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historia de la segunda guerra mundial

«Este es sobre todo un libro de experiencias humanas», nos dice Max Hastings, autor de libros tan valiosos como Armagedon, Némesis y La guerra de Churchill, que ha querido culminar su carrera como investigador de la historia de la Segunda guerra mundial con una ambiciosa ...

Rockestra

Entrevistas a grandes del rock

Rockestra es un viaje a la historia del rock a través de los testimonios de sus protagonistas. Guitarristas, bateristas, bajistas, teclistas, cantantes y productores unen sus historias para crear una sola voz. Hombres que han dejado su vida por un negocio en transformación, que con ...

Bioethics, medicine and the criminal Law

Vol.II: Medicine, crime and society

In recent years, debates have arisen concerning the encroachment of the criminal process in regulating fatal medical error, the implementation of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and the recent release of the Director of Public Prosecution's assisted suicide policy. Consequently, questions ...

Social inclusion of people with disabilities

Social inclusion is often used interchangeably with the terms social cohesion, social integration and social participation, positioning social exclusion as the opposite. The latter is a contested term that refers to a wide range of phenomena and processes related to poverty and deprivation, but it ...

Estambul era un cuento

La obra es una saga familiar que narra la historia de una familia judía en Estambul a lo largo del siglo XX, desde los años de la República turca, al término de la Primera Guerra Mundial, hasta los turbulentos años ochenta, tras el golpe militar ...

The mosaics of Roman Crete

art, archaeology and social change

This book examines the rich corpus of mosaics created in Crete during the Roman and Late Antique eras. It provides essential information on the style, iconography and chronology of the material, as well as discussion of the craftspeople who created them and the technologies they ...

The arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918

a social and cultural history

The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of ...

Justa Freire o la pasión de educar

biografía de una maestra atrapada en la historia de España (1896-1965)

Este libro nos cuenta la historia de una mujer que fue nada más y nada menos que una maestra. Es la historia de una pasión, pues ella vivió la enseñanza apasionadamente, entregó a la escuela su vida y sus esperanzas. Es la historia de un ...

Ham House

400 years of collecting and patronage

Built in 1610 during the reign of James I and remodeled in 1637-9 by the future first Earl of Dysart, "Ham House" and its gardens have endured through centuries of English history while remaining representative of the styles and culture of the original inhabitants. It ...

The sea and civilization

a maritime history of the world

A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the ...

Algunos modelos metodológicos de "ciencia" jurídica

El autor se ocupa, en esta investigación, de la discusión en torno al carácter científico de la disciplina jurídica. Dentro de este contexto se hacen serias críticas a la tradición dogmática del derecho, y se presenta un interesante análisis de las diversas posturas que han ...

Ideologías y tendencias en la Comuna de París

El 28 de enero de 1871 enmudecieron los cañones alemanes que desde hacía treinta y dos días estaban disparando sobre la capital de Francia. Un armisticio liberaba a la población de París de los terribles sufrimientos del asedio. Sin embargo; muchos parisienses no acogieron con ...

Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire

African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial ...

Christian identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain

The book series "Studies on the Children of Abraham" focuses on the three Abrahamic Religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Its aim is to publish academic works devoted to relations between these religions, both historical and theological, including confrontations and peaceful encounters. Monographs, textual studies ...

Early Bourbon spanish America

politics and society in a forgotten Era (1700-1759)

Growing out of the first Anglophone academic workshop to focuse exclusively on the early Bourbon Spanish America, this collective volume offers a new perspective on the key changes experienced in Spanish America during the first half of the eighteenth century.

La tutela imperfecta

biología y farmacia en la España del primer franquismo

El sistema científico y tecnológico implantado durante los primeros años del franquismo, en los que la economía estuvo basada en los principios de autarquía, enfatizó los aspectos aplicados de la investigación básica. En este marco, el colectivo farmacéutico adquiere un especial protagonismo y lo hace ...

Peacebuilding in community colleges

a teaching resource

Offering lifelong and developmental learning to over 13 million students at nearly 1,200 schools, community colleges in the United States attract a student body with remarkable economic, ethnic, and cultural diversity. They provide students with skills and foundational knowledge upon which successful professional careers ...

Conflict analysis

understanding causes, unlocking solutions

The change in the patterns and nature of deadly conflicts since the end of the Cold War has spurred many organizations in and outside governments to develop robust strategies to anticipate, prevent, and respond to these conflicts. Conflict analysis is the critical first step toward ...

El precio de la guerra

El Estado fiscal-militar de Carlos III (1779-1783)

Este libro pretende avanzar en la comprensión de la naturaleza del Estado borbónico del siglo xviii. La construcción del Estado era un problema político, económico y social porque no se podía realizar simplemente por la coerción, como tradicionalmente se ha argumentado, sino con la colaboración ...

Roman conquests

Egypt and Judea

Egypt was the last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by Roman expansion. The Ptolemaic rulers had allied themselves to Rome while their rivals went down fighting. However, Cleopatra's famous love affair with Marc Antony ensured she was on the wrong ...