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The Great War and modern memory

Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in ...

What the best Law teachers do

What makes a great law professor? The first study of its kind, "What the Best Law Teachers Do" identifies the methods, strategies, and personal traits of professors whose students achieve exceptional learning. This pioneering book will be of interest to any instructor seeking concrete, proven ...

Helen of Troy

beauty, myth, devastation

Ancient Greek culture is pervaded by a profound ambivalence regarding female beauty. It is an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction; yet it also grants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat ...

Political thinkers

from Socrates to the present

Political Thinkers provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Western political thought written by a team of internationally renowned scholars. This collection provides an overview of the canon of great theorists, from Socrates and the Sophists to contemporary thinkers such as Habermas and Foucault. The ...

Dragons, serpents, and slayers in the Classical and Early Christian worlds

a sourcebook

Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources. Some of the dragons ...

The Cold War in the Third World

THE COLD WAR IN THE THIRD WORLD explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history throughout the second half of the twentieth ...

A cabinet of greek curiosities

strange tales and surprising facts from the cradle of western civilization

The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without them. And yet they were capable of the most outlandish behavior, preposterous beliefs, and ludicrous opinions. Nearly everything ...

The last pagans of Rome

Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful ...

Historia de la Filosofía Antigua y Medieval

Es ya usual plantear la historia de la filosofía como historia de la recepción de las obras filosóficas, de sus interpretaciones y reinterpretaciones hasta llegar a nosotros, de tal forma que se ponga de manifiesto cómo cada obra, actuando sobre el horizonte de pensamiento de ...

Ethics and the quest for wisdom

Modernity has challenged the ancient ideal of a universal quest for wisdom, and today's world of conflicting cultures and values has raised further doubts regarding the possibility of objective ethical standards. Robert Kane refocuses the debate on the philosophical quest for wisdom, and argues ...

Dirigismo cultural y disidencia editorial en España (1962-1973)

Este libro trata de la influencia del mundo editorial de vanguardia sobre el camino cultural de los años sesenta y primeros setenta del siglo XX en España. Particularmente, se abordan las tensiones entre el dirigismo cultural del régimen franquista y las ideas que la creciente ...

Waffen SS

historia completa de las tropas más temidas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Las Waffen-SS surgieron a comienzos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial como las tropas de combate de las temibles SS, los hombres encargados de proteger a Hitler. Comandados por Himmler y al margen de la estructura de la Wermacht, pronto se convirtieron en un componente determinante ...

The Cadbury Committee

a history

The Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance, better known as the Cadbury Committee, was set up in May 1991 to address the concerns increasingly voiced at that time about how UK companies dealt with financial reporting and accountability and the wider implications of ...

Marketing and finance

creating shareholder value

Written for marketing and finance directors, CEOs, and strategists, as well as MBA students, this practical book explains the principles and practice behind rigorous due diligence in marketing. It connects marketing plans and investment to the valuation of the firm and how it can contribute ...

Nation-states and nationalisms

organization, ideology and solidarity

Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away, the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise. Nationalism still remains the most popular, potent and resilient ideological discourse and the nation-state the ...

Yo y tú

y otros ensayos

Lo indica Martin Buber con una pregunta inicial: "si, como se afirma en el libro, no sólo podemos estar en una relación yo-tú con otros seres humanos, sino también con seres y cosas con los que nos encontramos en la naturaleza, ¿en qué consiste la ...

La infancia de Jesús

Tras cruzar el océano, un hombre y un niño llegan a un nuevo país donde se les asigna nombre y edad, y se les anima a olvidar su pasado. Extraños en una tierra extraña, aprenden español, el idioma del lugar, mientras aguardan a ser trasladados ...

The power of Habeas Corpus in America

from the King's Prerogative to the war on terror

Despite its mystique as the greatest Anglo-American legal protection, habeas corpus's history features power plays, political hypocrisy, ad hoc jurisprudence, and failures in securing individual liberty. This book tells the story of the writ from medieval England to modern America, crediting the rocky history ...

Handbook of financial risk management

This authoritative handbook illustrates practical implementation of simulation techniques in the banking and financial industries through use of real-world, time-sensitive applications. Striking a balance between theory and practice, it demonstrates how simulation algorithms can be used to solve practical problems and showcases how accuracy and ...

Liberalismo, catolicismo y Ley Natural

El modelo político liberal ---caracterizado por el gobierno limitado, los derechos humanos y el libre mercado--- permitió a Occidente construir a partir de 1800 las sociedades más habitables de la historia. El cristianismo jugó un papel fundamental en ello: el liberalismo aprovechó raíces culturales cristianas ...