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Paganism

a very short introduction

'Paganism' is an evocative word that, even today, conjures up deep- seated emotions and prejudices. Until recently, it was primarily a derogatory term used by Christians to describe the non-Christian cultures confronted and vanquished by their Churches. For some it evokes images of sacrifice and ...

Conversations on ethics

Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex Voorhoeve elicits answers to these questions from eleven outstanding philosophers ...

How terrorism is wrong

morality and political violence

What is terrorism? How is it different from other kinds of political violence? Why exactly is it wrong? Why is war often thought capable of being justified? On what grounds should we judge when the use of violence is morally acceptable? It is often thought ...

Fezzes in the river

identity politics and european diplomacy in the Middle East on the eve of World War II

Self-Determination of Peoples, imported into the Middle East on the heels of World War I, held out the promise of democratic governance to the former territories of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, it brought an urgent need: to define the collective "self" that ...

Processing the past

contesting authority in history and the archives

Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management, and hence the relations between historians and archivists. Written by an archivist and a historian, it shows how these changes have been brought on by new historical thinking, new conceptions ...

Clases medias y gobernabilidad en América Latina

En este momento las clases medias tienen una nueva actualidad en América Latina. La percepción generalizada es que su tamaño está creciendo en la región aunque las grandes diferencias entre países y los diferentes criterios de cuantificación hagan difícil objetivar el fenómeno. Por otra parte ...

Dividing the spolls

the war for Alexander the Great's Empire

This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the disintegration of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen. Alexander the Great built up his huge empire in little more than a decade, stretching from ...

A history of Palestine

from the ottoman conquest to the founding of the State of Israel

It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the events - from the Ottoman Empire to the mid-twentieth century - that shaped ...

The whites of their eyes

the Tea Party's revolution and the batlle over American history

Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution - so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty - so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over ...

Cold War kitchen

americanization, technology, and european users

Eds. Ruth oldenziel, Karin Zachmann. Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev's famous "kitchen debate" in 1958 involved more than the virtues of American appliances. Both Nixon and Khrushchev recognized the political symbolism of the modern kitchen; the kind of technological innovation represented in this everyday ...

Islam and Christianity

theological themes in comparative perspective

In light of the widespread public perception of incompatibility between Islam and Christianity, this book provides a much-needed straightforward comparison of these two great faith traditions from a broad theological perspective. Award-winning scholar John Renard illuminates the similarities as well as the differences between Islam ...

Islamic science and the making of the european Renaissance

The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations--the Greeks in particular. In this thought- provoking and original book, George ...

Agustine's Confessions

a biography

In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the "Confessions" - what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed ...

Questioning the veil

open letters to muslim women

Across much of the world today, Muslim women of all ages are increasingly choosing to wear the veil. Is this trend a sign of rising piety or a way of asserting Muslim pride? And does the veil really provide women freedom from sexual harassment? Written ...

Ancient chinese, thougt, modern chinese power

The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China ...

Grecia y Roma a escena

el teatro grecolatino: actualización y perspectivas

Dirs. Ana Vicente Sánchez, José A. Beltrán Cebollada. El germen de la presente publicación hay que buscarlo en la primavera de 2006 cuando en la Universidad de Zaragoza, y organizadas por la Delegación de Aragón de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos, se celebraron unas ...

Quince años de resistencia y de ira

El Atlas de Le Monde Diplomatique en español

Una verdadera historia del periodo 1995-2011. Estos textos de Ignacio Ramonet constituyen un análisis de aquellos problemas que normalmente son marginales para otros analistas. Dan visibilidad a las tensiones de nuestro tiempo, sitúan en su contexto los conflictos que emergen una y otra vez en ...

Armies of the Balkan Wars 1912-13

the priming charge for the Great War

In 1912, the Balkan states formed an alliance in an effort to break free from the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Forming an army of some 645,000 troops from Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenego, they took on a force of 400,000 Turkish soldiers. Both sides ...

Etnicidad S.A.

Parques temáticos étnicos, casinos de los pueblos originarios de América del Norte, la marca "Escocia", una religión registrada como propiedad intelectual, "bosquimanos" de la etnia san que poseen derechos de patente que valen en potencia millones de dólares, naciones que actúan como empresas comerciales y ...

Francisco Salzillo

vida y obra a través de sus documentos

El presente corpus documental en dos tomos, sobre Francisco Salzillo es de gran importancia por su novedad y oportunidad. Novedad, porque aunque existen importantes trabajos sobre este escultor en los que se han aportado numerosas citas documentales, ninguno de ellos incluye, como en esta publicación ...