Libros

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. (...)

Experience the glamor and excitement of the Jazz Age, through the lives of the women who defined it. It was a time of unimagined new freedoms. From the cafés of Paris to Hollywood's silver screen, women were exploring new modes of expression and new lifestyles. In countless aspects of life, they (...)

La peregrinación es un fenómeno religioso profundamente arraigado en la Europa del Medievo. La que se hacía a Roma, a la tumba del príncipe de los apóstoles, devolvía a la Ciudad Eterna el concepto de capitalidad del Universo. La de Jerusalén, dificultosa por su lejanía y el dominio intermitente de (...)

Este libro explica en treinta capítulos la aventura inquietante que suponían las peregrinaciones en la Edad Media. Resulta admirable la fortaleza espiritual y física de aquellas gentes que se echaban al camino y se enfrentaban a lenguas y costumbres extrañas, con el único afán de llegar hasta (...)

El protocolo se encuentra presente en muchas facetas de nuestra vida y no implica servilismos ni servidumbres. Vivir en sociedad conlleva necesariamente interactuar con nuestros semejantes y dicha relación ha de hacerse desde el respeto, las buenas maneras y la educación. El protocolo se relaciona (...)

The bravura Impressionist works of the premier Spanish painter of a century ago, showcased and explored in detail by an international team of renowned scholarsJoaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) was the leading Spanish painter of his day, world-famous when Picasso was still struggling to (...)