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  • Titian

    His Life

    de Sheila Hale ...
    An "excellent" biography of the Renaissance artist, drawing on contemporary accounts and recent art historical research & scholarship ( Booklist).Born in the mountains above Venice in the late fifteenth century, Tiziano Vecellio—or Titian—was the greatest painter of the Venetian High Renaissance. A poetic visionary and a technical master of oils, he painted everything, from frescoes and grand ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Lost his Language

    A Case of Aphasia Revised Edition

    de Sheila Hale ...
    The Man who Lost His Language is a unique exploration of aphasia - losing the ability to use or comprehend words - as well as of the resilience of love.When Sir John Hale suffered a stroke that left him unable to walk, write or speak, his wife, Shelia, followed every available medical trail seeking knowledge of his condition and how he might be restored to health. This revised edition of a classic ... Leer más

    $24.59 USD

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  • Ships, Clocks, and Stars

    The Quest for Longitude

    de Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt ...
    An illustrated history of an eighteenth-centuury British act of parliament and the heated race to find a ship's precise longitude at sea.A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve "the longitude problem," the question of how to determine a ship's position at sea—and one that changed the ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • India After Gandhi

    The History of the World's Largest Democracy

    de Ramachandra Guha ...
    A definitive history of post-Partition India, now revised and updated with extensive new material."Guha has given India the rich, well-paced history it deserves." — Washington Post Book WorldTold in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India's wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. Taking full advantage of the dramatic details of the protests and conflicts that helped shape ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)

    A History of the Religious Battles That Define America from Jefferson's Heresies to Gay Marriage Today

    de Stephen Prothero ...
    In this timely, carefully reasoned social history of the United States, the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One places today’s heated culture wars within the context of a centuries-long struggle of right versus left and religious versus secular to reveal how, ultimately, liberals always win.Though they may seem to be dividing the country irreparably, today’s ... Leer más

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  • The Great Fire

    One American's Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide

    de Lou Ureneck ...
    The harrowing story of a Methodist Minister and a principled American naval officer who helped rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians—a tale of bravery, morality, and politics, published to coincide with the genocide's centennial.The year was 1922: World War I had just come to a close, the Ottoman Empire was in decline, and Asa Jennings, a YMCA ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Invention of Science

    A New History of the Scientific Revolution

    de David Wootton ...
    This "fantastic revisionist history . . . captures the excitement of the scientific revolution and makes a point of celebrating the advances it ushered in" ( Financial Times).We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. In The Invention of Science, historian David Wootton reveals why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. Spanning continents and centuries ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Thomas Cromwell

    The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

    de Tracy Borman ...
    "An exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor Age's most complex and controversial figures." —Alison WeirThomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII's right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall ... Leer más

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  • The Tragedy of the Templars

    The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

    de Michael Haag ...
    The acclaimed medieval historian chronicles the rise of Templar powers in the Levant—and the saga of their destruction.Founded on Christmas Day 1119 in Jerusalem, the Knights Templar was a religious order dedicated to defending the Holy Land and its Christian pilgrims in the decades after the First Crusade. Legendary for their bravery and dedication, the Templars became one of the wealthiest and ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Jungleland

    A Mysterious Lost City and a True Story of Deadly Adventure

    de Christopher S. Stewart ...
    For fans of The Lost City of Z, The River of Doubt, and Lost in Shangri-La—a real-life Indiana Jones story, set in the mysterious jungles of Honduras."I began to daydream about the jungle...."On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him.Deep inside “the little ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Invention of News

    How the World Came to Know About Itself

    de Andrew Pettegree ...
    "A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution" and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post).Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of ... Leer más

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  • A Garden of Marvels

    How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants

    de Ruth Kassinger ...
    In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab.In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounted with grace and humor her journey from brown thumb to green, sharing lessons she learned from building a home conservatory in the wake of a devastating ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus