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Time Out's resident team helps you get the best from the fascinating French capital in this annual guide. Along with detailed coverage of the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and all the major attractions, Time Out Paris gives you the inside track on local culture, with illuminating features and independent reviews throwing the spotlight on everything from ancient street-corner cafés to vital new nightclubs. The 20th edition of Time Out Paris, written by...
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Written by local experts, Time Out Rome provides extensive coverage of the major sights - and then goes much further. Featuring everything from born-again trattorie to the burgeoning apertif trend, it offers visitors the chance to experience the Eternal City as the Romans do. History in Rome is not confined to museums, basilicas and galleries - it tumbles out everywhere. And though the city is reassuringly compact, this does not stop the cultural...
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Alejada de los itinerarios turísticos, el patrimonio artístico de Emilia-Romaña refleja la riqueza y complejidad de su historia, marcada por la presencia de los romanos, los bizantinos y las refinadas cortes renacentistas. Para apreciarlo, hay que ir primero a Bolonia, que encandila al visitante con su centro medieval y sus kilómetros de soportales. Luego está Ferrara, una joya del Renacimiento, Rávena y la elegante Parma. Situada entre el curso...
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The late eighteenth century was one of the most exciting and unsettling periods in European history, with the shockwaves of the French Revolution rippling around the world. As this collection of essays by leading scholars shows, Wales was no exception. From political pamphlets to a Denbighshire folk-play, from bardic poetry to the remodeling of the Welsh landscape itself, responses to the revolutionary ferment of ideas took many forms. We see how...
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Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the introduction of agriculture, and a later influx from the...
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El problema de la construcción de España en la época contemporánea ocupa desde hace casi dos décadas el centro de los quehaceres y debates de los historiadores españoles. En los últimos años se ha experimentado, además, un giro que desplaza cada vez más la atención hacia el siglo XX. Centradas en el estudio de los discursos y prácticas de nación en el siglo XX, se puede constatar a través de las distintas aportaciones la complejidad...
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From Portugal to Hungary, from Great Britain down to Greece, Europe is a lot to take on. Luckily, the student adventurers behind Let's Go Europe 2015 think you can handle itwith a little help. Whether you're whipping through London, Barcelona, and Prague in five days or spending a leisurely year abroad, you'll get all the info you need from us. Our wit and irreverence can brighten even the drabbest Renaissance museumif you didn't take our advice...
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The 21st edition of Time Out London will help visitors to navigate the 2000 year old city, from the many must visits through to the eccentricities and particularities that give London its flavor. Time Out keeps you abreast of the latest in terms of cultural events, entertainment, restaurants, shopping, bar and pub scene, as well as taking you to the out-of-the-way neighborhoods in the throes of gentrification. Day trips and local excursions are also...
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In 1641, Dr. Henry Jones was dean of the Church of Ireland diocese of Kilmore. His life, and those of many other British settlers in the Ulster Plantation, fell into disarray, when the rising began in October of that year. Jones managed to escape Cavan and established and chaired the 1641 Commission, responsible for taking around 8000 depositions or witness statements relating to the rising. Jones also wrote a number of pamphlets about the rising,...
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Originally published in 1960 and edited by Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Shaping of Modern Ireland was a seminal work surveying the lives of prominent early twentieth-century figures who influenced Irish affairs in the years between the death of Charles Stewart Parnell in 1891 and the Easter Rising of 1916. The chapters were written by leading historians and commentators from the Ireland of the 1950s, some of whom personally knew the subjects of their...
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Cronología de los reyes españoles enumera todas las dinastías reales de la península ibérica desde el siglo V hasta el presente. Desde los reyes visigodos hasta los monarcas del siglo XX. En un cómodo y sucinto listado que permite seguir la duración en el trono de cada rey.
Siglo V
409-428 Gunderico. Reino Alano
409-438 Hermerico. Reino Suevo
410-415 Ataúlfo. Reino Visigodo
415 Sigerico. Reino Visigodo
415-418 Valia. Reino Visigodo
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Lonely Planet Budapest & Hungary is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Ogle sinuous Art Nouveau architecture in Budapest, take a cruise along the blue Danube, or see the dust fly at a cowboy show; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Hungary and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Budapest & Hungary Travel Guide: Color maps...
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Südtirol - Modellfall oder Konfliktherd? Einzigartig oder ein durchaus typischer europäischer Kleinraum?
Ein Buch, das die Motivationen und Befindlichkeiten der Südtiroler Gesellschaft hinterfragt und für ein plurikulturelles Verständnis der Südtiroler Geschichte plädiert.
Dieses Buch reiht sich ein in die Bemühungen um ein regionales, sprachübergreifendes und plurikulturelles Verständnis von Entwicklungen und Tendenzen in Südtirol und...
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Compradores, deudores y vendedores activos en los campos de la artesanía y la industria, los carniceros de los siglos XIII-XVI de las coronas de Aragón y Castilla y del sur de Francia (Languedoc y Provenza), que alimentaban y a veces dominaban los mercados (de la piel, el cuero, la lana, el hierro... ), fueron nexos comerciales entre la ciudad y el campo, donde construyeron sus redes. Fueron también miembros de las elites urbanas y rurales y actores...
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Elected in 1960 as the 35th President of the USA, John Fitzgerald Kennedy remains to this day the office's youngest incumbent and he was its first Roman Catholic. His term in office was short, but arguably no US President has inspired more people around the globe than JFK. Even today, for generations born decades after his death, President Kennedy's legacy has an enduring appeal.
This insightful book contains specially commissioned pieces by a range...
17) Time Out Berlin
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Time Out Berlin helps travelers get the best out of the ever-changing German capital, giving them the inside track on local culture plus hundreds of independent venue reviews. Besides the coverage of visitor essentials, the guide explores detailed coverage of the cultural and historical sites, and the town's legendary nightlife. This ninth edition covers all aspects of life in the capital city, from festivals and nightlife to avant-garde arts. The...
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Los trabajos reunidos en esta obra estudian la formación de nuevos órdenes agrarios que acompañó a la colonización cristiana de los territorios ibéricos conquistados a al-Andalus, desde finales del siglo XI hasta los inicios de la Época Moderna. La apropiación de los espacios agrarios creados por los musulmanes fue seguida por reorientaciones profundas que alteraron los ecosistemas agro-pastorales en función del éxito de las migraciones...
19) Time Out Venice
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Think 'Venice', and images of gondolas drifting along misty canals and pigeon-feeding visitors dwarfed by the splendor of St. Mark's and its square come unavoidably to mind. If it's Venetian icons of the sort you're looking for, this magical city will never disappoint. But for a more rounded experience, the longtime residents and experts who have contributed to the sixth edition of the Time Out Venice guide will lead you down back streets and into...
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¿Conoces el estilo de vida lionés? Un estilo de vida que los lioneses desean compartir con los visitantes que acuden a admirar una ciudad excepcional donde sobresale la belleza de sus edificios -desde el casco antiguo de Fourvière hasta el futurista museo de las Confluencias, pasando por el barrio Renaissance, clasificado como Patrimonio de la Humanidad-, y la calidad de su gastronomía, que la ha convertido en una de las capitales gastronómicas...
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