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Artemisia, la Reina de Caria, encuentra aventura y gloria en medio de las atrocidades que se le presentan. Ella prospera incluso cuando es tomada como rehén en la tierra persa. Esta es una historia que revela un romance secreto y la gracia con la que ella maneja su propia locura y, sin embargo, emerge brillante.
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II offers a transnational perspective on the age of King Ramesses II of Egypt during the centuries of 1500 to 1200 BC. Shows how powerful states – stretching from western Iran to Greece and from Turkey to Sudan – jointly shaped the history, society, and culture of this region through both peaceful and military means Offers a straightforward narrativ…
La guerra de Vietnam: Una historia íntima por Geoffrey C. Ward y Ken Burns – Resumen del libro – Readtrepreneur (Descargo de responsabilidad: Este NO es el libro original, sino un resumen no oficial.) Una guerra tan viciosa que dividió a Estados Unidos y tan controvertida que todavía se debate hasta el día de hoy. La guerra de Vietnam se asoma a la mente de muchas personas involucradas de una u ot…
Often The Quietest People… Josie Nightingale has always been the odd girl out. While her sisters swoon over guys, she’s busy trying to change the world! Which isn’t easy with Eric ‘Scooter’ Wilson watching her every move.… Have The Biggest Secrets!She might be out of his league, but the day Scooter rescued Josie from jail and discovered her secret he vowed he’d do anything to protect her. And if k…
Segunda edición de lujo, con imágenes internas en color, del mismo ensayo publicado en primera edición con Tektime en a precio económico. El carácter de la obra es histórico. Asuntos comunes entre Antiguo y Nuevo testamento y la dirección de la historia por parte de Dios: de acuerdo con la impresión de los escritores veterotestamentarios, la Palabra se revela progresivamente a lo largo de los sigl…
Partners now in marriage and in trade, Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane have finally returned from abroad to set up housekeeping in London. But merging their respective collections of gadgets, pets and servants leaves little room for the harried newlyweds themselves, let alone Brisbane's private enquiry business.Among the more unlikely clients: Julia's very proper brother, Lord Bellmont, who swear…
A superbly exciting novel which vividly captures the horror of the battlefield, The Bloody Ground is the fourth volume in the Starbuck Chronicles.It is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is invading the United States of America.Nate Starbuck, a northern preacher’s son fighting for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion – a despised unit of shirkers and cowards. His enemies e…
The second volume in the acclaimed Squire Quartet, available for the first time as an ebook.Spanning fifty years and three continents – from pre-war Suffolk, to the Far East in the 1940s, to Oxford and America in the present day – Forgotten Life is a novel of immense scope, encompassing comedy and tragedy, joy and grief, as its three main characters try to work out the most difficult problem of al…
An incredibly entertaining and perceptive look at the most controversial moment in Premier League history.25th January 1995 A cold winter’s evening. Manchester United away against Crystal Palace at a packed-out Selhurst Park. Eric Cantona, United's mercurial talisman, has been man-marked closely all game by Richard Shaw and become increasingly frustrated. In the 48th minute, Cantona’s temper boils…
Dos personas extrañas entablan una amistad y se enamoran en medio del caos de la guerra. La Srta. Brianne Collins está acostumbrada a conseguir todo lo que quiere en la vida. Creció en una genuina plantación sureña, pero quiere más. Unirse a la sociedad neoyorquina parece ser su meta final, pero nada resulta como ella lo imaginó. Hasta que conoce a Lord Julian Kendall y entablan una extraña amista…
‘Wonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan‘Succeeds in conjuring a lost world’ Dava Sobel, author of LongitudeFor more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever li…
‘A triumph: a first class comprehensive narrative of the impact upon the people of the Indian Ocean of those who penetrated it. It is hard to believe that this account of a European epic has any rival.’ J.M. ROBERTS, author of the Penguin History of the WorldUntil Vasco da Gama discovered the sea-route to the East in 1497-9 almost nothing was known in the West of the exotic cultures and wealth of …
Richard Sharpe, who alone can recognise the top French spy, is under orders to capture him alive.Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But this time his enemy is just one man – the ruthless Colonel Leroux. Sharpe’s mission is to safeguard El Mirador, a spy whose network of agents is vital to British victory.Sharpe is forced into a new world of political and military intrigue. And in unfamiliar surr…
A trágica história de Robert Johnson, o grande músico de blues dos anos 30 nos Estados Unidos, o que levou ao seu trágico fim, os antecedentes e a discografia completa. Um thriller emocionante e uma pesquisa histórica sobre a curta vida de Robert Johnson, considerado por muitos como o avô do rock, mas muito amado pelos fãs de blues. Uma narrativa convincente e talvez a solução de um emaranhado som…
A new biography of Pliny the YoungerAD 79. Above the Bay of Naples, Mount Vesuvius is spewing thick ash into the sky. The inhabitants of nearby villages stand in their doorways, eyes cast on the unknown. Pliny the Elder, a historian, admiral of the fleet, and author of an extraordinary encyclopaedia of Natural History, dares to draw closer to the phenomenon. He perishes beneath the volcano. His se…