El Ateneo de Madrid

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A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab people and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone. This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab people and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source...

El título del libro, Espartanos: los hombres que forjaron la leyenda, anticipa todo su contenido. Una obra original, a medio camino entre la literatura comercial y el trabajo científico, sobre uno de los mitos contemporáneos más de moda en nuestra sociedad: Esparta. Sin duda, se trata del libro que muestra todo lo que el cine y el cómic olvidaron acerca de una de las culturas más apasionantes de la historia. En esta serie de seis breves biografías, el objetivo es descubrir la vida y obra de todos aquellos ilustres espartanos que protagonizaron gestas a la altura de la archiconocida...

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's...