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Los últimos días del imperio celeste
by David YagüeUna trepidante historia de aventuras, lealtad y ambición en plena revolución de los boxers. China, 1900. Un calor asfixiante parece anunciar el fuego de la guerra en el norte del país. Una sociedad secreta, los boxers, amenaza con acabar con todos los extranjeros de la región, ante la pasividad de la corte manchú y la incredulidad de las potencias occidentales. En Pekín, un español veterano de la guerra de Filipinas y el hijo de un comerciante inglés se ven envueltos en un extraño robo de antigüedades. Mientras tanto, un matrimonio de misioneros británicos sufre el horror de la guerra en una apartada aldea y un mandarín chino caído en desgracia tiene que aceptar una misión imposible al servicio de sus acérrimos enemigos de la corte imperial junto a un aterrador boxer de rostro deformado. Los destinos de estos personajes se cruzarán en una trepidante historia de aventuras, de lealtad y ambición, amor y traición, en aquel tórrido y sangriento verano de 1900, en el que el mundo entero contuvo el aliento con la vista puesta en China.
Los últimos honores: Funerales presidenciales en México 1945-2012
by Arno BurkholderTodo Estado necesita para legitimarse una historia en común y un conjunto de rituales que le den sentido a su existencia. Uno de los más importantes consiste en rendir honores a los gobernantes anteriores al momento en que éstos fallecen. Este libro hace un recorrido por los funerales de los expresidentes de México entre 1945 y 2012, un grupo de personajes cuyas vidas cubrieron desde los años más intensos de la Revolución hasta principios del siglo xxi. El estudio de los homenajes fúnebres de estos trece exmandatarios —Elías Calles, Huerta, Ávila Camacho, Ortiz Rubio, Abelardo Rodríguez, López Mateos, Cárdenas, Ruiz Cortines, Portes Gil, Díaz Ordaz, Alemán, Portillo y De la Madrid— es una buena herramienta para comprender cómo ha cambiado nuestra visión del poder: desde 1910, cuando la presidencia pasó de ser una pieza débil a convertirse en el pilar del sistema político, hasta comienzosdel siglo, momento en que los mandatarios se han convertido en sujetos de muy serios cuestionamientos.
Los últimos tiempos: Una escatología para personas laicas
by George Eldon LaddEn Los últimos tiempos, George Eldon Ladd ofrece una discusión seria sobre la escatología escrita para el laico, basando su doctrina de las últimas cosas en la convicción de que "nuestra última palabra... se encuentra en la reinterpretación del Nuevo Testamento a través de la profecía del Antiguo Testamento".Las profecías bíblicas sobre el fin de los tiempos han sido tema de una gran cantidad de libros. Sin embargo, muchos de ellos son relatos popularizados que contienen poca erudición bíblica razonada. Aun así, los estudios serios disponibles son a menudo muy difíciles de entender para el lector promedio. En Los últimos tiempos, George Eldon Ladd se ha empeñado en rectificar esta situación con una discusión seria sobre la escatología escrita para el lector cotidiano.Se han ofrecido dos interpretaciones de la relación entre las profecías del Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento. Una perspectiva ve programas separados para Israel y la Iglesia cristiana, mientras que la otra reconoce la revelación progresiva y la unidad de los Testamentos.El profesor Ladd mantiene la última postura, basando su doctrina de las últimas cosas en la convicción de que «nuestra última palabra... se encuentra en la reinterpretación del Nuevo Testamento a través de la profecía del Antiguo Testamento». Solo cuando las profecías se ven a la luz de la revelación de Dios por medio de Cristo, podemos comprender claramente a lo que se refieren en relación al fin de los tiempos.The Last ThingsIn The Last Things, George Eldon Ladd offers a serious discussion of eschatology written for the layperson, basing his doctrine of the last things on the conviction that &“our final word . . . is to be found in the New Testament reinterpretation of Old Testament prophecy.&”Scriptural prophecies about the end times have been the subject of a great number of books. Many of them, however, are popularized accounts containing little thoughtful biblical scholarship. Yet the serious studies available are often too difficult for the average reader to understand. In The Last Things, George Eldon Ladd has endeavored to rectify this situation with a serious discussion of eschatology written for the everyday reader. Two radically different interpretations of the relationship between the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments have been offered. One view sees separate programs for Israel and the Christian church, while the other recognizes progressive revelation and a unity of the Testaments. Professor Ladd holds the latter position, basing his doctrine of the last things on the conviction that &“our final word . . . is to be found in the New Testament reinterpretation of Old Testament prophecy.&” Only as the prophecies are seen in the light of God's revelation through Christ can we clearly comprehend what they mean in relation to the end times.
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
by Saidiya HartmanIn Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, Hartman reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history. The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger, one torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider, an alien. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives in Ghana whom she came hoping to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way and draws her deeper into the heartland of slavery. She passes through the holding cells of military forts and castles, the ruins of towns and villages devastated by the trade, and the fortified settlements built to repel predatory armies and kidnappers. In artful passages of historical portraiture, she shows us an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa, a girl murdered aboard a slave ship, and a community of fugitives seeking a haven from slave raiders.
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
by Saidiya HartmanThe slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman tracesthe history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana.There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way, and with figures from the past, vividly dramatising the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and American history.
Loser Becomes Princess: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Shi YiDianXiaTranscending from another world to become a trash!Surrender to a beautiful man and become the sovereign imperial concubine!
Loser Becomes Princess: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Shi YiDianXiaTranscending from another world to become a trash!Surrender to a beautiful man and become the sovereign imperial concubine!
Loser Becomes Princess: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Shi YiDianXiaTranscending from another world to become a trash!Surrender to a beautiful man and become the sovereign imperial concubine!
Loser Becomes Princess: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Shi YiDianXiaTranscending from another world to become a trash!Surrender to a beautiful man and become the sovereign imperial concubine!
Loser Becomes Princess: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Shi YiDianXiaTranscending from another world to become a trash!Surrender to a beautiful man and become the sovereign imperial concubine!
Loser Princess Against The Heaven: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Shi YiNianGuangMangWhen the Mu Rong family's dead Sixth Miss meets the rebirth of a modern special agent Murong Youyi.others will hit me 10 times more than I will! Reject the prince, fight the little sister, the head of the family! He wanted to tell them that sooner or later, they would have to pay him back!
Loser Princess Against The Heaven: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Shi YiNianGuangMangWhen the Mu Rong family's dead Sixth Miss meets the rebirth of a modern special agent Murong Youyi.others will hit me 10 times more than I will! Reject the prince, fight the little sister, the head of the family! He wanted to tell them that sooner or later, they would have to pay him back!
Loser's Corner
by Antonin VarenneParisian street cop and amateur boxer George "The Wall" Crozat is racking up an impressive knockout record in the world of underground boxing. Failing to translate his small-time boxing success into a decent source of income, however, and unable to finance his nasty prostitution habit with his meager earnings as a police officer, he contemplates a drastic career change. Finally, unable to resist a tempting offer to make some cash using his fists as en enforcer, he unwittingly becomes a pawn in a very dangerous game. Meanwhile, we learn the unsettling story of the young socialist Pascale Verini, exiled to the Algerian front during the 1957 Algerian War. As soon as he gets to Algeria, Verini is transferred to a nightmare "farm" in deepest Sahara, where North African prisoners of war are mercilessly tortured and killed by the French, away from prying eyes and ears. Prix Quais du Polar winner Antonin Varenne draws on his father's experiences of France's colonialist past to illuminate one of the darkest pages of France's colonial history, even as he details the grim reality of being a beat cop in present-day Paris. The result is a darkly personal, elegantly gritty tale of conspiracy, torture, corruption, and revenge.
Loser's Corner
by Antonin Varenne2008. George 'The Wall' Crozat has racked up thirty-eight victories (twenty-three of them by knock-out), eight defeats, and an empty bank account. Finally ready to hang up the gloves and focus on his career as a police officer, his chief concern is how to fund his prostitution habit. When a shady bouncer offers him a photograph, an address and a chance to finally turn a profit with his fists, the temptation is irresistible. Before long the money is flowing, but Crozat has unknowingly become a pawn in a very dangerous game. Powerful forces are using his brutality to keep their own secrets, and Crozat teeters on the precipice of an abyss that stretches fifty years into the past, to the darkest chapter of France's colonial history. Switching effortlessly between past and present, and drawing on his own father's experience of the Algerian War, Antonin Varenne's darkly personal thriller shines a light on corruption, torture, conspiracy and revenge.
Loser's Corner
by Antonin Varenne2008. George 'The Wall' Crozat has racked up thirty-eight victories (twenty-three of them by knock-out), eight defeats, and an empty bank account. Finally ready to hang up the gloves and focus on his career as a police officer, his chief concern is how to fund his prostitution habit. When a shady bouncer offers him a photograph, an address and a chance to finally turn a profit with his fists, the temptation is irresistible. Before long the money is flowing, but Crozat has unknowingly become a pawn in a very dangerous game. Powerful forces are using his brutality to keep their own secrets, and Crozat teeters on the precipice of an abyss that stretches fifty years into the past, to the darkest chapter of France's colonial history. Switching effortlessly between past and present, and drawing on his own father's experience of the Algerian War, Antonin Varenne's darkly personal thriller shines a light on corruption, torture, conspiracy and revenge.
Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House
by Michael LewisA wickedly funny and astute chronicle of the 1996 presidential campaign--and how we go about choosing our leaders at the turn of the century. In it Michael Lewis brings to the political scene the same brilliance that distinguished his celebrated best-seller about the financial world, Liar's Poker.
Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports
by Clayton TrutorIn July 1975 the editors of the Atlanta Constitution ran a two-part series entitled &“Loserville, U.S.A.&” The provocatively titled series detailed the futility of Atlanta&’s four professional sports teams in the decade following the 1966 arrival of its first two major league franchises, Major League Baseball&’s Atlanta Braves and the National Football League&’s Atlanta Falcons. Two years later, the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association became the city&’s third major professional sports franchise. In 1972 the National Hockey League granted the Flames expansion franchise to the city, making Atlanta the first southern city with teams in all four of the big leagues. The excitement surrounding the arrival of four professional franchises in Atlanta in a six-year period soon gave way to widespread frustration and, eventually, widespread apathy toward its home teams. All four of Atlanta&’s franchises struggled in the standings and struggled to draw fans to their games. Atlantans&’ indifference to their new teams took place amid the social and political fracturing that had resulted from a new Black majority in Atlanta and a predominately white suburban exodus. Sports could never quite bridge the divergence between the two.Loserville examines the pursuit, arrival, and response to professional sports in Atlanta during its first decade as a major league city (1966–75). It scrutinizes the origins of what remains the primary model for acquiring professional sports franchises: offers of municipal financing for new stadiums. Other Sunbelt cities like San Diego, Phoenix, and Tampa that aspired to big league stature adopted Atlanta&’s approach. Like the teams in Atlanta, the franchises in these cities have had mixed results—both in terms of on-field success and financial stability.
Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency
by Robert C. ByrdThe long-time Democratic Senator from West Virginia gives his perspective on Bush's policies, drawing on his experience as a senator since the Kennedy era, as well as his knowledge of America's history and Constitution.
Losing Balance: De-Democratization of America
by William P. KremlThis text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East. Readers will come away from this book with an
Losing Control? Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization
by Saskia SassenExamining the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational institutions such as the World Trade Organization and universal human rights covenants, Saskia Sassen argues that sovereignty remains an important feature of the international system, but that it is no longer confined to the nation-state.
Losing Control?: Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)
by Saskia SassenWhat determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? And who gains rights and who loses rights? Losing Control? examines the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational institutions, such as the World Trade Organization and universal human rights covenants, and shows that though sovereignty remains an important feature of the international system, it is no longer confined to the nation-state. Other actors gain rights and a kind of sovereignty by setting some of the rules that used to be within the exclusive domain of states. Saskia Sassen tracks the emergence and the making of the transformations that mark our world today, among which is the partial denationalizing of national territory. Two arenas in particular stand out in the new spatial and economic order by their capacity to set their own rules: the global capital market and the series of codes and institutions that have mushroomed into an international human rights regime. As Sassen shows, these two quasi-legal realms now have the power and legitimacy to demand action and accountability from national governments, with the ironic twist that both depend upon the state to enforce their goals. From the economic policy shifts forced by the Mexico debt crisis to the recurring battles over immigration and refugees around the world, Losing Control? incisively analyzes the events that have radically altered the landscape of governance in an era of increasing globalization.
Losing Earth: A Recent History
by Nathaniel RichA Vanity Fair Best Book of the Year: “Gripping . . . revelatory . . . Climate change is a tragedy, but Rich makes clear that it is also a crime.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFinalist, PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardBy 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours.The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon sparking coverage and conversations around the world. Emphasizing the lives of those who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight.Now expanded into book form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation, propaganda, and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves.Like John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth, Losing Earth is that rare achievement: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here, and how we must go forward.“Absorbing . . . a well-told tale.” —Newsday“How to explain the mess we’re in? Nathaniel Rich recounts how a crucial decade was squandered . . . an important contribution to the record of our heedless age.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West (Environment and Region in the American West)
by Sara DantHistorical narratives often concentrate on wars and politics while omitting the central role and influence of the physical stage on which history is carried out. In Losing Eden award-winning historian Sara Dant debunks the myth of the American West as &“Eden&” and instead embraces a more realistic and complex understanding of a region that has been inhabited and altered by people for tens of thousands of years. In this lively narrative Dant discusses the key events and topics in the environmental history of the American West, from the Beringia migration, Columbian Exchange, and federal territorial acquisition to post–World War II expansion, resource exploitation, and current climate change issues. Losing Eden is structured around three important themes: balancing economic success and ecological destruction, creating and protecting public lands, and achieving sustainability. This revised and updated edition incorporates the latest science and thinking. It also features a new chapter on climate change in the American West, a larger reflection on the region&’s multicultural history, updated current events, expanded and diversified suggested readings, along with new maps and illustrations. Cohesive and compelling, Losing Eden recognizes the central role of the natural world in the history of the American West and provides important analysis on the continually evolving relationship between the land and its inhabitants.
Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West (Western History Series)
by Sara DantLosing Eden traces the environmental history and development of the American West and explains how the land has shaped and been shaped by the people who live there. Discusses key events and topics from the Beringia migration, Columbian Exchange, and federal territorial acquisition to post-war expansion, resource exploitation, and climate change Structures the coverage around three important themes: balancing economic success and ecological protection; avoiding "the tragedy of the commons"; and achieving sustainability Contains an accessible, up-to-date narrative written by an expert scholar and professor that supplements a variety of college-level survey or seminar courses on US, American West, or environmental history Incorporates student-friendly features, including definitions of key terms, suggested reading sections, and over 30 illustrations