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High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

Este libro revisa, en inédita perspectiva, dos siglos del protagonismo femenino en la historia de Chile. Escrito por 53 autoras, Mujeres chilenas. Fragmentos de una historia reúne la colección de ensayos más contundente que se haya realizado sobre este tema. Arqueólogas, historiadoras, antropólogas, sicólogas, médicas, teólogas, periodistas, geógrafas, entre otras, hablan de una historia diversa y en constante transformación. Certeras miradas que dan cuenta del compromiso decisivo de las mujeres en la construcción de Chile. Fragmentos que ilustran nuestros cambios sociales,...

UN RELATO ESCALOFRIANTE DEL LADO MÁS OSCURO DE LA NATURALEZA HUMANA En su libro más poderoso e importante, el reconocido psiquiatra Robert Jay Lifton presenta un brillante análisis del papel crucial que jugaron los médicos en el genocidio nazi. Ganador del Premio al Libro de Los Angeles Times, no solo analiza el rol de los profesionales de la salud durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, sino que examina la estructura previa, cuando Hitler promovió la "eutanasia" de niños y adultos enfermos, y demuestra que la matanza supervisada médicamente se hizo en nombre de la "curación", como parte...

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