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Historia de la enseñanza media en Aragón

Coord. y Ed.lit. Guillermo Vicente y Guerrero. En Aragón el proceso de génesis y posterior evolución de la enseñanza secundaria se encuentra marcado por los ribetes del general desconocimiento. La realización de un Congreso precisamente sobre la Historia de la Enseñanza secundaria en Aragón ...

Everyday writing in the graeco-roman East

Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world - that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution - has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues, however, that ordinary people ...

Discoverers of the Universe

William and Caroline Herschel

"Discoverers of the Universe" tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's King George III, and of William's sister, Caroline, who assisted him in his observations of the night ...

The tibetan Book of Dead

a biography

"The Tibetan Book of the Dead" is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927. Carl Jung wrote a commentary on it, Timothy Leary redesigned it as a guidebook ...

Las imágenes del desembarco Alhucemas 1925

El Desembarco de Alhucemas fue un desembarco militar llevado a cabo el 8 de septiembre de 1925 en Alhucemas por el ejército y la Armada españolas y, en menor medida, un contingente aliado francés, que propiciaría el fin de la Guerra de Marruecos. La operación ...

The Jacobite Rebellion 1745-46

The Jacobite Rebellion was the final attempt of the House of Stuart to re-establish itself on the British throne. No event in British history has been more heavily romanticized, but Gregory Fremont-Barnes succeeds in stripping away the myths to reveal the key events of this ...

Boudicca's rebellion AD 60-61

the britons rise up against Rome

When the Romans occupied the southern half of Britain in AD 43, the Iceni tribe quickly allied themselves with the invaders. Having paid tribute to Rome, they continued to be ruled by their own kings. But 17 years later when Prasutagus, the king of the ...

Las cuevas de Herrera, el monasterio cisterciense y la camáldula actual (miranda de Ebro-Haro)

Coord. Ignacio Alonso Martínez.

Las mil y una iglesias de la diócesis de Burgos

Gómez Oña recuerda que en esta provincia hay unas 1.200 iglesias, de ellas 150 en ruinas, y 400 ermitas, además de varios conventos que no forman parte de este libro que tiene un carácter didáctico, ya que recopila todas las iglesias y explica sus ...

The first fosil hunters

dinosaurs, mammoths, and myth in Greek and Roman times

Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants - these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What ...

Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route

The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire's heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located ...

Saladin

leadership, strategy, conflict

This Osprey Command book looks closely at the early life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Al-Malik al-Nasir Yusuf Ibn Najm al-Din Ayyub Ibn Shahdi Abu'l-Muzaffar Salah al-Din - or Saladin as he is more commonly known outside the Islamic world - who is broadly ...

The making of the humanities

Vol.I: Early Modern Europe

Eds. Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, Thijs Weststeijn. This book is the first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities. Specialists in philology, musicology, art history, linguistics, literary theory, and other disciplines highlight the intertwining of the various fields and their impact ...

Hosting the stranger

between religions

This book investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. "Hosting the Stranger" features ten powerful meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars and practitioners from the five different wisdom traditions: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and ...

The origins of jewish mysticism

"The Origins of Jewish Mysticism" offers the first in-depth look at the history of Jewish mysticism from the book of "Ezekiel" to the Merkavah mysticism of late antiquity. The Merkavah movement is widely recognized as the first full-fledged expression of Jewish mysticism, one that had ...

The monstrosity of Christ

paradox or dialectic?

Ed. Creston Davis. What matters is not so much that eiuek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief. --John Milbank To put it even more ...

The Catholic Church and the world religions

a theological and phenomenological account

Ed. Gavin D'Costa. This title is an introduction to the World's major religions from a Catholic Perspective. There is no single standard textbook that outlines the official Roman Catholic theological position in relation to other religions which then explicates this orientation theologically and ...

Harpercollins Bible dictionary

Ed. Mark Allan Powell.

La prueba ilícita

(un estudio comparado)

La segunda edición de La prueba ilícita, tras un plazo de tiempo relativamente breve, enfoca, por una parte, acometer temas omitidos en la primera edición como el tratamiento procesal en los diversos procedimientos en España o las nuevas líneas jurisprudenciales tras la teoría de la ...

La asamblea euromediterránea = The euro-mediterranean assemby = L'assemblée euro-méditerranéenne

Nacida del proceso de Barcelona gracias al decidido impulso del Parlamento Europeo, la Asamblea Euromediterránea constituye un ejemplo significativo de la irradiación de la democracia parlamentaria en las relaciones exteriores de la Unión Europea. En este libro se examina el papel de la Asamblea en ...