“…Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks, proving that the Middle Ages were home to a vibrant scientific culture. …”

“…Se trata del ecosistema urbano, que se focaliza en el conocimiento de cómo funcionan las ciudades como entornos ecológicos, para así poder desarrollar acercamientos sostenibles a los problemas y reducir el impacto tanto en las calles y plazas como en los suburbios de las grandes ciudades…”

“…Richardson paints extraordinary scenes from what James himself called the "buzzing blooming confusion" of his life, beginning with childhood, as he struggled to achieve amid the domestic chaos and intellectual brilliance of Father, brother Henry, and sister Alice. …”

“…Found in Dunhuang at the beginning of the last century, the discovery and first publication of the so-called Traitémanichéen with French translation by Édouard Chavannes and Paul Pelliot (1911) was a sensation as it proved for the first time to Western scholars that the religion of Mani reached China from Iraq via Central Asia in the Tang period thanks to the Silk Road. …”

“…Based on Sachs's twelve years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals, and his recent presentation of these ideas in a popular online course, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice…”

“…Geoffrey Levin recovers the voices of American Jews who, in the early decades of Israel's existence, called for an honest reckoning with the moral and political plight of Palestinians. …”

“…Mientras Toledo estuvo bajo el dominio del Frente Popular, la sangre, literalmente, corrió por las calles de Toledo. Jorge López Teulón narra uno de los muchos capítulos de la cruel persecución religiosa que se vivió en la España durante la Guerra Civil española. …”

“…Criteria of authenticity, whose roots go back to before the pioneering work of Albert Schweitzer, have become a unifying feature of the so-called Third Quest for the Historical Jesus, finding a prominent and common place in the research of otherwise differing scholars. …”

“…"En Mis ojos, Ramiro Fonte rememora el mundo cotidiano del niño que nunca dejó de ser —su núcleo familiar tan amado, su casa, los juegos de canicas, el río Eume, las calles y el tañer de las campanas, la luz de la ría, los vecinos y amigos...— y lo expande hasta elevarlo al nivel atemporal de la alta literatura. …”

“…During the 2003 war that ended Saddam Hussein's regime, coalition forces captured thousands of hours of secret recordings of meetings, phone calls, and conferences. Originally prepared by the Institute for Defense Analyses for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, this study presents annotated transcripts of Iraqi audio recordings of meetings between Saddam Hussein and his inner circle. …”

“…This book has two main tasks: (1) to call attention to the special challenges presented by our experience of affectall varieties of pleasure and painand (2) to show how these challenges can be overcome by an enrichment approach that understands affect as the enrichment or deterioration of conscious activity as a whole. …”

Acceso restringido usuarios UPSA

“…The resulting collection presents the foregoing conceptual and empirical approaches to knowledge development in general (chapter 1&3 Hackett); Phillips and Wislons' review of compositional syntax in bird calls (chapter 2); neurobehavioral decision systems (chapter 4 Foxall); representations of human psychological processes (chapter 5 Juan-Miguel López-Gil; Rosa Gil; Roberto García); free associations mirroring and its relation to self- and world-related concepts (chapter 6 Martin Kuška; Radek Trnka; Aleš Antonín Kuběna; Jiří Růžička); local knowledge and going beyond the data (chapter 7 Steven Phillips); categorical etiologies of speech sound disorders (chapter 8 Kelly Farquharson); similarity of visual appearance (chapter 9 Nao Nakatsuji; Hisayasu Ihara; Takeharu Seno; Hiroshi Ito); and a consideration of the seminal writing of David Oderberg's on the categorial classification of reality (chapter 10 Hackett)…”