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¿De dónde viene la culpa?

La culpa es una emoción que resuena como un eco persistente en todas nuestras acciones y decisiones. Con la culpa nos enfrentamos a la vulnerabilidad y a la moral. No solo es un reflejo de errores pasados, sino también un catalizador de una transformación personal ...

Dinero, crédito bancario y ciclos económicos

En el presente libro, el profesor Huerta de Soto analiza críticamente los fundamentos económicos y jurídicos del actual sistema monetario y crediticio. Éste se caracteriza por su alto grado de intervencionismo y regulación. Y se ha convertido en el talón de Aquiles de la economías ...

The idea of cultural heritage

a liberal perspective

The concept of cultural heritage evolved to preserve important objects and practices, in peacetime and during conflict. It now justifies export controls and government regulation and provides the background to moral claims to valuable works of art and architecture. In this new edition of The ...

Silence of the gods

the untold history of Europe's last pagan peoples

The formal conversion to Christianity in 1387 of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania seemingly marked the end of Europe's last 'pagan' peoples. But the reality was different. At the margins, often under the radar, around the dusky edgelands, pre-Christian religions endured and indeed continued ...

Defeat and division

France at war, 1939-1942

Defeat and Division launches a definitive new account of France in the Second World War. In this first volume, Douglas Porch dissects France's 1940 collapse, the dynamics of occupation, and the rise of Charles de Gaulle's Free France crusade, culminating in the November ...

Resistance and liberation

France at war, 1942-1945

In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence. While Charles de Gaulle rejected the armistice ...

Athena's sisters

reclaiming the women of classical Athens

Athena's Sisters transforms our understanding of Classical Athenian culture and society by approaching its institutions-kinship, slavery, the economy, social organisation-from women's perspectives. It argues that texts on dedications and tombstones set up by women were frequently authored by those women. This significant body ...

Salafi political theology

Salafism is a theological movement whose radical wing is today affiliated with al-Qa'ida and the Islamic State, but which draws on precedents stretching back to the medieval theology of Ibn Taymiyya. This innovative study focuses on the concept of theonomy in salafi thought: the ...

The war that made the Middle East

World War I and the end of the Ottoman Empire

A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East The Ottoman Empire's collapse at the end of the First World War is often treated as ...

Olympia

a cultural history

A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world The memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient world, Olympia ...

Elites and democracy

Why elites always rule democracies-and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy today A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that ...

Driven to Their Knees

Humiliation in Contemporary Politics

How the rhetoric of humiliation defines the powerful and the powerless in modern politics Humiliation pervades our politics, from images of stripped Palestinian men in Gaza to mocking chants at MAGA rallies. It suffuses pictures and videos, speaks through bodies as well as words, and ...

The age of Hitler

and how we will survive it

We live in an age where Hitler and the Nazis dominate our cultural imagination, shaping values once defined by religion. In this book historian Alec Ryrie explores why society remains captivated by this struggle, from history and fiction to modern myths such as Star Wars ...

The invention of infinite growth

how economists came to believe a dangerous delusion

A history of how the pursuit of growth has kept us from creating a more sustainable and just world. Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one of humanity's most powerful and dangerous ideas ...

On theology and theurgy

Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234-305) was not only the biographer of his teacher Plotinus, and the editor of his Enneads, but an important Platonist philosopher in his own right. On Theology and Theurgy presents two of Porphyry's texts, preserved in fragments, in which he ...

Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza

the politics of an Anglo-Spanish life

This book examines the active political life of Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (1566-1614), a poet and mystic who renounced her noble birthright for an ascetic, spiritual life. Historian Freddy Cristóbal Domìnguez draws on Luisa's autobiographical writings, letters, and poetry to explore how piety and ...

The white pedestal

how white nationalists use ancient Greece and Rome to justify hate

How white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist movements in the United States, many of which employ symbols and slogans from Greco-Roman antiquity ...

Los economistas de Franco

Una revisión analítica

José María Zumalacárregui, Paris Eguilaz, Manuel de Torres, Román Perpiñá, Antonio de Miguel, Manuel Arburúa, Mariano Sebastián o Pedro Gual Villalbí fueron miembros del primer Consejo de Economía Nacional, creado en junio de 1940. Después, casi todos los economistas españoles de prestigio fueron pasando por ...

Ramón Gómez de la Serna y el cine

Ramón Gómez de la Serna dedicó gran parte de su creación literaria a la reflexión sobre el cine. La selección de textos comentados que ofrece el presente libro revela por vez primera la gran herencia de su pensamiento fílmico, volcado en páginas inéditas hasta la ...

Textos para la historia de la imprenta

(1534-1811)

Este libro pretende ofrecer un recorrido por la historia de la imprenta europea desde el siglo XVI hasta principios del siglo XIX. A diferencia de otras obras de temática similar, el camino que se traza aquí se apoya en textos de gran relevancia que hasta ...