Títulos en Histórico

Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hotheaded and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever had. This is his story. A contemporary of Henry VIII of England, Francis saw himself as the first Renaissance king, a man who was the exemplar of courtly and civilised behaviour throughout Europe. A courageous and heroic warrior, he was also a keen aesthete, an accomplished diplomat and an energetic ruler who turned his country into a force to be reckoned with.

The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch—Francis I—who turned France into a great nation. Catherine de Medici’s...

As Ben experimented, people peppered him with questions about electricity. Distracted, Ben was still holding the ends of two bare wires when the other ends touched the Leyden jars. A massive charge knocked him to the ground. When he clambered to his feet, he had to admit that his guests appeared...

La vida de Benjamín Franklin es importante para todos, principalmente por el papel que desempeñó en la independencia de los Estados Unidos y en su establecimiento como nación. Franklin comparte con Washington los honores de la Revolución y de los acontecimientos que condujeron al nacimiento de la nueva nación. La Autobiografía de Benjamin Franklin es un libro fácil de leer que contiene información para mejorar como persona.

A história de uma família e a memória de tempos difíceis através da prosa da maior escritora italiana do século XX. "Neste livro, lugares, fatos e pessoas são reais. Não inventei nada", escreve Natalia Ginzburg sobre sua obra mais célebre, Léxico familiar, de 1963. Nos anos 1930, como...

Immerse yourself in the captivating world of "True Stories from History and Biography" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This audiobook presents a collection of fascinating and engaging tales drawn from real-life events and notable figures. Hawthorne's exquisite storytelling brings history to life, transporting listeners to different eras and allowing them to witness pivotal moments and the lives of extraordinary individuals.

"The others form the human being, I depict him; and here I present an individual who is quite poorly formed and whom I would certainly make largely differently if I had to reshape him. But now that's the way he is." This phrase from the famous essays of Michel de Montaigne outlines the character of the author and his work. Montaigne wrote his essays not from a position of certainty but from an awareness of his inadequacy. He thus reveals a level of critical self-reflection that, before his time, was rarely put on paper.

""The five marriages that Carmela Ciuraru explores in Lives of the Wives provide such delightfully gossipy pleasure that we have to remind ourselves that these were real people whose often stormy relationships must surely have been less fun to experience than they are for us to read about...

During the Spanish inquisition, being called a heretic, a witch, or a sinner meant business. It could mean the end of your life. And so, it is with a tragic view on the past that we see countless innocent victims being accused of something they never did, with no bad intentions or rebellious behavior, and nonetheless being executed in brutal manners. One of the proponents of this system, and an active executioner, was Thomas de Torquemada, a completely insane, cruel man who had become notorious for his methods of hunting down and taking out supposed anti-church offenders.

Beginning with Nin's arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also, as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the artist in the modern world.

This is the first monographic English-language biography of an important 19th century figure in Russian History, General Count Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov (1824-1888). He was an Armenian who was ennobled for his outstanding military service in the army of the Russian Empire through more than 150 battles in the Caucasus, Crimea, and Turkey. Here we see his life-long efforts on behalf of the culturally diverse citizens of the Russian Empire in the 19th century. 

Anna Funder’s best-selling Stasiland brings us extraordinary tales of real lives in the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, who tried to escape to West Berlin as a 16-year-old; hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her young baby by the Berlin Wall; and gets drunk with the legendary ‘Mik Jegger’ of the East, once declared by the authorities – to his face – ‘no longer to exist’. And she meets the Stasi men themselves, still proud of their surveillance methods.

S'appuyant sur une très large masse d'archives et de mémoires, Julian Jackson explore toutes les dimensions du mystère De Gaulle, sans chercher à lui donner une excessive cohérence. Personne n'avait décrit ses paradoxes et ses ambiguïtés, son talent politique et sa passion pour la tactique, son pragmatisme et son sens du possible, avec autant d'acuité et d'esprit.

One-cent magentas were provisional stamps, printed quickly when a shipment of official stamps from London did not arrive in British Guiana. They were mostly thrown out with the newspapers; one stamp survived. Through the stories of the eccentric characters who have bought, owned, and sold the One-Cent Magenta, James Barron delivers a fascinating tale of global history and immense wealth, and of the human desire to collect.

Col grado di SS-Obersturmbannführer era responsabile di una sezione del RSHA; esperto di questioni ebraiche, perseguendo la cosiddetta soluzione finale organizzò il traffico ferroviario per il trasporto degli ebrei ai vari campi di concentramento. Sfuggito al processo di Norimberga, si rifugiò in Argentina, dove venne individuato e rapito dal Mossad per essere processato in Israele e condannato a morte per genocidio e crimini contro l'umanità. Luigi Romolo Carrino (napoletano, classe 1968) Nel suo percorso letterario ha affrontato tematiche sociali di vario tipo. 

The Buddha and the Sahibs: The Men Who Discovered India’s Lost Religion by Charles Allen. For nearly 1,000 years, from the destruction of temples and monasteries by Muslim invaders in the 11th and 12th centuries, followed by Hinduism’s increasing power, Buddhism vanished from the country of...

«Este libro es un elogio a la gratitud» Ciro Gómez Leyva «No sobreviví por un milagro. Me salvaron el blindaje del auto, la impericia de unos sicarios medianos y las vacilaciones de un presidente intranquilo que no supo o no pudo bajar el pulgar; me salvaron el azar, las circunstancias, la...

Les Presses Universitaires de France et Frémeaux & Associés proposent cette biographie de Napoléon III, par Xavier Mauduit, chroniqueur radio et docteur en histoire spécialiste du Second Empire. Napoléon III, empereur des Français, est un personnage complexe dont la postérité est entachée par la violence de ses détracteurs ; "Napoléon le Petit", "nain immonde" viennent sous la plume de Victor Hugo marquer à jamais les esprits. Pourtant, à la tête d'un bonapartisme réfléchi et populaire, Louis-Napoléon conquiert le cœur des Français, et entame une politique forte de modernisation, de grands travaux et d'essor de la France sur la scène internationale.

A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire. During his short life Alexander the Great carved out an empire stretching from the Balkans to Central India, re-drawing the map of the...

In 1993, after 27 years of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela sat down with ghostwriter Richard Stengel to begin working on Long Walk to Freedom, a critically acclaimed memoir that would become a best seller around the globe.