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Actas de las III Jornadas sobre la Batalla de Bailén y la España contemporánea (Bailén 2001) centradas en torno a las perspectivas que españoles, ingleses y franceses tuvieron del conflicto y de sus oponentes.

Somos contadores de historias por naturaleza. Durante miles años el formato fue el relato oral. Siguió la palabra escrita y el teatro. Sin embargo, desde que un desfile de inventores e ilusionistas decimonónicos dieron con la tecnología para proyectar imágenes en movimiento, el cine ha ocupado el espacio predilecto para el despliegue de esta vocación humana innata. Tan grandiosa es la gesta del cine que solo una bilogía freak pudo hacerle justicia. En el primer tomo encontrarán los orígenes de la técnica, además del asentamiento definitivo del sistema de estudio y la constelación...

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...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...