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Ovid in the Age of Cervantes

The Roman poet Ovid, author of the famous Metamorphoses, is widely considered one of the canonical poets of Latin antiquity. Vastly popular in Europe during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, Ovid's writings influenced the literature, art, and culture in Spain's Golden Age ...

Braudel revisited

the Mediterranean World, 1600-1800

Eds. Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo F. Ruiz, Geoffrey Symcox. Fernand Braudel (1912- 1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales ...

Engaging Heidegger

One of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger was primarily concerned with the 'question of Being.' However, recent scholarship has tended to marginalize the importance of the name of Being in his thought. Through a focused reading of Heidegger's texts ...

The making of Nwe World slavery

from the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800

Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch. "The Making of New World Slavery" argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state ...

The coming of the book

the impact of printing, 1450-1800

The emergence of the book was an event of world historical importance, and heralded the dawning of modernity. In this much praised history of that momentous process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of ...

A calculus of power

grand strategy in the Twenty-First Century

Introduced by Tariq Ali. In this wide-ranging and incisive collection, Peter Gowan traces the contours of the world order that emerged after the end of the Cold War and assesses its prospects in the light of the global economic downturn. Arguing that the present inter-state ...

Sociology

the basics

A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, "Sociology: The Basics" examines: the scope, history and purpose of sociology; ways of understanding 'the social'; the state of the world we live in today; suffering and social inequalities; key ...

El exterminador hizo bien su trabajo

juicio contra William Burroughs

A comienzos de 1963 un librero de Boston fue detenido y conducido a comisaría. Su delito: vender una obra considerada como obscena y, por tanto, contraria a la ley. Se trataba de El almuerzo desnudo de William Burroughs. Ante esta situación, la editorial Grove Press ...

Conspirancy theories in the arab world

sources and politics

Conspiracism, while not unique to the Middle East, is a salient feature of the political discourses of the region. This book discounts the common pathological explanation for conspiricism and instead investigates the political structures and dynamics that have created and shaped the phenomenon of conspiricism ...

National security cultures

patterns of global governance

Eds. Emil J. Kirchner, James Sperling. This edited collection examines changes in national security culture in the wake of international events that have threatened regional or global order, and analyses the effects of these divergent responses on international security. Tracing the links between national security ...

La República de Weimar

manual para destruir una democracia

La República de Weimar se vio sometida, desde sus inicios, a los embates de poderosos enemigos para quienes las exigencias de mayor participación ciudadana, la democratización de la vida pública, los tratados de paz, la protección de los menores, la negociación colectiva, la liberación de ...

Patriotas y demócratas

el discurso nacionalista español después de Franco

¿Nación pluricultural, nación de naciones, patria única e indivisible o Estado plurinacional? En la España del siglo XXI coexisten diferentes discursos acerca de cuál es la nación española y, asimismo, de cuál debe ser su relación con las diversas naciones sin Estado, nacionalidades históricas o ...

Political communication and social theory

"Political Communication and Social Theory" presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies. It draws together work from across political communication, media sociology and political sociology, and includes a mix of theoretical debate and current ...

Ancient Greece

social and historical documents from archaic times to the death of Alexander The Great

The field of Byzantine jewellery (4th-15th centuries) is a rapidly expanding one and a large amount of important research has been conducted within the last ten years, both by scholars on the continent and in America. The intention of the conference, and subsequently the volume ...

Contemporary Art and the cosmopolitan imagination

"Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination" explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply reflect and represent the processes ...

Psychology of music

from sound to significance

Why are some disturbances of air molecules heard as 'noise' while others are perceived as music? What happens at the level of the sound wave, the ear, and the brain when we perform or listen to music? How do musical abilities emerge and develop, and ...

What is this thing called ethics?

'This is an excellent introduction to ethics, and will be of great help and interest to undergraduate students, their tutors, and their lecturers [...] It presents a very fair and balanced - not to mention comprehensive and subtle - examination of the subject [...] The chapters are full of ...

Rethinking the power of maps

A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the ...

Contemporary U.S.-Latin american relations

cooperation or conflict in the 21st Century?

Eds. Jorge I. Domínguez, Rafael Fernández de Castro. "Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations", edited by Jorge I. Dominguez and Rafael Fernandez de Castro, is an overview of the relations between the United States and Latin America during the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Responsabilidad penal de los administradores

delitos societarios y otras formas delictivas

Esta segunda edición aborda, de forma concisa y directa, un tema de gran actualidad, en especial por la Ley 5/2010, de Reforma del Código Penal, como son los delitos societarios y toda la amplia gama de delitos que pueden ser cometidos por administradores societarios ...