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Con este libro, querido lector, usted se va a reír. Y bastante. David Remartínez y Gonzalo Díaz-Rubín, ambos periodistas, ambos cuarentones, ambos algo descerebrados, plantean un relato de la alcaldía de Gabino de Lorenzo tan exhaustivo en sus datos como disparatado en su interpretación. No encontrarán otro libro parecido: sus autores idolatran al que fuera regidor de Oviedo entre 1991 y 2012, un político tan amado como odiado cuya biografía y milagros repasan con pelos y señales y absoluta admiración militante. Esta defensa a ultranza de las dos décadas en las que De Lorenzo transformó la capital de Asturias, una apología dirigida a las nuevas generaciones, expone ante los ojos de sus mayores un retrato de la ciudad que no dejará impasible a nadie, ni a los gabinistas ni a los antigabinistas, porque resume una época frenética, un populismo infalible y una forma de manejar el erario público cuyas consecuencias todavía hoy son palpables (lo de aquella célebre frase: La ciudad está hecha

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The Regina Turdulorum Hoard (Casas de Reina, Badajoz) was buried with 818 imitative antoniniani of Divo Claudio type, minted in copper. The vast majority of the coins bear the reverse legend CONSECRATIO. This figure makes the Regina Turdulorum hoard one of the most important in Spain and Portugal. In numismatic terms, the most common reverse type is the funeral pyre, as opposed to the eagle. In addition to this main group, there is a second group, where there are curious imitations that follow various prototypes for the manufacture of the reverse. The study of the posthumous coinage of Claudius II and his imitations represents one of the most complex tasks in ancient numismatics. The work is considerably complicated by the fact that they are highly copied coins, which means that regular issues are very difficult to distinguish from the imitations. In this sense, the hoard provides vital information for the western monetary circulation of the Roman Empire, contributing to the debate on Gallic and African imitations. It also opens the way to the hypothesis that Hispania may have been another centre for issuing Divo Claudio imitations. Although the latter remains to be proven, the tentative and open nature of this book provides the opportunity to open new lines of study in the hope that they will be resolved sooner rather than later.

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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Life of the Indigenous Mind David Martínez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005), the most influential Indigenous activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of the intellectual architects of the Red Power movement. An experienced activist, administrator, and political analyst, Deloria was motivated to activism and writing by his work as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, and he came to view discourse on tribal self-determination as the most important objective for making a viable future for tribes. In this work of both intellectual and activist history, Martínez assesses the early life and legacy of Deloria’s “Red Power Tetralogy,” his most powerful and polemical works: Custer Died for Your Sins (1969), We Talk, You Listen (1970), God Is Red (1973), and Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties (1974). Deloria’s gift for combining sharp political analysis with a cutting sense of humor rattled his adversaries as much as it delighted his growing readership. Life of the Indigenous Mind reveals how Deloria’s writings addressed Indians and non-Indians alike. It was in the spirit of protest that Deloria famously and infamously confronted the tenets of Christianity, the policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the theories of anthropology. The concept of tribal self-determination that he initiated both overturned the presumptions of the dominant society, including various “Indian experts,” and asserted that tribes were entitled to the rights of independent sovereign nations in their relationship with the United States, be it legally, politically, culturally, historically, or religiously.

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Bones Worth Breaking is a portrait of the unbreakable bond between brothers and a reckoning with the global forces that shaped them.Nobody around David Martinez saw how quickly he was breaking apart except for his younger brother, Mike. They stood out in Idaho: mixed-race in a Mormon community that, in the years before David's birth, considered Black people ineligible for salvation. The Martinez brothers were raised to be good boys, definitely not to get high, skateboard all night, or get arrested, all of which they did with zeal. Then their paths diverged. David went on a two-year mission trip to Brazil like his father before him, and Mike stayed in the States, finding himself in and out of prison. When David returned, in the middle of the still-unnamed opioid epidemic, things had irrevocably changed, and in 2021, Mike unexpectedly died in prison.Martinez writes with a serrated edge, as viscerally felt as an exposed nerve, and transforms from a stoic b

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Este libro ofrece por vez primera una aproximación cabal a la trayectoria vital e intelectual de Sinibaldo de Mas (1809-1868), figura incomparable que capitaliza las interacciones entre España y China en el siglo xix. Traductor, pintor, poeta, dramaturgo, científico, viajero y diplomático que recorrió diversos países musulmanes y del sur y este de Asia, Mas llega a la costa china poco después de la Primera Guerra del Opio. Sus reflexiones, negociaciones y contactos en ese país permiten comprender los profundos cambios que se vivieron a partir de entonces en el mundo chino. Después de rubricar el primer tratado entre China y España, al final de su vida Sinibaldo de Mas se convirtió en un agente del Gobierno chino al que se le encomendó una misión secreta que cumplir en Europa.

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