Novedades del último mes en libros de Historia Universal

El libro de 2008 contiene una selección de noticias curiosas que ocurrieron ese año, imágenes, anuncios y, en general, todo lo necesario para entender cómo era el mundo en aquella época: cómo era la moda, que se invento, que anuncios habia, las canciones y peliculas de exito, cuanto costaban las cosas, que personajes famosos destacaban y muchas cosas mas.Este libro de 2008 forma parte de la popular coleccion El año en que naciste. Un detalle ideal para el protagonista de una fiesta de cumpleaños o para sorprender a cada uno de los invitados de tu proxima cena con amigos o familiares. Coloca el libro del año de cada invitado en su sitio en la mesa y veras la sorpresa cuando lo encuentren. Enseguida se rompera el hielo con conversaciones apasionadas llenas de recuerdos. La coleccion El año en que naciste abarca desde 1920 hasta 2008.

Los cuatro hombres que decidieron la suerte de un continente Cuatro grandes príncipes nacieron en el curso de una década: Enrique VIII de Inglaterra, Francisco I de Francia, Carlos V de Alemania y I

In another surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle letter writers to The Daily Telegraph have once again provided their refreshing and witty take on events Now in its seventeenth year this new edition of the best selling series is a review of the year made up of the wry and astute observations of the unpublished Telegraph letter writers Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom wistful nostalgia and robust good sense of humour that characterise its correspondence and this volume contains yet more pearls of insight With an agenda as enticing as ever the seventeenth book in the bestselling Unpublished Letters series will prove once again that the Telegraph s readers still have a shrewd sense of what really matters

Pocos mitos en la historia han generado tanta expectación, estudios y libros como el misterio de la Atlántida. Desde que Platón publico sus diálogos hace más de 2000 años, la Atlántida ha jugado un papel fundamental en la imaginacion de la Humanidad. Muchos libros sobre el mito se han escrito, muchas posibles localizaciones se han postulado, pero nuca se ha llegado a ninguna conclusion definitiva. ¿Mito o realidad? ¿Cuento, fabula o los lejanos ecos de una civilizacion perdida en la oscura niebla de la Historia? En este libro abordamos el tema desde una optica nueva, acorde a nuestros tiempos, donde manda la informacion de Internet. Al igual que han surgido herramientas potentisimas aplicada a la Arqueologia como pueden ser la Arqueastronomia, se pude realizar un estudio retrospectivo utilizando y analizando toda la informacion que podemos encontrar en la red de redes. Con toda es informacion y aplicando el metodo cientifico y el logos, un principio ordenador del universo, una ley universal que rige todas las cosas que es capaz de poder aplicarse a todas las investigaciones que se quieran emprender, nace este libro, un ensayo que en compañia del lector intentara desvelar uno de los mayores mitos de la humanidad: la Atlantida, su realidad y su posible ubicacion.

El objetivo de este libro es presentar una versión de una de las cuatro estelas conservadas, la A, del importantísimo santuario médico de Epidauro, en el Peloponeso griego, consagrado al dios Asclepio, donde se relatan algunas curaciones extraordinarias. Este tipo de estelas se exhibian en la Antiguedad en el templo a vista de los peregrinos y enfermos que llegaban alli buscando una curacion prodigiosa como ultimo recurso a su mal. Se presenta una traduccion de la estela A, con comentarios pormenorizados sobre cada una de las curaciones milagrosas operadas, analizadas en su contexto antiguo y, en la medida de lo posible, permitiendo vislumbrar a veces que estos casos de enfermedades y curaciones extraordinarias pueden tener alguna explicacion cientifica.

Investigación sobre las medidas defensivas adoptadas en Fuerteventura ante la amenaza de invasión durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Desde la perspectiva del binomio Iglesia y orden social, este ensayo hace propuestas acerca del proceso de reconducción del dominio real bajo Felipe II. Consisten en modulaciones o variaciones de poder y autoridad geograficamente diferenciadas, que fueron discernidas e implementadas entre 1570 y 1590 respectivamente para el Peru y la Nueva España. Se caracteriza el proceso hasta verificar su normalizacion y depuracion en la primera decada del siglo XVII.

THE SUNDAY TIMES 1 BESTSELLER A Times Best History Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of the Year Reads like a thriller I couldn t put Max Hastings s new book down DAILY MAIL Hastings is a master of drama a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier THE TIMES Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II and probably the most successful In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly identified radar network on the coast of Nazi occupied Europe codenamed Wurzburg The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy Winston Churchill enthused as did Lord Louis Mountbatten chief of Combined Operations A company of the newly formed Airborne Forces was committed to the operation which took place on the night of 27 28 February Amid heavy snow 120 men landed some of whom were misdropped almost two miles from their objective They nonetheless launched the assault dismantled the German radar and after three nail biting hours in France and a fierce battle with Wehrmacht defenders escaped in the nick of time by landing craft across stormy seas to Portsmouth Max Hastings recounts

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER Chosen by WATERSTONES as one of their BEST HISTORY BOOKS for 2024 Compelling Nichol has a terrific eye for detail an ability to blend tear jerking letters quotation and personal anecdotes into a rich thought provoking narrative Daily Telegraph Over one million British Empire soldiers were killed during the First World War More than a century later over half a million still have no known grave The scale of the fighting the catastrophic destruction the relentless military engagement and glutinous mud meant that many of the dead were never identified of often never recovered Names were left without bodies and bodies or fragments of bodies without names To help staunch the tide of national grief in the aftermath of the conflict an idea was born for a single Unknown Warrior representing all the missing to be brought from the battlefields and buried in Westminster Abbey alongside the nation s kings and queens Using diaries archives and interviews with the descendants of that generation and modern day experts Sunday Times bestselling author and former RAF Tornado navigator John Nichol draws on his own experience of combat and loss to shine light on this 100 year old story And in speaking to those who have lost lov

A WARREN OF WEIRD AND WONDERFUL FACTS AND TALES RESCUED FROM OBSCURITY The first trivia book from the team behind the hit history podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives investigating all manner of weird and wonderful facts and stories you never knew you wanted to know Compulsively dip in able The Times Ever fallen down a rabbit hole Ever got lost chasing a fact a hunch or a curious piece of cultural ephemera Then the Rabbit Hole Detectives Richard Coles Cat Jarman and Charles Spencer are here to do the burrowing for you Why were eight WWII Hurricane fighter planes buried in Ukraine What have chimpanzees to do with the invention of toilet paper How many dynamite sticks should not be used to blow up a whale Which ancient civilisation liked a short tongue and a shaved head The Rabbit Hole Book follows Richard Cat and Charles as they investigate and elucidate weird and wonderful curiosities from history telling stories that are as often dumbfounding as they are gripping as unexpected as they are hilarious or deeply moving

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAs winter comes and the hours of darkness overtake the light we seek out warmth good food and good company But beneath the jollity and bright enchantment of the festive season there lurks a darker mood one that has found expression over the centuries in a host of strange and unsettling traditions and lore Here Sarah Clegg takes us on a journey through midwinter to explore the lesser known Christmas traditions from English mummers plays and Austrian Krampus runs to modern pagan rituals at Stonehenge and the night in Finland when a young girl is crowned with candles as St Lucy a martyred Christian girl who also appears as a witch leading a procession of the dead At wassails and hoodenings and winter gatherings attended by ghastly grinning horses snatching monsters and mysterious visitors we discover how these traditions originated and how they changed through the centuries and we ask ourselves if we can t keep the darkness entirely at bay might it be fun to let a little in

How we live is shaped by how we eat You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing preparing and eating food around the world such as the hunter gatherer Hadza in Tanzania whose sustainable lifestyle is under threat in a crowded planet or Western societies whose food is farmed or bred in vast intensive enterprises And most of us now rely on a complex global food web of production distribution consumption and disposal which is now contending with unprecedented challenges The need for a better understanding of how we feed ourselves has never been more urgent In this wide ranging and definitive book philosopher Julian Baggini expertly delves into the best and worst food practises in a huge array of different societies past and present His exploration takes him from cutting edge technologies such as new farming methods cultured meat GM and astronaut food to the ethics and health of ultra processed food and aquaculture as he takes a forensic look at the effectiveness of our food governance the difficulties of food wastage and the effects of commodification Extracting essential principles to guide how we eat in the future How the World Eats advocates for a pluralistic humane resourceful and equitable global food philosophy so we can bu

A partir de una lectura minuciosa de fuentes antiguas y modernas, Luciano Canfora reconstruye con agudeza crítica el engranaje que vincula la guerra, la economía y la esclavitud en las sociedades griega y romana. La violencia no terminaba con la victoria militar: el saqueo, la rapiña y la captura de personas alimentaban un modelo productivo cuya base era el trabajo forzoso. Canfora propone una nocion precisa y provocadora para describirlo: el modo de produccion belico.Este libro analiza como la expansion territorial, el comercio de esclavos, las rebeliones internas y la ideologia imperialista estaban entrelazados en un ciclo que convertia la guerra en motor economico. Pero tambien muestra las grietas de ese sistema: las fugas masivas de esclavos, las revueltas, los tratados internacionales que intentaban contenerlas, las tensiones sociales y politicas entre oligarquias y democracia.Con su estilo caracteristico riguroso, ironico y lucido, Canfora recurre a textos de Tucidides, Aristofanes, Heraclito o Jenofonte, entre muchos otros, para explorar la logica profunda de unas sociedades que no pueden entenderse sin la esclavitud como eje estructural. Un ensayo imprescindible para repensar el mundo antiguo y para reconocer, entre lineas, ciertos ecos del presente.

Narración en primera persona de los días en que Gerhard Boldt asiste a las reuniones diarias entre Hitler y sus generales en el búnker de Berlín, hasta escasas horas antes del suicidio del dictador y la caida del III Reich. Refleja la atmosfera opresiva de un regimen con detalles cotidianos como las ratas rondando los pasillos, borracheras desesperadas de los mas fieles, los asesinatos de los hijos Goebbels junto a Hitler. El dia antes del suicidio de Hitler, Boldt recibe autorizacion para salir del bunker. Logra cruzar las lineas sovieticas y es detenido por los britanicos. En cautiverio escribe en cuadernos sus vivencias, que decadas despues dan forma a este testimonio estremecedor que incluye anecdotas y retratos vividos del entorno nazi: Himmler, Bormann, Keitel, Goering La obra combina descripcion sin aderezos, interes documental y juicio moral, revelando la psicologia y arrogancia de los jerarcas nazis.

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At the abolition of the slave trade two centuries ago the British government paid huge amounts of compensation to slave owners Only in 2015 did British taxpayers stop paying off this debt How is it that slave owners were paid compensation from our taxes yet the enslaved and their families were not Why should the descendants of former slaveowners still benefit from inherited wealth while the successors of the victims of slavery receive nothing and may have even paid towards the debt of compensation through their taxes Beginning with these simple but startling questions Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder explore the burning issue of how best can we resolve the inequality resulting from 400 years of the enslavement of African people and the ongoing racism still suffered by millions across the world Talking to reparation experts economists politicians and anti racism campaigners including Bell Rebeiro Addy Robert Beckford Kenneth Mohammed and Kehinde Andrews they investigate how reparations can work and how we can help to make them happen

Budapest autumn 1943 Four years into the war Hungary is allied with Nazi Germany and the Hungarian capital is the Casablanca of central Europe The city swirls with intrigue and betrayal home to spies and agents of every kind But Budapest remains at peace an oasis in the midst of war where Allied POWs and Polish and Jewish refugees find sanctuary The riverside cafes are crowded and the city s famed cultural life still thrives All that comes to an end in March 1944 when the Nazis invade By the summer Allied bombers are pounding its grand boulevards and historic squares Budapest s surviving Jewish population has been forcibly relocated to cramped overcrowded Yellow Star houses By late December the city is surrounded and under siege from the Red Army Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians die in the savage siege as Budapest collapses into anarchy Hungarian death squads roam the streets as the city s Jews are forced into ghettos Russian artillery pounds the city into smoking rubble as starving residents hack chunks of meat from dead frozen horses Using newly uncovered diaries documents archival material and interviews with the last survivors Adam LeBor brilliantly recreates life and death in the wartime city the catastrophic fate of half of its

Chronicles sugar s history exploring lesser known stories while revealing its role in such developments as the Industrial Revolution World War II and the fast food era

Una historia brillante de los vikingos y su mundo. La época vikinga fue testigo de una expansión sin precedentes de los pueblos escandinavos. Comerciantes, piratas, exploradores y colonizadores viki