La cicatriz gloriosa

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

The ancient Maya used mainly stone tools, made of either ground stone and chipped stone, to achieve their extraordinary development. This book presents the techno-typological analysis of lithic materials from La Blanca, located in the heart of the Southern Lowlands, which was mainly inhabited during the Late Classic and Terminal Classic periods.

Cuando las naves europeas tomaron contacto, en el siglo XV, con lo que luego se llamaría América, el continente era un hervidero de etnias y culturas, algunas de ellas muy sofisticadas desde el punto de vista social. Incas, aztecas y mayas son los más conocidos, pero no surgieron de la nada sino que fueron la culminación de un largo proceso de evolución cultural, a lo largo del cual existieron otras civilizaciones que no podemos ignorar, ya que ello nos impediría entender el significado de las culturas posteriores. Este libro pretende valorar dicho proceso evolutivo y contemplar las...