El Futuro Imperio

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had...

Las grandes incógnitas de la Antigüedad y el Medievo, que desde siempre han despertado nuestra curiosidad más innata, reunidas en un solo libro, en el que estos enigmas serán resueltos de forma amena y tratados con celosa rigurosidad. Diez enigmas de la Historia Antigua y Medieval aparentemente sin conexión entre sí, que se suceden a lo largo del hilo temporal y que, sorprendentemente, los principales hechos narrados en ellos tienen un mismo motor: el anhelo de Occidente por la conquista de Oriente.

This academic book explores the life and contributions of Pedro Sánchez de la Hoz, a sixteenth-century Spanish merchant, conquistador, and adelantado. As secretary to Pizarro during the conquest of Peru, Sánchez de la Hoz wrote a firsthand account of the Spanish conquest of Peru and Incan ethnography, which is presented here, and includes some of the most significant campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, which was led by conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and indigenous allies. This conquest paved the way for the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Peru and spin-off...

Demóstenes (384-322 a.C.) es un autor imprescindible de la literatura clásica. Considerado una de las cimas de la oratoria de todos los tiempos, y de dilatada influencia posterior, sus vehementes discursos políticos a la Asamblea ateniense representan el último esfuerzo de Grecia por salvaguardar sus valores democráticos frente a la amenaza que suponía el rey Filipo de Macedonia y su hijo, Alejandro Magno.