Libros de

Juan Domínguez de Mendoza

Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627-1693

Studies of seventeenth-century New Mexico have largely overlooked the soldiers and frontier settlers who formed the backbone of the colony and laid the foundations of European society in a distant outpost of Spain's North American empire. This book, the final volume in the Coronado ...

Necropolis

Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

In antebellum New Orleans, at the heart of America's slave and cotton kingdoms, epidemics of yellow fever killed as many as 150,000 people. With little understanding of the origins of the illness-and meager public health infrastructure-one's only hope if infected was to ...

The Lineage of the Raghus

A new English translation of Raghuvamsa by the celebrated Sanskrit poet Kalidasa, who inspired such modern writers as Goethe and Tagore. For a millennium and a half, Kalidasa's works-from The Cloud Messenger to The Recognition of Shakuntala-have delighted audiences in India and beyond. Although ...

Representation

The Death of the Past and the Birth of Historical Reality

What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit-the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today-offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline. Based on a new reading of ...

The Patriots' Dilemma

White Abolitionism and Black Banishment in the Founding of the United States of America

Timely and controversial, The Patriots' Dilemma confronts longstanding interpretations of U.S. history that emphasize a fundamental conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery interests. By 1776, influential American patriots acknowledged that slavery was incompatible with the ideals of the republic. But a republic for whom? As ...

Una alegría en voz alta: mi correspondencia con Jorge Guillén (1964-1982)

El lector tiene en sus manos un epistolario singular, en el que Jorge Guillén desvela los entresijos de su alma soleada a una joven que comenzaba a abrirse a los estudios literarios en la década de los años sesenta. Esa joven, Luce López-Baralt, se cartea ...

Ricardo de Ángel Yágüez, maestro y amigo

«Una pléyade de autores nos ofrece aquí unas semblanzas del profesor Ricardo de Ángel, hiladas no tanto desde lo académico, sino desde lo personal, haciendo un guiño al Ricardo con el que hemos compartido, dentro y fuera de las aulas y los despachos, vivencias y ...

The end of empires and a world remade

a global history of decolonization

A capacious history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the era of globalization Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. Decolonization ...

125 casos ganados por no ser delito de conducción bajo influencia del alcohol o drogas

En esta nueva edición de la colección Casos ganados, se presentan 125 sentencias en las que el conductor de un vehículo ha sido absuelto del delito de conducción bajo la influencia de alcohol o drogas. Se incluye una gran variedad de resoluciones, desde sentencias que ...

Procedimientos tributarios

Normativa 2024

La presente publicación contiene, actualizada 15 de abril de 2024, la normativa que conforma la estructura central del sistema fiscal, esto es, la Ley General Tributaria (Ley 58/2003, de 17 de diciembre), así como sus reglamentos de desarrollo: Reglamento del régimen sancionador tributario (Real ...

El libro negro del emprendedor

No digas que nunca te lo advirtieron

Desde su publicación, El libro negro del emprendedor se ha convertido en un referente y es uno de los textos básicos e imprescindibles en el mundo del emprendimiento para todos aquellos que buscan convertir en negocio sus ideas y conseguir que funcionen.En este manual ...

La prima Fernanda

Un banquero, un general convertido en marqués, un diputado y una joven idealista son los ejes centrales de esta comedia. Cuando Leonardo dejó pasar la ocasión de corresponder al amor por su prima Fernanda no podía imaginar que al cabo de los años esta regresaría ...

El castillo de los Cárpatos

El viejo castillo del varón Rodolfo de Gortz está casi en ruinas y deshabitado. A su sombra, los vecinos del pequeño pueblo de Werst, en los montes Cárpatos transilvanos, lo observan con igual dosis de temor y superstición. El día que una columna de humo ...

El amor de los hombres solitarios

Una irrepetible novela sobre la huella imborrable que deja en nosotros el primer amor En la década de los setenta, durante los años de la dictadura militar, la familia de Camilo vive en una villa burguesa que desentona en medio del barrio de Queím, uno ...

Pan y la pesadilla

Pan, el dios-cabra, el dios peludo, fálico y errante que persigue a las ninfas para poseerlas, es la divinidad que representa a la naturaleza como fuerza generadora primigenia, al mismo tiempo que encarna en lo humano nuestro instinto más natural y más oscuro. Allí donde ...

The Ukrainian night

an intimate history of revolution

A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential "Shore brilliantly captures the contingency, uncertainty, and chaos that was transmuted into the remarkable, seemingly transcendent solidarity of the Maidan's unified resistance to a corrupt and ...

How to steal a presidential election

From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen-by entirely legal means "Their new book asks whether a second Trump attempt to subvert democracy could succeed. Their answer makes for uncomfortable reading."-Ed Pilkington, The Guardian ...

As if human

ethics and artificial intelligence

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms ...

The belt and road city

geopolitics, urbanization, and China's search for a new international order

An exploration of how China's Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new era of infrastructural geopolitics Over the past decade China has put infrastructural and urban development at the heart of a strategy aimed at ...

Battleground Ukraine

from independence to the war with Russia

The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion In 1991, after seventy years of imperial Soviet rule, Ukraine became an independent country. Since 2022, it has been fighting an existential war ...