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¿Y después de la crisis qué...?

propuestas para una nueva democracia mundial

El objetivo de este libro es explicar el misterio de la mayor crisis económica munidal de una manera amena y sencilla.

Extraño oriente

prejuicios, mitos y errores acerca del Islam

La imagen occidental de #Oriente# tiene una larga historia llena de tensiones y violencia, odio e incomprensión. Esta obra analiza todas las etapas desde las primeras confrontaciones entre el cristianismo y el islam y muestra cómo evolucionó nuestra imagen de lo #oriental# a través del ...

La nueva judeofobia

Israel y los judíos: desinformación y antisemitismo

Casi a diario vemos en la prensa y la televisión noticias sobre actos de violencia cometidos en relación con el trágico y cruel conflicto entre israelíes y palestinos. El discurso de ciertos fundamentalistas islámicos de gran influencia convierte este conflicto en el núcleo de una ...

The matter of the gods

religion and the roman empire

What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, and what motivated them to change those rituals? To these questions Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: In contrast to ancient Christians, who had faith, Romans had knowledge, and ...

The posthuman dada guide

Tzara&Lenin play chess

'This is a guide for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life. It is not advisable, nor was it ever, to lead a Dada life' - The Posthuman Dada Guide . The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world - all ...

The rise of Homo sapiens

the evolution of modern thinking

"The Rise of Homo Sapiens: The Evolution of Human Thinking" presents a provocative theory about the evolution of the modern mind based on archaeological evidence and the working memory model of experimental psychologist Alan Baddeley. It gives a unique introduction and primer into the new ...

Iraq

a political history from independence to accupation

With each day that passed after the 2003 invasion, the United States seemed to sink deeper in the treacherous quicksand of Iraq's social discord, floundering in the face of deep ethno-sectarian divisions that have impeded the creation of a viable state and the molding ...

Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time

John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Age

In the middle of the fourteenth century, the Franciscan friar John of Rupescissa sent a dramatic warning to his followers: the last days were coming; the apocalypse was near. Deemed insane by the Christian church, Rupescissa had spent more than a decade confined to prisons& mdash;in ...

State of deception

the power of Nazi praganda

A history of Nazi propaganda based on never-before-published posters, rare photographs, and historical artifacts from the USHMM's groundbreaking exhibition. Biography: Steven Luckert is current curator of the award-winning permanent exhibition The Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He lives in Silver Spring ...

On the wings of time

Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru

Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street? Although the Spanish destruction of the Incan empire changed the Andes forever, the civil society ...

A necessary engagement

reinventing America's relations with the muslim world

In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world. Offering a unique balance between in-depth analysis, personal memoir, and foreign policy remedies, the book injects much-needed wisdom ...

The rise and fall of the Shah

Iran from autocracy to religious rule

With a new introduction and preface by the author Amin Saikal. On November 4, 1979, when students occupied the American Embassy in Tehran and subsequently demanded that the United States return the Shah in exchange for hostages, the deposed Iranian ruler's regime became the ...

The parting of the sea

how volcanoes, earthquakes, and plagues shaped the story of exodus

For more than four decades, biblical experts have tried to place the story of Exodus into historical context without success. What could explain the Nile turning to blood, insects swarming the land, and the sky falling to darkness? Integrating biblical accounts with substantive archaeological evidence ...

Mirror of the arab world

Lebanon in conflict

Mirror of the Arab World is really two books in one. Mackey's narrative deftly weaves Lebanon's tragic history with that of the Arab Middle East as a whole#Mackey performs the tricky balancing act of demonstrating that Lebanon is unique yet somehow still ...

En defensa del capitalismo global

«Cuando hablo de defensa del capitalismo, entiendo por éste la libertad capitalista de actuar y de experimentar distintas soluciones sin necesidad de encomendarse a mandatarios ni controladores fronterizos. Se trata básicamente del mismo tipo de libertad que en el pasado pensé que podría proporcionar el ...

Obras escogidas

Edición y estudio preliminar de Francisco Cabrillo. Algunos de estos escritos sorprenderán al lector por su actualidad. Así, por ejemplo, su crítica "antikeynesiana" a la idea de que para una economía pllede resultar positiva la realización de un gasto para incrementar la demanda, al margen ...

Ludic proof

greek mathematics and the alexandrian aesthetic

Describes the relationship between science and poetry in the Hellenistic period, transforming our understanding of the origins of Western mathematics. Biography: Reviel Netz is Professor of Classics at Stanford University. He has written many books on mathematics, history and poetry, including, most recently, The Transformation ...

Jewish immigrants and american capitalism, 1880-1920

from caste to class

Eli Lederhendler demonstrates that the Russian Jewish immigrants' distinctive characteristics were developed through a realignment of Jewish social values in response to their new experiences.

Legal practice and the written word in the Early Middle Ages

Frankish Formulae, c. 500-1000

Legal formularies are books of model legal documents compiled by early medieval scribes for their own use and that of their pupils. A major source for the history of early medieval Europe, they document social relations beyond the narrow world of the political elite. Formularies ...

Antagonistics

capitalism and power in an age of war

Antagonistics addresses core political and theoretical questions: How should we conceive the relations between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, American hegemony and capitalist globalization? Reflections on the central issues of the post-9/11 order are set within a larger framework, tracing the intertwined evolution of the ...