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Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had...

Publicado pela primeira vez em 1968, é um clássico e esclarecedor estudo sobre a história da política contemporânea. Escrito por Peter Calvocoressi, uma figura de destaque mundial no campo das relações internacionais, participante do Julgamento de Nuremberg e professor de Relações Internacionais na Universidade de Sussex, Grã-Bretanha, este livro é essencial para a formação de historiadores, cientistas políticos, sociólogos, jornalistas e leitores em geral. Aclamado pelo The Sunday Times pelo seu rigor e pela riqueza magistral do seu conteúdo, apresenta um panorama geral e...

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Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau hace un recorrido, a través de sus bocetos de batallas, por la historia de España: la Edad Media, los Tercios, los principales enfrentamientos de los siglos xvii-xix, hasta llegar a las misiones españolas actuales en Afganistán, Mali o Líbano.