Cuadernos De Historia 16 135 Agricultura En America ( 1985)

Cuadernos De Historia 16 número 135: Agricultura En América serie de 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 136 Los Sacerdotes Egipcios 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 138 Los Antiguos Esclavos 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 139 Descubrimientos Y Descubridores 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 140 Las Cruzadas 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 141 Pericles Y Su Epoca 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 142 Los Comerciantes Del Mediterraneo 1985


Ciencia musulmana en España

Entrega n.º 144 de la colección Cuadernos Historia 16 dedicado a la ciencia musulmana en España entre los años 711 y 1492.


Cuadernos De Historia 16 145 La Europa De Metternich 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 147 Los Incas Y Sus Dioses 1985


Marcos de análisis teóricos de la realidad administrativa. El pensamiento de Chester Barnard y Herbert Simon


Cuadernos De Historia 16 148 La España De Olivares 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 149 Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1) 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 150 Napoleon Bonaparte (y 2) 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 155 Carlomagno (y 2) 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 156 Filipinas ( 1985)

Cuadernos De Historia 16 número 156: Filipinas. Serie de 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 158 Conflictos Sociales En La Edad Media 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 161 El Imperio Turco 1985

Cuadernos De Historia 16. El Imperio Turco 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 164 La I Republica 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 167 La Reforma En Europa ( 1985)


Cuadernos De Historia 16 166 Puertos Comerciales En La Edad Media 1985


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Cuadernos De Historia 16 172 La Hueste Indiana 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 180 La Revolucion Francesa (y 3) 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 171 Recaredo Y Su Epoca 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 182 Los Campesinos En El Siglo XVI 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 189 La Andalucia Romana 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 197 España Y La Gran Guerra 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 201 Felipe II 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 203 La Commonwealth 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 204 La Ciudad Castellana Medieval 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 205 El Mundo De Los Borgia 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 210 La China De Mao 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 211 La España De Carlos II 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 213 La Florencia De Los Medici 1985

Cuadernos De Historia 16 213 La Florencia De Los Médici 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 216 Las Primera Ciudades 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 219 Los Templarios 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 222 Los Tracios 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 224 El Colonialismo 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 226 La Ciencia Del Antiguo Egipto 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 230 Cromwell Y La Revolucion Inglesa 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 229 La China De Confucio 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 236 Los Balcanes Contemporaneos 1 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 237 Los Balcanes Contemporaneos 2 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 238 La Ruta De La Seda 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 239 La Reforma Agraria En España 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 240 La Revolucion De 1905 1985 Faltan 2 Pg


Cuadernos De Historia 16 241 La Guerra De Troya 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 242 Los Condotieros 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 244 La Conquista De Sevilla 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 245 La America De Roosevelt 1985


Los vikingos

De Escandinavia salieron, antes del comienzo de la Era Cristiana, los pueblos germánicos que en el siglo V ocuparon el Imperio Romano de Occidente, y de Escandinavia saldrían, ocho siglos más tarde, nuevas oleadas de piratas (vikingos) que contribuyeron a destruir el Imperio Carolingio y modificaron el mapa político de Europa con la creación de un ducado semiindependiente en Normandía (siglo X) y de los reinos normandos del sur de Italia y de Inglaterra (siglo XI). Mientras los vikingos de Dinamarca y Noruega se extienden por Occidente, los varegos de Suecia entran en contacto, a través de las estepas rusas, con el Imperio Bizantino y con el Califacto islámico de Bagdad, y contribuyen a la creación de ciudades como Novgorod o del Principado de Kiev (siglo IX).Vikingos y varegos viven ante todo de la guerra, del botín y del saqueo, pero entre sus actividades figura también el comercio, y al estudio de estas actividades militares, políticas y comerciales se dedican las páginas que siguen, completadas con un breve estudio sobre la presencia de los normandos en la Península Ibérica y sobre las consecuencias directas e indirectas de sus ataques. Los estudios podrían haberse multiplicado sin esfuerzo, pero en esta primera visión del mundo normando nos ha parecido conveniente limitarnos a llamar la atención sobre las características generales de su expansión y a dar a conocer aspectos hasta ahora ignorados del gran público.


Cuadernos De Historia 16 247 La Cultura Helenistica 1985


El Japón Tokugawa

Después de la caída de la última resistencia al dominio del shogún Ieyasu, fundador de la dinastía Tokugawa, en 1615, Japón gozó de más de dos siglos sin guerra. Durante este período de paz casi sin paralelos, la superficie de tierras cultivadas se duplicó, la producción de arroz se cuadruplicó y la población se triplicó. Pero el peso de esta población creciente siguió siendo extremadamente grande y las revueltas campesinas fueron numerosas debido a las malas cosechas, el hambre y descontento general que acabarán por originar el desprestigio popular del shogunato.De ahí en adelante los contactos entre Japón y los europeos fueron mantenidos en un estricto mínimo, y durante siglos Japón practicó una política estrictamente aislacionista en vías de lograr la unificación interna. Se prohibirán los libros occidentales y el cristianismo será considerado como ajeno por los gobernantes de Japón. Los misioneros fueron capturados y ejecutados (a menudo por crucifixión) y los conversos torturados hasta que renegaban o morían.Sin embargo, a partir del siglo XIX Japón se mostró dispuesto, sobre todo por motivos económicos, a dar acogida a los extranjeros. Muchos japoneses reprocharon al shogún este cambio de actitud y convencieron al emperador para que volviera a hacerse con el poder. Por esta razón, el emperador Mutsu-Hito se abstuvo de nombrar a un nuevo shogún (1867).


Cuadernos De Historia 16 251 El Oeste Americano 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 248 El Madrid De Los Austrias 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 252 Augusto 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 253 Barcelona Medieval 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 254 La Huelga De 1917 1985


La phrónesis en los procesos decisorios en las organizaciones


Marcos de análisis teóricos de la realidad administrativa I

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia


Linux Shell 程式設計與管理實務 [第三版]

系統管理者必備的經典工具書 主機管理的上乘之道，就在於能夠把工作予以自動化；凡是可以交給電腦做的事，就不要由人來做。工作自動化的關鍵，就在於管理者是否具備 Shell 程式設計的能力。我們可以說：對 Shell 的操控能力以及 Shell 程式設計的能力，是每一位主機管理者應具備的基本知能，欲進階主機管理者，不可不熟 Shell！ 本書由淺入深，帶領讀者由入門到精通，徹底把 Shell 程式設計一次弄通，書中並含有許多實務方面的應用知識，可快速提升讀者的管理能力。 本書特點如下 1. 完整涵蓋 Bash Shell 4.x 的各項功能介紹，是目前最詳實的中文書籍。 2. 本書循序漸進，解說 Bash Shell 的各項觀念，讓讀者能在最短的時間內，打通 Shell 程式設計的任督二脈。 3. 書中含有豐富的範例，展示各式 Shell 技法，是您進階 Shell 程式設計的最佳範本。 4. 包含許多網路管理的實務經驗，提升讀者主機管理的能力。 5. 本書含有許多自動化管理主機的技巧，讓您輕輕鬆鬆就能成為一位有創意、高生產力的管理者。


Cuadernos De Historia 16 255 Japon De Los Meiji A Hoy 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 256 La Medicina En La Antiguedad 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 257 La Revolucion Industrial 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 258 Jorge Manrique Y Su Epoca


Cuadernos De Historia 16 263 Descubrimientos Geograficos De Los Siglos Xvii Xviii 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 264 El Egipto Ptolemaico ( 1985)


Cuadernos De Historia 16 265 Los Arameos 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 266 La Guerra En La Edad Media Emilio Mitre


Cuadernos De Historia 16 267 Conquista De Norteamerica


Cuadernos De Historia 16 270 Asi Nacio Canada


Cuadernos De Historia 16 272 Los Estados Pontificios ( I)


Cuadernos De Historia 16 273 Los Estados Pontificios 2 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 287 La Mafia 1985


Cuadernos De Historia 16 296 La Castilla Del Cid


Cuadernos De Historia 16 297 La Segunda Internacional 1985 Faltan Pag


Cuadernos De Historia 16 298 La Guerra Del Golfo 1985


The Vigil of a Nation

For the second time Lin Yutang has gone deep into wartime China and has come out with much to tell. No foreign writer, and few Chinese, could have had such a chance to see past the smoke of war, through the clouds of gossip, and beneath the heaving surface of economic and political change. And Lin Yutang, as always, is unafraid of the truth. His sense of history, joined with his spirit of eager inquiry, led him to watch for the old China along with the new. Only China presents such a study in contrasts, rich alike with romance and with hope for the future. Sitting on the ruins of a Tang palace and telling us tales of ancient times, Lin Yutang looks down at an Industrial Co-operative group working in the gully below and dreams of the China that is to be. He describes a cotton mill, all underground, three miles of whirring machines in tunnels bored beneath the protecting hills; and further west, a vast irrigation system built two thousand years ago and still working perfectly.


Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible


The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century

Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought. The first major social revolution of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase (1910–21) and the subsequent years of reconstruction (1921–40). Offering a sweeping and compelling new account of this iconic revolution, The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage reveals its profound impact on both global cinema and intellectual thought in and beyond Mexico. Focusing on the period from 1940 to 1970, Adela Pineda Franco examines a group of North American, European, and Latin American filmmakers and intellectuals who mined this extensive visual archive to produce politically engaged cinematic works that also reflect and respond to their own sociohistorical contexts. The author weaves together multilayered analysis of individual films, the history of their production and reception, and broader intellectual developments to illuminate the complex relationship between culture and revolution at the onset of World War II, during the Cold War, and amid the anti-systemic movements agitating Latin America in the 1960s. Ambitious in scope, this book charts an innovative transnational history of not only the visual representation but also the very idea of revolution. Adela Pineda Franco is Professor of Latin American Literature and Film at Boston University. She is the coeditor (with Jaime Marroquin Arredondo and Magdalena Mieri) of Open Borders to a Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Migration.


Mussolini's Army in the French Riviera

In contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army's 1940-1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine regions bred the myth of the Italian brava gente , or good fellow, an agreeable occupier who abstained from the savage wartime behaviors so common across Europe. Employing a multi-tiered approach, Emanuele Sica examines the simultaneously conflicting and symbiotic relationship between the French population and Italian soldiers. At the grassroots level, Sica asserts that the cultural proximity between the soldiers and the local population, one-quarter of which was Italian, smoothed the sharp angles of miscommunication and cultural faux-pas at a time of great uncertainty. At the same time, it encouraged a laxness in discipline that manifested as fraternization and black marketeering. Sica's examination of political tensions highlights how French prefects and mayors fought to keep the tatters of sovereignty in the face of military occupation. In addition, he reveals the tense relationship between Fascist civilian authorities eager to fulfil imperial dreams of annexation and army leaders desperate to prevent any action that might provoke French insurrection. Finally, he completes the tableau with detailed accounts of how food shortages and French Resistance attacks brought sterner Italian methods, why the Fascists' attempted "Italianization" of the French border city of Menton failed, and the ways the occupation zone became an unlikely haven for Jews.


The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Second Edition

Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in 1968 seems like it should be an open-and-shut case. Many people crowded in the small room at Los Angeles's famed Ambassador Hotel that fateful night saw Sirhan Sirhan pull the trigger. Sirhan was also convicted of the crime and still languishes in jail with a life sentence. However, conspiracy theorists have jumped on inconsistencies in the eyewitness testimony and alleged anomalies in the forensic evidence to suggest that Sirhan was only one shooter in a larger conspiracy, a patsy for the real killers, or even a hypnotized assassin who did not know what he was doing (a popular plot in Cold War-era fiction, such as The Manchurian Candidate). Mel Ayton profiles Sirhan and presents a wealth of evidence about his fanatical Palestinian nationalism and his hatred for RFK that motivated the killing. Ayton unearths neglected eyewitness accounts and overlooked forensic evidence and examines Sirhan's extensive personal notebooks. He revisits the trial proceedings and convincingly shows Sirhan was in fact the lone assassin whose politically motivated act was a forerunner of present-day terrorism. The Forgotten Terrorist is the definitive book on the assassination that rocked the nation during the turbulent summer of 1968. This second edition features a new afterword containing interviews and new evidence, as well as a new examination of the RFK assassination acoustics evidence by technical analyst Michael O'Dell.


Native Americans of East-Central Indiana

Native Americans lived, hunted and farmed in east-central Indiana for two thousand years before the area became a part of the Hoosier State. Flood explores the unique yet often untold history of this Native experience. He examines the pre-European cultures that existed, and then focuses on post-European contact with indigenous cultures in the same area.


Writing otherwise: Experiments in cultural criticism

Jackie Stacey (editor), Janet Wolff (editor)


Paris Nights - And other Impressions of Places and People

First published in 1913, this volume contains insightful notes and sketches by the author of the people and places of various places in Europe, including France, England, Italy, and Switzerland. Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English writer. Although he is perhaps best remembered for his popular novels, Bennett also produced work in other areas including the theatre, propaganda, journalism, and film. Other notable works by this author include: “Helen with a High Hand” (1910), “The Card” (1911), and “Hilda Lessways” (1911). Contents include: “Paris Nights: 1910”, “Life in London: 1911”, “Italy: 1910”, “The Riviera: 1907”, “Fontainebleau: 1904-1909”, “Switzerland: 1909-1911”, “England Again: 1907”, “The Midlands 1910-1911”, “The British Home: 1908”, “Streets, Roads and Train: 1907-1909”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with an essay from F. J. Harvey Darton's 1915 book, “Arnold Bennet”.


Churchill's Admiral in Two World Wars: Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge & Dover GCB KCVO CMG DSO


The War Was You and Me

Though civilians constituted the majority of the nation's population and were intimately involved with almost every aspect of the war, we know little about the civilian experience of the Civil War. That experience was inherently dramatic. Southerners lived through the breakup of basic social and economic institutions, including, of course, slavery. Northerners witnessed the reorganization of society to fight the war. And citizens of the border regions grappled with elemental questions of loyalty that reached into the family itself. These original essays--all commissioned from established scholars, based on archival research, and written for a wide readership--recover the stories of civilians from Natchez to New England. They address the experiences of men, women, and children; of whites, slaves, and free blacks; and of civilians from numerous classes. Not least of these stories are the on-the-ground experiences of slaves seeking emancipation and the actions of white Northerners who resisted the draft. Many of the authors present brand new material, such as the war's effect on the sounds of daily life and on reading culture. Others examine the war's premiere events, including the battle of Gettysburg and the Lincoln assassination, from fresh perspectives. Several consider the passionate debate that broke out over how to remember the war, a debate that has persisted into our own time. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Peter W. Bardaglio, William Blair, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Margaret S. Creighton, J. Matthew Gallman, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Anthony E. Kaye, Robert Kenzer, Elizabeth D. Leonard, Amy E. Murrell, George C. Rable, Nina Silber, Mark M. Smith, Mary Saracino Zboray, and Ronald J. Zboray. Together they describe the profound transformations in community relations, gender roles, race relations, and culture wrought by the central event in American history.


Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage, and Slavery


A History Lover's Guide to Kansas City (History & Guide)


Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia shows the vital part maritime Southeast Asians played in struggles against domination of the seventeenth-century spice trade by local and European rivals. Looking beyond the narrative of competing mercantile empires, it draws on European and Southeast Asian sources to illustrate Sama sea people's alliances and intermarriage with the sultanate of Makassar and the Bugis realm of Boné. Contrasting with later portrayals of the Sama as stateless pirates and sea gypsies, this history of shifting political and interethnic ties among the people of Sulawesi’s littorals and its land-based realms, along with their shared interests on distant coasts, exemplifies how regional maritime dynamics interacted with social and political worlds above the high-water mark.


The Journey Home Audio Book: Autobiography of an American Swami (Audiobook)


China's Transition to Modernity. The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen

The figure of Dai Zhen (1724–1777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai was a mathematical astronomer and influential polymath who, along with like-minded scholars, sought to balance understandings of science, technology, and history within the framework of classical Chinese writings. Exploring ideas in fields as broad-ranging as astronomy, geography, governance, phonology, and etymology, Dai grappled with Western ideas and philosophies, including Jesuit conceptions of cosmology, which were so important to the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) court's need for calendrical precision. Minghui Hu tells the story of China's transition to modernity from the perspective of 18th-century Chinese scholars who were dedicated to examining the present and past with the tools of evidential analysis. Using Dai as the centering point, Hu shows how the tongru ("broadly learned scholars") of this era navigated Confucian, Jesuit, and other worldviews during a dynamic period, connecting ancient theories to new knowledge in the process. Scholars and students of early modern Chinese history―and those examining science, religious, and intellectual history more broadly―will find China's Transition to Modernity inspiring and helpful to their research and teaching.


British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Salisbury: The 18th and 19th Centuries


Icons of Danish Modernity


Credence: Quebrando as regras

Tiernan de Haas não liga para mais nada. Filha única de um produtor de cinema e sua esposa estrela, ela cresceu com riquezas e privilégio, mas sem amor ou orientação. Enviada para colégios internos desde cedo, era impossível escapar da solidão e criar uma vida para si própria. A sombra da fama de seus pais a segue por todo lugar.E quando eles morrem de repente, ela sabia que deveria estar devastada.Mas alguma coisa realmente mudou? Ela sempre esteve sozinha, não esteve? Jake Van der Berg, meio-irmão de seu pai e seu único parente vivo, assume a guarda de Tiernan, que tem mais dois meses até os dezoito anos. Indo morar com ele e seus dois filhos, Noah e Kaleb, nas montanhas do Colorado, ela logo aprende que esses homens agora têm opinião sobre o que ela escolhe se importar ou não. Com os três a colocando debaixo de suas asas, ensinando a trabalhar e sobreviver nas florestas remotas, distantes do resto do mundo, ela lentamente descobre seu lugar entre eles.E como parte deles.Ela também percebe que as linhas ficam borradas e que regras se tornam fáceis de serem quebradas quando ninguém está olhando.


Credence: Quebrando as regras


The Hope of Elantris


The Eleventh Metal

"This story was written specifically for the Mistborn Adventure Game, a tabletop RPG. Please keep in mind that the story was intended to help a GM bring his players up to speed on the world if they haven’t read the books. There are a few goodies for those who want to know more about Kelsier, but this story is not meant to stand wholly on its own."~ Brandon Sanderson.


The Eleventh Metal


Intermediate Dynamics

A comprehensive but accessible advanced undergraduate treatment of classical mechanics, adaptable to a one or two-semester course.


LA NATURALEZA DEL ENTRENAMIENTO


Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania

The story starts with Jak waking up in a cave, out of metals. He then escapes the cave by jumping into the river in the canyon below after licking a tin deposit on the wall of the cave. He is promptly recaptured by the Koloss who want to make him their leader and a Koloss. He discovers that his girlfriend Elizandra Dramali is Koloss blooded. He does not want to become a Koloss, so he says that he already is one and will prove it by getting the Survivor's treasure from the bottom of a spear-shaped pool. He dives down, finds a chest, and brings it back up. It contains a number of Koloss spikes. The Koloss are so excited to have new spikes to increase their numbers, Jak and Elizandra manage to escape, and Jak realizes that the chest itself is made of precious aluminum.


Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania


Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution


Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald

Stephen Baxter, Catherine Karkov, Janet L. Nelson, David Pelteret

Patrick Wormald was a brilliant interpreter of the Early Middle Ages, whose teaching, writings and generous friendship inspired a generation of historians and students of politics, law, language, literature and religion to focus their attention upon the world of the Anglo-Saxons and the Franks. Leading British, American and continental scholars - his colleagues, friends and pupils - here bear witness to his seminal influence by presenting a collection of studies devoted to the key themes that dominated his work: kingship; law and society; ethnic, religious, national and linguistic identities; the power of images, pictorial or poetic, in shaping political and religious institutions. Closely mirroring the interests of their honorand, the collection not only underlines Patrick Wormald's enormous contribution to the field of Anglo-Saxon studies, but graphically demonstrates his belief that early medieval England and Anglo-Saxon law could only be understood against a background of research into contemporary developments in the nearby Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Frankish kingdoms. He would have been well pleased, therefore, that this volume should make such significant advances in our understanding of the world of Bede, of the dynasty of King Alfred, and also of the workings of English law between the seventh and the twelfth century. Moreover he would have been particularly delighted at the rich comparisons and contrasts with Celtic societies offered here and with the series of fundamental reassessments of aspects of Carolingian Francia. Above all these studies present fundamental reinterpretations, not only of published written sources and their underlying manuscript evidence, but also of the development of some of the dominant ideas of that era. In both their scope and the quality of the scholarship, the collection stands as a fitting tribute to the work and life of Patrick Wormald and his lasting contribution to early medieval studies.


Landscapes of the Western Front

This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the warzone, analyzing how soldiers constructed a ‘sense of place’ in the hostile, unpredictable environment. Drawing upon recent developments within First World War Studies and the anthropological examination of the fields of conflict, an ethnohistorical perspective of the soldiers is built which details the various ways soldiers responded to the physical and material world of the Western Front. This study is also grounded in the wider debates on how the First World War is remembered within Britain and offers an alternative perspective on the individuals who fought in the world’s first global conflagration nearly a century ago.


The Philosophy Book for Beginners: A Brief Introduction to Great Thinkers and Big Ideas


The Southern Silk Route

Southern Silk Route is the historic route, which runs from China to Myanmar and ends up in Assam. The route has historical importance as it served as a major artery of ancient trade articles. The Southern Silk Route: Historical Links and Contemporary Convergences attempts to sketch out the historical dimensions of the route and shows the contemporary dynamics, both positive and negative. It poses the question how history can extend a lesson in contemporary contexts. The book has two parts- theoretical articles on the route judging from a scholar's perspective on one hand and explorers' insight in the practical perspective on the other, thus making it really interesting both for the scholar and the lay reader. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka


From Garfield to Harding: The Success of Midwestern Front Porch Campaigns

In 1880, James Garfield decided to try something new: rather than run the typical passive campaign for president, he would welcome voters to his farm. By the end of the campaign, thousands of people--including naturalized voters, African Americans, women, men from various occupations, and young voters--traveled to Garfield's home, listened to him speak, shook hands, met his family, and were invited inside. The press reported the interactions across the country. Not only did Garfield win, but he started a new campaign technique that then carried three other Republicans to the presidency.Benjamin Harrison followed suit in 1888, and his crowds dwarfed Garfield's as Indianapolis exploded with hundreds of thousands of visitors. Eight years later, William McKinley ran the most famous front porch campaign from his hometown of Canton, Ohio, with around 750,000 Americans traveling down those streets--including miners' unions, women's suffrage groups, and Confederate soldiers to their Union counterparts. Finally, Warren Harding continued the tradition in 1920 and won by a 60 percent popular majority.Using a technique very evident today, Republican campaign managers quickly realized that merchandising their candidate as a brand generated much support. After Harding, presidential candidates began to travel the country extensively themselves to speak personally to the American people.


Soviet Oil

This book details some of the problems experienced in the Soviet petroleum industry and includes a discussion on the downward trend in petroleum production. It reviews a geological assessment of the offshore region and presents a discussion of activities in the Soviet offshore waters.


Lawrence of Arabia's: Secret Dispatches during the Arab Revolt, 1915–1919

T. E. Lawrence’s dispatches during the Arab Revolt have been published before, but only in an edited and incomplete form, as they were printed for a strictly limited wartime readership in the Arab Bulletin. Now, in this scholarly edition, they are published in full for the first time. They give us a direct inside view of his dealings with the Arab leaders and show us how he presented them to his superiors in Cairo. These wartime writings reveal vividly his impressions of the periods he spent in the desert and the conditions he found there, and they record how the Arab uprising developed and how he became increasingly involved in it. They make fascinating reading for, in his sometimes outspoken way, he reported on the military potential of the Arab fighters and recommended how they should be supported in their struggle against the Ottoman empire. This new collection of his dispatches is a valuable addition to the literature on Lawrence for it allows readers to trace the course of the revolt as he wrote about it at the time. They are printed in chronological order with full explanatory notes. The editor Fabrizio Bagatti provides a perceptive introduction which sets them in their wartime context, fills in the military and political background to the strategic situation in the Middle East and describes Lawrence’s important role as an intermediary between the Arabs and the British.


Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama


Scratch One Flattop: The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea


Development of Rural Settlements: A Study of the Helos Plain in Southern Greece


Transition 116: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 1918–2013


Post-war Childhood: Growing Up in the Not-so-friendly "Baby Boomer" Years


The Yorkshire Dales: Local and Family History

The landscape and people are the two most distinctive qualities of the Yorkshire Dales, and this book employs new sources and methods to help the reader see both in a different light. In earlier centuries, religious and social factors influenced the first names that were given to children. Distinctive surnames were inherited, and their expansion or decline can throw light on local communities, on migration and population growth. Place-names emerged from regional and customary practices that illuminate topography, husbandry, mining, communications and much more. Thebook also uses material from Quarter Sessions, title deeds, wills and other documents to investigate a wide range of topics that touch on the lives of individuals and families, from religious dissent to sheep-stealing and vagrancy. There is emphasis too on the poor, showing the impact on families and communities of bastardy, fire, flood, violence and other disasters. A book written for anyone interested in the local and family history of the Yorkshire Dales.


In Search of Nixon

Who was the real Richard Nixon and why did he behave the way he did? In this innovative work, a distinguished historian, trained in psychoanalysis, unravels the riddle of Nixon's singularly opaque political personality. Neither a political biography, nor a clinical psychoanalysis, at the time of its initial publication, In Search of Nixon launched a new genre of scholarship; the "psycho-historical inquiry." Mazlish offers insight into the subtle interplay between Nixon the man and Nixon the public figure.Why, for example, did Nixon have such personal difficulties in making decisions? Knowing how the young Nixon learned to cope with the problems of his childhood, what can we infer about his unpredictable decisions on Communist China, inflation, and the Supreme Court? Bruce Mazlish applies psychoanalysis to history in order to understand Nixon's behaviour, decisions, and political stance. He explains why Nixon characteristically projected personal crises onto the political arenaas, for example, in the famous Checkers speech, or in the Haynsworth-Carswell affair. And he examines why, conversely, political questions such as pacifism, abortion, and subversion had such a peculiarly personal meaning for him.


Slavery and Catholicism

This book is Translated from the Ecclesiastical Annals of Cardinal Baronius, A. D. 1493, by Rev. M. T. Gibson, of the Diocese of Boston


Seven Months In The Rebel States During The North American War, 1863

“Captain Scheibert’s [book] was available only in German until W. S. Poole edited the present version. A member of the Prussian army since 1849, and ‘well known as an authority on fortifications,’ Scheibert was sent to America ‘to study the effect of rifled cannon fire on earth, masonry, and iron, and the operation of armor on land and at sea.’ The captain preferred to observe the South rather than the North at war. ‘If there ever was a foreign Rebel,’ Mr. Poole asserts, ‘he was one.’ Scheibert, impressed with the South’s ‘enormous energy’ and ‘amazed at the industry of a patriotic people,’ was cordially received by President Davis and Generals Lee, Jackson, Beauregard, and Stuart. The vivid impressions, observations, and characterizations of a Prussian captain are a significant commentary on the engagements at Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, and Gettysburg, on blockade running, and on the spirit of the people and their military genius.”—Journal of Southern History


Haunted Virginia Beach

Replete with the bizarre behavior of elevators, the numerous deaths of inhabitants and paranormal sightings by a writer in residence, "Mayflower Apartments," represents just one of the extraordinary tales that Al Chewning documents in his latest book. By delving into the creepy, unexplored avenues of Virginia Beach's past, Chewning entrances the reader with the spectral details of Blackbeard's buried treasure, a deadly stretch of road inexplicably responsible for eighty-nine fatalities in the past thirty years and the untimely death of a military wife, devilishly titled "Don't Make Mom Mad"--just to name a few. In a collection of forty stories gleaned from newspapers and personal interviews, Chewning sheds an eerie light on the prosperous tourist hot spot that is welcoming by day, otherworldly by night. A long-time resident of the Virginia Beach area and the owner of Ghost Tours of Virginia Beach, the author tells not only of reported sightings but also of his own spectral encounters. From a "wailing woman" in the old Coast Guard Station to supernatural activity provoked by the association of two friends, Chewning offers up spine-tingling apparitional tales that will shock and delight visitors and locals alike.


Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean-Empire, Cities and Elites 476–1204

Nicholas S.M. Matheou, Thomas J. MacMaster

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies


Black Huntington

By 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia's largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted African Americans from across Appalachia and the South. Prosperity gave these migrants political clout and spurred the formation of communities that defined black Huntington--factors that empowered blacks to confront institutionalized and industrial racism on the one hand and the white embrace of Jim Crow on the other. Cicero M. Fain III illuminates the unique cultural identity and dynamic sense of accomplishment and purpose that transformed African American life in Huntington. Using interviews and untapped archival materials, Fain details the rise and consolidation of the black working class as it pursued, then fulfilled, its aspirations. He also reveals how African Americans developed a host of strategies--strong kin and social networks, institutional development, property ownership, and legal challenges--to defend their gains in the face of the white status quo. Eye-opening and eloquent, Black Huntington makes visible another facet of the African American experience in Appalachia.


HOW RUSSIA MAKES WAR - Soviet Military Doctrine


How It Works Book of Incredible History


Big Book of Gizmos and Gadgets

Editors and Contributors of Gizmos and Gadgets

Make wildly inspired mechanical marvels from wood, with step-by-step projects and full-sized patterns attached to the book in a handy pouch.


Kentuckians and Pearl Harbor: Stories from the Day of Infamy


How It Works Book of Amazing Technology (Book)


English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1550–1646


How it Works - Space Planes


The Vault 1. Duquesa do Meu Coração

Product Description


The Vault 4. Até a Meia-Noite


The Vault 3. Além da Noite


The Vault 2. Sua Majestade, Meu Amor


Ypres: The First Battle 1914

IntroductionIt was early October 1914 and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was finally moving forward again. Bathed by bright autumn sunshine, the men of General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien’s II Corps (3rd and 5th Divisions) were marching up the hard, granite-blocked pavé roads of northern France towards the Belgian frontier, which they had last crossed during the great retreat to the south in August 1914. Trains had brought them north from the River Aisne to detrain at Abbeville on 8 and 9 October, and motor buses found by the French had helped speed them to Béthune by 11 October. Ahead of them moved the patrols of Major General Beauvoir de Lisle’s 1st Cavalry Division and Major General Hubert Gough’s 2nd Cavalry Division, together comprising Lieutenant General Edmund Allenby’s newly designated Cavalry Corps, which had marched up from the Aisne in stages starting on 3 October. When Allenby’s Cavalry Corps had been instituted, Allenby had picked up the list of new appointments, muttering to his assembled subordinates, ‘I see you have become a brigadier. My God, you have been made a brigadier’ and so on, until he reached Noel ‘Curly’ Birch, a gunner who had acted as his GSO1 and who would later be Douglas Haig’s CRA: ‘Curly, they have actually made you a brigadier too: seems to me they make every bloody fool in France a brigadier nowadays.


Material London, Ca. 1600

Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the end of Elizabeth I's reign and the height of Shakespeare's theatrical career. In Material London, ca. 1600, Lena Cowen Orlin and a distinguished group of social, intellectual, urban, architectural, and agrarian historians, archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and literary critics explore the ideas, structures, and practices that distinguished London before the Great Fire, basing their investigations on the material traces in artifacts, playtexts, documents, graphic arts, and archaeological remains. In order to evoke "material London, ca. 1600," each scholar examines a different aspect of one of the great world cities at a critical moment in Western history. Several chapters give broad panoramic and authoritative views: what architectural forms characterized the built city around 1600; how the public theatre established its claim on the city; how London's citizens incorporated the new commercialism of their culture into their moral views. Other essays offer sharply focused studies: how Irish mantles were adopted as elite fashions in the hybrid culture of the court; how the city authorities clashed with the church hierarchy over the building of a small bookshop; how London figured in Ben Jonson's exploration of the role of the poet. Although all the authors situate the material world of early modern London—its objects, products, literatures, built environment, and economic practices—in its broader political and cultural contexts, provocative debates and exchanges remain both within and between the essays as to what constitutes "material London, ca. 1600."


A New Pathway to World Peace

Horrific changes are descending upon humanity, most of them man-made, all of them threatening the survival of humankind on Mother Earth. Forever wars, the threat of nuclear destruction, the ecology collapsing worldwide, swelling waves of migrants, and unprecedented global inequality of wealth are upon us. The dominant, modern worldview prevailing for many centuries has produced all the above and needs swift and radical change. Central to this unfolding tragedy stands the United States, boasting its "exceptionality." Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America coined and defined how America was an "exceptional" nation. However, the America he lauded in the early 1800s and what it has become today are as different as Antarctica and Hawai'i. This book is designed to pry open the eyes and minds of people everywhere about the true nature of the US as a spiritual and political (but not militaristic) nation, one to emulate and with whom to collaborate on helping resolve the violence and myopia plaguing humankind right now. It illuminates a new way to reshape American thinking, and that of the whole world, sensibly and with sensitivity to all humanity and the planet itself. But you must read to the last word to absorb the entire vision.


A History of the 17th Aero Squadron - Nil Actum Reputans Si Quid Superesset Agendum, December, 1918 (WWI Centenary Series)

This early work details the history of the 17th Aero Squadron during the First World War. It includes information on their training and their combat operations, and is a fascinating read for anyone interested in military aviation or the Great War in general. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.


Quicksilver Mining in Sonoma County

In the 1870s, a quicksilver mining boom took hold of Sonoma County, California. Claims were staked, and a rowdy camp took shape in Pine Flat as farmers traded plows for picks and miners answered the siren call of cinnabar. In this compelling account, historian Joe Pelanconi relates the development of the twenty-mile Cinnabar Mining District. Pelanconi shares intriguing stories like those of the Donner Party survivor, Chinese laborers who worked the mines in danger of mercury poisoning and the two brothers who were leading citizens of the district and purported victims of murder. Delve into Sonoma County's heritage and a lost era when eccentrics and dreamers sought shining flasks of riches in the Mayacamas Mountains above today's wine country.


Hungry for Revolution

Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In so doing, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.


Detour New Mexico: Historic Destinations & Natural Wonders


From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists


The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story


Ensayos y conferencias


The Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany

In the 1970s and 1980s West Germany was a pioneer in both the use of the new information technologies for population surveillance and the adoption of privacy protection legislation. During this era of cultural change and political polarization, the expansion, bureaucratization, and computerization of population surveillance disrupted the norms that had governed the exchange and use of personal information in earlier decades and gave rise to a set of distinctly postindustrial social conflicts centered on the use of personal information as a means of social governance in the welfare state. Combining vast archival research with a groundbreaking theoretical analysis, this book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany at the dawn of the information society.


The Cid and His Spain

This study of El Cid, first published in English in 1934, is by the leading authority on the medieval history and literature of Spain. The Cid occupies a unique position among national heroes. Others such as King Arthur and Roland are but shadowy figures in the historical record, but El Cid is very much better documented. This book also paints a striking picture of eleventh-century Spain, bringing out the importance of the country as a link between Christian and Muslim civilization.


Women in European Culture and Society

Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook includes a range of transnational sources which encompass the history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century right up to the present day. Including documents from across Europe, from France and Germany to Estonia, Spain and Russia, organized in a broad chronological spread, the diversity of the sources included in the book is unique – including many never translated into English before. Deborah Simonton offers detailed interpretive introductions that analyse and contextualize the sources. A central feature is its exploration of how women operated within gendered worlds and used their skills and abilities to shape and claim their own identities and to engage with how they contributed as practitioners to shaping European culture and society. With over 200 sources, the book allows us to 'hear' women's voices as they articulate their understandings of their worlds and helps capture a sense of women's motivations, options and choices as they understood them - allowing readers to focus on either a period or a theme and providing a comparative resource. Ideal for use on its own or as a companion volume to Simonton's other major work, Women in European Culture and Society: Gender, Skill and Identity since 1700, this sourcebook is an invaluable collection offering vivid first-hand accounts of women's lives.


Memoir of a Cold War Soldier

A career soldier, Richard E. Mack served in the US Army until 1976, when he retired as a colonel. In this volume he recalls his service in front-line combat units in Korea and Vietnam, commenting on the tasks, challenges, problems and concerns of all soldiers during these conflicts.


Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947


Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest Over the Industrial Order

A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar eraAs the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from across the world flocked to Detroit. Chief among them were Nazi and Soviet specialists who sought to study, copy, and sometimes steal the techniques of American automotive mass production, or Fordism. Forging Global Fordism traces how Germany and the Soviet Union embraced Fordism amid widespread economic crisis and ideological turmoil. This incisive book recovers the crucial role of activist states in global industrial transformations and reconceives the global thirties as an era of intense competitive development, providing a new genealogy of the postwar industrial order.Stefan Link uncovers the forgotten origins of Fordism in Midwestern populism, and shows how Henry Ford's antiliberal vision of society appealed to both the Soviet and Nazi regimes. He explores how they positioned themselves as America's antagonists in reaction to growing American hegemony and seismic shifts in the global economy during the interwar years, and shows how Detroit visitors like William Werner, Ferdinand Porsche, and Stepan Dybets helped spread versions of Fordism abroad and mobilize them in total war.Forging Global Fordism challenges the notion that global mass production was a product of post–World War II liberal internationalism, demonstrating how it first began in the global thirties, and how the spread of Fordism had a distinctly illiberal trajectory.


An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science


Eurooplased. Kolm elu ja kosmopoliitse kultuuri sünd


Gospel According to the Klan. The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930

To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, they are a reminder of how deeply the Klan is rooted in American mainstream Protestant culture.Most studies of the KKK dismiss it as an organization of racists attempting to intimidate minorities and argue that the Klan used religion only as a rhetorical device. Baker contends instead that the KKK based its justifications for hatred on a particular brand of Protestantism that resonated with mainstream Americans, one that employed burning crosses and robes to explicitly exclude Jews and Catholics.To show how the Klan used religion to further its agenda of hate while appealing to everyday Americans, Kelly Baker takes readers back to its “second incarnation” in the 1920s. During that decade, the revived Klan hired a public relations firm that suggested it could reach a wider audience by presenting itself as a “fraternal Protestant organization that championed white supremacy as opposed to marauders of the night.” That campaign was so successful that the Klan established chapters in all forty-eight states.Baker has scoured official newspapers and magazines issued by the Klan during that era to reveal the inner workings of the order and show how its leadership manipulated religion, nationalism, gender, and race. Through these publications we see a Klan trying to adapt its hate-based positions with the changing times in order to expand its base by reaching beyond a narrowly defined white male Protestant America.This engrossing exposé looks closely at the Klan’s definition of Protestantism, its belief in a strong relationship between church and state, its notions of masculinity and femininity, and its views on Jews and African Americans.


Legends & Lore of the Texas Capitol

From its beginning as one of the most ambitious construction projects west of the Mississippi, the imposing red granite Lone Star statehouse loomed large in Texas lore. The iconic landmark rests on a foundation of election rigging, an unsolved murder, land swaps and pre-dedication blackmail. It bore witness to the first meeting between LBJ and Lady Bird, as well as a bizarre resolution honoring the Boston Strangler. Mike Cox digs up a quarry's worth of the capitol's untold history, cataloguing everything from its ghost stories to its public art and collectible tourist kitsch.


(Unlike other pdf files of the same edition of this book available on most websites, this one is NOT lacking any pages and is the full copy. It's searchable as well. Enjoy!)This third edition of Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching is an extensive revision of the popular and accessible text. Like previous editions, this book surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching such as Grammar Translation, Audiolingualism, Communicative Language Teaching, and the Natural Approach. It examines each approach and method in terms of its theory of language and language learning, goals, syllabus, teaching activities, teacher and learner roles, materials, and classroom techniques. In addition, this third edition includes content on the teaching and learning environment, with chapters on learners and methods, teachers and methods, plus approaches, methods and the curriculum. Teachers and teachers-in-training will discover that this third edition is a comprehensive survey and analysis of teaching methods used around the world. The book seeks not only to clarify the assumptions behind these methods and their similarities and differences, but also to help teachers explore their own beliefs and practices in language teaching.


疲惫的真相（本书适合亚健康，感觉到疲劳的却没有临床表现的患者，职场人士阅读。）

史蒂文·r·冈德里 & 马若飞 & 李矫

内容简介：无论你的工作量或年龄多大，感到疲倦、喜怒无常、精力枯竭都是不正常的。疲惫是身体发出的一种求救信号，是为了提醒我们身体出了问题。 冈德里医生详细阐述了他对疲惫真相的研究，这个真相是与缺乏健康的肠道微生物群系、不能把吃的食物有效转化为能量、饮食时间不合理相关的。这三个因素会造成免疫功能失调与身心疲惫的一些症状，包括疲劳、脑雾、抑郁、焦虑和低代谢等。因为身体要平息自身免疫系统的斗争，需要消耗大量的能量，所以你会精疲力竭、情绪失调、体重增加。 因此，冈德里医生提出获得能量的三种方法。 更好地照顾和喂养我们的微生物群系，冈德里医生将它们称为我们的“肠道伙伴”， 这样这些微生物就能不知疲倦地工作，确保我们的健康。 努力为线粒体创造必要的条件，将食物和氧气转化为“能量载体”，为我们的身 体和大脑的活动提供能量。 通过减少过多的食物摄入，遏制一些环境攻击，使肠道得到非常必要的喘息时间， 而不是被推到悬崖边缘。 《疲惫的真相》提出了增加线粒体能量和滋养微生物群系的饮食方法，以及促进能量产生和避免能量消耗的食物清单，将帮助读者找到最 佳状态，给到身体所需要的能量。 编辑推荐：1. 本书适合亚健康，感觉到疲劳的却没有临床表现的患者，职场人士阅读。 2. 作者提出对抗疲惫的三要素：吃让肠道轻松的食物，不多吃和优化吃饭时间。 3. 优化吃饭时间：不吃东西的时间被称为禁食，本书指的是一种非常具体的禁食形式——时间控制饮食，这与限时进食有细微的区别。需要明确的是：你不需要吃更少的食物或计算卡路里，只是控制你摄入卡路里的时间。 4.“单一”饮食悖论：极 端的饮食计划似乎能够带来成功的结果。所有这些饮食都对超重和肥胖的人有减肥效果，能够逆转糖尿病，总体上恢复精力，尽管在效果的快慢上差别很大，但结果都一样。 糟糕的是，这些饮食法从长期来看几乎总是失败的。保持单一饮食的限制几乎是不可能的，因为你终究会厌倦单一饮食，渴望恢复正常饮食。 关于本书的小知识： 饮食最重要的地方是要吃没有lectin(凝集素)的食物，如含有种子的蔬菜如南瓜、西红柿、西葫芦和各种豆荚类等是不适宜健康饮食的。种子有坚硬外壳的可以多食，比如核桃、夏威夷果、碧根果、开心果等。 水果中的果糖也是应该尽量避免的，水果只有特定季节丰收，夏季和秋季水果的果糖更容易转化为脂肪。 谷类，尤其是小麦、燕麦和荞麦等都不适合人类食用。 作者简介：医学博士。他在 40 年的医学生涯中，开发了救生医疗技术并获得专利，先后发表了 300 多篇关于他的研究的文章。冈德里医生将他的研究重点放在通 过饮食的改变治疗现代疾病上，著有《长寿的科学》《饮食的悖论》《植物悖论家庭烹饪指南》《植物 悖论快速简单指南》《冈德里医生的饮食进化论》 等图书。


Diga ao Povo que Avance - Kelly Oliveira -ok.pdf


Winning Essays for CSS, PMS and Other Competitive Exams - Techniques, Outlines and Complete Essays


В поисках правосудия: Арест активов

Билл Браудер

Бестселлер «В поисках правосудия: Арест активов» наглядно показывает, как путинская коррупция и жажда власти стала причиной вмешательства России в президентские выборы в США в 2016 году и войны против Украины.Известный финансист, глава инвестиционного фонда Hermitage Capital рассказывает о том, как появился и принимался в разных странах "закон Магнитского", названный в честь юриста, разоблачившего схему масштабного хищения бюджетных средств, придуманную российскими чиновниками и силовиками, арестованного и погибшего в "Матросской тишине" в ноябре 2009 года (Билл Браудер пишет, что Сергея Магнитского забили дубинками).


Walker of worlds


Routledge Revivals: Medieval Ireland (2005)


Nearly There: The Memoirs of John  Frost of Arnhem Bridge

This is the full autobiography of one of World War II's most popular heroes. Whilst Arnhem was the height of his career here he describes his early life in the Army (in Scotland), his service abroad, his polo matches, his family and, above all, the ever famous actions including the Bruneval Raid and the fighting in North Africa in which he took part.


The Women of Little Lon

A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne’s history Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women. While today a city lane is famously named after Madame Brussels, the identities of the other ‘flash madams’, the ‘dressed girls’ who worked for them and the hundreds of women who solicited on the streets of the Little Lon district of Melbourne are not remembered. Who were they? What did their daily lives look like? What became of them? Drawing on the findings of recent archaeological excavations, rare archival material and family records, historian Barbara Minchinton brings the fascinating world of Little Lon to life. Barbara Minchinton is a historian and independent researcher. For several years she collaborated with a team of archaeologists on the interpretation of artefacts from Melbourne’s Little Lon district. She is the co-editor of The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne, a historical archaeology of the city’s working-class and immigrant communities, and the author of The Women of Little Lon.


Austin Murder & Mayhem

Beneath Austin's shiny veneer lies a dark past, filled with murder, lechery and deceit. Legislators, lawmen and lawyers killed, robbed and lied just as well and just as often as the drifters and grifters preying on newcomers. The nation's first known serial killer made his debut in Austin in the form of the Servant Girl Annihilator, who is still rumored to be Jack the Ripper. After the Willis brothers murdered their neighbors over rumored buried gold, a lynch mob hanged the boys from live oaks on present-day Sixth Street. Freshman representative Louis Franke died after he was robbed and beaten on the steps of the statehouse. Author Richard Zelade delivers a fascinating look at the seedier side of Austin history.


Studies in the Interwar European Economy

First published in 1997, this book analyses some of the key economic issues facing Europe in the interwar period, against the uncertain international, political and economic background of the time. Among the subjects discussed are the legacy of the peace settlements, inflation, trade and reconstruction, international lending, depression and recovery, the position of Eastern and Central Europe, and the progress of the peripheral nations. The book contends that the peace treaties raised more problems than they solved, while the policy mistakes of the Allied powers after the First World War, and their failure to devise an adequate programme of economic and financial reconstruction, weakened the already divided continent, contributing to its disintegration.


Out of the Cage

Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars. Telling a fascinating story, the authors emphasise what the women themselves have had to say, in diaries, memoirs, letters and recorded interviews about the call up, their personal reactions to war, their feelings about pay and the company at work, the effects of war on their health, their relations with men and their home lives; they speak too about how demobilisation affected them, and how they spent the years between two World Wars.


Caste, Class and Democracy: Changes in a Stratification System

This volume is an introduction to the role of caste and class in Indian society, meant to emphasize certain important aspects of Indian society such as continuity and change in caste, economic classes, status of women, status of Harijans, village poli-tics, overseas Indians, and casteism and tribalism. Its theoretical interest is to explain the dynamics of social inequalities in Indian society.All but one of the essays are based on research conducted in India. The other is based on research on Indian plantation workers in Sri Lanka, and included here to demonstrate that the concepts of caste and class are relevant to understanding In-dians who have emigrated to overseas countries.


The Mekong

A “remarkable” history of the great river of Southeast Asia (Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain). The Mekong River runs over nearly three thousand miles, beginning in the mountains of Tibet and flowing through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam before emptying into the China Sea. Its waters are the lifeblood of Southeast Asia, and first begot civilization on the fertile banks of its delta region at Oc Eo nearly two millennia ago. This is the story of the peoples and cultures of the great river, from these obscure beginnings to the emergence of today’s independent nations. Drawing on research gathered over forty years, Milton Osborne traces the Mekong’s dramatic history through the rise and fall of civilizations and the era of colonization and exploration. He details the struggle for liberation during a twentieth century in which Southeast Asia has seen almost constant conflict, including two world wars, the Indochina War, the Vietnam War, and its bloody aftermath—and explores the prospects for peace and prosperity as the region enters a new millennium. Along the way, he brings to life those who witnessed and shaped events along the river, including Chou Ta-kuan, the thirteenth-century Chinese envoy who recorded the glory of Angkor Wat, the capital of the Khmer Empire; the Iberian mercenaries Blais Ruiz and Diego Veloso, whose involvement in the intrigues of Cambodia’s royal family shook Southeast Asia’s politics in the sixteenth century; and the revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh, whose campaigns to liberate Vietnam from the French and unify the nation under communism changed the course of history. “[A] pathbreaking, ecologically informed chronicle . . . A pulsating journey through the heart of Southeast Asia.” —Publishers Weekly


Imperialism and War

V. I. Lenin and Nikolai Bukharin. Edited by Phil Gasper

Classic Writings by V. I. Lenin and Nikolai Bukharin


Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-century Colombia


Baal's Priests -  the loyalist clergy and the English Revolution

The English Civil War was a time of disruption, suffering and persecution for many people, not least the clergy of the established church, who found themselves ejected from their livings in increasing numbers as Parliamentarian forces extended their control across the country. Yet, historians have tended to downplay their suffering, preferring in most cases to concentrate instead upon the persecution suffered by dissenters after the Restoration. Drawing upon an impressive array of sources - most notably the remarkable set of family and parish memories collected by John Walker in the early years of the eighteenth century - this book refocuses attention on the experiences of the sequestered loyalist clergy during the turbulent years of the 1640s and 1650s. The study highlights how the experiences of the clergy can help illuminate events in wider society, whilst at the same time acknowledging the unique situation in which Church of England ministers found themselves. For although the plundering, imprisonment and personal loss of the clergy was probably indicative of the experiences of many ordinary people on middle incomes, the ever present religious dimension to the conflict ensured particular attention was paid to those holding religious office. During the war and interregnum, zealous religious reformers attacked every aspect of established religion, targeting both existing institutions and those who supported them. Clergy were ejected on an unprecedented scale, suffering much violence and persecution and branded as 'malignants' and 'baal's priests'. By re-examining their history, the book offers a balanced assessment of the persecution, challenging many preconceptions about the ejected loyalists, and providing new insights into the experiences and legacies of this influential group.


The Napoleon Options: Alternate Decisions of the Napoleonic Wars


Barrios and Borderlands

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.The purpose of this anthology is to paint a portrait of the rich, complex, and fascinating mixture of Latino cultures in the United States today. It departs from the standard literary or political anthologies, and from those that treat only one Latino ethnic population, by being broadly inclusive in terms of genre, discipline, and ethnicity. Thus this book is intended for readers interested in any or all of the major aspects of Latino cultures—literature, cultural anthropology, ethnography, religion, the arts, community studies, and (im)migration studies. I hope that any reader can learn from the book, if only by dipping and sampling. However, I have prepared it very much with the teacher in mind, in hope that it will stimulate lively class discussions.


Simply Real Eating: Everyday Recipes and Rituals for a Healthy Life Made Simple

Forget diet perfection—discover a new approach to eating with this beautiful cookbook In this unique and welcoming cookbook, Sarah Adler invites readers to cultivate a healthy lifestyle that will actually last. The founder of Simply Real Health, Adler is your nutritionist, your life coach, and your best- friend-who-makes-the-best-food all rolled into one. With more than 100 easy #antidiet recipes to share, she makes getting healthy effortless. Her enthusiasm comes through on every page, with chapters including “Weekday Work It” breakfasts and snacks to share in “Aperitifing Is a Verb.” Recipes are all gluten-free, many with five ingredients or fewer, and have options to customize for other dietary needs. Stunning photographs of each dish make this book a pleasure to read. With recipes such as Warming Sweet Potato Muffins; Fire-Roasted Herby Corn Salad; Broccoli, Basil, and Goat Cheese Pizzas; and Salted Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, Simply Real Eating includes all the practical tools and healthy rituals you need.


An Advanced History of India

R.C. Majumdar, H.C. Raychaudhuri and Kalikinkar Datta


The Year of the Century, 1876


The Roots of Ireland's Troubles

Over the course of three decades in the late twentieth century, Northern Ireland was embroiled in the Troubles, a conflict characterized by the violent and bitter struggle between nationalists and unionists. Many books in recent years have attempted to make sense of the Troubles. Primarily political and nationalistic, it also had a sectarian dimension. Undeniably it was fueled by historical events, and yet most only look so far back as the 1916 uprising. In Ireland’s Troubles, Robert Stedall argues that we need to take a longer historical view to truly understand the complex factors at play in Ireland’s history that ultimately led to the Troubles. Comprehensive in its approach, it ranges from Plantagenet intervention among the warring Gaelic chieftains, to Cromwell’s restoration of British rule following the English Civil War and William Pitt’s resignation over the Irish Catholic’s Emancipation question. Inextricably linked with the history of Britain, Stedall guides the reader through Ireland’s turbulent but rich history. To understand the causes behind the twentieth-century conflict, which continues to resonate today, we must look to the long arc of history in order to truly understand the historical roots of a nation’s conflict.


Witchcraft in Illinois: A Cultural History

Although Illinois saw no dramatic witch trials, witchcraft has been a part of Illinois history and culture from French exploration to the present day. On the Illinois frontier, pioneers pressed silver dimes into musket balls to ward off witches, while farmers dutifully erected fence posts according to phases of the moon. In 1904, the quiet town of Quincy was shocked to learn of Bessie Bement's suicide, after the young woman sought help from a witch doctor to break a hex. In turn-of-the-century Chicago, Lauron William de Laurence's occult publishing house churned out manuals for performing bizarre rituals intended to attract love and exact revenge. For the first time in print, Michael Kleen presents the full story of the Prairie State's dalliance with the dark arts.


Méthodes de communication écrite et orale


Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920


Valentine Baker's Heroic Stand At Tashkessen 1877

There are moments in the past of many a man's career that stand out clear and defined after the lapse of even many years: life pictures, the very memory of which brings back a glorious thrill of pride and pleasure. This is the feeling which vibrates through me still, when I recall that last and closing scene that crowned the hard-fought fight at Tashkessen.History has best remembered Valentine Baker for his embarrassments. In 1875, he was accused of sexual assault and dismissed from the British Army. In 1884, he suffered an embarrassing defeat at the Battle of El Teb. But what about Baker's positive achievements?The most underappreciated event that took place in his controversial life came during the Russo-Turkish War in 1877. The exiled Baker, in command of 3,000 Ottoman soldiers, was dispatched to the village of Tashkessen to stall 25,000 advancing Russian soldiers. Through his superb leadership and brilliant disposition of his troops, Baker was able to score a victory.The Spartan stand of Baker and his command has gained little recognition. Despite this modern obscurity, Baker's performance at Tashkessen was applauded by his contemporaries as a model of tactical leadership and heroism. This is the exhilarating tale of how Valentine Baker was able to find redemption at Tashkessen.


Les virus informatiques : théorie, pratique et applications


Mirabilia Descripta, The Wonders of the East, by Friar Jordanus

Translated from the Latin Original, as published at Paris in 1839, in the Recueil de Voyages et de mémoires, of the Society of Geography, with the Addition of a Commentary'. The supplementary material includes the 1863 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1863.


The Greatest of All Leathernecks: John Archer Lejeune and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps


Roman Silver Coins II - Tiberius to Commodus


The Law of Yachts and Yachting

Filippo Lorenzon, Richard Coles, Graeme Bowtle

The past 20 years have seen a steady growth in the numbers and size of pleasure yachts and other leisure craft, coupled with an explosion in the numbers of professionally crewed super yachts and mega yachts, many of which are operated on a commercial basis for charter by the wealthy. Many of these vessels rely upon cutting edge technology, innovative design, and state-of-the-art communications systems. Built by a growing number of specialist yacht builders, and managed, crewed, and operated by super yacht professionals, the super yacht industry has in recent years evolved as a distinct and separate industry alongside mainstream shipping, but with subtle differences of approach and traps for the non-specialist. Against this background, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the many aspects of yachting law. Written by a team of leading yachting practitioners and researchers, the book covers the legal issues that arise during the life of a yacht, from conception to the scrap yard.


Field guide to trees of Southern Africa

Детская энциклопедия

This guide to more than 1,000 varieties of tree species is arranged in easy-to-use format. Leaf and stem silhouettes help direct the user to the correct species, and full color photographs make identification that much easier.


Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa


Babylon Babies

Un mafieux sibérien collectionneur de missiles. Un officier du GRU corrompu et lecteur de Sun Tzu. Une jeune schizophrène serai-amnésique trimbalant une arme biologique révolutionnaire. Des scientifiques assumant leur rôle d'apprentis sorciers et prêts à transgresser la Loi. Une poignée de soldats perdus à l'autre bout du monde, se battant pour des causes sans espoir. Des sectes post millénaristes à l'assaut des Citadelles du savoir. Des gangs de bikers se livrant à une guerre sans merci à coups de lance-roquettes. De jeunes technopunks préparant l'Apocalypse. Un écrivain de science-Fiction à moitié fou prétendant recevoir des messages du futur. N'ayez pas peur.


La ballade de Pern - intégrale

La ballade de Pern d'Anne McCaffrey est une vaste saga planète-opera de science-fantasy.Composée de 15 volumes, elle raconte la vie de colons humains qui ont trouvé refuge sur la planète Pern, une planète semblable à la Terre.Sur Pern, la vie est paisible, jusqu'à la première pluie de Fils. Les Fils sont des organismes destructeurs en forme de filaments - d'où leur nom, qui détruisent tout sur le passage. Tous les 250 ans environ, les Fils s'abattent sur Pern, semant la désolation.Heureusement, des chevaliers associés à des dragons cracheurs de feu protègent les habitants de la planète. Mais ils vont devoir faire face à de nombreuses autres épreuves...


Banlieues sous tensions : Insurrections ouvrières, révoltes urbaines, nouvelles radicalités


La Banque


Les barbares numériques


Barbecue & plancha: 65 recettes faciles et gourmandes pour les beaux jours

• Des idées de recettes gourmandes et innovantes• Des explications pas à pas pour découper et farcir la viandeEnvie de changer du traditionnel barbecue merguez-chipo ?  Envie d’impressionner vos amis avec des viandes cuites à perfection et délicieusement marinées ? Ou avec des légumes fondants et juste grillés à la plancha et leur petite sauce ?Burger, Brochettes de poulet satay, Magret mariné au whisky,  Saltimbocca de veau, Dorade aux agrumes, Langoustines au lard, Millefeuille de légumes, Riz sauté à la plancha…  Découvrez 65 recettes à dorer au barbecue, à la plancha ou même à la cheminée, en hiver !


Alemán - Unidad 02

El Curso de Alemán consta de 96 Unidades didácticas que pueden dividirse en tres niveles de aprendizaje. El primer nivel proporciona un conocimiento básico del vocabulario y de las estructuras gramaticales. Está concebido como un curso preparatorio, coherente con el plan didáctico global y, a la vez, como un instrumento para facilitar de inmediato la comunicación verbal de supervivencia en viajes, llamadas telefónicas, transmisión y recepción de información básica, etc. El segundo nivel incrementa las nociones gramaticales y amplía el vocabulario con expresiones de las áreas más diversas, articulando, al mismo tiempo, su uso. El tercer nivel, por último, proporciona un elevado grado de perfeccionamiento; en otras palabras, permite alcanzar el dominio de la lengua.


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Le Livre des Morts Tibétain

(Essentiel Varjrayana)


Battre la dysfonction érectile: Comment éliminer l'éjaculation précoce avec des remèdes naturels et des médicaments en pharmacie, pour rendre votre partenaire plus heureux (French Edition)


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Bayuk

On raconte que c'est arrivé un soir sans Lune, au village de Coq-Fondu, dans l'endroit le plus reculé du bayou. Qu'une jeune fille a été maudite pour les crimes de sa mère, la pirate la plus redoutée des mers, qu'elle n'a jamais connue. Où qu'elle aille, les esprits iront aussi, la traquant sans merci. On raconte encore que pour briser cette malédiction, elle devra dire adieu à tout ce qu'elle a toujours connu pour partir en quête de l'épave du Mermaid's Plague, le légendaire pavillon de la cruelle capitaine. Cette histoire, c'est celle de Toma. Mais c'est aussi celle de Boone et celle de Roi-Crocodile, qui l'accompagneront dans sa quête de vérité.


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El Curso de Alemán consta de 96 Unidades didácticas que pueden dividirse en tres niveles de aprendizaje. El primer nivel proporciona un conocimiento básico del vocabulario y de las estructuras gramaticales. Está concebido como un curso preparatorio, coherente con el plan didáctico global y, a la vez, como un instrumento para facilitar de inmediato la comunicación verbal de "supervivencia" en viajes, llamadas telefónicas, transmisión y recepción de información básica, etc. El segundo nivel incrementa las nociones gramaticales y amplía el vocabulario con expresiones de las áreas más diversas, articulando, al mismo tiempo, su uso. El tercer nivel, por último, proporciona un elevado grado de perfeccionamiento; en otras palabras, permite alcanzar e dominio de la lengua.


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墨脱行色

''多年来，局促不安一直伴随着我，除去成长环境外，更多的是职业所带给我的焦虑与急迫。从大学毕业开始，我从事的是新闻调査工作，像所有的调查记者一样，心揣着那个年代“铁肩担道义、妙手著文章”的情怀，仗剑走天涯。走着走着，在将正义之笔指向人间不平，社会不公时，渐渐的愈发内心的惶恐与笔端的无力：我们不是救世主。在压抑惶恐中，许多同行开始转行，而我也在寻找我的出口。兜兜转转，深爱着这个行业的我，在迷茫的路口，割舍不了那份情怀。在自我的疗伤中，西藏如那淡淡的阳光照亮了我抑郁的内心。墨脱的出现，她如莲花般清洗着我那斑驳的心。是的，我需要一次墨脱之旅，来拯救我那颗已失去热度与乐观的疲惫的心。2012年5月末，在老搭档冯帅一个从墨脱打来的电话中，我毫不犹豫地答应了她邀约一起做墨脱专题。紧接着订进藏的火车票，就这样，带着欢愉与期待在离藏三年后的我又以如此的方式回藏了。没有行囊，只有笔记本电脑一台，多年来随身携带的佛珠一串，就这样轻松地回藏。能顺利进墨脱，我要感谢我的爱人黄先生。


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The Beauty of Space Art

Long before humans wrote, we painted. From mud and ash to acrylic and computers, artists across the centuries have found countless inventive ways to explore and express some of life’s biggest mysteries. Enter space art, a genre of artistic expression that strives to capture the wonders of our universe. This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkable development of space art from a fledgling theme to a modern movement. In Part I, we traverse the history of art and astronomy from ancient times, through the Industrial Revolution, and into the 20th-century Space Age. Part II delves into the diverse techniques and subgenres of space art, where you will learn about things like rocks and balls, hardware art, and cosmic expressionism. Along the way, we’ll stop at places where neither humans nor spacecraft can easily go, from the scorching surface of Venus and the radiation-soaked volcanoes of Io to the alien terrain of exoplanets and the depths of distant galaxies. Featuring hundreds of original color images from space artists and astronomers alike, this book is a vivid visual story about the power of art, astronomy, and human curiosity. A heavily revised edition of the original Beauty of Space, it will entertain, educate, and inspire anybody who yearns to make sense of the strange and surreal sights in our universe.


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Da die Korrektur genehmigt wird, schreibe ich es hier hinein!Das Buch gehört zu einer Serie von Sprachlernbüchern spanisch - deutsch und dies wird durch die nur in spanisch verfasste Beschreibung des Buches im Zusammenhang mit dem Titel nicht deutlich angezeigt. Es sollte kurz in beiden Sprachen darauf hinweisen. (alle Bände!)VG HansJohannEl Curso de Alemán consta de 96 Unidades didácticas que pueden dividirse en tres niveles de aprendizaje. El primer nivel proporciona un conocimiento básico del vocabulario y de las estructuras gramaticales.


Catacumbas infernales

Eres Gregor, un joven huérfano que desconoces tu identidad y que has vivido desde niño en un campamento de gitanos. Como ya eres un adolescente, te piden que te ganes la vida robando, pero tú no quieres convertirte en un ladrón. Sin embargo, sólo se te ofrece otra alternativa para enfocar tu vida: unirte a un grupo de aventureros y descubrir el maleficio que pesa sobre la ciudad cercana al campamento en el que vives. ¿Llegarás a conocer por qué a las gentes de aquella ciudad sólo les espera la vejez y la muerte sin esperanza? ¿Descubrirás qué clase de trampas y seres monstruosos instaló el diabólico brujo Warlock en las catacumbas de la mansión Bloodstone, y si la dulce Dama Azul es más poderosa que el mago? Y, sobre todo, ¿serás capaz de afrontar la realidad de tu origen, la cruel muerte de tu madre y la cobardía de tu hermano mayor?


Foucault y Derrida

El pensamiento francés de la segunda mitad del siglo XX ha sido muy probablemente la última gran corriente especulativa capaz de renovar enteramente el lugar en el que plantear los problemas y el modo de hacerlo. Su influencia ha sido enorme, cubre toda la geografía intelectual y abarca todos los ámbitos, desde la reflexión política a la crítica y la experimentación artística. Los pensadores que llevaron adelante esta renovación fueron numerosos y de una rara calidad, y entre ellos destacan especialmente Michel Foucault (1926-1984) y Jacques Derrida (1910-2004). Ambos denunciaron los presupuestos habituales de un determinado dominio discursivo y atacaron el etnocentrismo imperante, aunque lo hicieran tomando diferentes caminos: Foucault, por la vía de la práctica genealógica del análisis histórico; Derrida por la de la deconstrucción del logocentrismo y el falocentrismo. Aún hoy, una parte importante del utillaje conceptual que tenemos a nuestra disposición cae bajo el influjo de estos dos pensadores. Manuel Cruz (Director de la colección)


Escoto

Juan Escoto Erígena (ca. 810-ca. 875) fue uno de los pensadores más significativos de la Alta Edad Media, y es considerado el mayor autor de lengua latina entre Agustín de Hipona y Anselmo de Canterbury. De origen irlandés escribió obras de gran envergadura especulativa, gozando de la protección de Carlos el Calvo, nieto de Carlomagno, pero también fue exégeta de textos bíblicos, maestro de artes liberales, poeta y traductor. Su obra maestra, el «Periphyseon», es un gran fresco en el que se ofrece una lectura de toda la realidad a través de un concepto único, el de la naturaleza, que es indagado a la luz del encuentro entre la revelación cristiana y la aplicación del racionamiento dialéctico. Fue también uno de los traductores más fructíferos del griego medieval. A él se debe traducciones de importantes obras de los padres de la Iglesia oriental que tuvieron gran influencia en el desarrollo de la filosofía medieval y su léxico. Manuel Cruz (Director de la colección)


Leucipo y Demócrito

Leucipo y Demócrito (siglos V-IV a. C.), los primeros atomistas, son también los primeros materialistas de la historia. A partir de la afirmación de que todo está hecho de minúsculas partículas que se mueven en el vacío, explican la constitución del mundo, la manera en la que el hombre conoce, la existencia del alma, la psicología y las normas éticas y políticas. Aunque solo se han conservado algunos fragmentos de sus obras filosóficas, no siempre de fácil interpretación, este libro los sitúa en su contexto histórico-filosófico y muestra lo fecundo que ha sido su pensamiento para la historia de la filosofía, para las ciencias y para la política hasta la actualidad.


Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) fue uno de los pensadores de más relieve en la corriente de la teoría crítica del siglo XX, y uno de los nombres más conocidos de la Escuela de Fráncfort. Con su análisis de las sociedades altamente industrializadas y de la relación ente humanidad y tecnología, escribió páginas que hoy siguen planteando problemas y estimulando debates. Desempeñó un papel nada marginal en los movimientos contestatarios juveniles del 68 y más allá. Partió de posiciones próximas al existencialismo para tratar de dar vida a una concepción marxista del mundo, capaz de combinar la crítica psicoanalística de escuela freudiana con una tensión utópica encaminada a la emancipación de la humanidad. Este filósofo, sociólogo y técnico de la política mostró que el deseo de liberación humana debía enfrentarse a todas las formas de control social propias del capitalismo, como el predominio de la tecnología y del entretenimiento.


La cruda realidad

Greg Heffley siempre ha tenido prisa por crecer. Pero, ahora que empieza a hacerse mayor, ¿de veras resulta todo tan divertido? De pronto Greg se descubre a sí mismo inmerso en la tensión de las fiestas de chavos y chavas, mayores responsabilidades y hasta los cambios fisiológicos propios de la edad. Todo ello sin poder contar con su mejor amigo, Rowley. ¿Podrá Greg salir adelante por sus propios medios? ¿O tendrá que rendirse ante la cruda realidad?


La ley de Rodrick

Mejor no preguntarle a Greg qué tal lo ha pasado durante las vacaciones de verano, porque no quiere ni oír hablar del asunto. De hecho, al empezar el nuevo curso Greg está deseando olvidar los últimos tres meses de su vida, en particular cierto acontecimiento… Por desgracia para él, su hermano mayor Rodrick lo sabe todo sobre ese incidente que él querría enterrar para siempre. Y es que todos los secretos acaban saliendo a la luz… sobre todo cuando hay un diario de por medio.


Un pringao total

«En primer lugar, quiero dejar una cosa bien clara: esto no es un diario. Ya sé lo que pone en la portada. Mira que cuando Mamá lo fue a comprar le pedí DE MANERA ESPECÍFICA que si compraba una libreta no tuviera el rotulito de diario». Greg Heffley tiene 12 años y su madre le compra un diario que abarcará un curso escolar: de septiembre a junio. Conoceremos a Greg a través de las hilarantes y enternecedoras desventuras que narra e ilustra en su libreta. Estamos ante un retrato cómico de la vida, la voz y las costumbres de los niños preadolescentes.


Buscando plan…

El amor está en el aire… pero ¿qué significa eso para Greg Heffley?La fiesta de San Valentín ha puesto el colegio de Greg patas arriba. ¡Incluso él se ha lanzado a buscar plan! Aunque enseguida ha empezado a preocuparse por si se queda solo en el frío de la “gran” noche… Su mejor amigo, Rowley, tampoco tiene planes, pero eso no es más que un consuelo de pringar.Una sorpresa inesperada hará que Greg consiga acompañante para el baile y dejará a Rowley como el tercero en discordia. Sin embargo, en una noche tan especial, puede pasar de todo, y al final, nunca se sabe quién acabará siendo afortunado en el amor.


Mala suerte

¡Pobre Greg! Definitivamente, está atravesando por una mala racha. Su mejor amigo, Rowley Jefferson, no le hace caso desde que tiene novia. La cosa está tan mal que hasta Manny, su hermano pequeño, tiene más amigos que él... Sin embargo, Greg no piensa rendirse y está dispuesto a todo con tal de convertirse, de una vez por todas, en el chico más popular del colegio. ¿Cambiará su suerte o su vida está destinada a ser el drama de un fracasado?


Carretera y manta

Dicen que viajar por carretera en familia es algo muy divertido… a no ser que se trate de los Heffley.Al principio el trayecto promete, pero no tardan en aparecer unos cuantos problemas inesperados. La gasolinera con los baños cerrados, un cerdito descontrolado, gaviotas enloquecidas… nada que se parezca, ni remotamente, a la idea que tiene Greg de pasarlo bien.Pero incluso el peor viaje en coche se puede convertir en una aventura ¡y esta parece que va a ser difícil de olvidar!


Vieja escuela

La vida era mejor en los viejos tiempos. ¿O no?Eso se pregunta Greg Heffley cuando su ciudad se suma voluntariamente a una campaña para apagar todos los aparatos electrónicos. Pero la vida moderna tiene sus comodidades… y Greg no está hecho para vivir en otra época.La tensión sube dentro y fuera del hogar de los Heffley… ¿Podrá soportarlo Greg? ¿O el estilo de la vieja escuela es demasiado para un pringao como él?


¡A por todas!

La presión le puede a Greg Heffley. Su madre cree que los videojuegos disminuyen su capacidad intelectual y quiere que se olvide de la consola para explorar su «lado creativo».Y entonces descubre la vieja cámara de vídeo de sus padres. Gracias a ella, Greg le demostrará al mundo todo su talento tramando un plan para filmar una peli de terror… y, de paso, hacerse rico y famoso.Pero ¿ir A POR TODAS con una peli es un buen plan? ¿O es la receta perfecta para multiplicar TODOS sus problemas?


¡Sin salida!

Greg Heffley está en problemas. Alguien ha vandalizado el colegio, y Greg es el principal sospechoso. Aunque, por primera vez, es inocente… o algo parecido. Parece que la policía anda tras la pista de Greg, pero una tormenta de nieve inesperada deja encerrada a la familia Heffley en casa. Greg sabe que cuando la nieve se derrita le tocará dar explicaciones, pero… ¿hay algún castigo peor que quedarse atrapado en casa con la familia en vacaciones?


Frío fatal

Sobrevive al invierno al estilo Greg Heffley.


Arrasa con todo

Una herencia inesperada da a la familia de Greg Heffley la oportunidad de reformar su casa. Pero pronto averiguan que hacer obras no es tan sencillo como parecía. Una vez derribados los tabiques, surgen los problemas: maderas podridas, mohos tóxicos, bichos desagradables y algo todavía más siniestro hacen que Greg y su familia se pregunten si tanto embrollo compensa. Cuando por fin terminan las obras, ¿podrán los Heffley quedarse en la ciudad… o deberán abandonarla?


Tocado y hundido

Greg y su familia están listos para vivir la aventura de sus vidas, pero acaban en un campamento que no es exactamente un paraíso para turistas. Cuando menos se lo esperan, los cielos se abren y empieza a llover a cántaros. Entonces los Heffley se plantean si todavía están a tiempo de salvar sus vacaciones o si ya están con el agua al cuello.


El número 1

Greg Heffley y los deportes no encajan.***Pero cuando todo este en juego y la pelota este en las manos de Greg, ¿estará a la altura de las circunstancias? ¿O tirará la toalla antes de tiempo?***Tras un día desastroso de competiciones deportivas en el instituto, Greg decide que se retira oficialmente de su carrera como atleta, pero acaba aceptando a regañadientes la sugerencia de su madre de apuntarse a baloncesto.***Las pruebas para entrar en el equipo se le dan de pena, y Greg está convencido de que no lo cogerán, pero, contra todo pronóstico, le hacen un hueco en el peor equipo.***Cuando Greg y sus compañeros empiezan la temporada, la probabilidad de ganar un solo partido parece baja. Pero en el deporte puede pasar cualquier cosa. Cuando todo este en juego y la pelota este en las manos de Greg, ¿estará a la altura de las circunstancias? ¿O tirará la toalla antes de tiempo?


(DIAS PERROS 23 mar\347 2010 enviat a maite Colom.pdf)


Discursos premios Nobel 3

Gonzalo Márquez Cristo, Eugenio Montale, Wole Soyinka, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Gabriela Mistral, Yorgos Seferis, John Steinbeck, Nadine Gordimer, Jaroslav Seifert, William Golding, Imre Kertész

Con este tercer volumen de los discursos pronunciados urbi et orbi desde Estocolmo, por los galardonados con los Premios Nobel de Literatura, continúa desentrañando los sueños, consagraciones y derrotas de quienes con la elemental y milenaria herramienta de la palabra, han intentado comprender un tiempo, que fue llamado por Albert Camus el siglo del miedo, y que ahora se vislumbra como el del terror. Los invitados a esta sublime cena interior, representan el aliento crítico de una civilización amenazada por oscuros delirios. Las obsesiones creativas y el alto compromiso con el destino humano, convierten esta publicación en una insoslayable herencia espiritual de nuestra época. La rebeldía del sueño propuesta por Montale, la factura moral que Soyinka cobró a Occidente, la génesis de lo humano imaginada por Steinbeck, el optimismo cósmico de Golding, y la hiperconciencia del hombre que murió una vez para seguir viviendo (Kertész), nos confieren según las palabras de Nadine Gordimer, a pesar de Auschwitz y de tanta desgarradura, el derecho poético para seguir hablando de árboles. Común Presencia entrega aquí, aprobada por la Academia Sueca, esta nueva lección de luz. Este Tomo 3 contiene los discursos de: Eugenio Montale, Wole Soyinka, T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Gabriela Mistral, Yorgos Seferis, John Steinbeck, Nadine Gordimer, Jaroslav Seifert, William Golding e Imre Kertész.


1000 Pinturas de los grandes maestros

Desde el Renacimiento temprano, pasando por el Barroco y el Romanticismo hasta el Cubismo, Surrealismo y Pop Art, estas pinturas canónicas del arte occidental abarcan ocho siglos y una multitud de temas. Aquí encontrarás lo sagrado y lo escandaloso, lo minimalista y lo opulente, lo rompedor y lo convencional; hay cuadros que capturaron la esencia de una época y otros que marcaron el inicio de una nueva; obras de arte que fueron inmediatamente catalogadas de geniales y otras que al principio encontraron cierta reticencia. Todas han superado la prueba del tiempo y, a su manera, contribuyen a la dialéctica sobre lo que convierte a un cuadro en obra maestra, sobre lo que han cambiado las nociones sobre el arte, hasta qué punto el arte refleja la realidad y en qué medida la altera. Presentándolas aquí reunidas, estas obras de arte pretenden ayudar a comprender la evolución de las preocupaciones y percepciones de nuestros ancestros, así como ofrecernos una pausa para considerar qué obras de nuestra era pasarán a los cánones de la pintura.


1421: El año en que China descubrió el mundo

El 8 de marzo de 1421 salió de China la flota más grande que habían visto los tiempos: 107 juncos, algunos de casi 150 metros de eslora, iban a devolver a sus países de origen a los dignatarios que habían ido a rendir homenaje al emperador Zhu Di; posteriormente, debían recaudar tributos de los bárbaros a lo largo y ancho de los mares. Los distintos almirantes de la flota visitaron las costas americanas setenta años antes que Colón, descubrieron Australia trescientos cincuenta años antes que Cook y circunnavegaron el globo cien años antes que Magallanes. Sin embargo, a su regreso en 1423, la flota se encontró con que el emperador había sido derrocado y se regresaba al aislacionismo tradicional. Los resultados del épico viaje fueron condenados al olvido. A lo largo de quince años, Gavin Menzies ha realizado un trabajo de investigación que le ha permitido reconstruir las navegaciones chinas del primer cuarto de siglo XV. El resultado es este libro, un trabajo tan audaz como riguroso, tan monumental como apasionante, que ha merecido el respeto de la comunidad científica y nos obliga a cambiar nuestra visión de la época de los grandes descubrimientos europeos.


1434: El año en que una flota de China llegó a Italia e inició el Renacimiento

Una fascinante revisión de la historia que presenta nuevas pruebas sobre el Renacimiento y encuentra sus orígenes en la milenaria civilización china. En 1434 una suntuosa flota china arribó a las costas de la antigua Toscana y pidió audiencia con el papa Eugenio IV en Florencia; sus obsequios al Pontífice marcaron para siempre el rumbo de la civilización occidental. Una tesis controvertida cuidadosamente expuesta cuya lectura cambiará el modo como vemos nuestra historia, nuestro mundo y a nosotros mismos. Un libro lleno de detalles curiosos, personajes fascinantes y anécdotas reveladoras que, además, defende una tesis revolucionaria. China es uno de los países más interesantes de la actualidad y este libro rastrea los vínculos entre su cultura y los orígenes de la Europa moderna.


Algunos hombres buenos

Historias de mujeres y hombres que pusieron la justicia por encima de las ideologías durante la Guerra Civil. Este libro narra, como si de una novela se tratase, la actuación de diversas personas (algunas de ellas conocidas, otras no) durante los años que duró la Guerra Civil española. Personas que, aun perteneciendo a uno de los dos bandos contendientes, no se dejaron llevar por el clima de odio y locura que se generalizó por todas partes. Arriesgando su propia vida, se convirtieron, sin quererlo ni buscarlo, en héroes anónimos que salvaron de una muerte segura a centenares de hombres y mujeres durante la sangrienta contienda. Estas páginas les rinden un sentido homenaje.


Amantes poderosas de la historia

En este libro se cuenta la historia de algunas mujeres espléndidas, famosas por el poder que lograron acumular, casi siempre después de convertirse en amantes de hombres importantes. Ángela Vallvey ha explorado sus vidas con una mezcla de atrevida curiosidad biográfica, documentación rigurosa e imaginación narrativa, recreando incluso sus conversaciones privadas, sus íntimos deseos, sus aspiraciones más inconfesables… De Cleopatra a Elena Sanz, de Madame de Pompadour a Corinna, el lector contemporáneo las mirará con admiración, simpatía, lástima o estupor, siempre consciente de que todas ellas son representativas de la evolución del papel de la mujer en la historia. Las aventuras de estas mujeres magníficas, con sus pasiones, ambiciones y apetitos, componen un emocionante viaje en el tiempo, además de una reflexión sobre la condición femenina que habría interesado a una sacerdotisa cretense tanto como a una joven universitaria de hoy. Un itinerario aderezado con los intrigantes sueños de una reina egipcia o los calculadores planes de la amante de algún rey español.


Antología negra

Publicada por Blaise Cendrars en 1921 y editada en nuestro país en 1930, en traducción de Manuel Azaña, constituye una inolvidable colección de relatos que reúne lo más interesante de la literatura tradicional del continente africano. Es, además, un testimonio de interés de las Primeras Vanguardias por el arte primitivo, del que artistas como Derain o Picasso extrajeron fructíferas lecciones.


Así vivían los romanos

Las formas de vida descritas en este libro corresponden a un período largo: los tres últimos siglos de la República y los tres primeros del Imperio. A partir de entonces, las costumbres y las mentalidades de los distintos grupos sociales empezaron a cambiar paulatinamente. Además de abordar cuestiones que no tratan habitualmente los manuales tradicionales de historia (la gastronomía, la higiene, las termas, el peinado, el circo, etc.), el libro presta especial atención a las aportaciones de mayor trascendencia para la historia occidental: la organización política, el concepto de ciudadanía, el derecho, la planificación urbanística, las obras públicas —acueductos, presas, puentes, vías de comunicación—, que sirvieron de nexo cultural, comercial, militar y político para el desarrollo histórico del Imperio.


1927: un verano que cambió el mundo

En el verano de 1927 en los Estados Unidos tuvieron lugar una larga serie de acontecimientos que anunciaban el inicio de una nueva época: la aparición del cine sonoro, el afianzamiento del imperio criminal de Al Capone, las obras del memorial del monte Rushmore, la bonanza económica que aún impulsaba a Wall Street; y, desde luego, la travesía aérea de Lindbergh por el Atlántico, que se convirtió en el principal símbolo del cambio de paradigma que iba a marcar todo el siglo XX.