Grecia

De poco sirve estudiar el pasado si no nos ayuda a conocer el presente. En el caso de España, país de pueblos y nacionalidades diversas, de variadas culturas y lenguas, una mirada sobre su historia facilita la comprensión de su compleja realidad actual. El objetivo fundamental de este libro es explicar por qué España es como es. Los diferentes aspectos de la cultura española —economía, política, arte, pensamiento, literatura, etc.— se exponen integrados en un conjunto orgánico de partes interdependientes, no como compartimentos estancos, por ser esto ajeno a la realidad. A fin de ...

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Historia del pueblo del Sol Naciente que ademas de repasar los hechos significativos de cada una de las dinastias que lo gobernaron, aborda los mitos, leyendas, costumbres y el desarrollo de sus diversas manifestaciones artisticas que muestran la esencia de una nacion en busca de centrar sus ideales en el beneficio de una colectividad mas que en una vision individualista. El autor, especialista en filosofia y en historia del arte, dedica un importante apartado a los rasgos caracteristicos del japones, a fin de que el lector se familiarice con la estructura de esta lengua.

The Myth of the Non-Russian explores the magical realist prose of two non-Slavic authors writing in Russian in the Soviet Union in the 1970s-1980s. Erika Haber argues that these authors juxtaposed their native myth with Soviet myth, thus undermining the Soviet prescription of national conformity in art by suggesting a plurality of worlds and truths.

This study re-examines and contextualises Eduard Seler's investigations in the Chaculá-Region, Guatemala. A new study of the Ethnological Museum Berlin's materials from the region, including previously undocumented ceramics, reveals a chronology suggesting that the major settlements were occupied from the Late Classic to the Early Postclassic.