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La Prehistoria y su metodología

El objeto de este libro es estudiar los métodos y las técnicas empleadas en Prehistoria y su pormenorizada descripción. Desde la epistemología y sus tendencias actuales, los distintos métodos empleados en el registro arqueológico, los distintos métodos utilizados para encuadrar cronológicamente los restos que hallamos ...

La difuminación institucional del objetivo del Derecho a la educación

La común referencia normativa al pleno desarrollo de la personalidad avala la superación del impulso tradicional a la interpretación del objetivo del derecho a la educación en términos de reproducción social mediatizada por los agentes educativos en la depuración de sus elemen-tos desechables. La socialización ...

El libro rojo de Mao Zedong

Uno de los libros más famosos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, el más difundido, el más veces traducido y editado, no tiene lectores ni se encuentra fácilmente hoy en día. No es un fenómeno literario; es un fenómeno sociológico y político. Que no ...

El príncipe español

antología de textos sobre Fernando el Católico

En el año 1515 poco antes de la muerte de Fernando el Católico, Roma vivía el comienzo del Renacimiento. Rafael decoraba las estancias del nuevo edificio destinado a convertirse en el centro del mundo cristiano. Representó al rey Fernando en la sala del Incendio del ...

El aroma del arrayán

La apasionante historia de un joven morisco en los convulsos días del ocaso del reino nazarí de Granada. Said, un joven morisco hijo de un cristiano renegado y una musulmana, es el protagonista de esta memorable novela histórica en la que narra de primera mano ...

El vapor de guerra Blasco de Garay

contra el carlismo y en defensa del Papa

En este nuevo volumen de su colección de novela histórica naval, Una Saga Marinera Española, Luis Delgado aborda interesantes y poco conocidos episodios históricos que tuvieron lugar en la medianía del siglo XIX. Por una parte, se mantienen las aspiraciones carlistas y el nuevo pretendiente ...

El Barroco Iberoamericano y la Modernidad

ÍNDICE: Presentación. Ildefonso Murillo. I. MODERNIDAD DEL BARROCO IBEROAMERICANO · Cultura barroca y modernidad iberoamericana en México. Ambrosio Velasco Gómez. · Los estudios de Filosofía en la Universidad de Caracas: del Barroco a la Modernidad. Diego Márquez Castro. · Lezama and Co.: el Barroco de los iberoamericanos. Fernando ...

Las Navas de Tolosa, 1212-2012

miradas cruzadas

En la Península Ibérica, desde el 711 coexistían dos modelos de sociedad muy distintos, la andalusí y la feudal. Hacia finales del siglo XI se alcanzó un cierto equilibrio, que se rompería en 1212 con la batalla de Las Navas de Tolosa. Simple síntoma o ...

The secret club that runs the world

inside the fraternity of commodity traders

Kate Kelly, acclaimed journalist and author of Street Fighters, investigates the world of commodities traders. When most of us think of the drama of global finance, we think of stocks and bonds. But commodities? Crude oil and soya beans? Copper and wheat? What could be ...

The political geography of inequality

regions and redistribution

This book addresses two questions - why some political systems have more centralized systems of interpersonal redistribution than others, and why some political unions make larger efforts to equalize resources among their constituent units than others. This book presents a new theory of the origin of ...

The Dominican Republic

becoming a one-party State?

Is democracy in danger in the Dominican Republic? Is the country headed toward sustained one-party rule? In an effort to understand the state of Dominican democracy and rule of law, CSIS Americas Program director Carl Meacham led a six-month initiative to answer these questions. This ...

The principles and practice of international aviation Law

The Principles and Practice of International Aviation Law provides an introduction to, and demystification of, the private and public dimensions of international aviation law. Unlike other global sectors, the air transport industry is not governed by a discrete area of the law, but by disparate ...

Ancient Crete

from successful collapse to democracy's alternatives, Twelfth to Fifth Centuries BC

'Ancient Greece' with its associations of city states, democratic governance, and iconic material culture, can no longer be envisaged as a uniform geographical or historical entity. The Classical city-states of Crete differed considerably in culture, history and governance from those of central Greece. In this ...

The moral foundation of economic behavior

This book explains why moral beliefs can and likely do play an important role in the development and operation of market economies. It provides new arguments for why it is important that people genuinely trust others-even those whom they know don't particularly care about ...

The Oxford guide to Treaties

From trade relations to greenhouse gases, from shipwrecks to cybercrime, treaties structure the rights and obligations of states, international organizations, and individuals. For centuries, treaties have regulated relations among nation states. Today, they are the dominant source of international law. Thus, being adept with treaties ...

Natural Law

a jewish, christian, and islamic trialogue

This book is an examination of natural law doctrine, rooted in the classical writings of our respective three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Each of the authors provides an extensive essay reflecting on natural law doctrine in his tradition. Each of the authors also provides ...

Endgame for ETA

elusive peace in the Basque Country

The violent Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco's Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards it became an aberration, a criminal and terrorist band whose persistence defied explanation. Others, mainly Basques (but only some Basques) understood ...

Zone of crisis

Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq

The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis. Characterised by fractured and dysfunctional political elites, fraught economic policies, and ideological struggles between the forces of authoritarianism and democratisation, neo-fundamentalism and pluralism, they ...

The structure of world history

from modes of production to modes of exchange

In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically rereads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the interlocking system that is the dominant form of modern global ...

Mixed fortunes

an economic history of China, Russia, and the West

The rise of the West is often attributed the presence of certain features in Western countries from the 16th century that were absent in more traditional societies: the abolition of serfdom and Protestant ethics, the protection of property rights, and free universities. The problem with ...