Written with ';a cinematic sense of urgency and realism' (Evan Osnos, National Book Awardwinning author), this is the first full account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the secret ten-day parlay in Morocco where FDR, Churchill, and their divided high command hammered out a winning strategy at the tipping point of World War II.
Erudito, elegante, profundo y provocador, este libro de Ariel Petruccelli elude con éxito todos los lugares comunes, los argumentos archiconocidos y la fraseología de Vulgata que tan a menudo se utilizan para defender al marxismo.
POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leadersAung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin Myanmar, is once again behind bars.
Recopilado y ordenado temáticamente, Citas de Stalin recoge fragmentos tanto de los textos como de los discursos formulados por Iósif Stalin, quien fuera secretario general del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética desde 1922 hasta 1952.
New York Times bestselling author, Fox News contributor, and former Congressman Jason Chaffetz reveals how an unelected bureaucracyand not just the governmentis infringing on our rights.
Dive deep into the vast expanse of intellectual thought with "e;Aristotle's Complete Works,"e; a comprehensive eBook that brings together the works of Aristotle, one of the most revered philosophers in history.
Algunos temas empíricos de investigación no han recibido hasta el momento un abordaje sistemático por parte de las ciencias histórico-sociales en Argentina.
"El bolchevismo se caracteriza por utilizar todos los medios y tácticas al servicio de la estrategia de construir el partido, movilizar a los obreros y tomar el poder.
Nacido de una serie de cursos y talleres realizados desde ANCLA (Agrupación Nacional Clasista Antiburocrática), la corriente sindical del MST aporta conceptos y herramientas para la actividad sindical.
En Cultivar el amor por la naturaleza, Elena Villanueva busca hacernos conscientes de nuestra relación con la naturaleza, para que aprendamos a verla como una relación que descansa en lo profundo de nuestra alma.
Si en 2017 publicamos Mujeres en revolución sobre la cuarta ola feminista mundial, y en 2018 La rebelión de las disidencias sobre dicho fenómeno, nos debíamos iniciar este año con un texto sobre la Iglesia Católica, su relación con el Estado y sus aliados del evangelismo.
Algo catastrófico está a punto de suceder; la Tierra se está convirtiendo en la nueva religión a la que los políticos deben rendir culto en las cumbres del clima y en sus discursos diarios.
*; A pivotal year of World War II through German eyes *; The campaigns of the German army, air force, and navy described by a master storyteller *; Covers the aftermath of Stalingrad, Kursk, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, the U-boat war, and air battles After a crushing loss at Stalingrad, the German war machine regrouped in early 1943 to stave off total defeat, but it could not stem the rising Allied tide.
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'A must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to know you do' SARAH SILVERMAN'A masterpiece' STEPHEN FRYHow identity politics failed one particular identity.
Mi intención con este libro es contribuir al pensamiento de un momento crítico para el país, partiendo de mi experiencia como funcionario y legislador, como emprendedor y como vicepresidente de relaciones internacionales de uno de los clubes más importantes del país, River Plate.
A GRIPPING SURVIVOR STORY OF ONE FAMILY'S FLIGHT FROM BURMA DURING THE JAPANESE INVASION"e;As uplifting a testimonial to human courage as any to emerge from World War II.
A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponentsToday, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum.
An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political livesThe Politics of Ritual is a major new account of the political power of rituals.
In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'.
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm.
A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae LeeExamining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present, Inventions of Nemesis offers a striking new take on utopia's fundamental project.
An authoritative introduction to ISIS-now expanded and revised to bring events up to the presentThe Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes.
