Libros

Throughout most of the classical period, Persia was one of the great superpowers, placing a limit on the expansion of Western powers. It was the most formidable rival to the Roman Empire for centuries, until Persia, by then under the Sassanians, was overwhelmed by the Islamic conquests in the (...)

This book examines the RAF's ground attack capabilities, the threats it faced, and the weapons, technologies and aircraft developed to counter those threats from the end of World War II to the present day, moving from the era of the Hawker Typhoon to that of the Eurofighter Typhoon.Throughout the (...)

This lavish book highlights a selection of the wonderful illustrations held in the archive of The Florilegium Society at Sheffield Botanical Gardens. Each illustration included in the book is accompanied by a plant profile, stating where the plant was found in the wild and explaining something of (...)

Based on a comprehensive work of curatorial research, the publication 20 in 2020:The Artists of the Next Decade - Latin America presents readers with a promising spectrum of leading contemporary artists from the region that will redefine the cultural landscape of the 20s. As never before, looking (...)

At the height of the Cold War it was Britain's V-Force and its Valiant, Vulcan and Victor bombers that carried the UK's nuclear deterrent from the mid Fifties until the end of the Sixties. Their nuclear arsenal included not just freefall bombs but far more advanced weapons such as the Blue Steel (...)

De Cristóbal Colón se conservan relativamente pocos documentos autógrafos, e incluso se duda de la autenticidad de algunos de estos, por lo que buena parte de los escritos colombinos, entre ellos los de mayor enjundia, han llegado hasta nosotros gracias a copias que debemos, en una mayoría (...)

Este libro reúne una variada muestra de la trayectoria, durante los últimos 20 años, de la artista Paula Anta, ganadora de la XI edición del Premio Internacional de Fotografía Contemporánea Pilar Citoler. Desde sus primeras series relacionadas con el tema de la naturaleza y la artificialidad como (...)

Entre el último tercio del siglo XVII y los dos primeros del XX, centenares de viajeros foráneos visitaron España para dejar constancia de su experiencia, volcada en libros que tuvieron amplia difusión en el extranjero y, sólo mucho más tarde, dentro de nuestras fronteras, conformando un imaginario (...)

En 1600 Tomás Luis de Victoria dedicó una antología de composiciones polifónicas al joven rey Felipe III, entre las cuales figuraba la Missa pro victoria, una misa policoral de batalla, el género musical político-religioso por excelencia. Este hecho sirve de marco a una serie de ensayos en torno a (...)