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Keisai Eisen is famous for his prints showing geisha and courtesans in the late Edo period.

En Memorias de la Revolución rusa. Viaje sentimental, Víktor Shklovski ofrece un recorrido que inicia con la Revolución de febrero de 1917 y concluye en 1923, y que retrata la caótica revuelta con que bolcheviques y mencheviques se disputaron el poder tras la caida de la Rusia zarista. La mirada de Shklovski, poeta y linguista, refleja con sencillez lirica la lucha cotidiana que se libra ya en los frentes de Petersburgo, ya en los de Kiev o en los de Baku, contra persas o alemanes, entre el Ejercito Rojo y el Ejercito Blanco. En estas cronicas desde el corazon de la Revolucion rusa, descubrimos un protagonista habil para manejar vehiculos blindados y para hacer estallar explosivos, a un combatiente que sufrio dos heridas de gravedad y que no obstante alcanzo los 91 años de edad. Pero tambien encontramos a uno de los principales teoricos del formalismo ruso, que entre todas sus aventuras, narradas a un ritmo frenetico, se abre paso cada noche, en medio del hambre y el frio, de las detenciones arbitrarias y de sus epicas fugas, para registrar la cronica de uno de los acontecimientos mas importantes del siglo XX.

Since the inception of Maya studies, the issue of water supply in Classic Maya society has been a matter of controversial debate. Due to the annually recurring dry seasons the availability of water during this period is and has always been problematic. In the light of these conditions, the fact that the pre-Hispanic Maya were able to establish, developed and maintain prosperous urban centres over long periods is hard to explain. In order to resolve this open issue, this book aims to explain the water management strategies of the Maya in pre-Hispanic times. To this end, this volume analyses the intricate relationship between the natural environment and the adaptation strategies of the pre-Hispanic population, whose physical remains were documented in the form of hydraulic features. A large section of this book discusses the different forms, functions, and the geographic distribution of the published hydraulic features. The main body of this monograph focuses on the archaeological investigation of the hydraulic system of Uxul, a medium-sized Maya centre in the south of the state of Campeche, Mexico. As many open research questions could be addressed and studied in this site, the hydraulic system of Uxul acted as a central point of reference for the evaluation of the socio-political relevance of water management in the Maya Lowlands. This book identifies both the natural causes for water scarcities and the cultural adaptation strategies that were designed to overcome them. Due to this comprehensive approach, the present book is the most extensive and exhaustive account on the hydraulic features of the Maya Lowlands and thus enables representative statements on the sociopolitical relevance of water management in Classic Maya society.