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En 1519, Hernán Cortés acababa de abandonar Cuba para embarcarse en dirección a México. Cuenta con muy poca información sobre su destino, de tal manera que ni siquiera está seguro de si se halla ante un puñado de islas o un continente entero. Cuando, por fin, toca tierra, se cruza en su camino una mujer de tan solo dieciséis años que, con el tiempo, se convertirá en la clave de la expedición española hacia el corazón de México. Esa joven, de nombre Malintzin, le proporcionará a Cortés las claves para adentrarse en un territorio complejo, violento y maravilloso al frente del cual se encuentra una ciudad de fábula: Tenochtitlan.

Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher among Roman emperors: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Richard Lionheart, England's legendary king: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Archimedes, Greek universal genius: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Aristotle, Greek philosopher: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Socrates, Greek philosopher: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

King Arthur of England: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the letterpress: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Emperor Charlemagne, German and European: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Emperor Frederick II, the wonder of the world: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Read by the author, Alice Loxton. Biggest books to look out for in 2024 – The Guardian 'Loxton is the next big thing in history' – Dan Snow At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you’ve got the plague. From a young...

Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Air Mail “A fascinating and instructive book . . . elegantly written and perceptive.” —Wall Street Journal “Kaleidoscopic . . . A fascinating exploration of individual agency that never loses sight of the larger context . . . Just the...

Briarcliff Mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its "Briarcliff Campus." Fortune and Folly, in part, illuminates the largely lost story of how the mansion, and the entire surrounding neighborhood, got its name. But in order to understand the mansion, we have to understand the man who built it. Briarcliff Mansion once belonged to a man named Asa Candler, Jr.—also known as Buddie. The second son and namesake of Coca-Cola founder Asa Griggs Candler, Buddie was a wealthy real estate developer of great successes and greater failures.

Livre de circonstance, rédigé par le Maréchal Pétain pour son entrée à l’Académie Française. Philippe Pétain fut nommé au commandement des troupes de Verdun le 26 février 1916 à la suite de l’importante attaque allemande sur ce front. Cette dernière voulait "saigner " l’armée française. Il dut, en peu de temps, réorganiser entièrement le dispositif de défense et d’approvisionnement des troupes, bien moins nombreuses et équipées de leurs adversaires.

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of Mark Twain's Chapters From My Autobiography; 5 pieces of short non-fiction; and 6 pieces of his groundbreaking, wide-ranging travel writing.

Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). In the early 1960s Carter became a secret adviser to George Wallace and wrote the Alabama governor's infamous 1963 inauguration speech vowing "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

Lithuania, 1941. As the Nazi forces invade the capital city of Vilna, its Jews’ lives are forsaken. Death lurks beyond every corner, not only at the hands of the German invaders, but mainly at those of local killing gangs collaborating with the new regime. Sarah Shimonovitz is not spared from this threat of death. When the Nazis round up Vilna’s Jews in the ghetto and sentence all those without essential professions to death, Sarah’s life is in grave danger. But she manages to survive the selection, moving between hiding places and evading her pursuers.