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La década que nos dejó sin aliento

La década que nos dejó sin aliento pertenece a la serie dedicada al siglo XX, de la que ya han aparecido tres volúmenes que abarcan desde 1936 a 1959. Esta vez el tema son los años comprendidos entre 1973 y 1982: comienza con el asesinato ...

The art museum

The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book, features 1,000 oversized pages of over 2,700 works of art. It is the most comprehensive and visually spectacular history of ...

An introduction to the Catholic Epistles

This is a new introduction to the "Catholic Epistles". This book introduces the "Epistles" and discusses the different interpretive approaches which have been used to gain a clearer understanding of them. An introductory chapter defines the "Epistles" and describes the history of their canonization, following ...

El ecologismo de los pobres

conflictos ambientales y lenguajes de valoración

Martínez Alier combina la honesta disciplina de un académico con la apasionada energía de un activista. El resultado, El ecologismo de los pobres, es sumamente recomendable.

Viaje al optimismo

las claves del futuro

Las artes de los reinos de África

El presente libro explora las distintas formas en que los gobernantes africanos se han servido del arte y la arquitectura para definir su identidad individual y estatal desde el siglo XVI hasta finales del XX. Analiza las artes de varios reinos escogidos entre África occidental ...

New religious movements

a guide for the perplexed

This is an exploration of 'new' religious movements which have originated since 1950, setting them within their social and cultural context. "New Religious Movements: A Guide for the Perplexed" examines the phenomenon of new faiths and alternative spiritualities which has become a feature of the ...

The history of islamic political thought

from the Prophet to the present

A complete history of Islamic political thought from early Islam (c.622-661) to the present. This comprehensive overview describes and interprets all schools of Islamic political thought, their origins, inter-connections and meaning. It examines the Qur'an, the early Caliphate, classical Islamic philosophy, and the ...

Historia del Antiguo Egipto

Las incesantes revisiones que experimenta la egiptología a veces tardan en rebasar el estrecho círculos de los especialistas. Así, el común de los lectores tiene una visión en cierto modo tradicional y convencional de la civilización del Nilo, en su mayor parte deudora de los ...

The Hebrew Republic

jewish sources and the transformation of european political thought

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization - the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in ...

Peligrosos demócratas

antifranquistas vistos por la policía política

El libro analiza cómo convivió el desarrollismo franquista a partir de 1958 con la violencia política y represiva, entendiendo que no hubo el uno y la otra, sino el uno «en» la otra. Se acerca a los discursos populares que construyó el franquismo para ganar ...

Belarus

the last european dictatorship

This book is the first in English to explore both Belarus' complicated road to nationhood and to examine in detail its politics and economics since 1991, the nation's first year of true independence. Andrew Wilson focuses particular attention on Aliaksandr Lukashenka's surprising longevity ...

Historia del urbanismo en España

T.II: Siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII

Las ciudades españolas en la Edad Moderna constituyen uno de los campos de conocimiento más interesantes pero también más complejos de analizar. En las tres últimas décadas han ido creciendo exponencialmente los análisis de poblaciones a través de monografías que atienden a distintas etapas cronológicas ...

Understanding contemporary strategy

Understanding Contemporary Strategy provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of modern strategy. Covering all the main issues in the field, the book explores the major themes through a combination of classical and modern strategic theory, history and current practice. The ...

The Acropolis

the Acropolis Museum

One of the most important monuments of human civilisation and the new architectural jewel of Athens are both presented through informative, easy to read texts in a fully illustrated edition with colour representations and detailed site plans. This brand new book begins with a look ...

A prophetic peace

judaism, religion, and politics

Challenging deeply held convictions about Judaism, Zionism, war, and peace, Alick Isaacs's combat experience in the second Lebanon war provoked him to search for a way of reconciling the belligerence of religion with its messages of peace. In his insightful readings of the texts ...

From Plato to postmodernism

the story of Western culture throught philosophy, literature and art

In From Plato to Postmodernism nearly four thousand years of Western history weave together into one unfolding story in which we see how philosophy, literature and art each reflect and shape the twists and turns that have led to today's world. The story begins ...

Covert operations

the medieval uses of secrecy

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book In Covert Operations, Karma Lochrie brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas-confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law ...

Afghanistan declassified

a guide to America's longest war

Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers are deployed to Afghanistan, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of the people, history, and ...

Politics in a religious world

building a religiously informed U.S. Foreign Policy

This book discusses the lack of religious understanding in US foreign policy, examining why the US chooses to avoid the religious aspects of international affairs. "Politics in a Religious World" examines why US diplomacy often misunderstands, if not ignores, the role of religion in international ...