Para el tratamiento del tema central, se toma como punto de partida la filosofía de la historia, y se mencionan, someramente, los siete principales proyectos que se dieron en el decurso de la historia para solucionar los problemas del hombre.
Schon als kleiner Junge hatte der Autor wissen wollen, welche Rolle sein Großvater Karl als Angehöriger der Wehrmacht im Zweiten Weltkrieg gespielt hat.
Juan Antonio Tirado traza en este libro una crónica periodística de la Transición española centrada en siete personajes que fueron claves en la consecución de lo que Raúl del Pozo llama «el logro más importante de la España del siglo XX».
Este libro de Óscar Alarcón Núñez tiene documentos que por primera vez se divulgan y que demuestran como en distintas épocas se planteó la posibilidad de que Panamá fuera capital de Colombia.
Cautiverio feliz, publicado en 1673 por el maestro de campo Francisco Nunez de Pineda y Bascunan, relata su vida en manos de los mapuche tras ser capturado en la batalla de Las Cangrejeras en 1629.
Full of facts and trivia for every day of the yearDo you know when the Duke of Albemarle arranged Britain's first boxing match, between his butler and his butcher?
'Outstanding' TIMES'Gripping' ECONOMISTSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAREmotionally scarred after witnessing the bloody climax of the Beslan school siege in Russia's North Caucasus, in which 314 hostages died, Tom Parfitt set out on a journey.
Bobby Kennedy's last campaignan homage to a leader who might have changed history and a reconstruction of the conspiracy to stop him, in a magisterial feat of epic investigative poetry.
A groundbreaking book that gathers key wartime intelligence reportsDuring the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School-Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer-worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA.
From National Book Awardwinning author Martin Marty, the surprising story of a Christian classic born in a Nazi prison cellFor fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century.
The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century familyThey were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians.
A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in AfricaAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens.
The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global historyUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century.
De les actes dels processos inquisitorials fins a festes populars com el Ball del Cornut de Cornellà del Terri, de l'obra de poetes com Salvador Espriu a les arrels basques de la cultura ibera, Bilbeny ens embarca en un viatge per l'imaginari cultural català, sempre desvetllant les veritats que s'amaguen més enllà dels relats oficials.
A magnificent debut novel, which follows in the spirit of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in which an alienated student named Lopez joins the Vietnam war to escape from his past and himself.
From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army recruitment brochures.
Eine Chronik der Fröbelstadt Oberweißbach - von den Anfängen bis zur Fusion mit den Nachbarorten Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle und Mellenbach-Glasbach zur Stadt Schwarzatal und darüber hinaus bis zum Jahr 2022.
Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingFinalist for the Governor Generals Literary Award for Non-fiction and theTrillium Book AwardA Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, CBC Books,Chatelaine, Hill Times,49th Shelf and Writers Trust Best Book of the YearWith the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), the seductive storytelling of J.
Clara und Alois aus dem südbadischen Fautenbach hatten gerade eine kleine Familie gegründet, als der Zweite Weltkrieg ausbrach und Alois in den Krieg musste.
Die Siebenbürger Sachsen, eine deutsche Minderheit in Rumänien, bekommen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die Rache der "russischen Befreier" voll zu spüren: Sie müssen für etwas bezahlen, was sie nie getan haben.
