Libros de Historia y Mitología 3286 resultados

Enrique Moradiellos

Las caras de Clío constituye un manual de introducción a la Historia. En sus páginas el lector encontrará una exposición sintética de las diferentes escuelas históricas y de los fundamentos científicos de la Historia como disciplina académica, desde la Antigüedad clásica hasta nuestros días. Moradiellos se plantea los interrogantes clásicos de la disciplina histórica, ¿Qué es l...

Christopher Clark

Sonámbulos es el relato fascinante del historiador ChristopherClark de los inicios explosivos de la Primera Guerra Mundial.Sobre labase de nuevos estudios, Clark ofrece una nueva mirada a la PrimeraGuerra Mundial, centrándose no sólo en las batallas y las atrocidadesde la guerra en sí, sino en la complejidad de los acontecimientos yrelaciones que llevaron a un grupo de líderes ...

Juan Eslava Galan

1914. Hace ahora cien años...Europa vivía una plenitud dorada. Los adelantos científicos y técnicos prometían un futuro feliz, sin hambrunas ni guerras.Pero un terrorista serbio asesinó, durante un desfi le en Sarajevo, al heredero del Imperio austrohúngaro y a su esposa. Ese hecho aislado provocó un efecto dominó que arrastró a la guerra a más de cincuenta países.En cuatro año...

Kaplan, Robert D.

From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict. Over the last decade, the center of world power has been quietly shifting from Europe to Asia. With oil reserves of several billion barrels, an estimated nine hundred trillion ...

Miguel Ángel Ladero

Marcado por acontecimientos como la unidad peninsular, el fin de la Reconquista, la expulsión de los judíos, el inicio del Renacimiento y el descubrimiento de América, el reinado de Isabel I de Castilla y Fernando II de Aragón articuló en la Península la transición de la Edad Media a la modernidad y el comienzo de la transformación de España en un estado-nación. En el presente ...

Gombrich, Ernst H.

T. Mark Mccurley / Kevin Maurer

The first-ever inside look at the US military's secretive Remotely Piloted Aircraft program—equal parts techno-thriller, historical account, and war memoirRemotely piloted aircraft (RPA), commonly referred to by the media as drones, are a mysterious and headline-making tool in the military's counterterrorism arsenal. Their story has been pieced together by technology reporters,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...