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Obras esenciales

Entre filosofía y literatura recoge los textos más significativos que Michel Foucault publicó entre 1954 y 1970, correspondientes a los que podrían llamarse sus años de formación. En esta sucesión, se asiste paso a paso a la constitución de su peculiar estilo filosófico, siguiendo la ...

Freud

vida y legado de un precursor

Leer este libro es entrar en el mundo de Sigmund Freud como nunca se había hecho antes: su familia, su ciudad, sus problemas profesionales, su larga, tortuosa y extraordinariamente fructífera vida. Le vemos trabajar en la época de la decadencia del liberalismo, entre los horrores ...

Sereno en el peligro

la aventura histórica de la Guardia Civil

Acompaña Cuaderno de regalo. Sereno en el peligro. La aventura histórica de la Guardia Civil ofrece un recorrido por el devenir español, desde 1844, en busca de un alínea vertebradora que nos explique lo que de excepción tiene un cuerpo de seguridad pública que se ...

An Atlas of the Peninsular War

Cartography by Martin Brown. This is the first comprehensive modern atlas of the Peninsular War, the series of campaigns in Spain and Portugal between Napoleonic France and British forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington. Here a distinguished military historian examines and explains the sequence ...

The Persians

ancient, mediaeval and modern Iran

In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons - for its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear programme, and controversial role in the Middle East - but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news ...

The last utopia

Human Rights in history

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering ...

Latin America's Cold War

For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called 'long peace' afforded the world's superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands ...

Destination dictatorship

the spectacle of Spain's tourist boom and the reinvention of difference

When the right-wing military dictatorship of Francisco Franco decided in 1959 to devalue the Spanish currency and liberalize the economy, the country's already steadily growing tourist industry suddenly ballooned to astounding proportions. Throughout the 1960s, glossy images of high- rise hotels, crowded beaches, and ...

European unions

labor's quest for a transnational democracy

Roland Erne's view of transnational trade union networks challenges the assertion that no realistic prospect exists for remedying the European Union's democratic deficit - that is, its domination by corporate interests and lack of a cohesive European people. His book describes the emergence of ...

Between religion and politics

In recent decades, Islamist political movements in many Arab countries have strategically invested in a political process that was stacked heavily against them. And, to the surprise of many, they have actually succeeded by gaining more seats in parliaments and demonstrating their position as the ...

La arqueología en Andalucía durante la Ilustración (1736-1808)

El libro que aquí presentamos supone una novedosa y bien documentada aportación a los estudios de historiografía arqueológica, línea de enorme auge en los últimos decenios en la arqueología española, en la que se trata de #excavar en los papeles#, con un riguroso método similar ...

Mitos y problemas de la intuición humana

estudio filosófico

Se trata de un tema - "La intuición humana" - de constante actualidad, tanto en el pensamiento filosófico, en el psicológico-social y en el científico, como en el campo de la comunicación. Con todo, desde siglos ha sido un tema confuso, tergiversado y malentendido. A pesar de ...

Minería antigua en Sierra Morena

La presente monografía contiene los resultados del proyecto de investigación "El paisaje minero antiguo, de época romana, en sierra Morena oriental (provincia de Jaén), Plan nacional I+D+i (2006-2009), HUM2006-03132. Es nuestra intención rescatar del olvido este rico patrimonio arqueológico, cuyo abandano tiene que ...

El poblamiento de la época ibérica en la provincia de Ciudad Real

En el presente volumen se presenta una visión de conjunto sobre los pueblos prerromanos que habitaron estas tierras hace unos 2.500 años. Aunque en las dos últimas décadas se ha producido un notable incremento de las aportaciones al conocimiento del mundo ibérico en este ...

El éxito sostenible a través del error

Desde que el hombre adquirió la capacidad de ser consciente, ha venido descubriendo el funcionamiento de las cosas a través del único método posible: la prueba, siendo los resultados el acierto y el error. Sin embargo, si bien el acierto es bien recibido por todos ...

Imperative of integration

More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that ...

The litigation State

public regulation and private lawsuits in the U.S.

Of the 1.65 million lawsuits enforcing federal laws over the past decade, 3 per cent were prosecuted by the federal government, while 97 per cent were litigated by private parties. When and why did private plaintiff-driven litigation become a dominant model for enforcing federal ...

Lawyers and fidelity to Law

Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically - interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people. Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something as a lawyer that it ...

Nonplussed!

mathematical proof of implausible ideas

Math - the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions - usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes - conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true: Conclusions that, for example, tell us that a losing sports team ...

Historical Atlas of the North American railroads

America's long romance with the train has been the subject of many books, but none has used contemporary maps to comprehensively illustrate the story. Until now. Here the latest of Derek Hayes' historical atlases delves into the history of the railroad in North America ...