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Mapa de soledades

Un apasionante ensayo literario sobre la gran epidemia del siglo XXI: la soledad.«Una extraordinaria radiografía afectiva de la soledad, una cartografía personal del desamparo, pero también del retiro voluntario, que es a la vez un mapa preciso y una red de conexiones entre tiempos ...

Las matemáticas del cosmos

En esta guía sobre el cosmos, Ian Stewart describe la arquitectura del espacio y el tiempo, la materia oscura y la energía, cómo se forman las galaxias, por qué las estrellas implosionan, cómo empezó todo y cómo acabará. Considera universos paralelos, qué forma podría tomar ...

Hope and despair

Israel's future in the New Middle East

Days before his country signed a deal to normalise ties with Israel, the Emirati Ambassador to the US penned an article in Hebrew, directly addressing Israelis. Israel, he argued, faced a choice between engagement with the rest of the region, or isolation. His words struck ...

Pakistan

the search for stability

Pakistan is facing a multitude of critical challenges, a 'Polycrisis' arising in many areas at once--political, constitutional, economic, security-related, geo-political, demographic and ecological. These systemic predicaments are the cumulative consequence of decades of poor governance and squandered opportunities, whose convergence now creates a formidable existential ...

Hezbollah

mobilisation and power

Almost forty years after its foundation, Hezbollah remains an enigma. Is it an Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national resistance ever to have defeated Tel Aviv's troops? Should we look at it as a patriotic and respectable party ...

The Hellenistic World

new perspectives

The Hellenistic World assembles fourteen new papers, by an international group of contributors, on the pivotal age between the death of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII. Subjects range from settlement patterns, non-Greek populations and marginal peoples, the personnel, rivalries and religious ideologies of the ...

Archaic Greece

new approaches and new evidence

How and why did the Greek city-states come into being? The study of Greece in the Archaic period is changing due to new discoveries and interpretations. The 14 essays presented here explore many aspects of this rapidly changing world. The essays detail re-interpretations of archaeological ...

Leaving the twentieth century

Situationist revolutions

The Situationist International, which leaped to the fore during the Paris tumult of 1968, has extended its revolutionary influence right up to the present day. In Leaving the Twentieth Century, the movement is captured for the first time in its full range and diversity. McKenzie ...

First-class passengers on a sinking ship

elite politics and the decline of great powers

The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the United States will not be able to sustain its global dominance. He contrasts ...

Marxist modernism

introductory lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory

Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers: Gillian Rose. Her 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School explore the lives and philosophies of ...

Women's dress in the ancient Greek world

The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's history has been little studied. In this collection of new studies by an international team, ancient visual evidence from vase-painting ...

Christian atheism

how to be a real materialist

If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within? Slavoj Zizek has long been a commentator on, and critic of, Christian theology. His preoccupation with Badiou's concept of 'the event' alongside the ...

A History of the Netherlands

from the sixteenth century to the present day

Friso Wielenga's detailed history of the Netherlands traces its political development from independence to today, incorporating significant explorations of culture, economics, international relations, colonisation and decolonisation in the process. It provides a thorough and well-balanced overview of the key moments in and vital aspects ...

The Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt

history, archaeology and society

For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: some of its kings were later worshipped as local ...

Stealing from the Saracens

how Islamic architecture shaped Europe

Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, Europeans are increasingly airbrushing from history their cultural debt to the Muslim world. But this legacy lives on in some of Europe's most recognisable buildings, from Notre-Dame Cathedral to the Houses of Parliament.This beautifully illustrated book reveals the ...

What Britain did to Nigeria

a short history of conquest and rule

Most accounts of Nigeria's colonisation were written by British officials, presenting it as a noble civilising mission to rid Africans of barbaric superstition and corrupt tribal leadership. Thanks to this skewed writing of history, many Nigerians today still have Empire nostalgia and view the ...

Malevolent republic

a short history of the New India

After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru's diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nationalism. India, the first major democracy to fall to demagogic populism in the twenty-first century, is racing to a point of no return. Since ...

Russia in Africa

resurgent great power or bellicose pretender?

Three decades after the Soviet Union's collapse, Russia has transformed from a fringe player to a resurgent great power in Africa. The October 2019 Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi highlighted the appeal of Russia's normative agenda, the ubiquity of Russian military technology, and the ...

The Abiy Project

god, power and war in the new Ethiopia

In 2018, Ethiopia and the world were in the throes of 'Abiymania', a fervour of popular support for the divided country's young, charismatic new prime minister. Arriving as if from nowhere, Abiy Ahmed, a Pentecostal Christian, promised democratic salvation and national unity. For his ...

Dalhuisen on transnational and comparative commercial, financial and trade law

Volume 2. International arbitration, the transnationalisation of dispute resolution

Volume 2 of this new edition covers the transnationalisation of dispute resolution, especially arbitration, and contains a critical analysis of the main challenges to its success, continuing credibility, and effectiveness. The volume distinguishes between commercial, financial, and foreign investment arbitration and concentrates on the status ...