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José Celestino Mutis, una expedición botánica = a botanical expedition

La Fábrica presenta en asociación con el Real Jardín Botánico una exquisita colección de dibujos elaborados durante la Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada, liderada por José Celestino Mutis y que permitió la recolección y clasificación de más de 20.000 especies vegetales ...

Revista La Maleta de Portbou, Nº 35, año 2019

Manuel Herrera Piña

Fotografías: Ciudad Real en los años 70

La memoria visual de la provincia de Ciudad Real durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX no se puede entender sin las fotografías de Manuel Herrera Piña (1934-2007). Sus imágenes como reportero de prensa forman parte del pasado reciente, hasta convertirse en elementos indispensable para ...

El increíble viaje de Alexander von Humboldt al corazón de la naturaleza

Alexander Humboldt fue un intrépido explorador y el científico más famoso de su época. Su agitada vida estuvo repleta de aventuras y descubrimientos: escaló los volcanes más altos del mundo, remó por el Orinoco y recorrió una Siberia infestada de ántrax. Capaz de percibir la ...

Regreso a Belzagor

Integral

Tras la descolonización, la Tierra de Holman ha recuperado su nombre indígena: Belzagor. En este paraíso vegetal moran dos especies inteligentes, los nildoror y los sulidoror, cuyos misterios jamás han sido descubiertos. Sin embargo, una pareja de científicos está decidida a llegar hasta el País ...

The conquest of ruins

the Third Reich and the fall of Rome

The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn't ...

Terror and modernity

In this book, Donatella Di Cesare argues that terrorism is not an aberration but intrinsic to the struggle for sovereignty in the modern world. The growing concentration of power in the hands of the state sows the seeds of terrorism, deployed as a weapon by ...

Narrative power

Narratives are the wealth of nations: they animate life, sustain culture and cultivate humanity. They regulate and empower us, bringing both joy and discontent. And they are always embedded in ubiquitous power: stories shape power and power shapes story.

Maoism

a global history

For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People's ...

A portrait in 4 movements

the Chicago Symphony under Berenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been led by a storied group of conductors. And from 1994 to 2015, through the best work of Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, and Riccardo Muti, Andrew Patner was right there. As music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and ...

Climate and society

transforming the future

This bold and important new book presents current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change. Using clear language and powerful examples, it introduces key concepts and frameworks for understanding the multifaceted connections between climate and society. Robin Leichenko and Karen O’Brien ...

A history of the Bible

the book and its faiths

The Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths which hold it sacred, it is the bedrock of their religion, a singular authority on what to believe and how to live. For non-believers too, it has a commanding status: it is ...

Bordering

Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But controlling borders is about much more than patrolling territorial boundaries at the edges of states: it now comprises a multitude of ...

On human worth and excellence

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 85)

Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and humanist scholar of the early Renaissance who mastered ancient Greek and Hebrew as well as classical Latin. In this treatise, dedicated to Alfonso of Aragon, King of Naples, Manetti addresses a question central to the ...

Why cities look the way they do

We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if the look of cities had less to do with design, and more to do with social, cultural, financial and political processes, and ...

Roving revolutionaries

armenians and the connected revolutions in the russian, iranian, and ottoman worlds

Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentieth-century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each other. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never been studied through their linkages until now. Roving Revolutionaries ...

Aesthetics

the classic readings

The newly expanded and revised edition of Cooper’s popular anthology featuring classic writings on aesthetics, both historical and contemporary The second edition of this bestselling anthology collects essays of canonical significance in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, featuring a wide range of topics ...

Identity

a very short introduction

Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific ...

Homer

a very short introduction

Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming,the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By ...

Following the leader

ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping

With unique access to Chinese leaders at all levels of the party and government, best-selling author David M. Lampton tells the story of China's political elites from their own perspectives. Based on over five hundred interviews, Following the Leader offers a rare glimpse into ...