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EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MURCIA REGION! Full of useful tips straight from a British couple who now call this region their home. Let Debbie and Marcus be your guides as they share their love for Murcia, its people and its surrounds with intimate details, personal stories and hot tips for visitors, home buyers and new natives alike. This third edition has been carefully revised and is packed full of 300% more information including all town guides and selected maps. Going Native in Murcia - the most comprehensive guide in print - is now even better.
The lives of Toledan Jewish families are traced from the time of the Inquisition through seventeenth-century Spain
This volume approaches the history of water in the Iberian Peninsula in a novel way, by linking it to the ongoing international debate on water crisis and solutions to overcome the lack of water in the Mediterranean. What water devices were found? What were the models for these devices? How were they distributed in the villas and monastic enclosures? What impact did hydraulic theoretical knowledge have on these water systems, and how could these systems impact on hydraulic technology? Guided by these questions, this book covers the history of water in the most significant cities, the role of water in landscape transformation, the irrigation systems and water devices in gardens and villas, an...
In diesem Buch werden Figuren und Figurierungen als essenzielle Bestandteile kultureller Ordnungen und Entwicklungen betrachtet. Die Beiträge untersuchen Figuren als verdichtete Darstellungen der sozialen Welt und beleuchten die Dynamiken von kulturellen Vorstellungen zwischen Medien und Alltagsleben. Dabei erschließen sie neue Perspektiven auf die Bedeutung von Figuren als Identifikations- und Subjektivierungsschemata und auf das Wechselspiel zwischen diskursiven Repräsentationen und performativen Praktiken. Die Autorinnen und Autoren leisten einen methodologischen und epistemologischen Beitrag zu Funktionen und Wirkungsweisen von Figuren und Figurierungen und präsentieren mit scharfem und bisweilen auch humoristischem Blick eine beispielhafte Galerie kultureller Figuren aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.