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Costumbres judías de Calatayud y Sefarad

El objetivo de este libro no sólo es conocer el modus vivendi de los judíos de Aragón y Calatayud en la Edad Media, sino incluso los ritos, costumbres y fiestas que acostumbraban a realizar. La vida de todo judío giraba alrededor de la fe y ...

Copyright y copyleft

modelos para la ecología de los saberes

El conocimiento es uno de los valores más determinantes en las sociedades modernas. El acceso al mismo y las posibilidades de participación en su producción o distribución social son puntos claves en el día de hoy. Tal y como ocurriera con la aparición de la ...

Pedro Páramo en 1954

La que es, en palabras de Jorge Luis Borges, “una de las mejores novelas de las literaturas de lengua hispánica, y aun de la literatura”, Pedro Páramo, tiene una historia que se puede documentar al menos desde 1947, cuando Juan Rulfo anuncia a su novia ...

Atlas de pensamiento y ciencias sociales en los tiempos modernos

Esta obra ofrece al lector un singular viaje intelectual y cultural de la mano de grandes maestros pensadores, científicos sociales, científicos naturales y escritores y de sus obras, ideas y hallazgos. Se trata de un atlas cultural de Europa y Occidente enla última etapa de ...

Vikings

Life and legend

In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created an unrivalled cultural network that spanned four continents. Adventurers, farmers, traders, conquerors and sailors, the Vikings were both peaceful and fierce, fighting or bargaining their way through as far as Constantinople in the East, North America ...

Delphi

a history of the center of the Ancient World

The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos" - the "center" or "navel" - of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings came from all over the Mediterranean and beyond to consult Delphi ...

La Gran Guerra

(1914-1918)

La Primera Guerra Mundial, o Gran Guerra como la denominaron los coetáneos, fue un cataclismo global que produjo desajustes económicos, desazón social y un aumento de la militancia ideológica que socavó las bases del liberalismo europeo. El conflicto provocaría el desmenuzamiento de la Europa central ...

John Maynard Keynes

free trader or protectionist?

Over the course of his professional life, John Maynard Keynes altered his views from free trade in the classical tradition to restricted trade. At the end of his career, his position on the issue was still not categorically resolved even though the evidence seems to ...

Utopia or bust

a guide to the present crisis

"The deepest economic crisis in eighty years prompted a shallow revival of Marxism," writes Benjamin Kunkel of the 2008 recession--and the shallowness was undoubtedly a result of the complex, sometimes difficult nature of contemporary Marxist thought. Enter Kunkel's Utopia or Bust, which leads the ...

The tragedy of the European Union

disintegration or revival?

The European Union could soon be a thing of the past. Xenophobia is rampant and commonly reflected in elections across the continent. Great Britain may hold a referendum on whether to abandon the union altogether. Spurred by anti-EU sentiments due to the euro crisis, national ...

The A-Z of contrat clauses

In this high speed world, the ability to turn an agreement around quickly is a necessity for most busy lawyers. The A-Z of Contract Clauses, Sixth Edition is a master toolkit of contract clauses drafted by experts in copyright and contract. Thousands of clauses ready ...

The fog of peace

the human face of conflict resolution

Institutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to make peace or war; those decisions are the responsibility of individuals. This book argues that the most important aspect of conflict resolution is for antagonists to understand their opponents as individuals, their ambitions ...

Contemporary housing issues in a globalized world

Constitutionalising secession

Constitutionalising Secession proceeds from the question, 'What, if anything, does the law have to say about a secession crisis?' But rather than approaching secession through the optic of political or nationalist institutional accommodation, this book focuses on the underpinnings to a constitutional order as a ...

Conspiracy theories and other dangerous ideas

The nation’s most-cited legal scholar who for decades has been at the forefront of applied behavioral economics, and the bestselling author of Nudge and Simpler, Cass Sunstein is one of the world’s most innovative thinkers in the academy and the world of practical ...

The seven sins of Wall Street

big banks, their Whasington lackeys, and the Next financial crisis

We all know that the financial crisis of 2008 came dangerously close to pushing the United States and the world into a depression rivaling that of the 1930s. But what is astonishing--and should make us not just afraid but very afraid--are the shenanigans of the ...

The civic constitution

civic visions and struggles in the path toward constitutional democracy

The role of the Constitution in American political history is contentious not simply because of battles over meaning. Equally important is precisely who participated in contests over meaning. Was it simply judges, or did legislatures have a strong say? And what about the public's ...

Getting past capitalism

history, vision, hope

Getting Past Capitalism begins with a critique of the impacts of capitalism on human society and the environment. It looks in new ways at what capitalism is and at how it is reproduced. That investigation opens the door to fresh ways of looking at how ...

Luces políticas y cultura universal

biografías de Alamán, Gutiérrez de Estrada, Comonfort, Ocampo

En este libro se reúnen cuatro trabajos biográficos de uno de los historiadores más destacados del pasado siglo. Con un particular estilo, mezcla de periodismo e historia, José C. Valadés afronta el reto de retratar la vida de algunos de los personajes fundamentales del siglo ...

La casa y la multitud

vivienda, política y cultura en la Argentina moderna

Los autores abordan el estudio de la vivienda desde una perspectiva cultural, restituyendo así la complejidad de su objeto y la multiplicidad de miradas que se han posado sobre él, y también la pluralidad de voces que lo han pensado y explicado. Historia y cultura ...