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...
`The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace`. Edward Gibbon called "The Histories" an `immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images`. Its author, Cornelius Tacitus, widely acknowledged as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous `Year of the Four Emperors` - AD 69 - when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. The ultimate triumph of Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian was only the prelude to further conflicts and disasters, with revolts among the Germans and Jews challenging the very foundations of...
ISBN: 978-0-19-954070-9
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 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
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part exploration of our national heritage, his wide-ranging selection of sites will stimulate, entertain, inform - and certainly provoke - a debate about the most significant moments in English history.
ISBN: 978-1-84854-609-7
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Dos libros para aprender jugando en clase, con dos niveles de dificultad. La primera parte de cada nivel esta dedicada al relato de unas historietas divertidas. Le siguen unas preguntas de comprension. En la segunda parte encontramos juegos, adivinanzas y pasatiempos.
ISBN: 978-84-7711-402-4
Издательство:
Edelsa
Дата выхода: август 2011
Original / British English Britain is a small country but it has a long history. Two thousand years ago it was part of the Roman Empire. In the 1930s the British Empire was the biggest empire in world history. In the past, kings and queens fought to rule Britain. Discover how wars, revolutions and religion have changed its history. Read about the different countries of the United Kingdom and the great men and women who have shaped the British nation.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8187-6
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Revised and updated throughout, the second edition of this best-selling book traces the development of one of the world`s richest literatures from the old english period to the present day. It adds new names, new titles and new secondary reading to reflect fresh developments in literature and society, and to bring the reader up to the present day.
ISBN: 978-0-230-00723-9
Издательство:
Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: август 2011
"M. de Guise ne se mêlait point dans la conversation et sentant réveiller dans son cœur si vivement tout ce que Mme de Montpensier y avait autrefois fait naître, il pensait en lui-même qu`il pourrait demeurer aussi bien pris dans les liens de cette belle princesse que le saumon l`était dans les filets du pêcheur".
ISBN: 978-2-07-036094-9
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 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.
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semilegendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur, it is as much myth as it is history and its veracity was questioned by other medieval writers. But Geoffrey of Monmouth`s powerful evocation of illustrious men and deeds captured the imagination of subsequent generations, and his influence can be traced through the works of Malory, Shakespeare, Dryden and Tennyson.
ISBN: 978-0-14-044170-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Libro de referencia fundamental para los estudiantes de español que quieran tener una visión general de la evolución del arte en España y en Hispanoamérica, así como libro de texto para los cursos monográficos sobre el arte.
ISBN: 978-84-7711-598-4
Издательство:
Edelsa
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Серия: энциклопедические издания на английском языке по истории, мифологии стран. Книги иллюстрированы и снабжены комментариями. Издание полностью на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-1-84205-018-7
Издательство:
Geddes & Grosset
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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
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. Why two volumes on the 1960s? Because when men`s magazines were finally accepted on the newsstands something had to fill their old niche under the...
ISBN: 3-8228-3635-4
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: июль 2009
Superficially, John Keller - the urban lonely guy of assassins - leads a normal life despite his profession. He has an office manager, the breezily efficient Dot, who organises his `jobs` and who reassures his grumbling conscience. He is an obsessive stamp collector. In a blackly comic twist, he even gets called for jury service. Laid back, couldn`t care less, morally distanced from his vocation, Keller is an intriguing character. A visit to an astrologer tells him, and us, that he is a gentle man who is simply surrounded by violence rather than being a perpetrator of it. His professional satisfaction, we learn, comes from `solving a problem`. Taking lives causes him no real anxiety. And then Keller`s jobs start to go wrong. Targets die...
ISBN: 0-06-103099-6
Издательство:
HarperTorch
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very large and startling place indeed ...The Hitch Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy became a massive cult success when it was first published and continues to sell all over the world. It introduced such memorable characters as Arthur Dent, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Zaphod Beeblebrox and, of course, the Vogons, and remains one of the funniest, most irreverent and entertaining novels ever.
When all issues of space, time, matter and the nature of being are resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner? "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" provides the ultimate gastronomic experience and, for once, there is no morning after. Arthur Dent`s odyssey through space continues as he takes a trip to the end of time itself in search of a decent meal, and accidentally alters the future of the entire human race.
ISBN: 978-0-330-50881-0
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy: One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur, who has just had his house demolished, this is too much. Sadly, the weekends just Restaurant at the End of the Universe: When all issues of space, time, matter and the nature of being are resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience and, for once, there is no morning , the Universe and Everything: In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And then, just as he thinks that things cannot...
One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very large and startling place THE HITCH HIKER`S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY became a massive cult success when it was first published and continues to sell all over the world. It introduced such memorable characters as Arthur Dent, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Zaphod Beeblebrox and, of course, the Vogons, and remains one of the funniest, most irreverent and entertaining novels ever.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07682-2
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
On 12 October 1979 the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor (and Earth) was made available to humanity - "The Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy". It`s an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards, to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and his best friend has just announced that he`s an alien. At this moment, they`re hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed with the big, friendly words: don`t panic.
ISBN: 978-0-330-50853-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Arthur Dent is already having a really bad day, even before the Earth gets demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. After that things get much, much worse. With just a towel, a small yellow fish and a book" Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable alien oddballs. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
ISBN: 978-0-330-50811-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2009
