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Reseña del libro: Breve historia de Sonora, Almada, Ignacio

5 days ago | dialnet.unirioja.es | Taylor Hansen |Lawrence Douglas

Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Reseña del libro: Breve historia de Sonora, Almada, Ignacio Autores: Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hansen Localización: Secuencia: revista de historia y ciencias sociales, ISSN 0186-0348, ISSN-e 2395-8464, Nº. 54, 2002 Idioma: español Es reseña de: Ignacio Almada, Breve historia de Sonora, El Colegio de México/Fideicomiso Historia de las Américas/Fonda de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 2000, 200 pp.
Have you followed Trump’s 100-day disaster? Try this quiz!

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Lawrence Douglas

1.Alaska’s Republican senator Lisa Murkowski recently acknowledged that Republican lawmakers are terrified of expressing any opposition to Trump and his administration. “We are all afraid,” Murkowski admitted, noting the chilling atmosphere of intimidation that Trump and his enablers have created. “The retaliation is real.” In response, Murkowski’s Republican colleagues in the Senate have:Showered her with praise for having the courage to publicly state what they’re feeling privately.
Where to? | TLS

4 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Lindsey Hilsum |Adam Sutcliffe |Thomas Small |Lawrence Douglas

It was the year Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon and David Bowie had a red-and-blue lightning bolt painted on his face for the cover of Aladdin Sane. The Rolling Stones went to No 1 in the US with “Angie” and Elton John sang “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”. 1973 was also the year when rock’n’roll was born in Greenland.
Hidden Portraits by Sue Roe

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Lisa Hilton |Caroline Moorehead |Lawrence Douglas |Ben Hutchinson

“Few passions are constant, but many are sincere”. The maxim is by the Marquis de Vauvenargues, one-time proprietor of the Provençal chateau where Pablo Picasso and his second wife, Jacqueline Roque, lived between 1959 and 1961, and where they are buried. Speaking to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, the artist’s mother was blunter on the vagaries of love: “I don’t believe any woman would be happy with my son.
The Prosecutor by Jack Fairweather

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Lawrence Douglas

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
Trumpworld is failing this constitutional quiz. Can you pass it?

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Lawrence Douglas

1.According to Article I, “Congress shall have power to … provide … for the general welfare of the United States.” This reveals that:The framers understood that Congress should be responsible for maintaining the socio-economic health and stability of the nation, with the president playing a subordinate role. The framers had no idea what they were doing.
The Challenges of Democracy by Jonathan Sumption

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Lawrence Douglas

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
Trump is turning the media into a mouthpiece of the regime | Lawrence Douglas

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Lawrence Douglas

You know we’re in trouble when Fox News emerges as the great defender of freedom of the press.
Conjurers, Cranks, Provincials, & Antediluvians by Jackson Lears

Dec 4, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | John T. McGreevy |Kyle Burke |Lawrence Douglas |Eric Rauchway

Jackson Lears’s new collection confirms his status as an enduring presence in American intellectual life. Written over the course of forty years, these essays address figures as diverse as the nineteenth-century historian Henry Adams and the frequent Democratic Party presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, and topics ranging from the contemporary university to American foreign policy. They invite readers to reflect on a distinguished career.
No Democracy Lasts Forever by Erwin Chemerinsky

Oct 23, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Lawrence Douglas |Eric Rauchway |Sarah Baxter |James Robins

In December 2022 Donald Trump blithely called for the “termination” of the Constitution, a comment that predictably triggered outrage and disbelief. In No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution threatens the United States, Erwin Chemerinsky suggests that the former, and possibly future, president might be on to something. Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley’s law school and a prominent constitutional scholar, is hardly a Trump supporter.