Discover the Origins of Civilization with Herodotus' Masterpiece"The History of Herodotus" is an essential read that transports readers back to the ancient world, offering a comprehensive account of……続きを見る
Im Juli 1518 trat eine Frau namens Troffea auf eine Straße in Straßburg und begann zu tanzen. Sie tanzte tagelang, ohne Musik, ohne Pause und mit blutenden Füßen. Innerhalb eines Monats schlossen si……続きを見る
The European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organisation. On the one hand, it has shown the potential for developing deep and wide-ranging cooperation between member state……続きを見る
Tras la derrota de Japón en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la humanidad trataba de restañar las heridas dejadas por seis años de cruenta lucha. Mientras, en tierras brasileñas había quienes estaban conv……続きを見る
What if you could improve your English while exploring the stories that shaped our world?
Simple Stories: A2 English Graded Reader on Leonardo da Vinci, Cleopatra, the Wright Brothers & the Titanic ……続きを見る
著者:M. D. Usher
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2020年10月15日
The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can find in their lives and thought the origi……続きを見る
How adventurous Jewish women’s travels upended Jewish norms
In 1922, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, first initiated the bat mitzvah as a rite-of-passage for Jewish ……続きを見る
著者:Peter J Usher
出版社: Pen and Sword
発売日: 2024年08月30日
“We do learn of the life and loss of one man and his family, a story worth reading and remembering.” -The NYMAS Review
Battle of Britain Spitfire Ace is the story of a young Canadian who in a short ……続きを見る
著者:Peter D. Usher
出版社: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
発売日: 2015年07月14日
In the mid-sixteenth century, Copernicus asserted that the Earth was not the center of the universe as was generally believed, but that the sun lay there instead. The relegation of the Earth to the ……続きを見る
著者:Brett Usher
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年09月17日
Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603 examines the selection and promotion of bishops within the shifting sands of ecclesiastical politics at the Elizabethan court, drawing on the copious correspo……続きを見る
In the early summer of 1914, the headmaster of Brighton College, Canon W. R. Dawson, spoke to the school in chapel. He called on every boy present to stand ready to sacrifice his life in defence of ……続きを見る
著者:Brett Usher
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2017年03月02日
The figure of William Cecil dominates the court of Elizabeth I, and next to the queen herself, no one did more to shape the political, religious and economic landscape of late sixteenth century Engl……続きを見る
Historias asombrosas que demuestran, una vez más, que la realidad supera a la ficción.
La guerra es un asunto demasiado serio como para dejarlo en manos de los militares.»
Georges Clemenceau
La trag……続きを見る
Uno de los libros de referencia de historia militar en la última década en nuestro país.
Un libro repleto de aquellos sorprendentes detalles, de lo cotidiano del conflicto, que también fueron decisi……続きを見る
La Segunda Guerra Mundial encierra todavía muchos secretos. Millones de documentos esperan todavía a ser desclasificados, pero poco a poco vamos conociendo historias impactantes y sorprendentes que ……続きを見る
Rund 1000 Jahre beherrschte das Byzantinische Reich das östliche Mittelmeer. Es sah sich als legitime Fortsetzung des römischen Kaisertums, lange bevor im Westen wieder ein Kaisertum entstand. Seine……続きを見る
著者:Klaus Herbers
出版社: wbg Academic in der Verlag Herder GmbH
発売日: 2018年08月15日
Das Papsttum beansprucht für sich in ungebrochener Kontinuität über die Jahrhunderte die höchste Autorität in der Christenheit. Unvergleichlich in seiner Verbindung aus transzendentalem Heilsverspre……続きを見る
Gegenpäpste durchziehen die Kirchengeschichte von der Spätantike bis zum Ende des Mittelalters. Dabei ist der mehrdeutige Begriff zugleich zeitgenössisches Stigma und Urteil "ex post". Er schließt d……続きを見る
Historia total de la Guerra de Secesión.
La historia del mundo cambió en los trascendentales días de la Guerra Civil americana. Si los acontecimientos hubieran discurrido entonces por caminos difere……続きを見る
Recuperación de un clásico del género. Por el autor de Las cien mejores anécdotas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Las guerras son una fuente inagotable de hechos curiosos. Este libro recopila algunas……続きを見る
A través de los cincuenta hechos históricos que aquí se relatan, el lector tendrá ante sí un aciago panorama de lo que ha significado la masacre a lo largo de la historia.
El asesinato masivo de per……続きを見る
著者:R. Usher
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2012年03月13日
This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The mean……続きを見る
In the latter half of the 19th century, the town of Beekman experienced an industrial boom. Iron ore beds were discovered in the hamlets of Sylvan Lake, Beekman, and Clove Valley. Mining boomed unti……続きを見る
著者:Shaun Usher
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2020年10月06日
A powerful new volume of missives about combat by Alexander Hamilton, General Sherman, Evelyn Waugh, Kurt Vonnegut, and more, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections
Defeated ……続きを見る
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Letters of Note comes a collection of 75 of history's most interesting, profound, and sometimes unknown speeches from a range of scintillating person……続きを見る
著者:Shaun Usher
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2021年11月02日
An exciting new volume of letters about the Capital of the World--from George Washington, Kahlil Gibran, Audrey Hepburn, Martin Scorsese, and more--from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note……続きを見る
Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collecti……続きを見る
著者:Peter J. Usher
出版社: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
発売日: 2018年01月26日
In the spring of 1940 Canada sent hundreds of highly trained volunteers to serve in Britain's Royal Air Force as it began a concerted bombing campaign against Germany. Nearly half of them were kille……続きを見る
著者:Rebecca Usherwood
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2022年03月21日
This book is an exploration of political memory and disgrace in the reigns of Constantine and his sons. It uses the conditions of the early to mid-fourth century to argue that the deconstruction of ……続きを見る
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to look t……続きを見る