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When Christians were Jews

the first generation

A compelling account of Christianity's Jewish beginnings, from one of the world's leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up ...

Setting the people free

the story of democracy

Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2 ...

La princesa prometida

relato clásico de amores verdaderos y grandes aventuras escrito por G. Morgenstern

¿De qué trata La princesa prometida? Bueno, es una historia de espadachines y de combates. Trata de amor eterno, de odio inmortal y de venganzas despiadadas. En esta novela salen algunos gigantes, un montón de villanos y de héroes, cinco o seis hermosas mujeres, monstruos ...

Peace at last

a portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

A vivid, original, and intimate hour-by-hour account of Armistice Day 1918, to mark its centenary this year November 11, 2018, marks the centenary of the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany ending World War I. While the events of the war and its legacy ...

Los fantasmas favoritos de Roald Dahl

una antología de cuentos

«Las buenas historias de fantasmas, al igual que los buenos libros infantiles, son tremendamente complicadas de escribir. Yo mismo soy escritor de relatos, y aunque llevo cuarenta y cinco años ejerciendo y siempre he deseado escribir una sola historia de fantasmas decente, nunca he logrado ...

Empress

Queen Victoria and India

An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837 In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and ...

Leer y vivir

'Tzvetan Todorov, a diferencia de muchos otros autores más famosos que él, no era ni un presuntuoso ni un charlatán. Era un suave intransigente, un intelectual lúcido (desgraciadamente, la expresión no es un pleonasmo), un erudito humilde, un investigador enciclopedista y pedagogo (un 'contrabandista', decía ...

Comedia

Hay obras maestras, como el Quijote, que los autores empiezan sin plan preciso ni determinado: van haciendo de la necesidad virtud, rizando el rizo de la invención. Pero la Comedia pertenece a otra categoría: es el resultado de la deliberación y la perseverancia de Dante ...

King Arthur

the making of the Legend

A prominent scholar explores King Arthur's historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not ...

El encaje roto

antología de cuentos de violencia de género contra las mujeres

Aunque su faceta más conocida es la de novelista, Emilia Pardo Bazán fue, entre otras cosas, una fecunda autora de cuentos, de los que publicó alrededor de seiscientos cincuenta. Uno de los temas con mayor presencia en su obra cuentística es el de la violencia ...

Manual de coordinación de parentalidad

abordaje de familias con hijos atrapados en rupturas conflictivas

No es la separación en sí lo que afecta a los hijos e hijas, es el conflicto que se desencadena y se mantiene entre la ex-pareja lo que les daña, numerosos estudios así lo han puesto de manifiesto. ¿Pueden las familias atrapadas en separaciones altamente ...

Empresa y sociedad

50 reflexiones sobre: marketing, publicidad, ética empresarial, comunicación, emprendimiento, digitalización...

Reflexionar sobre la realidad que nos rodea, sobre todo si se tiene la vista puesta en la empresa, tanto en su papel de generadora de la sociedad como de interlocutora en muchos de los aspectos de la vida comunitaria, es no solo conveniente sino imprescindible ...

Seapower states

maritime culture, continental empires and the conflict that made the Modern World

One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812-winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal-turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the ...

Fragile nation, shattered land

the modern history of Syria

The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syria survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire ...

The phoney victory

the World War II illusion

Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the ...

The Oxford Handbook of greek and roman art and architecture

The study of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture has a long history that goes back to the second half of the 18th century and has provided an essential contribution towards the creation and the definition of the wider disciplines of Art History and Architectural ...

Rethinking the Scottish Revolution

covenanted Scotland, 1637-1651

The English revolution is one of the most intensely-debated events in history; parallel events in Scotland have never attracted the same degree of interest. Rethinking the Scottish Revolution argues for a new interpretation of the seventeenth-century Scottish revolution that goes beyond questions about its radicalism ...

Londinium: a biography

Roman London from its origins to the Fifth Century

This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical ...

Among the wolves of Court

the untold story of Thomas and George Boleyn

The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life - her father Thomas and brother George - are often relegated to the margins of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation in 1533 ...

La batalla

La senda de los Tercios II

Este segundo volumen de la trilogía «La senda de los Tercios» se centra en la batalla de Nordlingen (1634), en la que las tropas del cardenal-infante don Fernando aplastaron al ejército luterano sueco, considerado hasta entonces invencible, en la Guerra de los Treinta Años.