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The Americas: A Hemispheric History

The Americas: A Hemispheric History

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

In this groundbreaking and vividly rendered work, leading historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells, for the first time, the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in ...
The World: A Brief History : To 1500

The World: A Brief History : To 1500

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The World: A Brief History gives students the whole story. Prentice Hall is proud to offer The World: A Brief History the new brief version of The World: A History adapted by author Felipe Fernàndez-Armesto himself.
Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Presenting the subject on a truly global scale, historian Fernâandez-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the last five millennia, laid down the routes of contact that have drawn together the farthest reaches of the world.
1492: The Year Our World Began

1492: The Year Our World Began

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.
So You Think You're Human?: A Brief History of Humankind

So You Think You're Human?: A Brief History of Humankind

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The book illustrates how our concept of humankind has changed over time and how our current understanding of this has been shaken by new challenges from science and philosophy.
Barcelona: A Thousand Years of the City's Past

Barcelona: A Thousand Years of the City's Past

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Barcelona, like Spain itself, has in recent years attracted the gaze and fascination of the world.
Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of ...

Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of ...

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

More, here are fascinating stories, brilliantly told -- of the voyages of Chinese admiral Chen Ho and Portuguese commodore Vasco da Gama, of the Great Khan and the Great Zimbabwe.
Columbus on Himself

Columbus on Himself

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Intended as an antidote to potted biographies and piecemeal reconstructions of his voyages, this volume draws on judicious selections from Christopher Columbus's own writings--chronologically arranged, and translated into idiomatic English- ...
Food: A History

Food: A History

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The story of food is cultural as well as culinary. The history of how we produce, process, prepare and eat it encompasses ecology as well as gastronomy. In this book, the history is global.
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

Lincoln Paine

'The most enjoyable, the most refreshing, the most stimulating, the most comprehensive, the most discerning, the most insightful, the most up-to-date - in short, the best maritime history of the world.' - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
The Spanish Armada: The Experience of War in 1588

The Spanish Armada: The Experience of War in 1588

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Offers a revised account of the famous sea battle, arguing for a more balanced view of British "victory" and Spanish "defeat" and tracing the development of the traditional view of the battle in the historical context of the era In the four ...
Cerralvo church marriage records, 1761-1880

Cerralvo church marriage records, 1761-1880

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Elena 1856/06/09 Lopez, Eusebio Salinas, Ma. de Jesus 1832/02/08 Lopez, Felipe Hinojosa, Ma. Pilar (Ramon Martinez) 1879/02/08 Lopez, Felipe Hinojosa, Felipa 1842/02/08 Lopez, Felipe (San juana Ramos) Perez, Ma. del Rosario ...
No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms

No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms

Barry Maxwell

See Hugo Cristian Fernández, Irrumpe la Capucha: Qué quieren los anarquistas en el Chile de hoy? (OceanSur, 2014); Felipe del Solar and Andrés Pérez, Anarquistas: Presencia libertaria en Chile (Santiago: RIL, 2008); and Víctor Muñoz ...
Cuban Angel - Courage Without Limits

Cuban Angel - Courage Without Limits

Maria Fernandez

Maria Fernandez was born in Cuba the year Fidel Castro and his revolution took over the country.
Armies, Politics and Revolution: Chile, 1808-1826

Armies, Politics and Revolution: Chile, 1808-1826

Juan Luis Ossa Santa Cruz

210–14. 6 Felipe Del Solar, 'La Francmasonería en Chile: de sus orígenes hasta su institucionalización', REHMLAC, vol. 2, number 1 (2010), pp. 6–7; Felipe Del Solar, 'Masones y Sociedades Secretas: redes militares durante las guerras de ...
Well Played 1.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning

Well Played 1.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning

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CLARA FERNÁNDEZ-VARA Everybody should feel the thrill of telling an ugly stinky pirate for the first time: “How appropriate. You fight like a cow.” THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND: PLAYING BETWEEN CULTURES CLARA FERNÁNDEZ- ...
Negocios ProMéxico Septiembre: Medical Devices, ...

Negocios ProMéxico Septiembre: Medical Devices, ...

ProMéxico

One of Mexico's most interesting designers, Carla Fernandez has garnered a reputation on international runways with ... According to Carla Fernandez (Saltillo , Coahuila, 1973) fashion is the first language we use to communicate with others .
Where Stylists Shop: The Fashion Insider's Ultimate Guide

Where Stylists Shop: The Fashion Insider's Ultimate Guide

Booth Moore

CARLA FERNANDEZ SHOPPING FOR TRADITIONAL MEXICAN CLOTHING Susana Carla Fernández is one of Mexico's best-known, and best-loved, fashion designers. Inspired by the architecture and textile traditions of her homeland, she  ...
Real and Complex Singularities:

Real and Complex Singularities:

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Wet., Series A, 76:113–118, 1973. [2] Javier Fernández de Bobadilla, Answers to some equisingularity questions, Invent. Math. 161 (2005), no. 3, 657–675, DOI 10.1007/s00222-005-0441-4. MR2181471 [3] Javier Fernández de Bobadilla, ...
Extending Experiences: Structure, Analysis and Design of ...

Extending Experiences: Structure, Analysis and Design of ...

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Clara fernández-Vara ... have to learn the command syntax on top of the individual actions, as well as helping sustain the fiction of Clara Fernández-Vara Shaping Player Experience in Adventure Games: History of the Adventure Game Interface.
Atari to Zelda: Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts

Atari to Zelda: Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts

Mia Consalvo

The work of Clara Fernandez Vara is an excellent counterpoint, showing how theater and performance can help us understand adventure games in particular. For more, see Clara Fernandez Vara, “The Tribulations of Adventure Games: ...
Boletín de la Academia Chilena de la Historia

Boletín de la Academia Chilena de la Historia

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... Francisco Ramírez 26 junio, 1818 Fragata "Mercurio Americano" 260 Felipe del Solar 27 mayo, 1819 Bergartín "Cornelio" (a) "Aquiles" — Antonio Arcos 22 julio, 1819 Fragata "Cazadora" — Felipe del Solar 5 agosto, 1819 Fragata " Carmen" ...
EXPERIENCIAS EN TURISMO ACCESIBLE EN ANDALUCÍA Y PORTUGAL.: ...

EXPERIENCIAS EN TURISMO ACCESIBLE EN ANDALUCÍA Y PORTUGAL.: ...

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ESPECIAL ATENCIÓN AL ÁMBITO ALENTEJO-ALGARVE-PROVINCIA DE HUELVA JURADO ALMONTE, JOSÉ MANUEL, FERNÁNDEZ TRISTANCHO, ANTONIO. E T A A P. E A-A-P H José Manuel Jurado Almonte Antonio Fernández ...
La quiebra de la razón de estado

La quiebra de la razón de estado

Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora

Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora. PROFEKTTV ©í JlafirkC \ U'7 GONZALOFERNANDEZDELAMORA LA- QUIEBRA DÉLA RAZÓN- DE-ESTADO O CR.ECEOMVERE.
Schooled: Ordinary, Extraordinary Teaching in an Age of Change

Schooled: Ordinary, Extraordinary Teaching in an Age of Change

Anne Lutz Fernandez

Ordinary, Extraordinary Teaching in an Age of Change Anne Lutz Fernandez, Catherine Lutz ... She is the author, with Catherine Lutz, of Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives. Her writing has appeared in The ...
Africa and the International Criminal Court

Africa and the International Criminal Court

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Gerhard Werle, Lovell Fernandez, Moritz Vormbaum. Chapter 1 Introduction: Africa and the International Criminal Court Gerhard Werle, Lovell Fernandez and Moritz Vormbaum Contents Reference .

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