Historia Universal Contemporánea

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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...

Desde Sumeria y Babilonia hasta Grecia y Roma: 27 grandes batallas navales, los navíos y sus tácticas: Cumas, Salamina, Actium, Micala, Eurimedón, Arginusas, Egos Pótamos. Descubra las epopeyas marinas protagonizadas por Octavio Augusto, Marco Antonio, Cleopatra, Ramsés III, Agripa o la reina Artemisia de Halicarnaso. Acérquese a las batallas navales más importantes de la Antigüedad, desde las protagonizadas por remotas civilizaciones como Sumer o Babilonia hasta Salamina en la historia de Grecia o la clásica batalla de Actium. Con Breve historia de las batallas navales de la...