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As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...

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Durante el bombardeo aliado de Alemania, Hitler estaba más preocupado por la destrucción de los tesoros culturales que por la de los hogares de los alemanes. Notablemente, sus propagandistas difundieron este hecho convencidos de que revelaría no su crueldad, sino su sensibilidad: la catástrofe no consiguió aniquilar su espíritu de artista. Es imposible comprender esta forma de pensar sin entender lo que Wolf Lepenies llama «La seducción de la cultura en la historia alemana». En este fascinante y excepcional libro se analiza la historia de una polémica costumbre alemana: la de...

These papers are centered on the Crown of Aragon in the later Middle Ages, its achievements (the more remarkable given the very evident problems with which it was beset), and especially on its role in the Mediterranean. Hence the emphasis on Majorca, its leading intellectual figure, Ramon Lull (1232-1316), and his influence, and related to these the article on Thomas Aquinas. Other studies deal with the relations of Christians and Jews in Majorca, down to the Expulsion from Spain. In these papers Professor Hillgarth seeks to investigate the transmission of learning and how what is transmitted ...