“…Philippa A Garety, Professor of Clinical Psychology, King’s College London, UK ‘This book provides a powerful defence of the continuity between delusional beliefs and non-delusional beliefs. …”

“…From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface -- Chronology -- Chronological Terminology -- Nabataean King List -- Eras -- Glossary and a Note on Place-Names -- Colour Photographs -- List of Illustrations -- Part A -- Roman Jordan -- This Book -- The Familiarity of the Subject -- The History of Exploration -- Guide to Available Further Reading -- The Future -- Getting Around -- The Evidence and Methodologies -- Literary and Sub-literary Sources -- Papyrological and Epigraphic Evidence -- The Physical Remains -- Exploration and Approaches to the Evidence -- Contrasts and Comparisons -- Geography and Environment -- Physical Geography -- Water Resources and Rainfall -- Soils and Other Natural Resources -- Vegetation and Agriculture -- Communications -- The Romans in Jordan -- Introduction -- Early Roman Jordan -- The Later Nabataean Kingdom -- Arabia -- Late Roman Jordan -- From Roman to Umayyad Jordan -- The Roman Army in Jordan -- Before AD 106 -- The Nabataean Army -- The Annexation of Nabataea and Formation of Provincia Arabia -- The Cohortes Petraeorum -- The Roman Garrison from AD 106 to the Fourth Century: Legions, Auxiliary Regiments, Other Units -- The Fifth Century to the Islamic Conquest -- `Jordanians' in the Roman Army -- The Role of the Army -- The Roman Army and its Garrison Places in the Notitia Dignitatum -- The Notitia Dignitatum, Oriens. 37 and 34 -- Part B -- The Azraq Oasis -- Basie (Azraq Duruz) -- Azraq Shishan -- Qasr el-Uweinid -- Qasr Aseikhin -- Qasr Ain el-Beida -- Qasr Ain es-Sol -- The Basalt Desert -- The `Via Severiana' -- Azraq to Dumat al-Jandal (Jauf) -- Azraq to Bostra -- Khirbet Umm el-Menara -- Deir el-Kahf -- Deir el-Qinn -- Jathum -- Qasr Burqu -- The Southern Hauran -- Umm el-Quttein -- Umm el-Jimal -- Qasr el-Bai'j -- The Via Nova Traiana -- The Northern Steppe -- Roads and Routes -- Al-Qihati -- Qasr el-Hallabat -- Khirbet Khaw -- Thantia (?) …”

“…They are based on the original charters in the Allgemeine Urkundenreihe and Familienurkunden in the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv in Vienna and its collections of copies of those charters that have not come down to us in the original, all of which serve to illustrate a number of major historical aspects: Defension of hereditary territories against the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus, consolidation of the empire in the West, the joint rule of the Emperor and his son Maximilian I.…”

“…Rodriguez demonstrates how the changing population shaped trade, which in turn shaped just how far the citizens of New Orleans believed they could go in addressing their governors and even their king. Far from being a peripheral city in a peripheral colony, New Orleans, by 1803, was reshaping the Spanish empire beyond the comprehension of the Spanish king. …”

“…In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan's power, which extended over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Cortes and his followers conquered the city. Cortes boasted to King Charles V of Spain that Tenochtitlan was 'destroyed and razed to the ground.' …”

“…A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish state Often dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700-1746), the first Bourbon king, was in fact the greatest threat to peace in Europe during his reign. …”

“…Algunos de ellos se encuentran entre estos 14 líderes inesperados: Pericles, Hernán Cortes, Simón Bolívar, Lincoln, Shackleton, Churchill, Lawrence de Arabia, Golda Meir, Reagan, Kennedy, Mandela, Tatcher, Luther King, Corazón Aquino…”

“…Ha sido incluida en la lista Peter J. King’s One Hundred Philosophers: The Life and Work of the World’s Greatest Thinkers. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : Peter Burke and the history of cultural history / Melissa Calaresu, Filippo de Vivo and Joan-Pau Rubiés -- The ecotype, or a modest proposal to reconnect cultural and social history / David Hopkin -- Rituals of the viaticum : dynasty and community in Habsburg Madrid / María José del Río Barredo -- Monks of honour : the Knights of Malta and criminal behaviour in early modern Rome / Carmel Cassar -- The reception of Spain and its values in Habsburg Naples : a reassessment / Gabriel Guarino -- Venemous words and political poisons : language(s) of exclusion in early modern France / Silje Normand -- War and polemics in early modern Europe / Pärtel Piirimäe -- Colbert, Louis XIV and the Golden notebooks : what a king needs to know to rule / Jacob Soll -- Confessional cultures and sacred space : towards a history of political communication in early modern Switzerland / Daniela Hacke -- Saints as cultural history / Thomas Worcester -- How to look like a counter-reformation saint / Helen Hills -- Against propaganda : the juxtaposition of images in early modern France. …”

“…He details how the alleged crimes of "criminous clerics" were handled, and demonstrates that the judicial actions concerning Henry VIII's marriages were inquisitions in which the king himself and his queens were defendants"-- Editor…”

“…¿Un Twin Peaks castizo? ¿Una de Stephen King en la Albufera? ¿Unos Encuentros en la tercera fase con guiris como extras? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Snodgrass -- Cuentos / Rudolfo Anaya -- Ineradicable echoes / Charles Wright -- Wonders wild and new : Lewis Carroll's Alice books and postmodern women writers / Carolyn Sigler -- Dreamhouse revisited / Alison Habens -- Mapping the soupsweet land : King Solomon's Mines in Graham Greene's The heart of the matter / Hope Howell Hodgkins -- Sheba's breasts / D.M. …”
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