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Mary Wollstonecraft

a vindication for the Rights of woman

First written in 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft's book remains one of the very first works of feminist thought. Groundbreaking in its demands for women's education although subsequently criticized by some for its ambiguity towards the notion of women's equality, "A Vindication" remains one ...

Marx at the margins

on nationalism, ethnicity, and non-western societies

In "Marx at the Margins", Kevin B. Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx's writings, including journalistic work written for ...

Death in Babylon

Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient

Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronicles, chivalric romances, novels, travelogues, and crypto-Muslim texts ...

Muhammad and the believers

at the origins of Islam

The origins of Islam have been the subject of increasing controversy in recent years. The traditional view, which presents Islam as a self- consciously distinct religion tied to the life and revelations of the prophet Muhammad in western Arabia, has since the 1970s been challenged ...

Left behind

Latin America and the promise of populism

The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources - and a history of productivity and wealth - in recent decades the region has fallen further and further behind developed nations, surpassed even by other ...

What is happening to news

the information explosion and the crisis in journalism

Across America, newspapers that have defined their cities for over a century are rapidly failing, their circulations plummeting even as opinion-soaked Web outlets like the Huffington Post thrive. Meanwhile, nightly news programs shock viewers with stories of horrific crime and celebrity scandal, while the smug ...

No dig, no fly, no go

how maps restrict and control

Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries ...

This is enlightenment

Eds. Clifford Siskin, William Warner. Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the question, 'What is Enlightenment'? The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query: Enlightenment is an event ...

New world gold

cultural anxiety and monetary disorder in early Modern Spain

The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spanish empire, but it ...

The archaeology of politics and power

where, when and why the First Stated formed

Using anthropology, archaeology and historical texts, this book sets out to discover three things about state formation: why did qualitatively different types of state emerge where and when they did; why did states form at all; what was the reason for their existence - or non-existence ...

El jinete azul

(der blaue reiter)

Ed. Klaus Lankheit. El almanaque Der Blaue Reiter (El jinete azul) apareció en Múnich en la primavera de 1912. Fue una idea gestada por un grupo de artistas visionarios al frente de los cuales se hallaba Vasili Kandinsky y, un poco más tarde, Franz Marc ...

Jan Karski

Jan Karski fue miembro del estado secreto polaco que operaba en la clandestinidad durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Enlace de la resistencia polaca con el gobierno en el exilio, un día Karski fue invitado por dos miembros de la comunidad judía a visitar el gueto ...

Discovering history in China

american historical writing on the recent chinese past

Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to the present ...

Ancient Mexican art at Dumbarton Oaks

Ed. Susan Toby Evans. "Five hundred years ago, a sustained and permanent contact was begun between the Old World and the New. By 1519 Spanish soldiers were marveling at the wealth and extent of the Aztec Empire, and by the summer of 1521 they began ...

Prerrogativas de las entidades locales para la protección y defensa jurídica de su patrimonio

Tradicionalmente, el patrimonio de las Entidades Locales ha sido una cuestión, cuando menos, conflictiva, dado que, con frecuencia, ha sido objeto de usurpación o despojo por parte de los particulares. Además, la propia Administración, en más ocasiones de las deseadas, no ha llevado a cabo ...

Presente y futuro de la e-Justicia en España y la Unión Europea

El libro aborda las diversas manifestaciones de la denominada "Justicia electrónica" (e- Justicia) en los ámbitos nacional y de la Unión Europea, con proyección en los procesos civil y penal, así como en los medios de solución de conflictos alternativos a la Jurisdicción. Respecto de ...

Anuario de Derecho municipal, Nº3, año 2009

ÍNDICE: Crisis económica y derecho local. La transposición de la Directiva de Servicios en las entidades locales. Ordenanza por la que se establece el Régimen de Gestión y Control de las Licencias Urbanísticas de Actividades. La evaluación del desempeño de los empleados públicos. En particular ...

La mediación

sistema complementario de Administración de Justicia

Autonomía personal y decisiones médicas

cuestiones éticas y jurídicas

Esta obra colectiva, cuyo origen es el Seminario Internacional celebrado en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid en septiembre de 2009 "Tratamiento médico y autonomía personal: ¿Quién decide?", reúne las reflexiones de destacados especialistas europeos procedentes de diversas disciplinas, en torno a los desafíos pendientes y ...

La relación laboral de los trabajadores de notarías

Prols. Carmen Sánchez Trigueros, Antonio V. Semere Navarro. El estudio de la relación laboral de los trabajadores de notarías constituye una novedad en el actual panorama normativo. La laboralidad de la relación constituye un aspecto esencial en orden a comprender la especial problemática que afecta ...