Historia de Sudáfrica

As a veteran Israeli guide I realised that there was no concise history book for the amateur historian wanting to understand the complex history of this small piece of land nestled between Egypt and the Fertile Crescent so I wrote and published this book in 1996. An updated edition was published in 2000 and the third edition in 2010. My greatest joy is when people who are not history buffs tell me they enjoyed the book and learnt from it.

An expansive tribute to the life and achievements of this internationally renowned Turkish scholar and culturalist Cultural Horizons recognizes the extraordinary achievements of Talat Sait Halman throughout his multifaceted career as Turkey's Minister of Culture, Ambassador for Cultural Affairs, professor, poet, translator, literary author and critic, newspaper columnist, and public speaker. Seventy-two distinguished scholars, journalists, translators, and creative writers from around the world have written for this work. Contributions include poetry, essays, a play, and articles.

El gigante inquieto nos cuenta la historia de los Estados Unidos en los tiempos, cambiantes y revueltos, que van de la caída de Nixon, en 1974, a la presidencia de G.W. Bush en 2001. Patterson no sólo nos habla aquí de los grandes hitos de la política internacional –el fin de la guerra fría, la revolución iraní, Bosnia, la Guerra del Golfo...- y de las figuras dominantes de la época, como Reagan o Clinton, sino que presta una atención especial, y en esto reside uno de sus rasgos más innovadores y atractivos, a la evolución interior de la sociedad norteamericana: a fenómenos de...

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