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Niños en la Antigüedad

estudios sobre la infancia en el Mediterráneo antiguo

El volumen aborda varias cuestiones relacionadas con la infancia en diferentes culturas del Mediterráneo antiguo. Se propone una reflexión sobre el papel que los menores tuvieron en sus respectivas sociedades, siendo incluso contemplados como verdaderos objetos activos dentro de su ámbito vital. Varios especialistas españoles ...

Approaches to healing in roman Egypt

The purpose of this study is to examine the healing strategies employed by the inhabitants of Egypt during the Roman period, from the late first century BC to the fourth century AD, in order to explore how Egyptian, Greek and Roman customs and traditions interacted ...

The great trade routes

a history of cargoes and commerce over land and sea

The ancient world saw the expansion of Western Asian, Mediterranean and Polynesian civilizations as transport networks for trade were established. Later, imperial expansion reached far flung corners of the world. The Great Trade Routes examines the principal trade networks throughout history, encompassing coastal and trans-oceanic ...

European Employment Law

a systematic exposition

European employment law is becoming increasingly important. Its impact upon domestic law of the Member States is growing in fields such as fixed-term employment contracts, collective redundancies, and industrial action. This book therefore covers the complete scope of European employment law: its foundations in EU ...

Constitutional conversations in Europe

actors, topics and procedures

The relationship between national constitutional courts and the European Court of Justice (CJEU) is increasingly cast in terms of communication, understood as having a constructive connotation, and as an alternative to the prior and more destructive language of guerre des juges, conflict and revolt. This ...

Ancient perspectives

maps and their place in mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

"Ancient Perspectives" encompasses a vast arc of space and time - Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE - to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society ...

Idea man

a memoir by the cofounder of Microsoft

Paul Allen, best known as the cofounder of Microsoft, has left his mark on numerous fields, from aviation and science to rock ‘n’ roll, professional sports, and philanthropy. His passions and curiosity have transformed the way we live. In 2007 and again in 2008, Time ...

Market integration through "network governance"

the role of european agencies and networks of regulators

This book assesses the role of EU agencies and networks of regulators from a legal perspective, thus linking the role of law to the debates on network governance. Two case studies form the core of the research: EU energy and electronic communications regulation. The institutional ...

The praetorian guard

a history of rome's elite special forces

From the Immortals, the personal bodyguard of the Persian Achaemenid kings; the death-or-glory Companions, Alexander the Great's glorious cavalry corps; to Napoleon's Imperial Guards, flower of the French army, select martial cohorts are perennially fascinating. And perhaps no special force commands the romance ...

Religious symbols in public functions

a comparative analysis of dutch, english and french justifications for limiting the freedom of public officials to display religious symbols

Religious symbols are loaded with meaning, not only for those who display them. They have generated controversy in many circles, be they religious or secular, public or private, and within or outside academia. Debate has taken place throughout Europe and beyond, at times leading to ...

Historia de Grecia antigua

Desde la antigüedad, la Historia de Grecia ha despertado el interés y la curiosidad por ser el alba de nuestra cultura y civilización. Las artes, las ciencias y las formas políticas han encontrado allí su origen. Este libro pretende familiarizar al lector con todas estas ...

Stalin's secret agents

the subversion of Roosvelt's government

Until now, many sinister events that transpired in the clash of the world’s superpowers at the close of World War II and the ensuing Cold War era have been ignored, distorted, and kept hidden from the public. Through a meticulous examination of primary sources ...

Luxor and its temples

This work, while aimed at a general audience, is by no means a dreary introductory textbook. Blackman perceptively answers the reader's most pressing questions about life in ancient Thebes, providing not only an informative text but also an engaging story. Topics covered include life ...

Consensus, concordia and the formation of Roman Imperial ideology

This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to 'legitimate' and 'traditional' forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these notions ...

Macedonian armies after Alexander 323-168 BC

The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC threw the Macedonians into confusion; there was no capable heir, and no clear successor among the senior figures in Alexander's circle. Initial attempts to preserve the unity of Alexander's conquests gave way to a ...

Expedition to disaster

the athenian mission to Sicily 415 BC

The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the Greek world. The expedition to Sicily was intended to give Athens ...

The roman navy

ships, men and warfare 350 BC-AD 475

The Roman Navy was remarkable for its size, reach and longevity. As significant as the Royal Navy was to the British Empire in the nineteenth century, the Roman Navy was crucial to the extraordinary expansion of Imperial power and for its maintenance over a period ...

Un episodio de la historia del paganismo en el siglo II d.C.

Alejandro de Abonuteico

INDICE: 1. Un episodio de la historia del paganismo en el siglo II d.C.: Alejandro de Abonuteico. 2. Alejandro de Abonuteico y el neopitágorismo. 3. Alejandro de Abonuteico y Franz Cumont en perspectiva. 4. Los dos Alejandros de F. Cumont. 5. Tematización bibliográfica actualizada ...

The sugar barons

family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies

To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some two hundred years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the Western world's greatest power struggles as ...

Israel in the world

legitimacy and exceptionalism

Since independence, Israel has lived with a paradox, needing and seeking legitimacy, understanding, and empathy from the world community while simultaneously also discounting the world. This volume reflects upon Israel's troubled attempts to balance its desire to be different from a world that it ...