Un conde nórdico en el Caribe: La presencia de Federico Tomás Adlercreutz en Colombia, Jamaica y Venezuela, 1820-1849

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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...

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.

Desde sus cráneos deformados hasta su misteriosa escritura jeroglífica, los olmecas son una fuente inagotable de misterios y preguntas que cuestionan la relación intercontinental de la época. En la tierra de Olmán, en el territorio que ahora ocupan los estados mexicanos de Tabasco y Veracruz, se asentaba una de las culturas más misteriosas de todas las mesoamericanas: los olmecas. No fueron conocidos hasta el encuentro internacional de arqueología de 1942, en México, y desde ese momento ya se les conoce como la cultura madre de Mesoamérica, una cultura que desarrolló la metalurgia y ...