Orientalia

Fray Gian Galeazzo Ruspoli, Gran Prior de Pisa, se encuentra en 1188 en Roma, acompañando a su Gran Maestre, Fray Garnier de Naplouse, proveniente de la isla de Chipre, para presentar al Santo Padre Clemente III las reglas del nuevo código de la Orden adaptadas a la trágica pérdida del Hospital de Jerusalén y de las encomiendas en Tierra Santa. Un suceso inesperado y de con-secuencias imprevisibles va a trastocar su estancia. El arzobispo Baldwin de Canterbury, amigo del Gran Maestre y que les acompañó en el viaje por mar desde Pisa, ha sido asesinado y robados los tesoros y las...

An account, including stunning photographs, of the search by some of the women of the town of Calama, Chile, for the remains of their loved ones who were murdered and "disappeared" by the Pinochet regime.

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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 memoria es un tema tan amplio que su tratamiento completo abarcaría de la psicología a la filosofía, de la neurología a la historia moderna y de la zoología a la «petite madeleine» de Proust. De forma más modesta, este libro se limita a dos tareas. La primera es mostrar cómo funciona la memoria y la segunda es contemplar de modo crítico cómo los historiadores y los científicos sociales la han considerado y utilizado como herramienta de investigación, y sugerir diversos aspectos en los que una mejor apreciación del carácter de su material produciría resultados más...