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Mesmo após setenta anos do início da Segunda Guerra Mundial, completados em 2009, ainda é impossível separar o nome de Adolf Hitler do maior genocídio da história da humanidade. Um conflito atroz, que o mundo jamais conseguiu perdoar. Hitler, seu...

No verão de 1940, a França declara guerra à Alemanha nazista. O pacto Germano-Soviético sela o destino da Polônia. O exército francês se organiza na linha Maginot. Os países começam a se dividir entre os Aliados e o Eixo. Poucos...

Reproduzida pelos pintores, biografada por escritores, representada por estrelas de cinema, Cleópatra é um dos grandes mitos da História. Optando por um olhar inovador e contemporâneo, a autora deste livro capta uma Cleópatra sedutora e fascinante, mas...

A história de uma nação é feita não apenas de brados retumbantes, mas também de palavras de amor sussurradas, muitas vezes, às escondidas. Este livro conta as dificuldades que importantes personagens da nossa história tiveram para efetivar...

Ingrid Marie Elise Bernecker Vasconcellos conta a longa história da família Bernecker, desde os primórdios do século XX na Europa. Uma família que atravessa as duas grandes guerras em Luxemburgo e na Tchecoslováquia, encontra o amor no Egito, conhece a...

"Rio sem Lei", de Hudson Corrêa e Diana Brito, publicado pela Geração Editorial e já nas livrarias, é um trabalho de seis anos de investigação jornalística que relata o surgimento de uma nova facção criminosa...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2025 Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Award Concordia University First Book Award and Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A Hill Times Top 100 Best Book of 2025 The riveting true story of the...

In Leonardo Da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his 20-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject's art, relationships...

In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, had no idea she was changing history when, fed up and tired, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in segregated Alabama. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott...

Robert E. Lee was a brilliant general, a complex soul, and a Southerner to the core. Tapped by Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army in the Civil War, his Virginian roots led him to command the Confederates instead. A charismatic though reluctant leader, his military audacity and tactical...

A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, and the challenging...

Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Remarkable Diaries traces the history of the diary in all its forms, from ancient times to the present day. It brings together historical and literary...

Read by acclaimed actor Alfred Molina, star of The Da Vinci Code, An Education and Chocolat, this is the definitive biography of Leonardo Da Vinci. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative...

Effie Gray, a Scottish beauty, was the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in a loveless and unconsummated union. When her husband invited his protégé John Everett Millais away on holiday, Effie and Millais fell in love. She would inspire some of Millais' most haunting images and embody Victorian society's fears about female sexuality.

Step into the life of one of history’s greatest thinkers and discover how a curious boy from a small village in Italy changed the world forever. From the delicate brushstrokes of the Mona Lisa to the engineering marvels scribbled into secret notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci didn’t just create art—he imagined the future. In this richly detailed and accessible biography, listeners young and old will explore ten fascinating aspects of Leonardo’s genius. Each chapter unlocks a new side of the man whose mind refused to be confined by any single label.

T. W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to understanding the pathologies of contemporary society evident in today's climate emergency, the financial crash, the reappearance of fascism in many countries, and the growing instability of the world order. This Very Short Introduction covers Adorno's work and life, explaining his key philosophical concepts and the philosophical background and historical context of Adorno's thinking.

John Wycliffe, the morning star of the Reformation, gave us the first English translation of the Bible. A noted scholar and teacher at Oxford, John's reliance on the Bible as the sole source of truth stood in stark contrast to the teachings of the Catholic church. His followers went out, teaching and preaching to the common man throughout England. Bowing himself to the authority of the Bible, John's great aim was to bring men to the word. He saw it as the one great authority, the law that exceeded all other laws.

This critically acclaimed imaginary autobiography of Frédéric Chopin was given a privileged place in the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw on his Bicentennial, "Since it's written by him," wrote the museum's director to the author. A work of lovely lyrical and musical accents written in Chopin's voice, Manuscript in Dreams brings to light the most meaningful moments and aspects of the composer’s life and work. Juana Rosa Pita threads together “manuscripts that appeared from dream to dream…” and the result is an ensemble of intimate pieces.

Monstre ou saint, despote ou martyr républicain ? Le nom de Robespierre résonne et fait trembler. Selon les époques et les convictions de ses biographes, Robespierre est érigé en monstre ou en mythe : anecdotes et témoignages sont instrumentalisés, voire inventés, pour démontrer ce que l'on pense de l'homme, mais aussi pour affirmer comment doit être jugée la Révolution. Hervé Leuwers retourne aux sources historiques pour présenter Robespierre, du jeune avocat d'Arras à la figure majeure de la Terreur.

Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most inspirational figures in American history. From his march on Washington to his time in a Birmingham jail, King's life and work continue to have a profound effect on our nation. The Everything Martin Luther King Jr. Book explores King's life, times, and influence.