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Teoría del apego y crianza natural en los juzgados de familia

Esta monografía de investigación tiene un doble propósito; por una parte, acercar el concepto de ‘apego' a los profesionales de la psicología forense, al que muchos son ajenos y, por otro lado, acercar el mundo judicial a las familias que deseen conocerlo. En todo momento ...

Phrygian linguistics and epigraphy

new insights

These are good times for research on Phrygian. More scholars than ever are focusing on this language and many novelties (including new inscriptions and innovative interpretations) are emerging relatively frequently. Promoting the diversity of starting point and focuses is a way to improve our knowledge ...

Otro invierno llegará

Bruno Manera y Federica Pesenti parecen una pareja feliz. Él es un rico heredero del valle cuya fortuna no es del todo transparente, mientras que ella es una mujer vistosa y elegante, heredera de la prestigiosa dinastía Pesenti. Un día cualquiera, Manera empieza a sufrir ...

Las sepultureras

Un libro conciso, demoledor, brillante y, en última instancia, sanador. Una hazaña increíble condensada en este excepcional testimonio, reportaje literario o road trip. Dos mujeres cavando, miles de huesos sin nombre, una tierra inconsolable —Bosnia-Herzegovina— y una escritora valiente y lúcida. 'Las sepultureras' recoge los ...

Intimidades

Una joven se muda de Nueva York a La Haya para empezar a trabajar como intérprete en la Corte Penal Internacional. La plenitud que le procura su nueva vida -una estimulante red de conocidos y amigos, un buen empleo, una incipiente historia de amor- le ...

Raúl Ruiz

Potencias de lo múltiple

Con el objetivo de abarcar la actividad creativa plural y disgregante de Raúl Ruiz, este libro reúne múltiples perspectivas y metodologías de análisis, ensanchando así las vías de acceso a su catálogo y propiciando la indagación crítica de sus zonas más recónditas. Se trata, por ...

Imágenes (para seguir)

De la persecución en el cine y otros sitios

Con un estilo desenfadado y rico en asociaciones, este libro que quiere no ser tal propone una reflexión aguda y actual en torno a las imágenes y su circulación, principalmente a través del cine, pero también en compañía de otras artes, como la música, la ...

Sinuosidades de lo politico

Lo político es el intento por nombrar la incomodidad estructural de los que sobran, de los que patean piedras, de los sin nombre. Sin embargo, lo innombrable emerge de manera sinuosa de tanto en tanto. A contrapelo de los guardianes de la verdad oficial, se ...

Constituir

el acto de comenzar democráticamente

Desde distintos puntos de vista y sensibilidades, Constituir ahonda en la relación entre el poder constituyente de la ciudadanía y la articulación de un principio regulador sobre el que se instituye la vida cívica. A modo de tríptico, este libro propone una revisión histórico-conceptual de ...

Cult of the dead

a brief history of Christianity

A cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs. Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged in death. Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyrs who chose to die rather than renounce the name of their lord. In ...

Manual de Historia de la Medicina

La pandemia global ha trastocado profundamente la percepción social de la enfermedad, del riesgo, de la medicina y de los límites de la libertad. Por eso, la historia de la medicina resulta esencial para comprender el presente y proyectar el futuro. Porque la medicina va ...

Rediscovering the Islamic classics

how editors and print culture transformed an intellectual tradition

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature Islamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate ...

Nonstate warfare

the military methods of guerillas, warlords, and militias

How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfare Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state ...

White Freedom

the racial history of an idea

he racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also ...

The spectre of war

international communism and the origins of World War II

A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful ...

The Indies of the setting sun

how early modern Spain mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West

Padrón reveals the evolution of Spain's imagining of the New World as a space in continuity with Asia. Narratives of Europe's westward expansion often tell of how the Americas came to be known as a distinct landmass, separate from Asia and uniquely positioned ...

The Naqab bedouins

a century of politics and resistance

Conventional wisdom positions the Bedouins in southern Palestine and under Israeli military rule as victims or passive recipients. In The Naqab Bedouins, Mansour Nasasra rewrites this narrative, presenting them as active agents who, in defending their community and culture, have defied attempts at subjugation and ...

The politics of Arab authenticity

challenges to postcolonial thought

By the beginning of the 1970s, the modernizing political and cultural movements that had dominated the postwar Arab world were collapsing. The postcolonial project they had fashioned, which sought to create a decolonized order and a new Arab man, had suffered a shattering defeat in ...

Nakba and survival

the story of Palestinians who remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956

Beginning in 1948, Israeli paramilitary forces began violently displacing Palestinian Arabs from Palestine. Nakba and Survival tells the stories of Palestinians in Haifa and the Galilee during, and in the decade after, mass dispossession. Manna uses oral histories and Palestinian and Israeli archives, diaries, and ...

Creating the Qur'an

a historical-critical study

Creating the Qur'an presents the first systematic historical-critical study of the Qur'an's origins, drawing on methods and perspectives commonly used to study other scriptural traditions. Demonstrating in detail that the Islamic tradition relates not a single attested account of the holy text ...