Repensar la conservación. Naturaleza, mercado y sociedad civil

This book is exclusively devoted to the mint of Ilduro, its main goal being to study not only the issues produced by the workshop in detail, but also the role that this coinage had in the monetarization of a changing society, that of the Laietani, which had never previously needed to use coinage.

In many cultures, leprosy elicits fear, stigma, and misunderstanding. Historically, people affected by leprosy were banished or isolated from the rest of society. Although the worldwide incidence of leprosy has declined markedly over the past quarter century with the advent of new multidrug therapies, developing nations are still encountering a high number of cases. In An Uncertain Cure, Cassandra White goes deep into the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro to give a riveting account of the contemporary leprosy experience among poor and working class Brazilians. In this ethnographic treatment of...

El reflejo de la lucha callada, ante el machismo, de millones de mujeres en todo el mundo, desde la óptica del particular de Marge Simpson.

El presente libro, fruto de la colaboración de grandes especialistas de la literatura hispánica, es un homenaje al profesor Manuel Ferrer Chivite, aportador de nuevas visiones y lecturas de obras importantes de la literatura española. Además, pretende ser un intento de conjuntar también nuevos aspectos, interpretaciones y descubrimientos novedosos dentro de la investigación y estudio de las literaturas hispánicas. Como el propio título indica, no siempre el canón establecido se cumple o se ha de cumplir para justificar la obra de arte, en nuestro caso la obra literaria, y esa...