Pedro de Cieza de León y la Crónica de Indias

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...

El nuevo libro de Rodolfo Sanz. ¿Qué te parece viajar a China, recorrer su historia, la del Partido Comunista, y el gran aporte que esta nación deja a la humanidad? Leer este libro será una gran experiencia para ti, te llevará a reflexionar sobre la evolución de China y las contribuciones extraordinarias que ha dado no solo a la causa del socialismo, sino a toda la humanidad. En palabras del autor, este libro ha sido el producto de varios años de trabajo e investigación bibliográfica, nutrido de nociones contrastadas con la praxis política cotidiana. Te recomendamos su lectura para...

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Robert Hughes, uno de los mejores críticos contemporáneos del arte y de la cultura, nos guía por el pasado y el presente de Roma, desde sus orígenes etruscos y su misteriosa fundación hasta la ciudad de los años sesenta del siglo pasado: la Roma de Fellini y de la “dolce vita”. Profundo conocedor de su historia, su arte y su cultura, nos conduce en un recorrido fascinante por cerca de tres mil años de esplendor y decadencia de la que ha sido, en muchos sentidos, la capital del mundo, y evoca las grandes figuras de su pasado, desde César a Mussolini. Hughes nos habla de política,...