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Lettre à Anébon l'Égyptien

La letteratura francescana

Volume III: Bonaventura: la perfezione cristiana

"Secondo l'esempio del beatissimo padre Francesco, anch'io, peccatore indegno in tutto, che viene dopo di lui come settimo ministro generale dei frati, mi affannavo nell'inseguire questa pace. Così, a trentatré anni dalla sua scomparsa, mi ritirai, per volere di Dio, sul monte ...

The world in the model

how economists work and think

During the last two centuries, the way economic science is done has changed radically: it has become a social science based on mathematical models in place of words. This book describes and analyses that change - both historically and philosophically - using a series of case studies ...

La sargentada de La Granja

ensayo sobre el último triunfo y definitiva despedida de la Constitución Gaditana

En la noche del 12 al 13 de agosto de 1836, la guarnición de La Granja, donde como era habitual pasaba el verano la Corte, se pronunció y obligó a la regente María Cristina de Borbón y Parma, viuda de Fernando VII y madre de ...

A history of popular culture

more of everything, faster and brighter

This lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War. A History of Popular Culture explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions ...

Sociologías en tiempos de transformación social

Este libro surge del convencimiento de que la comprensión teórica del mundo resulta especialmente necesaria, casi imprescindible, cuando las sociedades abandonan fases de normalidad para adentrarse en tiempos de crisis y de renovación social. Por este motivo, trata de poner en valor diversas sociologías que ...

Social control and justice

crimmigration in the Age for Fear

Crimmigration consists of the letter and practice of laws and policies at the intersection of criminal law and immigration law. Crimmigration scholars study the creation of crimmigration laws and policies, their enforcement, and the institutional dynamics that create crimmigration law and are created by it ...

The immigrant war

a global movement against discrimination and exploitation

The abuse of Asian workers in the oil-rich Gulf countries, the trafficking of undocumented latinos at the US border, the exploitation of African sans papiers in France and the attacks on Sub-Saharan farmhands by the mob in Italy. All these events show how migrants, especially ...

Women's activism

global perspectives from the 1890s to the present

Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's organizations, as political leaders, and in global forums ...

Archaeology

the discipline of things

Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with ...

Law and history in Cervantes' Don Quixote

Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes' seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era -- those of law and history -- into ...

Salamanca

¿Hasta que punto se conoce la ciudad en que se vive? ¿Qué memoria permanece de aquellas que visitamos? Para echar una mano, City Book Salamanca se pone al servicio de quienes gustan de la ciudad del Tormes. Propios y ajenos atraídos por ella. 355 fotografías ...

Edward Hopper

portraits of America

Now available again, this book is a penetrating exploration of the American realist painter Edward Hopper, who was able to capture the many moods of the nation he called home. From his images of deserted small towns and solitary figures in empty offices to his ...

Revista Ingeniería, cartografía y navegación en la España del Siglo de Oro, Nº542, año 2012

SUMARIO: Gigantes del ingenio: el explendor y la audacia inventiva de las obras hidráulicas en la España del "Quijote". De polvo y barro: viejas calzadas romanas y cañadas ganaderas configuraban la red caminera peninsular Luces y sombras en el camino: la carestía de puentes en ...

The library of essays on antitrust and competition Law

Antitrust and competition law have grown dramatically in importance and significance over the last fifty years. US antitrust law has been the principal source of inspiration for jurisdictions wishing to introduce regulation to control cartels and monopolization, and antitrust regulation has now been adopted in ...

Etimologías

Libro VI: De las Sagradas Escrituras

Le livre VI des Étymologies, connu sous le titre De libris et officiis ecclesiasticis qui dans l'édition Lindsay souligne sa ressemblance partielle avec le De officiis ecclesiasticis, autre oeuvre d’Isidore, se caractérise par une dualité de contenus qui n’empêche pas sa cohérence ...

Étymologies

Livre VII: Dieu, les anges, les saints

Voici sans doute, par son sujet, sous les dehors austères d’une compilation de fiches diverses, un des grands livres des Étymologies, un des sommets de l’entreprise encyclopédique isidorienne. Car c’est bien un abrégé de théologie — moins développé, certes, que le premier livre ...

Rotas están las cuerdas

violencia de género: una investigación antropológico-social

Abordar una vez más, una vez todavía, el problema de la violencia en el ámbito de las parejas heterosexuales, pudiera parecer recurrente. Se han realizado estudios muy valiosos sobre este fenómeno desde las perspectivas psicológica, sociológica, legal, penal o asistencial. Sin embargo, son necesarias reflexiones ...

British liberators in the Age of Napoleon

volunteering under the spanish flag in the Peninsular War

This book unveils the role of a hitherto unrecognized group of men who, long before the International Brigades made its name in the Spanish Civil War, also found reasons to fight under the Spanish flag. Their enemy was not fascism, but what could be at ...

The first thousand years

a global history of Christianity

How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity ...