Archipiélagos

Vienna's elegance and monumentality reflect its once exalted status as the showpiece of an empire but Austria's capital is also a generous, open-armed city where everyday life plays itself out in world-famous caf?s, wine taverns, and restaurants. Here is a selection of the most fashionable places to enjoy excellent meals in beautifully designed interiors. Another in teNeues? best-selling restaurant series, this flexi-bound guide includes over 130 color photographs as well as sample recipes.

Architectural guide to the city of Guadalajara, with a selection of close to 300 buildings representative of all time periods. The guide is divided in 3 sections: the first, the largest and medullar part of the book is the presentation of the buildings; a second section is an inventory of buildings important in the history of the city but now disappeared, and a third section includes location maps with recommended itineraries and routes. Each entry includes the name, date and brief history of the building and the name of the architect.

Francisco de la Maza nos lleva por un recorrido en el M xico del siglo XVII: la ciudad y sus habitantes, las inundaciones, la Universidad, los conventos, parroquias y hospitales, pasan revista en este libro que, dentro de su concisi n, ofrece el ameno retrato de un siglo.

Se cumplen 500 años de la caída de México (Tenochtitlán) y 200 años de la independencia de México Colón, Cortés, Pizarro.... fueron glorificados como aventureros heroicos que evangelizaron y construyeron un imperio como nunca se había visto. Hoy son condenados por su afán de riqueza y por masacrar a los aztecas y los incas. Basándose en fuentes primarias hasta ahora inexploradas, como diarios, cartas, crónicas y tratados polémicos, Fernando Cervantes replantea la historia de la conquista española del Nuevo Mundo, dentro del contexto político e intelectual del que surgieron sus...