El enigma de Nefertiti

La crónica de Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo es uno de los pocos testimonios históricos que se conservan de la temprana conquista del reino de Chile. Texto fundamental para comprender mejor el periodo historiado por el autor, abarca desde la llegada de Pedro de Valdivia a Santiago, en 1541, hasta el final de la gobernación de Melchor Bravo de Saravia, en 1575. El autor combatió junto a Valdivia en los primeros años de la conquista, siendo un testigo privilegiado de los hechos más relevantes que protagonizaron españoles e indígenas durante los años fundacionales del territorio. La...

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High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

La memoria cultural de la humanidad. La especie humana es un híbrido de biología y cultura, y este sorprendente y original libro le da todo el protagonismo no a la genética, sino a la historia de la evolución cultural, a través de un recorrido que explora el desarrollo del arte, la política, las instituciones sociales, las religiones, los sentimientos y la tecnología; un apasionante viaje por la inagotable inteligencia creadora. Si estamos a punto de entrar en la "era del transhumanismo", según afirman influyentes pensadores, recordar el conjunto de acciones que la humanidad ha ido...