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Post York

Un relato admonitorio de terror medioambiental y supervivencia.Los casquetes polares se han derretido… Crosby, un joven solitario que se mantiene independiente en mitad de una comunidad de jóvenes supervivientes que han perdido toda esperanza, se esfuerza por salir adelante día tras día en una ...

Locos de la historia

Rasputín, Luisa Isabel de Orleáns, Mesalina y otros personajes egregios

«Con este libro rindo tributo a mi padre y a mi abuelo; ambos médicos psiquiatras, escritores y excepcionales maestros en el arte de disfrutar aprendiendo y gozar enseñando. Continúo la serie de «Locos egregios» que iniciase mi abuelo Antonio y continuase mi padre, Juan Antonio ...

Cosmosapiens

la evolución humana desde los orígenes del Universo

Los campos de especialización científica se desarrollan a velocidad de vértigo, pero ¿qué nos están explicando en realidad sobre cómo empezó el universo y sobre cómo evolucionó el ser humano para llegar a jugar un papel tan dominante en la Tierra? La expedición extraordinariamente ambiciosa ...

The Pirates' Code

Laws and Life Aboard Ship

Fall captive to the code-the real-life buccaneer bylaws that shaped every aspect of a pirate's life. Pirates have long captured our imaginations with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches, and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was ...

Andrey Rublev

the artist and his world

A critical biography of the most celebrated religious icon painter in medieval Russia. A monk from Moscow, Andrey Rublev (c.1360-c.1430) is heralded as the greatest painter of religious icons and frescos in medieval Russia. Nevertheless, his life remains largely mysterious to historians and ...

The Hittites

lost civilizations

An accessible introduction to the Bronze Age culture in Asia Minor. Famed for their warriors, the Hittites flourished in the region of modern Turkey from the seventeenth to thirteenth centuries BC. In this book, archaeologist Damien Stone explores the rich history of the Hittite civilization ...

The Persians

lost civilizations

Now in paperback, this is a history of an incomparable culture whose influence can still be seen, millennia later, in modern-day Iran and the wider Middle East. During the first and second millennia BCE a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into ...

Alle thyng hath tyme

time and medieval life

An insightful account of how medieval people experienced time. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people's experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical-from creation through judgment and into eternity. Medieval people measured time by natural phenomena such as sunrise and sunset, the ...

The new crusades

Islamophobia and the global war on Muslims

The first book to examine global Islamophobia from a legal and ground-up perspective, from renowned public intellectual Khaled A. Beydoun. Islamophobia has spiraled into a global menace, and democratic and authoritarian regimes alike have deployed it as a strategy to persecute their Muslim populations. With ...

White power and American neoliberal culture

How two seemingly separate forces-white power and neoliberalism-intersect and polarize the United States today. White Power and American Neoliberal Culture speaks to the urgency of the present moment by uncovering and examining the ideologies that led us here. Working through sources such as white terrorist ...

Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the magic arts

from the Welsh Chronicle of the six ages of the world

The original Welsh stories of these beloved characters and their world for the first time in English The stories in Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts deal with well-known figures from medieval Britain who will be familiar to many readers-though not from the ...

The consuming fire

the complete priestly source, from creation to the promised land

Uncovering an ancient foundation myth, and literary tour de force, obscured within the modern Bible. Embedded within the Bible lies a largely unknown story of the founding of ancient Israel and its religion, interwoven with other ancient tales more than two thousand years ago in ...

Bury the corpse of colonialism

the revolutionary feminist conference of 1949

An intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women's Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influence on feminist anticolonialism around the world. In 1949, revolutionary activists from Asia hosted a conference in Beijing that gathered together their comrades from around the world. The ...

Singular pasts

the "I" in historiography

Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life of the author. Neither traditional history nor autobiography, this hybrid genre calls the norms of ...

Gods and mortals

ancient Greek myths for modern readers

Gripping tales that abound with fantastic characters and astonishing twists and turns, Greek myths confront what it means to be mortal in a world of powerful forces beyond human control. Little wonder that they continue to fascinate readers thousands of years after they were first ...

The precious summary

a history of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing dynasty

The Mongols, their khans, and the empire they built and ruled in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries exert an enduring fascination. Caricatured as a marauding horde that ravaged surrounding peoples, in reality the Mongols created institutions, trading networks, economic systems, and intellectual and technological exchanges ...

Sacred foundations

the religious and medieval roots of the European state

How the medieval church drove state formation in Europe Sacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation. Existing accounts focus on early modern warfare or contracts between the rulers and the ruled. In contrast, this major study shows ...

The Soviet century

archaeology of a lost world

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR ...

America before 1787

the unraveling of a colonial regime

An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American Revolution With America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America. Here ...

Guy Debord

Pasan los años y, lejos de diluirse entre la cháchara del tiempo, el pensamiento de Guy Debord (1931-1994) —su aportación teórica y práctica— se percibe con mayor nitidez. Muy a pesar de las múltiples operaciones políticas, mediáticas o policiacas que han tratado de desactivarlo, sus ...