Historia de la India

La literatura primero, pero también el cine y el cómic, han hecho de la figura del "científico loco" un estereotipo que reconocemos con facilidad. Sin embargo, como todos los estereotipos, se funda en una amalgama de imaginaciones y habladurías provenientes de personajes y hechos reales que les dieron pie. Nacido con la ciencia "moderna", se nutre desde el siglo XVIII de centenares de personajes y experimentos, a veces peligrosos, a veces geniales, a veces ridículos, que, motivados siempre por el deseo de conocer, de comprender, de saber, han transitado de forma arriesgada zonas...

Who has not heard of Cuba? Its beaches, music, food, the beautiful women... and even Fidel Castro? But how many of you know about the misery and repression in which the people of Cuba live? How far does the violation of the civil rights of the people of Cuba go? It's hard to put so many bad things together in a small book. I'll show you some of the most relevant and the simplest things you never think about because you always had it when you need it and when you want it.

Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...

Empobrecido y exhausto tras cincuenta anos de guerras continuas, el gran imperio espanol negocio, en los ultimos anos del siglo XVI y primeros del XVII, tratados con sus tres enemigos mas poderosos: Inglaterra, Francia y los Paises Bajos. Paul Allen sostiene que los gestos de paz del rey formaban, en realidad, parte de una gran estrategia que permitiria a Espana recuperar su fuerza militar y economica mediante enganosos senuelos presentados a sus adversarios para apartarlos de sus empresas militares.