Historias secretas de Córdoba

TODOS PODEMOS SER HÉROES «Un libro que pasa revista a luchas pretéritas y que ahonda en esa tensión por transformar el mundo y cambiar la vida.» Juan Losa, Público No es necesario tener ningún talento excepcional para construir un mundo mejor. La Historia está llena de hazañas colectivas, aunque siempre nos la hayan contado desde el punto de vista del protagonista solitario: pequeños logros o grandes revoluciones surgieron de la lucha común, de una corriente formada por personas que, uniendo su empeño, hicieron que las cosas cambiaran, a menudo sin violencia, a veces con un solo...

Análisis esencial de Erasmo, subrayando su actualidad y alejado de cualquier anacronismo. Panorama de conjunto del humanismo y la represión cultural en la España del XVI.

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each...

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...