Peter Frankopan Libros Populares
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Petar Zrinski (Vrbovec, 6 de junio de 1621-Wiener Neustadt, 30 de abril de 1671; en húngaro, Zrínyi Péter) ban y escritor croata. Miembro de la familia Zrinski, era hijo de Juraj V Zrinski y Magdalena Szechy, y padre de Helena Zrínyi. Tuvo un papel importante en la conspiración de los magnates y fue ejecutado por traición. Obra Acta coniurationem Petri a Zrinio et Francisci de Frankopan nec non Francisci Nádasdy illustrantia Herencia Se hallaron en 1907 los restos óseos de Zrinski y Frankopan en Austria. Se llevaron a Zagreb en 1919 para ser inhumados en la Catedral de Zagreb.[1] Los retratos de Zrinski y Frankopan se usaron para los billetes de 5 kunas entre 1993 y 2001.[2] Referencias. Descubre los libros populares de Peter Frankopan. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Peter Frankopan
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The Europeans
Orlando Figes'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed dur...
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Warrior
John Hunt & Tam Henderson QMWarrior is the powerful true story of a British soldier's heroism during the Iraq War that reveals how he was ruthlessly sacrificed by the Establishment. Captain Tam Henderson was ...
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A Short History of Byzantium
John Julius NorwichWith wit, intelligence and his trademark eye for riveting detail, John Julius Norwich has brought together the most important and fascinating events from his trilogy of the rise an...
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Shah of Shahs
Ryszard KapuścińskiShah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describ...
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Inside the Stargazer's Palace
Violet MollerEnter the mysterious world of sixteenthcentury science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories'A scintillating journey into a world where discoveries rip through doct...
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La Primera Cruzada
Peter FrankopanSegún la tradición, la Primera Cruzada comenzó por instigación del papa Urbano II y culminó en julio de 1099, cuando miles de caballeros de Europa occidental liberaron Jerusalén de...
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The Square and the Tower
Niall FergusonThe New York Times bestseller'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtWhat if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From ...
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Empress Dowager Cixi
Jung ChangDiscover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly ...
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A Place in the Country
W G SebaldFrom the author of the criticallyacclaimed Austerlitz and Across the Land and Water comes A Place in the Country, the much anticipated translation of one of W.G. Sebald's most bril...
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Chain of Fire
Beverley NaidooSet in South Africa at the height of the apartheid regime, when the government started a policy of ethnic cleansing, forcibly removing people from their homes and moving them to so...
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Black Wave
Kim Ghattas'Blistering' Sunday Times'Indispensable' Observer'Fascinating' The Times'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan'Revelatory' Lindsey HilsumA timely and unprecedented examination of how the mode...
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The Human Tide
Paul Morland'Superbly explained' Washington PostEvery phase since the advent of the industrial revolution from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and...
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The Penguin History of Europe
J. RobertsComprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb followup to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early ci...
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A Fiery & Furious People
James SharpeChosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, History Today and the Sunday Telegraph‘Wonderfully entertaining, comprehensive and astute.’ The Times‘Genuinely hard to put down.’ BBC Hi...
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La Tierra transformada
Peter FrankopanUna historia de la humanidad con el cambio climático como hilo conductor.Cuando reflexionamos sobre la historia, rara vez dedicamos suficiente atención a las inundaciones más destr...
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Beneath Another Sky
Norman Davies'He writes history like nobody else. He thinks like nobody else ... He sees the world as a whole, with its limitless fund of stories' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday TimesWhere have the pe...
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Wild Grass
Ian Johnson'Illuminating ... Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China's reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain' The Times L...
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India in the Persianate Age
Richard M. EatonSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world' William Dalrymple, Spectator A sweep...
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Connemara
Tim RobinsonThe triumphant conclusion to Tim Robinson's extraordinary Connemara trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane has called 'one of the most remarkable nonfiction projects undertaken in Englis...
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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
Anthony BaleA delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across it. 'Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you've never se...
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The Alexiad
Anna Komnene & E. R. A. SewterA revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman an account of the reign of a Byz...
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The Outlaw Ocean
Ian Urbina'Just incredible' Naomi Klein'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller' The TimesA New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalinfuelled tour of a ...
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The Little Book of History
DKTravel back in time with the latest instalment in the bestselling Big Ideas series, in a brand new ebook format.The Little Book of History charts world history from the dawn of civ...
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Exercised
Daniel Lieberman'Endlessly fascinating and full of surprises. Easily one of my books of the year' BILL BRYSONThe mythbusting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise: what our bodies really...
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The West
Naoíse Mac SweeneyA BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential...
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East West Street
Philippe SandsTHE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and THE JQWINGATE LITERARY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'A monumental achievem...
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St Petersburg
Jonathan Miles'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times BOOK OF THE WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforg...
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To the City
Alexander Christie-MillerWalking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander ChristieMiller finds a story of the country’s history, a mirror of its present, an...
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Lives Between The Lines
Michael VatikiotisIn Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the ...
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Coffeeland
Augustine SedgewickWinner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianCoffee is one of the most val...
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The Ambassadors
Robert CooperHistory does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert C...
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The Beauty and the Terror
Catherine FletcherA THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness' Simon Sebag MontefioreThe Italian ...
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Florence
Christopher HibbertThis book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's b...
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Origins
Lewis DartnellRead the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations.'Stands comparison with Sapiens... Thrilling' Sunday Times Human evolut...
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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
Serhii Plokhy'Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon,...
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Murder Trials
CicerónCicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius an...
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Blood River
Tim ButcherTHE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventur...
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Reform!
Edward PearceThere may be a civil war, starting in the Midlands. The Birmingham garrison have roughsharpened their swords and barricades have gone up in the town. Wellington is trying to form a...
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Die Geografie der Zukunft
Tim MarshallGroßmächte auf Konfrontationskurs: Wem gehört was im Weltraum?Spionagesatelliten in der Umlaufbahn des Mondes. Bodenschätze im Weltraum, wertvoller als das Bruttoinlandsprodukt der...
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The Great Sea
David AbulafiaFor over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth ce...
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The Age of Decadence
Simon Heffer‘A riveting account of the preFirst World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times‘A magnificent accoun...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Adrian Goldsworthy & Dr Adrian Goldsworthy LtdThe epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of Caesar.The monumental love affair between Antony and Cleopatra has been depicted in c...
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The World Before Us
Tom Higham'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Din...
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Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
Michael PsellusThis chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.
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The Dawn of Eurasia
Bruno MacaesIn this original and timely book, Bruno Maçães argues that the best word for the emerging global order is 'Eurasian', and shows why we need to begin thinking on a supercontinental ...
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1914
Lyn MacdonaldLyn MacDonald's acclaimed history 1914: The Days of Hope, is not so much the story of war as the story of an army.In this vivid account of the first months of the First World War, ...
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Empire of the Summer Moon
S.C. GwynneIn the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the fortyyear battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the Amer...
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Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared DiamondWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the gl...
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Maoism
Julia LovellWINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2019SHORLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enl...
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Red Thread
Charlotte Higgins'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali SmithA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir. The tale of h...
