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LETTERE INEDITE DI GIOVANNA DAUSTRIA GRANDUCHESSA DI TOSCAN es un libro del autor SPIGA,MASSIMILIANO editado por TIRANT HUMANIDADES. LETTERE INEDITE DI GIOVANNA DAUSTRIA GRANDUCHESSA DI TOSCAN tiene un ci¿digo EAN 9788411834230, de la coleccii¿n PLURAL.

Journalist Anna Funder explores life in East Germany under the Stasi regime through haunting personal stories of resistance and surveillance.

La vida privada de los soldados romanos sigue siendo un tema bastante desatendido en las investigaciones sobre el ejercito romano. Son pocas las fuentes clásicas -esas narraciones en prosa que consideramos "literatura historica" - que hacen referencia a ella, aunque si se encuentran a menudo alusiones a soldados y sus relaciones familiares en otro tipo de documentos. Asi, podemos contemplar en las tumbas de soldados bastantes representaciones del soldado junto a su esposa o hijos, donde a veces no falta la imagen de un liberto o un esclavo. A las relaciones entre estos personajes aluden las propias formulas epigraficas. Tambien en los papiros y en las tabulae caeratae encontramos noticias interesantes sobre la vida privada de los soldados, y nos ayudan comprender parcialmente la "biografia" de estos profesionales de las armas que, como sabemos, no siempre estuvieron autorizados a contraer un matrimonio "legal" con todos los derechos para la esposa o los descendientes.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgeryFrom the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet disfigured soldiers did not receive the hero's welcome they deserved.In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction in Sidcup, south-east England. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of doctors, nurses and artists whose task was to recreate what had been torn apart. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits.

From medieval to modern exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets diagrams concepts methods and disciplines Opening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal Instrumentality illuminates key moments in the intellectual history of the European Middle Ages J Allan Mitchell reveals how in the predigital past we can recognize many of the operative technics analytics and metaphorics that continue to shape human sense and cognition today Exploring the diverse modalities of medieval instruments Mitchell s case studies encompass techniques as seemingly distinct as time keeping mechanisms mathematical diagrams logical syllogisms and the literary devices of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower A cultural and intellectual history Mitchell s work leads readers from three dimensional objects physical mechanisms to two dimensional inscriptions maps and diagrams and onward to overarching disciplinary norms in the early liberal and mechanical arts Prying loose the subtle adaptable and generative concept of technical objects from limiting contemporary frameworks he shows how these instruments are indispensable to the past and the future of the arts and culture at large

A Times Best Art Book of the Year 2024 A riot of a book Country Life s Books of the Year 2024The modern art market was born on a single night On 15 October 1958 Sotheby s of Bond Street staged an event sale of Impressionist paintings from the collection of an American banker Erwin Goldschmidt three Manets two Cezannes one Van Gogh and a Renoir Movie stars and other celebrities attended in black tie and saw the seven lots go for 781 000 at the time the highest price for a single art sale Overnight London became the world centre of the art market and Sotheby s an international auction house The event signalled a shift in power from dealers to auctioneers and pointed the way for Impressionist paintings to dominate the market for the next forty years In this climate Sotheby s and Christie s became a great business duopoly as aggressive dominant and competitive in the field of art sales as Pepsi and Coca Cola were in soft drinks The resulting expansion of the market was accompanied by rocketing prices colourful scandals and legal dramas Over the decades London transformed itself from a place of old master sales to a revitalised centre of contemporary art a process crowned by the opening of Tate Modern in 2000 James Stourton tells the story of th

Os diários de Conta-Corrente constituem um dos documentos mais impressionantes da vida cultural dos anos setenta e oitenta (cobrindo os anos de 1969 a 1992), com especial destaque para os anos da resistencia e os da revoluço. A importancia documental e literaria deve-se quer a qualidade dos textos do autor, quer a natureza das suas confisses, reflexes e revelaçes sendo uma extraordinaria fonte de dados para o conhecimento da vida e historia portuguesas desses anos.Tal como os grandes diarios de autores como Franz Kafka, Lev Tolstoi, Raul Brando, Miguel Torga, Thomas Mann ou Virginia Woolf, Conta-Corrente no e importante apenas do ponto de vista literario. Pela abundancia de pequenas historias sobre o meio literario e politico portugues da epoca, bem como pela acuidade, autenticidade e profundidade das suas opinies, a obra constitui um enorme espolio de testemunhos sobre o seu tempo real. A sua leitura e uma extraordinaria fonte documental para compreender um periodo to importante como decisivo na vida da sociedade portuguesa, alem de nos dar uma imagem intima pessoal, familiar, geracional de um dos maiores autores portugueses do seculo XX.

[…] Politicamente, seria homem-forte no distrito de Braga do Partido Evolucionista, um dos principais partidos políticos da Primeira República. Essa posição permitiu-lhe ser protagonista da luta que

Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time the eclipse of the rural world by the urban In this new history of peasantry Patrick Joyce tells the story of this lost world and its people In contrast to the usual insulting stereotypes we discover a rich and complex culture traditions songs celebrations and revolts across Europe from the plains of Poland to the farmsteads and villages of Italy and Ireland through the nineteenth century to the present day Into this passionate history written with exquisite care Joyce weaves remarkable individual stories including those of his own Irish family and looks at how peasant life has been remembered and misremembered in contemporary culture This is a people whose voice is vastly underrepresented in human history Yet for Joyce we are all the children of peasants who must respect the experience of our ancestors This is particularly pressing when our knowledge of the land is being lost to climate crisis and the rise of industrial agriculture Enlightening timely and vital thi

En plena agonia del dictador Francisco Franco, el setembre de 1975 es publicà la primera i única edició del present llibre que avui presentem amb un estudi introductori de l?escriptor Vicenç Villator

Aquest primer volum de l’Obra dispersa de l’historiador i ciutadà gironí (1911-1973) Santiago Sobrequés reuneix un seguit d’estudis erudits sobre el passat català i de col·laboracions periodístiques

Historia de la unificación de Alemania (en el siglo XIX en el período Bismark), su asentamiento como nuevo imperio y el conflicto (e invasión) de Francia, a través de gran cantidad de documentos originales, tematicamente presentados. Los comentarios e introducciones del autor, asi como sus didacticas preguntas de recapitulacion de lo expuesto a lo largo del libro constituyen la trama sobre la que se situa dicha documentacion original.

Mi gran odisea griega es el relato de la historia de amor de Mary Norris con la lengua, la mitología y la cultura griega que arranca con la negativa paterna para poder estudiar latín. ¿Que hace la gran dama de la correccion del The New Yorker atrapada por esa lengua inmortal y sus dioses? Lo iremos descubriendo a traves de su periplo por esta tierra de olivos, tragos de ouzo y mitos, la fascinacion por ese alfabeto exotico que ha llegado a nuestros tatuajes, la interpretacion de Atenea como un icono feminista, el acercamiento a referencias culturales como los titanes y el descubrimiento de las multiples huellas que el griego ha dejado en nuestro vocabulario. Un relato lleno de memorables anecdotas que consigue que nos reconozcamos como herederos del mundo clasico.