LA BESTIA

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

On the assassination of three Salvadoran representatives to the Parlamento Centroamericano, Eduardo D'Aubuisson, William Pichinte and José Ramón González, in Guatemala on Feb. 19, 2007, as well as the crimes that followed it and the associated investigations.

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En este libro se analizan los rasgos y factores determinantes que han propiciado los cambios en la estructura productiva y el desarrollo industrial de México, específicamente en la industria manufacturera, en el marco de las reformas estructurales aplicadas a lo largo de las tres últimas décadas. El objetivo central consistió en analizar el impacto que ha tenido el proceso de apertura externa de la economía mexicana en el desempeño productivo de la industria manufacturera, a través del examen detallado y desagregado de una serie de variables fundamentales y estratégicas. Los...