4245 results for '"De Assis, Machado'

A survey of how Greek historians explained the conditions of a state's success and the dangers of power

The description for this book, Michelangelo: Sculptor-Painter-Architect. (Vol. 1 Condensation), will be forthcoming.

Rembrandt was revered as a genius during his lifetime and has fascinated generations of artists and connoisseurs ever since. Rembrandt's trademark – rough, impasto brushwork, his unique lighting and...

Text: French

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As if Borges wrote The Decameron During an atomic alarm in Barcelona in the year 2025, the thirty-year old hero takes refuge in a luxurious mansion in the mountains where he is put up, along with...

The author presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last 1000 years, tracing the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last...

Original work was written by Tocqueville, a French citizen who visited America in 1831 and published this account of American democracy in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840.

Product Description Dimanche 26 mai 1957, pendant la finale de la coupe de France de football, un résistant algérien abat un collaborateur.Ainsi l'histoire collective faite, aussi, de...

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of...

In this handsome book, the Dallas Museum of Art celebrates three remarkable private collections of contemporary art that were donated in 2005, presenting them in context with masterworks already...

Sitôt la Libération advenue, la Résistance est entrée dans un processus de mythification, valorisant les figures emblématiques au détriment des acteurs anonymes et popularisant la vision d'un France...

La ciudad de Barcelona ha hecho una declaración cultural masiva con la conversión de su plaza de toros en un complejo icónico destinado al "comercial y de ocio: El Arenas de Barcelona,...

« Les langues sont faites pour être parlées, l'écriture ne sert que de supplément à la parole... L'écriture n'est que la représentation de la parole, il est bizarre qu'on donne plus de soin à...