Los Consejeros del Rey (1500-1836). Volumen II. Aragón y Pignatelli-Borrull y Ramón

El encantamiento de Forrest Hylton le llevó a buscar la lógica o, si se quiere, la crítica de la razón del conflicto en Colombia. A la postre, y seguramente muy a pesar de su espíritu combativo, la pesquisa le dejó la sensación de que la historia colombiana está dominada por un insuperable movimiento pendular que oscila entre la irrupción de la protesta y la demanda radical-popular, y la subsiguiente oleada represiva, cuya respuesta inevitable es a su vez la rebelión armada. Esta última se traduce, por la vía de la recurrencia, en lo que el autor llama hipertrofia militar de la...

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...

The most famous cathedrals in Europe are being ransacked in a strange succession of events. Relics of the Passion of Christ disappear and are replaced by copies while the Vatican and the police are powerless to prevent it. At the same time, Europol start looking into the mysterious killings of two university professors whose only apparent connection is their specialisation, the roots of Christianity in Ethiopia. Embroiled in a series of events that are spiralling out of control, the main characters are faced with an obscure sect set on seeing the apocalypse foretold by their leader come into...

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