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Asociamos la antigua Roma con batallas, legionarios, acueductos, gladiadores. Emperadores sabios y emperadores locos. Rómulo y Remo, dioses y diosas, cristianos y leones, pan y circo. Señores con toga y señoras con peinados imposibles. Esclavos. Orgias. El Senado, las termas, alcantarillas, letrinas. Pompeya y Herculano, Marco Antonio y Cleopatra, Julio Cesar. ¿Te suena? Pero ¿en realidad fue como creias? ¿Y si hay mucho mas? En este libro indagaremos para descubrir muchisimas piezas pococonocidas, algunas perdidas, descabaladas o mal colocadas, de ese gran mosaico que fue Roma, sobre el que aun caminamos. Te invitamos a reconstruirlo.

Los meses finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Europa fueron el periodo más sangriento y destructivo de todo el conflicto; también el más confuso y menos conocido. Cada día, por término medio, treinta mil seres humanos perdian la vida en los distintos frentes, en las ciudades bombardeadas, en los convoyes de refugiados que huian del Ejercito Rojo, en los navios que se arriesgaban a navegar por el mar Baltico, en las prisiones y los campos de concentracion, en los trenes, en los caminos por los que se evacuaba a los deportadosHitler fue el gran responsable de esta orgia de muerte y destruccion. Mermado por la enfermedad, acorralado, cuestionado u odiado por su propio pueblo, obligado a vivir bajo las bombas en un agujero humedo, siguio alimentando la hoguera hasta el final.Para comprender este horror, Jean Lopez hace una minuciosa reconstruccion de los ultimos dias del Fuhrer, siguiendole desde el 15 de enero de 1945, fecha de su regreso definitivo a Berlin, hasta su muerte, el 30 de abril, y aborda tambien algunos episodios importantes de ese periodo, como las marchas de la muerte, las verdaderas perdidas militares alemanas o los crimenes de guerra sovieticos.Un gran libro que marcara un hito. Jean Lopez relata la cronica intima, politica, ideologica y militar de los ultimos dias del Fuhrer, Le Figaro Magazine

The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization is a hand-illustrated journey into the art of starting over. With whimsy and insight, it explores how to rebuild society from scratch if the modern world were to disappear tomorrow. Blending captivating illustrations with thought-provoking ideas from science, art, engineering, and more, its both an imaginative guide to reestablishing the world we take for granted and a heartfelt celebration of human ingenuity.

Long-distance ties connecting Europeans from all geographical corners of the continent during the fifteenth and sixteenth century facilitated the sharing of religious texts, books, iconography, ideas, and practices. The contributions to this book aim to reconstruct these European networks of knowledge exchange by exploring how religious ideas and strategies of transformation 'travelled' and were shared in European and transatlantic cultural spaces. In order to come to a better understanding of Europe-wide processes of religious culture and religious change, the chapters focus on the agency of the laity in 'new communities of interpretation', instead of intellectual elites, the aristocracy, and religious institutions. These new communities of interpretation were often formed by an urban laity active in politics, finance, and commerce. The agency of religious literatures in the European vernaculars in processes of religious purification, reform, and innovation during the long fifteenth century is still largely underestimated. 'Networking Europe' aims to step away from studying 'national' textual production and consumption by approaching these topics instead from a European and interconnected perspective. The contributions to this book explore late medieval and early modern networks connecting people and transporting texts following three main axes of investigation: 'European Connections', 'Exiles, Diasporas, and Migrants', and 'Mobility and Dissemination'.

Ever since Neolithic times Greek lands lay open to cultural imports from western Asia: agriculture, metal-working, writing, religious institutions, artistic fashions, musical instruments, and much more. Over the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Canaan, and Israel. Martin West's new book far surpasses previous studies in comprehensiveness, demonstrating these links with massive and detailed documentation and showing that they are much more fundamental and pervasive than has hitherto been acknowledged. His survey embraces Hesiod, the Homeric epics, the lyric poets, and Aeschylus, and concludes with an illuminating discussion of possible avenues of transmission between the orient and Greece. He believes that an age has dawned in which Hellenists will no more be able to ignore the Near Eastern literature than Latinists can ignore Greek.

The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome, Ravenna, and Venice examines their common Byzantine past, since all three escaped incorporation into the Lombard kingdom in the late 7th and early 8th centuries. By 750, however, Rome and Ravenna'spolitical links with the Byzantine Empire had been irrevocably severed.Thus, did these cities remain socially and culturally heirs of Byzantium? How did their political structures, social organisation, material culture, and identities change? Did they become part of the Western political andideological framework of Italy? This study identifies and analyses the ways in which each of these cities preserved the structures of the Late Antique social and cultural world; or in which they adapted each and every element available to them to their own needs, at various times and in various ways, to create a new identity based partly on their Roman heritage and partly on their growing integration with the rest of medieval Italy. It tells a story which encompasses the main contemporary narratives, documentary evidence,recent archaeological discoveries, and discussions on art history; it follows the markers of status and identity through titles, names, ethnic groups, liturgy and ritual, foundation myths, representations, symbols, and topographies of power to shed light on a relatively little known area of earlymedieval Italian history.

Trans-Pacific/long-distance trade, diplomacy, intercultural communication, China Seas