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Every major event that has had a place in molding our lives is chronicled, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day; from prohibition and crime in the 1920s and the Depression of the 1930s to the Cold War of the 1950s and the prosperity and free love of the 1960s; from the attack on Pearl Harbor and Americas entry into the Second World War in the 1940s up to the birth of the twenty-first century, with new millennium celebrations around the globe, and the first great tragedy of that new century with the attack on the World Trade Center in New York; the technological, scientific and medical advances that transformed every aspect of our lives; the people politicians, scientists, movie stars, icons, writers who shaped the way we think, feel and live. In unprecedented and graphic detail, The Visual History of the Modern World is a concise and authoritative overview of this remarkable age: a time of war, peace, prosperity and progress.

Modern oil trading as we know it today has its roots in the 1970s especially after the collapse of the vertically integrated structure of the oil industry controlled by oil majors

John Tone recounts the dramatic story of how, between 1808 and 1814, Spanish peasants created and sustained the world''s first guerrilla insurgency movement, thereby playing a major role in Napoleon''s defeat in the Peninsula War. Focusing on the army of Francisco Mina, Tone offers new insights into the origins, motives, and successes of these first guerrilla forces by interpreting the conflict from the long-ignored perspective of the guerrillas themselves.

Ce prestigieux ouvrage réunit une impressionnante équipe d''auteurs issus de tous les territoires sur lesquels l''empereur Charles régna autrefois. Né en 1500 à Gand, Charles Ier fut reconnu comme so

Glyn A. Stone draws upon a wealth of recent specialized studies which focus on key issues relating to Spain during the civil war and the early years of the Second World War. By including Portugal and beginning from 1931, the first general study of the significance of the Spanish area to the foreign policies and diplomatic relations of the Great Powers since the publication of Dante Puzzo's Spain and the Great Powers in 1962, provides a more comprehensive account than hitherto achieved.

Este pack contiene la edición en Minor del libro La Cultura. Todo lo que hay que saber, más El juego de la cultura, que incluye un tablero con 82 casillas, un dado, seis peones y 600 tarjetas de preguntas, respuestas y explicaciones sobre historia, literatura, arte, musica, filosofia y ciencia. Para ganar, el jugador debera recordar y poner a prueba sus conocimientos generales sobre historia, literatura, filosofia y ciencia, arte y musica. En las 120 preguntas de cada tema se mezclan tres grados de dificultad (basico, medio y avanzado). Esto posibilita que puedan jugar personas de diferente nivel cultural.