El reino de León en las fuentes islámicas medievales

Diverse fiscal mechanisms influenced in the native family structure, that this book studies in one of the most representative zones of the New Kingdom of Granada during the colony.

Este libro es un relato histórico imprescindible para conocer y entender la profunda raíz de la relación entre Cuba y Venezuela. Nos abre las puertas para entrar en ese laberinto del oscuro y perverso mundo del terrorismo imperial con el que Estados Unidos intenta establecer una gobernanza global, bajo democracias de seguridad nacional, que en realidad son un proyecto de recolonización mundial.

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...