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Hitler's people

the faces of the Third Reich

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA History Today Best Book of the Year 2025‘Elegantly written and powerfully argued … it ranks among the best works on this terrible period’ Sunday TimesA biographical study of Hitler's inner circle offers a new way to understand the ...

La adquisición de la nacionalidad española por matrimonio

Propuestas de reforma en España desde la experiencia del Principado de Andorra (Texto en ESPAÑOL, CATALÁN y FRANCÉS)

Si bien es cierto que el derecho a contraer matrimonio es un derecho inherente a la autonomía personal, que se presenta como una manifestación fundamental de la autonomía del que debe gozar todo ser humano, contraer matrimonio se ha convertido, hoy día, en ciertos países ...

Light on darkness

the untold story of the liturgy

Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy offers a captivating journey through the history of religious rituals in Western Europe, showcasing the profound impact of Christian liturgy on art, literature, music and architecture. Through ten evocative stories, it explores medieval rituals and their ...

Benvenuto Cellini and the embodiment of the modern artist

The art history public has long been both fascinated and repelled by the renowned Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. He was a murderer, thief, lover of both genders, servant and rival of popes and princes, as well as an ingenious artist. In his legendary autobiography, the ...

A constellation of authority

Castilian bishops and the secular church during the reign of Alfonso VIII

During the long reign of Alfonso VIII, Castilian bishops were crusaders, castellans, cathedral canons, and collegiate officers, and they served as powerful intermediaries between the pope and the king of Castile. In A Constellation of Authority, Kyle C. Lincoln traces the careers of a septet ...

Shortage and famine in the late medieval Crown of Aragon

In the late fourteenth century, the medieval Crown of Aragon experienced a series of food crises that created conflict and led to widespread starvation. Adam Franklin-Lyons applies contemporary understandings of complex human disasters, vulnerability, and resilience to explain how these famines occurred and to describe ...

Latin political propaganda in the War of the Spanish Succession and its aftermath, 1700-1740

Latin Political Propaganda offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language to celebrate or undermine political power during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715). Waged as much on the printed page as on the battlefield, this worldwide conflict ...

Confronting identities in the Roman Empire

assumptions about the other in literary evidence

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this open-access volume presents an up-to-date discussion of these notions in the ancient world, both at the individual and community level. This open access edited volume offers insights into how ancient texts, ranging from the historical ...

The discovery of Ottoman Greece

knowledge, encounter, and belief in the Mediterranean world of Martin Crusius

The surprising story of the sixteenth-century Lutheran scholar who became Europe's foremost authority on Ottoman Greece, shedding new light on the place of Greek culture and religion in the Western imagination. In the late sixteenth century, a German Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusius compiled ...

Wonders and rarities

the marvelous book that traveled the world and mapped the cosmos

During the thirteenth century, the persian naturalist and judge Zakariyya' Qazwini authored what became one of the most influential works of natural history in the world: Wonders and Rarities. Exploring the dazzling movements of the stars above, the strange minutiae of the minerals beneath the ...

Axis of resistance

asymmetric deterrence and rules of the game in contemporary Middle East conflicts

An in-depth analysis of the primary conflicts animating the contemporary struggle over the regional order of the Middle East. From the conflict between the United States and the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria to the recent Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, events in ...

Futures for the public sector

Thought-provoking analysis of how illiberalism, major crises and digital transformation are changing our politico-administrative systems What does the future hold for the public sector? A convergence of illiberalism, major crises, system quakes and digital transformations are reshaping current politico-administrative systems. How will this challenge the ...

Blowing up Ukraine

the return of Russian terror and the threat of World War III

Blowing up Ukraine delves into the complex and tumultuous history of Ukraine, shedding light on the various political, social, and economic factors that have shaped the country's destiny. From the Soviet era to the present day, Felshtinsky explores the deep-rooted corruption, power struggles, and ...

The fall of the Assads

the end of half a century of tyranny in Syria and how it will change the world

The first comprehensive book on the subject, authored by an expert who has studied the Syrian civil war for over a decade. This gripping account delves into the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship, tracing the 2011 uprising and Assad's brutal atrocities. Through detailed ...

Freedom for capital, not people

the Mont Pèlerin Society and the origins of the neoliberal monetary order

Based on new archival sources, Freedom for Capital, Not People tells the story of how the Mont Pèlerin Society transformed the world economy. Founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von Hayek, by the turn of the 1970s the society commanded influence at the highest levels ...

Cybernetic circulation complex

big tech and planetary crisis

Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon and Google, Palantir and Uber, is in the automation of ...

Capital's grave

neofeudalism and the new class struggle

Bringing together analyses from different fields-law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis-Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn't just a metaphor. It's the operating system for the present. Politics and plunder thrive in the capitalist pursuit of profit, and ...

La tiranía del calendario

La medición del tiempo en la cultura occidental

Este volumen de la Dra. Elisa Ruiz García, una de las investigadoras que más y mejor han examinado y estudiado el mundo del manuscrito y los primeros impresos desde las diferentes facetas que atañen a sus diversas tipologías documentales, introduce al lector en una materia ...

The information animal

umans, technology and the competition for reality

Depending on the news you read, new tools like AI will either save or destroy us. But our response to emerging technology's 'unprecedented' threats actually follows a pattern as old as civilisation. From ancient Athens to COVID-19, social media to spam, Alicia Wanless shows ...

Sahel

the perfect storm

The Sahel is the borderland of 3 million square kilometres between the Sahara Desert and the African savannah and forest lands further south. Much of this huge area is inhospitable. Insurgencies are common, as are migration and smuggling, jobs being as rare here as effective ...