Destino Manifiesto y la guerra mexicano-estadounidense (Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War)

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...

Despues de ocho anos de su ultima obra, y siete anos despues de la publicacion de su poesia reunida, Andres Sanchez Robayna ofrece a sus lectores su nuevo y esperado libro. Como Morandi o los pintores esencialistas a la manera de Cezanne, Sanchez Robayna encuentra en los objetos, en su perfil y en la luz que proyectan, en los estimulos que configuran un momento irrepetible, ocasion para explorar los signos de la naturaleza, las claves de lo real. Sus poemas, en una lengua exacta, sin condescendencia o lo retorico, logran descigrar el mundo, elevarse sobre lo cotidiano y rozar la esencia, lo...

La amenaza del holocausto y su aventura. Detalles de Libro "Hacia El Sur" es una novela original de Juan B. Bergua que le envolverá en una aventura literaria incomparable con una trama centrada en la amenaza del holocausto. Juan B. Bergua nació en España en marzo de 1892. Obtuvo el título de Abogado a los 18 años gracias a su notable memoria, que también le hizo prodigio en el aprendizaje de idiomas. Interesado en conocer los clásicos de la literatura en su lengua de origen, aprendió varios idiomas, no sólo en su época de estudiante cuando aprendió Francés, Inglés, Alemán,...

Learn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: "Where did the universe come from?" Stephen Hawking was born exactly three hundred years after the death of the scientist Galileo, so maybe it was written in the stars that he would become a famous scientist in his own right. Although he was diagnosed with a neurological disease at age 21, Stephen did not let the illness define his life. Known for his groundbreaking work in physics, and identified by his wheelchair and computerized voice system, Stephen continued...

Nicol�s Cabral's is one of the most singular voices in Latin American literature, and this book demonstrates his hypnotic and out of the ordinary style. The stories ebb from real to unreal, from earthly to fantastical. In addition, there's something rarely found in most contemporary writers: an aversion to the familiar and disdain for common places. La de Nicol�s Cabral es una de las voces m�s singulares de la nueva narrativa latinoamericana. Como en Cat�logo de formas, su primera novela, he aqu� una prosa construida mediante una inflexible depuraci�n y, al mismo tiempo, plural....