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Rome

a sourcebook on the ancient city

The ancient city of Rome was the site of daily activities as well as famous historical events. It was not merely a backdrop, but rather an active part of the experiences of its inhabitants, shaping their actions and infusing them with meaning. During each period ...

The struggle for freedom from fear

contesting violence against women at the frontiers of globalization

How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries tends to change as countries develop and liberalize, but not in the ways that we might predict. She shows how liberalizing ...

El sueño de los mártires

meditaciones sobre una guerra actual

Acabada la Guerra Fría y con teóricos que proclamaban «el fin de la historia», apareció un nuevo fenómeno que ha marcado el siglo XXI: el terrorismo islamista, que atacaba a Occidente y soñaba con crear un califato trasnacional. Es un tema sobre el que se ...

Out of the crisis

Deming's classic work on management, based on his famous 14 Points for Management. "Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to ...

The State and civil society

regulating interest groups, parties, and Public Benefit Organizations in contemporary democracies

State regulation of civil society is expanding yet widely contested, often portrayed as illegitimate intrusion. Despite ongoing debates about the nature of state-voluntary relations in various disciplines, we know surprisingly little about why long-lived democracies adopt more or less constraining legal approaches in this sphere ...

Destroying a Nation

the civil war in Syria

Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history. In ...

A short history of the Hundred Years War

The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between Plantagenet and Valois, The Hundred Years War was fought out on the widest of stages while also creating powerful new nationalist identities. In ...

Aleppo

the rise and fall of Syria's great merchant city

A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city, where ...

American cultural history

a very short introduction

In recent decades, culture-the values, attitudes, beliefs, and myths of a particular society and the objects through which they are organized-has earned prominent stature in the annals of American history. The United States often brings to mind Uncle Sam and the cowboys of the Old ...

The witch

a history of fear, from Ancient times to the present

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history The witch came to prominence-and often a painful death-in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically ...

El pueblo

auge y declive de la clase obrera (1910-2010)

A principios del siglo XX, la mayor parte de la población británica pertenecía a la clase obrera; cien años después, su existencia misma está en entredicho. El más poderoso sujeto de transformación social, aquella fuerza que tuvo en sus manos ganar un mundo nuevo, parece ...

When Christians were Jews

the first generation

A compelling account of Christianity's Jewish beginnings, from one of the world's leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up ...

Setting the people free

the story of democracy

Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2 ...

Peace at last

a portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

A vivid, original, and intimate hour-by-hour account of Armistice Day 1918, to mark its centenary this year November 11, 2018, marks the centenary of the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany ending World War I. While the events of the war and its legacy ...

Los fantasmas favoritos de Roald Dahl

una antología de cuentos

«Las buenas historias de fantasmas, al igual que los buenos libros infantiles, son tremendamente complicadas de escribir. Yo mismo soy escritor de relatos, y aunque llevo cuarenta y cinco años ejerciendo y siempre he deseado escribir una sola historia de fantasmas decente, nunca he logrado ...

Empress

Queen Victoria and India

An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837 In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and ...

Leer y vivir

'Tzvetan Todorov, a diferencia de muchos otros autores más famosos que él, no era ni un presuntuoso ni un charlatán. Era un suave intransigente, un intelectual lúcido (desgraciadamente, la expresión no es un pleonasmo), un erudito humilde, un investigador enciclopedista y pedagogo (un 'contrabandista', decía ...

Empresa y sociedad

50 reflexiones sobre: marketing, publicidad, ética empresarial, comunicación, emprendimiento, digitalización...

Reflexionar sobre la realidad que nos rodea, sobre todo si se tiene la vista puesta en la empresa, tanto en su papel de generadora de la sociedad como de interlocutora en muchos de los aspectos de la vida comunitaria, es no solo conveniente sino imprescindible ...

Enigmas y misterios de León

¿Sabías que en las naves de la catedral de León vagan los fantasmas de sus numerosos sepulcros? ¿Quieres descubrir la verdadera identidad del torreón de doña Berenguela? ¿Cuáles son los astros y extraños animales que custodian la entrada de San Isidoro? ¿Conoces la historia de ...

Enigmas y misterios de Ávila

Los grandes enigmas de Ávila están ligados a la tradición, a la historia y a sus protagonistas, unos inquietantes, otros ejemplares. Encontramos en estas páginas los mitos y leyendas de la fundación de la ciudad de Ávila. Las intrigas de la Inquisición, con Tomás de ...