A Financial Times Summer Read 2025A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Essential reading' - Telegraph'Not just well timed but admirably powerful' - The Guardian'A calm, sensitive, soothingly sociological book' - The Sunday Times'Will change how you see Britain' - Robert Ford, author of Brexitland________Underdogs is a surprising journey into the heart of the misunderstood white working class.
The book deals with the definition of the Silk Road, and recounts its history in detail, as it takes you on a journey between ancient and modern, presenting the story of the ancient Silk Road, and the circumstances of its establishment and cessation, then it takes us to the modern era since Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, and how Countries came together to implement the initiative and support its path.
El libro Reflexiones sobre la historia argentina y su eterna agonia analiza los factores historicos, politicos, economicos y sociales que han conducido al estancamiento del pais.
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.
El hallazgo casual en Barcelona del retrato de una mujer joven firmado por Antonio Pujol se convierte en el inicio de una investigación exhaustiva sobre este artista mexicano de ascendencia mallorquina, discípulo y amigo de Diego Rivera, de David Alfaro Siqueiros y de Frida Kahlo.
What built the greatness of the Umayyad state was the Islamic conquests of that era, which made Islam a vast world in which it spread a new civilization, science, and religion.
The history of Ancient Egypt is one of the most fascinating in the world, with a rich cultural heritage that dates to 5000 BCE and a history that has been preserved through thousands of years.
