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The Scythians

lost civilizations

The Scythians offers a bold new take on the horse-riding peoples who once inhabited the vast steppe lands from the Black Sea to the Siberian Altai. Drawing on archaeological finds, ancient texts and comparative insights, Caspar Meyer shows how these communities forged dynamic networks rooted ...

The ancient interpretation of dreams

early Greek hermeneutics and its sources

The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical Greece Long before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a continuous intellectual practice of dream interpretation across a range of ancient ...

Derrida

a very short introduction

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Jacques Derrida had a major influence on 20th century philosophy and the idea of postmodernism. Challenging some of the deepest assumptions of the Western philosophical tradition, he is most renowned-or condemned-for his engagement with the movement that he called ...

Taiwan

a people's history

While most English-language histories of Taiwan focus on its geopolitical role, this history centres on the people of Taiwan themselves and explores how they have formed a unique polity, telling the story of the Indigenous Taiwanese, the Hoklo and Hakka who came from China before ...

The medieval guide to healthy living

We often think of medieval medicine as strange, unhygienic and unscientific, but The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living reveals a far richer story. Long before modern wellness trends, people in the Middle Ages were actively thinking about how to live well. They followed detailed health ...

Down old roads

A journey through the history of Europe

For a million years people have been travelling throughout Europe, from the mysterious homo antecessor who left his footprints on the coast of England to travellers on the motorways of today. Under every footstep lies an older one, under every paved road a donkey trail ...

The Kantian religion

A historical inquiry into Kantian philosophy as a form of philosophical religion Kantian philosophy is typically viewed as providing a universal theory of knowledge and morality based on timeless principles retrieved from the human mind. In The Kantian Religion, Ian Hunter offers a starkly different ...

Spinoza, atheist

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Steven Nadler, a fascinating historical and philosophical narrative that unravels the mystery of whether Spinoza was an atheist In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza was ...

Arctic state identity

geography, history, and geopolitical relations

This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight 'Arctic states'; is there such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and if so, what does this mean for state personnel? It charts the thoughtful ...

Jean-Paul Marat

prophet of terror

A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution-Jean-Paul Marat. Who better to pen an authoritative biography of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-93) than preeminent historian of France Keith Michael Baker? Decades in the making, this monumental work takes readers ...

I, wandering Jew

a five-century history of our modern condition

Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of "the Wandering Jew" The story behind the mythical figure of "the Wandering Jew" is one of the most fascinating tales in European history. In I, Wandering Jew, National Jewish ...

The first emancipation

the forgotten history of abolition in revolutionary France

A new history of slavery and the French Revolution The First Emancipation is a dramatic account of how slavery and race profoundly influenced the course of the French Revolution and had a central impact on the lives of key leaders, including Mirabeau, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture ...

Fragmentary Republican Latin. Volume VII: Pacuvius, Minor Tragic Poets, Unidentified Dramatists

(Loeb Classical Library; 559)

The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with Marcus Pacuvius (ca. 220-130), deemed by Cicero to be Rome's greatest tragic poet, together with the fragments of those tragedians of whose work little has survived. Also included are fragments distinguished as dramatic by ...

Lucian. Volume I

(Loeb Classical Library; 14)

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly creative, virtuosic, and boldly original writers of antiquity. Although he more than once characterizes his writings, many of them intended for public performance, as a combination of ...

Empress Matilda

queen of the Romans, ruler of the English

An authoritative new biography of Empress Matilda Born in 1102, Empress Matilda combined the blood of two dynasties: the house of Wessex and their conquerors, the dukes of Normandy. As a widowed German empress, she was named as heir successor by her father, Henry I ...

Aulas en transformación

nuevas metodologías para una docencia universitaria activa, crítica e inclusiva

Nuestras aulas universitarias están experimentando profundas transformaciones, no solo en clave tecnológica por la irrupción de la inteligencia artificial en la docencia y la evaluación, sino también por las demandas de las titulaciones y del estudiantado que exigen la puesta en marcha de nuevas metodologías ...

El principio de alternancia en el poder

Una teoría de la competencia democrática

La obra examina la alternancia en el poder como requisito sustantivo de la democracia liberal, diferenciando entre democracia meramente formal y democracia sustantiva. El objeto central es el atrincheramiento de actores políticos que, en contextos democráticos, manipulan reglas electorales, recursos públicos y poderes de excepción ...

Gobernanza territorial y Derecho público en contextos de crisis y emergencias

La digitalización y la IA en la anticipación y gestión de catástrofes y sus riesgos, desde la seguridad humana

Esta obra colectiva examina cómo las crisis climáticas y las emergencias, con la DANA de Valencia de 2024 como caso de estudio, están reconfigurando la gobernanza territorial y el Derecho público. Analiza la DANA de Valencia como “laboratorio jurídico” para extraer lecciones sobre coordinación territorial ...

MEMENTO PRÁCTICO-Acceso a la Abogacía y la Procura 2027

La formación de los futuros profesionales de la abogacía y la procura exige hoy un conocimiento actualizado no solo del ordenamiento jurídico, sino también del funcionamiento de la Administración de Justicia, de las obligaciones deontológicas, de las nuevas formas de ejercicio profesional y de las ...

Full stack spies

cyber espionage in the age of US-China competition

Examines how cyber espionage became an instrument of statecraft, shaped by the entanglements between states, hackers and tech companies that drive global instability. Even the most elite hackers use common technologies to steal state secrets, which help intelligence agencies to catch them. Are these hackers ...