Comunicación y poder en Asia oriental

La juventud vasca ha expresado sus aspiraciones y reivindicaciones políticas y sociales de formas múltiples y diversas, padeciendo una reacción represiva exacerbada y arbitraria por parte del Estado: criminalización de sus actividades públicas, montajes policiales, detenciones masivas, tortura, procesos judiciales inquisitoriales, políticas carcelarias criminales… A su vez, como si de una cadena se tratase, la reacción estatal ha originado la activación de miles de personas, principalmente de madres y padres, en defensa de unos derechos que consideran elementales y que ven...

David Christian, el creador de la "big history", de la "gran historia" que enlaza la evolución del cosmos, de la vida y de la humanidad para ofrecernos una perspectiva distinta de los grandes problemas del Antropoceno, culmina su obra con este libro realmente único, que discurre desde el big bang, el sistema solar, la aparición de la vida, los dinosaurios, el homo sapiens y los grandes imperios hasta la globalización. Un libro que ha despertado el entusiasmo de lectores como Bill Gates o el físico Carlo Rovelli quien considera esta disciplina "un método espectacular para, a través de...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

When looking at historical photographs of Guadalupe residents, one sees the faces that represent the area s unique and diverse past. Originally inhabited by the indigenous Chumash and mapped by Spanish explorers, Guadalupe was first named in the 1840s Mexican land grant honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, the title given to the Virgin Mary. Through the years, waves of immigrants made their way to Guadalupe to take advantage of the fertile soil and unique geographic features, the most prominent of which are the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, which contain some of the tallest sand dunes on Earth and have...