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Dioscórides ante el mundo

Usos plurales de un 'libro-laboratorio' en la Edad Moderna

El De materia medica de Dioscórides (siglo I) es, sin duda, el tratado de farmacopea clásico del mundo antiguo. Quince siglos más tarde, la Europa renacentista lo convirtió en un laboratorio de conocimiento sobre la naturaleza. Médicos, filósofos naturales, filólogos, boticarios y gobernantes confrontaron la ...

Reinventing Protestant Germany

Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy

A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism. Germany's Protestant churches, longtime strongholds of nationalism and militarism, largely backed the Nazi dictatorship that took power in ...

The French Revolution

a political history

A major new political history of the French Revolution In 1786, France's ancien régime was functioning as usual. Its alliance with the victorious American colonies had restored its diplomatic prestige, the economy seemed to be flourishing, and internal politics seemed quiet. But just a ...

Libya and the West

What Everyone Needs to Know

Libya and the West: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a welcome update to the literature on Western diplomatic relations with Libya. It specifically analyzes the complicated relationships that Italy, Britain, the United States, and France developed with Libya beginning in the 1910s. On the ...

Operum Deperditorum Reliquiae

This edition of Apuleius's fragmentary works includes 62 items which, based on the most up-to-date scholarship, can be attributed with reasonable certainty to the 'lost Apuleius'. In most cases, identifying the ipsissima verba of the author is difficult or impossible, and even the methodological ...

Orations: Pro Quinctio, Pro Roscio Amerino, Pro Roscio Comoedo, Pro Tullio, De Lege Agraria

(The Loeb Classical Library; 240)

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially ...

Escritos

Amalio Sáiz de Bustamante nace en Queveda, Santillana del Mar, en 1864. Su padre, Juan José, formó parte del numeroso colectivo originario de Cantabria que durante el siglo XIX emigró a tierras jerezanas. Amalio llega a Jerez de la Frontera con apenas cuatro años y ...

Henry David Thoreau

a very short introduction

"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading figure ...

Postwar Europe

a very short introduction

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in history. It left Europe in ruins, its economies severely damaged and millions of its people facing malnutrition, its political systems shaken if not destroyed. Yet three decades later its ...

Jorge Luis Borges

a very short introduction

Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, philosophical ideas, and myriad other topics. This Very Short Introduction gives an engaging overview of Borges's life ...

Human geography

a very short introduction

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Human geography offers answers to some of the most important challenges of our time. To understand contemporary struggles over global economic inequality, forced migration, racial injustice, gender justice, and the climate crisis, we must grasp the ways in which ...

The West

the history of an idea

A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners" begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from the ...

El pensamiento español contemporáneo

El lector tiene en sus manos una edición académica de El pensamiento español contemporáneo (1949-1959), que recopila críticamente los artículos dedicados a esta temática por Araquistáin en la última década de su vida. Por su interés historiográfico, modifica la edición póstuma, publicada por Losada en ...

Radical antiquity

free love zoroastrians, farming pirates, and ancient uprisings

'Unearthing the ancient world's anarchist cultures, Zeichmann presents a compelling argument that authority may itself have always been the real aberration. Highly recommended' - Alan Moore, writer, activist, performer When you think of Ancient Greece and Rome, what do you see? The Acropolis and the ...

The Maginot Line

a new history

An authoritative and original history of the Maginot Line that reshapes our understanding of interwar France and the events of 1940 The Maginot Line was a marvel of 1930s engineering. The huge forts, up to eighty meters underground, contained hospitals, modern kitchens, telephone exchanges, and ...

The German Democratic Republic

the rise and fall of a cold war state

The German Democratic Republic has come to stand as a symbol of communist tyranny, a source of Cold War nostalgia and socialist kitsch, and a failed alternative to the worst excesses of 21st century capitalism. In this book, Ned Richardson-Little delves into the central contradictions ...

Ver un mundo en un grano de arena

Pesía escogida (1783-1812)

William Blake poeta, pintor y grabador, nació el 28 de noviembre de 1757 en el barrio londinense de Soho. Expuso sus primeras acuarelas y grabados en 1771, y un año después entró como aprendiz en el taller de grabado de James Basire, donde pasó siete ...

Cultura y revitalización urbana

Nuevos espacios para el arte y la creación contemporánea

La cultura, las artes en todas sus expresiones, se han convertido en un argumento clave para la gestión y revitalización de áreas urbanas. Instituciones culturales, empresas e industrias creativas se vinculan cada vez más a proyectos de regeneración de áreas degradadas, incentivados por las administraciones ...

Kuklinski

Un poderoso y adictivo true crime sobre «el hombre de hielo», uno de los asesinos en serie más eficientes de la historia. New Jersey, años 70. Merodea por sus calles y por sus noches un hombre de fuerza descomunal e inteligencia privilegiada con un deseo ...

El puente donde habitan las mariposas

Biosofía de la respiración

Todos podemos ser escultores de nuestro propio cerebro (si nos lo proponemos) El cerebro es un órgano plástico, puede ser esculpido con la intención y la voluntad como herramientas. Conocer su capacidad para aprender y adaptarse al entorno es descubrir aquello que nos construye desde ...