Libros de Historia y Mitología 3268 resultados

Bill Oreilly

The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service and medical professionals saved the president's life. Mere days after his near-death experience, Reagan's personal strength propelled him back into his presidential duties. Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's his...

Stephen Kinzer

A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's worldDuring the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world.John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brot...

Neal Ascherson

Siguiendo un itinerario que va rodeando este extraño mar interior, El mar Negro abarca cronológicamente desde la época de Heródoto hasta Yeltsin, desde la expedición de los argonautas en busca del vellocino de oro hasta la última década del siglo XX y la caída de los estados comunistas. Ascherson, en su recorrido, revela así al lector, con la amenidad de un libro de viajes, los...

Juan Eslava Galan

Francois Dosse

Jerry Toner

This introduction to the ancient world, part of the Ideas in Profile series, covers all its different cultures, from the million people crammed into Rome to the Jews and Syrians who refused to be Romanised. Jerry Toner shows what can be learnt from new approaches to ancient history, from analysing the bones of the dead in Pompeii or assessing the impact of environmental change,...

Adams, Charles

The first edition of Adams' study of the history of taxation had heads turning across the nation, with excited reviews appearing in dozens of national newspapers and magazines in addition to local papers in almost every state. Adams makes a convincing case for taxes being the cause of many of the landmark events in civilization's history. Starting in ancient Egypt, Adams survey...

Michael Burleigh

Julio A. Sierra

Airey Neave

On a hot afternoon in August 1941, a 24-year-old Belgian woman walks into the British consulate in Bilbao, neutral Spain, and demands to see the consul. She presents him with a British soldier she has smuggled all the way from Brussels, through occupied France and over the Pyrenees. It is a journey she will make countless times thereafter, at unthinkable danger to her own life....

Dower, John

World War II marked the apogee of industrialized "total war." Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of every nation. Air war, including the terror bombing of civilians, emerged as a central strategy of the victorious Anglo-American powers. The devastation was catastrophic almost everywhere, with the not...

Michael Weiss

Lucy Worsley

Frances Wood

Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant? China's First Emperor (258-210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2,000 years. He gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, he created imperial China. He stressed the rule of law but suppressed all opposition, burning books and burying scholars alive. His militar...

Korda, Michael

An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life the world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the war, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Clouds of Glory, chronicles the outbreak of hostilities, recalling as a prescient young boy the enveloping ...

Aaron Edwards / Varios Autores

War has been a perennial feature of human history since ancient times, yet it remains a poorly understood phenomenon. It has done much to shape our world, from overthrowing leaders, establishing international governance, and inspiring social change, to destroying cities, dividing nations and breeding animosity.In this book, Dr Aaron Edwards succinctly combines political theori...

John Pimlott

Christopher Ailsby

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Dk Publishing

Annotation: Presents a history of the world's most prominent and revolutionary engineers, discussing their key feats and major breakthroughs, from Archimedes and Leonardo da Vinci to Henry Ford and the Wright brothers. ...

Jose Maria Lopez Ruiz

Marc Bloch

Es importante saber si otras sociedades, en otros tiempos, han presentado una estructura parecida, en sus rasgos fundamentales, a la de nuestro feudalismo occidental, para merecer, a su vez, ser llamadas feudales. El feudalismo que intentaremos analizar fue el que primero recibió ese nombre. Como marco cronológico, la investigación, aparte de algunos problemas de origen o de su...

Henri Pirenne

Aunque el transcurso de los años haya modificado parcialmente algunas de sus conclusiones, las investigaciones de Henri Pirenne sobre la Edad Media continúan siendo una referencia indispensable para los historiadores actuales. En Las ciudades de la Edad Media, Pirenne demuestra que fue la expansión musulmana -que cerró el Mediterráneo al tráfico comercial durante el siglo VIII-...

Cristobal Colon

Cristóbal Colón fue navegante y descubridor de América. Pero casi todo lo relativo a su persona está rodeado de polémica o permanece en el misterio: nombre, lugar y fecha de su nacimiento, educación, de todo se ha dudado. Pero su obstinación, experiencia y genialidad son indiscutibles. Experto marinero, influido por el ambiente de Portugal y por las lecturas de Ptolomeo, Marco ...

Kari Rosvall

No son pocas las historias que se han publicado sobre el nazismo. Aún existen episodios aterradores de este régimen que no hemos terminado de explorar. Uno de ellos es la existencia del programa Lebensborn que consistió en obligar a mujeres noruegas a procrear niños con oficiales de las SS para mantener los estándares de la «raza aria». Kari Rosvall, autora de este libro, fue u...

Fernando Prieto

Mirza, Sandrine

Baussier, Sylvie (1964-....)