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El árbol de la gnosis

mitología gnóstica del cristianismo primitivo al nihilismo moderno

Esta obra aborda, por primera vez, una presentación completa de todas las religiones dualistas, cuya historia ha influido tan profundamente en Occidente: gnosticismo, marcionismo, maniqueísmo, paulicianismo, bogomilismo y catarismo occitano y lombardo. El libro de Ioan Culianu no sólo llena un vacío en la historia ...

Campus free speech

a pocket guide

From renowned legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein, a concise, case-by-case guide to resolving free-speech dilemmas at colleges and universities. Free speech is indispensable on college campuses: allowing varied views and frank exchanges of opinion is a core component of the educational enterprise and the pursuit ...

Born to rule

the making and remaking of the British elite

A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate. Think of the British elite and familiar caricatures ...

Border abolition now

'Outstanding ... A rich, hopeful guide that shows us how the world could be borderless, flourishing, free' - Luke de Noronha, co-author, Against Borders Borders must be abolished. Borders produce and are produced by carceral, racist, classist, sexist, and xenophobic regimes. Border Abolition Now demands transformative politics ...

Entre princes et marchands

Les agents généraux de France à Madrid dans les interstices de la diplomatie (1702-1793)

Entre 1702 et 1793, onze hommes occupèrent la fonction d’agent général de la Marine et du Commerce de France à Madrid, créée après l’avènement du Bourbon Philippe V au trône d’Espagne. Agissant sans statut officiel, à l’interface entre les milieux d ...

La crisis de asequibilidad de la vivienda

Análisis y propuestas

La vivienda es un bien esencial que se ha convertido en difícilmente accesible para sectores cada vez más amplios de población. A ello han contribuido diversos factores, entre otros, la adopción de decisiones legislativas inadecuadas a lo largo de varias décadas. Dicha trayectoria se ha ...

Academic freedom

from professional norm to first amendment right

A definitive interpretation of academic freedom as a First Amendment right, drawing on a comprehensive survey of legal cases. Is academic freedom a First Amendment right? Many think so, yet its relationship to free speech as guaranteed by the Constitution is anything but straightforward. David ...

Siena

The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350

In the early 1300s, the city of Siena gave rise to an extraordinary period of creativity and innovation. Painters, sculptors, and goldsmiths produced remarkable works whose impact was felt far beyond the city's walls. From vast altarpieces to portable objects for private devotion, the ...

Las aventuras de Pinocho (Pop up)

La travesura y la magia de Pinocho, junto con sus amigos y enemigos, cobran vida en este maravilloso libro pop-up. ¡Tira de las pestañas para más diversión!

Alicia en el país de las maravillas (Pop up)

Descubre la magia y el misterio de esta historia clásica en seis escenas desplegables llenas de sorpresas.

Mujeres de la mitología ibérica

El objetivo de este libro es doble, en primer lugar, revalorizar el patrimonio arqueológico olvidado de Iberia: pequeños objetos preciosos que no fueron considerados en su momento y languidecen en distintas instituciones, o que desaparecieron para siempre en circunstancias trágicas. Dos anillos de plata y ...

Darse la mano

Escultura y color en el Siglo de Oro

Catálogo publicado con motivo de la exposición Darse la mano. Escultura y color en el Siglo de Oro, celebrada en el Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, entre el 19 de noviembre de 2024 y el 2 de marzo de 2025. El volumen y el color ...

The Chevron doctrine

its rise and fall, and the future of the administrative state

The Constitution makes Congress the principal federal lawmaker. But for a variety of reasons, including partisan gridlock, Congress increasingly fails to keep up with the challenges facing our society. Power has shifted to the executive branch agencies that interpret laws and to the courts that ...

In praise of failure

four lessons in humility

Our obsession with success is hard to overlook. Everywhere we compete, rank, and measure. Yet this relentless drive to be the best blinds us to something vitally important: the need to be humble in the face of life's challenges. In Praise of Failure explores ...

The burnout challenge

managing people's relationships with their jobs

Burnout is among the most significant on-the-job hazards facing workers today. It is also among the most misunderstood. In particular, we tend to characterize burnout as a personal issue-a problem employees should fix themselves by getting therapy, practicing relaxation techniques, or changing jobs. Christina Maslach ...

Arab-Israeli conflict

the essential reference guide

Truly an essential reference for today's world, this detailed introduction to the origins, events, and impact of the adversarial relationship between Arabs and Israelis illuminates the complexities and the consequences of this long-lasting conflict. The Arab-Israeli conflict remains one of the most contentious in ...

Hart, Fuller and everything after

the politics of legal theory

More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious world of jurisprudential scholarship - too much philosophising about how law has revelled in its own abstractness and narrowness. But the mission of this book is distinctly ...

AI fairness and beyond

law, regulation, and technology

This book proposes a regulatory system for ensuring that AI makes fair decisions. No one wants to be the subject of an unfair decision made by an AI, and fairness is so important to society that we are likely to want to regulate to demand ...

SIPRI Yearbook 2024

armaments, disarmament and international security

The SIPRI Yearbook is an authoritative and independent source of data and analysis on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview of developments in international security, military expenditure, weapons and technology, arms production and the arms trade, armed conflict and conflict management, and ...

Upstart

how China became a great power

A powerful new explanation of China's rise that draws from the business world to show that China is not simply copying established great powers, but exploiting geopolitical opportunities around the world that those other powers had ignored. Thirty years ago, the idea that China ...