Un siglo de economía política chilena (1890-1990)

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab people and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone. This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab people and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source...

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

Vida y obra de uno de los principales pintores cubanos contempor neos. Con 150 reproducciones a todo color.

Este é un libro para recuperar a historia secuestrada polo franquismo, mais tamén un libro para a acción, para cambiar as cousas. Aquí non houbo Guerra Civil, senón un auténtico xenocidio. Como sinala o xuíz Garzón, “un plan sistemático e preconcibido de eliminación de opoñentes políticos a través de múltiples mortes, torturas, exilio e desaparicións forzadas de persoas”, con máis de 5.000 asasinados polo fascismo en toda Galiza e máis de 600 na comarca da Coruña. Aquí houbo campos de concentración, os franquistas roubaron miles de nenas e nenos ás súas familias sen...