La Alemania nacionalsocialista, la Scadta y la aviación colombiana en la década de 1930

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

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El relato evocador y vibrante de cómo se rescataron las ideas del mundo clásico, el origen de nuestra herencia intelectual común. Tras la caída de Roma, muchas de las grandes ideas del mundo clásico, base del conocimiento moderno, se perdieron para siempre. Innumerables libros fueron destruidos por los cristianos, y la biblioteca de Alejandría, el mayor depósito de saber del mundo, fue arrasada. Pero tres manuscritos cruciales sobrevivieron a esa edad de la penumbra e impulsaron la llegada del Renacimiento. En este sorprendente debut, la historiadora Violet Moller rastrea los caminos...

En este libro recopilatorio se recogen casi dos centenares de artículos de Ignacio Almudévar, publicados en su mayor parte en la prensa oscense o emitidos en programas de radio entre 1965 y 2004, de interés y calidad acreditados por los largos años de observador minucioso de la realidad que es su autor. Agrupados en siete secciones temáticas ("Personas y personajes", "Ciudades, pueblos y paisajes", "Agua y riegos", "Temas literarios", "Costumbres y lengua aragonesa", "Temas históricos" y "Temas variados"), en general los artículos plasman las reflexiones del hombre preocupado por su...