Resultados para "A" en Era moderna

The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries—from their rise to power to their eventual downfall. "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling." —Wall Street Journal In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it...

In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity- one of the worst in world history- continues to be denied by the Japanese government.

Mød din nye ven Eddie. Han blev født i Tyskland i 1920. Under Krystalnatten blev han tævet halvt til døde. Han sad i kz-lejrene Buchenwald og Auschwitz. Som slavearbejder gik han rundt med et skilt om halsen, hvor der stod, at han skulle hænges, hvis han begik en fejl. Da krigen sluttede...

Vind diepe rust met sfeervolle slaapverhalen die de Griekse mythologie transformeren tot een dromerig toevluchtsoord. Laat de hectiek van de dag achter je en dwaal in gedachten door eeuwenoude landschappen waar zachte zeewinden en fluisterende olijfbomen je zintuigen kalmeren. Deze rustgevende...

这部沉浸式拉美叙事史将带你穿梭于安第斯山脉的失落黄金国与硝烟弥漫的独立战争之间，见证一个分裂的国度如何在无尽的纷争与暴力中顽强寻求重生。跟随那些在丛林与街头挣扎求生的普通人脚步，你将亲历一场跨越五百...

Ergründe die spirituelle Philosophie des Animismus und erlebe, wie alte Naturreligionen unsere moderne Sinnsuche erden. Wenn der hektische Alltag nach Entschleunigung verlangt, nimmt dich diese atmosphärische Reise mit in einen atmenden, bewussten Kosmos. Begreife dich nicht länger als...

The Schutzstaffel, or SS—the brutal elite of the Nazi Party—was founded by Hitler in 1925 to be his personal bodyguard. From 1929 it was headed by Heinrich Himmler, who built its numbers up from under 300 to well over a million by 1945. The SS became the very backbone of Nazi Germany, taking over almost every function of the state.

An extended essay initially written in response to a letter pondering how to end war, Three Guineas eloquently relates women’s equal opportunity to the end of the power structures which contribute to conflict. Using the metaphor of three guineas, Woolf highlights three worthy causes to donate to in order to end violence: rebuilding education for women, supporting professional opportunities for women and the promotion of pacifism.

El hilo conductor de este recorrido por la historia contemporánea es el proceso de secularización, característico de nuestra cultura, tratado desde una visión cristiana del hombre y de la historia. Tras exponer las claves de la época moderna (siglos XVI-XVII), el autor analiza las principales ideologías contemporáneas -liberalismo, nacionalismo, marxismo, cientificismo- y subraya su papel de religiones sustitutivas.

Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father...

Winner of the Wales Book of the Year Award for Creative Nonfiction * #1 International Bestseller * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes, this “profound…comic…[and] unconventional” (The...

An award-winning political scientist shows that a society’s path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater than we might think. In Land Power...

The secret history of one of the largest—and least-known—rescue operations of World War II Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable—and until now, completely unknown—humanitarian operation. In concert with Jewish activists, they...

An evocative portrait of a divided America at the dawn of the Cold War Halfway through the twentieth century, the United States towered over the world in industrial might. After winning the 1948 election, Harry Truman hoped to use this economic strength to build on FDR’s achievements with new...

A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won...

Written in Auschwitz itself and translated for the first time ever into English, this one-of-a-kind, minute-by-minute true account is a crucial historical testament to a Holocaust survivor's fight for his life at the largest extermination camp in Nazi Germany. "We know that there is only one...

On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth about what the Russian secret services found was hidden from history, when, three months later, Stalin officially declared to Truman...

A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall...

The authoritative biography of Prince Harry by noted royal family biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King and The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor. Prince Harry, one of the most popular members of the British royal family, has had a colorful life...

La Inquisición española fue una mezcla de agencia de espionaje, unidad de asuntos internos y fuerza de orden público que, aunque tuviera como objetivo prioritario la persecución de delitos religiosos, acabó convirtiéndose –y esta es una de las sorpresas mayúsculas de este libro– en un brazo «político» de la monarquía hispánica, realizando una labor de vigilancia global, con intervenciones quirúrgicas.