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Letters from Barcelona

an american woman in revolution and civil war

Ed., Gerd-Rainer Horn This title tells the story of the age of dictatorship through the eyes of a young American female radical socialist, living and working in Barcelona during the Catalan Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. It features an unique perspective on the period ...

Eisenhower

WWII expert John Wukovits explores Dwight D. Eisenhower's contributions to American warfare. American general and 34th president of the United States, Eisenhower led the assault on the French coast at Normandy and held together the Allied units through the European campaign that followed. The ...

The ethics of peacebuilding

Outlines the need for effective and sustainable peacebuilding in order to restore the conditions for co-existence in fractured communities around the world.

Diccionario histórico de la arqueología en España

(siglos XV-XX)

Coords., Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Gloria Mora, Jordi Cortadella; Prol., Enrique Baquedano La historia de la Arqueología no incumbe sólo a los arqueólogos. Además de dar a conocer la propia tradición a los profesionales del sector, su estudio nos acerca a la manera en que cada época ...

Invisible hands

the making of the conservative movement from the new deal to Reagan

After General Electric was forced to settle with its workers following a bitter and protracted strike in 1946, the company's executives appointed a man named Lemuel Ricketts Boulware to head employee relations. Boulware took on the cause of fighting the union with righteous zeal ...

La democracia en América Latina

Este libro examina los procesos de democratización en dicha región desde 1900 hasta la actualidad. Organizado por temas con una perspectiva histórica a largo plazo, el libro combina la investigación con la síntesis analítica a fin de proporcionar una visión panorámica de la transformación política ...

Alexander the great

a new history

Alexander the Great: A New History combines traditional scholarship with contemporary research to offer an innovative treatment of one of history's most famous figures. Written by leading experts in the field Looks at a wide range of diverse topics including Alexander's religious views ...

The uses of the past from Heidegger to Rorty

doing philosophy historically

In this book Robert Piercey asks how it is possible to do philosophy by studying the thinkers of the past. He develops his answer through readings of Martin Heidegger, Richard Rorty, Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair MacIntyre, and other historically minded philosophers. Piercey shows that what is ...

The Cambridge Companion to Darwin

The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809#82) ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life - including the evolutionary origin of humankind - contributed to major changes in the ...

The palaeolithic settlement of Asia

This book provides the first analysis and synthesis of the evidence of the earliest inhabitants of Asia before the appearance of modern humans 100,000 years ago. Asia has received far less attention than Africa and Europe in the search for human origins, but it ...

Beyond totalitarianism

stalinism and nazism compared

Edited by Michael Geyer and Sheila Fitzpatrick In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond ...

The origins of theater in ancient Greece and beyond

from ritual to drama

This volume is the most thorough examination on the origins of Greek drama to date. It brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars in a variety of fields, including classical archaeology, iconography, cultural history, theatre history, philosophy, and religion. Though it primarily focuses up on ...

The Cambridge companion to Voltaire

Edited by Nicholas Cronk A leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is also a central figure in France#s collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales. Yet these represent only a fraction of ...

A land so strange

the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca: the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked spaniard who walked across America in the Sixteenth Century

In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the ...

La literatura española y la crítica feminista

Qué ha aportado el feminismo a la historia de la literatura española? ¿ Cómo ha afectado el enfoque feminista a la valoración de determinados autores considerados canónicos? ¿Qué escritoras, antes olvidadas o bautizadas con el sambenito de secundarias, han pasado a formar parte del canon literario ...

A quien los dioses destruyen

elementos de la locura griega y trágica

Trad., Gladis Rosemberg Todo el libro gira alrededor de una frase canónica del pensamiento griego: A quien un dios quiere destruir, antes lo enloquece. La locura no es una simple enfermedad, es la forma en que los dioses se relacionan con los humanos cuando quieren ...

Viaje al pasado a través de la línea Madrid-Almorox

Contiene ilustraciones Este relato en imágenes narra las experiencias de viajeros, trabajadores y personas vinculadas a la historia de esta vieja línea de ferrocarril de vía estrecha que, partiendo de la estación madrileña de Goya, atravesaba el suroeste de la comunidad hasta llegar a la ...

Tratado de Derecho mercantil

T.39: Las entidades de crédito y sus operaciones. Vol.5: Operaciones bancarias neutras

Se dedica este volumen al estudio de los créditos documentarios, las llamadas garantías personales bancarias, las operaciones de cambio de moneda, las operaciones de custodia estricta y servicio de cajas de seguridad, y algunos de los más característicos servicios bancarios en materia de mercados de ...

Convergence marketing

combining brand and direct for unprecedented profits

Offering a common language, better processes, and a set of practical tools, "Convergence Marketing" is a real-world guide that successfully combines the best of brand and direct into something more powerful and effective than either can be on its own. Convergence marketing offers the kind ...

The Great Contraction

1929-1933

With a new preface by Anna Jacobson Schwartz; and a new introduction by Peter L. Bernstein. Friedman and Schwartz's "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867- 1960", published in 1963, stands as one of the most influential economics books of the twentieth century ...