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Esta historia general de China y de su civilización es el único libro existente en el mercado que, en sólo 700 páginas, nos ofrece una síntesis global de la evolución de China en todos los campos y en todas las epocas. El profesor Jacques Gernet dibuja en este libro, paso a paso, las transformaciones sucesivas del mundo chino y la interrelacion entre sociedad, formas politicas, economia, tecnicas, religiones y vida intelectual que han ido trenzando la peculiaridad china. Esta obra es un libro unico en su genero porque situa a China en un contexto mundial, en relacion permanente con los otros grandes centros de la civilizacion, para ayudarnos a comprender mejor la trayectoria de nuestro propio mundo occidental.

A Forever War: Israel and Palestine achieves something quite extraordinary. At a time when passions run high and the Israel-Gaza war intensifies, so much coverage is based on prejudice, fear and ignorance. Colin Schindler, Professor of Jewish Studies at SOAS, presents a calm, scholarly and dispassionate view of the past and of what might lie ahead.Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Middle East has been thrown into conflict. Schindler reflects on the key questions: How did this state of affairs come about? Is it even possible to write an impartial account? Was the Balfour Declaration a disaster? Could all the conflict have been avoided? How is it that Israel itself is a divided nation and even other Arab nations treat the Palestinians so badly?On both sides are the extremists terrorists and Ultra-Orthodox Jews who are determined to seize land from Palestinians and dream of a new Jewish theocracy but A Forever War strives for objectivity and asks how we can best approach the truth in a time of such complex division.