Holocaust survivor Friedman recalls her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau as a young child in this heartrending memoir.

Along with Sun Tzu's The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings is considered to be one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asia. It analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction. For Musashi, the way of the martial arts was a mastery of the mind rather than simply technical prowess-and it is this path to mastery that is the core teaching...

The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's age of empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and the institutions of representative government—all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the seventeenth century

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In his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration - and explains how to live in it. A parallel explosion of economic interdependency has created new riches as well as spiraling debt burdens. Meanwhile, Mother Nature is also seeing dramatic changes as carbon levels rise and species go extinct, with compounding results. How do these changes interact, and how can we cope with them? With...

First published in 1837, Carlyle initially was asked to write this account by his overworked friend John Stuart Mill. Taking the commission to heart, Carlyle proceeded to write a historical masterpiece, combining a scrupulous consideration for facts with a unique style of writing. Rather than a detached account of this turbulent time, Carlyle uses poetic prose that makes readers feel almost as though they are participants in the riots, public executions,...

The Black Russian is the incredible true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. After his father was brutally murdered, Frederick left the South and worked as a waiter in Chicago and Brooklyn. Seeking greater freedom, he traveled to London, then crisscrossed Europe, and-in a highly unusual choice for a black American at the time-went to Russia. Because he found no color line there,...

Las élites urbanas sufrieron un proceso de transformación en el paso del Antiguo Régimen al liberalismo que se dejó sentir a lo largo de Europa. Pero la importancia de las revoluciones liberales en este proceso es un debate aún abierto en la historiografía. En este libro se analiza el problema de la formación de las élites liberales en España durante el siglo XIX. Una comparación asimétrica entre los casos de Valladolid y Magdeburgo sirve...

Mining disasters attracted the attention of the public and the press during the twentieth century, just as they had done a few generations earlier. This interest was made even more immediate and certainly more graphic through the increasing use of photographic images and film; and the impact of broadcasting via radio and, eventually, television was immense. The disasters also demonstrated and underlined the tremendous courage that miners had for their...

¿Cómo es el individuo de la modernidad tardía? Es un individuo conectado con un imperativo categórico: sé tan libre que en la expresión de tu libertad quieras ver la libertad de los demás expresada, que tu libertad se convierta en norma universal y objetiva. Esta es la creación del capitalismo; un sujeto que se deslastró de todo contenido extraño y se quedó con la mera forma de la libertad, donde las probabilidades de ser el propio héroe...

Como bien señala Norman G. Finkelstein en este nuevo, polémico y conciso libro, si examinamos de cerca los motivos de Israel para atacar Gaza, comprobaremos que se trata de un Estado cuyo repetido recurso a la guerra más salvaje dista mucho de ser irracional. Lo cierto es que los ataques de Israel han sido diseñados para sabotear un posible compromiso de paz con los palestinos, aunque sus términos le favorezcan.