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This collection of interviews explores the role of religion in the lives of eminent South Africans who led the struggle against apartheid. Nelson Mandela, Chris Hani, Desmond Tutu, Nadine Gordimer, and seventeen other political, religious, and cultural leaders share the beliefs and values that informed the moral positions they adopted, often at great cost. From all ethnic, religious, and political backgrounds, these men and women have shaped one of the greatest political transformations of the century. What emerges from the interviews are reflections on all aspects of life in an embattled...

In the midst of National-Catholic outrage and censorship, Billy Wilder’s films helped open up the repertoire for moviegoers during Francoism. Vandaele’s Estados de Gracia contends that this explains why Wilder is still considered a cinematic god in Spain. En medio de la indignación y la censura nacional-católica, Billy Wilder contribuyó a renovar el cine para el público del franquismo. En Estados de Gracia, Vandaele sugiere que ello explica por qué Billy Wilder sigue siendo un dios del cine en España.

Seventeen Egyptologists and archaeologists probe the most compelling mysteries of ancient Egypt in this illustrated collection of 70 brief essays. Answers to age-old questions about Egyptian burial rituals, architecture, and royalty are provided, and recent discoveries are discussed—evidence that Tutankhamen was murdered, boats buried intact deep in the desert beside the tombs of the earliest kings, unexplained shafts inside the Great Pyramids aligned with the stars, and a massive mausoleum built for the many sons of Ramses II. The essays are supplemented with evocative photographs,...

En este libro póstumo, cuya publicación fue prevista por Nicole Loraux, la gran historiadora se interroga sobre las representaciones que la ciudad griega pretende dar de sí misma. En concreto, analiza los discursos relacionados con la incómoda cuestión de la guerra civil, la stásis. Subrayando la importancia del uso correcto del psicoanálisis en historia, Nicole Loraux formula el deseo de que los historiadores, «maduros por la experiencia del tiempo presente, confrontados al evidente fracaso de aplicar casillas explicativas unidimensionales a las guerras civiles que estallan en todas...