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Historia genealógica de la Casa de Silva, donde se refieren las acciones más señaladas de sus señores, las fundaciones de sus mayorazgos y la calidad de sus alianzas matrimoniales. La obra se justifica con instrumentos e historias fidedignas y se adorna con las noticias genealógicas de otras muchas familias.

En una obra única en el mercado tanto en diseño como en contenido, José Luis García-Tapia nos contagia de su misma curiosidad y pasión a través de inesperadas anécdotas personales, 300 imágenes y más de mil páginas de conceptos que responden a cualquier pregunta posible acerca de esta cultura. Amarillo Pasión es una brújula literaria escencial para todos aquellos lectores hispanoparlantes que deseen descifrar, vivir o liderar en China; cubriendo conceptos tan básicos como las relaciones sociales y la ética a la hora de hacer negocios, o tan controversiales como la libertad de expresión y las Guerras del Opio.

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"Failure of Empire "is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history''s great losers. By the time he was killed, his empire had been coming unglued for several years: the Goths had overrun the Balkans; Persians, Isaurians, and Saracens were threatening the east; the economy was in disarray; and pagans and Christians alike had been exiled, tortured, and executed in his religious persecutions. Valens had not, however, entirely failed in his job as emperor. He was an admirable administrator, a committed defender of the frontiers, and a ruler who showed remarkable sympathy for the needs of his subjects. In lively style and rich detail, Lenski incorporates a broad range of new material, from archaeology to Gothic and Armenian sources, in a study that illuminates the social, cultural, religious, economic, administrative, and military complexities of Valens''s realm. "Failure of Empire "offers a nuanced reconsideration of Valens the man and shows both how he applied his strengths to meet the expectations of his world and how he ultimately failed in his efforts to match limited capacities to limitless demands.

How outdoor industry marketing promotes an image of the wilderness as an unpeopled havenMarketing the Wilderness analyzes the relationship between the outdoor recreation industry public lands in the United States and Indigenous sovereignty and representation in recreational spaces Combining social media analysis digital ethnography and historical research Joseph Whitson offers nuanced insights into more than a century of the outdoor recreation industry s marketing strategies unraveling its complicity in settler colonialism Complicating the narrative of outdoor recreation as a universal good Whitson introduces the concept of wildernessing to describe the physical legal and rhetorical production of pristine empty lands that undergirds the outdoor recreation industry a process that further disenfranchises Indigenous people from whom these lands were stolen He demonstrates how companies such as Patagonia and REI align with the mining and drilling industries in their need to remove Indigenous peoples and histories from valuable lands And he describes the ways Indigenous and decolonial activists are subverting and resisting corporate marketing strategies to introduce new narratives of place Through the lens of environmental justice activism Marketing the