socialisme auquel il était identifié semble vidé de sa part de rêve ? Pour répondre, Max Gallo, avec érudition et ……続きを見る

This fascinating study follows the fortunes of the Höchstetter family, merchant-manufacturers and financiers of Augsburg, Germany, in the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries, and sheds ligh……続きを見る

-"New Wave Il rinnovamento della musica tra '77 e '84" Un racconto storico, musicologico e sociologico molto spigliato e senza peli sulla lingua sul grosso rivolgimento musicale che si ebbe tra la f……続きを見る

The fiery burn of rebellion rum, a thirst-quenching gulp of ice-cold beer, the medicinal tang of restorative bitters... What did the drinks that shaped Australia first taste like? In search of answe……続きを見る

Extrait : "La chute du ministère Ollivier fut la préface de la chute de l'Empire ; on eût dit que le ministre partait en avant comme fourrier du souverain. Les vingt-cinq journées qui s'écoulèrent e……続きを見る

The imperial Austrian navy which fought and won the signal victory of Lissa on 20 July 1866, during the so-called Seven Weeks' War of 1866, has in recent years been subjected to more detailed scruti……続きを見る

Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of Flo……続きを見る

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Hungary was the site of a national awakening. While Hungarian-speaking Hungarians sought to assimilate Hungary's ethnic minorities into a new idea of nationhoo……続きを見る

Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed ……続きを見る