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El órgano transparente

la inteligencia de tu sistema inmunitario

El sistema inmunitario es un «órgano» inteligente y transparente de cuya existencia somos poco conscientes, pero cuya complejidad y perfección nos maravilla. El Dr. Ricardo Cubedo, oncólogo y divulgador científico, consigue con este libro y con un lenguaje al alcance de todos: desvelar la relación ...

Vulnerable

Goglu es una niña soñadora con una joven madre trabajadora, un padrastro indiferente y un padre que vive a 8.000 km de distancia. En esos años de infancia y adolescencia desatendidas y semisalvajes, el arte, el punk rock y el anhelo de una verdadera ...

Libro de las bestias

Por primera vez, una de las obras mas relevantes de la época medieval se adapta a cómic, de la mano de uno de los más prestigiosos dibujantes del país. ¿Qué hacen tantos animales aquí reunidos? ¡Pues elegir rey! Todo parece indicar que será el León ...

Hombres made in Moscú

Este es, quizá, el mejor libro que se haya escrito nunca sobre la guerra civil española. No hay otro que describa con tanto músculo, talento y precisión la inmediatez con la que en pleno desorden civil cualquier ciudadano se convierte de manera irreversible en víctima ...

Putin's war on Ukraine

Russia's campaign for global counter-revolution

Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in February 2022. For Vladimir Putin, this was a legacy-defining mission-to restore Russia's sphere of influence and undo Ukraine's surprisingly resilient democratic experiment. Yet Putin's aspirations were swiftly ...

China and North Africa

between economics, politics and security

As the United States slowly disengages from the Middle East and Europe faces internal challenges, a new actor is quietly exerting greater influence across North Africa: China. Beijing's growing footprint in North Africa encompasses, but is not limited to, trade, infrastructure development, ports, shipping ...

The real is radical

Marx after Laruelle

The Real is Radical is centrally concerned with the explication and development of François Laruelle's theory of "non-standard Marxism." Fardy assembles a constellation of concepts designed to put Laruelle's work into dialogue with diverse theoretical perspectives, including Althusser, Tronti, Adorno, Baudrillard, Kolozova and ...

Augustine's Soliloquies in Old English and in Latin

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 76)

A new edition featuring Saint Augustine's dialogue on immortality from a tenth-century Latin manuscript, accompanied by an Old English vernacular adaptation translated into modern English for the first time in a hundred years. Around the turn of the tenth century, an anonymous scholar crafted ...

Miracles of the Virgin; Tract on Abuses

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 75)

The first English translation of the earliest Latin poems about miracles performed by the Virgin Mary, composed in twelfth-century Canterbury by a Benedictine monk who inspired Chaucer. Nigel (ca. 1135-1198), a Benedictine monk at Christ Church in Canterbury, is best known for The Mirror of ...

The decline and fall of republican Afghanistan

The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and inefficiency in aid delivery. Yet, while corrosive, these problems were not in themselves sufficient to have brought about a collapse. To a significant ...

Virtue politics

soulcraft and statecraft in Renaissance Italy

Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; religious leaders ...

Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War

The war in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray began in November 2020. It inflicted more casualties than any other contemporary conflict in the world. It has also been among the least understood. The fighting and accompanying blockade led to an estimated 600,000 deaths ...

How civil wars start

and how to stop them

We are now living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, major civil wars are now being fought in countries including Iraq, Syria and Libya, and smaller civil wars are being fought in India and Malaysia. Even countries ...

The great New York fire of 1776

a lost story of the American Revolution

Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War? New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That ...

Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean

maritime marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean

Did British, French and Russian gunboats pacify the notoriously corsair-infested waters of the Eastern Mediterranean? This book charts the changing rates and nature of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth century. Using Ottoman, Greek and other archival sources, it shows that far from ...

Juego de damas

Rosario Castellanos, Gloria Fuertes, Francisca Aguirre, Ángeles Mora, Amalia Bautista, Lola Mascarell

Este Juego de damas convoca a seis poetas de los siglos XX y XXI: Rosario Castellanos, Gloria Fuertes, Francisca Aguirre, Ángeles Mora, Amalia Bautista y Lola Mascarell. Todas ellas son mujeres de acción, la que da el pensamiento sobre sí mismas y lo que las ...

La aventura empresarial de una impresora y editora del siglo XX

Zoila Ascasíbar Artola (¿1923?-1936)

La aventura empresarial de una impresora y editora del siglo XX. Zoila Ascasíbar Artola, es un libro muy documentado que pretende ser una aportación a la historia de la impresión y la edición españolas del siglo XX realizada por mujeres. En un momento en el ...

Federación o muerte

los mundos posibles del Cantón de Cartagena (1873)

12 de julio de 1873: los “voluntarios movilizados” de Cartagena proclaman un cantón republicano autónomo. Mientras izan la bandera roja sobre las fortificaciones y los buques de guerra atracados en la bahía, decenas de ciudades españolas declaran también sus cantones. Los insurgentes pretenden dar a ...

La dictadura de Primo de Rivera (1923-1930)

paradojas y contradicciones del nuevo régimen

El golpe de Estado del general Miguel Primo de Rivera dio comienzo a una dictadura militar (1923-1930) sin complejos, que se autoproclamó capaz de resolver problemas antiguos con ideas y protagonistas renovados. El declive de la Restauración, el auge del intervencionismo militar y el propio ...

Gabinete de curiosidades

Un cuaderno de Tintablanca dedicado a los millones de oyentes que abrazaron el podcast Gabinete de Curiosidades, lleno de preguntas, reflexiones, citas y curiosidades. El Cuaderno Gabinete de Curiosidades de Tintablanca es el más bello homenaje a uno de los más escuchados, admirados y premiados ...