Download or read book Gabinete de curiosidades romanas written by James C. McKeown and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conocemos mucho acerca de la historia de Roma -de los emperadores, las batallas y los grandes acontecimientos- pero muy poco acerca de la vida real de los romanos. J.C. McKeown, profesor de la Universidad de Wisconsin, nos ofrece un tesoro de curiosidades y anécdotas que desvanecen creencias arraigadas (como la de que el pulgar hacia abajo indicaba que se pedía la muerte de un gladiador), nos cuentan aspectos ignorados de la historia (por qué se decidió asesinar a César o qué fue de los elefantes de Aníbal), nos descubren un mundo de supersticiones y fantasías, describen los más diversos aspectos de la vida cotidiana (desde los extravagantes banquetes de los ricos a la diversidad de las prácticas sexuales) o nos divierten con relatos como el del hombre que fingió morir de repente para escapar de un recital de canto de Nerón en manos de los enterradores. Recorriendo este fascinante gabinete de curiosidades el lector se divertirá, sin duda, pero acabará también conociendo mucho mejor la realidad de la antigua Roma.
Download or read book An epic history of pharmacy written by Luis Marcos Nogales and published by Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really sets humankind apart from other species is our fondness of drugs. This vale of tears, full of plants and animals to tame, was the breeding ground for cultures and civilizations with a penchant for developing the noble art of pharmacy. The Neolithic revolution marked the coming into being and development of great states and empires, with the consequential increase in headaches. But that was no big deal, since shamans, witch doctors, physicians, priests, apothecaries, and/or sorcerers sought, and sometimes found, remedies to relieve migraines and a wide range of ailments. After a taste of this Epic History of Pharmacy you'll doubtlessly feel better. You are holding a fully legal dose for a relaxing but at the same time frenzied trip: from the wild prehistoric Garden of Eden to the marmoreal and massive Rome, passing through Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, America, Persia and Greece. And all of it visually administered, in the form of a carefully formulated ointment of literary panacea seasoned with humor-coated pills of compressed cartoons.
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Download or read book The Local Magistrates of Roman Spain written by Leonard A. Curchin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local aristrocracies were crucial to the administrative and social assimilation of provincial communities in the Roman world. Leonard Curchin focuses on local political élites in the Iberian Peninsula, providing the first comprehensive and up-to-date prosopographical catalogue of all known local magistrates in Roman Spain.
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Download or read book Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe written by Alexandre M. Cunha and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standard histories of European integration emphasize the immediate aftermath of World War II as the moment when the seeds of the European Union were first sown. However, the interwar years witnessed a flurry of concern with the reconstruction of the world order, generating arguments that cut across the different social sciences, then plunged in a period of disciplinary soul-searching and feverish activism. Economics was no exception: several of the most prominent interwar economists, such as F. A. Hayek, Jan Tinbergen, Lionel Robbins, François Perroux, J. M. Keynes and Robert Triffin, contributed directly to larger public discussions on peace, order and stability. This edited volume combines these different strands of historical narrative into a unified framework, showing how political economy was integral to the interwar literature on international relations and, conversely, how economists were eager to incorporate international politics into their own concerns. The book brings together a group of scholars with varied disciplinary backgrounds, whose combined perspectives allow us to explore three analytical layers. The first part studies how different forms of economic knowledge, from economic programming to international finance, were used in the quest for a stable European order. The second part focuses on the existence of conflicting expectations about the role of social scientific knowledge, either as a source of technical solutions or as an input for enlightened public discussion. The third part illustrates how certain ideas and beliefs found concrete expression in specific institutional settings, which amplified their political leverage. The three parts are enclosed by an introductory essay, laying out the broad topics explored in the volume, and a substantial postscript tying all the historical threads together.
Download or read book L opera salesiana dal 1880 al 1922 Significativit e portata sociale written by Francesco Motto and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
