Libros de

Grandes Maestres, tenéis la palabra

orden masónica mixta internacional "Le Droit Human". "El Derecho Humano"

Un libro esencial para coner la evolución de la Masonería contemporánea desde 1893, fecha de la fundación de la MAsonería Mixta Internacional, hasta la instalación de la última Gran Maestre.

Las acuñaciones provinciales romanas de España

Catálogo. Las acuñaciones provinciales romanas de Hispania, de la que es autor Pere Pau Ripollès, representa una continuidad en la línea de investigación del Roman Provincial Coinage. Gracias a su contribución esta obra prosigue el esfuerzo de la Real Academia de la Historia por impulsar ...

El saqueo de Roma

de cómo un bonito país con un pasado glorioso y una cultura deslumbrante fue sometido por un individuo llamado Silvio Berlusconi

Desde Calígula a Andreotti pasando por los Borgia o Mussolini, Italia ha servido de marco incomparable para alguno de los episodios más grotescos (y admitamos que también novelescos) en los anales de la delincuencia administrativa: a ese panteón de agregios estadistas se ha incorporado ahora ...

Significado, emoción y valor

ensayos sobre filosofía de la música

Eds. Mª José Alcaraz y Francisca Pérez Carreño. Los autores de los ensayos recogidos en este volumen reflexionan sobre el lugar de la música en la vida humana: sobre su significado y su significación, sobre su relación con las emociones y sobre su capacidad para ...

The Chinese Civil War 1945-49

Out of the ashes of Imperial China arose two new contenders to lead a reformed nation; the Chinese Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang, and the Chinese Communist Party. In 1927, the inevitable clash between these two political parties led to a bitter civil war that would ...

Napoleon Bonaparte

leadership, strategy, conflict

Napoleon Bonaparte is renowned as one of the greatest military commanders in history, and the central figure in so many of the events of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Throughout the first decade of the 19th century he won battle after battle by wielding ...

Erich Von Manstein

leadership, strategy, conflict

Erich von Manstein was one of the most successful German commanders of World War II. His military mind proved outstanding in many a conflict but perhaps his greatest triumph was his ingenious operational plan that led to the rapid defeat of France in May 1940 ...

The Battle of Britain

Britain was an island under siege. The march of the Nazi war machine had been unrelenting. France and Belgium had quickly fallen and now she stood alone to counter this gravest ever threat to her sovereignty in almost a thousand years of history. However, her ...

In the palace of Nezahualcoyotl

painting manuscripts, writing the pre-hispanic past in aerly colonial period

Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. Painted in iconic script ('picture writing'), 'The Codex Xolotl', 'The Quinatzin Map', and 'The Tlohtzin ...

Palestine inside out

an everyday occupation

"Palestine Inside Out" is not about suicide bombers. For ordinary Palestinians, everyday activities such as tending one's fields, visiting a relative or going to hospital require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, 'sterile roads' and 'seam zones' - bureaucratic hurdles ultimately as deadly as ...

Epic recession

prelude to global depression

The US is still in deep trouble. Banks are sustained by trillions of government dollars, unemployment is approaching 25 million and the long- term future of the economy is in doubt. In "Epic Recession", Jack Rasmus shows that we need a new way of understanding ...

Tribes and empire on the margins of nineteenth-century Iran

"Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran" traces the history of the Bakhtiyari tribal confederacy of the Zagros Mountains through momentous times that saw the opening of their lands to the outside world. As the Qajar dynasty sought to integrate the people on ...

The thin blue line

how humanitarism went to war

This is an acclaimed exploration of humanitarianism's emergence as a multibillion-dollar industry that has played a leading role in defining international crises, and shaping the foreign policy of Western governments and the United Nations. Drawing on his own experience as an aid worker in ...

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El tesoro del San José

muerte en el mar durante la Guerra de Sucesión española

Según los cazadores de tesoros, el galeón español San José transportaba la carga más valiosa que jamás se haya perdido en el mar. Carla Rahn Phillips sostiene que la verdadera pérdida residió en las casi seiscientas vidas desaparecidas en el desastre. Por descontado que la ...

Not for profit

why democracy needs the humanities

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have rightly been seen as essential for creating competent ...

Japan transformed

political change and economic restructuring

With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains ...

The company of strangers

a natural history of economic life

"The Company of Strangers" shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy over the past ...

Karl Polanyi

the limits of the market

Karl Polanyi's "The Great Transformation" is generally acclaimed as being among the most influential works of economic history in the twentieth century, and remains as vital in the current historical conjuncture as it was in his own. In its critique of nineteenth-century 'market fundamentalism ...

The Children's Crusade

Medieval History modern mythistory

Aroused by crusade processions, French and German peasant youths set out on a quest to find the True Cross and reclaim Jerusalem. Heading south over the Alps and into Italy, their trek was long and arduous. Onlookers watched their march to the sea in amazement ...