¿La unión hace la fuerza?

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...

La Edad Media ha sido considerada un periodo de estancamiento del saber, sombrío y cruel. Jesús Callejo desmonta esta imagen con un apasionante repaso de la época: desde las bibliotecas perdidas y los textos malditos, a los increíbles avances tecnológicos como las lámparas perpetuas, los espejos mágicos y originales aparatos voladores pasando por los diabólicos autómatas que fueron ocultados a los ojos del gran público.

The first in a series of monographic serials on Pre-Columbian art and design. This first number is devoted to Pre-Columbian art and design sources that related to popular identity. Subscriptions available for future issues.

With contributions by well-known and respected critics, writing of a very high caliber, and essays that explore hitherto uncharted territory, Mirrors and Echoes is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Spanish women's writing. Lou Charnon-Deutsch, author of Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women"