Tabla de Contenidos: “…What is leather -- The workshop -- Materials -- Metal fittings -- Designing and pattern making -- Dyeing and finishing -- Edge finishing -- Paring or skiving, splitting and channelling -- Gluing -- Hand stitching -- Gussets -- Pockets -- Attaching locks, buckles, and studs -- Straps and handles -- Moulding and surface decoration -- Beginners' projects -- Intermediate projects -- Advanced projects…”

“…As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. …”

“…Sin embargo, no se han olvidado los aspectos más relevantes del contexto económico y social, y se ha dedicado a la cultura una atención especial. En todos los capítulos se encuadra la historia medieval portuguesa dentro del marco ibérico. …”

“…This is the most in-depth analysis of inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society. Using data from the archives of the Venetian Terraferma, and compared with information available for elsewhere in Europe, Guido Alfani and Matteo Di Tullio demonstrate that the rise of the fiscal-military state served to increase economic inequality in the early modern period. …”

“…Across the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Pacific, corporations provided a truly global framework for facilitating the circulation, movement and exchange between and amongst European and non-European communities, bringing them directly into dialogue often for the first time. …”

“…Presentación del editor: "Une histoire de la professionnalisation enseignante permet de s'intéresser au rôle des enseignants dans la société, aux missions qui leur sont attribuées au gré des époques et à l'évolution de leur image au sein de la population et des médias. …”