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For three days I had been cooling my heels about the Vatican, vexed by suspense. It fretted me that I should have been so lightly dealt with after I had discharged the mission that had brought me all the way from Pesaro, and I wondered how long it might be ere his Most Illustrious Excellency the Cardinal...

The Sea Hawk is a seafaring adventure set at the end of the sixteenth century. A retired Cornish gentleman is betrayed by his jealous half-brother and ends up a slave on a Spanish galley. He is freed by Barbary pirates and he joins their crew, swearing vengeance on his brother. The pirates name him "Sakr-el-Bahr": the hawk of the sea.

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Winning invaluable treasures? Rescuing his crew from almost certain death? With much excitement and swashbuckling adventure, physician and country gentleman Peter Blood is forced to turn from medicine to piracy in this swashbuckling classic brimming with stolen treasure, adventure on the high seas, and romance.

The history of Frey Tómas de Torquemada is the history of the establishment of the Modern Inquisition. It is not so much the history of a man as of an abstract genius presiding over a gigantic and cruel engine of its own perfecting. Of this engine we may examine for ourselves to-day the details of...

It is not only the banking crisis that has brought to light how pointless a world is in which money only leads to money, and the relationship with life is lost. This threat is felt by many today, who ask themselves how this cycle can be broken. The author of this book demonstrates that the solution does...

Monsieur le Vicomte is a remarkable man - not least because, for all concerned, he had been guillotined along with numerous French aristocrats. Yet by some twist of fate he managed to escape and seek refuge in Turin, out of the jurisdiction of the French authorities. But by an even more perverse twist...

Het Berlijn van de jaren twintig en dertig is een bruisende metropool waar het culturele leven bloeit. Hugo Simon, pater familias van de vooraanstaande familie Simon, is bankier, kunstverzamelaar en mecenas, en vormt het middelpunt van een groep intellectuelen, onder wie Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein...

This book introduces a multilayered approach to the study of democracy, combining specific knowledge of Japan with theoretical insights from the literature on democratization. It examines different aspects of Japanese democracy—historical, institutional, and sociocultural—to provide a conscious...

This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and communication in advancing the goals of...

Donald John Trump el primitivo, el bravucón, el visceral, el desconfiado, el inestable, el demagogo, el pesimista, el constructor de muros, el fenómeno que se trasciende así mismo. Su llegada a la presidencia de Estados Unidos marcó un viraje radical en la relación con México que ahora se vislumbra...

Al lanzar un proyecto de negocio es difícil decidir por dónde empezar: ¿por la financiación, el diseño del producto, el marketing, un análisis del mercado? El problema suele ser siempre el mismo: hay un conjunto de recursos limitados y hay que analizar bien los proyectos para asegurar la máxima...