Los dieciocho relatos reunidos en "Historias de Amor" tienen como denominador común la relación amorosa contemplada desde la perspectiva de un humorismo distanciador, un escepticismo civilizado y una implícita valoración del sentimiento. Adolfo Bioy Casares explora ese tema eterno a través de una gran variedad de situaciones argumentales, entre ellas la desgracia de un hombre que pierde lo que tiene sin lograr lo que desea, la supervivencia de una mujer en la memoria de dos rivales, la extrañeza de los primeros encuentros, la defensa de la intimidad a través del crimen, una frase que arruina una situación largo tiempo esperada, o la hibernación casual de dos amantes enemistados que se...
ISBN: 978842063-837-9
Издательство:
Alianza Editorial
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history`, as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of the information he gives has proved to be astonishingly accurate, he also entertains us with delightful tales of one-eyed men and gold-digging ants. This readable new translation is supplemented with expansive notes that provide readers the background that they need to appreciate the book in depth.
ISBN: 978-0-19-953566-8
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Guide has been described as the National Trust`s bible - and indeed it is. This latest edition takes a larger, squarer format, to do full justice to the Trust`s illustrious collection of colour photographs, and to showcase recent acquisitions such as the Gothic wonder of Tyntesfield, John Lennon`s childhood home Mendips, and William Morris` Arts and Crafts Red House. Magnificent landscapes, including the breathtaking coast of Cornwall, Snowdonia, the Peak District, and the lunar scenery of Stragford Lough, are set beside the Trust`s great gardens such as Sissinghurst Castle in Kent and Stourhead Landscape Garden in Wiltshire. The Trust`s country houses of course feature in all their varied beauty - from the Tudor splendour of...
Histoires du soir, mes contes préférés rassemble cinquante-deux histoires écrites par les maîtres dit genre: Andersen, Perrault et les frères Grimm. Grâce à ce recueil et ses merveilleuses illustrations, découvrez ou redécouvrez les plus beaux de tous les contes.
Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you`ve ever experienced. You`re about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men`s magazines-not magazines about sports, not fashion, not hunting or fishing or how to build a birdhouse in ten easy steps, but those titillating periodicals embracing the subject dearest to all heterosexual men`s hearts and other body parts: the undraped female form. Former men`s magazine editor Dian Hanson traces its development from 1900 to 1980 in six massive and informative volumes. In 460 full-color pages, Volume 2 documents the proliferation of men`s magazines following WWII. Before the war France and Germany were the world`s...
ISBN: 3-8228-2625-1
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: июль 2009
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway`s account of life on board Noah`s Ark, A History of the World in 10??? Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to is no ordinary history, but something stranger, a challenge and a delight for the reader`s imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954012-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Dans ce livre, achevé quelques mois avant sa mort et fruit de dix années de travail, Michel Heller brosse le tableau fascinant de mille ans d`histoire russe. Comment ce "continent de steppes", peuplé de nomades, devient-il au fil des siècles un gigantesque État multinational forgé par un pouvoir impérial brutal et singulier? Chef-d`œuvre d`érudition et de rigueur, l`Histoire de la Russie et de uni empire éclaire la décadence de Kiev puis la domination de Moscou, la plus faible des principautés russes, qui mettra à profit le joug tatar pour s`élever au-dessus de toutes les autres. De multiples événements ponctuent cette magistrale fresque d`un univers...
Le present ouvrage est tire de l`Histoire de la philosophic idees, doctrines, oeuvre collective en huit volumes, parue sous la direction de Francois Chatelet, en 1972-1973, aux editions Hachette Litterature. Il en represente le troisieme volume qui, pour la premiere fois, est edite integralement en poche. L`originalite de cette entreprise de vulgarisation des idees et des doctrines philosophiques reside dans l`evitement des deux principaux ecueils de ce type d`etude. Celui de l`exhaustivite, de vouloir tout dire, et celui de la finalite qui en donnant un sens transforme la philosophic en une activite passee et close en pretendant dire le Tout. Cette Histoire de la philosophic met donc l`accent sur la necessite de l`esprit critique. Elle...
La presencia arabe у bereber en la Peninsula durante cerca de ocho siglos dio lugar a una fusion cultural de amplisimo alcance у sirvid de medio transmisor de la civilizacion islamica a los reinos у territorios europeos. En la presente obra, Watt describe los principals momentos de la "Historia de la Espana islamica", proporcionando un panorama inmejorable de esta crucial etapa: el derrumbamiento en el siglo VII del reino visigodo; la evolucion que transformo una provincia subordinada a Damasco en el califato independiente de Cordoba; el periodo de esplendor de los Omeyas; el colapso de la unidad estatal en el siglo XI у el surgimiento de los reinos de taifas; las invasiones de almoravides у almohades en el siglo XII; los avances de...
ISBN: 978842063-929-1
Издательство:
Alianza Editorial
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
An entertaining romp through the history of England`s capital city traces its origins as a simple marketplace in AD 50 to the sprawling metropolis of today. An invaluable souce of trivia, this book is unique in that it not only charts by year and period the events that shaped London, but looks at the history of crime and hanging, the police, prisons, the executioners, health, English as a language, nursery rhymes, slang, sayings, and their origins. It also tells the fascinating story of how the capital got its street names and the history of signs. It finishes with a compilation of great people who lived in and made a difference to one of the world`s most popular tourist spots.
Pour aller à l`essentiel, le maximum d`informations dans un minimum de pages. Conçus pour: - tous ceux qui veulent utiliser le français écrit et oral dans la vie quotidienne, - tous ceux qui souhaitent connaître et comprendre la culture française, faciles à consultés, les ouvrages de la Collection OUTILS sont les outils indispensables qui vous accompagneront en toutes occasions. " Des premiers temps préhistoriques à nos jours, le survol concentré de l`essentiel donne une vue d`ensemble des événements et des hommes qui ont forgé l`Histoire de France".
ISBN: 978-2-01-155076-7
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family`s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth - century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe - in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world. Never was a ghost story so casually erudite, nor a historical travelogue such gripping entertainment. Impossible to blends fact and fantasy to remind...
This is the definitive visual guide to 5,000 years of British history. The History of Britain & Ireland traces the key events that have shaped the British Isles. From the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, this beautifully illustrated book offers a definitive visual chronicle of the most colourful and defining episodes in British history. Packed with visually arresting illustrations and clear, concise text, you can now explore the long and fascinating story of the British Isles. It includes profiles of key people in history such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Alfred the Great, Charles Dickens, Queen Elizabeth I and Winston Churchill. The History of Britain & Ireland is ideal as a family reference for...
ISBN: 978-1-4053-6428-7
Издательство:
Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
В серии: энциклопедические издания на английском языке по истории, мифологии стран. Книги иллюстрированы и снабжены комментариями. Издание полностью на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-1-84205-164-1
Издательство:
Geddes & Grosset
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Estas catorce "Historias fantasticas" muestran el talento literario de Adolfo Bioy Casares para imaginar esa realidad invisible que acecha en los intersticios de la vida cotidiana. Si en "La invenciуn de Morel" y en "El sueсo de los heroes" es el entrecruzamiento de tiempos y espacios la posibilidad que se explora, en estos relatos se dan ademas otras situaciones, como una variante teratolуgica de los cuentos de hadas, una maligna proyecciуn del pensamiento para provocar un delirio de celos, las nostalgias de un amante desengaсado al que persigue el recuerdo en forma de una materializacion animal, el encuentro con la mujer amada en una situacion fugaz e irrepetible, o la llegada a un tiempo hostil mediante una simple traslacion en...
ISBN: 978842063-838-6
Издательство:
Alianza Editorial
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
