The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen 'warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings.
El ser humano encuentra sentido al amor por medio de fantasías, de historias que dan forma a sentimientos que, de otro modo, serían demasiado abrumadores, incoherentes e impredecibles para poder ser dominados.
Entre 1940 y 1956 pasaron por los campos de concentración soviéticos 345 republicanos españoles, entre los que había «niños de la guerra», militantes comunistas, maestros, pilotos, marinos y otros republicanos detenidos en el Berlín "liberado" por el Ejército Rojo.
'Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain' DAVID KYNASTON'A winning blend of personal memories, evoked with startling clarity, and fascinating social history' CLARE CHAMBERSIn Red, Red Robin, Alison Light puts herself into history, conjuring her girlhood from the 1950s to the 1970s, growing up in an extended family in Portsmouth, a blitzed city with its collective memory of war.
A dazzlingly original reassessment of the power and plurality of women's singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and Scaffolding'It took me ten years to go from shy young girl to punk rocker, if I'd had this book I'd have got there much quicker Viv AlbertineFor millennia, women s raised voices have been heard as unruly, uncivilized, dangerous.
La configuración de la sociedad internacional actual y la noción de relaciones internacionales retratan hoy un universo social más amplio y complejo que el que vio nacer a esta disciplina histórica.
Lenin y Mussolini vivieron en Ginebra entre 1902 y 1904, y quizá se encontraron en la Brasserie Handwerk, celebrando el aniversario de la Comuna de París.
El Estado es un fenómeno característico de la Edad Contemporánea: aparece en el siglo XIX como resultado de la Revolución liberal, y sustituye a la Monarquía del Antiguo Régimen.
Le volume « Encore ces chers voisins », successeur du « Ces chers voisins », parle de la coopération entre les voisins européens, le Benelux, l'Allemagne et la France, pendant les deux derniers siècles.
FROM GNOSIOLOGY TO WAḤDAT AL-SHUHŪD: The Anthropology of Mystical Knowing in Islam examines how knowledge is understood within the Islamic intellectual tradition.
On a limestone hill above the plains of southeastern Anatolia, people living more than eleven thousand years ago cut enormous T-shaped pillars from the bedrock, carved them with snakes, vultures, foxes, boars, scorpions, belts, hands, and headless human forms, then raised them inside enclosed stone chambers.
The King's Last Field, Gustavus Adolphus, Wallenstein, and the Battle That Broke the Thirty Years' War At noon on the sixteenth of November 1632, a Swedish king rode into fog and gunsmoke to save his faltering center, and never rode out again.
For thousands of years, the Sanskrit epics have preserved accounts of flying palaces, celestial chariots, moving cities, weapons of light, and powers granted only to rulers, sages, and warriors judged capable of controlling them.
The Serpent and the Satrap, The Rebellion of Inaros and the Egyptian War Against Persia In 460 BCE, a Libyan frontier chieftain did what no Egyptian rebel had managed in seventy years of Persian occupation: he convinced the naval empire of Athens to go to war on his behalf.
The Generalissimo's Fortune: Life, Career, Assassination, and Aftermath of Albrecht von Wallenstein In the winter of 1583, a boy was born into a minor, impoverished Bohemian family with nothing to recommend him but a name.
Fire, Earth, and the Silent Sky: The Untold War for Central Asia When Alexander the Great crossed the Hindu Kush in the depths of winter, he believed he was completing the conquest of an empire.
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo secreto de hombres fue lanzado tras las líneas enemigas para encender la chispa de la resistencia en la Europa ocupada.
From Reagan to the Twenty-First Century explores one of the most transformative periods in modern American history, tracing the United States from the conservative resurgence of the 1980s to the political, economic, technological, and cultural conflicts of the modern era.
Zwischen kastilischen Burgen, den Höfen der Alhambra, den windigen Küsten Galiciens und den grünen Bergen des Baskenlandes lebt ein Spanien fort, das aus Helden, Heiligen, Drachen und uralten Mächten besteht.
The Libyan's War: Mathos and the Truceless Fury of Carthage In 241 BC, a bankrupt Carthage tried to stiff twenty thousand veteran soldiers out of their wages, and nearly paid with its life.
Von den Pyrenäen bis zur Bretagne, von den Ufern der Rhône bis in die geheimnisvollen Gassen von Paris: Frankreich ist ein Land voller Helden, Feen, Drachen und unvergesslicher Legenden.
