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Thirteen papers from a conference held in Barcelona in 2005 on the subject of 'War and territory in the Roman world: historical and archaeological approaches'. The contributors consider the relationship between the army and society, between the emperor and his army, between warfare and the environment, as well as more specific subjects: the representation of military power; the relationship between local and central power, especially at the frontiers of the empire; imperial administration; changes in imagery on coinage; war and the management of human and material resources. Seven of the...

Fundada hace más de 150 años por pastores calabreses, la 'Ndrangheta está considerada la mafia más poderosa del mundo: trafica con el 70 % de la cocaína y la heroína de Europa, negocia acuerdos ilegales de venta de armas con criminales y terroristas, y blanquea miles de millones de euros al año. Es el imperio del crimen más poderoso, afirma Alex Perry, pero lo extraño es que pocos de nosotros hemos oído hablar de ella. ¿Qué papel desempeñan las mujeres en esta organización criminal? Cuando Alessandra Cerreti llegó a Calabria en abril de 2009 como nueva fiscal antimafia de la...

Fatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as "enchanting" (The New York Times Book Review), "exuberant" (Elle), and "remarkable" (The Washington Post Book World). Now, in Scheherazade Goes West, Mernissi reveals her unique experiences as a liberated, independent Moroccan woman faced with the peculiarities and unexpected encroachments of Western culture. Her often surprising discoveries about the conditions of and attitudes toward women around the world -- and the exquisitely embroidered amalgam...

The author of this study has a single-minded goal--the construction of a social ethic for the Hispanic Pentecostal Church in America that both coheres with the Hispanic American sociocultural experience and remains consistent with Hispanic Pentecostalism's self-understanding of ethics emerging from its experience of the Spirit.