El mundo desde sus inicios hasta 4000 a. C.

Anar de compres era tan important en el Renaixement com ho és avui en dia. Aquest llibre fascinant, actual i original, obre nous horitzons en el camp de la cultura material del Renaixement i se centra en el mercat en els seus diversos aspectes, que recullen des del consum de la classe mitja de la cort, i des de l'aprovisionament d'aliments a l'adquisició d'antiguitats i relíquies sagrades. L'obra es pregunta sobre com els homes i dones de diferents classes socials van eixir als carrers, les places i les botigues, per a comprar els béns que necessitaven i desitjaven, diàriament o una sola ...

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...

El pensamiento francés en el siglo XVIII, publicado por primera vez en 1926, ha conocido once ediciones sucesivas. Se trata, pues, de un libro ya 'clásico' que Ediciones Encuentro recupera para el público de habla hispana, contribuyendo de este modo a la reflexión que se ha desencadenado en toda Europa en torno al segundo centenario de la Revolución francesa, sus antecedentes filosófico-culturales y sus consecuencias históricas en los ámbitos europeo e internacional. Con rigor e imparcialidad, Daniel Mornet presenta en estas páginas una historia breve, metódica y ordenada de la vida ...

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