Libros de

Weimar

a cultural history

The heritage of war

The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts ...

Valorizing the barbarians

enemy speeches in roman historiography

With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Much recent discussion of the topic has centred on the ways in which ancient Roman historians consciously or unconsciously denigrated non-Romans. Similarly, contemporary scholars ...

La Prehistoria

Con «LA PREHISTORIA» es posible retroceder en el tiempo para conocer a nuestros antepasados, descubrir dónde habitaron los primeros hombres prehistóricos, qué animales había en aquella época, qué herramientas se utilizaban. Este libro habla de los hombres de Cro-Magnon y Neandertal y explica en qué ...

The capability of places

methods for modelling community response to intrusion and change

How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease? Places which seem similar can respond very differently, and with varying degrees of success, to external threats and to the interventions designed to manage them. In this ...

Religion, media and culture

a reader

This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life. It provides an overview of the main debates and developments in this growing field, focusing on four major themes: Religion, spirituality and consumer culture ...

Los piratas

La primera enciclopédia temática, para los más pequeños de la casa. Colección de libros infantiles que transmite informaciones prácticas, didácticas y divertidas sobre temas de las más variadas áreas de conocimiento. Resultan muy útiles para que los más pequeños lectores comiencen a ampliar su campo ...

The practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages

production, reception, and performance in Western Christianity

In the medieval world, the Bible was never a static text monolithically understood. Read, performed, received, and interpreted at all levels of society, it passed through multiple hands and minds eager to incorporate its everyday teachings. In this volume, specialists in literature, theology, liturgy, manuscript ...

En la época de los castillos

Con el libro EN LA ÉPOCA DE LOS CASTILLOS se puede viajar al corazón de la Edad Media, visitar los recovecos de un castillo, descubrir cómo vivían caballeros, damas, guerreros, siervos, vasallos, asistir a grandes desfiles y contemplar escenas cotidianas tras las murallas. Ilustrado por ...

The quest for God and the good

world philosophy as a living experience

Diana Lobel engages readers in a journey of discovery across Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions to discover a beauty and purpose at the heart of reality that makes life worth living. Guided by the ideas of ancient thinkers and the insight of the ...

Jewish memory and the cosmopolitan order

Natan Sznaider offers a highly original account of Jewish memory and politics before and after the Holocaust. It seeks to recover an aspect of Jewish identity that has been almost completely lost today - namely, that throughout much of their history Jews were both a nation ...

Egipto

Imágenes de gran calidad y detalle al servicio de textos cortos, amenos y rigurosos. Esta nueva colección muestra, mediante dibujos de gran calidad, las informaciones más relevantes de cada uno de los temas escogidos, con un doble tratamiento: una amplia introducción al tema abordado y ...

English Church monuments in the Middle Ages

history and representation

English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages offers a comprehensive survey of English church monuments from the pre-Conquest period to the early sixteenth century. Ground-breaking in its treatment of the subject in an historical context, it explores medieval monuments both in terms of their social ...

Inventos

Descubre los artilugios y las máquinas más sorprendentes que han dado forma al mundo en el que vivimos. Desde la rueda hasta Internet, averigua la historia secreta que hay detrás de los grandes inventos, desde la superficie hasta los mecanismos internos, a través de impactantes ...

Inventions of the imagination

romanticism and beyond

The dialectic between reason and imagination forms a key element in Romantic and post-Romantic philosophy, science, literature, and art. Inventions of the Imagination, Romanticism and Beyond explores the diverse theories and assessments of this dialectic in a collection of essays by philosophers and literary and ...

Thinking about global governance

why people and ideas matter

One of the more prolific and influential analysts of multilateral approaches to global problem-solving over the last three decades is Thomas G. Weiss. Thinking about Global Governance, Why People and Ideas Matter, assembles key scholarly and policy writing. This collection organizes his most recent work ...

Caballeros y castillo

Regresa a la época en la que los caballeros iban a la guerra con bruñidas armaduras, descubre cómo vivían nobles y campesinos, explora grandes castillos llenos de vida y pasea por fortalezas y palacios. Con esta espectacular recreación en 3D, descubrirás los aspectos más curiosos ...

Deterrence through strength

British Naval power and foreign policy under Pax Britannica

The notion of a Pax Britannicaoa concept implying that Britain's overwhelming strength enforced global peace in the era that began with Napoleon's defeat in 1815o largely ended with the British Empire itself. Although most historians still view this period as a departure from ...

Dinosaurios

Un viaje en el tiempo junto a «Dinosaurios», de la colección ENCICLOPEDIA INCREÍBLE LAROUSSE, permitirá descubrir a los más pequeños de la casa los secretos mejor guardados de estos gigantescos animales. Así, aprenderán a diferenciar las distintas especies, sabrán distinguir a los carnívoros de los ...

Why did the United States invade Iraq?

This edited volume presents the foremost scholarly thinking on why the US invaded Iraq in 2003, a pivotal event in both modern US foreign policy and international politics. In the years since the US invasion of Iraq it has become clear that the threat of ...