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  • Death by a Thousand Cuts

    In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers “death by a thousand cuts” or “death by slicing,” this penalty was reserved for the very worst crimes in imperial China.A unique interdisciplinary history, Death by a Thousand Cuts is the ... Leer más

    $685 MXN

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    Wonderful Town

    New York Stories from The New Yorker

    Abreviado

    9 hora 20 minutos

    New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of forty-four of ... Leer más

    $259 MXN

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    Three Men in a Boat

    Narrado por Timothy Ackroyd ...

    Completo

    5 hora 59 minutos

    A witty account of three friends' boating adventure along the river Thames. Wtritten in the nineteenth century the humour is still accessible to a modern audience. Read by celebrated actor Sir Timothy Ackroyd ... Leer más

    $173 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    Three Men in a Boat

    Travelogue

    Narrado por Timothy Ackroyd ...

    Abreviado

    2 hora 45 minutos

    A witty account of three friends' boating adventure along the river Thames. Wtritten in the nineteenth century the humour is still accessible to a modern audience. Read by celebrated actor Sir Timothy Ackroyd ... Leer más

    $173 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • El Gran Estado

    China y el mundo

    de Timothy Brook ...
    Traducido por Belén Cuadra Mora ...
    Series series Alianza Ensayo
    China, la nación más grande de la tierra, es uno de los Estados más antiguos del mundo. Prácticamente ha mantenido las mismas fronteras desde el siglo XIII, cuando fue invadida por los mongoles de Kubilai Kan, quien fundó la dinastía Yuan y creó el poderoso Gran Estado que Marco Polo nos describió en sus diarios.A lo largo de los siglos, poderosos intereses internos intentaron mantener a China ... Leer más

    $362 MXN

  • The Price of Collapse

    The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China

    de Timothy Brook ...
    How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring ... Leer más

    Antes $398 MXN Ahora $286 MXN

  • El sombrero de Vermeer

    de Timothy Brook ...
    Traducido por Victoria Ordóñez Diví ...
    Series series Tiempo de Memoria
    Los secretos de la expansión cultural, política y económica del continente europeo.A partir de la descripción pormenorizada de algunos de los cuadros más emblemáticos del pintor de Delft, Brook estudia el súbito intercambio de mercancías a escala global, entre Europa, América y Asia,que se desarrolla a lo largo del siglo XVII. Es la historia de las expediciones para penetrar en nuevos territorios ... Leer más

    $279 MXN

  • Vermeer's Hat

    The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world

    de Timothy Brook ...
    'Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.' Sunday TelegraphEach of Vermeer's paintings tells a story. In one, a military officer leans toward a laughing girl; in another, a woman stands by a window and weighs silver; in a third, fruit spills from a porcelain bowl onto a lavish Turkish carpet.Hiding in plain sight, these details hint ... Leer más

    $217 MXN

  • Great State

    China and the World

    de Timothy Brook ...
    China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at the height of their power could not move past coastal enclaves. Thus, China remained China ... Leer más

    $217 MXN

  • Mr Selden's Map of China

    The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea

    de Timothy Brook ...
    In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realised that the Selden Map was 'a ... Leer más

    $217 MXN

  • Great State

    China and the World

    de Timothy Brook ...
    The author of Vermeer's Hat shares "a dizzying and exhilarating journey" through 800 years of Chinese history and national identity (New Statesman).China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the thirteenth century and has maintained them ever since—through the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Republic, the Occupation, ... Leer más

    Antes $215 MXN Ahora $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Civil Society in China

    The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China. ... Leer más

    $1,193 MXN