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An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...

Este libro, síntesis inédita en la obra de Jacques Le Goff y fruto de más de cuarenta años de trato diario con el arte medieval y sus imágenes, se propone restituir el mundo visual de la Edad Media. Representaciones del feudalismo (señores y campesinos), de la violencia de la guerra y de la muerte: estos fenómenos son bien conocidos, pero no expresan tanto, según él, la Edad Media esencial, profunda, como lo hacen los gestos, la sociedad humana frente a la sociedad divina y las imágenes del más allá. Esta Edad Media en imágenes se le antoja más verdadera sobre todo porque...

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This is a survey of the voyages of English navigators, from the pioneers of the late 15th century to the scientific expeditions of the early 19th century, not only in South American waters, but also the Caribbean and North America.