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The need to protect the physical and cultural environment in which we operate is the logical consequence of the dramatic transformations witnessed in recent years due to rapid urban development. This book seeks new ways to understand the natural and historic patrimony, increasing the evidences that we use to define our cultural heritage. The importance of this has been increasing in recent years leading to the creation of legal categories by the "European Landscape Convention". In Toledo, as a result of a peculiar historical evolution that has prevented the existence of large urban change...

Este libro re ne correspondencia, manifiestos, discursos y art culos period sticos de Justo Sierra, estructurados de modo que se percibe el desarrollo de su pensamiento y su compromiso social y humanista. la identidad nacional, la pertinencia de una reforma de la Constituci n, la evoluci n pol tica de M xico son s lo algunos aspectos del trabajo de Sierra analizados en este volumen.

Según la sabiduría antigua, desde tiempos inmemoriales el oráculo de Delfos era el ombligo del mundo. Situado entre el Parnaso y el Golfo de Corinto, sacerdotes, peregrinos y políticos discernían el pasado, el presente y el futuro de la antigua Grecia y más allá de sus confines. Los oráculos, como las prácticas adivinatorias en general, constituían un elemento vital en el cotidiano de la cosmopolítica griega. A partir de un exhaustivo estudio sobre la historia intelectual moderna de la adivinación como superstición y pensamiento irracional, este libro se ocupa de revisar los...