A Financial Times Summer Read 2025A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Essential reading' - The Daily Telegraph'Not just well timed but admirably powerful' - The Guardian'Packed with revealing content' - IndependentUnderdogs is a surprising journey into the heart of the misunderstood white working class.
Ubiystvo Mikhoyelsa i razgrom Yevreyskogo antifashistskogo komiteta, moskovskaya kadentsiya Goldy Meir i metaniya oblassannogo Kremlem Il'i Erenburga, bor'ba s bezrodnymi kosmopolitami i «Delo vrachey», yudofobskiye «khozyaystvennyye» protsessy nachala 1960-kh i vsplyesk natsional'nogo samosoznaniya posle Shestidnevnoy voyny, antisemitskiye narrativy v sovetskoy propagande i deyatel'nost' servil'nogo Antisionistskogo komiteta — vsyo eto stalo predmetom rassmotreniya knigi.
En estas paginas (tomadas del libro Pasajeros de Indias, publicado por el FCE en 1999) se muestran las caracteristicas de los navios y las peripecias y tribulaciones que representaban los viajes trasatlanticos de Europa a America en el siglo XVI.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
Alexander McKee and Simon Girty were colonial British Indian agents who preferred to remain loyal to the government which had long employed them when the colonies decided to sever connections with the motherland.
Entre totes les vergonyes de l'horror nazi, n'hi ha una que ha passat força desapercebuda: la «concentració» d'alemanys d'origen jueu en les anomenades judenhaus, abans de les deportacions massives.
Die vielfältigen Begleiterscheinungen von Klimawandel und Artensterben werden geologisch mit dem Anbruch eines neuen Erdzeitalters, dem Anthropozän, identifiziert.
This volume explores how narratives and iconographic codes in literature, art, music, material culture and social, political, and economic discourses were appropriated and thereby - sometimes radically - transformed by religious agents, and how religious narrations, discourses and iconographic practices were reimagined and used (up to radical deconstruction) in non-religious contexts as well as in different or transformed religious contexts.
In the book "Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity", published by Tirs Publishing and Distribution HouseGary Cross explores the cultural shift that has led to prolonged adolescence in modern American males, analyzing its implications and origins.
En 1960, el criminal nazi Adolf Eichmann, uno de los arquitectos de la "Solución final" que dio origen al plan del exterminio en masa del pueblo judío, fue descubierto en Argentina y llevado a Israel para ser enjuiciado.
Was einmal als Wettlauf um die Moderne tituliert worden ist – die Rivalitäten der beiden Aufsteigernationen an der vorigen Jahrhundertwende, Amerika und Deutschland –, gehört zu den spannendsten Gründungsgeschichten unserer Zeit.
Christiane Kruse stellt in diesem Buch fünfzig mutige Frauen aus verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Schichten vor, die sich unter Lebensgefahr in Untergrundorganisationen engagierten, Verfolgte versteckten oder ihnen zur Flucht verhalfen, Flugblätter verteilten oder Treffpunkte organisierten.
Amidst the turmoil of religious wars and political discord, Henry IV rose from a Protestant prince in Navarre to become one of Europe's most iconic monarchs.
