Spain Portugal category: 3192 books
Basque Firsts
People Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Throughout history, Basque men and women have made contributions in navigation, education, science, fashion, politics, and many other fields. Too often these achievements have been overlooked, or have been claimed as the accomplishments of others. Basque Firsts: People Who Changed the World profiles...
Franco y la guerra civil española
La historia del momento más oscuro de España
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Franco y la guerra civil española, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Conocer en profundidad la figura de Franco, analizando toda su vida: desde que nace hasta...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Porto is one of the last undiscovered European metropolises, but that is about to change. There are now direct flights from New York and numerous connections to and from the rest of Europe, including an increasing number of low-cost airlines. But this is not a new city. It is an ancient port steeped...
Junípero Serra
California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive biography, translators and historians Rose Marie...
Franco
La période noire de la guerre civile espagnole
Language: French
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Franco en moins d’une heure … ou presque !
Fruit d’une Espagne meurtrie par les luttes intestines, Franco a marqué les esprits par la violence du régime qu’il a imposé à son peuple. C’est dans un pays ravagé par trois années de...
by Henrique Brunswick
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 4, 2012
A Idade Média na Europa é por muitos considerada como a idade das trevas, e muitas das imagens que temos hoje em dia são das obras de ficção construídas em torno desta visão.
No entanto, apesar dos costumes, que hoje chamaríamos bárbaros,...
Transferprozesse der Moderne
Die Nachbenennungen «Alpen» und «Schweiz» im 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert
Language: German
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Der Ausruf «Die Schweiz in Sachsen!» des St.Galler Kupferstechers Adrian Zingg (1734–1816) und des Winterthurer Malers Anton Graff (1736–1813) bei ihrer Durchwanderung des sie an die Schweiz erinnernden Elbsandsteingebirges im Jahr 1780 führte angeblich zur Nachbenennung «Sächsische Schweiz»....
The Impostor
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize
For decades, Enric Marco was revered as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a crusader for justice, and a Holocaust survivor. But in May 2005, at the height of his renown, he was exposed as a fraud: Marco was never in a Nazi concentration camp....
Madrid
A Traveller's Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political enterprise the western world...
by Donald Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Nice on the French Riviera. It's a popular destination for vacationers both young and old, with something to offer nearly everyone. It is well known for the beautiful view on the Promenade des Anglais, its famous waterfront, and is an ethnically diverse...
by Major George Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
The journals and correspondence of George Simmons add a further lustre to the excellent memoirs and books that men of the 95th Rifles left of the adventures, hard fought actions and grim experiences of the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign. Simmons was commissioned into the 1st Battalion 95th...
The Last Voyage of Columbus
Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New World, he has fallen into...
by Lucien Louis-Lande
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
“ Depuis le moyen âge, on désigne sous le nom de cagots toute une classe de malheureux, véritables parias, répandus naguère encore sur le versant septentrional de la chaîne des Pyrénées. Objets de l’aversion générale, les cagots passaient pour malsains: ils avaient, disait-on, l’haleine...
The Colors of Catalonia
In the Footsteps of Twentieth-Century Artists
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Catalonia boasts an extraordinary cultural heritage. Its lively Mediterranean villages have inspired artists such as Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Pablo Picasso, George Braque, Salvador Dali, and many others. Forever linked to three major art movements – Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism – Catalonia...