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Los think tanks en España

panorama y estrategias comunicativas

En este libro se analiza qué papel y qué funciones desempeñan los think tanks como actores políticos de indudable relevancia social. Asimismo, se estudian los principales think tanks españoles en las temáticas en las que trabajan, cómo es su organización interna y qué estrategias de ...

Exploradores del Océano

secretos de las profundidades marinas

¡Este no es un libro como los demás! En sus páginas no encontrarás descripciones extensas y complicadas, llenas de palabras largas e incomprensibles. Ahora entenderás todos los datos científicos sobre las profundidades marinas con una simple ojeada, gracias a una técnica conocida como Infografía.

De los derechos humanos

las conferencias Oxford Amnesty de 1993

Las conferencias recogidas en este volumen fueron impartidas bajo los auspicios de Amnistía Internacional en Oxford durante la primavera de 1993 y giran en torno a la sustentación filosófica y la observancia práctica de los derechos humanos. Sus autores son figuras de primera línea del ...

Atlas de los animales

¡Estas a punto de abrir el Atlas más salvaje jamás creado! En sus páginas encontrarás todo tipo de animales: enormes y diminutos, fieros y asustadizos, conocidos, extraños y misteriosos, y hasta especies hoy extinguidas.

Atlas de las Ciudades

¿Sabías que en Lisboa hay un castillo fabuloso? ¿y que en Londres puedes visitar la casa de Sherlock Holmes? ¿o que en Japón hay un barrio dedicado a la tecnología y los videojuegos?. En este atlas encontrarás toda la información que necesitas sobre las ciudades ...

Atlas de la Cocina

La danza de la muerte

et la santa campaña

El pintor y grabador Natalio Bayo nos ofrece una versión del tema clásico de la danza macabra o danza de la muerte, en una mezcla de imagen y poesía.

The return of Carvajal

a mystery

In 2017, the New York Times announced that the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger had been rediscovered. Considered the first autobiography by a Jew in the Americas, the book had been stolen decades earlier from Mexico's National Archives. Here, Ilan Stavans ...

America's forgotten colonial history

This is what we all learned in school: Pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. They had a rough start, but ultimately made a go of it, made friends with the Indians, and celebrated with a big Thanksgiving dinner. Other uptight religious ...

A short history of the American Civil War

The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history, claiming the lives of at least 600,000 soldiers and an unknown number of civilians and slaves. The ...

Old English Lives of Saints. Volume I

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 58)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints-including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops-for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time when England ...

The history of the kings of Britain: the first variant version

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 57)

Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain-the earliest work to detail the legendary foundation of Britain by Brutus the Trojan and the life of King Arthur-was among the most widely read books throughout the Middle Ages. Its sweeping account of the Britons ...

Old English Lives of Saints. Volume III

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 60)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints—including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops—for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time ...

Old English Lives of Saints. Volume II

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 59)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints—including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops—for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time ...

Allegories of the Odyssey

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 56)

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were central to the educational system of Byzantium, yet the religion and culture of the Homeric epics-even the ancient Greek language itself-had become almost unrecognizable to Byzantine Greek readers coming to the texts nearly two millennia later. The scholar, poet ...

Empresses of Late Byzantium

foreign brides, mediators and pious women

With the exception of the wife of Andronikos III Palaiologos, Anna of Savoy, who acted as regent of Byzantium from 1341 to 1347, the lives of the late Byzantine empresses have so far received little scholarly attention. This study presents the biographies of all fifteen ...

The diplomacy of decolonisation

American, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-1964

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American relationship, the book reveals how the UN helped position this event as a lightning rod in ...

Sailing school

navigating science and skill, 1550-1800

Throughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial navigation. They developed schools, textbooks, and instruments to teach the new mathematical techniques to sailors. As these experts debated the value of theory and practice ...

The imperial families of Ancient Rome

Every Roman emperor, recognized or ephemeral, is here assembled with biographical and historical background & as complete a tabular record as possible of each family with brief biographical notes. The introduction guides readers through the events around the Empire's founding, Roman society, genealogical complexities and ...

La espiritualidad cristiana en la España del siglo XV

entre Corte y monasterio

La espiritualidad cristiana en la España del Siglo XV: entre corte y monasterios presenta la gran mística española como culminación de varias corrientes entrelazadas. El presente volumen explora el canon místico ibérico en un marco cronológico jalonado por los grandes acontecimientos históricos, sociales y culturales ...