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El viaje a Weimar

El viaje a Weimar es un libro de viajes, pero también una pequeña historia de Alemania condensada en seis meses vertiginosos (mayo-noviembre de 1989) que cambiaron el mundo para siempre; un relato en el que se mezclan la crónica política con una reflexión sobre la ...

Escritura en mano de mujeres en el ámbito hispánico de la Edad Media a la Modernidad

En los últimos años ha crecido el interés en torno a la escritura por mano de mujeres. Con la intención de contribuir al estudio y difusión de esta línea de investigación, el grupo GITHE de la Universidad de Alcalá inauguró en 2018 las jornadas “Ellas ...

Rebelión

Libro XXII de Quinto Licinio Cato

En el año 60 d. C., Britania está en crisis. La líder rebelde Boudica ha conseguido vencer a la guarnición de curtidos veteranos en Camuloduno, y los pueblos britanos se han alzado en armas. Cuando le llegan las noticias de que el levantamiento se extiendo ...

El infortunado infante

El infante don Luis de Borbón yace en su lecho de muerte en el Palacio de Arenas de San Pedro. Hasta allí ha acudido su antiguo pintor de cámara, Luis Paret y Alcázar. En esos postreros momentos, el infante le encarga una importante misión. Luis ...

Vidas de santos

Vidas de poetas, novelistas, actrices, músicos, contaores, forajidos de la normalidad... A estas criaturas las entiendo y asumo como santos. Gentes llagadas, sufrientes, vitales y extravagantes. Vivieron (algunos lo hacen) al límite de las convenciones. Deflagran las costumbres respetables. Poetas, novelistas, actrices, músicos, cantaores, forajidos ...

Amundsen-Scott, duelo en la Antártida

La carrera al Polo Sur

Este libro cuenta la historia del descubrimiento del Polo Sur, de un desafío, de la última gran exploración, la última gran aventura que el ser humano podía acometer en su planeta; después de lograrlo ya no le quedaría nada más, tan sólo salir al espacio ...

Fintech Wars

Tech Titans, Complex Crypto and the Future of Money

Fintech touches every part of our lives, from cashless economies to crypto, and even our climate. This book draws back the curtain on this fascinating world full of friction, failure and fortune. Fintech Wars delves into one of the world's most lucrative and fast-growing ...

Liberalism against itself

Cold War intellectuals and the making of our times

By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including ...

Against constitutional originalism

a historical critique

Constitutional originalism stakes law to history. The theory's core tenet-that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning-has us decide questions of modern constitutional law by consulting the distant constitutional past. Yet originalist engagement with history is often deeply problematic ...

Atlas of Finance

mapping the global story of money

From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today's interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one ...

Terrorism

a history

In this third edition of his widely acclaimed survey, historian Randall D. Law makes sense of the history of terrorism by examining it within its broad political, religious and social contexts from the ancient world to the present day. In Terrorism: A History, Law reveals ...

Power and Technology

A Theory of Social, Technical and Natural Power

The definition of power varies across disciplines. Social scientists tend to deal with social power, philosophers of technology with the relation between technology and society, and ecologists with the relation between natural and social power. Concepts of power and technology are freely used but this ...

Profit

An environmental history

Profit - getting more out of something than you put into it - is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more ways of extracting ...

Utilitarianism as a way of life

re-envisioning planetary happiness

Utilitarianism - a commitment to 'the greatest happiness for the greatest number' - has been the target of endless opposition. According to its critics, it ignores the separateness of persons, cannot secure the protections of basic rights, demands extreme sacrifice, can justify anything - the list goes on ...

Beyond states

powers, peoples and global order

Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule of law and a single source of sovereign authority. But will they continue to do ...

Israel-Palestine

federation or apartheid?

Since the brutal massacre perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October and the subsequent bombing and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been thrust back to the centre of the world's attention. How can this deep-rooted conflict, stretching back for more than 75 years ...

Algorithms of anxiety

fear in the digital age

Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals, communities and organizations can at last take control of the future - anticipating, designing and ...

Paranoid finance

There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable. At the core of financial imagination lies a notion of value - of 'value creation' - that is loaded with trouble. This is the trouble of a fragile metaphor: a metaphor of ...

Superpower Europe

the European Union's silent revolution

The European Union is in a state of revolution. In response to new global realities from the climate crisis to the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine to the emerging cold war with China, the EU is transforming into a federal superpower in a new ...

The working sovereign

labour and democratic citizenship

What role does the organisation of labour relations play in the health of a democratic society? Axel Honneth's major new work is devoted to answering this question. His central thesis is that participation in democratic will formation can only proceed from a transparent and ...