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Author: Catherine Fletcher Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190908505 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 384
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A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance Italy The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle of Lepanto, embraces what we know as the Renaissance, one of the most dynamic and creatively explosive epochs in world history. Here is the period that gave rise to so many great artists and figures, and which by its connection to its classical heritage enabled a redefinition, even reinvention, of human potential. It was a moment both of violent struggle and great achievement, of Michelangelo and da Vinci as well as the Borgias and Machiavelli. At the hub of this cultural and intellectual ferment was Italy. The Beauty and the Terror offers a vibrant history of Renaissance Italy and its crucial role in the emergence of the Western world. Drawing on a rich range of sources--letters, interrogation records, maps, artworks, and inventories--Catherine Fletcher explores both the explosion of artistic expression and years of bloody conflict between Spain and France, between Catholic and Protestant, between Christian and Muslim; in doing so, she presents a new way of witnessing the birth of the West.
Author: Catherine Fletcher Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190908505 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance Italy The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle of Lepanto, embraces what we know as the Renaissance, one of the most dynamic and creatively explosive epochs in world history. Here is the period that gave rise to so many great artists and figures, and which by its connection to its classical heritage enabled a redefinition, even reinvention, of human potential. It was a moment both of violent struggle and great achievement, of Michelangelo and da Vinci as well as the Borgias and Machiavelli. At the hub of this cultural and intellectual ferment was Italy. The Beauty and the Terror offers a vibrant history of Renaissance Italy and its crucial role in the emergence of the Western world. Drawing on a rich range of sources--letters, interrogation records, maps, artworks, and inventories--Catherine Fletcher explores both the explosion of artistic expression and years of bloody conflict between Spain and France, between Catholic and Protestant, between Christian and Muslim; in doing so, she presents a new way of witnessing the birth of the West.
Author: Marianne Heiberg Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 9780812239744 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 526
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The result of a multiyear project spearheaded by the late Marianne Heiberg, "Terror, Insurgency, and the State" assembles the findings of more than a dozen scholars who have conducted extensive field research with rebel groups. This comparative analysis documents the aim of longstanding insurgent groups.
Author: María Gema Salvador Sánchez Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312030372 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 90
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Cuentos de terror para amantes de lo misterioso y oculto. La realidad y la ficción se dan la mano y es imposible escapar a este universo de miedo.
Author: José Francisco Fernández Sánchez Publisher: Universidad Almería ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 227
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Revista de Estudios Ingleses es un anuario dirigido y gestionado por miembros del Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Almería con el propósito de ofrecer un foro de intercambio de producción científica en campos del conocimiento tan diversos como la lengua inglesa, literatura en lengua inglesa, didáctica del inglés, traducción, inglés para fines específicos y otros igualmente vinculados a los estudios ingleses.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: Leónidas Editores ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 609
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This is a very useful bilingual version English-Spanish to improve your Spanish and learn new vocabulary. At least we hope you will enjoy these amazing tales by Conan-Doyle. Every paragraph is connected by links so that you can read quickly the English and Spanish text. ANTES DE CONTINUAR, ¿conoces La bandera verde y otros relatos? Aquí tienes el enlace: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Sir_Arthur_Conan_Doyle_La_bandera_verde_y_otros_re?id=Cg8iCgAAQBAJ CUENTOS DE TERROR está en Español y en Inglés para que puedas practicar y aprender. El maestro del suspense nos sorprende con estos 6 fantásticos relatos con final sorprendente. La traducción se ha llevado a cabo con el mimo y el respeto al texto original que se merece una obra como ésta. Son relatos para disfrutar de esa manera de narrar que sólo posee Conan Doyle.
Author: Swifty Lang Publisher: Boom! Studios ISBN: 1613988095 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 192
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A new nightmare plagues the Mexico-Arizona border. A famine caused by Blackwell Industries drives Diego Busqueda, a noble coyote, to lead a band of Mexican border crossers across the unforgiving Devil's Highway, a desert cursed with blistering days and deadly nights. Back home, Diego's daughter, Flaca, discovers that something hungrier prowls the factory fields. Stalked and persecuted, can the Busqueda family maintain their dreams of immigration or will the unspeakable horrors of the desert tear them apart? On the Feeding Ground, there is no freedom without sacrifice. Available in English and Spanish editions.
Author: Roberto Bolaño Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 081122399X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 164
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Listed as a "2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten" book by the American Booksellers Association: Roberto Bolano as he saw himself, in his own first calling as a poet. Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in forms and length, have appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Threepenny Review, The Believer, Boston Review, Soft Targets, Tin House, The Nation, Circumference, A Public Space, and Conduit. Bolano's poetic voice is like no other's: "At that time, I'd reached the age of twenty/and I was crazy. /I'd lost a country/but won a dream./Long as I had that dream/nothing else mattered...."
Author: Gilles Kepel Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691174849 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 240
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The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafés and restaurants, and the national sports stadium. On Bastille Day in 2016, an ISIS sympathizer drove a truck into crowds of vacationers at the beaches of Nice, and two weeks later an elderly French priest was murdered during morning Mass by two ISIS militants. Here is Gilles Kepel's explosive account of the radicalization of a segment of Muslim youth that led to those attacks—and of the failure of governments in France and across Europe to address it. It is a book everyone in the West must read. Terror in France shows how these atrocities represent a paroxysm of violence that has long been building. The turning point was in 2005, when the worst riots in modern French history erupted in the poor, largely Muslim suburbs of Paris after the accidental deaths of two boys who had been running from the police. The unrest—or "French intifada"—crystallized a new consciousness among young French Muslims. Some have fallen prey to the allure of "war of civilizations" rhetoric in ways never imagined by their parents and grandparents. This is the highly anticipated English edition of Kepel's sensational French bestseller, first published shortly after the Paris attacks. Now fully updated to reflect the latest developments and featuring a new introduction by the author, Terror in France reveals the truth about a virulent new wave of jihadism that has Europe as its main target. Its aim is to divide European societies from within by instilling fear, provoking backlash, and achieving the ISIS dream—shared by Europe's Far Right—of separating Europe's growing Muslim minority community from the rest of its citizens.
Author: Catherine Fletcher
Author: Catherine Fletcher
Author: Marianne Heiberg
Author: María Gema Salvador Sánchez
Author: José Francisco Fernández Sánchez
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Miguel �ngel S�nchez de la Gu�a
Author: Swifty Lang
Author: Matthew Thomas
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Author: Gilles Kepel