Catálogo de libros: Historia

308419 Catálogo de libros: Historia

  • The Death of the ’Dukes’
    Cyril Ford / Graham Sargeant / Scott Flaving
    A Story of Valour and The Sacrifices Made by a Battalion of the Old Contemptibles”. The Complete Analysis of an Original Battalion of the British Expeditionary Force - August 1914 to May 1915 (Including the WWI Letters of Lt R H Owen) by Graham Sargeant with Bob Sargeant, Cyril Ford & Scott Flaving with a Foreword by Maj Gen Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter KCVO, OBE, DL.PART I - Lt Rowl...
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    105,90 €

  • Penny Savannah
    Jim Jordan
    The War Between the States changed everything for Southerners—mostly for the worse. James McBain of Savannah, owner of the prosperous Heritage plantation that made Savannah Grey bricks, was already despondent by the time his son Joseph departed for the battlefields of Virginia in May 1861. His daughter Amy had recently moved to New York with her husband, as had Joseph’s wife wi...
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    15,75 €

  • The 1980 Eruption of Mt. St. Helens
    Don J Easterbrook
    On March 27, 1980 St. Helens suddenly began to erupt steam and ash. These eruptions continued sporadically for the next seven weeks and Dr. Easterbrook made frequent flights to the mountain to observe the eruptive activity. On May 18, 1980, he flew to St Helens at 5:30 a.m. and flew in tight circles a few hundred feet above the summit crater for 2-1/2 hours, photographing the s...
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    17,46 €

  • Frecce Nere
    Pierluigi Romeo di Colloredo Mels
    Dell’impiego in linea del Corpo Truppe Volontarie, inviato da Mussolini in aiuto ai nazionalisti di Franco a partire dal 1936, la storiografia e la pubblicistica corrente concentri la propria attenzione su un periodo di un mese, sino al marzo del 1937, quando avvenne la battaglia di Guadalajara, enfatizzando l’unico insuccesso del C.T.V. (presentato comunemente come una sconfit...
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    33,56 €

  • Dying to Tell
    Anne Butler / C. Murray Henderson
    In fascinating detail, Dying to Tell gives us an in-depth look at different kinds of criminal deaths: …the absolutely senseless slaying of a young correctional officer under the guise of racial retribution in a tragic situation unthinkably manipulated for personal gain … three deaths in the prison homosexual protection dormitory underscoring just how far lonely inmates will g...
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    15,60 €

  • L’économie des matières premières de la pierre taillée d’Anatolie centrale au Chalcolithique ancien (6000-5500 cal. BC/ECA IV)
    Sonia Ostaptchouk
    Cet ouvrage présente l'étude détaillée de la pierre taillée de Çatalhöyük-West Mound, silex et obsidienne, dans une approche pluridisciplinaire et multi-scalaire. L'approche pluridisciplinaire comprend la caractérisation macroscopique et minéralogique de la matière première (spectroscopie infrarouge); la géologie et la géomorphologie (évaluation des ressources locales d...
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    114,64 €

  • State Facts for Fun! Texas
    Wyatt Michaels
    Far from boring, State Facts for Fun! Texas is an educational and entertaining experience for the whole family. Kids will love the humor and pictures that are contained within; while parents will love that their children are learning (and enjoying every minute of it). Kids will learn fascinating facts from subjects like history and geography, and will remember them well because...
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    7,71 €

  • One Hundred Years of Women Police in Australia
    Tim Prenzler
    In 2015 Australia celebrates the centenary of the country’s first appointment of women police. This fascinating book presents for the first time the story of 100 years of Australian women police. A vital contribution to Australian history as well as modern policing and policy, the book concludes with a simple recipe for eliminating discrimination and optimising the contributio...
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    45,38 €

  • Pre-Islamic South Arabia and its Neighbours
    This book presents proceedings of the 17th Rencontres Sabeennes held in Paris, 6-8 June 2013.                              ...
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    125,80 €

  • The Soldier That Wagged Her Tail
    Dolores N Morris
    World War II sits in our collective memory as the 'Good War': the one where the sides were clear and the sacrifices great. Literature and film have produced very few images of a certain group of heroic soldiers who died on foreign beaches, fields and jungles. The African American soldier, in segregated units, fought and died on those battlefields, and for the most part, their c...
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    11,85 €

  • Crossing the Borders of Time
    Leslie Maitland
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    27,87 €

  • Jews in Service to the Tsar
    Lev Berdnikov / Nora Favorov
    Benjamin Disraeli advised, “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about th...
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    22,05 €

  • War Memory and Popular Culture
    This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemorat...
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    42,91 €

  • The Role of Foreigners in Ancient Egypt
    Charlotte Booth
    To determine the role that foreign immigrants held in Egyptian society, the author looks in this study at what it meant to be Egyptian and how foreign immigrants differed. Her analysis covers a discussion on ethnicity, nationalism and citizenship, particularly in relation to Asiatics, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, Minoans, and Indians. Selected catalogues of finds and other materi...
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    49,22 €

  • Blowing up Ukraine
    Michael Stanchev / Yuri Felshtinsky
    Blowing up Ukraine is a first history of democracy in Ukraine since 1991 and the lethal methods Russia has used over a quarter of a century to regain Ukraine as a vazal state - culminating in a full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting war crimes. Over twenty years, the Kremlin skilfully manipulated Ukraine’s self-serving politicians and oligarchs, only to be thwarted time...
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    19,07 €

  • Chasing Hieroglyphs
    Jean-François Champollion
    Two years after cracking the hieroglyphic code through the word ’Ramses’ on the Rosetta Stone, Jean-François Champollion embarked on an expedition to Egypt on 31 July 1828. France was at war with the sultan and a pandemic gripped the world. In these diaries and letters to his brother, Champollion captures in riveting detail the voyage’s obstacles as he unravels ancient Egypt’s ...
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    19,04 €

  • To Senkata and to my dead
    Sharoll Fernandez Siñani
    In a world hungry for unity and understanding, To Senkata and to my dead offers a transformative blend of art, poetry, and historical narrative that illuminates the power of collective resilience. Written by Sharoll Fernandez Siñani, this immersive work draws on deeply personal experiences and cultural heritage to foster hope, empathy, and healing.Through vivid imagery and evoc...
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    57,38 €

  • To Senkata and to my dead
    Sharoll Fernandez Siñani
    In a world hungry for unity and understanding, To Senkata and to my dead offers a transformative blend of art, poetry, and historical narrative that illuminates the power of collective resilience. Written by Sharoll Fernandez Siñani, this immersive work draws on deeply personal experiences and cultural heritage to foster hope, empathy, and healing.Through vivid imagery and evoc...
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    46,63 €

  • Towards a Conservative Left
    Jean-Claude Michéa
    Towards a Conservative Left offers the first comprehensive English-language introduction to the thought of Jean-Claude Michéa. Over the past three decades, Michéa has staked out a place for himself as France’s foremost 'left populist.' A fierce critic of the illusions of progress and champion of the 'common decency' that should (but no longer does) inform left politics, Michéa ...
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    22,45 €

  • Adventures of a Despatch Rider (Esprios Classics)
    Captain W. H. L. Watson / Captain WHLWatson
    'This book is not a history, a military treatise, an essay, or a scrap of autobiography. It has no more accuracy or literary merit than letters usually possess. So I hope you will not judge it too harshly. My only object is to try and show as truthfully as I can the part played in this monstrous war by a despatch rider during the months from August 1914 to February 1915. If tha...
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    22,96 €

  • Umbrellas and Their History (Esprios Classics)
    William Sangster
    'Can it be possibly believed, by the present eminently practical generation, that a busy people like the English, whose diversified occupations so continually expose them to the chances and changes of a proverbially fickle sky, had ever been ignorant of the blessings bestowed on them by that dearest and truest friend in need and in deed, the UMBRELLA? Can you, gentle reader, fo...
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    18,16 €

  • The Indolence of the Filipino (Esprios Classics)
    José Rizal
    José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (June 19, 1861 - December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is tagged as the national hero (pambansang bayani) of the Filipino people. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement,...
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    16,40 €

  • As We Were Saying (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner was born of Puritan descent in Plainfield, Massachusetts. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri and then studied law at the University of Pennsylvania. He moved to Chicago, w...
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    18,61 €

  • Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 (Esprios Classics)
    Frederick Jackson Turner
    Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 - March 14, 1932) was an American historian during the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin until 1910, and then at Harvard. He was known primarily for his 'Frontier Thesis'. He trained many PhDs who became well-known historians. He promoted interdisciplinary and quantitative methods, often with an emphasis on the ...
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    23,63 €

  • Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (Esprios Classics)
    George B. Worgan / George BWorgan
    George Bouchier Worgan (May 1757 - 4 March 1838) was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made several expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay areas north of Sydney and spent a year on Norfolk Island after the Sirius was wrecked there. There is no evidence that George Worgan was on board the Sirius when it was wrecked off Norfolk ...
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    18,13 €

  • The Hope of the Gospel (Esprios Classics)
    George MacDonald
    George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works of Christian theology, including several collections of sermons. His writings have been cited as a major literary influ...
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    20,69 €

  • QUIZ ISLAM, Le Coran en 200 questions
    Ahmad Miraj
    C’est un ouvrage à vocation pédagogique. Il est accessible à tous, adultes et enfants. Son but est de fournir des repères fiables et de faire entrevoir la complexité du Coran. Les sciences du Coran sont nombreuses et demandent de solides connaissances. À moins d’y avoir été introduit, on peine souvent à en percevoir l’ampleur et la profondeur. Après lecture, la vision qu’a le l...
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    19,04 €

  • The Log of a Noncombatant (Esprios Classics)
    Horace Green
    'When the war broke out in August, 1914, I was at work in the City Room of the 'New York Evening Post.' One morning, during the first week of activities, the copy boy handed me a telegram which was signed 'Luther, Boston,' and contained the rather cryptic message: -'How about this fight?'It was some moments before I could recall the time, more than two years before, when I had ...
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    19,51 €

  • The Red Record (Esprios Classics)
    Ida B. Wells-Barnett / Ida BWells-Barnett
    Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, ...
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    19,86 €

  • Lays of Ancient Rome (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC (25 October 1800 - 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His The History of England was a seminal and paradigmatic example of Whig historiography, and its literary style has remained a...
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    19,67 €