With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power.
With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power.
an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller' Michael McKernan, Sydney Morning Herald The bestselling, acclaimed, authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in Australian military history now established as a classic.
A true story of empire set in the Crimea, Sudan, Ceylon and Egypt - beautifully written and shot through with real psychological and historical insight.
Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus Mary Shelley - Die Handlung wird durch eine Mischung aus Briefroman und klassischer Ich-Erzählsituation vermittelt.
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised itThe final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped.
'One of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself' - New York Times*******************The dark net is an online shadowland for criminals to operate anonymously, but when a demonic force begins to hack the minds of its users there is nowhere left to hide.
Los ovnis, aunque los medios y en particular las grandes editoriales sean reacios a publicar nada sobre ellos, siguen surcando los cielos del planeta, y sus "tripulantes" siguen conviviendo con nosotros aunque no los veamos, porque hace tiempo que aprendieron a bajarse de sus vehículos, a contactar con los seres humanos y a intervenir de manera muy solapada en nuestras vidas.
La obra analiza la organización militar de la frontera noreste de Nueva España, después México independiente, y abunda en la idea de que ésta conservó un carácter eminentemente ibérico-medieval desde que los españoles llegaron en el siglo xvii hasta bien entrada la segunda mitad del siglo xix.
The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
