Best Selling Books by Margaret MACMILLAN

Diez estrategias para tener éxito en la vida ¿Disfruta de su vida? ¿Confía en sus decisiones? Si no es así, usted no está solo. Muchos nunca aprendieron cómo crear las bases para llevar una vida feliz. Pero ahora ha llegado el momento de disfrutarla a plenitud. "El reto de la vida" presenta las diez estrategias necesarias para enfrentar el juego de la vida, y resultar como un gran vencedor. Es una táctica dinámica e innovadora. Por medio de ésta obra, el autor le ofrece sus veinte años de experiencia en la enseñaza sobre principios básicos de salud, los deportes, y las artes marciales.

Het Verdrag van Versailles (1919) maakte formeel een einde van de Eerste Wereldoorlog. In ‘Vredestichters’ beschrijft Margaret MacMillan de totstandkoming van het verdrag. Margaret MacMillan vertelt in ‘Parijs 1919’ over de onderhandelingen en de uitkomst van het Verdrag van Versailles en over degenen die de wereldkaart opnieuw intekenden. Wilson, Lloyd George en Clemenceau zaten aan de onderhandelingstafel, maar duizenden anderen mannen en vrouwen kwamen bijeen: koningen, ministers, journalisten en lobbyisten kwamen voor hun eigen belangen naar Parijs. In ‘Parijs 1919’, dat vele internationale prijzen won, schetst Margaret MacMillan niet alleen een portret van die belangrijke gebeurtenissen in 1919, maar toont ook de oorsprong van de moderne wereld zoals wij die nu kennen.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - The Economist - The Christian Science Monitor - Bloomberg Businessweek - The Globe and Mail From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I. The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. In the first years of the twentieth century, Europe believed it was marching to a golden, happy, and prosperous future. But instead, complex personalities and rivalries, colonialism and ethnic nationalisms, and shifting alliances helped to bring about the failure of the long peace and the outbreak of a war that transformed Europe and the world. The War That Ended Peace brings vividly to life the military leaders, politicians, diplomats, bankers, and the extended, interrelated family of crowned headsacross Europe who failed to stop the descent into war: in Germany, the mercurial Kaiser Wilhelm II and the chief of the German general staff, Von Moltke the Younger; in Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph, a man who tried, through sheer hard work, to stave off the coming chaos in his empire; in Russia, Tsar Nicholas II and his wife; in Britain, King Edward VII, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, and British admiral Jacky Fisher, the fierce advocate of naval reform who entered into the arms race with Germany that pushed the continent toward confrontation on land and sea. There are the would-be peacemakers as well, among them prophets of the horrors of future wars whose warnings went unheeded: Alfred Nobel, who donated his fortune to the cause of international understanding, and Bertha von Suttner, a writer and activist who was the first woman awarded Nobel''s new Peace Prize. Here too we meet the urbane and cosmopolitan Count Harry Kessler, who noticed many of the early signs that something was stirring in Europe; the young Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty and a rising figure in British politics; Madame Caillaux, who shot a man who might have been a force for peace; and more. With indelible portraits, MacMillan shows how the fateful decisions of a few powerful people changed the course of history. Taut, suspenseful, and impossible to put down, The War That Ended Peace is also a wise cautionary reminder of how wars happen in spite of the near-universal desire to keep the peace. Destined to become a classic in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman''s The Guns of August, The War That Ended Peace enriches our understanding of one of the defining periods and events of the twentieth century.

Paris, 1919 : après la " guerre qui devait mettre fin à toutes les guerres ", des hommes et des femmes de tous les pays convergent vers la capitale pour la conférence de la Paix où va se redessiner la carte du monde. Outre les représentants des plus grandes puissances victorieuses - Wilson, Lloyd George et Clemenceau -, affluent journalistes, ambassadeurs et porte-parole de cent causes différentes - de T.E. Lawrence à la reine Marie de Roumanie, en passant par J.M. Keynes et Hô Chi Minh. Paris est alors le centre du monde, le lieu où se liquident les empires, où naissent de nouveaux pays, et où vont se nouer drames et malentendus. Car les " artisans de la paix " mirent la Russie à l''écart, s''aliénèrent la Chine, congédièrent les Arabes, se débattirent avec les problèmes du Kosovo, des Kurdes, d''un foyer national pour les Juifs. Leurs objectifs - faire payer les vaincus sans les détruire, satisfaire d''impossibles revendications nationales et créer un ordre mondial démocratique fondé sur la raison - étaient inconciliables. Vivant, solide, précis, brillant, couronné par de nombreux prix (Duff Cooper Prize, Samuel Johnson BBC Prize, Hessell Tiltman History Prize, New York Times Selection), cet ouvrage est devenu la référence sur la naissance du monde contemporain.

Presents 30 different detachable postcards of Ireland bound into book form. Includes a single page introduction which gives a general overview of Ireland.