Medios y opinión pública

Hija de un comerciante de madera, Wu entró como concubina en el palacio del emperador Taizong. Sobrevivió en medio de las conspiraciones que rodeaban al viejo emperador hasta la muerte de éste. Desafiando la tradición, el nuevo emperador la convirtió también en su concubina. Fue entonces cuando Wu comenzó su implacable ascenso hasta convertirse en soberana absoluta de China y Dios viviente.

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.

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...

In recent years women have shared their experiences of violence and sexual harassment. Sexuality has been a weapon in patriarchy to discipline women. We need to strengthen and restructure desires, and conquer the right to pleasure, but when women exercise their desires they find male hostility.