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Tres Pepes (Artigas, Batlle y Ordóñez y José Mujica), tres siglos distintos y la marca sobre lo que sería la "identidad uruguaya".Tres hombres llamados José –Artigas, Batlle y Mujica–, tres Pepes mar

UM RELATO BRILHANTE DE ANTONY BEEVOR SOBRE O COLAPSO DO TERCEIRO REICHO Exército Vermelho tinha sede por vingança quando finalmente alcançou as fronteiras do Terceiro Reich em janeiro de 1945. Instrutores politicos martelavam a mensagem sobre a brutalidade da Wehrmacht e das SS. O resultado foi o exemplo mais aterrorizante de destruiço e violencia ja visto, com tanques esmagando colunas de refugiados sob suas esteiras, estupros em massa, saques e aniquilaço.Centenas de milhares de mulheres e ciranças morreram congeladas ou foram massacradas porque os chefes do Partido Nazista, recusando-se a aceitar a derrota, haviam proibido a evacuaço de civis. Mais de sete milhes fugiram para o oeste, tentando escapar do terror do Exercito Vermelho.Apoiado em arquivos ineditos, Antony Beevor nos oferece neste livro no apenas um documento historico fundamental, mas tambem um grande relato tragico e comovente, no qual todas as paixes humanas se desencadeiam em seu auge em que o orgulho se mistura a loucura, a astucia convive com a estupidez, o heroismo coexiste com o medo, a abnegaço com a crueldade.

LEITURA ESSENCIAL PARA CONHECER AS RAINHAS ESQUECIDAS DO EGITOCleópatra: amante, sedutora e a maior rainha do Egito. Uma figura mais mito do que história, imortalizada na poesia, no drama, na música, na arte e no cinema. Ela cativou Julio Cesar e Marco Antonio, os dois maiores lideres romanos de sua epoca, e morreu em um claro de gloria, com uma vibora pressionada contra o peito ou pelo menos e o que diz a lenda.Mas a historia real de Cleopatra VII e ainda mais fascinante. Ela foi a ultima das sete Cleopatras que governaram o Egito antes de sua absorço pelo Imperio Romano. Essas sete Cleopatras foram as poderosas lideres da dinastia ptolemaica, a familia macedonia que governou o Egito apos Alexandre, o Grande. Seguindo os costumes dos deuses, as Cleopatras casavam-se com seus irmos de sangue e dominavam o mundo normalmente patriarcal da politica e da guerra. Essas mulheres extraordinarias mantinham um controle firme sobre o pais mais rico do mundo antigo.Neste livro, o historiador Lloyd Llwellyn-Jones, autor do best-seller Os persas, mostra como cada uma das sete Cleopatras detinha poder absoluto. Sua obsesso implacavel pelo dominio geraço apos geraço resultou em atos extraordinarios de traiço, violencia e assassinato na familia mais dinfuncional da historia.

9 de Julho é uma obra que resgata a memória da Revolução Constitucionalista de 1932, com foco na participação decisiva de Mato Grosso do Sul. O autor, filho de um combatente constitucionalista, recon

The artist Norman Thelwell (19232004) was famous for his horse and pony cartoons, but his work was far more wide ranging. He focused his exceptional talent on many diverse subjects, with his witty and wry observations providing amusement and sharp social comment. Brat Race, which was first published in 1977, takes a comical look at the world of children and the joys of parenthood. Thelwell chronicles youngsters behaviour with hilarious accuracy noting the mysteries, curiosities and characteristics, while providing humorous hints and advice for anxious parents and well-meaning relatives. From names, toys and birthday parties, to pets, health and happiness, all elements of childhood are depicted in the artists inimitable and entertaining style.

António Sérgio (1883-1969) viveu durante uma era em que Estados-nações mantiveram estruturas socioeconómicas promotoras da desigualdade entre as pessoas, e em que movimentos diversos tentaram as corr

A tragédia de um povo, uma das obras mais completas e humanas já escritas sobre a Revolução Russa, ganha nova edição. "Poucos historiadores têm coragem de abordar grandes assuntos; menos ainda são b

Em um mundo repleto de distrações e desafios constantes, erguer-se e transformar hábitos parece um feito hercúleo. Mudança de hábito: Determinação é um convite irresistível a uma jornada de autotrans

Divina Humanidade traz uma cuidadosa e original abordagem acerca dos estudos sobre o livre-arbítrio desenvolvidos pelos filósofos jesuítas Pedro da Fonseca e Luís de Molina, ao longo do século XVI, no bojo do ideario politico-filosofico conhecido como Escolastica Iberica. Ao final do medievo ja fizera o ser humano como se fosse ele mesmo um Deus criador. As descobertas e os experimentos cientificos ate ento sem igual, a transposiço de mares tenebrosos e o encontro de novos mundos traziam uma sensaço de divindade e empoderamento. Tremiam estruturas e bases por tanto tempo to solidamente assentadas e responsaveis por um padro sociopolitico que vigorara relativamente estavel por oito seculos. Cada vez mais se mostrava relevante, dado o desenvolvimento das artes humanas, a compatibilizaço do ideario moral e religioso dominante com a vida que passava a existir de maneira vigorosa nas ruas e nas cidades. Fora dos claustros, o cotidiano das pessoas, muito mais pratico, real e autonomo, no replicava as existencias angelicais ou dos santos; ao contrario, pela regra, os atos de vontade propria, recheados de contradiçes, levariam populaçes inteiras ao eterno degredo espiritual, pois o pecado tal como se o conhecia e conceituava era cometido varias vezes ao dia Faltava a garantia de que tudo isso valia a pena e no prejudicava nem impedia a vida eterna Sob um olhar humanista, Divina Humanidade , numa abordagem conceitual muito propria, investiga a genese e os desdobramentos do ideario da conformaço do determinismo e da graça divinas ao livre-arbitrio humano a partir da ciencia media , alvo no apenas de acirrada disputa por seu protagonismo criativo, como tambem de calorosas polemicas na academia e na intelligentsia europeias ao raiar da modernidade.

Covering the half-century from the FrancoPrussian War to the Paris Peace Conference, The Rise of Empires: 18701919 charts how national consolidation, industrial capitalism, and imperial rivalry reordered world power. Hazen narrates Germanys ascent, Britains recalibrations, the partition of Africa and Asia, and the alliance system that made local crises continental. With a lucid, panoramic style grounded in diplomatic and economic history, he links railways, tariffs, and mass politics to the arms race and the catastrophe of 191418. Charles Downer Hazen, an American historian of modern Europe, wrote amid the immediate aftermath of the Great War, distilling years of university teaching into a coherent explanation of causation rather than blame. Trained in diplomatic and institutional history and widely read in memoirs and official papers, he favored clear argument over spectacle, synthesizing scholarship for students and informed publics shaped by Progressiveera expectations of evidence and civic instruction. Recommended to readers of diplomatic, imperial, and military history, this volume offers orientation without oversimplification and context without polemic. Its disciplined synthesis makes it an ideal companion for courses on modern Europe and for general readers seeking to understand how the long prewar decades culminated in global conflict and a new, uneasy international order.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 18381839 is Kembles searing, day-by-day account of life on her husband Pierce Butlers Sea Island estates. Mixing the immediacy of a stage professionals scene-painting with the moral ledger of a reformer, she records housing, rations, childbirth, illness, overseer violence, and the economics of Sea Island cotton. Part travel writing, part abolitionist testimony, the journals dialogic sketches and statistical notations situate it within womens life-writing and antebellum antislavery literature, while its candid self-scrutiny exposes the blind spots of an elite British observer. Daughter of the famed Kemble theatrical dynasty, Fanny Kemble married American heir Pierce Butler in 1834 and reluctantly wintered on his Georgia plantations in 183839. The experience shattered her marriage and transformed her politics. Originally composed as letters, the journal was published in 1863 in London to influence British opinion against Confederate slavery and to explain her estrangement. Scholars and general readers alike will value this book for its granular detail and its anguished, self-interrogating voice. Read it alongside slave narratives, legal documents, and plantation records; read it, above all, to witness conscience confronting the machinery of bondage.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

These opening volumes of The Geography of Strabo present an ambitious synthesis: a survey of the known world that joins mathematical cartography to ethnographic narrative. Strabo expounds method, critiques Homer, Eratosthenes, Polybius, and Hipparchus, and proceeds through the western Mediterranean and Italy, recording topography, resources, myths, and routes. His style, poised between periegesis and historiography, favors sober evaluation over marvels, yet preserves travel lore and local memory. Framed by Augustan rule, the work measures distance, climate, and custom against new imperial networks. Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCEafter 24 CE) studied grammar, rhetoric, and Stoic thought, and traveled from Asia Minor and the Black Sea to Egypt and Rome. Drawing on a scholars library and eyewitness itineraries, he blends Hellenistic criticism with Augustan pragmatism, insisting on measured distances, trustworthy authorities, and geographys civic uses. These volumes suit classicists, historians of science, and readers of travel writing alike, illuminating ancient spatial thought at the hinge of Hellenistic and Roman worlds. Read it for its clear method, disciplined curiosity, and enduring claim that geography is knowledge for action.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Spanning from the French Revolution of 1789 to the armistice of 1918, The Long Nineteenth Century traces Europes passage from ancien régime to mass politics. Hazen integrates statecraft with social and economic changeindustrialization, nationalism, liberalism, imperialismwithin a lucid chronological arc: the Congress system, 1848, Italian and German unifications, findesiecle tensions, and the slide to war. In sober, didactic prose typical of early twentiethcentury syntheses, narrative and analysis are kept in judicious balance. Charles Downer Hazen, an American historian writing in the shadow of the Great War, combined classroom clarity with a diplomatists eye. His experience of 19141918 and long engagement with European political history impelled him to explain how revolutionary ideals, institutions, and power politics interacted from Napoleon to the collapse of empires. Recommended to students and general readers seeking a coherent survey, and to scholars interested in historiography, this book provides a reliable map of Europes modern transformation. Read it for its crisp exposition, careful periodization, and causal argumentation, and as a springboard to later social, cultural, and transnational reinterpretations.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Thomas Pottss Discovery of Witches is the official narrative of the 1612 Lancaster Assizes, especially the Pendle and Samlesbury cases. Styled as a faithful record, it arranges examinations, confessions, and courtroom exchanges in a brisk chronicle that splices legal formulae with vivid set pieces. Situated in early Stuart print culture and the James I regime of the 1604 Witchcraft Act and Daemonologie, it profiles Alizon and Jennet Device, Demdike, Chattox, and others through prosecutorial rhetoric. Active 16121618, Potts served as clerk to the Lancaster circuit and wrote at the behest, and under the correction, of judges Sir James Altham and Sir Edward Bromley. Legal training and dependence on patronage shaped his evidentiary posture: orderly calendaring of depositions, confident glosses on testimony, and didactic asides that vindicate procedure. The book advances his professional aims while advertising judicial efficiency in a county of confessional tension and rumor. Read it as both documentation and advocacy: a primary source that stages confession, child witness, and state authority in print. Students and researchers will find an indispensable, unsettling guide to how early modern England narrated witchcraft as juridical truth.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A Cruising Voyage Around the World (1712) recounts Woodes Rogerss privateering circumnavigation of 17081711 aboard the Duke and Duchess. In brisk, practical prose that fuses logbook precision with commercial commentary, it records latitudes, landfalls, provisioning, disease, coastal ethnographies, and battle reportsfrom rescuing Alexander Selkirk on Juan Fernandez to seizing a Manila galleon off Cabo San Lucas and raiding Guayaquil. Set amid the War of the Spanish Succession and a booming market for travel writing, the book typifies early eighteenth-century seafaring narrative and supplied details later mined by Defoe for Robinson Crusoe. Rogers, a Bristol merchant-captain turned licensed privateer, wrote as both practitioner and promoter of wartime commerce. Letters of marque, investor expectations, and stern crew discipline shape his emphasis on risk, prize law, and profit, while scurvy, storms, and mutiny keep the narrative sober. His later governorship of the Bahamas confirms his commitment to maritime order. Essential for students of maritime history, economic and literary studies, this is a lucid primary source on early globalization. It marries action to data, rewarding scholars and curious readers seeking reliable detail, narrative vigor, and the roots of modern seaborne empire.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

First published in 1709, A New Voyage to Carolina fuses travelogue, natural history, and colonial prospectus into a lucid portrait of the Carolinas. Lawson surveys climate, soils, and waterways; inventories pines, vines, fishes, and game; and notes the growing trade in naval stores. He also depicts the lifeways, diplomacy, and economies of neighboring nations, including Tuscarora and Catawba. Written in the empirical, plain style shaped by Royal Society science, the book anchors Carolina within Atlantic commerce while preserving granular observation. An English-born surveyor and naturalist, Lawson trekked from Charleston to the Pamlico in 17001701, settled at Bath, and became North Carolinas surveyor general. Reliant on Native guides and attentive to settlement schemes at New Bern, he distilled field journals into this study; his 1711 death amid Tuscarora tensions shadows its pages. Readers seeking an indispensable primary account of the early Southits environments, peoples, and ambitionswill find Lawsons narrative both useful and engrossing. It rewards historians, geographers, and naturalists alike, while inviting general readers to reconsider colonization as a braided story of inquiry, exchange, and conflict.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

History of the Ancient Chaldea surveys southern Mesopotamia from Sumerian city-states to the NeoBabylonian age. Rawlinson blends cuneiform evidencetablets, cylinder seals, brick inscriptionswith Herodotus and Berossus, charting Ur and Uruk, Sargon of Akkad, Hammurabi, and Nebuchadnezzar II, alongside religion, astronomy, law, and Gulf commerce. In measured Victorian prose with ample apparatus, it exemplifies early, synthetic Assyriology. George Rawlinson (18121902), Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford and an Anglican cleric, wrote amid the first wave of cuneiform decipherment. A collaborator and brother of Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, he drew on British Museum holdings, his Herodotus scholarship, and The Five Great Monarchies to reconcile epigraphic, classical, and biblical testimonies in a coherent narrative. Scholars of the ancient Near East, classicists, and readers of biblical backgrounds will find this volume indispensable as both synthesis and historiographical landmark. Some Victorian categories now date it, yet its clarity, source-awareness, and breadth make it rewarding for coursework, research libraries, and anyone tracing how knowledge of Chaldeaand Babylonia broadlywas first assembled.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

History of the Eastern Roman Empire surveys Byzantium from the fall of Irene to the accession of Basil I (802867), following rulers from Nikephoros I and Leo V to Theophilos and the regency of Theodora. Bury balances narrative with chapters on administration, finance, court ritual, and the Church, culminating in the end of Iconoclasm. In lucid, restrained prose grounded in chronicles, law, coins, and seals, he corrects Gibbons biases and reframes Byzantine statecraft. J. B. Bury (18611927), an Irish classicist and later Regius Professor at Cambridge, applied a positivist, sourcedriven method refined as editor of Gibbon and historian of Late Antiquity. Fluent in Greek and attentive to German and French Byzantinists, he fused philology with institutional analysis. This volume extends his earlier Later Roman Empire, reflecting a lifelong bid to integrate the medieval Roman East into European history. Scholars and serious readers will value this precise, judicious guide to ninthcentury Constantinople. Clear structure, robust notes, and attention to economic and military mechanisms make it an indispensable entry point into how theology, bureaucracy, and war reshaped a stillRoman empire.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The complete six-volume Decline and Fall follows the Roman world from the Antonines to the 1453 fall of Constantinople, charting the slow erosion of institutions under internal weakness and external pressure. Gibbon unites panoramic narrative with exacting citation, probing Latin, Greek, and ecclesiastical sources in pointed footnotes. His ironic, periodic prosean Enlightenment blend of learning and skepticismtreats military discipline, fiscal strain, religious change, and barbarian settlement; set pieces on Justinian and Belisarius, the rise of Islam, and the Crusades punctuate a sustained analysis of structural transformation. Edward Gibbon (17371794), an English historian and parliamentarian, conceived the project in 1764 on Romes Capitoline Hill, where ritual amid ruins sharpened his purpose. Educated in Lausanne and influenced by Montesquieu, he fused classical models with modern criticism. Militia service and parliamentary work honed his eye for administration, finance, and civic virtuepreoccupations that guide his account of imperial resilience and decay. This complete edition rewards readers seeking a grand narrative joined to primary-source critique. Essential for students of late antiquity and Byzantiumand valuable to political theoristsit offers enduring arguments and style. Approach it as history, literature, and provocation; it remains a foundational, debate-sparking companion to the study of power over time.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.