Geigenvirtuose, gerühmter Komponist, Fechtgenie, Athlet und sagenumwobener Liebhaber: Joseph Boulogne, Sohn eines weißen Plantagenbesitzers und einer schwarzen Sklavin.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 'The Collected Works' is a comprehensive collection of the writings of one of the foremost figures in the women's suffrage movement.
Emile Zola's monumental work, The Complete Rougon-Macquart Series (All 20 Books in One Edition), is a literary masterpiece that delves deep into the social and political issues of 19th-century France.
Desde Balaclava en la guerra de Crimea, las Navas de Tolosa o Cao Bang en Indochina, pasando por la batalla de Trasimeno en las guerras Púnicas, Castillón en la guerra de los Cien Años o el Bosque de Hürtgen en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Gilles Haberey y Hugues Perot analizan las causas de los grandes desastres tácticos.
In "e;The Best Speeches of Winston Churchill,"e; readers are treated to a collection of powerful and iconic speeches delivered by the legendary British statesman.
In 'Die großen Seefahrer der Geschichte' präsentiert Jules Verne eine faszinierende Sammlung von Porträts berühmter Entdecker und Abenteurer aus verschiedenen Epochen.
Nach Jahrzehnten des nahezu kontinuierlichen wirtschaftlichen Wachstums in der Nachkriegszeit kehrte ab den 1970er Jahren auch in Österreich und Tirol wieder die "ökonomische Normalität" mit Auf- und Abschwüngen von Konjunkturzyklen ein.
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**From one kiss comes a chain reaction a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize Extraordinary Sarah Perry Masterpiece Colm T ib n Wholly original.
A bold new account of European imperialism told through the history of waterIn the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet.
* A Financial Times Book of the Year * A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read *HOLD THE POWER AND GLORY OF ANCIENT ROME IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'The bothy embrace is addictive' ADAM NICOLSON'Will have you reaching for your boots' CAL FLYN.
A Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and a BBC Between the Covers Book Club pickIntroduction by Sara Collins_____You do not know me yet but I am the narrator of this work.
How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance.
The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) was an armed conflict between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria (China)and Korea.
"e;Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman"e; is a biography of Harriet Tubman, written by Sarah Hopkins Bradford in 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War.
A fascinating collection of first-hand accounts of life in the time of Jane Austen (1775-1817), showing how social standing and etiquette were prime considerations of the period, and revealing the stark contrast between 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' and the lives of men and women.
The Indians known as Seminole are of the Muskokian linguistic stock who before the present century left their congeners and dwelt within the present limits of Georgia and Florida.
High cliffs jutting out into the Atlantic and the North Sea, many hundreds of rocky skerries, deep sea lochs, dangerous unseen reefs, powerful tides and gales that batter the land fiercely from all points of the compass.
Das Jubiläumsheft 900 enthält einen mit fast 30 Seiten ungewöhnlich umfangreichen Text: Rainald Goetz' Aufzeichnungen aus seinem Arbeitsjournal des Jahres 2019, in dem es nicht nur, aber sehr viel um Michael Rutschky geht – dessen Tagebücher und auch das Verhältnis zum Merkur-Herausgeber Kurt Scheel, der die undankbare Aufgabe übernahm, die Rutschky-Tagebücher postum zu edieren, in denen sich manch schäbige Bemerkung über ihn findet.
'Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' -Sunday TimesAt the heart of this history is the female body.
In "e;Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: American Slavery Through Foreigner's Eyes"e;, Frederick Law Olmsted masterfully delves into the heart of American slavery through the perspective of a foreigner.
Since 2005, well over one million prospective immigrants have attempted to cement permanent residency in the UK by taking the Home Office-devised 'Life in the UK' test.
Dietrich Bonhoeffers Gebete, Gedichte und andere Texte, die er in der Zeit von 1943-1945 im Gefängnis in Berlin-Tegel verfasst hat, sind nicht nur wichtige Zeugnisse des Widerstands gegen das NS Regime, sie geben dem Leser vor allem Anteil am Geistlichen Leben des Christen Dietrich Bonhoeffer und sind vielleicht die bekanntesten und bedeutendsten Texte von Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
