“…Tracing the intertwined development of disaster expertise, public policy, and urbanization over the past century, historian Scott Gabriel Knowles tells the fascinating story of how this diverse collection of professionals-insurance inspectors, engineers, scientists, journalists, public officials, civil defense planners, and emergency managers-emerged as the authorities on risk and disaster and, in the process, shaped modern America…”

“…Offering a rich examination of the major themes in Weber's sociology, alongside a reconstruction of his mode of analysis and application of his approach, this book will appeal to scholars around the world with interests in social theory, German and American societies, cultural sociology, political sociology, the sociology of knowledge, comparative-historical sociology, and the sociology of civilizations…”

“…In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living--the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us.This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. …”

“…Subjects include the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War The twentieth century including extended features on the First and Second World Wars including maps showing trench warfare and aerial reconnaissance. …”

“…This gritty and compelling firsthand account of post-conflict Iraq describes the turmoil visited on the country by outside intervention and the difficulties faced by the Coalition in fashioning a new political and civil apparatus…”

“…With an essay by Francesco Bonami, an interview with the artist by Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Britain, and essays by the Qatari writer Sophia Al Maria and the Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid, the volume offers an original point of view on Hirst's oeuvre, whose works have become collective icons of our civilization"…”

“…Auden, Stern es enviado como representante del ejército estadounidense a Alemania con el cometido de entrevistar a civiles supervivientes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. …”

“…Esa "constitucionalización" de la historia tiene una manifestación explicíta en el tratamiento de los derechos civiles forales. Historia, fueros y democracia constitucional integran un amplio espacio en el que se muestra la pluralidad de gentes y tradiciones históricas que han ido confluyendo en el proceso de formación de las comunidades autónomas. …”

“…Y la hubiese conducido otra vez a un imperio (los imperios surgen en la historia de guerras civiles) de no haberse detenido el proceso victorioso con su neutralidad en una guerra que era también la suya secular. …”

“…Villa critically examines, among other topics, the promise and limits of civil society and associational life as sources of democratic renewal; the effects of mass media on the public arena; and the problematic but still necessary ideas of civic competence and democratic maturity. …”

“…Despite the efforts of civil and church and state institutions to regulate, denigrate, and exclude, members of these affected groups often found legal and practical means to ignore, circumvent, or challenge the efforts to categorize and exclude them, creating in the process the dynamic societies of Latin America that emerged in the nineteenth century." -- Página web del editor…”

“…In Contract and Domination, Pateman and Mills discuss their differences about contract theory and whether it has a useful future, excavate the (white) settler contract that created new civil societies in North America and Australia, argue via a non-ideal contract for reparations to black Americans, confront the evasions of contemporary contract theorists, explore the intersections of gender and race and the global sexual-racial contract, and reply to their critics. -- Contracubierta…”

“…Este libro sirve, a su vez, para ofrecer un ameno repaso a la historia del siglo XIX español con sus continuas revoluciones, levantamientos populares, cambios de gobierno, asonadas y tres guerras civiles --…”

“…Dans les diocèses occupés, le face à face de militaires et de civils, de laïcs et de prêtres ennemis a entretenu des représentations de l'autre interdisant tout véritable dialogue. …”

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