903円 Escrita entre 1620 y 1623, "El mejor alcalde, el Rey" ha suscitado desde hace siglos los más encendidos elogios de la crítica, que la han calificado de "obra maestra" y "acierto definitivo" de su autor, Lope de Vega. La obra narra la historia de Sancho, un simple pastor que desea casarse con Elvi...

807円 'The experience of insecurity, it turned out, would shape one of the most remarkable monarchs in England's history' In the popular imagination, as in her portraits, Elizabeth I is the image of monarchical power. But this image is as much armour as a reflection of the truth. In this illuminating a...

150円 Politicians have the reputation of being power-hungry manipulators. What you might not know is that the image of the modern politician may actually have roots in the 500-year-old document called "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli. "The Prince" is a political treatise describing the less-than-hon...

76円 "The Code of Hammurabi" is the most complete and perfect extant collection of Babylonian laws, developed during the reign of Hammurabi (1792–1750 BCE) of the 1st dynasty of Babylon. The Code consists of his legal decisions that were collected toward the end of his reign and inscribed on a diorite...

661円 50 Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Love And Life

500円 There have been some truly awful monarchs in British history. How about one who, according to Historian Robert Wilton, psychologically 'barely made it out of infancy, let alone adolescence, and ruled with little more policy than petulant self-gratification.' That was Henry VIII – the wife murderi...

2,022円 A captivating, sweeping saga of England’s medieval queens, from the New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the finest historian of English monarchical succession writing” (The Boston Globe) **“Polished [and] fascinating . . . It was a man’s world but, as Weir convincingly shows, the five qu...

1,991円 “An intimate, compulsively readable account of the dynamics that have shapedーand sometimes destroyedーrelations at the top of the American political hierarchy.... [and] a valuable addition to the literature of the modern presidency.” ー Wall Street Journal From the author of the New York Times b...

76円 The story of Nero is also the story of much of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The bloody legacies of the previous emperors Caligula and Claudius are introduced before delving into Nero's own reign of intrigue, murder, and atrocities. The women of the family, including Nero's mother Agrippina, his wi...

4,861円 When Philip IV of Spain died in 1665, his heir, Carlos II, was three years old. In addition to this looming dynastic crisis, decades of enormous military commitments had left Spain a virtually bankrupt state with vulnerable frontiers and a depleted army. In Silvia Z. Mitchell’s revisionist accoun...

1,399円 A brilliant investigation of one of Britain’s notorious unsolved mysteries: the murder of Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scotsーfrom the New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the finest historian of English monarchical succession writing” (The Boston Globe) “All the element...

2,519円 Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula. In this book about Rome’s most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins’ chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders that led to Caligula becoming emperor, and details th...