La biografía de Cristóbal Colón escrita por su hijo Hernando describe las dualidades propias de una vida legendaria en la que se juntan las más grandes hazañas y glorias con los peores infortunios y las más amargas penurias.
Exiled from court, distrusted and indebted, Richard de Clare is a man whose past is greater than his prospects and whose once-great name overshadows his deeds.
This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales.
'An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore: nosy and loving families, epistolary romance, gorgeous worldbuilding, and anxious scholars doing their best to meet the world with kindness and curiosity' Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous LightA charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming penpal romance, perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries.
UN DEBATE SOBRE LA CRUELDAD HUMANA A TRAVÉS DE LOS TEXTOS GRIEGOSLa antigua Grecia conoció la violencia en todas sus formas: guerras, matanzas, mitos crueles.
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.
The Renaissance was a period in European history, from the 14th to the 17th century, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history.
Over the period of two years author has devoted the intervals between official duties to collecting and collating materials for the study of sign language.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force is a historical account written by Winston Churchill and it describes a military campaign by the British army on the North West Frontier (now western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan) in 1897, and Churchill's part in it.
What makes the Civil War so fascinating is that it presents an endless number of "e;what if"e; scenariosmoments when the outcome of the war (and therefore world history) hinged on a single small mistake or omission.
Everything you've been taught about the World War II "e;internment camps"e; in America is wrong:They were not created primarily because of racism or wartime hysteriaThey did not target only those of Japanese descentThey were not Nazi-style death campsIn her latest investigative tour-de-force, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin sets the historical record straight-and debunks radical ethnic alarmists who distort history to undermine common-sense, national security profiling.
In 'Märchen aus Ägypten' präsentiert Benedikte Naubert eine faszinierende Sammlung von ägyptischen Volksmärchen, die sowohl die fantastische als auch die kulturelle Vielfalt dieses antiken Landes widerspiegeln.
Angesichts von Textsortenorientierung und allgemeinem Zeitdruck bedarf der literaturgeschichtliche Unterricht einer neuen Legitimation: Wie lässt sich Literaturgeschichte in heterogenen Klassen, in einer globalisierten Mediengesellschaft neu denken und unterrichten?
Medicine's Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of weird and wonderful tales from the history of medicine, featuring the German doctor who fought a duel with a sausage, the Harley Street physician-turned-novelist who invented a disease - and its remedy - to keep his clients happy, and the quiet and cautious Swiss scientist who inadvertently unleashed LSD on the world.
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.
*; Examines the esoteric side of texts and tales from the Middle Ages, including the enduring presence of haunted areas and power places and the roles of witches, house spirits, rune priests, shapeshifters, and the undead*; Discusses the dividing line between magic and deviltry, as well as the significance of grimoires, bells, blacksmiths, storm callers, and more*; Serves as a guide to a still-present magical and imaginal realm, pointing readers to the borderlands and liminal thresholds that enable access to the other worldIn this new collection of his writings, scholar and Sorbonne professor Claude Lecouteux reveals that the magical world of the distant past is real and still very presentif you know where to look.
Tacitus' 'The Annals' is a masterpiece of Roman historical literature, providing a detailed account of the reigns of Roman emperors Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.
Michael Hunklinger, Experte für Queer Politics, analysiert aktuelle Debatten um LGBTQ+ Themen und räumt mithilfe wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse so manches Vorurteil aus dem Weg.
