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La nascita della scienza moderna in Europa

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:25:50 PST

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Constructing Masculinity

Wed, 7 Nov 2012 11:14:37 PST

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Constructing Masculinity questions society's normative standards of the masculine and contemplates the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes, examining the ways in which representations of masculinity and maleness in the media and the arts produce, challenge and ultimately shape notions of the masculine. Masculinity in relationship to science and law, two dominant social i ...

The Other Campaign/ La Otra Campana

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:57:46 PST

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The Other Campaign is a collection of texts by Subcomandante Marcos and his Zapatista compañeros that articulate a vision for "change from below," a call to create social change beyond the limits of electoral politics. As Mexico approaches the presidential elections, Marcos and supporters are touring the country in an effort to build a broad-based movement. The book includes a recent interview ...

Practices of gender in late medieval and early modern Europe

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:53:54 PST

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This collection argues that gender must be considered as both an approach to history, and as a reflection of the deep workings of the lived, historical past.

Imperial eyes

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:20:23 PST

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This second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field investigates the way in ...

First Globalization

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:09:40 PST

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First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. With his metageography of the vast Eurasian zone, Gunn shows how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas, philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange. Ranging from di ...

The Darker Side of Western Modernity

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:42:00 PST

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During the Renaissance, Europeans colonized time and space, inventing the historical eras Antiquity and the Middle Ages; mapping, appropriating, and exploiting the Americas; and establishing the idea that European modernity was the apogee of human history and the model for the world to emulate. Walter D. Mignolo analyzes the "colonial logic" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperiali ...

The Darker Side of the Renaissance

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:30:58 PST

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The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the many connections among writing, social organization, and political control, including how alphabetic writing is linked with the exercise of power, Walter D. Mignolo claims that Europe ...

Tokens of Exchange

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:22:47 PST

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The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among peoples and civilizations—and not as a purely linguistic or literary matter, the essays in Tokens of Exchange focus on China and its interactions with the West to historicize an economy of translation. R ...

Queer Theology

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 9:53:07 PST

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Queer Theology makes an important contribution to public debate about Christianity and sex. A remarkable collection of specially commissioned essays by some of the brightest and best of Anglo-American scholars Edited by one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture Reconceptualizes the body and its desires Enlarges the meaningfulness of Christi ...

Beyond dichotomies

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:51:29 PST

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CHAPTER ONE The Perspective of the World Globalization Then and Now MICHEL-ROLPH TROUILLOT "Globalization" is a fuzzy word. What hidden histories are silenced by this fuzziness? What would the many phenomena heavily packaged and heavily ...

Forget Foucault

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:26:04 PST

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Characterizing it as a "mythic discourse," Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel Foucault. In a torrent of haikus, which can now be seen as classically Baudrillardian, he swirls Foucault's concepts of repression, sexuality, production, consumption, and history around in an intense, and often comical, reversal of forces. Exceeding ...

Silencing the Past

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 9:54:33 PST

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Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history.

Genders

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 7:52:44 PST

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With its impressive breadth and depth of coverage, this volume offers not only a comprehensive history of this complex term, but also indicates its ongoing ...

Religion and Globalization

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:06:23 PST

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The twenty-first century is witnessing a resurgence and globalization of religion. Around the world, religion has become an increasingly more vital and pervasive force in both personal and public life. Revealing the significance of religion in the contemporary world, Religion and Globalization: World Religions in Historical Perspective explores seven major religious traditions as dynamic, ongoing ...

Il nome della rosa

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 5:47:25 PST

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Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli.” Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books “Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura.” Punch “Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza ...

Transnational social movements and global politics

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:21:52 PST

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This book consists of fifteen essays, all written by experts in the field. The first three parts analyze the rise of transnational social movements in the context of broad twentieth-century trends.

A Social History of Knowledge

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:20:08 PST

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In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions (espe ...

The myth of continents

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:19:12 PST

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Benda, Harry J. 1972. Continuity and Change in Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series, no. 18. Benet, Sula. ...

Christianity in the West, 1400-1700

Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:09:17 PST

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A study not of the institution of the Church but of Christianity itself, this book explores the people, their beliefs, and their way of life, providing a new understanding of Western Christianity at the time of the Reformation. Bossy begins with a systematic exposition of traditional or pre-Reformation Christianity, and then explores the forces that tended to undermine it, the characteristics of ...

The World of Catholic Renewal, 15401770

Thu, 6 Sep 2012 9:18:42 PST

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This second edition features an updated synthesis of the vast scholarship on the history 0f Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the sixteenth century to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century. The book covers the doctrinal and ecclesiastical renewal after Trent and the progress of Catholic reconquest in various lands. It also analyses the social comp ...

The refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700

Thu, 6 Sep 2012 9:16:00 PST

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Bireley argues that early modern Catholicism was both shaped by and an active response to the profound changes of the sixteenth century, only one of which was the Reformation.

Writing Early Modern History

Thu, 6 Sep 2012 9:14:42 PST

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This volume of the Writing History series examines how theory has contributed, both explicitly and implicitly, to the writing of early modern history. It focuses upon neither abstract theory nor historiography per se, but upon the practical application and influence of theory in early modern scholarship. Throughout the book, practicing historians address theories and concepts in the light of thei ...

History in Practice

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:39:32 PST

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History in Practice is essential reading for any student interested in exploring history as a discipline. It examines the discipline's breadth, its complexities, and the tasks it takes on. This study, by one of the liveliest and most acute practitioners in the field, demystifies what historians do. It looks at history as an academic discipline but also engages with the use of historical ideas in ...

Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:46:38 PST

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Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Successive popes accorded to Christian warriors willing to participate in the peninsular ...

The Crusades

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:00:39 PST

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The twelve complete articles in this volume represent some of the best recent scholarship on the crusades. The collection introduces students to fundamental concepts of crusading, including the nature of the movement, the motivation of the participants, and the impact on the East. The focus is not on individual crusades but on the political, economic, spiritual, and demographic factors behind the ...

A History of Christianity

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:05:47 PST

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Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society. Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the f ...

Religion and society in early modern Europe, 1500-1800

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:52:59 PST

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Heterologies

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:06:14 PST

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Fragile lives

Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:17:04 PST

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"Fragile Lives" is a vivid and engaging account of the everyday lives of Parisians in the eighteenth century. Through the experiences of ordinary people, Arlette Farge traces the solidarities and conflicts which arose between men and women, rich and poor, masters and servants, neighbours and colleagues. Drawing on judicial records, she deals with three arenas of conflict and solidarity: the home, ...

Cultural Mobility

Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:55:44 PST

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Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first cent ...

The Invention of Tradition

Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:52:39 PST

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Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial ...

Che cos'è la storia culturale

Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:23:31 PST

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Che cosa si intende per storia culturale? Un campo d'indagine fra i tantioppure un modo diverso di leggere il passato? Il volume rintraccia i sentierisin qui percorsi da questo particolare approccio storiografico, passando inrassegna sia la varietà delle forme che di volta in volta ha assunto (storiadi idee e concetti, di mentalità, di discorsi e rappresentazioni), sia ilventaglio d ...

The Certeau Reader

Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:21:47 PST

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This volume brings together, for the first time, a variety of texts from Certeau's book and journal publications which have proved important in the various disciplines where Certeau has had an influence. The Reader as a whole reflects the interdisciplinary nature of Certeau's work which draws on history, historiography, psychology, politics, philosophy, semiotics, ethnography, and theology to sha ...

Popular culture in early modern Europe

Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:21:32 PST

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From the world of the professional entertainer to the songs, stories, rituals and plays of ordinary people, it shows how the attitudes and values of the ...

Saint Saul

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:34:17 PST

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The Gospels, scholars agree, were written after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. This catastrophic event, argues Donald Akenson, forever altered the outlook and the agenda of the Christian and Jewish faiths. Of all the New Testament writings, only Paul's letters were composed before 70 AD. Thus, Akenson says, they are the only direct evidence we have that is untainted by this profou ...

The French Historical Revolution

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 6:44:53 PST

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Cosmopolis

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:31:44 PST

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In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavour, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise an ...

The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:25:55 PST

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European Christians think of their religion as the "normal" expression of Christianity, in contrast to such ethnic offshoots as the Maronite, Coptic, or Russian Orthodox faiths. In fact, however, as James Russell here shows, Europeanized Christianity is highly adapted, arising from the early interaction of Mediterranean Christianity with Northern European culture. This book takes a close look at ...

The Religious History of the Roman Empire

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:14:27 PST

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This collection of papers, many of them either published here in English for the first time or previously available only in specialist libraries, deals with the religious history of the Roman Empire. Written by leading scholars, the essays have contributed to a revolutionary change in our understanding of the religious situation of the time, and illuminate both the world religions of Christianity ...

Thank You, St. Jude

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:38:51 PST

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St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, is the most popular saint of the American Catholic laity, particularly among women. This fascinating book describes how the cult of St. Jude originated in 1929, traces the rise in Jude's popularity over the next decades, and investigates the circumstances that led so many Catholic women to feel hopeless and to turn to St. Jude for help. Robert A. Orsi te ...

Seven Theories of Religion

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:15:16 PST

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Pals offers brief and cogent introductions to seven classic theories of religion. Included are chapters on Freud, Durkheim, Marx, and Eliade.

Itinerari nel sacro

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 2:58:08 PST

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Cesare Vol. 8

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:04:51 PST

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Continua la saga storica di Fuyumi Soryo, colei che è riuscita a fare di un manga una vera e propria opera d’arte: definirla la biografia di Cesare Borgia, famoso condottiero del Rinascimento italiano, sarebbe riduttivo: l’opera è l’affresco grandioso di un’epoca che ha segnato la storia del mondo, il fumetto in assoluto più documentato e curato dell’universo dei manga, realizzato fianco a fianco ...

Elogio dei sogni

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 4:41:19 PST

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Nulla due volte accade né accadrà. Per tal ragione si nasce senza esperienza, si muore senza assuefazione.

Cesare Vol. 5

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:59:09 PST

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Continua la saga storica di Fuyumi Soryo, colei che è riuscita a fare di un manga una vera e propria opera d’arte: definirla la biografia di Cesare Borgia, famoso condottiero del Rinascimento italiano, sarebbe riduttivo: l’opera di Fuyumi Soryo è invece l'affresco di un’epoca che ha segnato la storia del mondo. Il fumetto in assoluto più documentato e curato della storia dei manga, realizzato fia ...

Cesare Vol. 6

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:57:22 PST

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Continua la saga storica di Fuyumi Soryo, colei che è riuscita a fare di un manga una vera e propria opera d’arte: definirla la biografia di Cesare Borgia, famoso condottiero del Rinascimento italiano, sarebbe riduttivo: l’opera di Fuyumi Soryo è invece l'affresco di un’epoca che ha segnato la storia del mondo. Il fumetto in assoluto più documentato e curato della storia dei manga, realizzato fia ...

Cesare Vol. 7

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:57:20 PST

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L’opera è l'affresco grandioso di un’epoca che ha segnato la storia del mondo, un fumetto realizzato fianco a fianco con importanti esponenti del mondo accademico e ricostruito in base agli scritti dell’epoca. In questo numero, Cesare Borgia verrà incoronato Cardinale, acquistando così ancora più potere, ma per riuscire a realizzare i suoi progetti dovrà confrontarsi con importanti esponenti de ...

Cesare Vol. 2

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:57:16 PST

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Ed ecco il secondo voluminoso libro della maestosa opera a cui Fuyumi “Mars” Soryo ha deciso di dedicare il resto della sua vita, con una dedizione del tutto giapponese, quasi d’altri tempi. Definirla la biografia di Cesare Borgia, il più famoso condottiero del Rinascimento italiano, sarebbe troppo riduttivo, perché una biografia si occupa solo di fatti e date: l’opera di Fuyumi Soryo è invece un ...

Cesare Vol. 3

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:57:16 PST

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Dopo le prime due uscite a raffica in occasione di Lucca Comics, ecco che finalmente il capolavoro di Fuyumi Soryo prosegue in contemporanea differita col Giappone, a cadenza semestrale. La storia di Cesare Borgia ‘il creatore che ha distrutto’, come nessuno l’ha mai letta, tanto minuziosamente documentata quanto avvincente: consigliato da tutti, entrato perfino nelle scuole, letto da chi i manga ...

Cesare Vol. 4

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:57:16 PST

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Appena uscito il terzo volume in Italia, Star Comics non si ferma, e presenta quasi in contemporanea col Giappone il quarto volume del capolavoro di Fuyumi Soryo! La storia di Cesare Borgia ‘il creatore che ha distrutto’, come nessuno l’ha mai letta, tanto minuziosamente documentata quanto avvincente: consigliato “a tutti da tutti”, entrato perfino nelle scuole, letto da chi i manga non li aveva ...

Cesare Vol. 1

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:56:57 PST

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È l’opera a cui Fuyumi Soryo ha deciso – a parte brevi apparizioni su rivista – di dedicare il resto della sua vita, con una dedizione del tutto giapponese, quasi d’altri tempi. Definirla la biografia di Cesare Borgia, il più famoso condottiero del Rinascimento italiano, sarebbe troppo riduttivo, perché una biografia si occupa solo di fatti e date: l’opera di Fuyumi Soryo è invece un affresco di ...

Germania

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 0:32:18 PST

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The work is full of curiosities, odd food, castles, mad princes, and fairy tales--the unseen sides of Germany.

Storia dell'assedio di Lisbona

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 0:19:04 PST

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Un redattore di una casa editrice decide - contravvenendo a ogni norma professionale - di aggiungere un "non" in un libro che racconta la storia dell'assedio di Lisbona, negando così l'aiuto dato dai crociati alle truppe lusitane. Quelle tre sole lettere cambiano la storia e cambieranno anche la sua vita ("perché chi ha detto "no" una volta, non tornerà mai più al "si" di un menzognero compromess ...

The Two Georges

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:27:45 PST

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Ruled Britannia

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 3:38:49 PST

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In this alternate England during the Elizabethan era, William Shakespeare must write a play that will incite the citizens to rise against the Spanish Monarchy that rules them...

Mountains

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 3:13:15 PST

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"Mountains" invites us into a world of intense beauty and timelessness as we gaze at hundreds of pictures of mountains from unique angles and hear the stories of those who climb or live on them. Since the late 19th century, mountaineering has fed our desire for conquest, challenge, and knowledge, attracting us irresistibly to the highest peaks. Mt. Everest, the Matterhorn, K2, Mont Blanc, Cerro T ...

Scotland

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 1:40:43 PST

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A lively new history from one of Scotland’s brightest young historians.

A Short History of Christianity

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 4:29:09 PST

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Buddhismo

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:33:09 PST

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Il termine buddhismo deriva dal titolo onorifico attribuito al principe Siddharta Gautama, vissuto cinquecento anni prima di Cristo: non una divinità, ma colui che indica la via della salvezza e della liberazione. Il Buddha non nominò mai un successore, suggerendo ai discepoli di fare della dottrina la loro unica guida. Di qui nasce una galassia di scuole e di correnti di cui questo libro traccia ...

Induismo

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:32:49 PST

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La centralità del "Veda" come testo religioso, il ruolo dei bramini e deiguru, l'importanza dei cantastorie nella trasmissione delle verità divine, laforza epica del "Ramayana": ecco alcuni dei temi che Kim Knott approfondiscein questo breve saggio. Muovendosi dal passato verso il presente, facendoattenzione a cogliere i collegamenti fra i periodi, le idee e i te ...

Cina - Estremo Oriente

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:30:34 PST

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Quali parole vi aspettate che aggiunga? Il commentario del Daodejing di Bai Yuchan, maestro taoista del XIII secolo

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:29:39 PST

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La new Age

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Guru

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Manuale di storia delle religioni

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:27:33 PST

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Una trattazione sintetica, documentata e rigorosa delle religioni di ogni tempo e paese. Indice Premessa - Parte prima Le religioni del mondo antico: i politeismi di Paolo Scarpi: I. Caratteri generali – II. Area mesopotamica e vicino-orientale - III. Egitto - IV. Iran prezoroastriano e indoeuropei - V. La Grecia antica - VI. Celti e Germani - VII. Roma antica - VIII. L'età ellenistico-romana - ...

Lo zen e la cerimonia del tè

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:26:49 PST

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"Il cielo dell'umanità moderna si è realmente frantumato nella lotta titanica per la ricchezza e il potere. Il mondo brancola nelle tenebre dell'egoismo e della volgarità. La conoscenza si compra a prezzo della cattiva coscienza, la generosità si pratica a fini utilitaristici. Oriente e Occidente, come due draghi scagliati in un mare agitato, lottano invano per riconquistare il gioiello della vit ...

Religion and Media

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:25:18 PST

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The latter part of the twentieth century saw an explosion of new media that effected profound changes in human categories of communication. At the same time, a “return to religion” occurred on a global scale. The twenty-five contributors to this volume—who include such influential thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Talal Asad, and James Siegel—confront the conceptual, analytical, and em ...

Gay Life and Culture

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:24:10 PST

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Di bene in peggio

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:22:34 PST

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Chi non ha sperimentato il bisogno di certezze e il desiderio di arrivare al fondo delle cose, di comprendere davvero, rinvenendo quelle che Paul Watzlawick definisce "ipersoluzioni"? La ricerca di soluzioni radicali e definitive, seppure nasce con le migliori intenzioni, è alla fine un modo di affrontare i problemi che ha inevitabilmente effetti controproducenti. Non per nulla la saggezza popola ...

Japanese philosophy

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:21:54 PST

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Japanese philosophy? Our very title poses a problem in that even influential figures among those we might assume to have a vested ...

De Gaulle et Churchill

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Relations particulières

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Il mondo dei ragazzi normali

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:19:33 PST

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Un romanzo d'esordio che cattura lo spirito di una generazione e di un'epoca: quella dei tardi anni '70. È la storia del tredicenne Robin MacKenzie, ragazzino del New Jersey proveniente da una tipica famiglia della middleclass americana. I suoi interessi non rispecchiano affatto quelli dei suoi coetanei: mentre gli altri, i "ragazzi normali", si appassionano allo sport, alle macchine e le zuffe f ...

Storia dell'Inghilterra

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:16:54 PST

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Questo volume redatto da dodici storici si propone di individuare ed esporre le componenti principali della storia britannica dall'epoca romana ai nostri giorni. Non solo il proteiforme concetto di "carattere nazionale", difficile da definire anche a prendere in considerazione i soli inglesi e pressochè impossibile considerando le tradizioni particolari di gallesi, scozzesi e irlandesi, questa st ...

Hungary, a Brief History

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:16:15 PST

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Atlante storico De Agostini

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:14:33 PST

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L'atlante ripercorre la storia mondiale attraverso la descrizione dei principali personaggi e delle più importanti dinastie che si sono avvicendate sulla scena internazionale. 300 carte storiche illustrano le tappe del cammino dell'uomo sulla terra: gli eventi epocali e i personaggi che li hanno caratterizzati, i mutamenti del territorio, l'evoluzione economica e sociale, la diffusione di culture ...

Enciclopedia delle Religioni

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:10:55 PST

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Dai culti della preistoria al cristianesimo e all'Islam, dalle grandi religioni orientali ai movimenti più recenti, le divinità, i riti, i simboli di ogni tempo e paese.

England in the 19th Century, 1815-1914

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 3:09:56 PST

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Queer Iberia

Sat, 7 Jan 2012 21:41:49 PST

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This is a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval Iberian cultures. Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in "Queer Iberia". The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity th ...

The Monopoly of Violence

Sat, 7 Jan 2012 21:36:23 PST

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Since 1945, the European states which had previously glamorised their military elites, and made going to war the highest expression of patriotism, have renounced violence as a way of settling their disputes. Violence has been eclipsed as a tool of statesmen. This astonishing reversal is the subject of James Sheehan's masterly book. It is also a timely reminder of the differences between Europe an ...

Terre di sangue

Sat, 7 Jan 2012 18:27:11 PST

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Due dittatori, 12 anni di terrore, 14 milioni di morti. Un’analisi storica che infrange gli stereotipi, un racconto degno delle pagine dei grandi testimoni del Novecento. “Le famiglie uccidono i più deboli, di solito i bambini, per mangiare la loro carne.” Succedeva in Ucraina, una delle terre che insieme a Polonia, Bielorussia e Paesi baltici ha pagato il prezzo più alto alle sanguinose ditta ...

Il mondo di Sofia

Sat, 7 Jan 2012 18:12:09 PST

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Stefano Rodotà racconta Foucault e le nuove forme del potere

Sat, 7 Jan 2012 1:47:48 PST

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Non parliamo più soltanto di una società dell'informazione o di una società della conoscenza, ma di una società della comunicazione, caratterizzata appunto da ininterrotti flussi informativi nei quali tutti siamo continuamente immersi. Siamo, insieme, destinatari e produttori di comunicazioni. E sono proprio le informazioni direttamente prodotte da ciascuno di noi a renderci più controllabili e v ...

Jean Monnet and Canada

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:16:13 PST

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Jean Monnet (1888-1979) is often viewed as the chief architect of the European Coal and Steel Community, which over time evolved into today's European Union. Monnet spent his early years working as an agent for his father, a cognac producer. It was this experience that took him to Scandinavia, England, the United States, and most importantly Canada, where he was exposed to the country's unique fo ...

The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:47:41 PST

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For two thousand years people have spent their lives waiting, praying, fighting, begging, and going to war for the Messiah. They continue to do so, every minute of every day, every day of every year. And yet, as far as we know, the Messiah has never come. How would a man like Jesus be perceived if he appeared today? How would he live, what would he say, what would he preach and believe? How w ...

Che fine ha fatto il futuro?

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:40:30 PST

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Novel Gazing - CL

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:39:33 PST

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The French Army 1939-45 (2)

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:57:08 PST

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By 16 June 1940, De Gaulle, with the decisive support of Churchill, had come to the conclusion that, whatever happened, France could not stand to one side in the struggle against Nazi Germany. And so, Free France was born. In this companion volume to MAA 315: The French Army 1939-45 (I) , Ian Sumner and François Vauvillier examine the history, uniforms and insignia of the Free French, Fighting Fr ...

The French Army 1939-45 (1)

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:52:06 PST

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The French Army of 1939 was considered by contemporaries to be the strongest army in the world at that time. In fact, as the events of the next ten months soon revealed, the Army was riddled with fatal weaknesses. In this book, the first of two volumes examining the French Army of the Second World War, Ian Sumner and François Vauvillier examine the organisation, uniforms and equipment of the army ...

The Amulet of Samarkand

Tue, 6 Dec 2011 19:01:00 PST

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Presenting a thrilling new voice in children's literature-a witty, gripping adventure story featuring a boy and his not-so-tame djinni. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hotshot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates Nathaniel in front of everyone he knows, Nathaniel decides to kick up his education a few notc ...

Il signore delle mosche

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 6:29:26 PST

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Un gruppo di bambini inglesi, sopravvissuti a un incidente aereo, resta abbandonato a se stesso su un'isola deserta. All'inizio tutto ha il sapore di una piacevole vacanza: l'isola è ricca di alberi da frutto, di piccoli cinghiali, c'è perfino un fiume che forma in prossimità del mare una piscina di acqua dolce. I ragazzetti si sentono gli eroi di una straordinaria avventura, si costituiscono in ...

I turbamenti del giovane Torless

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 6:26:56 PST

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Vent'anni dopo

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 6:21:33 PST

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I tre moschettieri

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 6:21:02 PST

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