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America and the world since 1945

American foreign policy is fundamental to any understanding of how the post-war world has been shaped. This insightful and wide-ranging book analyses the policies pursued by each presidency from that of Harry Truman to George W. Bush, and reviews the far-reaching consequences of these actions ...

The first Christian historian

writing the "Acts of the Apostles"

Luke is considered the first historian of Christianity, but his reliability is vigorously disputed among scholars. Daniel Marguerat avoids this true/false quagmire by setting his evaluation of Luke's talent as a historian firmly within the framework of ancient historiography, the rules of ancient ...

Philosophical writings

ohann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) is one of the most important German philosophers of the eighteenth century, who had enormous influence on later thinkers such as Hegel, Schleiermacher, and Nietzsche. His wide-ranging ideas were formative in the development of linguistics, hermeneutics, anthropology, and bible scholarship ...

Models of capitalism

lessons from Latin America

Models of Capitalism examines why some societies with market economies perform much better than others in combining growth and equity, and what the less successful countries can learn from the more successful ones. The contributors look at different models of capitalism in Latin America, Northeast ...

Cybering democracy

public space and the Internet

Nations under siege

globalization and nationalism in Asia

Courtesans in the literature of Spanish Golden Age

Carmen Hsu examines Lope's characterization of the courtesan in a selection of fourteen plays and in La Dorotea. The literature of the courtesan achieves its culmination and transcendence with La Dorotea (1632) by Lope de Vega. Lope's originality lays in his development and ...

Productivity, inequality, and the digital economy

a transatlantic prespective

The widespread diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) has had controversial, seemingly paradoxical consequences. ICT are viewed as driving growth and employment in the United States, while contributing to European unemployment and the so-called Eurosclerosis. At the same time, both the United States and ...

World in figures

2003 edition

Hermenéutica de la vida humana

en torno al Informe Natorp de Marín Heidegger

En el otoño de 1922 Martin Heidegger envió un «Informe» a Paul Natorp en el que le ponía al corriente de sus investigaciones sobre Aristóteles. Algunas personas cercanas a Heidegger recibieron copias del llamado «Informe Natorp», pero, tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, desapareció. Se recuperó ...

Diario de un don nadie

El camino a la felicidad

(Kitab al-tanbin 'alà sabil al-sa'ada)

Objeto de estudio de Alfarabi en varios de sus libros es la felicidad: el fin de la vida humana es lograr la dicha que se alcanza en este mundo, aquella que tiene que ver con el hombre en general y no con el hombre musulmán ...

La dictadura de Franco

(ideología, personajes, métodos)

La comedia villanesca y su escenificación

actas de las XXIV Jornadas de Teatro Clásico : Almagro, 10, 11 y 12 de julio de 2001

Rights, duties and the body

law and ethics of the maternal-fetal conflict

An introduction to Law and Social Theory

Although most law schools recognize the value of introducing students to a broader sociological perspective on law, this usually falls short of a full engagement with sociology as an academic discipline. This book introduces a wide range of sociological traditions, and how they can be ...

Manifest perdition

shipwreck narrative and the disruption of empire

Acknowledgments On the Texts and Translations Prologue: Qui Navigant Mare 1 A Shipwreckful Ship 2 The Discourse of the Shipwreck 3 Manifest Perdition I: Maroonings 4 Manifest Perdition II: Going Under 5 An Illustrious School of Caution Epilogue: The Ministers of Memory Notes Bibliography Permissions ...

On law and legal reasoning

La forma en el contrato de trabajo