El problema colonial contemporáneo

Cuando Colón llegó a América en 1492 encontró un Nuevo Mundo muy distinto del Viejo, del cual había partido. ¿Por qué habían evolucionado de manera tan distinta? Para averiguarlo Watson emprende una experiencia de arqueología cognitiva, basada en la interacción que existe entre las ideas de los seres humanos y las realidades naturales de su entorno, con el fin de ofrecernos una visión comparada de la evolución de las civilizaciones, las creencias y las formas de vida en Eurasia y en América. Basándose en los más recientes hallazgos de la arqueología y de la ciencia, Watson nos ...

The Roman conquest of much of the west Mediterranean led to major transformations and this study discusses some aspects of the economic and political impact of such changes. Based largely on archaeological material Perez examines, for example, the Greek-Italian wine trade, major production centres in the Mediterranean, how goods from centres such as Etruria, Lazio and Campania ended up in cities recently conquered by Rome, in particular the markets and commercial routes along which products moved. Spanish text.

In a troubled world of climate emergencies, addictive technologies, radical politics, cultural conflicts, vertiginous consumption and news that confuses us, we need to stop and think. This book tells us about a great forgotten virtue, the virtue of thinking. It directly addresses what it means to recover critical thinking and how to cultivate it to build a better world.

In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all. Presented in a lively new translation, the book addresses the fears of growing older and argues why these worries are greatly exaggerated―or altogether mistaken.