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Absolute Monarchs - A History of The Papacy
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Author: John Julius Norwich
Published: 2011
Pages: 512
A SWEEPING CHRONICLE OF ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT—AND CONTROVERSIAL—INSTITUTIONS IN HISTORY
With the papacy embattled in recent years, it is essential to have the perspective of one of the world’s most accomplished historians. In Absolute Monarchs, John Julius Norwich captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue and scandal. The men (and maybe one woman) who have held this position of infallible power over millions have ranged from heroes to rogues, admirably wise to utterly decadent. Norwich, who knew two popes and had private audiences with two others, recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world.
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Modelo: ISBN:9781400067152
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Atatürk
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Author: Andrew Mango
Published: 2002
Pages: 666
Andrew Mango's revealing portrait of Atatürk throws light on matters of great importance today-resurgent nationalism, religious fundamentalism, and the reality of democracy.
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Modelo: ISBN: 9780719565922
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Catherine the Great
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Published: 2007
Pages: 167
The story of Catherine the Great is an extraordinary one. Born Sophia Augusta zu Anhalt-Zerbst, a German princess in a family of modest means, she became one of the greatest rulers of the vast Russian Empire in the eighteenth century.
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Modelo: ISBN: 9781905791064
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Che Guevara
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Author: David Sandison
Published: 2008
Pages: 156
Tracing the life of one of the legendary characters of modern times, Che Guevara explores the man and the myth through his early life, the Cuban campaign which overthrew the Batista dictatorship, the revolution in the streets of Havana, Guevaras days as a diplomat on the world stage and his eventual return to the guerrilla life and execution in the jungles of Bolivia. With a wealth of rare pictures the book examines the legend and icon against the equally remarkable history of the real man.
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Modelo: ISBN:9780753709009
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Cleopatra
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Author: Prudence J. Jones
Published: 2006
Pages: 159
Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC) Egyptian queen (of Macedonian descent), last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. Daughter of Ptolemy XII, she ruled with her two brother-husbands, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, both of whom she had killed,and with her son Ptolemy XV or Caesarion (44-30). This biography will concentrate on the fascinating aspect of Cleopatra’s ever-shifting identity. A master of self-presentation, she was the first to craft for herself an image or, to be precise, a number of images.
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Modelo: ISBN: 9781904950257
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Columbus - var han rigtig klog?
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Herman Lindqvist.
Udgivelsesår 2007.
212 sider.
Helt til sin død var han overbevist om, at han havde fundet søvejen til Indien. Columbus var så overbevist om, at han var kommet til det asiatiske fastland, at han ved en lejlighed lod alle sine
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Modelo: ISBN9788776921378
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Den standhaftige tinsoldat - en biografi om Frederik 6.
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Jens Engberg.
Udgivelsesår 2009.
544 sider.
Frederik 6. var i sin barndom udsat for vanrøgt og grov omsorgssvigt. Kun 16 år gammel slog han sig fri, greb den enevældige magt og regerede som diktator i Danmark i 55 år, til han døde i 1839. Som ung skabte han grundlaget for det moderne Danmark, borgerne tiljublede ham som fremskridtets lysende helt. I sine manddomsår førte han med sin forkludrede
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Modelo: ISBN9788756793254
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Emma Hamilton
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Author: Julie Peakman
Published: 2005
Pages: 195
Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) epitomized the classic tale of an eighteenth century woman’s rise from poverty to fame and riches using nothing but beauty and feminine guile. In this book one of today’s most innovative historians of sex and gender presents new insights into the life of one of history’s most glamorous women.
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Modelo: ISBN: 9781904341987
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Fidel
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Anne M. Sørensen
Udgivelsesår: 2007
Sider: 358
En opsigtsvækkende beretning om manden, der hævder at have overlevet 637 attentatforsøg, en hel verdens sammenbrud og 48 års konstant amerikansk belejring. Fidel Castro, kommandant og præsident har tegnet Cuba siden magtskiftet i 1959.
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Modelo: ISBN: 9788776921330
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Fjeldstigning - billeder fra en kulturradikal skandale
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Mogens Wenzel Andreasen.
Udgivelsesår 2008.
204 sider.
Den danske komponist Victor Bendix (1851-1926) var et kendt navn på datidens Europæiske musikscene. Han nød stor anerkendelse af bl.a. Liszt, Wagner og vores egen Carl Nielsen. Bendix er kendt for sine fire symfonier, som der har været en del opmærksom omkring de senere år.
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Modelo: ISBN9788721033620
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Franco
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Author: Michael Streeter
Published: 2005
Pages: 169
Francisco Franco (1892-1975) grew up in the quiet backwater of El Ferrol in north-west Spain and went on to become one of the most controversial political figures of the twentieth century. His ruthless pursuit of victory in the bloody Spanish Civil War alone guaranteed him fame and notoriety. The general went on to rule Spain for nearly forty years with an authoritarian zeal that scarcely diminished in old age. Variously courted by the liberal democracies of Britain and France, the Fascist alliance of Hitler and Mussolini and then by anti-communist administrations in Washington, Franco played a major role on the world stage until his death in 1975.
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Modelo: ISBN: 9781904950325
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Griffenfeld - Vidunderbarn, statsmand, livstidsfange.
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Forfatter: Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen
Udgivelsesår: 2006
Sider: 352
Om den norskfødte vintappersøn Peder Schumacher Griffenfelds (1635-1699) opvækst og om hans politiske karriere i Danmark, der sluttede med et brat fald fra magten… Lee más...
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Modelo: ISBN: 97887120423
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Jack The Ripper - Letters From Hell...
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Author: Stewart P. Evans & Keith Skinner
Published: 2001
Pages: 306
The Whitechapel murders of 1888 captured the public's attention not only for their ferocity but for an almost theatrical aspect in the form of letters from the purported killer. Evans and Skinner here expand upon the information presented in their The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion (LJ 12/00) by analyzing the more than 700 communications.
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Modelo: ISBN:9780750925495
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Jennie Churchill - Winston´s American Mother
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Author: Anne Sebba
Published: 2008
Pages: 398
Jennie Churchill was the wife of the most celebrated political enfant terrible of his day, Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of Winston, the most famous Englishman of all. Little wonder that, squashed between these two alpha males, Lady Randolph Churchill has usually been seen as a walk-on part. Raven-haired and fiery-eyed, “Black Jane” is alleged to have slept with 200 men.
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Modelo: ISBN: 978071956731
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Joan of Arc. Maid, Myth and History
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Author: Timothy Wilson-Smith
Published: 2006
Pages: 254
Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was thirteen and, believing they were directives from God, followed them - to the French court, to battle to wrest France from the English in the Hundred Years War, and to defeat and capture.
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Modelo: ISBN: 9780750943413
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Johanne Luise Heiberg - kærlighedens stedbarn
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Bodil Wamberg.
Udgivelsesår 2005.
344 sider.
Med udgangspunkt i Johanne Luise Heibergs (1812-1890) erindringer, andre samtidige kilder og senere biografier søger forfatteren at finde ind til en forståelse af mennesket bag den store skuespillerinde.
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Josephine - A life of the Empress
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Author: Carolly Erickson
Published: 2004
Pages: 391
When she married Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796, Rose de Beauharnais was a 32-year-old widow who had narrowly escaped the French Revolution's guillotine. She was six years older than he, notorious for her lovers, and unlikely to give him children, but possessed of the social connections and skills the ambitious young general thought would help him rise in the revolutionary army.
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Modelo: ISBN:9781861056375
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Krigsrådens Datter
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Forfatter: Liss Hansen
Udgivelsesår: 2010
Sider: 368
I det gamle København - midt mellem Rundetårn og Frue Kirke - ligger ejendommen Krigsraad Mørks Minde. Her blev der i 1865 etableret en stiftelse på grundlag af et testamente efterladt af krigsrådens datter, filantropen Emilie Henriette Mørk. Hun blev født i 1794 i små kår og døde som velhavende frøken i 1864, men levede sine seneste år - efter at have skrevet sin sidste vilje - i et ´sørgeligt Mørke´ og umyndiggjort af byens styrelse.
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Modelo: ISBN: 9788792573254
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