Introducción a la Grecia Antigua

La Guerra de la Independencia provoca un inaudito trauma colectivo e individual. En 1808, obliga a escoger precipitadamente entre la colaboración con los invasores y la resistencia. El dilema es especialmente acuciante para la élite ilustrada. Por su lado, los militares, los paisanos incorporados a la guerrilla, los eclesiásticos, los notables locales, los letrados, las mujeres..., en sus respectivas áreas y con sus actuaciones heroicas o mediocres, revelan sus mentalidades y sus credos. A partir de 1810, en la minúscula península gaditana, otros personajes acceden a la notoriedad por...

La genialidad estratégica del general Simón Bolívar en los ámbitos político y militar, lo ubican como un líder, estratega y guerrero, dotado con extraordinarias virtudes, talentos y habilidades dignos de imitar. Transitar por la vida guerrera de Simón Bolívar, es entender el dramático cambio de la monarquía absolutista por la república democrática y liberal en apenas dos décadas de batallas militarers y luchas políticas, en un ambiente complejo. Esa es la obra cumbre del autodenominado hombre de las dificultades, considerado el ser humano mas grande que haya nacido en el...

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...

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