Libros

Sensacionales y extraordinarias historias de la Venecia moderna que nos revelan la forma en que eligieron vivir tres de las mujeres menos convencionales y más fascinantes del siglo XX.El Palazzo Venier dei Leoni fue proyectado como muestra del poder y la riqueza de esa gran familia veneciana. Se (...)

Al igual que ocurre con la red fluvial, la ferroviaria en el valle del Ebro también se ha constituido históricamente como un tronco central al que van afluyendo pequeños ramales a ambos lados. La mayoría de ellos los explotaban compañías ferroviarias independientes con líneas de longitud variable (...)

¿Por qué es deseable una mayor diversidad biológica? ¿Cómo se descubrió el agujero en la capa de ozono? ¿Se está fraguando otra extinción masiva? A lo largo de la historia, el ser humano ha intentado ordenar el mundo vivo y entender cómo funciona. A medida que aumenta nuestra influencia en el (...)

Although not as well-known as the V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 missile, the first German missiles to see combat were anti-ship missiles, the Henschel Hs.293 guided missile and the Fritz-X guided bomb. These began to see extensive combat in the Mediterranean in 1943. In their most famous use, the (...)

The best-illustrated survey of a spectacular ancient art, now available in an affordable edition Mosaic has been called painting for eternity, and it is in fact one of the few arts of antiquity to survive in something like its original condition and variety. Mosaic pavements with geometric and (...)

Quel cycliste parcourant les marais salants des environs de Loix ou quel estivant nageant à la pointe des Sablanceaux se doute que ces lieux paisibles ont été les témoins d'affrontements sanglants lors d'une tentative de conquête de l'île de Ré en 1627. Cette année-là, au lendemain des guerres de (...)

In this groundbreaking book, Selina O'Grady examines how and why the post-Christian and the Islamic worlds came to be as tolerant or intolerant as they are. She asks whether tolerance can be expected to heal today's festering wound between these two worlds, or whether something deeper than (...)

Au début de l'été 57 précédent la naissance du Christ, c'est-à-dire dans la deuxième partie de mai, cinq ans avant Alésia, César a virtuellement gagné ici la guerre des Gaules. Le génie de cet homme, la supériorité non contestable d'une race appelée à dominer l'univers connu, auraient tôt ou tard, (...)

Intended as a progressive development of the twin-engined Bf 110 Zerstoerer ('destroyer' or heavy fighter), the Me 210 first took to the air in September 1939. However, due to a lack of sufficient flight-testing before being declared service-ready, the Me 210 suffered from a less than satisfactory (...)

Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a 'level playing field', French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but failed to exploit. The subsequent survival of (...)

The romantic and enigmatic character of this picture has inspired many theories about its subject, meaning, history, and even its attribution to Rembrandt. Several portrait identifications have been proposed, including an ancestor of the Polish Oginski family, which owned the painting in the (...)

If weddings are the most lavish events in many parts of the world, in Sub-Saharan Africa, by contrast, it is funerals. Funeral celebrations can be flamboyant occasions, particularly those honoring prominent people. Artworks of many kinds are created to commemorate the dead from mortuary sculptures (...)

Meet the renegades of Victorian art in this gorgeously illustrated exploration of their work and influence.In the revolutionary year of 1848, a group of young British artists set out to return a lost vibrancy to European art. Calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, they mounted an (...)

The first comprehensive look at the origins and diffusion across Europe of the etched print during the late 15th and early 16th centuriesThe etching of images on metal, originally used as a method for decorating armor, was first employed as a printmaking technique at the end of the 15th century. (...)