Culture, Innovation, and Urban OrderPeter Hall explores the history of cities and their role in the development of civilization, from the cultural crucibles of Athens in the sixth century BC and Florence in the fifte...9999903369837Peter Hall
PHOENIX
viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2025
The Year Before the StormA witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever...9999903369707Florian Illies Shaun Whit...
Profile Books Ltd
viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2025
German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America, from the 1930s to the Present00 A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars--ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Lang--...9999903369851Anthony Heilbut
University of California Press
viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2025
Peace, War, Revolution, and Flight to the WestA story of loss and survival.Germany's invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the middle of the tw...9999903369844Charles Farkas
Editors Varis
viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2025
Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master AgentSHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE'The most formidable spy in history' Ian Fleming'A superb biography ... More than a hundred books have been written about him and this is und...9999903369790Owen Matthews
Bloomsbury
viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2025
Life in China's Surveillance StateNew China, New World : A Preface -- The Word : How Autocrats Hijack Our Language -- The Weapon : How Terror and Law Complement Each Other -- The Pen : How Propaganda Works -- The N...9999903369738Kai Strittmatter
Editors Varis
viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2025
The battle for Berlin in 1945 was one of the most violent ever fought for a city. For Stalin it was the ultimate prize. More than 300,000 Soviet soldiers died in the attack.9999903369721Anthony Read David Fisher
Century
viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2025
A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st CenturyKaplan travels from the devastated countries of West Africa and the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, India, Pakistan and...9999903369714Robert D. Kaplan
Macmillan
viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2025
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 ...9999903369691Guy Cuthbertson
Yale University Press
viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2025
A Personal Memoir of My Years of LockheedThis classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review). From the dev...9999903368472Ben R. Rich Leo Janos
Little, Brown and Company
miércoles, 10 de septiembre de 2025
The Untold Story Of American Submarine EspionageNo Espionage Missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, after six years of research, journalist Sherry Sontag and reporter Christopher Drew ...9999903368458Sherry Sontag Christopher...
New York : PublicAffairs, 1999.
miércoles, 10 de septiembre de 2025
A historical account of the series of explorations into darkest Africa which resulted in the discovery of the source of the Nile River and opened this highway from Central Africa t...9999903362418Moorehead, Alan
Editors Varis
jueves, 4 de septiembre de 2025
Ordinary Germans and the HolocaustDrawing principally on materials unexplored or neglected by previous scholars, Daniel Goldhagen marshals new primary evidence to show that ordinary Germans were involved in the atr...9999903359005Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Little, Brown and Company
martes, 19 de agosto de 2025
The first full account of the purges Stalin ordered in the 1930s. Pieces together how Stalin marked his past, present and potential opponents for assassination or judicial murder.9999903351016Robert Conquest
Penguin Books Ltd
miércoles, 6 de agosto de 2025
A BBC Daily Politics Book of the Year As with his previous bestsellers, WHO RUNS BRITAIN? and HOW DO WE FIX THIS MESS?, in Robert Peston's new book WTF he draws on his years of exp...9999903344612Robert Peston
Hodder
miércoles, 23 de julio de 2025
From the Phoenicians to the Present Day'The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.' Samuel Johnson, 1776 The Mediterranean has always been a leading stage for world history; it is also vis...9999903341994Black, Jeremy
Corsair
jueves, 10 de julio de 2025
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