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Archimedes

fulcrum of science

A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician's singular life as a truly modern scientist. Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him: Archimedes of Syracuse-an engineer who single-handedly defied the world's most powerful army and a mathematician who knew more in 212 BCE than ...

The Assyrians

lost civilizations

An accessible guide to the history of the Assyrian empire from the perspective of its powerful elites. At the height of its power near 660 BC, the Assyrian empire, centered in northern Iraq, wielded dominance from Egypt to Iran. This vast region was ruled by ...

The Medieval Scriptorium

Making Books in the Middle Ages

Illuminated with illustrations, an exploration of medieval manuscript production that offers insight into both the early history of the book and life in the Middle Ages. This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each ...

The Phoenicians

Lost Civilizations

Drawing on an impressive range of archaeological and textual sources and a nuanced understanding of biases, this book offers a valuable reappraisal of the enigmatic Phoenicians. The Phoenicians is a fascinating exploration of this much-mythologized people: their history, artistic heritage, and the scope of their ...

Merpeople

A Human History

A wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated history of mermaids and mermen from the classics to cosplay. People have been fascinated by merpeople and merfolk since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer's Odyssey to Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid and the film Splash, myths ...

Plunder?

How Museums Got Their Treasures

A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, and theft. In this thought-provoking new work, historian Justin M. Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that much of Western museums' treasures were acquired by imperialist plunder and theft. The account reexamines ...

The Art of Medieval Falconry

A beautifully illustrated tour of the visual culture of medieval falconry in Europe and beyond. Medieval falconry was not just about hunting; the practice also signified sovereignty, power, and diplomacy. In The Art of Medieval Falconry, Yannis Hadjinicolaou describes the visual culture that sprang up ...

The Troubadours

An engaging and accessible introduction to the music, poetry, and lives of the medieval singer-songwriters. Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from powerful nobles to penniless minstrels. This book delves into the everyday worlds ...

A Short History of Tomb-Raiding

The Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures

A spine-tingling exploration of a venture as ancient as the pyramids themselves. To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a practice that generated staggering quantities of artifacts over the course of many millennia-and also one that ...

Marco Polo and his world

A lavishly illustrated tour of the famed adventurer's globetrotting travels, written by a celebrated translator of Polo's writings. At the age of seventeen, Marco Polo left his Venetian home on a continent-spanning adventure that lasted for nearly a quarter century. Imprisoned in Genoa ...

Plato

a civic life

A new reading of Plato's philosophy that reveals it as deeply shaped by his experiences in Athens. Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Born during ...

'A seditious and sinister tribe'

the Crimean Tatars and their khanate

With implications for the war in Ukraine, a surprising history of the Crimean Tatars from the fifteenth century to the present day. The Crimean Tatars were the Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea who established a powerful khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until ...

En el centenario del profesor Manuel Alonso Olea

El 19 de junio de 2024 se cumplen 100 años del nacimiento del maestro Alonso Olea en Melilla. La Junta Directiva de la Asociación Española de Derecho del Trabajo y su presidenta, la profesora María Emilia Casas Baamonde, han querido rendir homenaje, con los recuerdos ...

Three predictive policing approaches in Spain: VIOGÉN, RISCANVI and VERIPOL

Assessment from a human rights perspective

What is the predictive accuracy and effectiveness of algorithms designed for crime prevention purposes? Are they sufficiently transparent? Are there any inherent biases? This report presents an analysis of three algorithmic tools used by the Spanish administration for predictive analytics in the police and prison ...

Comunidades energéticas locales

Las comunidades energéticas locales constituyen un punto de inflexión en la transición hacia un modelo energético más sostenible, descentralizado y participativo, razón por la cual esta obra, resultado de la colaboración de más de una veintena de académicos y profesionales especialistas en la materia, guarda ...

Don Vito

Una historia de mafia, política y carbón

El plan para poner fin a la minería del carbón, uno de los sectores industriales más importantes del pasado no tan lejano, no fue una desamortización. Ni siquiera una reconversión. El protocolo para descarbonizar la economía que se proyectó a finales de los años ochenta ...

Líneas fundamentales de la crítica de la economía política

('Grundrisse')

Los años 1857-1858 fueron particularmente vibrantes y fecundos en la evolución intelectual de Marx. Fue en la década de 1850 –que arrancó, tras las revoluciones frustradas de 1848, con el exilio y la radicación definitiva de Marx en Londres y en la British Library– cuando ...

Códigos de buen gobierno para empresas no cotizadas y de familia

El diseño de una estructura adecuada de buen gobierno para la empresa familiar y para la familia empresaria es objeto de creciente y constante interés. Para llevar a cabo la implementación de criterios de buen gobierno, los empresarios pueden contar con propuestas concretas de códigos ...

Curso de prompts jurídicos con Iberley IA y chapGPT

Domina la creación de prompts legales y saca todo el partido a la IA

La inteligencia artificial ha llegado para transformar el mundo jurídico. E Iberley IA se ha convertido en la herramienta imprescindible para los operadores legales que buscan maximizar su eficiencia y precisión. En combinación con la revolucionaria tecnología de ChatCPT, esta fusión ha supuesto un cambio ...

La Justicia en el ojo del huracán

Reflexiones de un magistrado de lo social

Pedro Tuset del Pino nos brinda una nueva obra que, a través de 60 artículos, se adentra en distintos asuntos en materia de Justicia y Derecho y otros relativos a aspectos generales relacionados con la filosofía, la sociedad o los valores cívicos y éticos. La ...