Libros de Historia y Mitología 3272 resultados

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...

W.a. Speck

David Hinton

While Confucius failed in his lifetime to rescue a crumbling civilization with his teachings, he was to become the most influential sage in human history. His thought, still remarkably current and even innovative after 2500 years, survives here in The Analects - a collection of brief aphoristic sayings that has had a deeper impact on more people's lives over a longer period of ...

David Hinton

Revered for millennia in the Chinese spiritual tradition, Chuang Tzu stands alongside the Tao Te Ching as a founding classic of Taoism. The Inner Chapters are the only sustained section of this text widely believed to be the work of Chuang Tzu himself, dating to the fourth century B.C.E. Witty and engaging, spiced with the lyricism of poetry, Chuang Tzu's Taoist insights are ti...

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In "Rebellion, "he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ending with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson,...

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In "Rebellion, "he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ending with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson,...

Hynes, Samuel

"The Unsubstantial Air" is the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told through the words and voices of the aviators themselves. A World War II pilot himself, the memoirist and cr...

Russell, Gerard

Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in various forms for thousands of years. These religions represent...

Krist, Gary

From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' "other" civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City "Empire of Sin" re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and l...

West, Chris

DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF AMERICA THROUGH ITS BEAUTIFUL AND DIVERSE POSTAGE STAMPS IN THIS EXUBERANT AND ALWAYS CHARMING HISTORY. In "A History of America in Thirty-six Postage Stamps," Chris West explores America's own rich philatelic history. From George Washington's dour gaze to the charging buffalo of the western frontier and Lindbergh's soaring biplane, American sta...

Haley, James L

The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native cult...

Paul Collier

Dormehl, Luke

A fascinating guided tour of the complex, fast-moving, and influential world of algorithms--what they are, why they're such powerful predictors of human behavior, and where they're headed next. Algorithms exert an extraordinary level of influence on our everyday lives - from dating websites and financial trading floors, through to online retailing and internet searches - Google...

Clissold, Tim

From the author of the international bestseller Mr. China comes another rollicking ride through the slick mega-cities and industrial backwaters of twenty-first-century China--part adventure story, part erudite myth-buster, and part practical rule book to help Westerners win in China.China's role as struggling underdog is now firmly a thing of the past. The world has tilted east...

Dunn, Richard

A history of one of the greatest nautical discoveries of all timeThree hundred years ago, amidst growing frustration from the naval community and pressure linked with the increasing importance of international trade, the British government passed the 1714 Longitude Act. It was an attempt to solve one of the most pressing problems of the age: how to determine a ship's longitude ...

Mithlo, Nancy Marie

Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906-84) was born during a time of great change for his American Indian people. He was a rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects. This book is based on the Poolaw Photography Project, a research initiative established by Poolaw's daughter Linda in 1989 at Stanford University. ...

Prestwich, Michael

This engrossing, exquisitely illustrated, often witty account tells the life stories of some seventy individuals who "made" the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes and politicians, soldiers and merchants, scholars, authors and visionaries. They range from the important, such as El Cid or Frederick Barbarossa, to the little known, such as the dissolute Venetian nun Cl...

Wild, Chris

"An emporium of retro treasure...from shocking sculptures of the 1700s, to Kodachrome snaps of 1950s Piccadilly Circus, to biblical scenes captured by Google Earth. Rather than nostalgia or folly, the aim is enlightenment, wonder and the pleasure of weirdness." --The Guardian Based on the widely popular blog that started as a side project in a basement, " Retronaut "reveals str...

Brotton,Jerry

The world's finest maps explored and explained.From Ptolemy's world map to the Hereford's Mappa Mundi, through Mercator's map of the world to the latest maps of the Moon and Google Earth, "Great Maps" provides a fascinating overview of cartography through the ages.Revealing the stories behind 55 historical maps by analyzing graphic close-ups, "Great Maps" also profiles key cart...

Asimov, Isaac

La serie informalmente titulada «Historia Universal Asimov» reúne lasobras dedicadas por el gran novelista y divulgador científico a laevolución política, cultural y material de la humanidad. "La formación de Francia" cubre el amplio y turbulento periodo que se extiendedesde los últimos años del siglo IX que vieron el final de la épocacarolingia y la llegada de una nueva dinast...

Jackson, Lee

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and wome...

Tristram Hunt

An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wakeAt its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand as the economic and cultural powerhouses of the twenty-first century. In a series of ten...

Rick Atkinson

Una apasionante epopeya sobre el fin de la segunda guerra mundial en Europa. Los cañones del atardecer es una impresionante epopeya sobre el fin de la segunda guerra mundial en Europa, desde Normandía hasta la rendición en Berlín, con la que Rick Atkinson completa su monumental Trilogía de la Liberación, que se inició en 2002 con Un ejército al amanecer, galardonado con el Prem...

Rick Atkinson

La esperada segunda parte de Un ejército al amanecer de Rick Atkinson, premio Pulitzer de Historia 2003. En Un ejército al amanecer -que fue ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Historia 2003- Rick Atkinson proporcionaba una historia dramática y autorizada del triunfo de los aliados en África del Norte. Ahora, en El día de la batalla, sigue a los reforzados ejércitos norteamericanos ...

Juan Bautista Yofre

Cuba, marzo de 1965. Fidel Castro inspecciona con satisfacción el pasaporte falso de Ernesto "Che" Guevara, parado a su lado y ya transformado en Ramón Benítez. Parece mucho más gordo; lleva sombrero, gruesos anteojos, prótesis bucal y zapatos que aumentan su estatura. Estaba en marcha la "Operación Manuel", y la Argentina, junto a otros países de América Latina, pasaría a ser ...

Walter Laqueur

Asesinatos, bombas, secuestros de aviones y de diplomáticos: el terrorismo es la forma de violencia política que más publicidad recibe en nuestra época. La historia del terrorismo se remonta a un período muy antiguo, un hecho que con frecuencia se ha silenciado. Lo cierto es que el terrorismo no se ha manifestado con idéntica intensidad en todas las épocas. Cuando el terrorismo...

Brian Latell

Castro's Secrets begins like a slow murder mystery then builds damning fact after damning fact into a conclusive, ground-breaking portrait, based on firsthand sources, of how the Cuban strongman—...Published to glowing reviews, this riveting narrative takes us back to when the Cuban Revolution was young and offers a new and surprising look at Fidel Castro. Drawing on interviews...