For millennia friendships have framed the most intimate and public contours of our everyday lives. In this book, Ignacio Martínez tells the multilayered story of how the ideals, logic, rhetoric, and emotions of friendship helped structure an early yet remarkably nuanced, fragile, and sporadic form of civil society (societas civilis) at the furthest edges of the Spanish Empire. Spaniards living in the isolated borderlands region of colonial Sonora were keen to develop an ideologically relevant and socially acceptable form of friendship with Indigenous people that could act as a functional substitute for civil law and governance, thereby regulating Native behavior. But as frontier society grew in complexity and sophistication, Indigenous and mixed-raced people also used the language of friendship and the performance of emotion for their respective purposes, in the process becoming skilled negotiators to meet their own best interests. In northern New Spain, friendships were sincere and authentic when they had to be and cunningly malleable when the circumstances demanded it. The tenuous origins of civil society thus developed within this highly contentious social laboratory in which friendships (authentic and feigned) set the social and ideological parameters for conflict and cooperation. Far from the coffee houses of Restoration London or the lecture halls of the Republic of Letters, the civil society illuminated by Martínez stumbled forward amid the ambiguities and contradictions of colonialism and the obstacles posed by the isolation and violence of the Sonoran Desert.

The Intimate Frontier: Friendship and Civil Society in Northern New Spain

History

Martínez, Ignacio

Americas

University of Arizona Press

The Chosen Species: The Long March of Human Evolution

This engaging book tells the story of human evolution, asking if man is indeed the “chosen species” or merely an evolutionary accident.     Written by world-renowned paleoanthropologists who are co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca---a World Heritage Site and Europe’s oldest known burial site---where a new human species, homo antecessor, was discovered  Discusses various hypotheses of human evolution, drawing conclusions from verifiable facts and well-founded argument  Offers a compelling narrative written for nonspecialists and students of human evolution  Includes over 60 illustrations  Sold over 100,000 copies in the original Spanish-language edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Arsuaga, Juan Luis

Anthropology

Wiley/Blackwell

This engaging book tells the story of human evolution, asking if man is indeed the “chosen species” or merely an evolutionary accident. 
<ul> <li>Written by world-renowned paleoanthropologists who are co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca---a World Heritage Site and Europe’s oldest known burial site---where a new human species, homo antecessor, was discovered 
</li> <li>Discusses various hypotheses of human evolution, drawing conclusions from verifiable facts and well-founded argument 
</li> <li>Offers a compelling narrative written for nonspecialists and students of human evolution 
</li> <li>Includes over 60 illustrations 
</li> <li>Sold over 100,000 copies in the original Spanish-language edition</li> </ul>

Green Fire doesn't just pose the question of why are we here; it dares to answer it: humans are the thinking incarnation of nature. Along the way, the authors, two of Europe's most celebrated and original thinkers, freewheel through history, touching on the work of Charles Darwin, Rudyard Kipling, Francis Bacon, and even Baron von Munchausen to link the origin of life on Earth with the development of the human brain. In these pages, readers learn how Aristotle and Galileo disagreed, how Queen Christina's clock flummoxed Descartes, and how a jellyfish and an airplane share the same navigational system; you'll even learn the meaning of words like "karst" and "cnidarian." But mostly, readers of Green Fire will enjoy a masterful book that combines scientific rigor with an entertaining narrative to explore the evolution of life on Earth and humankind's place in it.

Green Fire: The Life Force, from the Atom to the Mind

Thunder's Mouth Press

La especie elegida: La larga marcha de la evolución humana

Booket

La especie elegida

Social Sciences

Ediciones Martínez Roca

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Antologia de cuentos que reune a los treinta mejores cuentistas espanoles nacidos despues de 1960.

Pequeñas resistencias: Antología del nuevo cuento español (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Neuman, Andrés

Fresán, Rodrigo

Iwasaki, Fernando

Santos, Care

Zaldua, Iban

Palma, Félix J.

Puntí, Jordi

De Prada, Juan Manuel

Bonilla, Juan

Castán, Carlos

Tizón, Eloy

M., F

Barrios, Nuria

PÉREZ, JOAQUÍN

Zapata, Ángel

Abad, Mercedes

Baquero, Graciela

Benítez, José Manuel

Benítez, Felipe

Busitil, Guillermo

Calcedo, Gonzalo

González, Hipólito

Giralt, Marcos

Torres, Almudena

Greciet, Carmela

Hatero, Josan

Méndez, Juan Carlos

Olgoso, Ángel

R., Felipe

United States

Páginas de Espuma

Todos los jueves del mundo (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Ediciones del Viejo Vasa

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