Chile: Cien días en la historia del siglo XX

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...

Estudio sobre escritura y oralidad en los siglos xvi-xviii que ofrece no sólo los fundamentos humanísticos de la escritura, sino su traslado a las obras literarias: un viaje de ida y vuelta en el que la oralidad se hace memoria y vida latente en las grafías que la rescatan del olvido y, al tiempo, paradigma de todo un mundo escrito en el que las letras parlantes se ofrecen como inmensa partitura siempre abierta a lecturas y reescrituras continuas.

Varios estudios analizan la presencia de la temática del cautiverio en las crónicas de Indias, con especial atención a una obra tan representativa como el "Cautiverio feliz" de Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán.

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...