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El libro Una Aproximación Cultural y Filosófica a la Justicia Indígena en el Ecuador ofrece un análisis crítico del pluralismo jurídico desde la perspectiva de las comunidades indígenas ecuatorianas. 続きを見る

For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville’s writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically significant a……続きを見る

⚔️ A legendary swordsman. A lifetime of battles. A timeless guide to victory. In The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi, the greatest samurai of Japan's feudal era, distills the wisdom gained from……続きを見る

Years before Hitler unleashed the “Final Solution” to annihilate European Jews, he began a lesser-known campaign to eradicate the mentally ill, which facilitated the gassing and lethal injection of ……続きを見る

One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network ……続きを見る

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinker……続きを見る

The population of wartime Japan (1940–1945) has remained a largely faceless enemy to most Americans thanks to the distortions of US wartime propaganda, popular culture, and news reports. At a time w……続きを見る

The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinkin……続きを見る

'Full of lively stories ... leaves the reader with an awed respect for the translator's task' Economist Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it al……続きを見る

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not techni……続きを見る

When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage open……続きを見る

An unflinching account of Russia's brutal war in Chechnya by a reporter who was assassinated because of her work Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Ru……続きを見る

Sauces Reconsidered: Après Escoffier replaces the traditional French hierarchy of sauces with a modern version based on the sauces’ physical properties. While itis not a traditional cookbook, it doe……続きを見る

It was first built by Solomon, and has been described by some thousands of historians. The date of its capture is contained in those words of the Korán, “The exalted city” (beldah tayyibeh), and to ……続きを見る

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai-shek's regime collapsed in 1949. Peeling back laye……続きを見る

In "Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles," Daniel Hack Tuke delivers a meticulous historical analysis of mental illness and treatment practices in the British Isles, spanning f……続きを見る

Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women’s networks for civil society in twentieth-century Japan, Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan is the first book to tackle the subj……続きを見る

Selected testimonies to living historyーspeeches, letters, poems, songsーoffered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring ……続きを見る

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal journey but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Henry Adams writes so beautifully and this book i……続きを見る

Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama reflects on the politics, poetics, and ethics of remembering the lives of transnational migrant sex workers……続きを見る

Arnhem 1944: the airborne strike for the bridges over the Rhine. The true story of the greatest battle of World War II and the basis of the 1977 film of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborou……続きを見る

For centuries, oligarchs were viewed as empowered by wealth, an idea muddled by elite theory early in the twentieth century. The common thread for oligarchs across history is that wealth defines the……続きを見る

Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular imagination as a turning point in modern America……続きを見る

This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers. The core of this book focuses on the current study o……続きを見る

This major summary of the current state of archaeological research on the Swift Creek culture is the first comprehensive collection ever published concerning the Swift Creek people. The Swift Creek ……続きを見る

De la fondation de la haute couture par Worth aux défis du XXe siècle, sur trois continents, dix-huit destins hors normes qui livrent pour la première fois les clés de leurs succès. Qui n'a pas rêvé……続きを見る

I call this book Tombstone. It is a tombstone for my foster father who died of hunger in 1959, for the 36 million Chinese who also died of hunger, for the system that caused their death, and perhaps……続きを見る

Whether they prefer blockbusters, historical dramas, or documentaries, people learn much of what they know about history from the movies. In American History Goes to the Movies, W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz……続きを見る

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world’s earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations. This is the exciting, true adventu……続きを見る

The extraordinary story of one couple’s determination to free themselves and their children from slavery and make a new life in Canada Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and c……続きを見る