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Confesiones de un adicto a los Rolling Stones

Hasta el año 2014, cuando los Rolling Stones cumplían 52 años de existencia, había más de 60 álbumes publicados de la banda, 25 documentales, cientos de discos y vídeos piratas. Hasta el año 2012, había 1546 sesiones de grabación, 842 títulos registrados y 1545 versiones ...

Gobierno y reforma del Obispado de Oaxaca

un libro de cordilleras del obispo Ortigosa. Ayoquezco, 1776-1792

Este texto presenta la relación cotidiana entre el obispo de Oaxaca y el clero de su diócesis a través de la transcripción del libro de cordilleras de una parroquia del obispado de Oaxaca. Comienza con un acercamiento a la vida de José Gregorio Alonso de ...

Violencia contra las mujeres = Violence against women

perspectivas transculturales = cross cultural perspectives

La violencia contra las mujeres adopta infinidad de caras y apariencias que, si bien pueden no manifestarse en los cuadros extremos de la agresión física, no dejan por ello de suponer formas, solo aparentemente más sutiles, de explotación, vejación o subestimación de la condición femenina ...

Curiosus verborum perscrutator

selección de artículos de Gregorio Hinojo Andrés

'Como causas y efectos suelen estar relacionados, el efecto de que la personalidad científica de Gregorio Hinojo pueda ser representada ante ustedes de manera adecuada tiene su causa -no estará de más explicitarlo- en sus cualidades personales, ésas que los artículos y los currículos a ...

The Dutch Revolt and catholic exile in Reformation Europe

The Dutch Revolt of the sixteenth century sparked one of the largest refugee crises of Reformation Europe. This book explores the flight, exile and eventual return of Catholic men and women during the war. By mapping the Catholic diaspora across Europe, Geert H. Janssen explains ...

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Republic

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic examines all aspects of Roman history and civilization from 509 to 49 BC. The key development of the republican period was Rome's rise from a small city to a wealthy metropolis, which served as the international capital ...

International migration

evolving trends from the Early Twentieth Century to the present

States have long been wary of putting international migration on the global agenda. As an issue that defines sovereignty - that is, who enters and remains on a state's territory - international migration has called for protection of national prerogatives and unilateral actions. However, since the ...

A concise history of the New Deal

During the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal carried out a program of dramatic reform to counter the unprecedented failures of the market economy exposed by the Great Depression. Contrary to the views of today's conservative critics, this book argues that New Dealers ...

The Great War at sea

a naval history of the First World War

This is a major new naval history of the First World War which reveals the decisive contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory. In a truly global account, Lawrence Sondhaus traces the course of the campaigns in the North Sea, Atlantic, Adriatic, Baltic ...

The Cambridge history of Medieval Philosophy

The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period. Starting in the late eighth century, with the renewal of learning some centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, a sequence of chapters takes ...

Science and religion

John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in western societies there have been periods ...

Tejedoras de ciudadanía

culturas políticas, feminismos y luchas democráticas en España

Esta obra colectiva es un estudio de la ciudadanía, los feminismos y las luchas democráticas de las mujeres durante los siglos IXI-XX. El planteamiento teórico y metodológico ha sido abordado con las herramientas de la historia de género. Las aportaciones de ésta ponen de relieve ...

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction ...

Sites of memory, sites of mourning

ay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which ...

Penance in Medieval Europe

600-1200

Penance has traditionally been viewed exclusively as the domain of church history but penance and confession also had important social functions in medieval society. In this book, Rob Meens comprehensively reassesses the evidence from late antiquity to the thirteenth century, employing a broad range of ...

Twentieth-Century Spain

a history

This is a much-needed new overview of Spanish social and political history which sets developments in twentieth-century Spain within a broader European context. Julian Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, and Carlos Gil Andres chart the country's experience of democracy, dictatorship and civil ...

Islam, democracy, and cosmopolitanism

at home and in the world

This book presents a critical study of citizenship, state and globalization in societies that have been historically influenced by Islamic traditions and institutions. Interrogating the work of contemporary theorists of Islamic modernity such as Mohammed Arkoun, Abdul an-Na'im, Fatima Mernissi, Talal Asad, Saba Mahmood ...

The mystic ark

Hugh of Saint Victor, art, and thought in the Twelfth Century

In this book, Conrad Rudolph studies and reconstructs Hugh of Saint Victor's forty-two-page written work, The Mystic Ark, which describes the medieval painting of the same name. In medieval written sources, works of art are not often referred to, let alone described in any ...

Debates in values-based practice

arguments for against

Demands on healthcare systems are increasingly complex and diverse. Consumerism, multiculturalism and regulation challenge practitioners and policymakers. This has led to urgent debate about the value and purpose of healthcare as people seek to make serious, well-thought through decisions. This book helps readers to make ...

La soledad de Macondo o la salvación por la memoria

"Estamos ante un estudio riguroso y creativo de una obra mayor del siglo XX. No sólo se adentra en los entresijos de la escritura del novelista colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, sino que extrae de ella penetrantes iluminaciones para el presente. Su autora señala el hecho ...