From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration and romance.
365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Irish is a year-long scenic route of jolliness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Ireland a country worth celebrating every day of the year.
Lost San Francisco takes readers on a journey back to the buildings, parks, stadia, ferries - even cemetaries and prisoners - that time and progress have swept aside.
Accumulated over many years, 'Granny', the enigmatic collector behind this book, presents a selection of quirky post-war goods, advertising and kitchen items.
From the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the ';timely' (The New Yorker), ';fascinating, and morally serious,' (The Wall Street Journal) story of our wedding vowswhat they mean and why they still matter.
Tauchen Sie ein in die raue und faszinierende Welt der Gladiatoren des antiken Roms, einer Welt, in der Ehre, Mut und Schicksal auf dem sandigen Boden der Arena geschrieben wurden.
There are many historical memoirs about European immigrants that came to the US in the 1800s, but few shed light on the untold stories of the families that arrived from Prussia.
Alfonso Reyes, el escritor mexicano más notable de la primera mitad del siglo XX, sazona y hornea las palabras: marina el verbo crudo y lo sofríe, después capea los nombres y bate los adjetivos hasta el punto de turrón; por último, sirve todo acompañado de adverbios crujientes.
In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal in recent British history.
Las investigaciones reunidas en este libro reconstruyen las historias de los principales archivos documentales oficiales de la Norpatagonia, pero también de los nuevos archivos surgidos en el ámbito de comunidades, organizaciones y colectivos sociales subalternizados en las lógicas y burocracias que signaron la conformación de los primeros.
Nicht nur Napoleon Bonaparte prägte die Umbruchszeit um 1800 maßgeblich, auch andere Dichter und Denker versuchten, ihre Ansätze in Bezug auf die Verbesserung der Gesamtsituation umzusetzen.
Since Spring 2013, Francesca Hornak has been writing a hugely popular column in the Sunday Times Style section, 'History of the World in 100 Modern Objects'.
365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be British is a year-long scenic route of jollyness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Great Britain a nation worth celebrating every day of the year.
The compelling vision of religious life and practice found in Hasidic sources has made it the most enduring and successful Jewish movement of spiritual renewal of all time.
Dieses Heft nimmt in mehrfacher Weise Bezug auf das 30-jährige Jubiläum der Zeitschrift Geschichte und Region/Storia e regione, das im August 2022 gefeiert wurde.
Boasting countless benefits and applications, hand made felt is a chunky,durable and non-fraying fabric that can be used for fashion and home projects.
Let us take a look back over three decades of outrageous political mishaps with a new introduction from Sir Ivor Crewe covering Brexit blunder /blnd(r)/, n.
Life on the Old Farm takes you back to a time, not so long ago, when country life in Britain followed a pattern that had remained largely unchanged for centuries.
365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Scottish is a year-long scenic route of jollyness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Scotland a country worth celebrating every day of the year.
Was die Chaostheorie mit dem Schmetterling beschreibt, der mit seinem Flügelschlag einen Tornado auslöst, illustriert die ‹Kleine Basler Weltgeschichte› an konkreten Beispielen aus der Geschichte.
Se presenta en estas páginas la crónica histórica de las principales batallas que marcaron uno de los momentos más difíciles en la historia del México independiente: la invasión norteamericana.
In Washington Irving's novel 'Bracebridge Hall (Illustrated Edition)', readers are transported to the quaint English countryside estate of Bracebridge Hall.
The 19th-century MP John Burns described the Thames as 'liquid history' and ever since the Romans founded Londinium in 43 AD, the river has played a key cultural and economic, political and social role in the history of England.
WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize *; Shortlisted for the Cundill History PrizeA riveting history (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russiaand beyond';A book about a past time that is very much a book for our time.
Wie keine andere Familie verkörpern die Fugger wirtschaftlichen Erfolg und soziale Aufstiegschancen des süddeutschen Bürgertums an der Wende vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit.
'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Earth Transformed and The Silk Roads'Enlightening and thrilling.
