Libros de Historia y Mitología 3268 resultados

Cristina Esteras Martin

Gavin Menzies

Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?The iconoclastic historian's magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the A...

Thorpe, Helen

From an award-winning, "meticulously observant" ("The New Yorker"), and "masterful" ("Booklist") writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal lives, and their families. America has been continuously at war since the fall of 2001. This has been a matter of bitter po...

Rediker, Marcus

This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship. In "Outlaws of the Atlantic," award-winning historian Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down. He explores the dramatic world of maritime adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-sta...

Dror, Olga

Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to attend her father s funeral. Without warning, war erupts all around them, drastically changing or cutting short their lives. After a month of fighting, their beautiful city lies in ruins and thousands of people are dead. Mourning Headband...

Boris Johnson

From London's inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill's eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill's death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays--w...

Elissa J. Rashkin

Mirella Romero Recio

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Goldstein, Dana

In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today. Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In "The Teacher Wars," a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teach...

Abbott, Karen

Belle BoydEmma EdmondsRose O'Neal GreenhowElizabeth Van LewIn Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy, bestselling author Karen Abbott tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything--their homes, their families, and their very lives--during the Civil War.Seventeen-year-old Belle Boyd, an avowed rebel with a dangerous temper, shot a Union soldier in her home and bec...

Kraybill, Donald B

On the night of September 6, 2011, terror called at the Amish home of the Millers. Answering a late-night knock from what appeared to be an Amish neighbor, Mrs Miller opened the door to her five estranged adult sons, a daughter, and their spouses. It wasn't a friendly visit. ...

Seward, Desmond

The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family from Henry II to Richard III . Four kings were murdered, two came close to deposition, and another was killed in a battle by rebels. Shakespeare wrote plays about six of them, further entrenching them in the national myth. Based on major contemporary sources and recent research, acclaimed historian Desmond Sewar...

Dunbar Ortiz, Roxanne

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen h...

Neal Ascherson

Schulian, John

An All-Pro line-up of writers including Red Smith, Frank Deford, Jimmy Breslin, George Plimpton, Richard Price, Charles Pierce, Michael Lewis, and Roy Blount Jr tackle our most popular pastime: Since football's meteoric rise in the mid-twentieth century, the standout writers on the sport have gone behind and beyond the spectacle to reveal the complexity, the contradictions, and...

Roberts, Sam

The vibrant story of America's great metropolis, told through 101 distinctive objects that span the history of New York, all reproduced in luscious, full color. A wooden water barrel and an elevator brake. A Checker taxicab and a conductor's baton. An oyster and a mastodon tusk. Inspired by "A History of the World in 100 Objects," "The New York Times' "Sam Roberts chose fifty o...

Rackley, Adam

The true-life adventure of two men who rowed across the Atlantic Ocean and the history of those who came before More people have climbed Mount Everest than have rowed across the Atlantic. For more than seventy days, Adam Rackley and his rowing partner ate, slept and rowed in a boat seven meters long by two meters wide, in one of the world's most extreme environments. This is hi...

Heinz Mode

Fadanelli, Guillermo

Rubén Cortés Fernández

Una Cuba reveladoraRubén Cortés es mi concepción personal de lo que debe ser un periodista: audaz, osado, arriesgado, pero también muy trabajador y vertiginoso. Además de culto, informado, y de mantenerse al día con todo. Cuando digo todo, es todo.Un periodista tiene que saber con precisión sobre basura espacial y comida mexicana precolombina; del origen de los boleros, el func...

Charles Simic

Eric Hobsbawm

Max Gallo

Una aguda crónica del día a día ese año decisivo en la política internacional contemporánea. Una herida abierta con el asesinato del archiduque Francisco Fernando que no cicatrizaría hasta la guerra de los Balcanes en 1991.Después del armisticio del 11 de noviembre de 1918, cinco terribles años concluyen. Cinco años que han visto el surgimiento de las armas químicas, los bombar...

Knopf

The former chief political correspondent for "The New York Times Magazine" brilliantly revisits the Gary Hart affair and looks at how it changed forever the intersection of American media and politics. In 1987, Gary Hart-articulate, dashing, refreshingly progressive-seemed a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination for president and led George H. W. Bush comfortably in the polls. ...

Brottman, Mikita

A scholar, psychoanalyst, and cultural critic explores the multifaceted role dogs play in our world in this charming bestiary of dogs from literature, lore, and life.While gradually unveiling her eight-year love affair with her French bulldog, Grisby, Mikita Brottman ruminates on the singular bond between dogs and humans. Why do prevailing attitudes warn us against loving our p...

Lucy Worsley

Murder a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very English obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves?In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caus...

Jon Ronson

Bizarre military history: In 1979, a crack commando unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known laws of physics and accepted military practice, they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and--perhaps most chillingly--kill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battal...

Ruth Goodman

Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling and fanciful guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From waking up to t...

Christopher Duggan

Desde su creación en 1861, Italia se ha esforzado por crear un sistema político eficaz y consolidar un sentimiento de identidad nacional. Este libro, que cubre el período transcurrido desde la caída del Imperio Romano de Occidente hasta nuestros días, pone el énfasis en las dificultades a las que Italia ha tenido que enfrentarse durante los dos últimos siglos en su intento de f...