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Civilizing climate

social responses to climate change in the ancient near east

Description is based upon research evidence from the Near East and elsewhere, of changes in climate and how that affected social and political developments. This work uses 3 major case studies of the Neolithic, Early Bronze, and Roman/Byzantine periods.

Beyond the canon

history for the twenty-first century

"Beyond the Canon" deals with recent politicized processes of canonization and its implications for historical culture in a globalizing and postcolonial world. The volume discusses the framing and transmission of historical knowledge, explores the philosophical foundations of canons, and its consequences for the construction of ...

Extremadura

tierra de libros: la pasión bibliográfica de toda una región

ÍNDICE (RESUMEN).: Introducción. Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra (Presidente de la Junta de Extremadura). Francisco Muñoz Ramírez (Consejero de Cultura). Estudios. Justo Vila Izquierdo. Extremadura, tierra de libros# y bibliófilos. Víctor Infantes. Leve encomio para un libro que no lo necesita. Miguel Ángel Lama. El bueno ...

Liberation or catastrophe?

reflections on the history of the twentieth century

After a brief discussion about the meaning of 'modern' history, Michael Howard presents a fascinating analysis of the history of the 20th Century - laying much emphasis on the USA, where the author has spent much time as a Professor at Yale. It was Michael Howard ...

Nationalism and european integration

the need for new theoretical and empirical insights

Nationalism has long excited debate in political and social sciences and still remains a key field of research among historians, anthropologists, sociologists, as well as political scientists. In the time of the European integration, and particularly as a result of the recent crisis of the ...

Women, feminism and media

This is a study of the key areas of issue and debate in feminist media studies over the past twenty years. Over the past few decades, feminist media scholarship has flourished, to become a major influence on the fields of media, film and cultural studies ...

Child-centred education

reviving the creative tradition

Against an increasingly authoritarian background of testing and instruction, concern is growing about disengagement and loss of depth and quality in education at all levels. Child Centred Education seeks to explore the role of Primary education within this debate. The book will inspire teachers and ...

Televisión y prensa durante la UCD

premios y castigos mediático-gubernamentales

Los gobiernos, como gestores de las políticas mediáticas, disponen de mecanismos privativos para favorecer o perjudicar a los grupos de comunicación.

Teoría y técnicas del periodismo especializado

INDICE: Prólogo. Fundamentos epistemológicos de la información periodística especializada. Áreas de especialización periodística. Epílogo. Anexos.

Athenian legacies

essays on the politics of going on together

How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over time, its people must choose to go on together. That choice often entails hardship and hard bargains. In good times, going ...

Les origines de la Solution Finale

l'évolution de la politique antijuive des nazis, septembre 1939-mars 1942

En 1939, l'Allemagne nazie, qui projette une recomposition démographique de l'Europe centrale et orientale, entreprend d'expulser les populations juives qui y habitent. À l'automne 1941 est décidée la destruction totale des Juifs. Comment la politique nazie est-elle passée de l'expulsion ...

Architecture and mathematics in ancient Egypt

In this fascinating new study, architect and Egyptologist Corinna Rossi analyses the relationship between mathematics and architecture in ancient Egypt by exploring the use of numbers and geometrical figures in ancient architectural projects and buildings. While previous architectural studies have searched for abstract 'universal rules ...

Conquest in cyberspace

national security and information warfare

With billions of computers in existence, cyberspace, 'the virtual world created when they are connected,' is said to be the new medium of power. Computer hackers operating from anywhere can enter cyberspace and take control of other people's computers, stealing their information, corrupting their ...

A primer on ugaritic

language, culture, and literature

A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture. The ...

The future of gender

'Gender' is used to classify humans and to explain their behaviour in predominantly social rather than biological terms. But how useful is the concept of gender in social analysis? To what degree does gender relate to sex? How does gender feature in shifts in familial ...

Technology and culture in greek and roman antiquity

The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their cultures? Through five case-studies, this book sets ancient technical knowledge in its political, social and intellectual context. It explores the definition of ...

Sobre los oráculos

INDICE: Nota. Por qué cesan los oráculos. Por qué la Pitia no da sus oráculos en verso. Sobre la misteriosa "E" que hay en Delfos.

El mundo de las palabras

una introducción a la naturaleza humana

En esta obra fascinante, Steven Pinker nos aporta una versión totalmente distinta de cómo funciona la mente: a través del lenguaje, y nos muestra cómo nuestras palabras pueden revelar el corazón mismo de la naturaleza humana. Nuestros lenguajes tienen un modelo de sexualidad inscrito en ...

Teofanía

el espíritu de la antigua religión griega

En este breve y contundente texto #publicado en 1956 en la Rowohlts Deutsche Enzyclopädie#, el destacado filólogo alemán Walter F. Otto, autor de Los dioses de Grecia (1929), hace un rescate de la religión griega, vista no como consecuencia de una «ilusión primitiva» o de ...

Hitler's beneficiaries

how the nazis bought the german people

This is a stunning account of the economic workings of the Third Reich - and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state. In this groundbreaking book, historian Gotz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary ...