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  • 3/8 [ACORDEON]
    DEL CAMPO, DAVID
    3/8/2014 ISIS perpetró el último de los 74 genocidios que los yazidis han sufrido a lo largo de la historia, y que ha conducido al exterminio de decenas de miles de personas y al éxodo de otras muchas de sus tierras ancestrales en Sinjar (Kurdistán iraquí).En los 12m2 delimitados por la lona de sus tiendas en los campos de Diyarbakir y Batman (Kurdistán turco), podemos encontra...
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    26,50 €

  • PORTRAIT OF A NEW ANGOLA
    GALLIANI, FRANCESCA / FERNANDES, WALTER
    This book is about the future, not a distant and elusive future, but a future that is being constructed day-by-day by the Angolan people.The pages of this book reveal an Angola transforming at an extraordinary pace. This ancient land, the birthplace of great civilizations, today is at the forefront of African culture. From agriculture to industry, from mining to oil production,...
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    84,00 €

  • A HISTORY OF ETHIOPIA IN PICTURES
    LAST, GEOFFREY / PANKHURST, RICHARD / ROBSON, ERIC
    A través de esta obra se ha querido plasmar la historia visual de Etiopía. Se muestran las reconstrucciones de Aksum en época precristiana, de Lalibela y de sus iglesias talladas en roca, de Gondar en los siglos XVII y XVIII y de las batallas de Maqdala y Adwa. A través de las imágenes visualizamos la gente que vivió en estos lugares: los sabeanos antiguos, la reina Yudit, el r...
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    9,00 €

  • WANDERINGS IN THREE CONTINENTS
    BURTON, RICHARD
    This posthumous volume of essays, first published in 1901, reveals Burton “in the aspect in which he was known best to the world – as a traveler and explorer”. Spanning the period from 1853 to 1870, the most active years of Burton’s life, the book includes chapters on Burton’s controversial pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina, his travels to the city of Harar (in present-day Ethiop...
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    37,50 €

  • PICTORIAL CAMBODIAN TEXTILES
    GREEN, GILLIAN
    Las representaciones pictóricas de ahorcamientos de seda camboyanos, pidan, son únicas en el Sudeste Asiático interior. Muchos de los pocos tejidos antiguos que sobreviven de este género visualizan, en detalle asombroso, temas de Theravada Buddhist y está una respuesta en seda a imágenes similares en otros medios de comunicación artísticos también utilizados en com...
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    49,50 €

  • MAGNUM IRELAND
    LARDINOIS,BRIGITTE / WILLIAMS,VAL
    Thiis is a collection of photographs of the beautiful and complex land of Ireland, by some of the greatest names at Magnum, the leading photographic agency of modern times. ...
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    49,45 €35,00 €

  • LIFE AND AFTERLIFE IN BENIN
    ENWEZOR, OKWUI
    This collection of portraiture, comprising the work of nine photographers from Benin, mostly working during the 1960's and 1970's, opens a new chapter in the history of African photography.Most people's knowledge of West African photography is limited to the Bamako school of Mali, whose masters Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe were widely discovered at the beginning of the 1990's...
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    59,95 €

  • VICEROY OF OUIDAH, THE
    CHATWIN, BRUCE
    In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a man of substance in Ouidah and the founder of a remarkable dynasty. His one remaining ambition is to return to Brazil in triumph, but his friendship with the mad, m...
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    15,00 €

  • IN THE REALM OF GODS AND KINGS
    TOPSFIELD, ANDREW
    Each work is fully illustrated and most of these works have not been previously published. The book also includes short background essays describing aspects of Indian life related to the works. This volume celebrates the wealth and diversity of the arts of India created for the life of courts and temples from 1000 BC to the twentieth century. Paintings, objects and photographs,...
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    55,30 €

  • BOLLYWOOD. POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA
    MOHAN, LALIT (ED.)
    Written by Gulzar, Shyam Benegal, Lalit Mohan Joshi, among many other experts on the Industry, Bollywood, Popular Indian Cinema is the ultimate guide to the most popular of Indian cinema. A gripping analysis of the last 100 years is provided by the book’s editor, Lalit Mohan Joshi. It covers the long Indian film history including rarely seen images from film archives together w...
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    49,45 €

  • ARCHITECTURE FOR THE POOR
    FATHY, HASSAN
    This volume describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers ...
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    42,75 €

  • ARMENIA AND KARABAGH. THE STRUGGLE FOR UNITY
    WALKER, CHRISTOPHER J. (ED)
    The focus of this book is an issue crucial to Armenian identity - the disrupted enclave of mountainous(Nagorno) Karabagh in neighbouring Azerbaijan. For centuries a centre of Armenian culture and intellectual life and with an Armenian majority, Karabagh or Artsakh has consistently been denied an Armenian identity by successive Russian, British and Azeri rulers. Since 1920 Armen...
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    45,53 €