Libros de Historia y Mitología 3272 resultados

Hamilton, Edith

Since its original publication by Little, Brown & Company in 1942, this author's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world & established itself as a perennial bestseller in its various available formats: hardcover, trade paperback, & mass market paperback. Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern readeer the Greek, Roman & Norse ...

Tom Standage

From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human historyThroughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period.A History of the World i...

R. G. Grant

A worthy addition to any history buff's shelf, this visually arresting volume has a commanding grasp of more than 4,500 years of military history. On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War comes this latest addition to the 1001 series. It includes the seminal details about key battles that changed the course of history and shaped the political a...

Francis Fukuyama

Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End ...

William Shirer

The fiftieth anniversary edition of the National Book Award-winning bestseller that is the definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II. This special edition now features a new introduction by Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and How the End Begins.No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about ...

Tony Judt

Este libro es motivo de celebración. Tras cuarenta años leyendo y escribiendo acerca de la Europa contemporánea, el historiador británico Tony Judt investiga en Postguerra, según la mejor tradición historiográfica, la historia cultural, social y política de Europa desde la devastación de la guerra más salvaje de la historia, hasta la ampliación de la Unión Europea hacia el anti...

Tony Judt

Hemos perdido el contacto con tres generaciones de debate político internacional y pensamiento y activismo social. Ya no sabemos discutir sobre ese tipo de conceptos y hemos olvidado el papel que jugaban los intelectuales a la hora de debatir, transmitir y defender las ideas que conformaron su tiempo. En este libro, Tony Judt hace revivir aspectos clave del mundo que hemos perd...

J.e. Lendon

Karl Kraus

Los últimos días de la humanidad, una de las obras míticas de nuestro siglo, está en el centro de la ingente obra de Karl Kraus como el Minotauro en el laberinto. Todos sus ensayos, aforismos, panfletos y poemas convergen hacia esta pieza de teatro irrepresentable, que recoge todos los géneros y todos los estilos literarios, al igual que la realidad de la que habla —la primera ...

Ana Abad Carles

Robert Bruce

Libro de análisis que revisa las tácticas militares de los ejércitos napoleónicos desde el final de la Revolución Francesa hasta la derrota en Waterloo. Batallas principales, cuerpos como infantería, caballería y artillería, el combate naval, la guerra de asedio todo ello con mapas tácticos en color. ...

Javier María López Rodríguez

Conozca la apasionante historia de los estilos musicales de cada período, desde la prehistoria, el renacimiento, barroco, clásico hasta el rock y el jazz en el siglo XX. Una visión moderna, rigurosa y sintética de los principales hitos de la historia de la música y sus protagonistasConozca cómo se ha desarrollado la música en nuestra cultura acercándose a los estilos de cada pe...

Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy

The mega-popular author presents an insider's look at the planes, technology, and people involved in an Air Force combat wing, capturing the thrill of a takeoff, the drama of a dogfight, and the constant dangers faced daily by pilots. ...

Tom Clancy

Marine takes an in-depth look at the United States Marine Corps--in the New York Times bestselling tradition of Submarine, Armored Cav, and Fighter Wing--including an interview with the Commander of the Marine Corps, Genral Charles "Chuck" Krulak, an examination of recruitment and training, and more. Exclusive photos, illustrations & diagrams. Print features. ...

Tom Clancy

Offers a detailed, fact-filled examination of the Airborne Task Force, complete with exclusive photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and an extensive interview with the commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, General John Keen. Original." ...

Tom Clancy

They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a message no potential enemy can ignore. Now, Tom Clancy welcomes you aboard for...

Jackson Spielvogel

Thomas S. Kidd

In God of Liberty, historian and practicing Evangelical Thomas S. Kidd offers a comprehensive account of religion's role in the Revolutionary era. In 1776, Kidd shows, America was already a nation of diverse faiths. The First Great Awakening had crested in the first half of the 1700s, making passionate believers of many frontiersman and rural colonists; Enlightenment ideas abou...

David Browne

Set against a backdrop of world-changing historical and political events, Fire and Rain tells the extraordinary story of one pivotal year in the lives and music of four legendary artists, and reveals how these artists and their songs both shaped and reflected their times. Drawing on interviews, rare recordings, and newly discovered documents, acclaimed journalist David Browne "...

Martin Meredith

Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. And yet, though vital clues still remain hidden, scientists have over the last century transformed our understanding about the beginnings of human life. In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith follows scientists' trail of discoveries about human origins, recounting their intense riva...

Jonah Sachs

Successful video entrepreneur Jonah Sachs shows how those who tell (and live) the best stories will rule the future. Does your brand tell a story? In "Winning the Story Wars", globally recognized storyteller, designer and entrepreneur Jonah Sachs argues that only those brands that tell values-driven stories through the right channels will revolutionize marketing. Above that, th...

Galeano, Eduardo

¿Sabía usted que el episodio más popular del catecismo católico, Adán y Eva mordiendo la manzana, en la Bibliano figura? que el griego Eratóstenes midió la cintura del mundo, hace dos mil trescientos años, y se equivocó en noventa kilómetros? que Aristóteles escribió sobre la mujer que es un hombre incompleto, y Santo Tomás de Aquino,que es un error de la naturaleza? que hasta ...

Tony Judt / Timothy Snyder

El siglo XX se erige como la edad de las ideas, un tiempo en el que, para bien o para mal, el pensamiento de unos pocos se impuso sobre las vidas de muchos. De una claridad y lucidez sin precedentes, el último libro de Tony Judt, uno de los más incisivos historiadores contemporáneos, está destinado a convertirse en un clásico del pensamiento moderno.Pensar el siglo XX es a la v...

Victor Manuel Ventura Arellano

"La publicación recopila hechos históricos hasta ahora inéditos y presenta un análisis crítico del porqué del rompimiento de la estrategia insurgente" (28/8/2012). ...

Juan Sisinio Perez Garzon

La conquista de la igualdad por las mujeres ha sido un proceso difícil y lleno de obstáculos constantes. Hoy, en los inicios del siglo XXI, esa igualdad se acepta con normalidad en los países democráticos, en los que aún quedan aspectos por resolver como la violencia de género. Pero la palabra feminismo sigue suscitando ciertos recelos porque se ha expandido la idea de que el f...

Anne Applebaum

Stephen Greenblatt

One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties t...

David Mccullough

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise.The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who...

Immanuel Wallerstein