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A pesar de haber mantenido históricamente largos y fecundos contactos, y de su presencia cada vez más activa en nuestra sociedad contemporánea, el islam es aún para nosotros, en términos generales, un gran desconocido. En el presente libro, el profesor Vernet (uno de sus mayores especialistas occidentales, autoridad internacional en el campo de la ciencia árabe y traductor del Corán y de “Las mil y una noches”) nos presenta, con gran amenidad y sencillez expositiva, sus principios básicos, su primera historia y su primer desarrollo. El presente libro habrá de ser una excelente...

Tribe by Sebastian Junger | Summary & Analysis Preview: Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a scientific and journalistic consideration of the correlation between societies with egalitarian tribal structures and low rates of mental illness, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers returning home. The sense of tribal belonging was documented in the eighteenth century among settlers in North America, who often joined Native American tribes even after those tribes held them as prisoners or waged war against the settlers. Those tribes were particularly egalitarian in nature, and...

This book focuses on luxonomics, or the economy of luxury in Roman times, and how its study is an element that is essential to understanding the history of the period. Organised in chronological order, the evolution of the luxury economy is divided into areas of consumption, production, and criticism.