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Historia Augusta. Volume I

(Loeb Classical Library; 139)

The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a lacuna between the lives of the Gordians and ...

Historia Augusta. Volume III

(Loeb Classical Library; 263)

The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a lacuna between the lives of the Gordians and ...

D-Day through French eyes

Normandy 1944

A gripping account of what it was like to be in the midst of the Norman Invasion on D-Day and immediately afterward. Silent parachutes dotting the night sky-that's how one woman in Normandy in June 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was underway. Though ...

Medieval marvels and fictions in the latin west and islamic world

A cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages. Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers' stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period's philosophical writing. Rather than constructions of belief ...

Contesting Nietzsche

A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy. In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades ...

Power and restraint in China's rise

Conventional wisdom holds that China's rise is disrupting the global balance of power in unpredictable ways. However, China has often deferred to the consensus of smaller neighboring countries on regional security rather than running roughshod over them. Why and when does China exercise restraint-and ...

Global Easts

remembering, imagining, mobilizing

South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country's development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist Poland, Lim recognized striking similarities between Korean and Polish ...

The end of two illusions

Islam after the West

Dismantling the myths that divide Islam and the West, this cutting-edge work of critical thinking proposes new ways to reread Islamic and world histories. Extending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most revelatory histories of the last ...

War virtually

the quest to automate conflict, militarize data, and predict the future

A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare-and why we must resist. War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at ...

The Variae

the complete translation

Cassiodorus-famed throughout history as one of the great Christian exegetes of antiquity-spent most of his life as a high-ranking public official under the Ostrogothic King Theoderic and his heirs. He produced the Variae, a unique letter collection that gave witness to the sixth-century Mediterranean, as ...

Huizhou

local identity and mercantile lineage culture in Ming China

Huizhou studies the construction of local identity through kinship in the prefecture of Huizhou, the most prominent merchant stronghold of Ming China. Employing an array of untapped genealogies and other sources, Qitao Guo explores how developments in the sociocultural, religious, and gender realms from the ...

Tolerance is a wasteland

Palestine and the culture of denial

How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact ...

Amor impossibilis

textos y pretextos de escritoras españolas (S.XX-XXI)

De autoras que escriben sobre mujeres, sobre sus relaciones, sus amores, sus pensamientos, sus ideas, sus miedos, sus dramas, sus risas y sus obras va este libro. Utilizadlo como un GPS para encontrar escritoras, a veces poco conocidas y otras invisibilizadas, que muestran una manera ...

Vote for America

cómo entender las elecciones en Estados Unidos

Las elecciones de Estados Unidos siempre han generado interés en todo el mundo por sus repercusiones en la política internacional, y de un modo creciente en la última década. Sin embargo, sigue existiendo un desconocimiento generalizado sobre el sistema electoral estadounidense e incluso sobre su ...

Otras historias de procesalistas y del proceso

Esta obra es complemento y continuación del libro del mismo autor Historias de procesalistas, universidades y una guerra civil (1900-1950) (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid/ed. Dykinson, Madrid, 2012), e incluye diversos trabajos elaborados en los últimos años y referidos a procesalistas del pasado más ...

Los Beaumont: un linaje navarro de sangre Real

Estudio histórico-genealógico

The world the plague made

the Black Death and the rise of Europe

A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused ...

España en el ruedo

género y nación a través de las corridas de toros (1874-1931)

A mediados del siglo XIX, el torero y la tauromaquia se convirtieron en uno de los pilares sobre los que se construyó la nación española. Este fenómeno ha tenido un impacto importante en la definición cultural de España y en la manera de representar a ...

En zona roja

la Quinta Columna en la Guerra Civil Española

El avión derribado a finales de 1936 que transportaba al delegado del Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja en Madrid para denunciar en Ginebra las matanzas de Paracuellos no solo llevaba documentación probatoria; también informes secretos para el presidente de la Junta Técnica del Estado ...

Magna

una geografía cultural y humana del Mágreb

La bibliografía dedicada al Mágreb en nuestro país continúa siendo escasa; de ahí el interés de una obra como ésta en la que se abordan cuestiones relevantes y se ofrecen claves de interpretación de la historia magrebí. Este volumen colectivo se enmarca en una renovada ...