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Historia de la psicología

de la Antigüedad a nuestros días

La historia de la psicología vista por un hombre al que le preocupa la vida cultural en su movimiento dialéctico; donde el afán permanente de objetividad no impide un cierto tono de pasión por las ideas, y que confiere a la obra su total unidad ...

The art of anatomy in medieval Europe

A new history of the medieval illustrations that birthed modern anatomy. This book is the first history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrated, The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe explores the many ways in which medieval surgeons, doctors, monks, and artists understood and ...

A world safe for democracy

liberal internationalism and the crises of global order

For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal challengers and from the inside by ...

Travellers through time

a gypsy history

An accessible history of the Roma people in England told from the inside. The Romany people have been variously portrayed as exotic strangers or as crude, violent, delinquent "gypsies." For the first time, this book describes the real history of the Romany in England from ...

Navigations

the Portuguese discoveries and the Renaissance

A critical reassessment of world-shaping Portuguese voyages of discovery that places these quests in historical context. The lasting impact of historic Portuguese voyages of discovery is unquestionable. The slave trade, the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews, and the intercontinental spread of plants and animals all ...

1923. El golpe de Estado que cambió la Historia de España

Primo de Rivera y la quiebra de la monarquía liberal

Primo de Rivera y la quiebra de la monarquía liberal. La madrugada del 13 de septiembre de 1923, Miguel Primo de Rivera cumplió su ultimátum al rey y al Gobierno, y declaró el estado de guerra en Barcelona. Al amanecer, su golpe de Estado había ...

Korea

a new history of South and North

A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day Korea has a long, riveting history-it is also a divided nation. South Korea is a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a world-renowned ...

Henry III

reform, rebellion, civil war, settlement, 1259-1272

The second volume in the definitive history of Henry III's rule, covering the revolutionary events between 1258 and the king's death in 1272 After coming to the throne aged just nine, Henry III spent much of his reign peaceably. Conciliatory and deeply religious ...

Martin Heidegger's changing destinies

Catholicism, revolution, Nazism

A portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher In this biography of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), now available in English, historian Guillaume Payen synthesizes the connections between the German philosopher's life and work. Critically, but without polemics, he creates a portrait of ...

Barnave

the revolutionary who lost his head for Marie-Antoinette

A major new biography of Antoine Barnave-the politician and writer who advocated for a constitutional monarchy in revolutionary France Antoine Barnave was one of the most influential statesmen in the early French Revolution. He was a didactic man of austere morals and vaulting ambition who ...

The week

a history of the unnatural rhythms that made us who we are

We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world. With meticulous archival research that draws on ...

Leyes administrativas

(Anotadas, concordadas y comentadas)

El presente volumen, que aparece en su 29ª edición, renovado y ampliado, incluye a texto completo y plenamente actualizadas las normas del Derecho Administrativo de más frecuente uso. Convertida en una referencia y aceptada como tal por sus numerosos usuarios, la obra cumple así la ...

Tempest

the Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions

A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas ...

Victorious in defeat

the life and times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975

An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new, republican ...

Ramesses the Great

Egypt's king of kings

Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the wider Egyptian empire from 1279 to 1213 B.C., one of the longest reigns in pharaonic history. He was a cultural innovator, a relentless self-promoter, and an astute diplomat-the peace treaty signed after the Battle of Kadesh ...

Enheduana

the complete poems of the world's first author

The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only does Enheduana have ...

The two moralities

conservatives, liberals, and the roots of our political divide

The most complete picture to date of the moral worlds of the political left and right and how their different views relate to specific political issues The left and right will always have strong policy disagreements, but constructive debate and negotiation are not possible when ...

Critical revolutionaries

five critics who changed the way we read

Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large. In the years following, a younger generation of critics came to the fore ...

The tropical turn

agricultural innovation in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean

This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels the breathtaking ...

Edward Hopper

an intimate biography

Edward Hopper's canvasses are filled with stripped-down spaces and unrelenting light, evocative landscapes, and the lonely aspects of men and women seemingly isolated in their surroundings. What kind of man had this haunting vision, and what kind of life engendered this art? No one ...